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Faculty Profile Last Modified Time: 11:20:09 AM Mon, 16 Aug 2010   Contact Information Dr. Scott Simpkins Professor-English     1155 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76203-5017     Mail Box: 311307, Auditorium Building, Room No.: 205    scotts@unt.edu     369-8954     565-4355    Associated Profiles Professional Preparation Courses Taught By Semester Research and Expertise Appointments Faculty Workload Publications Editorships Lectures/Symposia Presentations and Projects External Funding Committees Honors and Recognitions Professional Community Engagement  Professional Preparation  Degree Major/Thesis/Dissertation Institution Year  Doctor of Philosophy English (Dissertation: “The Semiotic Dilemma of English Romantic Poetry”) University of Tulsa 1986  Master of Arts English University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee 1982  Bachelor of Arts Journalism University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire 1980  Courses Taught By Semester --- Organized Classes will be uploaded from THECB Data file Semester Subject Course Number Section Course Name Calculated Semester Credit Hours Syllabus   Fall 2010 ENGL 2323 002 Survey of British Literature   Download Syllabus Fall 2010 ENGL 2323 005 Survey of British Literature   Download Syllabus Fall 2010 ENGL 4150 001 Literary Criticism and Theory   Download Syllabus  Research and Expertise composition   Area of Expertise English Romantic literature   Area of Expertise literary theory   Area of Expertise modernism   Area of Expertise Research Assistant   “James Joyce” entry by Thomas F. Staley in Anglo-Irish Literature: A Review of Research (MLA) and An Annotated Critical Bibliography of James Joyce (Harvester Wheatsheaf) by Thomas F. Staley semiotics   Area of Expertise  Appointments Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Rank Department / School College / Office University / Company 2002-Present Professor     UNT 1996-Present Lecturer     Cyber Semiotic Institute (now: Semiotic Institute Online) 1995-2001 Associate Professor     UNT 1989-1995 Assistant Professor     UNT 1986-1989 Assistant Professor     South Dakota State University 1982-1986 Adjunct/Teaching Fellow-Assistant     UT 1983 Adjunct     Tulsa Junior College  Faculty Workload Duration (YYYY - YYYY) Percentage Teaching Percentage Research Percentage Service 2009-2010 59.8 14.9 25.3  Publications   Type AllOtherRefereed(Peer reviewed) JournalsBook chaptersTextbookBook reviews Publications per page    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>> 17>>    Year Publication   Type 2008 Accepted/In-press The Semiotics of the Volume as Bibliographical Code Terry Prewitt and John Deely, ed.s Semiotics 2006, Ottawa, Canada: Legas Press, 2008, forthcoming Refereed(Peer reviewed) Journals 2006 Published “Ecosocial Semiotics” Essay-review of Paul Thibault, Brain, Mind, and the Signifying Body: An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory (London: Continuum, 2004)   The Semiotic Review of Books, 16, 1-2 (2006), 5-10 Other 2005 Published Scarlet Letters: Austen’s Lady Susan and the Stigmatized Self   Interdisciplinary Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, 10.1 (Spring 2005): 75-101 Refereed(Peer reviewed) Journals 2003 Published “Back to the Future of Semiotics” Essay-Review of Beyond Semiotics: Text, Culture and Technology (London: Continuum, 2001), by Niall Lucy   The Semiotic Review of Books, 2003: 4-7 Other 2002 Published Semiotics 2001 ed. Scott Simpkins and John Deely Ottawa, Canada: Legas Press Other  Editorships Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Organization Position Classification 2006-Present UNT Press Editorial Board member   1997-Present European Romantic Review Referee   1997-Present Studies in the Literary Imagination Referee   1996-Present Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul Schellinger. 2 vols. Advisory Editor Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997 1995-Present CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History Referee   1993-Present Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature Referee   1991-Present American Journal of Semiotics Referee   2004-2007 Institutional Review Board Chair UNT 1997-2005 The Semiotic Review of Books Associate Editor (Literary Semiotics)   1993-2003 Studies in the Novel Editor   2001-2002 Semiotics 2001 Co-Editor Legas Press 2000-2001 Semiotics 2000: Sebeok’s Century Co-Editor Legas Press 1999-2000 Semiotics 1999 Co-Editor Peter Lang Pubs. 1998 University of Wisconsin Press Manuscript Referee   1996-1997 The Semiotic Review of Books Section Editor (Literary Semiotics)   1989-1993 Studies in the Novel Associate Editor   1984 Dictionary of Literary Biography Editorial Assistant Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co. (1985). Vol. 36: British Novelists; 1890- 1929: Modernists (1985) and Vol. 34: British Novelists; 1890-1929: Traditionalists  Lectures/Symposia Year Title Role Organization 1998 A Semiotic Reading of James Thurber's 'The Catbird Seat'   Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - April, 1998 1998 Semiotics Based on Radical Polysemy, Structuration, and Play   Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - January, 1998 1997 Finite Infinite Semiosis   Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - August, 1997 1997 The Limits of 'System' and the Authority of the Encoder Lecture Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - May, 1997 1997 The 'Problem' of Controlling the Decoder Lecture Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - March, 1997 1997 The Implications of Codes Lecture Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - January, 1997 1996-Present Critical Semiotics Lecturer 8-lecture Distance Learning course on the World Wide Web sponsored by the Cyber Semiotic Institute - WWW site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb 1996 Two Extensive Critiques of Semiotics Lecture Published in “Critical Semiotics,” Cyber Semiotic Institute - November, 1996 1996 The Lingua Franca of Semioticians Lecture Published in “Critical Semiotics,” an 8-lecture Distance Learning course on the World Wide Web sponsored by the Cyber Semiotic Institute - October, 1996 1994 The Stigma of Romanticism Lecture Presented at the University of West Florida, Pensacola - April, 1994 1990 The Semiotic Dilemma of English Romantic Literature Lecture Presented at the International Summer Institute of Semiotic and Structural Studies - June, 1990 at Victoria University, Toronto 1988-1989 Between The Covers creator and coordinator Lecture/Discussion Series, SDSU 1988 James Joyce: The Modernist as Pervert - The Perversion of Modernism Lecture Presented in the “Between The Covers” lecture series - December, 1988 at SDSU 1987 Literary Semiotics: An Attempt to Forestall 'Unlimited Semiosis'? Lecture Presented at the International Summer Institute of Semiotic and Structural Studies - June, 1987 at Victoria University, Toronto 1984 Jonathan Culler, “Signs and Authenticity”   Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program Seminar: University of Oklahoma  Presentations and Projects   Presentations/Projects per page    1  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19  Start Date End Date Presentation/Project   2008  Encoding Disaster SCC conference  �" January, 2008, University of California, Berkeley   2008  Self-Elevation Through Humiliation in Specialized Stigma Narratives SSA conference �" October, 2008, Houston, TX   2007  Decoding the A-Systematic Text SCC conference  �" January, 2007, University of California, Berkeley   2007  The Writing Cure?”: The Semiotics of the Trauma Narrative in British Romantic Literature SSA conference �" October, 2007, New Orleans   2006  Jane Austen Plays By The Rules SCC conference  �" January, 2006, University of California, Berkeley  External Funding  Performance Period (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Title Sponsor Funding Role Status 2009 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled E-Masculinity: Gender and Triumphant Defeat in Romantic Literature UNT $5,000 Other Completed 2000 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled Romantic Masculinities UNT $1,800 Other Completed 1999 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled Romantic Masculinities UNT $1,800 Other Completed 1998 Small Grant Researcher for distance learning course entitled “Critical Semiotics” UNT $750 Other Completed 1997 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled Romantic Masculinities UNT $1,800 Other Completed 1997 Small Grant Researcher for distance learning course entitled “Critical Semiotics” UNT $750 Other Completed 1997 Faculty Development Leave: Research for distance learning course entitled “Critical Semiotics” UNT   Other Completed 1996 Developing Scholar Award UNT $2,500 Other Completed 1995 Small Grant: Research for study entitled The Romantic Antibook UNT $600 Other Completed 1994 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled The Romantic Antibook UNT $2,500 Other Completed 1994 South Central Modern Language Association Grant: Research for study entitled The Romantic Antibook SCMLA for research at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin $1,500 Other Completed 1993 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled The Romantic Stigma UNT $1,800 Other Completed 1991 Faculty Development Grant: Research for study entitled Signs on the Margin: The Romantic Paratext UNT $2,500 Other Completed 1990 Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant: Research for study entitled The Romantic Antibook UNT $3,500 Other Completed 1987 Travel Research Grant: Research for study entitled “Literary Semiotics: An Attempt to Forestall 'Unlimited Semiosis'?” SDSU $650 Other Completed  Committees Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Committee Position Classification 2008-Present Executive Committee member English Department, UNT 2008-Present UNT Arts and Science College Personnel Affairs Committee member UNT 2007-Present PATC/PAC   English Department, UNT 2000-Present College of Arts and Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee member UNT 2007 ad hoc PAC   UNT Foreign Languages Department 2000-2003 University Tenure Committee member UNT 1994-2000 Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Oversight Committee on the Core Curriculum member UNT 1995-1998 Literature Division chair English Department, UNT 1995-1998 Executive Committee member English Department, UNT 1993-1995 Graduate Committee member English Department, UNT 1990-1993 Area II (British Literature 1780-Present) Committee chair English Department, UNT 1991 American Film and Video Association jury member UNT 1989-1990 Area II Committee member English Department, UNT 1988-1989 European Studies Committee member and secretary SDSU 1986-1989 Composition Committee member SDSU 1984-1986 Composition Textbook Review Committee member UT  Honors and Recognitions Year Title Honoring Organization 1995, 1996 Professing Women Award UNT Women’s Studies Roundtable 1990 Conference of College Teachers of English Award for best British literature paper (“Wordsworth's Pre-Texts: The Fenwick Notes”) 1990 CCTE conference 1988 Kirby Award for distinguished article (“The Book of Thel and the Romantic Lament”) in the South Central Review    Professional Community Engagement Year Organization Role Type of Service 2007-Present UNT Department of Women’s Studies Affiliated Faculty member   1997 lecture by Susan Griffin, “Private and Public Lives: Connecting Parallel Universes,” Conversations on Coherence conference - April 3, 1997, UNT Respondent Academic Conference Activity 1996 Session on “Romanticism and the History of Sexuality” - American Conference on Romanticism, October, 1996, Park City, Utah Chair Academic Conference Activity 1994 Nineteenth-Century British Literature session - SCMLA conference, November, 1994, New Orleans Chair Academic Conference Activity 1994 Session on “On Subjects and Objects” - SSA conference, October, 1994, Philadelphia Chair Academic Conference Activity 1994 Special Session on “Textual Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Literature” - SCSECS conference, February, 1994, Houston Chair Academic Conference Activity 1993 Special Session on “Narrating Authenticity” - MLA conference, December, 1993, Toronto Chair Academic Conference Activity 1993 “Cultural Constructions” panel - SSA conference Discussant Academic Conference Activity 1993 Literary Theory and Criticism session - SCMLA, 1993, Austin Chair Academic Conference Activity 1993 “Semiotic Mythscapes” panel - SSA conference Chair Academic Conference Activity 1992 English II - English Literature 1800-1900 Session - M/MLA conference Advisory Board Academic Conference Activity 1991-Present UNT Faculty of Environmental Ethics Member   1991 Special Session on “Semiotic Approaches to Literature” - SCMLA conference Chair Academic Conference Activity 1991 English II - English Literature 1800-1900: Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts session - M/MLA conference Chair Academic Conference Activity 1991 Session on “Interrogating Exoticism” - The University of Tulsa Comparative Literature Symposium Chair Academic Conference Activity 1990 “Stuffing the Verdant Goose: Art and the Artist in Byron's Don Juan” by Carol Shiner Wilson - M/MLA conference Discussant Academic Conference Activity 1990 Special Session on “Semiotic Approaches to Literature” - M/MLA conference Chair Academic Conference Activity 1990 English II - English Literature 1800-1900: The Teller and the Tale: Narrative Voice in Poetry and Prose session - M/MLA conference Secretary Academic Conference Activity 1989 Sioux Falls, SD to nontraditional students through SDSU taught Introduction to Literature Community Outreach 1988 Advanced Composition   Community Outreach 1987 Technical Communications   Community Outreach 1987 “'Crime': A Floating Signifier in Sartre's The Flies” by Charles Minahen - M/MLA conference Discussant Academic Conference Activity 1986-1989 English Club faculty adviser SDSU