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David P. Haney
 
 
Office of Academic Affairs
B.B. Dougherty Administration Building
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
 (828) 262-2070 (office)
(828) 262-3034 (fax)
(336) 385-1531 (home)
haneydp@appstate.edu (e-mail)
                                                                                    
 
Current Position: Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Appalachian State University.
 
Previous Positions:
2001-2006: Professor and Chair, Department of English, Appalachian State University.
2000-2001: Hargis Professor of English Literature, Department of English, Auburn University.
1993-2000: Hargis Associate Professor of English Literature, Department of English, Auburn University.
1989-93: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Auburn University.
1988-89: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College.
1983-88: English teacher and Dean of Students (1986-88), The Cambridge School, Weston, MA (grades 9-12).
1981-85:  Guitarist, singer, and manager, Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys, Boston, MA.
1980-81: English teacher, The Nichols School, Buffalo, NY (grades 9-12).
1980-81: Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, D’Youville College, Buffalo, NY.
1978-80: Instructor, Department of English and Honors Program, Boston College.
 
Research and Teaching Interests: British Romanticism, Critical Theory, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Ethics, Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Cognitive Science.
 
Education:
PhD, English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1980.  Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Wordsworth's Prelude: Figural Aspects of Poetic Autobiography.”  Homer O. Brown, director.
MA, English, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1979.
BA, English, Macalester College, 1974 (Phi Beta Kappa).
University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, 1972-73.
 
Publications and Presentations:
 
Books:
The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy.  Literature and Philosophy Series.  Series edited by Anthony J. Cascardi.  University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2001.
William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation.  Literature and Philosophy Series.  Series edited by Anthony J. Cascardi.  University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1993.  
 
Chapters in Books (Refereed):
“Wordsworth and Levinas: Making a Habit of the Sublime.”  In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century.  Ed. Melvyn New, et al.  Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2001.  355-91.
 “Understanding and Ethics in Coleridge: Description, Evaluation, and Otherness.”  The Ethics in Literature.  Ed. Andrew Hatfield, et al. London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.  119-35.
“Nuptial Interruption: Marriage and Autobiography in Wordsworth's ‘A Farewell’.”  Autobiography and Post-Modernism.  Ed. Leigh Gilmore, et al.  Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994.  240-65.
 
Chapter in Book (Invited):
“Coleridge and the Ethics of Particularity.”  Afterimages: a Festschrift in Honor of Irving Massey.  Ed. William Kumbier and Ann Colley.  Buffalo and Toronto: Shufaloff Press, 1996.  58-73.
 
Journal Articles: (Refereed)
“Aesthetics and Ethics in Gadamer, Levinas, and Romanticism: Problems of Phronesis and Techne.”  PMLA 114 (1999): 32-45.
“‘Rents and openings in the ideal world’: Eye and Ear in Wordsworth.”  Studies in Romanticism 36 (1997): 173-99.
“Poetry as Super-Genre in Wordsworth: Presentation and Ethics.”  European Romantic Review 5 (1994): 73-89.
 “Incarnation and the Autobiographical Exit: Wordsworth's The Prelude, Books IX-XIII (1805).”  Studies in Romanticism 29 (1990): 523-54.
“Catachresis and the Romantic Will: The Imagination's Usurpation in The Prelude, Book VI.”  Style 23 (1989): 16-31.
“Viewing ‘the Viewless Wings of Poesy’: Gadamer, Keats and Historicity.”  Clio 18 (1989): 103-22.
 “The Emergence of the Autobiographical Figure in The Prelude, Book I.”  Studies in Romanticism 20 (1981): 33-63.
 
Other Articles (Invited or non-refereed):
Interview with poet Natasha Trethewey. Cold Mountain Review 33: 1 (Fall 2004), 19-34.
“Recent Work in Romanticism and Religion: From Witness to Critique."  Christianity and Literature 54: 2 (Winter 2005), 265-82. (Review Essay)
“Hermeneutics for Sophomores.” James O’Rourke, ed., Ode on a Grecian Urn: Hypercanonicity and Pedagogy (Romantic Circles Praxis Series, October 2003). http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/.
 “Blindsided by Time: Paul de Man and Romanticism.”  Southern Humanities Review 28 (1994): 169-78.
“Hillbilly at Harvard.”  Bluegrass Unlimited 22:10 (1988): 58-62.
“Rounder: Fifteen Years on the Edge.”  Bluegrass Unlimited 21: 3 (1986):  23-31.
“White Mountain Bluegrass.”  Bluegrass Unlimited 19: 8 (1985): 49-53.
 
 
Book Reviews:
Edwards, Pamela, The Statesman’s Science: History, Nature, and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. The Wordsworth Circle 36: 4 (Autumn 2005), 176-78.
Sudan, Rajani, Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature 1720-1850.  Albion 35: 4 (Winter 2004), 663-65.
Ulmer, William, The Christian Wordsworth; Westbrook, Deanne, Wordsworth’s Biblical Ghosts. Christianity and Literature 52:1 (Autumn 2002): 93-99.
Morton Paley, Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry.  Christianity and Literature 50 (2001): 359-61.
Mary Anne Perkins, Nation and Word: 1770-1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness.  Romanticism on the Net 19 (2000).
John Wyatt, Wordsworth and the Geologists.  Albion 29 (1997): 691-92.
Nancy Easterlin, The Question of “Romantic Religion.”  Criticism 39 (1997): 451-53.
Robert J. Griffin, Wordsworth's Pope.  European Romantic Review 7 (1997): 208-13.
Simon Critchley, The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas.  Southern Humanities Review 29 (1995): 274-77.
Patrick J. Keane, Coleridge's Submerged Politics: The Ancient Mariner and Robinson Crusoe.  Criticism 37 (1995): 498-501.
Bryan Shelley, Shelley and Scripture.  Nineteenth Century Prose 22 (1995): 104-107.
Richard Bourke, Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique.  Albion 26 (1994): 528-30.
Diane P. Michelfelder and Richard E. Palmer, eds., Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter.  Southern Humanities Review 26 (1992): 68-72.
 
Editorial Introductions:
“Editor’s Comment.”  Southern Humanities Review 31 (Fall 1997): ii-iv.
“Editor’s Comment.”  Southern Humanities Review 30 (Summer 1996): ii-iv.
 
Conference Presentations:
“Beyond the Tenure Track: Teaching Communities and Academic-Student Affairs Partnerships.” Faculty Work and the New Academy: Emerging Challenges and Evolving Roles (AAC&U Network for Academic Renewal Conference).  With Cindy Wallace and Georgia Rhoades. Chicago, IL, November, 2006.
 “Coleridge’s ‘Historic Race’: Ethical and Political Otherness.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  Boulder, CO, September 2004.
“Texts, Minds, and Bodies: Problems of Homology in Neuroscience and Hermeneutics.” Southern Comparative Literature Association.  Austin, TX, September, 2003.
“Reading with a Worthy Eye: Interpretation and Ethics in The Ruined Cottage.”  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  Seattle, WA, August 2001
“Making a Habit of the Sublime: Wordsworth and Levinas.”  Modern Language Association.  Chicago, IL, December 1999.
“S. T. Coleridge and Bernard Williams: On the Margins of Dramatic Theory and Moral Philosophy.”  International Association for Philosophy and Literature.  Mobile, AL, May, 1997.
“Self and Other in Coleridge: Between Levinas and Ricoeur.”  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  Boston, MA, November 1996.
“Ethics and Epistemology in Coleridge.”  International Conference on Literature and Ethics.  Aberystwyth, Wales, July 1996.
“Romanticism, Coleridge, and the Hermeneutics of the Ethical Sublime.”  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  Durham, NC, November 1994.
“Poetry as Super-Genre in Wordsworth: Presentation and Ethics.”  North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.  London, Ontario, August 1993.
“Sight and Sound in Wordsworth: an Ethical and Hermeneutic Perspective.”  International Association for Philosophy and Literature.  Pittsburgh, PA, May 1993.
“Signs, Selves, and Death: the Metaphorics of Romantic Anti-Epistemology.”  International Association for Philosophy and Literature.  Montreal, Quebec, May 1991.
“Epistemology and Ethics: Facing Death in Wordsworth's ‘Lucy’ Poems.”  Northeast Modern Language Association.  Hartford, CT, April 1991.
“Words, Things, and Death: the Elegiac Mode in Wordsworth.”  Modern Language Association.  Chicago, IL, December 1990.
“The Romantic Incarnation of Thought.”  International Association for Philosophy and Literature.  Irvine, CA, April 1990.
“Nuptial Interruption: Marriage and Autobiography in Wordsworth's ‘A Farewell’.”  Conference on Narrative.  New Orleans, LA, April 1990.
“A Poetics of Incarnation: Words Made Flesh in Romantic Poetry.”  Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association.  Poughkeepsie, NY, November 1988.
“Science or Hermeneutics: the Role of Method in Literary Studies.”  Midwest Modern Language Association.  St. Louis, MO, November 1988.
“Keats's Ode to a Nightingale: Successful Reconstruction of a Hermeneutical Failure.”  Northeast Modern Language Association.  Providence, RI, March 1988.
“The Ghost in the Machine Helps Himself: Irony and Self-Knowledge in Walker Percy's The Second Coming and Lost in the Cosmos.”  American Culture Association.  New Orleans, LA, March 1988.
 
Invited Presentations:
Chair for plenary session, “Teacher Education and the Undergraduate Major: Is There a Knowledge Base for English.” ADE Seminar East, Knoxville, TN, June 2006.
“Faculty and Student Affairs Collaboration: Challenges and Why we Have to Overcome Them.” Appalachian Learning Communities Institute, Boone, NC, May 2006.  With Cindy Wallace.
Presentations on general education and school-college collaboration to Avery County, NC, English Language Arts Vertical Alignment Meeting (Feb., 2006); Appalachian State Partnership Coordinating Council (April, 2006); Ashe County, NC, Curriculum Committee (May, 2006).
Respondent, "Stress Points: Issues and Directions for English Departments." South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Nov. 13, 2004.
 “Equality and Cultural Difference: Charles Taylor, Emmanuel Levinas, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” English Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nov. 4, 2004.
 
Work in Progress:
Essay collection (co-edited with Donald R. Wehrs) on Levinas and the nineteenth century.
Essay on cognitive science and hermeneutics.
Essay on ethics in Wordsworth’s “Ruined Cottage,”
Book project on the relation between interpretation and ethics.
 
Competitive Grants Received:
NEH Focus Grant to explore History-English combinations in freshman courses (2002-2003: co authored with chairs of Interdisciplinary Studies and History), $25,000
Auburn University College of Liberal Arts summer research grant (1997), $5000.
Auburn University professional improvement leave (1995).
Participation in Great Books Faculty Seminar, sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (1992), $1500
Auburn University College of Liberal Arts summer research grant (1991), $3500.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1990), $3500.
 
Awards:
Outstanding Graduate Program Officer, Auburn University (Spring 2001)
Panhellenic Council Outstanding Professor, Auburn University (Fall 1997).
Mortar Board Outstanding Educator, Auburn University (Fall 1992).
 
Teaching:
Selected Graduate Courses:
Victorian Poetry
Romantic Poetry
Studies in Comparative Literature (The Sublime)
Major English Authors Since 1660 (Wordsworth and Coleridge; Blake and Keats; Coleridge and Shelley)
English Literature and Culture Since 1800 (The Question[s] of Romanticism)
English Literature 1800-1900 (Survey)
Studies in Critical Theory (Hermeneutics)
Studies in Poetry (Form and History in Romantic Poetry)
Graduate student advisory committees:
PhD dissertations: Chair of advisory committee on two completed dissertations.  Member of advisory committee on six completed dissertations.
MA theses: Chair of advisory committee on six completed theses; member of advisory committee on three others.
Selected Undergraduate Courses:
            Freshman Composition
            Sophomore British Literature
            Literary Theory
Freshman Composition (honors and regular)
Sophomore Literature: British literature surveys and interdisciplinary “Great Books” course (honors and regular)
British Romanticism
Interpreting Texts (introductory literary theory)
            The Victorian Novel
Directed two honors theses in English, one in Architecture. Served one honors thesis committee.
 
Administrative Experience:
2001-2006: Chair, Department of English, Appalachian State University.
Major departmental accomplishments 2001-2006:
                        -Secured a nine-hour per semester teaching load for active scholars.
                        -Established Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing and hired three Coffey Professors.
                        -Coordinated curriculum revisions including new undergraduate concentrations in Professional Writing and Film; new courses in professional writing, film, ethnic American literature, writing center tutoring, and teaching composition in high school; revision of the MA comprehensive exam; and proposals for revision of MA, BA, and core curriculum requirements.
                        -Instituted new departmental governance system, including formal elections, appointments, and terms for committees and program coordinators; formalized documentation of departmental policies and procedures; and the establishment of an Assistant Chair.
                        -Developed relationship with College of Business for English to teach Business Writing in return for new faculty lines in professional writing and additional support for the University Writing Center.
                        -Secured tenure-track administrator, additional funding, budget line from Academic Affairs, and new central location for University Writing Center.
                        -Hired seven new tenure-track faculty members.
                        -Secured funding for enhancements to Sanford Hall, including a new office/classroom suite.
                        -Developed technological resources, including the addition of Smart classrooms, the increased use of WebCT, and the use of a network drive for storage and communication of departmental documents.
                        -Established mentoring and evaluation system for non-tenure-track faculty.
                        -Made progress toward establishing full-time non-tenure-track positions for teaching composition.
                        -Established a local chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honorary.
                        -Upgraded and secured additional internal and external funding for Cold Mountain Review, the creative writing journal published by the department.
                        -Worked toward increased contact and fundraising with alumni.
                        -Increased the number of undergraduate majors by 26% and graduate majors by 62%.
                        -Increased external grant activity through workshops and assistance with individual proposals.
                        -Worked closely with General Studies to coordinate new student enrollment and linked courses in general education.
                        -Began off-campus program for the MA in Secondary Education.
1998-2001: Coordinator of Graduate Studies, MA and PhD Program, Auburn University English Department
                        -Coordinated recruitment, admission, curriculum development, assessment, and advising for MA and/PhD program of approximately 60 students.
                        -Increased PhD enrollment from 0 to 10 students in first year.
                        -Developed and implemented an assessment plan for the graduate program.
                        -Coordinated the implementation of a master’s degree in Technical and Professional Writing.
1990-93: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Auburn University English Department
-Coordinated course scheduling, advising, curriculum development, and program assessment for BA in English.
-Coordinated revision of undergraduate major from period- to concentration-based curriculum.
1986-88: Dean of Students, the Cambridge School of Weston, MA (boarding and day private high school)
            -Supervised student discipline, counseling, advising system, attendance, parent relations, and health center.
            -Served as part of three-person team responsible for daily operations of school.
            -Coordinated implementation of student assessment program for substance abuse.
 
University Service, Appalachian State University:
Chair, Faculty Evaluation and Development Task Force (2006-present)
Graduate Education Task Force (2005-2006)
Retention Management Team (2005-present)
Chair, Search Committee, Vice-Chancellor for Student Development (2005-2006)
General Education Task Force (2004-present)
Chair, Council of Chairs (2004-2005)
Ad-Hoc Committee for Review of Family and Medical Leave Policy (2004)
Judge for Faculty Book Award (2004)
Judge for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award (2004)
Presenter at workshops for chairs on budgeting, staff relations, and other topics (2002-present)
DPC Policy Subcommittee of Council of Chairs (2003)
Ad-Hoc University Senate Committee on Space (2001-2002)
 
College of Arts and Sciences Service, Appalachian State University:
Arts and Sciences Council (2001-2006)
Reassigned Time for Scholarship Committee (chair, 2003-2004)
Enrollment Management Task Force (2001-2002)
Research Standards Committee (2003)
Interim Dean Search Committee (2003)
 
Departmental Service, Auburn University:
Graduate Placement Advisor (1996-98).
Associate Editor, Southern Humanities Review, (1995-98).
Professorial hiring committees (1993, 1996, 1997 [chair], 1998 [chair]).
Graduate Studies Committee (1993-96).
English Hour presenter (1993, 1998).
Acting Director of Graduate Studies (summer 1993).
Sigma Tau Delta Advisor (1990-93).
Great Books Committee (1990)
 
College of Liberal Arts Service, Auburn University:
Curriculum Committee (1993-96).
SACS Self-Study Committee (1992).
NEH Summer Stipend Review Committee (1993).
College of Liberal Arts Summer Grant Review Committee (1992).
 
University Service, Auburn University:
Graduate Enrollment Commission (1998-2001)
Tuition Advisory Committee (1998-2001).
Graduate Council (1996-2001).  Chair, semester transition subcommittee.
Graduate Fellowship Committee (1996-2001).
 
Professional Service:
Judge for Outstanding Graduate Student Essay, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (2004)
Conducted state-mandated reviews of English Departments at the University of Tennessee/Chattanooga (2002), Southeast Louisiana University (2003), and the University of Alabama at Huntsville (2004)
External reviewer for promotion (2001)
Grant reviewer for Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (2000)
Reviewer for British Council Awards (1993)
Grant reviewer for NEH summer stipends (1993)
Manuscript reviewer for University of Alabama Press, Harper-Collins, Ashgate, European Romantic Review, Style, PMLA, Christianity and Literature (1993-present).
 
Community Service:
Board of Directors, Watauga County Arts Council, (2004-2005)
Board of Directors, Auburn Suzuki Academy (1994-96)
 
Memberships: Modern Language Association, Southeast Modern Language Association, Wordsworth-Coleridge Association, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Association of American Colleges and Universities.