Erik Hillskemper

Assistant Professor-English

573-592-4364

erik.hillskemper@williamwoods.edu

Education:

  • Ph.D., English, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2009; Dissertation: Dissolving the Floors of Memory : Perception of Time and History in the Works of Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot and James Joyce
  • M.A., English, magna cum laude, California State University, Chico, Calif., 2004
  • One-year Student Teaching Experience for Secondary Teaching Certificate in English, California State University, Chico, Calif., 2001-2002
  • B.A, English with an emphasis in English Education, cum laude, California State University, Chico

Affiliations:

  • Modern Language Association (MLA), 2008-Present
  • Conference on college Composition and Communication (CCCC), 2007-Present
  • National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 2002-2004

Presentations:

  • "Memory, Perception, and Pocketwatches in the "Wandering Rocks" Episode of Ulysses, Postgraduate Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 2008
  • "Time, Death, and Memory in Joyce's "The Dead," sixth Crosscurrents Conference, University of Aberdeen, 2007
  • Examining Henri Bergson s Influence on Joseph Conrad, Postgraduate Seminar, University of Aberdeen, 2006
  • Two thousand years ago the other day: History and Experience in Conrad s Hear of Darkness, fifth Crosscurrents Conference, University of Aberdeen, 2005
  • Perform a part thou hast not done before: The Consequences of Sartrean Bad Faith in Shakespeare s Coriolanus, California State Universities Graduate Summit for the Northern Campuses, 2002, California State University, Chico, 2002
  • A Tale Too Often Told: The Question of Historical Authority in the Nestor Episode of Joyce s Ulysses, ninth Crosscurrents Conference, University of Aberdeen, 2009
  • Filial Obligation and the "Legal Fiction" of Stephen Dedalus s Hamlet Theory in Ulysses, Migrating Minds: Imagined Journeys, Imagined Homecomings, Aberdeen WORD Festival, University of Aberdeen, 2009