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Dustin Hixenbaugh

Curriculum vitae, November 2015

EDUCATION

2016 Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin. Dissertation: “Inventing Cuauhtémoc: The Conquest of Mexico in the Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel.” Supervised by John Morán González and César A. Salgado.
2011 M.A., Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin. Thesis: “Supplement to a Superficial Education: Didacticism and Performance in Júlia Lopes de Almeida’s Livro das noivas (1896). Supervised by Sónia Roncador and César A. Salgado.
2006 B.A., English; B.A., Spanish, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Study abroad at Universidad Católica del Urugay.

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

2013- Assistant Instructor, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin;
Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center, UT Austin (2013-2014)
2013-14 Assistant Instructor, SPURS (Students Partnering for Undergraduate Rhetoric Success) Dual-Enrollment Program, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, UT Austin; Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (TX) Independent School District
2012-13 Assistant Instructor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UT Austin
2009-11 Teacher’s Assistant, Dept. of English, UT Austin
2006-9 Teacher, English Language Arts, La Joya High School, La Joya, TX
2003-6 Consultant, University Writing Center, SIU Carbondale

TEACHING TRAINING & CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

2014 Writer, First-Year Composition Curriculum, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin
2013 Director, Summer School Credit Recovery Program, Sam Houston Math, Science, and Technology Center, Teach For America Institute, Houston, TX
2012 Director, Summer School Credit Recovery Program, James Madison High School, Teach For America Institute, Houston, TX
2010-11 Writer, Secondary English Language Arts Curriculum (Grades 7-12), Houston Independent School District, Houston, TX
2010-11 Literacy Specialist, Teach For America Institute, Houston, TX
2010 Consultant and Curriculum Writer, Texans Can! Academy, Dallas, TX

TEACHING AWARDS

2015 Hairston Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin
2012-3 Graduate Teaching Scholar, Center for Teaching and Learning, UT Austin
2011 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Dept. of English, UT Austin
2009 Teacher of the Year, La Joya Independent School District, La Joya, TX
2009 Teacher of the Year, La Joya High School, La Joya, TX

PUBLICATIONS

Book Reviews

 TBD Review of Aztlán and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place by Roberto Lint Sagarena. Forthcoming in E3W Review of Books.
 TBD Review of Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of Empire by Jason Ruiz. Accepted for publication at Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.
2014 Review of Romance, Race, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century by Colleen C. O’Brien. E3W Review of Books 14 (2014): 38-9.
2012 Review of A alma encantadora das ruas/The Enchanting Soul of the Streets [bilingual edition] by João do Rio and translated by Mark Carlyon. E3W Literatures Review of Books 12 (2012): 72-3.

 Related Digital Publications

 2015 “6 Tips for Making the Most of Your Class Blog.” Blogging Pedagogy. Digital Writing and Research Lab, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin. 5 Feb.
 2014 “Student Research in the Era of Bookless Libraries.” Blogging Pedagogy. Digital Writing and Research Lab, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin, 13 Oct.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Panels Organized

2014 “On Pretzelcoatl: The Conquest of Mexico in the U.S. Popular Imagination.” Rethinking Comparison: Relationality, Intertextuality, Materiality: 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, UT Austin, Sep. 26-28.

Papers Presented (Selected)

2015 “Jicoténcal (1826) and Alternate Genealogies of the Historical Novel in Spanish-Speaking America.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, University of Washington, March 26-29.
2014 “On Aztec Revelations or, Leaves from the Life of the Fate-Doomed (1849).” Rethinking Comparison: Relationality, Intertextuality, Materiality: 11th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature, UT Austin, Sep. 26-28.
2014 “The Prince of (Ta)Cuba: Refashioning History in Avellaneda’s Guatimozin (1846).” 200th Anniversary of Avellaneda, Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, April 4.
2014 “Guatimozin: The Last of the Warrior-Librarians.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, New York University, March 20-23.
2014 “Quetzal’s Blank Fourth Wall: Archival Fashioning in Lew Wallace’s The Fair God (1873).” Seminar on “The Hemispheric South and the (Un)Common Ground of Comparability,” C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 3rd Biennial Conference, UNC Chapel Hill, March 13-16.
2012 “Martí on Whitman: Revisiting Homophobia in the American Chronicles.” 20th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics, UT Austin, March 2-3.
2010 “Catholic Heroines: Jovita González and the Women of Caballero.” Southern Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) 67th Convention, “New Frontiers,” Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 28-30.

ON-CAMPUS TALKS

2015 Lesson Execution for New Teacher’s Assistants. Dept. of English, UT Austin, Aug. 21.
2014 Introduction to Editing Audio Using Garageband and Audacity. Digital Writing and Research Lab, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin, Oct. 17.
2013 “Teaching across Lines of Difference: Responding to Diversity in University Classes.” Center for Teaching and Learning, UT Austin, April 25.
2013 “Subalterns and Others: What Are the Limits of Postcolonial Studies?” Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students, UT Austin, April 19.
2013 Graduate Student Teaching Panel Discussion. Graduate Professional Development Week, Graduate Student Assembly, UT Austin, Jan. 15.

FELLOWSHIPS & OTHER AWARDS

2015 Professional Development Award, Graduate School, UT Austin
2014 Professional Development Award, Graduate School, UT Austin
2011-12 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship (Portuguese), Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies, UT Austin
2006 25 Most Distinguished Seniors Award, Alumni Association, SIU Carbondale
2006 Carl Lutes Outstanding English Major Award, SIUC
2006 Southworth Award for Foreign Language and Literatures, SIU Carbondale

CLASSES TAUGHT

University of Texas at Austin

“The Rhetoric of Country Music,” Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
“Rhetoric and Writing,” Summer Bridge 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
“Introduction to Spanish,” Spring 2013, Fall 2012
“Masterworks of Literature” (as TA), Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009

Teach For America Houston Institute
Chavez, Davis, and Madison High Schools

“Diversity, Community, and Achievement,” Summer 2011
“Secondary Literacy,” Summer 2011, Summer 2010

La Joya High School, La Joya, TX

English Language Arts, 9th Grade, 2008-2009
English Language Arts, 12th Grade, 2006-2008
ESL/State Exam Preparation, 2007-2009
Competitive Debate, 2007-2009

Scarborough High School, Houston, TX

English Language Arts, 10th Grade (as Student Teacher), Summer 2006

SERVICE TO PROFESSION

2015 Leader, Zeugma Podcast Group, Digital Writing and Research Lab, UT Austin
2014-15 Member, First-Year Forum (FYF) Text Selection Committee, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, UT Austin
2014 Member, Committee organized to collect and curate student work for use in the Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing’s in-house textbook, Controversies.
2012 Editorial Assistant, Domestic Servants in Literature and Testimony in Brazil, 1889-1999 by Sônia Roncador (Palgrave, 2014)
2012 President, Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students, UT Austin
2012 Special Section Co-Editor (with Elizabeth DeMott), “Contested Cities,” Ethnic and Third World (E3W) Literatures Review of Books 12 (2012): 66-83
2012 Member, Livingston Graduate Award Selection Committee, UT Austin
2011 Conference Organizer, 8th Annual Graduate Conference in Comparative Literature with keynote speaker Idelber Avelar, UT Austin, Sep. 30-Oct. 1.
2010 Student Representative, Comparative Literature Course Committee, UT Austin
2005 Editorial Assistant, Essays in Medieval Studies 22 (2005), Illinois Medieval Association, edited by Anita R. Riedinger

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT (SELECTED)

2011-13 Mentor to Thammika Songkaeo through Graduate Association of Comparative Literature Students (GRACLS), UT Austin
2012-13 Member, OUTGrads LGBTQ Association, UT Austin
2010-12 Leader, LGBTQ Affinity Group, Teach For America Houston Institute
2009-10 College Application Coach, Breakthrough Collaborative, Austin

LANGUAGES

English (native)
Spanish Reading: fluent Speaking: fluent Writing: advanced
Portuguese Reading: advanced Speaking: good Writing: good

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Modern Language Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists