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Scott Challener
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Scott Challener
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Scott Challener
Assistant Professor, English and Foreign Languages, Hampton University
After graduating from Rutgers, I worked for two years at William & Mary as a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies and English. I currently serve as acting Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Hampton University. In both positions, I've helped to plan a range of events, including visiting talks with scholars and poet-scholars and events featuring celebrated actors. At W&M, I collaborated with graduate workers to expand the Union and served as a faculty lead on a university-wide initiative to diversify the curriculum. I also collaborated with librarians to build the University's first Latinx Special Collection. At Hampton, I serve as managing editor of the Hampton Renaissance, a student-run journal of the arts. I've participated in the MSA annual conference on-and-off again since 2012. My scholarly work on modernism ranges from writing on Oliverio Girondo, Langston Hughes, and Jack Spicer to forthcoming work on teaching the Mexican Revolution in the American Lit survey and Wallace Stevens and racemaking. I am a 2023 Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholars Fellow. I value openness and curiosity. All together, I think my experiences will make me an effective Vice Program Chair. You can learn more about my work here https://hcommons.org/members/schallen/ and follow me on Twitter @ScottChallener.
Assistant Professor, English and Foreign Languages, Hampton University
After graduating from Rutgers, I worked for two years at William & Mary as a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies and English. I currently serve as acting Chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Hampton University. In both positions, I've helped to plan a range of events, including visiting talks with scholars and poet-scholars and events featuring celebrated actors. At W&M, I collaborated with graduate workers to expand the Union and served as a faculty lead on a university-wide initiative to diversify the curriculum. I also collaborated with librarians to build the University's first Latinx Special Collection. At Hampton, I serve as managing editor of the Hampton Renaissance, a student-run journal of the arts. I've participated in the MSA annual conference on-and-off again since 2012. My scholarly work on modernism ranges from writing on Oliverio Girondo, Langston Hughes, and Jack Spicer to forthcoming work on teaching the Mexican Revolution in the American Lit survey and Wallace Stevens and racemaking. I am a 2023 Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholars Fellow. I value openness and curiosity. All together, I think my experiences will make me an effective Vice Program Chair. You can learn more about my work here https://hcommons.org/members/schallen/ and follow me on Twitter @ScottChallener.
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