Dr. Richard Ruppel
Professor of English & Peace Studies
Chapman University
ruppel@chapman.edu
(714) 997-6754

Education

1988—Ph.D. English - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Major: 20th C. British and American Literature
Minor: 19th C. British Literature

1978—M.A. English - Duke University

1976—A.B. University of Michigan. Honors English and History, With Distinction

Books

· A Political Genealogy of Joseph Conrad. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2015.

· Homosexuality in the Life and Work of Joseph Conrad:  Love Between the Lines.  New York, London:  Routledge Press, 2008. 

· Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature. ed. with Philip Holden.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

· Joseph Conrad. Harold Bloom, series ed.  Consulting Editor.  Broomall, PA:  Chelsea House, 2003. 

Guest Editor

· Conradiana.  "Conrad under California Skies:  Selected Proceedings."  With co-editors Paul Armstrong and Andrea White. Volume 43, Numbers 2-3, Fall/Winter 2011.

Conference Director

· “Conrad under California Skies.” An international conference devoted to the life and work of Joseph Conrad. January 7-10, 2010. Chapman University.

Refereed Articles

• “‘Pathos and Fun’:  Conrad and Harper’s Magazine.”  Conradiana.  41.2 (Fall, 2009):  176-200.  
  
• “‘Girl! What? Did I Mention a Girl?’:  The Economy of Desire in Heart of Darkness.”  Imperial Desire:  Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature. eds. Philip Holden & Richard Ruppel.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 2003:  152-171.  
  
• “Joseph Conrad and the Ghost of Oscar Wilde.” The Conradian (U.K.). 23.1 (Spring, 1998):  19-36. 

• “‘They always leave us’: Lord Jim, Colonialist Discourse, and Conrad's Magic Naturalism.”  Studies in the Novel. 30.1 (Spring 1998):  50-62.  

• “Yanko Goorall in the Heart of Darkness: ‘Amy Foster’ as Colonialist Text.” Conradiana. 28.2 (Summer 1996): 126-32.

• “Prime Time’s Hidden Agenda: The Anti-Asian Bias of American Television, 1993.” With David Piehl.   A Gathering of Voices on the Asian American Experience. Eds. Annette White-Parks, et.al. Fort Atkinson, WI: Highsmith P, 1994: 179-85.

• “‘The Lagoon’ and the Popular Exotic Tradition.” Contexts for Conrad. Vol. II. Eds. Keith Carabine, Owen Knowles, Wieslaw Krajka. Boulder: East European Monographs. Distributed by Columbia UP. 1993: 177-87.

• “Lord Jim’s Marlow & the French Lieutenant: Mapping Conrad’s Ethnocentrism.” L'Epoque Conradienne, 1990. Societe Conradienne Francaise: 79-86.

• “Heart of Darkness and the Popular Exotic Short Stories of the 1890’s.” Conradiana 21.1 (1989): 3-14.

Invited Articles

· “Introduction” to the first translation into Chinese of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes, by Zhao Ting. Shanghai: Shanghai Yiwen Press, 2014. 上海: 上海译文出版社

· “Colonial Literature.”  Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Fiction Vol. 1. ed. Brian Shaffer.  Blackwell, 2010. 

· “Why Conrad (Still) Matters.”  Wilkinson Review:  The Chapman University, Wilkinson College Magazine.  1.2 (Fall/Winter, 2008):  7-11. 

Reviews

• Katherine Isobel Baxter and Robert Hampson, eds. Conrad and Language. ELT Journal. 60.4 (June 2017): 61-66.
• Brian Artese, Testimony on Trial: Conrad, James, and the Contest for Modernism. Joseph Conrad Today. 40.1 (Spring 2015): 9-11.
• John G. Peters, Joseph Conrad’s Critical Reception. Studies in the Novel. 46.2 (Summer, 2014): 269-271.
• Richard Niland, Conrad and History. Conradiana, 43.1 (Spring 2011): 113-17.
• Nicholas Harrison.  Postcolonial Criticism:  History, Theory and the Work of Fiction. South Atlantic Review. 70.3 (Summer 2005): 154-58. 
• John G. Peters.  Conrad & Impressionism.  South Atlantic Review 69.3/4 (Fall 2004):  159-62.
• Anne Herrmann. Queering the Moderns: Poses/Portraits/Performances. Studies in the Novel. 35.3 (Fall 2003):  433-36.
• Andrew Michael Roberts. Conrad and Masculinity.  (Click here to see the review.)  The Conradian 27.2 (Autumn, 2002). 
• Andrea White. Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition: Constructing and Deconstructing the Imperial Subject. Conradiana. 27.2 (1995): 149-52.
• Marianna Torgovnick. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives. Conradiana 25.2 (1993): 150-53.
• Patrick Brantlinger, Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914. Conradiana 23.3 (1991): 249-52.

Executive Board Member

· Conradiana

External Reader

· W. M. Keck Foundation

· Harvard University Press

· Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (Dissertation reader)

· Bloomsbury Press

· Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dissertation reader)

· The Ohio State University Press

· Broadview Press

· Routledge Press

· Longman Publishers

· English, a publication of Oxford University Press

· Conradiana

· Twentieth Century Literature

Conference Papers

· “Switching Gears: The Challenges, Frustrations, Anxieties, and Rewards of Turning to Cognition.” Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities. Kent University, UK. July 1-4, 2018.

· “A Cognitive Approach to The Secret Agent.” Transnational Conrad: Between Texts & Theory. Limoges, France. September 21-22, 2017

· “A Key to Dracula: Bram Stoker’s ‘respectable lunatic.’ Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities. 5^th International Conference. Stony Brook University. June 5-7, 2017.

· “Nostromo and the Hard Problem: Conrad’s Explorations of Autonomy and Consciousness.” Cognitive Futures in the Humanities 2016. University of Helsinki, June 13-15, 2016.

· “Traumatic Memory in The Secret Agent.” Cognitive Futures 2015 — Forging Futures from the Past: History and Cognition. Oxford University, April 13-15, 2015.

· “Conrad, Memory, and Neuroscience.” Modern Language Association Conference, January 9-12, 2014. Chicago, Illinois.

· “Karl Marx and Joseph Conrad:  Uneasy Affinities.” The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 39th Annual International Conference. July 10-13, 2013. Università di Roma Tre, Rome.

· “Conrad’s (mostly) Impersonal Art: Politics in Nostromo.” The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 38th Annual International Conference. July 4-7, 2012. Bath, UK.

· “More on the Art of Lying:  Politics in A Personal Record.”  Modern Language Association Conference.  January 5-8, 2012.  Seattle, Washington. 

· “Conrad’s Radically Contingent Politics.”  The Joseph Conrad Society (UK) 36th Annual International Conference. Joint Conference with La Société Conradienne Française.  Versailles (St-Quentin) and Paris.  September 14-17, 2010.

· “Hélène Cixous and Conrad’s Imaginative Bisexuality.”  Seminar paper.  Modernist Studies Association Conference.  November 1-4, 2007.  Long Beach, CA. 

· “Sympathy for the Devil: Conrad’s Anarchists and his Critique of Class.” Modern Language Association Conference.  December 27-30, 2006.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

· “Good Fellowship or Homoeroticism?  Joseph Conrad’s Letters.”  Modernist Studies Association Conference.  November 4-6, 2005.  Chicago, Illinois.

· “More Love Between the Lines:  Intimacy in Conrad's Letters.”  Joseph Conrad in Amsterdam.  Thirty-First Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK).  July 7-9, 2005.  Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  

· “Homosexuality in Under Western Eyes:  Reading through History and Culture.”  Joseph Conrad & Europe.  September 22-25, 2004.  Opole and Krakow, Poland.

· “Territories of the Heart:  Mapping Homoeroticism in Lord Jim.” Conrad and Territoriality.  August 16-18, 2002.  The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. 

· “The Economy of Desire in Heart of Darkness.” International Conference of Joseph Conrad Scholars.  August 9-12, 2000.  Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

· “‘An Outpost of Progress,’ Popular Colonialist Fiction, and Conrad’s Magic Naturalism.”  The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (U.K.), with the Henry James Society (USA) and the Ford Madox Ford Society.  July 8-12, 1999.  Canterbury, England.

· “Historicizing the Homoeroticism in ‘The Secret Sharer.’” Modern Language Association. December 27-30, 1997. Toronto, Canada.

· “Joseph Conrad and the Homoerotic Milieu at the Turn of the Century.” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, December 4-7, 1997.

· “Designing Web Pages for Courses in the Humanities.” Student-centered Teaching Meets Technology: Converging for a New Millennium. Faculty Development Conference. Bloomington MN, Nov. 20-21, 1997.

· “Beyond ‘The Secret Sharer’: Joseph Conrad and the Ghost of Oscar Wilde.” 2nd International Joseph Conrad Conference. Lublin, Poland. September 1-4, 1996.

· “Secret Sharing: Historicizing Conrad’s Homoeroticism.” “Conrad's Century: The Past and Future Splendour."” Kent State University. Kent, Ohio. April 6-9, 1995.

· “‘They always leave us’: Lord Jim and Colonialist Discourse.” 20th Annual International Conference on Conrad. London. July 7-9, 1994.

· “Prime Time’s Hidden Agenda: The Presentation of Asians on American Network Television, 1994.” With David Piehl.  Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. Chicago, April, 1994

· “British Colonialist Tropes in American Films.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans, April, 1993.

· “The Presentation of Asians on American Television, 1993.” Asian Americans Conference. With David Piehl.  University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. March, 1993.

· “‘The Lagoon’ and the Popular Exotic Tradition.” 1st International Conrad Conference--Baranow Sandomierski, Poland. September 8-10, 1991.

· “Lord Jim’s Marlow and the French Lieutenant: Mapping Conrad's Ethnocentrism.” Joseph Conrad Society in Marseilles, France. September, 1990.

· “Heart of Darkness, C. J. Cutcliff Hyne, and the Great Tradition.” The Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh. October, 1987.

Dissertation

        “Kipling, Conrad, and the Popular Exotic Short Fiction of the 1890's.” 1988.

Teaching Experience

• August 2006-present: Professor of English: Chapman University
• July 2002-May 2006: Professor of English: Viterbo University
• July 1995-July 2002: Associate Professor of English: Viterbo College
• July 1990-July 1995: Assistant Professor of English: Viterbo College
• July 1987-May 1990: Lecturer:  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• July 1984-May 1987: Lecturer: North Carolina State University, Raleigh
• Sept. 1979-May 1984: Instructor: UNC Chapel Hill

Honors

· Inaugural One-Year Scholarly & Creativity Activities Release. For “Cognitive Humanities and the Novel: Six Case Studies.” 2017-18. Chapman University.

· Wilkinson College Faculty Award for Service, Spring, 2011—Chapman University.

· Alec Chiu Award for Faculty Research, Spring, 2006—Viterbo University. 

· Earl Hartsell Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1983-84—UNC Chapel Hill.

Academic Service (selected)

• Chair, English Department FRC, 2015-2017
• Chair, Peace Studies. Chapman University. 2015-2016; Spring 2017
• Coordinator, Peace Studies. Chapman University. 2014-2015
• Chair, Political Science Department. Chapman University. 2013-14
• Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta honors English Society.  Chapman Chapter - Alpha Zeta Iota.  2008-2011. 
• Chair, Faculty Academic Council.  Chapman University.  May 2009-May 2010. 
• Chair, University Assessment Committee.  Chapman University.  September 2007-May 2009. 
• Chair, English & Comparative Literature.  Chapman University.  June 2006-June 2008.  
• Member, Graduate Studies Taskforce.  Chapman University.  September 2007-May 2008. 
• Member, Academic Council.  Chapman University.  September 2007-May 2010. 
• Member, Honors Program Taskforce.  Chapman University.  September 2007-May 2008. 
• Founding Director, Viterbo Honors Program.  Fall, 2005-Spring 2006.  
• Chair, Department of English. Viterbo University.  Spring, 2000-Fall, 2005.
• Chair, Promotion & Tenure Taskforce.  Viterbo University.  Fall 2004-Spring 2006.
• Chair, Academic Computing Committee. Viterbo University.  Fall 2004-Spring 2006. 
• Title 3 Faculty Coach for Assessment, Active Learning, & Active Learning Technology.  Viterbo University.  Fall 2003-Spring 2006. 
• Academic Assessment Committee.  Viterbo University.  Fall 2000-2003.  
• Promotion & Tenure Committee.  Viterbo University.  Fall 2001-Spring 2003.  
• Arbitration Board.  Viterbo University.  Fall, 2001-Spring 2003.
• Faculty Development Committee.  Viterbo University.  Fall 2000-Spring 2002.
• Computer Champion, Humanities. Viterbo College. Spring 1996-2000.
• Advisor, Touchstone, Viterbo literary magazine. Fall 1992-Fall 2000.
• Pre-Law Advisor, Viterbo. Fall 1991-Spring 1996.
• Chair, Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Committee. Viterbo, 1991-1993, 1994-1996.
• Viterbo Faculty Resources Committee. 1993-95.
• Viterbo student newspaper (The Lumen) advisor. July 1990-March 1992 & Spring 2000.
• Course Supervisor: English 325 (Advanced Composition). U of Michigan, 1987-1990.
• Curriculum and Instruction Committee. North Carolina State University, 1986-87.
• Composition Committee. UNC-Chapel Hill, 1982-84.

Professional Organizations

• Modern Language Association - 1986-Present
• Joseph Conrad Society of America - 1992-Present.  President - December 2008-January 2011.  (Trustee, 2000-2002, 2004.)  

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