Name: Cecelia Tichi                                       Birthdate: April 10, 1942

   (Married; two children)

B.A.          Pennsylvania State Univ., 1960-64 (English Literature; Phi Beta Kappa)

M.A.          Johns Hopkins University, 1964-65 (English Literature)

Ph.D.     University of California, Davis, 1965-68 (English-American Literature)

Teaching Fellow, University of California, 1966-68

Assistant Professor of English, Boston University, 1968-1975

Associate Professor of English, Boston University, 1975-1980

Visiting Associate Professor of English, The College of William

and Mary, 1977

Professor of English, Boston University, 1980-1987

Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, 1987-1990

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Vanderbilt University,

Professional Activities:

Papers presented by invitation:

Northeast Modern Language Association

Canadian Historical Association

Bicentennial Conference on Literature of the American Revolution

College of William and Mary

Institute for Democratic Communication Conference (Boston University)

American Studies Association of Israel (Ashkelon, Isreal)

Conference on Agriculture and the Liberal Arts (Kellogg

Foundation, University of Florida)

California American Studies Association

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities,

American Antiquarian Society

University of Akron Conference on Future Studies and Research

MidAmerica American Studies Association (University of

Conference on Technology and the Humanities, University of Leuven (Belgium)

Committee fro American Studies Education (Chicago)

German Association for American Studies (Laufen, Bavaria)

NEH Institue on Technology and American Culture (Tufts

Wyoming Conference on English (Univ. Of Wyoming, Laramie)

Elmira College for Mark Twain House Studies (Elmira, NY)

Delaware Humanities Forum Conference (Newark, Delaware)

Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts,

Northwestern University

University of Kansas Conference on AIke=s America,@

NEH Institute on Modernism (University of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill

NEH Institute, AChanging Visions@ (Bowdoin College)

Japanese Association for American Studies, International

House, Tokyo, Japan

Keynote Address, American Studies Association Meeting, Costa

Mesa, California

APolitics and the Human Body@ Conference, Vanderbilt

Keynote Address, Danish Association for American Studies,

Copenhagen, Denmark

Keynote Address, Southern American Studies Ass=n

University of Central Arkansas Conference on Southern

Autobiography and Music

Plenary Address, Maine Humanities Council Conference on The

Century Project, Bates College

Conference on Modernism, University of Montreal

Keynote Address, American Studies Association of Turkey

American Studies Ass=n (Pittsburgh)

Annual Benson Lecture, Auburn University

Nathaniel Howard Memorial Lecture, Case-Western University

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland

Eastern Sociological Society

University of Aix-Marseille (France)

American Studies Association of Israel (1968-1999)

Dibner Institute Conference, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology (2000)

Claremont Graduate School, Conference on American Image and

Icon (2001)

     Conference on “The World’s Story,” University of Notre Dame

     “Stephen Crane Annual Lecture,” Syracuse University (2004)

Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Undergraduate

Teaching, Vanderbilt University, 1992

Margaret Cuninggim Women=s Center Mentor Award, 1996

The University of Tennessee

Rhode Island College

Boston Public Library

Columbia University

Harvard University

Bar Ilan University (Israel)

Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Indiana University

University of Delaware

Tufts University

University of Maryland

Vanderbilt University

Fairleigh Dickinson University

State University of New York Graduate Center at Cooperstown

University of Oregon

Austin Peay State University (Tennessee)

Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)

Emory University

Murray State University

Brandeis University

Western Kentucky University

Claremont Graduate School

Tokyo University

Odense University (Denmark)

University of Central Arkansas

Ontario (California) Museum of History and Art

Brown University

Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky

Cornell University

California Institute of Technology

William Rainey Harper College

Lebanon Valley College

University of California, Riverside, Huntington Library

University of Notre Dame

University of Miami

Lipscomb University

University of Mississippi

University of Georgia (1979-2004)

Chair, sessions on American Literature and on American : culture: Northeast Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, Modern Language Association (1973, 1977, 1979, 1989)

Secretary and Chair, MLA Division on American Literature to 

1800 (1980-81)

MLA Division on Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1993-

Vice-President, William Carlos Williams Society, 1988-90

Advisory Council, American Literature Section, Modern

Language Association, 1900-

Vice-President (president-elect), American Studies

President, American Studies Association, 1992-93

Chair, American Literature Section, MLA, 1998

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1972

Museums at Stony Brook, 1981

National Endowment for the Humanities review panels for

Summer Stipends, Younger Scholar Fellowships, Special

Fellowships, Media and Public Programs, Initiatives in

Education, Radio Initiative, Division of Preservation

and Access (1977-2001)

Review Panel, Bunting Institute Fellowships in Literature

(1986, 1987)

Advisor, NEH-sponsored biographies and documentaries on

Land is Your Land@ (WQED)

American Quarterly Prize Committee (1979-1982)

Richard Beale Davis Prize Committee, Early American

American Studies Prize Committee for 1987 (1988)

Committee on Evaluation of Tufts University American Studies

Program (1989)

John Hope Franklin Prize Committee (American Studies Assn.),

1988 (1989)

American Quarterly Review Committee, 1989

Consultant, efc (Educational Film Corporation), film on John

Dos Passos, 1991-1993

External Evaluator, Department of English, The College of

William and Mary, 1991; American Studies Program, The

University of Minnesota, 1995

Getty Art Program consultant, 1991

Consultant, WETA (Washington D.C. public TV) film on author

William Kennedy, 1992-93

National Humanities Center--Final Selection Committee

American Council of Learned Societies review panel in

American Studies, 1994-5; in Younger Scholars Program,

1998, 2000

     Figge and Tacoma Art Museums, “The Great American Thing,”

Editorial Board, Studies in America Fiction (1974-79)

Editorial Board, Early American Literature (1978-80)

Executive Board, Radcliffe Institute Society of Fellows

Advisory Board, MLA American Literature Section (1983-87)

Council, American Studies Association (1981-83)

Editorial Board, American Studies (1988-90)

Editorial Board, American Literary History 1994-2000

Board, Popular American Music and Society (1996-present)

PMLA Bibliographic Committee, 1968

Book Review Editor, Early American Literature (1974-78)

Book Review Editor, William Carlos Williams Review (1983-85)

Editor, Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter,

Grants and Fellowships:

Boston University Summer Stipend (1970:$600)

Boston University Graduate School Research Grant (1972,

American Council of Learned Societies Study Fellowship

Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (1972-73: $2400)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1973:

Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities,

Program in Humanities, Science, and Technology (1985-

86: $65000)

Research Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council

(1989: $3800)

Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer

Resident Fellow, Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller

Reader-Reviewer for University Presses:

University of North Carolina Press

University of Tennessee Press

Harvard University Press

Northeastern University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cornell University Press

Columbia University Press

University of Pennsylvania Press

University of Massachusetts Press

University of Wisconsin Press

Vanderbilt University Press

MIT Press

John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Oxford University Press

Pennsylvania State University Press

University of Michigan Press

University of Chicago Press

State University of New York Press

University of Illinois Press

Yale University Press

University of Oklahoma Press

University of Missouri Press

Princeton University Press

University of California Press

Ohio State University Press

Notre Dame University Press

University of Pennsylvania Press (1977-2004)

Reviewer for Journals:

Early American Literature

The American Quarterly

American Studies

American Literary History (1970-2003)

Authored Scholarly Books:

Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000 (Unviersity

Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form In American Spaces (Cambridge:

Harvard University Press, 2001)

High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music (Chapel Hill

and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1994)

Electronic Heart: Creating an American Television Culture (New

York: Oxford University Press, 1991)

Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist

America (The University of North Carolina Press, 1987)

New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature

from the Puritans through Whitman (YaleUniversity Press,

(New York: Harper and Row, 1986; revised editions, 1993,

Life in the Iron Mills: A Cultural Edition (Boston: Bedford Books

of St. Martin=s Press, 1997)

Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk

What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for the Post-

     “Seattle” World Co-edited with Amy S. Lang (forthcoming from

Jealous Heart (Nashville: Dowling Press, 1997; reprint New York:

NAL/Signet, 1999)

NAL/Signet, 1999)

Fall to Pieces (Nashville: Dowling Press, 2000; reprint New York:

NAL/Signet, 2000)

Now You See Her New York: Mysterious Press/Time Warner Books

Contribution to Books:

Narrative of the Trouble with the Indians, by William

Hubbard (New York: York Mail-Print, 1972), iv-xxvi.

American Puritan Imagination, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), pp.56-73.

AEdward Johnson and the American Territorial Imperative,@ in

Discoveries and Considerations: Essays on Early American

Literature and Aesthetics, Presented to Harold Jantz ed.

Calvin Israel (Albany, New York: State University of New

York Press, 1976) pp. 152-188.

AWorried Celebrants of the American Revolution,@ in American

Literature, 1764-1789: The Revolution Years, ed. Everett

H. Emerson (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977),

AIntroduction,@ Looking Backward 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy

(New York: Penguin, 1982), pp. 7-27.

A>Trees, Animals, Engines=: Industrialization in American Literature, 1900-1925,@ Essays from the Lowell Conference on

Industrial History, 1982, 1983, ed. Robert Weible (North

Andover, Mass.: Museum of American Textile History, 1985),

Information Counts: Grading the Media, ed. Bernard Rubin

(Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1985), 13-27.

APreface,@ The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (Boston:

Northeastern University Press, 1986), xi-xvi.

ACommentary,@ Western Women: Their Land, Their Lives, ed. L.

Schlissel, V.Ruiz, J.Monk (Albuquerque: University of New

Mexico Press, 1988), 183-187.

Study of the Short Fiction,@ ed. Joseph M. Flora (Boston:

Twayne, 1989), 157-171. [Reprinted from Shifting Gears]

of Literary Study in English, ed. Giles Gunn and Stephen

Greenblatt (New York: Modern Language Association, 1992:

[with Judith Scott Smith Girgus] ATeaching in the American

Television Culture,@ The Multi-Cultural Teaching of English,

ed. Joseph Trimmer and Tilly Warnock. (Urbana, Illinois:

National Council of Teachers of English, 1992), 84-104.

Novel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 456-484.

Williams, ed. Steven Jay Axelrod and Helen Deese. (New

Knowledge, edited by Joseph F. Trimmer. New York: Boynton-

Cook/Heinemann, 1997: 156-163.

ADomesticity on Walden Pond,@ A Historical Guide to Thoreau,

edited by William Cain, New York: Oxford University Press,

2000: 95-121.

APittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of

Industrial America,@ National Imageries, American

Identities: The Cultural Work of American Iconography.

Edited by Larry J. Reynolds and Gordon Hutner (Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 2000): 83-103.

“Darwin, Emerson, and The Custom of the Country,” A Historical

     Guide to Edith Wharton, edited by Carol Singley. New York:

“Faulkner’s Old Man: Shackles, Chains, and Water, Water

     Everywhere” (forthcoming in Faulkner and Ecology, University

ATree of Life Imagery in the Poetry of Edward Taylor,@ American

Aversion to Drama,@ Early American Literature, 4 (Winter,

1970), 86-103.

and Mary Quarterly, 3^rd ser., 28 (January, 1971), 64-85.

AThe Puritan Historians and Their New Jerusalem,@ Early American

(March, 1972), 1-12.

AMelville=s Craft and Theme of Language Debased in The Confidence

Man,@ ELH, 39 (December, 1972), 639-658.

[wit Celia Millward] AWhatever Happened to Hiawatha?,@ Genre, 6

(September, 1973), 313-332.

AThe Apocalyptic Sensibility of Seventeenth Century Puritan

Verse,@ Seventeenth-Century News (Summer-Fall, 1976), 50-52.

AMedia Management-Ownership and Ethnic and Minority Groups: The

Humanist=s View,@ Responsible Mass Media and Ethnic Minority

Groups, ed. Bernard Rubin (Boston: Institute for Democratic

Communication, 1980), pp.3-8.

AJoel Barlow,@ in Dictionary of Literary Biography: American

Writers of the Early Republic, 37 ed. Emory Elliott

(Detroit: Gale Press, 1985), 18-31.

AWilliam Carlos Williams and the Efficient Moment,@ Prospects 7

ed. Jack Salzman (New York: Burt Franklin, 1982), pp. 267-

ATwentieth-Century Limited: William Carlos Williams= Poetics of

High-Speed America,@ The William Carlos Williams Review,

Vol. IX, nos. 1-2 (Fall, 1983), 49-69.