Curriculum Vitae

 

David C. Judkins                                                     
Department of English                                      
University of Houston                                       
Houston, Texas 77204-3012                                      
Ph 713-743-2948
E-mail DJUDKINS@UH.EDU
Web Site www.uh.edu/~djudkins

 

  Employment History:

Associate Professor               University of Houston       1978-

Assistant Professor               University of Houston       1972-1977

Assistant Professor               Radford College              1970-1971

Teaching Assistant               Michigan State University  1967-1970

Assistant Professor               Ferris State College           1964-1966

Education

  Ph.D.  English, Michigan State University, 1970

          Dissertation: “Poetry of the English Civil War”

MA  English, Eastern Michigan University, 1963

BA  English & History, Ball State University, 1960

Honors, Awards, Distinctions

University Teaching Excellence Award for Distance Education 2004

Provost’s Award for Outstanding Core Teaching, 2002

Membership in Phi Kappa Phi, 1999

Visiting Professor University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea, Fall 1991, Spring 1998, and Summer 2003

Membership Sigma Tau Delta, 1992 and Faculty Sponsor 2001---

Fulbright Scholar to Tasmania, Australia, 1963

  Classes Taught at the University of Houston 1990-2000

See under teaching materials my full teaching schedule for the past ten years.

1303 &  1304  Freshman Composition I & II

2304 World Literature

2417 Shakespeare in Performance

3301 Introduction to English Studies

3305 Literature of the English Renaissance

3306 Shakespeare’s Major Works

3327 Survey of English Literature

3396 Literature of the Sea

3396 Travel Literature

3396 Post-colonial Literature

6311 Bibliography and Methods of Research

Publications:

Books:

Study Abroad: The Astute Student’s Guide.  Williamson Publishing Co., Charlotte, VT. 1989 Text of the book provides extensive background information on study abroad including a history of study abroad, a general overview of study abroad activities, and major organizations non-profit, private, academic, etc. involved in foreign study.  The second half of the book describes in detail one hundred major study abroad programs in a wide variety of foreign countries.

The Non-Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson: A Reference Guide, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1982.  An annotated bibliographic guide to Jonson’s non-dramatic works from 1617 to present with an introduction by the author.

Articles:

“Travel Literature in the Early Modern Period,” CEA Critic Fall 2001. pp. 47-58.

Four entries for the Encyclopedia of Travel and Exploration Literature forthcoming 2002

          Entries include: Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, The Muscovy

Company, and Circumnavigation Narratives

“Frederick Courtney Selous,”  Dictionary of Literary Biography 1997. Pp. 256-267. 

  “Robert Curzon,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1996.  Pp. 134-139.

  “Walter Fitzwilliam Starke,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1998.  Pp. 341-48.

  “Using Hypercard Stacks to Assist Students Writing on Literary Topics” Computers and Writing  IV, pp. 1-7, 1991.

  “The Cavalier Poets: Carew, Lovelace, Suckling, and Waller,”  English Literary Renaissance, Winter, 1976. pp. 243-258.

  “Julius Caesar and Shakespeare’s Roman Plays,” English in Texas, Summer, 1973.

  “English Studies: A Decadent Discipline?”  Conference of College Teachers of English Proceedings, 1973.  pp.33-37.

  “Competence and Incompetence in Teaching English,” The Roundtable, Spring, 1975.

  Reviews:

An Introduction to Metaphysical Poets, by Patricia Beer, Seventeenth Century News, Winter, 1973.

  Public Voices, by L.C. Knights, Seventeenth Century News, Winter, 1973.

  Twentieth Century Criticism of English Masques, Pageants, and Entertainments, by David M. Bergeron, The South Central Modern Language Association Bulletin, October, 1974.

  Imagination and Power, by Thomas Edwards, Seventeenth Century News, Summer/Autumn, 1971.

  The Cavalier Poets, by Robin Skelton, Seventeenth Century News, Summer, 1972.

  Work in Progress

I am currently working on my third book, the tentative title for which is, "A Sense of the World: Renaissance Travel Writing and Sensibility."  I am studying this early travel literature in the light of recent critical approaches being directed to more contemporary travel works.  I am also bringing to bear recent developments in postcolonial criticism particularly as they are applied to those who feel the impact most brutally of western expansion.  Finally, I also bring to the study my long and abiding interest in the standard English Renaissance texts, which I believe reflect with more than just allusive evidence, the importance of contemporary travel narratives.  I have read widely on this subject and will concentrate on the early seventeen-century editor and compiler of travel accounts, Samuel Purchas.

 

Papers Delivered at Scholarly Meetings (selected):

  “The Reception of Purchas’ His Pilgrims,” presented at the Conference for Seventeenth Century Studies, Durham, England.  July 2001.

  “Disappointment Defined:  The Contentious Traveler”  a paper presented at the Conference on Travel Writing, “Writing the Journey” Universe of Pennsylvania in June of 1999

  “Sub-texts in Travel Literature,” Paper delivered at Snapshots from Abroad: A Conference on Travel Writing. “Snapshots from Abroad”  The University of Minnesota, November 1997.

  “The Scholars’ Community: Retention and the Commuter Student,” Conference National Association of Colleges and Universities, Penn State University, 1996 prepared in conjunction with Terrell Dixon but presented individually.

  “New Approaches in Computers and Writing,” Computers and Writing Conference, University College, University of Wales, 1993.

  “Current Studies in Renaissance Criticism,” Paper delivered at Regency College, Madras, India, 1991.

  “Computer Programs for Rhetorical Analysis,” Computers and Writing Conference, University of Sussex, 1990.

  “The Decline of Love: Poetry at the End of the English Renaissance,” South Central Renaissance Conference, 1987.

Grants for Research:

FDIP Program A: Distance Education Grant for development of English 3306 Shakespeare's Major Works 2003 Amount $3,800.00.

FDIP Program A Application for enhancements of English 1304.  Spring, 2002. Amount $3,725.00

  Distance Education Grant for the development of English 1303 Summer 2001.

Amount $3,875.00

Distance Education Grant for the development of English 1304, 2002 Amount $3250.00

  HFAC Summer Grant for Teaching Innovation, 1999.  This grant allowed me to prepare for a new core curriculum class, English 2317 Literature in Performance: Shakespeare on Film.  I am teaching the class this autumn term to seventy-five students in room 108 AH. 

  Principal Investigator for National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to review and evaluate graduate English studies at the University of Houston, 1977.

  1974 Research Initiation Grant, University of Houston

  Principal Investigator for Diamond M Foundation Grant to hold a Symposium on Southwestern Culture at the University of Houston, 1978.

  Related Professional Experience:

          Membership in MLA 1970-1980 and 1989-1994

          Membership in the National Council Teachers of English 1981-1983

          Member of the Hakluyt Society 1991 - 2001 (Great Britain)

          Member College English Association

Related Professional Service:

Outside Reviewer: University of Texas at San Antonio, College of Arts and

Humanities, April 1999.  This review was mandidated by the

 University of Texas System.  I served with two other outside

reviewers.  We did campus interviews for three days and

submitted a fifteen page report on the college.

 

          Seminar Leader for the Houston Teachers Institute Spring 2002 subject:
               "Shakespeare's Characters: The Lighter Side"

         Attended 3rd annual Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute Conference at
                Yale October 17-20, 2001.

Seminar Leader for the Houston Teachers Institute Spring 2004 subject:
                "Beyond Houston: Teaching Travel Literature"

  University Service:

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, 1977 – 1980

Director of the London Program (in London), 1984-1985 and 1986-1987

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English 1988-1991

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English 1992-1994

Acting Chair, Department of English, summers 1988-1990

Director of Study Abroad, University of Houston, 1994-1995

Co-Director of Scholars Community, University of Houston, 1996

Interim Director of Lower Division Studies, Fall 2003

Related Committee Service (selected):

Faculty Senate (elected) 1995-2001

Faculty Senate Executive Committee (elected at large) 1999

Provost’s ad hoc committee on Post Tenure Review Summer 1997-

College ad hoc committee on Study Abroad 1996 – (Chair of this committee)

Through the efforts of this committee we have made study abroad a more viable option for students at the University of Houston.  In addition, owing to the work of this committee, the Provost has signed an agreement for the University to become a member of the Universities Study Abroad Consortium.  The agreement was signed in the spring of 1999 and we will begin recruiting members in the Fall of 1999.

Faculty Council (elected) 1996-1998

Faculty Council Sub-committee on College Budget 1997- (chair of this committee)

Engllish Department Personnel Committee (elected) 2001-2003

Chair, English Department Election, Rules, and Grievance Committee 1995-97

(elected)

Department Election, Rules, and Grievance Committee 1999 (elected)

University Task Force on International Issues, 1995

Chair, International Fee Scholarship Committee, 1994-1995

International Fee Scholarship Committee, 1992-1994

College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Communications Graduate Committee, 1992-1994

English Department Personnel Committee (elected) 1992-1994

Health Professions Advisory Committee, 1988-1991

Chair, UUC Sub-committee on Academic Policy, 1989-1991

University Undergraduate Council, 1988-1991

College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Communication Undergraduate               Committee, 1989-1991

English Department Curriculum Committee 1988-1991

English Department Recruitment Committee, 1989,1991,1992

English Department Planning Committee (elected) 1988-1991

English Department Planning Committee (elected) 1982-1983

Search Committee Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research, 1979

University Graduate Council, 1979-1980

English Department Graduate Chair, 1977-1980

College of Humanities and Fine Arts Graduate Committee, 1977-1980

Search Committee for English Department Chair, 1975

 

Related Community Service:

Book Reviewer for Houston Junior League Book Club, April, 1999

Op Ed Article “Riding Metro” Houston Chronicle August 14, 2001