Dr. David Wilkes - Professor of English, Department Chair

Dr. David Michael Wilkes
dwilkes@mvnu.edu
(740) 392-6868 Ext. 3510

Education:

Ph.D. University of Rhode Island, English Literature, 1990.
M.A. University of California at Santa Barbara, English/American Literature, 1985.
B.A. University of California at Santa Barbara, English, 1981.

Professional Experience:

Professor of English, 2000 to present, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Ohio
Chair of English and Modern Languages
Dean, School of Arts and Humanities, 2004 to 2006, Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Associate Professor of English, 1996 to 2000, Mount Vernon Nazarene College
Lecturer, 1990 to 1996, College of Continuing Education at University of Rhode Island, Community
College of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, Roger Williams University
Visiting Professor of English, 1991 to 1992, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, Portugal

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Awards and Recognition:

Sabbatical, Fall 2003, Spring 2011
The President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001.
Summer Research Mini-Grant Recipient, Mount Vernon Nazarene College, 2003, 1999, 1998, 1997

Published Works:

"The Mudworm's Bower and Other Metropastoral Spaces: Novelization and Clashing Chronotopes in Our Mutual Friend." Dickens Studies Annual 42 (2011): 295-330.
"Piecing Together George Schroeder." Review of the artist's collages. February 2010. georgeschroederart.net/artwork/1616508_Piecing_Together_George_Schroeder.html
"Portrait of a Christian as a Young Man." Colleague Faith 3. Ronald Alan Knott, ed. Berrien Spring, MI: St Andrews University Press, 2006. 49-50.
"This Most Protean Sitter": The Factory Worker and Triangular Desire in Hard Times." Dickens Studies Annual) 36 (2005): 153-181.
"Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The Explicator 61.4 (Summer 2003): 202-204.
"Passing Cruikshank's Bottle: From Temperance Tract to Dickensian Satire." Dickens Quarterly 19.2 (2002): 80-88.
"Dickens, Bakhtin, and the Neopastoral Shepherd in Oliver Twist." Dickens Studies Annual 24 (1996): 59-79.

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Past jobs and/or current hobbies unrelated to your profession:

Past job: Cable TV Line Installer; hobbies: Traveling with my family, playing my Fender Telecaster.