Long Receives Faculty Distinction in Research and Scholarship Award
Dr. Mark Long, associate professor of English and American Studies, is the 2009 recipient of the Faculty Distinction in Research and Scholarship Award. This award recognizes contributions to research and scholarship at Keene State College.
Dr. Long joined the faculty in 1998 after two years as a post-doctoral teaching associate at the University of Washington. He teaches American literature, with an emphasis in poetry and poetics; American studies, with a special interest in literature and the environment; and expository writing, with a focus on the teaching of first-year writers. He has also taught in Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and, for the past six years, has co-facilitated a faculty institute on the teaching of writing at Keene State College.
Dr. Long’s scholarly work is concerned with 20th-century American poetry, environmental writing, and the teaching of reading and writing. He also writes about the profession of English studies, with a continuing interest in making visible faculty work in small college departments. Dr. Long’s most recent publications include an essay on bioregionalism in the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism, a collection of essays, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, and a forthcoming special issue of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture dedicated to teaching in the small college department. In addition to his scholarly writing, Dr. Long has delivered over one hundred presentations – from international and national conferences to book discussions at public libraries throughout New Hampshire. He serves as associate editor for the English studies journal, Pedagogy, and the coordinator of the Mentoring Program for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-US). More information about Dr. Long’s professional activities is available on his web page.
