DAVID ESPEY

despey@english.upenn.edu

www.english.upenn.edu/~despey

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2002-Present Associate Undergraduate Chair, Department of English,

University of Pennsylvania

1984-2002 Director, English Writing Program, Department of English,

University of Pennsylvania

2000-2001 Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Osaka University, Japan

1990-1991 Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

1979-1984 Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

1977-1979 Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Mohamed V University, Morocco

1971-77 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Colorado State University

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ph.D 1971

Johns Hopkins, MAT 1967

Hamilton College, BA 1967

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

Writing the Journey: Essays, Stories, and Poems on Travel. (Pearson Longman:

New York, 2005) 436 pp. http://www.ablongman.com/catalog/

Articles

“Americans in Vietnam: Travel Writing and War,” Studies in Travel Writing,

(8:1), September, 2004, 141-178.

“Studies in Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing and Beyond: Genre, Science, and the Book Trade,” Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2004; 15: 367-79

"Remembering Paul Bowles" May 2002 issue of Peace Corps Writers Online

Journal http://peacecorpswriters.org/

“Childhood and Travel Literature,” Travel Culture , ed. Carol Williams (New York: Praeger, 1998)

"Sound Effects and the Fiction of Paul Bowles" The Journal of American Culture

and Literature (15th Anniversary Issue) SUNY Buffalo and Hacettepe University, 1997, 1-8.

"Multiculturalism and Humor" Journal of American Studies in Turkey, 2, Fall, 1995, 3-12)

"John McPhee as Travel Writer" In Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the

Modern Literature of Travel, ed. Michael Kowaleski (Univ. Of Georgia Press, 1992), 164-175

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Sound and Gothic Nihilism in the Fiction of Paul Bowles” Biennial Convention of the International Gothic Association” Montreal, August, 2005

“The Migrations of Richard Wright” International Conference on Migration, Aegean University, Izmir, Turkey May, 2005

“Teaching London” North American Conference on British Studies, Philadelphia, October, 2004

“Lost in the Jungles of Travel Literature: The Anthology as Map,” Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing,” Milwaukee, October, 2004

“Looking for Japan,” Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing, Cleveland, October, 2002

"The Image of Japan in Contemporary English and American Travel Writing," Nara Women's University, Nara , Japan, (May, 2001) and the Japanese Society for English Literary Study, Tokyo (June, 2001)

"Americans in Vietnam: War Writing and Travel Writing" Fulbright Lecture at Hanoi, Hue, and Ho Chi Minh Universities, Vietnam (March, 2001) and Hiroshima University, Japan (April, 2001)

"Hemingway and Orwell" Keynote address at English Language and Literature Association of Korea, Annual Conference, Kjongju (February ,2001) Lecture at The American Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing (March, 2001). Japanese Association of American Studies Conference, Nagoya, Japan (May, 2001)

“Paul Bowles as Travel Writer” Seuils et Traverses Conference II, Universite de Bretagne Occidental, Brest, France, 2000

"Paul Fussell's Abroad and the Scholarship of Contemporary Travel," Conference on Travel Writing, University of Pennsylvania, June 1999

“The Past and the Palimpsest: Turkey in Travel Writing,” (Keynote) British Council/USIS Conference at Aegean University, Izmir, Turkey, May, 1998

"See Mexico and Die: Mary Morris and the Ghosts of Travel," Conference on Popular Culture,” Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, March, 1998

"Paul Theroux and the Peace Corps" Conference on Travel Writing, University of Minnesota, November, 1997

"Imitation and the Teaching of Writing" Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, Arizona, March, 1997

"Imitative Writing and the Literature-Composition Gap" Thomas Watson Conference on Rhetoric, University of Louisville, October, 1996

"Vietnam and the American Indians" Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, 1993 (Published in The Journal of American Literature and Culture, Hacettepe/SUNY Buffalo, 1994)

Professional Associations

Vice President, International Society for Travel Writing, (ISTW) 2000-Present

Chair, MLA Discussion Group on Travel Literature, MLA Convention, San Diego, 2003

Director, ISTW Conference at University of Pennsylvania, June, 1999 Conference Program on-line at <http://www.english.upenn.edu/Conferences/Travel99>

Committees

Graduate Committee, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1984-2002

Undergraduate Committee, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1984-Present

Penn Summer-in-London Program 2004, 2003, 2001, 1996 (Director), 1992 (Director), 1987 (Director)

College Board Review Committee, SAT English Composition Test, 1986-1988

RECENT COURSES TAUGHT

English 800 Pedagogy: Composition and Literature

English 485 British and American Travel Writing

English 360 A Modernist Tour of the Mediterranean

English 292 Hollywood and the Novel

English 286 American Travel Literature

English 286 Vietnam: The American War and Travel Literature

English 286 Journalism and Literature

English 275 Orwell and Hemingway

English 265 Literature and Empire

English 260 The Seductions of Empire

English 135 Creative Non-Fiction

English 103 American Short Story

English 84 Modern American Literature

English 68 Penn in London, Theatre

English 67 London in Literature

English 61 Modern British Literature

English 40 British Poetry, 1660-Present

English 2 The Journey in Literature