Shannon L. Mariotti. Georgetown, TX

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1 Shannon L. Mariotti Assistant Professor of Political Science Southwestern University Georgetown, TX Education Cornell University Ph.D. in Government, August 2006, Fields of Study: Political Theory, Gender Politics; Dissertation Title: The Political Value of Withdrawal: Thoreau, Adorno, and the Modern Alienated Self M.A. in Government, May 2004, Field of Study: Political Theory The University of Texas at Austin M.A. in Government, May 2001, Fields of study: Political Theory, American Political Institutions and Processes, Public Law American University B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, May 1999, Field of Study: C.L.E.G. (Communication, Law, Economics and Government) Academic Appointments Southwestern University, Georgetown TX Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fall 2008-present Rollins College, Winter Park FL Assistant Professor of Political Science, Fall 2006-Spring 2008 Cornell University, Ithaca NY First-Year Writing Seminar Instructor at Cornell University, Fall 2003-Spring 2005 Fields of Research 19th Century American Transcendental Thought, American Political Thought, 20 th century Critical Social Theory, Democratic Theory Courses Taught Introduction to Political Theory, American Political Thought, Modern Political Theory, Gender and Political Theory, Environmental Political Thought, Contemporary Democratic Theory, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Senior Capstone Seminar) Books Thoreau s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) as part of the Studies in American Thought and Culture series, edited by Paul Boyer. 1

2 Articles Melville s Reception of Emerson and Thoreau: Cadaverous Triumphs and the Dead-End of Transcendental Practices of Awakening, in A Political Companion to Melville. Jason Frank, ed. (The University Press of Kentucky, under contract and forthcoming). Henry David Thoreau in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, under contract and forthcoming). Emerson s Transcendental Gaze and the Disagreeable Particulars of Slavery: Vision and the Costs of Idealism, in A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk, eds. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky Press, September 2011). Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation and the Psychic Economy, Telos, Special Issue: Adorno in America (Winter 2009). The Death of the First-born Son: Emerson s Focal Distancing, Du Bois Second Sight, and Disruptive Particularity, Political Theory, 37: 3 (June 2009). Thoreau, Adorno, and the Critical Potential of Particularity in A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Jack Turner, ed. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009). Book Reviews Communicating to the Demos, a review of Gerhard Schweppenhaüser s Theodor W. Adorno: an introduction, translated by James Rolleston (Duke University Press, 2009), in Review of Politics, 72:3 (September 2010). Critique from the Margins: Adorno and the Politics of Withdrawal in Political Theory, June 2008, Volume 36, No. 3 (an article-length book review of Stefan Müller-Doohm s Adorno: a Biography, David Jenemann s Adorno in America, and Lorez Jäger s Adorno: a Political Biography). Works in Progress Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies, Imminent Critique, and Democratic Pedagogy. Book manuscript in progress. Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, under contract and forthcoming). Article in progress: under contract and forthcoming. Housing Crisis: Housekeeping, Homelessness, and the Novels of Marilynne Robinson. Article in progress. 2

3 Invited Talks I accepted an invitation to chair a panel on Adorno at a graduate student conference, at the University of Chicago, titled Exile on Main Street: Fascism, Emigration, and the European Imagination in America. I also presented a paper titled Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies, Imminent Critique, and Democratic Pedagogy at the University of Chicago s Social Theory Workshop. Both events took place on November 10-12, I accepted an invitation to participate in the American Democracy Forum conference at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, on May 25, I presented a paper titled Adorno and Democracy in America: Countertendencies and Democratic Pedagogy Conference Presentations and Participation American Political Science Association Conference, September 2011 presented Bartleby and Transcendentalism, for panel American Tragedy: The Political Thought of Herman Melville. Other participants: Jason Frank, Lawrie Balfour, Susan McWilliams (discussant), Thomas Dumm (chair). Western Political Science Association, April 2011 presented Adorno on the Radio: The Countertendencies of American Democracy, for panel on Adorno and Democracy: Complexity and Contradiction, Possibilities and Potential. Other participants: Andrew Douglas, Michael Bray, Paul Apostolidis (chair and discussant). Western Political Science Association, April 2011 discussant for panel Beyond Deliberation? Justification, Rhetoric, and Political Communication. American Political Science Association, September 2010 presented Emerson and the Struggle of Transcendental Idealism, for panel on Political Reflection Through Extraordinary Experience. Other participants: Andrew Douglas, Justin Rose, Marcel Hoffman, Stephen K. White (chair and discussant). American Political Science Association, September 2010 panel chair for The Problem of The People in American Political Thought. Other participants: Michelle Smith, Jason Frank, Melvin Rogers, Desmond Jagmohan, Jack Turner, Isis Leslie (discussant). American Political Science Association, September 2009 presented Emerson s Transcendental America and the Disagreeable Particulars of Slavery: Vision, Politics, and Idealism. Other Participants: Alan Levine, Daniel Malachuk, James Read, Jack Turner (discussant). Western Political Science Association, March 2008 presented Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality: Adorno, America, and the Sickness of Health Western Political Science Association, March 2008 panel chair and discussant for Affect and the Sentiments of Politics 3

4 Western Political Science Association, March 2007 presented Thoreau, Adorno, and the Critical Potential of Particularity. New York State Political Science Association, April 2005 presented Huckleberrying Toward Democracy: Henry David Thoreau s Alternative Political Space and Practices New York State Political Science Association, April 2005 panel chair for Political Theory: Challenges in the New Century Cornell University Political Theory Workshop, May 2005 presented Henry David Thoreau and the Problem of Alienation Fellowships and Awards Brown Junior Fellowship for academic year, from Southwestern University Moses Coit Tyler Award 2005 for best essay by a graduate student at Cornell in the fields of American history, literature or folklore (for an excerpt from my dissertation titled Huckleberrying Toward Democracy: Thoreau s Alternative Political Space and Practice. ) Mellon Fellowship academic year, Cornell University Discretionary Summer Funding Grant for archival study at the Thoreau Institute and the Concord Free Public Library Summer 2005, Cornell University Government Department. Knight Institute Award for Writing Exercises for my exercise on Motive, Thesis and Argument Fall 2005, GOV 100 Disenchantment in Modernity. Knight Institute Spencer Portfolio Award for collaboration with a student in the production of a writing portfolio Fall 2005, GOV 100 Disenchantment in Modernity. Knight Institute Peer Teaching Collaboration Award Fall 2005, GOV 100 Disenchantment in Modernity. Knight Institute Assignment Sequences Award Fall 2003, GOV 100 The Politics of Angst and Anxiety. Knight Institute Spencer Portfolio Award for collaboration with a student in the production of a writing portfolio Fall 2003, GOV 100 The Politics of Angst and Anxiety. Sage Fellowship academic year, Cornell University 4

5 Outstanding Teaching Award: Best TA Government Dept. University of Texas, Fall Spring 2000 Phi Beta Kappa, inducted May 1999 Phi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, inducted May Professional Service Manuscript reviewer for Polity, January 2011 Manuscript reviewer for Political Theory, September 2008 Western Political Science Association Best Dissertation Award Committee (March 2007). Academic Service S.U. Admissions Committee, Faculty Advisor, Cat Partners of Southwestern University S.U. Environmental Studies Committee, S.U. Honor Code Committee, Social Science Division Representative: Fall 2009-present S.U. Library Committee, Social Science Division Representative: Fall 2009, Fall 2010 Rollins College Academic Affairs Committee: Fall Spring 2008 Languages Reading: French, German 5