Anton Vander Zee

296 Grove Street Charleston, SC 29403 (607) 216-7382 vanderzeeal@cofc.edu blogs.cofc.edu/vanderzeeal EDUCATION Ph.D., English, Stanford University, 2012 M.A., English, Stanford University, 2005 B.A., English, Purdue University, 2002 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Visiting Assistant Professor, College of Charleston (Charleston, SC), 2010-Present Instructor, Stephens College (Columbia, MO), 2006-2007 PUBLICATIONS Edited Collection Rosko, Emily and Anton Vander Zee, eds. A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011. Print. Articles, Reviews, and Entries Hieroglyph, Nativity Poem, and Serial Form. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. 2012. Print. Introduction: New Minds, New Lines. A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Eds. Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011. 5-24. Print. Miltons Mary: Suspending Song in the Nativity Ode. Modern Philology 108.3 (2011): 375399. Print. Shard, Shard, Shard: Mary Ann Samyn and the Contemporary Meditative Lyric. Agni Online. August 2010. Web. Whitman, Lately. Agni 72 (2010): 184-200. Print. Printed Evils and Painted Veils: Anecdote of an Error by Frank Lentricchia. The Wallace Stevens Journal 31.2 (2007): 189-196. Print. Other Publications Mapping Modern Poetry. Folio 4 (Summer 2012): 11. Print. Ideas of Form in 20th-Century Poetry: What We Talk about When We Talk about Form. Detailed Description Examples from Special Session Proposals. Posted on MLA Website. The Rhetoric of Elmers Glue and Poster Board. PWR Newsletter Winter 2006. Web. Makings of the Sun (poem). The Wallace Stevens Journal 27.2 (2003): 250. Print.

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TEACHING College of Charleston Introduction to English Studies: Discovering What Literature Knows, Spring 2012 and 2013 The Great American Novel: 1900-1965, Fall 2012 The Rhetorics of Age: Tracking Change in Life and Culture (First-Year Writing), two sections each semester, Fall 2010-2012 Modern Poetry: From Word to World, Fall 2011 Writing the American Self: Autobiography from the Founding to Facebook, Spring 2011 Transnational Poetry: Walt Whitman in America and Beyond, Fall 2010 Stanford University From Cradle to Grave: The Rhetorics of Age and Aging (First-Year Writing Course), Fall 2009 Poetry and Poetics, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006 Illusory Ends: The Rhetoric of Borders and Boundaries (First-Year Writing and Service Learning), Winter and Spring 2005 Shakespearean Dilemmas, Teaching Assistant, Winter 2004 Stephens College Contemporary International Writing: From Fiction to Autobiography, Fall 2006 and 2007 Related Experience Honors Peer-Facilitator Training, Spring 2013 Beyond George Street (BGS): Honors First-Year Experience, Fall 2012 CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS Substance and Style: A Self-Evaluation Rubric for the Personal Essay. National Association of Fellowship Advisors (NAFA) Annual Conference. PanelBeyond Dos and Donts: The Personal Essay in a Page. July 2013. Panel Organizer and Lead Presenter. Proposal Under Consideration. The Sonnets Torture. Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Special Session RoundtableEarly Modern Contemporary: Poetry, Tradition, Innovation. Boston, MA. January 2013. Panel Organizer and Chair. Conference Presentation. On A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. The English Department Presents: New Books by Faculty. College of Charleston. Charleston, SC. February 2012. Presentation. A New Orientation: Walt Whitman beyond Elegy and Utopia. MLA Annual Convention. Special SessionWhitman and the Ultra-contemporary: Between Crisis and Innovation. Seattle, WA. January 2012. Panel Organizer and Chair. Conference Presentation. What Form Knows: Notes toward a Late Formalism. MLA Annual Convention. Panel Twentieth-Century American Literature and the New Formalism. Seattle, WA. January 2012. Conference Presentation. Whitman, Lateness, and Allegory. International Walt Whitman Week, Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association. Tours, France. June 2009. Plenary Session Presentation. When Lilacs Last: The Late Formalism of Walt Whitman and Robert Creeley. Stanford Workshop in Poetics. November 2008. Workshop Presentation.

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To Be in Any Form: Robert Creeley Reading Walt Whitmans Late Poetry. MLA Annual Convention. Special SessionSome Twilights of Twentieth-Century Poetry. Chicago, IL. December 2007. Panel Organizer and Chair. Conference Presentation. Notes on Urban Formalism: William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, and the Theoretical City. Idea of the City Conference. Northampton, UK. June 2007. Conference Presentation. Formal Anxieties: Ideas of Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. MLA Annual Convention. Special SessionWhat We Talk about When We Talk about Form. Philadelphia, PA. December 2006. Panel Organizer and Chair. Conference Presentation. Fretting Form: Nation, Novelty, and Late-Modern Aesthetics. Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference. PanelCultivating the New: Poetic Innovation and Formal Play in Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Austin, TX. March 2006. Panel Co-Organizer. Conference Presentation. Instance of Pain, Instance of Playing: Michael Palmer, Wallace Stevens, Theodor Adorno. American Literature Association (ALA) Symposium on Poetic Form. San Diego, CA. October 2005. Conference Presentation. Politics Again: Rethinking Form and Content in Wallace Stevens and his Critics. StanfordBerkeley Conference. Palo Alto, CA. April 2005. Conference Presentation. GRANTS AND AWARDS Academic Affairs Small Grant, College of Charleston (in progress) Summer Undergraduate Research Funding Grant, College of Charleston (pending) Johnson-Lebacqz Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-2009 Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, 2008 Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2008 Harriett Olive Stevens Memorial Scholarship, 2003-2004 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE National Outside Reader
Invited to respond to the Yale Anthology of the Devotional Lyric, forthcoming (Yale UP)

College of Charleston Director, Office of Nationally Competitive Awards (NCA), January 2013-Present

Recruit candidates from across campus for nationally competitive opportunities Design and maintain a searchable awards database Mentor candidates through the application process Set up and oversee campus review and nomination panels Publicize student success through campus and local news outlets Maintain and update NCA website Help organize and orchestrate annual awards banquet

Faculty Fellow, Honors College, August 2012-Present

Oversee, along with the Associate Dean of the Honors College, Beyond George Street (BGS),

the Honors First-Year Experience course

Train and mentor Honors College peer educators in preparation for their work in BGS

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 Manage the link between BGS and Honors Academic Writing with an emphasis on the

personal essay assignment and the reflective writing sequence Assist in Honors College recruitment, assessment, and advising Member, Student Fulbright Campus Review Committee, 2010-2012
Worked with a small cohort of candidates on their application materials with special emphasis

on the statement of grant purpose and the personal statement

Served on campus interview committees

Stephens College Member, Learning Communities Steering Committee, Honors House Plan, 2006-2007
Participated in curriculum design related to the Shared Futures global curriculum initiative

in conjunction with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) AFFILIATIONS National Association of Fellowship Advisors (NAFA) National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) Modern Language Association (MLA) REFERENCES Trisha Folds-Bennett Dean of the Honors College College of Charleston 10 Green Way Charleston, SC 29424 foldsbennettt@cofc.edu Albert Gelpi Professor Emeritus Stanford University Department of English 450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305 agelpi@stanford.edu Roland Greene Mark Pigott OBE Professor Stanford University Department of English 450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305 rgreene@stanford.edu Myra Seaman Associate Professor of English College of Charleston Department of English 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 seamanm@cofc.edu

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