Adam Haley, Ph.D.

noendofneon.net

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Graduate Writing Consultant - Oregon State University Graduate Writing Center, 2017-present
Support and advise graduate students as they navigate departmental, disciplinary, institutional, and
professional challenges. Conduct one-hour, by-appointment consultations (in-person and online)
with faculty, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates about their
research and professional communication needs. Consult on a wide range of documents and
genres, including application materials, coursework, theses and dissertations, journal manuscripts,
conference papers and abstracts, IRB documentation, grant/funding proposals, book proposals, and
thesis/dissertation defense presentations. Facilitate peer writing groups at both masters and doctoral
levels, as well as training and professional development programs for graduate writing consultants.
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow - Penn State University English Department, 2013-2015
Taught two courses per semester (plus summer), including both writing/rhetoric and literature.
Assistant Coordinator of the Digital English Studio - Penn State University, 2013-2014
Collaborated with English Department, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, and Penn State World
Campus to pilot a customizable online course interface and modular curricular content for
undergraduate technical writing course. Supervised intern projects on alumni outreach, social
media presence and benchmarking, and web content for departmental website.
Lecturer - Penn State University English Department, 2012-2013
Taught two courses per semester (plus summer), including both writing/rhetoric and literature.
Graduate Fellow/Instructor - Penn State University English Department, 2006-2012
Taught five courses per four semesters (plus summer), including both writing/rhetoric and literature.

EDUCATION

Penn State University, Ph.D., English. December, 2012.

Dissertation: The Speculative Present: The Conceptual Work of Pasts and Futures in Postmodernity
(director: Michael Bérubé)
Penn State University, M.A., English. May, 2008.
University of Virginia, B.A. with Distinction, English. May, 2005.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

graduate student success and support; research writing support; graduate writing pedagogy; genre
theory and disciplinary epistemologies; digital humanities and new media; visual rhetoric and image
culture; 20th/21st century Anglophone fiction/film/television; African-American and Latinx fiction;
critical and narrative theory; historical and speculative/science fiction; apocalyptic culture and
rhetoric; comics and graphic novels; game studies; science/technology studies; disability studies
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TEACHING - WRITING AND RHETORIC (23 sections)

English 15: Rhetoric and Composition (sample course website: noendofneon.net/beyondtext)

Required first-year writing course emphasizing critical thinking and rhetorical awareness.
Instructor evaluation average (across twelve sections): 6.23 (out of 7)
English 15: Image and Rhetoric (course website: noendofneon.net/image)
Required first-year writing course focusing on the relationship between image and rhetoric, from visual
rhetoric and analysis of public figures to manifesto style and image as rhetorical figure.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.86 (out of 7)
LEAP/English 15: Photography and Writing (course website: noendofneon.net/photowriting)
Required first-year writing course focusing on rhetoric and composition across textual and visual media,
paired with a photography course as part of an integrated first-year program.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.56 (out of 7)
LEAP/English 15: Composing Across Media (course website: noendofneon.net/composingacrossmedia)
Required first-year writing course focusing on rhetoric and composition across a variety of media forms,
paired with a mass media and society course as part of an integrated first-year program.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.91 (out of 7)
English 30: Writing the Future (course website: noendofneon.net/writingthefuture)
Honors first-year writing course examing futurity as a rhetorical object and site of rhetorical struggle.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.61 (out of 7)
English 137H and 138H: Rhetoric and Civic Life (course website: sites.psu.edu/rclhaley)
Honors first-year writing/speech course focusing on rhetorical and deliberative skills in oral, written, visual,
and digital contexts.
Instructor evaluation average (across four sections): 6.32 (out of 7)
English 202A: Writing in the Social Sciences
Required senior-level writing course focusing on professional/academic writing in the social sciences.
Instructor evaluation average (across three sections): 6.47 (out of 7)

TEACHING - LITERATURE (6 sections)

English 136: The Graphic Novel (course website: noendofneon.net/comix)

Survey course examining comics in depth and breadth as a literary, visual, and cultural form.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.85 (out of 7)
English 191: Science Fiction (course website: noendofneon.net/scifi)
Large (100-student) survey course tracing speculative fiction across a variety of media forms.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.62 (out of 7)
English 262: The Possibilities of Postmodern Historical Fiction
Thematic course investigating the philosophical potential of historical fiction, film, and television, especially
"weird" or non-realist historical fiction, under the influence of postmodernism.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.48 (out of 7)
English 262: Culture Under Surveillance (course website: noendofneon.net/surveillance)
Thematic course exploring the intersections between fictional narrative and regimes of surveillance.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.76 (out of 7)
English 436: American Fiction Since 1945
Upper-level survey course covering a selection of contemporary American cultural production, including
novels, short stories, poetry, essays, graphic novels, films, and television.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.95 (out of 7)
English 436: Fiction, Game, World (course website: noendofneon.net/worlds)
Upper-level thematic course unpacking the relationship between fiction and worlds/worldness as manifested
in contemporary literature, televisual culture, interactive narrative, and games.
Instructor evaluation average: 6.82 (out of 7)
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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

"Theorizing the Self within Self-Care: Academic Identity Formation and Graduate (Writing) Support."
Anticipated publication in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship "Wellness and Self-Care in
Writing Center Work" digital edited collection.
"Traveling Through Corporate Time: Inevitability and (Anti-)Corporate Narrative Form." NANO: New
American Notes Online 8 (2015).

PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

"The Radical Possibility of Collapse: Procedural Revelations in Apocalypse’s Structural Imaginary.”

In progress.
"Representing the Speculative Body: Porous Chronologies and Spectral Realisms in Octavia Butler's
Kindred." In progress.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"Editor's Introduction." With Jeff Gonzalez. NANO: New American Notes Online 8 (2015).

BOOK PROJECT

The Parallax Present: Speculation, History, and the Contemporary asks what happens to our ability to
imagine pasts and futures under the cultural and political conditions of the postmodern, and with what
consequences. Though historical narrative has been of significant concern for scholars of 20th century
literature and theorists of postmodernism, it has not often been theorized in conjunction with the
future-oriented imaginings through which contemporary fiction so often tries to think its way out of the
ostensibly “realist” limitations of the present. By pairing speculatively reimagined pasts and science-
fictional futures, I frame the cultural condition of the postwar present not as an endless “now” but as an
endlessly unstable “now,” tangled up with history and futurity, fantasy and speculation, simultaneously
haunted and constituted by its own porous chronology. I argue that attending to the fate of cultural
production—and of critical reading—in the present requires us to account for the destabilization of that
present, for its never being entirely itself, and for the ways it is contoured and rearticulated by the
supposedly low-cultural drives of the speculative and the fantastic. My work brings together two vital
strands of 20th and 21st century fiction and film, from the borderline magical-realist historical
metafiction of Edward P. Jones and the time-traveling neo-slave narrative of Octavia Butler’s Kindred to
the just-around-the-corner science fiction of William Gibson and the apocalyptic imaginings of Colson
Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, Sesshu Foster, and Alfonso Cuarón, exploring how these spectral
tendrils of past and future reconstitute the present and rewrite its realisms. By putting these narratives in
conversation, I aim to provide a revealingly parallax view of our current moment—a moment in which
rhetorics of both political and aesthetic realism threaten to foreclose the radical possibilities of the
speculative and fantastic imagination.
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

(Upcoming) "Facilitating the Art of Becoming-Scholar: Graduate Writing Support Within and Against
Positivist Concensus." International Writing Centers Association Conference. Columbus, OH.
2019.

"The Politics of Peerness and Profession in Graduate Writing Support." Consortium on Graduate
Communication Summer Institute. Arlington, VA. 2019.

"Mentoring Into the Discipline: Graduate Writing Support and the Subterranean Ecologies of Academic
Belonging." Pacific Northwest Writing Center Association/Two-Year College English Association-
Pacific Northwest Conference. Yakima, WA. 2019.

"Imaginative Autonomy in the Automated Economy: Twitter Bots, Creative Distance, and the
Algorithmic Contours of Media Form." What Is Media? Conference. Portland, OR. 2016.

"Apocalyptic Imaginaries and the Aesthetics of Imminent End." Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association Conference. Seattle, WA. 2016.

"Life in (Un)Death: In the Flesh, the Medicated Undead, and the Limits of the Biopolitical." The Society
or Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Houston, TX. 2015.

"The Fantastical Unmanned: Techne, Genre, and the (Super)Naturalized Drone." International
Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. 2015.

"The Digital Lives and Afterlives of Collaborative Classroom Knowledge." Bucknell Digital Scholarship
Conference. Lewisburg, PA. 2014.

"The Futures of Work and Self: Fluid Humanity and Laboring Identities in Contemporary Science
Fiction." The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Dallas, TX. 2014.

"Discursive Worlds Inside and Outside the Classroom." Pennsylvania College English Association
Conference. State College, PA. 2014.

“I Sing the Body Comic: Breaking the Skinned Surfaces of Empaneled Corporeality.” Comics and
Medicine Conference. Baltimore, MD. 2014.

"Distant Bodies and the Proximities of Drone Subjectivity." Northeast Modern Language Association.
Harrisburg, PA. 2014.

"Rethinking Distance Education Pedagogy." With Stuart Selber and Daniel Tripp. Camp Rhetoric.
State College, PA. 2014.

"Viral Modernity: Accumulation, Transmission, and the Shape of the World." The Society for
Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). Notre Dame, IN. 2013.

"Ethics, Awareness, and the Desire That Is (Or Was) Global Hyperlink Cinema." The Louisville
Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. 2013.

"Form, Fiction, Footnote: Historiography, Reading Practices, and the Presented Past in Edward P.
Jones's The Known World." 2012 International Conference on Narrative. Las Vegas, NV. 2012.
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"The Real Invisible Hand: Historical Haunting, Porous Chronologies, and the Grasp of What Came
Before." The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY. 2012.

"Pattern Cognition: Mapping the Unmappable and the Aesthetics of Structure and Agency."
Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present. Pittsburgh, PA. 2011.

"It's the End of the World, But Not As We Know It: Means, Ends, and Beginnings in the Ideology of
Apocalypse." The Apocalypse and Its Discontents. London, UK. 2010.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Session facilitator, "NEW English Courseware Steps Outside the Well-Intended Paradigm of Traditional
Materials" and "Podcasting: An Alternative Method for the Communication of Pedagogy," TYCA-
PNW/PNWCA Joint Conference, 2016
Co-editor, NANO: New American Notes Online 8 ("Corporations and Culture"), 2014-2015
Panel chair, "Forms, Spaces, and Experiences of Student-Faculty Scholarship," Pennsylvania College
English Association Conference, 2014
Panel chair, "'Global' Narrative Vision and Its Discontents," Louisville Conference on Literature and
Culture Since 1900, 2013

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY/COMMUNITY

Affiliate member, Commission for Women, Penn State University, 2013-2015

Faculty advisor, Absurdity (spontaneous performance club), Penn State University, 2013-2015
Judge, Undergraduate Student Exhibition Poster Session, Penn State University, 2013
Speaker Angel (advisor to presenters), TEDxPSU, Penn State University, 2013
Advisory board member, College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Communication Certificate, Penn State
University, 2012-2015
Selection jury chair, Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, Pennsylvania Center for the Book, 2012-2013
Faculty advisor, Penn State Book Club, Penn State University, 2012-2015
Judge, Graduate Student Exhibition, Penn State University, 2012

SERVICE TO THE DEPARTMENT/UNIT

Training curriculum co-facilitator, Oregon State University Graduate Writing Center, 2018-present
Studio pedagogy training curriculum co-designer and facilitator, Oregon State University
Undergraduate Writing Studio, 2017
Departmental portrait photographer (paid), Penn State University English Department, 2011-2014
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, Penn State University English
Department, 2011-2012
English Graduate Organization officer, Penn State University English Department, 2011-2012
Mentor to incoming MA students, Penn State University English Department, 2008-2013
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HONORS AND AWARDS

English Department Lecturer Excellence in Teaching Award, Penn State University, 2013
George and Barbara Kelly Fellowship Award, Penn State University, 2012
University Graduate Fellowship, Penn State University, 2007-2009

REFERENCES

Chris Nelson, Graduate Writing Center Coordinator

Oregon State University

Dennis Bennett, Writing Center Director

Oregon State University

Michael Bérubé, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and
Humanities
Penn State University

Jeffrey Nealon, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy

Penn State University

Eric Hayot, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies

Penn State University

Garrett Sullivan, Liberal Arts Research Professor of English

Penn State University

Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English

Penn State University

Elizabeth Jenkins, Senior Lecturer

Penn State University