Joshua R. Galat, Ph.D.

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EDUCATION

2019 Ph.D., English; Purdue University.

Dissertation: “Engaging the Unknowable: Modernism, Science, and
Epistemology”
Committee: Arkady Plotnitsky (Director), Maren Linett, John Duvall, Geraldine
Friedman
2014 M.A., English; University of Central Florida.
2012 M.A.T., English Language Arts Education (Grades 6-12) with ESOL
Endorsement; University of Central Florida.
2010 B.A. (summa cum laude), English and Classical Studies; University of Florida.

EMPLOYMENT

2019-Present Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Central Methodist University.

2018-19 Purdue Research Foundation Fellow, Purdue University.
2014-18 Graduate Teaching Instructor, Purdue University.
2012-14 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida.
2010-12 English Language Arts Instructor, Orange County Public Schools.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.” Journal of Modern
Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, Winter 2019, pp. 113-31.

“Resisting Science: The Criminality of Physiognomy and Gesture in Kafka’s The Trial.” Journal
of the Kafka Society of America, vol. 40/41, no. 1/2, 2016/17, pp. 60-74.

“‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the Autobiography of Mark
Twain.” Mark Twain Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Spring 2016, pp. 33-67.

Manuscripts in Submission

“Joseph Conrad and Scientific Naturalism: Revolutionizing Epistemology in The Secret Agent.”
Under review at English Studies.

Manuscripts in Preparation

“Virginia Woolf and a Climate of Uncertainty.” For submission to Modernism/modernity.

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RESEARCH AWARDS

2018-19 Purdue Research Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

2018 Disability Studies Award (First Place), Purdue University Literary Awards,
“Modernism, Mental Hygiene, and the Embodiment of Mental Disability.”
2018 PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant, Purdue University.
2017 LGBTQ Studies Award (First Place), Purdue University Literary Awards, “‘All of
us shall dance in the snow’: Emily Holmes Coleman and a Post-Material
Aesthetics of Existence.”
2017 Kneale Award for Theory and Cultural Studies (First Place), Purdue University
Literary Awards, “The Anamorphosis of the Real.”
2017 PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant, Purdue University.
2017 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Purdue University.
2017 Robert Liddell Lowe Scholarship (for outstanding research on nineteenth- or
twentieth-century British literature), Purdue University.
2016 PROMISE Award Graduate Research Grant, Purdue University
2016 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Purdue University.
2015 Partner University Fund Fellowship, Purdue University and Université Paris
Ouest - Nanterre La Défense.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Central Methodist University

British Literature II
Introduction to Literature
Expository Writing
College Composition

Purdue University
Introduction to Fiction
Accelerated Composition Through Service Learning
Introduction to Composition: Documenting Realities
Introduction to Composition: Digital Rhetorics
Athletic Department Football Team Mentor

University of Central Florida

World Literature (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

Orange County (FL) Public Schools

High School English Language Arts Instructor

TEACHING AWARDS

2017-18 Honorable Mention for Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award,

Purdue University.
2018 Nominee for Most Outstanding Faculty Member, Purdue University.
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2018 Most Innovative Syllabus Approach Application, Purdue Writing Showcase,

“ENGL 108-S: Engaging the Community: Composing Through Service
Learning,” Purdue University.
2018 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Spring).
2017 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Fall).
2016-17 Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University.
2017 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Spring).
2016 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Fall).
2016 Teaching Academy Graduate Teaching Award, Purdue University.
2015-16 Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University.
2016 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Spring).
2015 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Fall).
2014-15 Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award, Purdue University.
2015 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Spring).
2014 *Quintilian Award, Purdue University (Fall).

*Quintilian Awards are presented to graduate teaching instructors who rank in the top 10% of all student evaluation
scores and receive a minimum average score of 4.6 (out of 5.0, with 5.0 being the highest) with at least a 75%
response rate.

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2020 “Virginia Woolf and a Climate of Uncertainty.” Modern Language Association.

Seattle, WA, January 9-12.

2019 “Defining Science, Inciting Modernism: The Victorian Periodical Editor.”

Modern Language Association. Chicago, IL, January 3-6.

2018 “Joyce’s Hauntology of Desire.” Modernist Studies Association. Columbus, OH,

November 8-11.

2018 “British Modernism and the Popularization of Science.” Louisville Conference on

Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY, February 22-24.

2017 “Scientific Epistemology and (Un)Predictable Temporalities in Joseph Conrad’s

The Secret Agent.” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. Tempe, AZ,
November 9-12.

2017 “The Epistemological Place of Disability in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent

Bear It Away.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA, May 25-28.

2017 “Postpartum Depression and Class-Inflected Disability in Emily Holmes

Coleman’s The Shutter of Snow.” Northeast Modern Language Association.
Baltimore, MD, March 23-26.
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2017 “Beauty in the Breakdown: Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and the Aesthetics of
Queer Disruption.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900.
Louisville, KY, February 23-25.

2015 “The Hospitality of the Law and The Trial for the De-Facement of the Other.”
North American Levinas Society. West Lafayette, IN, July 27-30.

2015 “Lacan and Mathematics.” French and Analytic Approaches to Science in the 20th
Century and Today. Nancy, France, June 15-19.

2013 “‘The nameless something’: Authorial Suicide and the True Body of the
Autobiography of Mark Twain.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Atlanta, GA, November 8-10.

SELECT DEPARTMENT SERVICE

2018 Showcase Presentation for Composition Through Service Learning, Purdue

University.
2016-17 Theory and Cultural Studies Graduate Student English Association
Representative, Purdue University.
2016-17 “Documenting Realities” Syllabus Approach Leader, Purdue University.
2015 Conference Co-Organizer and Co-Host. North American Levinas Society.
Emmanuel Levinas Across the Generations and Continents, West
Lafayette, IN, July 27-30.
2014 Conference Co-Organizer. Third Annual English Symposium. University
of Central Florida, February 21.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

REFERENCES

Arkady Plotnitsky, Distinguished Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3740
plotnits@purdue.edu
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Travis Johnson, Associate Professor and Humanities Director

Central Methodist University
Department of English
411 Central Methodist Square
Fayette, MO 65248
(660) 248-6306
tjohnson@centralmethodist.edu

Maren Linett, Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3780
mlinett@purdue.edu

Bradley Dilger, Associate Professor and Writing Program Administrator (Teaching Reference)
Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(309) 259-0328
dilger@purdue.edu

John Duvall, Margaret Church Distinguished Professor

Purdue University
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765) 494-3760
jduvall@purdue.edu