Curriculum Vitae

John McCoy Kilgore

February 15, 2019

General Information

University address:	English
College of Arts and Sciences
Williams Building 0405
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1580

E-mail address:	jmkilgore@fsu.edu

Web site:	https://english.fsu.edu/faculty/john-mac-kilgore

Professional Preparation

2012	Doctoral Degree, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-DAVIS. Major: English. Critical Theory. 

Kilgore, J.M. (2012). The Revival of Revolt: Enthusiasm and Event in US Literature from the American Revolution to the Civil War. (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-DAVIS). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Online Repository. 

2005	Master's Degree, UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. Major: English. 

2001	Bachelor's Degree, SAMFORD UNIVERSITY. Major: English. magnum cum laude. 

Professional Experience

2013–present	Assistant Professor, English, Florida State University. 

2013–2014	Assistant Professor        (OPS), English, Florida State University. 

2012–2013	Lecturer, English, University of California-Davis. 

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

First Year Assistant Professor Award, Council on Research and Creativity, Florida State University (2014). ($20,000). 

Fellowship(s)

Cornell University Summer School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship, Critical Theory Program, UC-Davis (2012).
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, UC-Davis (2012).
Summer Research Fellowship, Department of English, UC-Davis (2008).
Graduate Scholar's Fellowship, UC-Davis (2006).
Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, UC-Davis (2011).

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Studies Association 
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 
Modern Language Association 
Society of Early Americanists 

Teaching

Courses Taught

Senior Seminar in Literature (ENG4934)
Early American Literature and Culture before 1800 (AML4213)
Topics in Publishing (ENG5835)
Directed Readings (ENG6907)
Studies in U.S. Literature Since 1875 (AML5027)
The Literary Expression of American Popular Culture (LIT4304)
Popular Music in Literature (IFS2023)
Studies in English (ENG4932)
Issues in Literary and Cultural Studies (ENG5079)
Studies in U.S. Literature to 1875 (AML5017)
Supervised Teaching (LAE5948)
Critical Issues in Literary Studies (ENG3014)
Directed Individual Study (ENG4905)
The 19th-Century American Novel (AML4111)
M.A. Capstone Defense (ENG5835)
Studies in Affect (ENG5906)
Major Figures in American Literature (AML3311)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Grech, P. R., doctoral candidate. 
Reed, W. M., doctoral candidate. 
Cherry-Randle, K., doctoral student. 

Doctoral Committee Member

Tabata, K., graduate. (2017).
Stevens, S. N., doctoral candidate. 
Rather, F. A., doctoral student. 

Master's Committee Chair

Carelli, K. M., graduate. (2018).
Grech, P. R., graduate. (2015).

Master's Committee Member

Walters, N. O., graduate. (2018).
Mercier, D. N., graduate. (2017).
Lolley, B. J., graduate. (2015).
Cocanougher, R., student. 

Research and Original Creative Work

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Kilgore, J. (2019). John Lithgow's Real Utopia and the Anti-Capitalist Romance of the Early Republic. Early American Literature, 54.1, 37.

Kilgore, J. M. (2015). Nat Turner and the Work of Enthusiasm. PMLA, 130.5, 1347-1362.

Kilgore, J. M. (2013). Rites of Dissent: Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution. Early American Literature, 48.2, 367-398.

Kilgore, J. M. (2012). The Cakewalk of Capital in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition. American Literature, 84.1, 61-87.

Kilgore, J. M. (2012). The Free State of Whitman: Enthusiasm and Dismemberment in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 58.4, 529-565.

Refereed Books

Kilgore, J. (2016). Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press. 

Invited Book Chapters

Kilgore, J. (contract). "Minor Wars and Minor Literatures," in Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition. Manuscript under contract for publication, Cambridge University Press. 

Kilgore, J. (2014). "Deterritorialization". In Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism. New York: Bloomsbury. 

Invited Reviews

Kilgore, J. (2017). "The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789-1820 by Paul Lewis". Early American Literature, 52.1, 231-35.

Presentations

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Kilgore, J. (presented 2018, March). John Lithgow's Real Utopia and the Anti-Capitalist Romance of the Early Republic. Paper presented at C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, C19, Albuquerque, NM. (International)

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2014, March). The War of 1812 and the Commons of Native American Enthusiasm. Paper presented at C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, C19, Raleigh-Durham, NC. (National)

Refereed Papers at Symposia

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2011, February). "The Great Theatre of Action": Literatures of Enthusiasm and the American Revolution. In Writing Politics | The Politics of Writing. Symposium conducted at the meeting of UC-Davis Scholars Symposium, Department of English, Davis, CA. (Local)

Refereed Presentations at Conferences

Kilgore, J. (presented 2018, March). John Lithgow's Real Utopia and the Anti-Capitalist Romance of the Early Republic. Presentation at C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, C19, Albuquerque, NM. (International)

Kilgore, J. (presented 2017, January). Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Politics of Enthusiasm. Presentation at Modern Language Association Conference, MLA, Philadelphia. (International)

Kilgore, J. (presented 2015, January). Django Unchained, the Heroic Slave Narrative, and the Commemoration of Enthusiasm. Presentation at Modern Language Association, Modern Language Association, Vancouver, BC. (International)

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2012, May). The Revival of Revolt in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred and Martin Delany's Blake. Presentation at American Literature Association Annual Conference, American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. (National)

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2011, February). "We come to realize art": Revolutionary Carnival in Mikhail Bakhtin and the Situationist International. Presentation at Round and Round We Go: The Endless Carnival Conference, University of Pennsylvania Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Philadelphia, PA. (National)

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2010, April). The Space and Time of Racial Embodiment in Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, and Charles Chesnutt. Presentation at Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference, NMLA, Montreal, Canada. (International)

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2008, May). The Cakewalk of Capital in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition. Presentation at American Literature Association Annual Conference, ALA, San Francisco, CA. (National)

Kilgore, J. M. (presented 2008, February). Civil War Medicine: Walt Whitman and the Abjection of Amputation. Presentation at Talking Trash: Rethinking the Abandoned, the Recovered, and the Depraved, City University of New York, Department of English, New York, NY. (National)

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Kilgore, John McCoy (PI). (May 2018–Aug 2018). COFRS: The US Literary Revolution of 1850-1855. Funded by FSU CRC. Total award $14,000. 

Kilgore, John McCoy (PI). (May 2014–Aug 2014). FYAP: Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War. Funded by FSU CRC. (None). Total award $20,000. 

Service

Florida State University

FSU Department Service

Member, Literature Program Committee (2013–present).

Member, Evaluation Committee (2017–2018).

Member, Search Committee (2017–2018).

Member, Curriculum Development Committee (2016–2017).

Member, Admissions Committee (2015–2017).

Faculty Respondent, Graduate Association Literature Conference (2016).

Co-organizer, Department Literature Colloquium (2015).

Member, Executive Committee (2014–2015).

Member, Search Committee (2014–2015).

Representative, Fall Graduation Representative (2014).

Member, Diversity Committee (2013–2014).

The Profession

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

American Literary History (Jan–Feb 2017).

Early American Literature (Jan–Feb 2015).

Chair of a Symposium

Kilgore, J. (Chair). (2018, November). Affect Theory and Race in the Early Americas. Symposium conducted at the meeting of The American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. 

Kilgore, J. (Chair). (2017, January). Enthusiasm and the Making of Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Modern Language Association, Philadelphia. 

Kilgore, J., & Mariano, T. (Chair). (2015, October). New Readings in the Politics of American Literary History. Symposium conducted at the meeting of English Department, Florida State University. 

Kilgore, J. (Chair). (2014, May). Forging International Identity: America Abroad in the Nineteenth Century. Symposium conducted at the meeting of American Literature Association, Washington D.C.