CURRICULUM VITAE William Corlett, 2017-2018 207.786.6131 (office) wcorlett@bates.edu ACADEMIC BACKGROUND Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1978 M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1973 B.A. Allegheny College, 1972 EMPLOYMENT 2002-ongoing Professor of Political Science, Bates College 2000-2002 Professor of Political Science and Acting Chair, Bates 1995-2000 Professor of Political Science, Bates College 1990-1994 Associate Professor and Chair, Bates College 1989-1990 Associate Professor, Bates College 1987-1989 Assistant Professor and Acting Chair (Winter 88), Bates 1986 (Fall) Visiting Assistant Professor, Davidson College 1981-1986 Assistant Professor, Bates College 1978-81 Assistant Professor, Texas A&I University SELECTED DISTINCTIONS 2005 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching (Bates College) 2000 Standing Committee of the American Political Science Association: Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgendered in the Profession, three year term. 1991 "Best Paper in Political Theory" from the Northeastern Political Science Association. 1990 "First Book Award" from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association 1984 NEH Grant, Summer Seminar for Teachers 1980 NEH Grant, Summer Stipend for Independent Research COURSES CURRENTLY TAUGHT AT BATES COLLEGE Western Political Theory; Reading Marx, Rethinking Marxisms; Contract and Community; Household and Political Theory; Garbage and the Politics of Disposition; Poverty and Democracy; Contemporary Liberalism and Democratic Action; Practicing Postconsumption.
BOOKS: PUBLICATIONS Class Action: Reading Labor, Theory, and Value. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Community Without Unity: A Politics of Derridian Extravagance. Paperback edition with a new preface by author. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. Community Without Unity: A Politics of Derridian Extravagance. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. ARTICLES: The Self and the Other in Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael Gibbons, et al. London: Wiley, October 2014. Postscript on the Surplus Population, in New Socialisms: Futures Beyond Globalization, edited by Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, John Bell, and Richard Westra, 212-228. London: Routledge, 2004. "Containing Indeterminacy: Problems of Representation and Determination in Marx and Althusser." Political Theory 24 (1996): 464-492. "Lispector Haunting Marxism. Strategies 9/10 (1993-94): 69-93. "Pocock, Foucault, Forces of Reassurance." Political Theory 17 (1989): 77-100. "The Availability of Lincoln's Political Religion." Political Theory 10 (1982): 520-540. " Lincoln's Epideictic Rhetoric." Illinois Quarterly 44 (1981): 22-23. "Lincoln on Nature." Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. 11 (1980): 9-13. "Political Community as a Tradition of Public Ownership," TAIUS 12 (1979): 37-48. SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS: Review of The Politics of Responsibility by Chad Lavin. Contemporary Political Theory, August 2012: e1-e4. Review of Reflections on Time and Politics by Nathan Widder. Political Theory, February 2011: 169-173. Review of American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism by Eric C. Sands. Perspectives on Politics, March 2010: 350-351.
Review of Emergency Politics by Bonnie Honig. Law and Politics Book Review, March 2010:114-118. Review of Citizen-Saints by Julia Lupton. Political Theory, October 2006: 657-673. Review of Sustaining Affirmation, by Stephen White. Political Theory, February 2003: 160-64. Review of Socratic Citizenship, by Dana Villa. New Political Science, Sept. 2002: 499-500. Review of Values, Respect, and Attachment by Joseph Raz. American Political Science Review, September 2002: 621-622. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Communist Generosity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September, 2016. Radical Pluralism Unbound. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November, 19-21, 2009. We ve got you surrounded: A Parargonal Approach to Economic Distress. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September, 3-6, 2006. Living Labor Between Work and Income. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 30-September 4, 2005. Remapping the Danger Zones: Privilege, Need and their Necessary Exclusions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 3-6, 2004. "Race, Class, and the Environmental Justice Movement in the North Americas. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas, Aristotle University, Thessalonika, Greece, May 20-23, 2004. Organizing for Social Justice. Roundtable discussion at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 31-September 3, 2003. Postscript on the Surplus Population. Paper presented at the Rethinking Marxism conference, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 11, 2003. Postscript on the Surplus Population. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 29-September 2, 2002. Postscript on the Surplus Population. Paper presented at the workshop, Beyond Market and Plan: Toward New Socialisms. York University, Toronto, Canada, March 23-24, 2002.
Property Rights and Property Wrongs: Retrieving Perfectionism in Low-Income Communities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 28-31, 2001. Roundtable: On Working Class Activism. Organized for Making Class Visible, a conference in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 1-3, 1999. "Race, Class, and the Environmental Justice Movement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September 3-6, 1999. "Respect and Difference in the work of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Working Class Studies Association, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio, June 8-10, 1999. "Radical Labor and the Fabrication of the Working Man. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, September 3-6, 1998. "Representing Labor in Marxist Struggles Against Capital. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1-4, 1995. "Working in the World: valorizing excess in Capital I. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, March 15-18, 1995. "Alterity, Overprivilege, and Community Development. Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, New York, September 1-4, 1994. "Containing Indeterminacy in Marxist Representation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 8-10, 1994. "Underwriting the Politics of Sexuality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 1992. "Embodied Subjects and the Disposition of Capital. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 18-21, 1991. "Embodied Subjects and the Disposition of Capital. Paper presented at the 1991 Iowa Symposium on Rhetoric as Politics--Discourses Civic and Academic, April 25-27, 1991. "Rehearsing Marxian Deconstruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence, RI, November 15-18, 1990. "Lying Phallo: The Sad Secret of Scientific Methodology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 1990.
"Reading Bataille: expenditure as joy before death. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 1988. "Taking Time Out For Community: the political implications of Derrida. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 3-6, 1987. "The Power of Fear in Burkean Traditionalism. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association, Dallas Hilton, Dallas, Texas, March 14-17, 1987. "Love, Community, and the Unencumbered Self. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 15-17, 1984.