Benjamin J. Doty
Curriculum Vitae
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Greenlaw Hall, Campus Box #3520
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
bdoty@email.unc.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, English, expected 2016.
M.A. Auburn University, English, 2010.
B.A. Mississippi State University, English, 2008.
DISSERTATION
The Anatomy of Conscience: Science, Ethics, and Religion in Nineteenth-Century American
Literature. Directed by Jane F. Thrailkill.
This study argues that nineteenth-century writers take emerging scientific models of
embodiment as opportunities to explore the bodys role in ethical and religious life. I
argue that writers including Hannah Foster, Charles Brockden Brown, Robert
Montgomery Bird, Herman Melville, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. participated in
debates about embodiments challenges to prevailing ethical and theological viewpoints.
I conclude that these debates illuminate current debates on scientific approaches to ethics
and religion.
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Digesting Moby-Dick. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, forthcoming.
Satire, Minstrelsy, and Embodiment in Sheppard Lee. Early American Literature 50.3 (2015),
forthcoming.
Book Chapter
William Faulkners Embodied Subjectivities. Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature:
Ethics and the Reconstitution of Subjectivity. Ed. Donald Wehrs. Newark: University of
Delaware Press, 2013. 111-131.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
201516
2015
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Comparative Literature. (Declined)
2014
Laurence G. Avery Award for excellence in teaching literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Doris Betts Award for excellence in teaching writing, UNC Chapel Hill
Department of English and Comparative Literature.
2013
2010
The Digestive Unconscious of Moby-Dick, C19: The Society of NineteenthCentury Americanists, Chapel Hill, NC.
2013
2010
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Teaching Fellow, August 2011present. Instructor of record unless otherwise noted.
Major American Authors (Spring 2015)
Introduction to American Literature (Spring 2014)
Medicine, Literature, and Culture (Fall 2012; TA for Jane F. Thrailkill)
Composition and Rhetoric (Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
English Composition II (Spring 2012)
English Composition I (Fall 2011)
Auburn University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, August 2008May 2010. Instructor of record.
English Composition II (Spring 2010)
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English Composition I (Fall 2009)
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2014-15
2013-14
2013
2010