Curriculum Vitae
Charles Tryon
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Ivan Allen College
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
404-894-1024
charles.tryon@lcc.gatech.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., May 2002, English, Purdue University.
  Dissertation: Time Lapse: The Politics of Time-Travel Cinema.
  Committee: Richard Dienst, Siobhan Somerville, Arkady Plotnitsky, and Dino Felluga.
  
  
• Fellow, August 1998, School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University.
  
  
• M.A., August 1995, English, Georgia State University.
  Thesis: "The Changing Shape of the Land: Perspective and Context in As I Lay Dying."
  Committee: Thomas McHaney, Paul Schmidt, and Matthew Roudane
  
  
• B.A., May 1992, cum laude, English, Lee College, Cleveland, TN.

Publications:

• "Bodies Confused, Memories Misused: Time Travel and the Post-Cinematic," under revision.
• "Derelict Ruins: Benjamin, Breton, and Time-Travel Cinema," under revision.
• "Virtual Cities and Stolen Memories: Temporality and the Digital in Dark City," under revision.
• Review, Adaptation, Dir. Spike Jonze. Scope, forthcoming.
• "Visuality." Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Ed. Victor Taylor. New York: Routledge, 2001.
• Review, The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses. Sycamore Review 12.1 (Fall/Winter 2000), 122-25.

Conferences/Guest Lectures:

• "Virtual Cities and Stolen Memories: Temporality and the Digital in Dark City," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2003.
• "Romantic Ruins and Berkeley Square: Time Travel's Surrealist Source," Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, April 2002."
  
• Cities and Subjectivity: Bifurcating Timelines in Sliding Doors and Me Myself I," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Washington, DC, May 2001.
  
• "Revolutionary Subjects in Film," Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between Politics and Aesthetics, Panel Moderator, South Bend, IN, April, 2000.
• "Machines in/of Time: Gilles Deleuze and the Cinema of Time Travel," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, March, 2000.
• "How to Write a Movie Review," Guest Lecture, Communication 252: Introduction to Journalism, West Lafayette, IN, March 2000.
• "Screen Time: Walter Benjamin and the Time Travel Film," Out of Time: 25th Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, FL, January, 2000.
• "'Because I Know that Time is Always Time:' Identification and Memory in Chris Marker's Sans Soleil," International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference, Hartford, CT, May, 1999.
• "Strange Days and the Cinema of Virtual Reality," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February, 1999.
• "Time Travel, Postmodernism, and Spectatorship in 12 Monkeys," International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Irvine, CA, May, 1998.
• "Historical Memory and the Uncanny in Toni Morrison's Beloved," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February, 1998.
• "Post-/Ed Orientations," Borders and Hemlines, Purdue University Graduate Conference, Panel Moderator, West Lafayette, IN, February, 1998.
• "Spectatorship and Gender Representation in Soul-Transmigration Films," Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, TX, March, 1997.
• "Gender, Identity, and the Body in Dead Again," Unruly Women's Colloquium, West Lafayette, IN, November, 1996.
• "Cultural and Sexual Stereotypes in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game," Construction Zones: Narratives of Identity, Minneapolis, MN, October, 1996.

Academic Experience:

Film:
"Introduction to the Study of Film," University of Illinois, 2001-02.
"The Movies: Introduction to Film Analysis," Purdue University, 1999-2000.

Literature:
"Introduction to Fiction," University of Illinois, Spring 2002.
"Science Fiction and Fantasy," Purdue University, Fall 1999.
"Sports and Literature," Purdue University, Spring 1998.

Composition:
Composition 2: "Time Lapse: Time Travel in Fiction and Film," Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2003
Composition 1: "Identity, Citizenship, and Experience in the Age of Digital Reproduction," Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2002.
English Composition: Argumentative Writing, University of Illinois, 2000-2001.
Accelerated First-Year Composition, Purdue University, Fall 1998.
English Composition II: The Research Paper, Purdue University, 1996-97.
English Composition I: Cultural Studies, Purdue University, 1995-97.

Tutor:
Writing Center, Georgia State University, graduate lab assistant, 1993-94.

Research Assistant:
Thomas L. McHaney, Director, Georgia State University, Summer 1993.

Teaching Interests:

Film Theory and History; Modern and Postmodern Theory; Literary Theory; Modern and Postmodern American Literature; Narrative Theory; Electronic Pedagogy; Frankfurt School; Cultural Studies; Science Fiction and Fantasy

Awards, Honors, and Scholarships:

Marion L. Brittain Teaching Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2002-present
Purdue Research Foundation Summer Grants, 1999-2000
Tuition Scholarship, School of Criticism and Theory, 1998
Conference Travel Fund, 1997-1998
Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society) Treasurer, Lee College, 1992
Graduated cum laude, Lee College, 1992 Presidential Scholarship, Lee College, 1988

Activities:

Freaky Film Festival, Core Volunteer (Fall 2000)
Contemporary Cultural Theory Collective (Purdue University, 1999-2000)
Job Placement Committee (Purdue University, 1999-2000)
Theory and Cultural Studies Committee (Purdue University, 1998-99)
Movie Reviewer for Purdue University Radio Station (Spring 1998)

Languages:

French, reading knowledge
Spanish, reading knowledge

Organizations:

Modern Language Association (1997-present)
Northeast Modern Language Association (2002-2003)
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (2002-present)
Society for Cinema Studies (1996-present)
International Association of Philosophy and Literature (1998-1999)

References:

Richard Dienst, Rutgers University
Ramona Curry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dino Felluga, Purdue University
Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University
Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dossier available upon request from: Department of English, Heavilon Hall, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, (765) 494-3746.

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