State College of Florida Manatee Sarasota - English
Assistant Professor of English at Tulsa Community College
Higher Education
T. Allen
Culpepper
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Poet, Editor, Professor
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Lecturer in English
Courses taught: Composition I and II, Introduction to Literature
Visiting Assistant Professor/Writing Program Director
Courses taught: Exposition and Argumentation, Freshman Seminar: Spirit, Flesh & Word: Spiritual/Physical Conflict in Characters from Modern and Contemporary British Literature (a writing-intensive seminar for second-semester Arts & Sciences students)
Administrative duties: Directly supervised 27 graduate teaching assistants responsible for teaching freshman composition and an upper-level course in business and technical writing and operating a writing center; coordinated freshman seminars taught by faculty from various academic disciplines
Associate Professor of English
Courses taught: Developmental Writing I and II, Composition I and II, English Literature I and II, World Literature I and II, American Literature II, Introduction to Poetry, The Novel
Service:
• Member, Search Committee for English faculty position, Spring 2009
• Advisor, Elektraphrog (online literary and arts magazine), 2008-2009
• Co-Advisor, Swamp Scribes (student creative writing organization), 2006-2009
• Member, Curriculum Development and Review Committee, 2007-2008
• Faculty Senate Representative for Venice Campus, 2005-06
• Advisor for Students Active in Arts and Philosophy, 2005-06
• Coordinator, Written Communications II Curriculum Committee, 2004-05
• Member, Search Committee for Philosophy faculty position, 2004-05
• Advisor, Philosophy Club, 2004-05
• Member, Search Committee for English faculty position, 2003-04
• Search Committee for Developmental English/Reading/ESOL faculty position, 2002-03
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Courses taught: Composition I and II
Service:
• Recorder, Faculty Development Committee
• Member, Library Committee
• Member, Orientation-Course Committee
Assistant Professor of English
Courses taught: Composition I and II, Honors Composition II (theatre focus), Honors American Literature I and II, Poetry Writing, Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop, Introduction to Creative Writing (as part of a teaching team), scheduled to teach British Literature II in Fall 2014
Service:
Tulsa Community College, 2009-Present
• Coordinator, Writing Across the College/Writing Across the Curriculum (tutoring in Writing Center, direction of Writing Center during search for director, mentoring of new part-time faculty, planning and facilitation of faculty-development workshops), since spring 2013
• Member, search committee for English faculty, TCC Metro Campus, summer 2014
• Chair, search committee for writing center director, spring 2014
• Judge, Tulsa Review creative writing contest poetry entries, spring 2014
• Judge, Louder Than a Bomb University Edition poetry competition, April 2014
• Judge, high school poetry recitation contest, Union High School, January 2014
• Chair, search committee for writing center tutors, fall 2013
• Member, Team TCC for Alzheimer’s Walk, August 2013
• Volunteer, Street Cats of Tulsa, Summer 2013
• Member, search committee for theatre coordinator, summer 2013
• Member, Faculty Association sub-committee on evaluation of teaching, 2013-2014
• Judge, Outside the Lines poetry contest, Spring 2012
• Member, Faculty Association policy committee (meets as needed)
• Co-advisor, Phi Theta Kappa, 2011-2014
• Member, search committee for English faculty positions, summer 2011
• Coordinator, Teaching Squares program
• Member, Faculty Development Sub-Council
• Poetry reader for Nimrod International Journal and one-on-one editor at its annual writers’ conference, since 2012
• Member, Rank and Promotion Committee, Spring 2010
• Judge, Outside the Lines poetry contest, Spring 2010
Bachelor of Arts (BA) cum laude
English Language and Literature/Letters
Major: English (mostly courses in British and American literature and linguistics)
Minors: History and Spanish (studied mostly British and Latin American history)
Also studied French
Master of Arts (M.A.)
English
Thesis on W. H. Auden directed by Mary Lowe-Evans.
Courses in literature and literary criticism.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
English (20th-Century British Literature)
Dissertation on poets Houseman, Owen, Auden, and Gunn.
Secondary fields: 20th-American literature, English Romanticism
Blog
Cartoon blog about the adventures of a feline tai chi master, Kat Tai-Dai Mau, and his gang of friends: yogi Ajay Katel, personal trainer Rikki Thomkat, long-time friend Belinda Calico, and Randy Dognextdoor
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Cartoon blog about the adventures of a feline tai chi master, Kat Tai-Dai Mau, and his gang of friends: yogi Ajay Katel, personal trainer Rikki Thomkat, long-time friend Belinda Calico, and Randy Dognextdoor
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Cartoon blog about the adventures of a feline tai chi master, Kat Tai-Dai Mau, and his gang of friends: yogi Ajay Katel, personal trainer Rikki Thomkat, long-time friend Belinda Calico, and Randy Dognextdoor
Blog (September 2014-Present)
Men's style blog--my personal style.
Blog
Cartoon blog about the adventures of a feline tai chi master, Kat Tai-Dai Mau, and his gang of friends: yogi Ajay Katel, personal trainer Rikki Thomkat, long-time friend Belinda Calico, and Randy Dognextdoor
Blog (September 2014-Present)
Men's style blog--my personal style.
Blog
Cartoon blog about the adventures of a feline tai chi master, Kat Tai-Dai Mau, and his gang of friends: yogi Ajay Katel, personal trainer Rikki Thomkat, long-time friend Belinda Calico, and Randy Dognextdoor
Blog (September 2014-Present)
Men's style blog--my personal style.