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Mitchell, Thomas R

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Professor

CONTACT INFO

(956) 326-2240
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tmitchell@tamiu.edu
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KLM-329A

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COURSES TAUGHT

19th Cent Brit. Lit: Romantics (ENGL 3324)
Global Issues Seminar I (INTL 1101)
Global Issues Seminar II (INTL 1102)
Global Issues Seminar III (INTL 2101)

RESEARCH

Current Research:

Research Interests:

American Literary Renaissance

EDUCATION

Univ of Louisiana at Monroe (Master of Arts)
Texas A&M University (Doctor of Philosophy)
Univ of Louisiana at Monroe (Bachelor of Arts)

PUBLICATIONS

Book Review:

Review of Kate Phillips' "Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life" - American Historical Review 2003

Book Chapter:

"Hawthorne" - American Literary Scholarship, An Annual, 2003 2005

"Hawthorne" - "American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2002" 2004

"This Mutual Visionary Company: Nathaniel Hawthorne & Margaret Fuller" - "Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique: Her Age and Her Legacy" 2000

"Rappaccini's Garden and Emerson's Concord: Translating the Voice of Margaret Fuller" - "Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition" 1999

"In the Whale's Wake: Melville and 'The Blithedale Romance.'" - 2008

"Hawthorne" - American Literary Scholarship, An Annual, 2004 2006

"Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery" - University of Massachusetts Press 1998

Journal Article:

"In the Whale's Wake: Melville and 'The Blithedale Romance.'" - ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 2002

"The Two Lives of Love: Robert Browning's 'Love in a Life' and 'Life in a Love'" - "Studies in Browning and His Circle" 1999

"Julian Hawthorne and the 'Scandal' of Margaret Fuller" - American Literary History 1995

"John Keats's 'Outlawry' in 'Robin Hood'" - Studies in English Literature (SEL) 1994

"Dead Men and 'Dead Letters': Narrative Purpose in 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'" - Studies in Short Ficition (SSF) 1990

GRANTS

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AWARDS

Regents Professor - Texas A&M System Board of Regents - 11-01-2011

Elected President - Nathaniel Hawthorne Society - 06-01-2010

Zaffirini Faculty Award for Scholarship and Leadership - TAMIU - 01-01-2008

Elected Vice President and President-Elect - Nathaniel Hawthorne Society - 06-01-2008

Scholar of the Year - College of Arts & Humanities - 01-01-1998

Faculty Member of the Year - Laredo Community College - 01-01-1987

Master Teacher Award - National Institute for Staff Development (UT-Austin) - 01-01-1987

PUBLIC SERVICE

Member of the Advisory Board for Laredo Theater Guild International

Chaired the Grants Committee for 3 years as a 2003-2008 Board Member of Humanities Texas (N.E.H. Texas agency). The committee evaluated humanities programing grant applications for the State of Texas.

Served as a member of the City Charter Revision Committee for Laredo, Texas from 2002-2006.