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Evan Chaloupka, Ph.D., M.A.

Program Chair, Writing

evan.chaloupka@franklin.edu

Profile

Dr. Evan Chaloupka directs the Franklin University writing program. His scholarship examines the relationship between cognitive disabilities and narrative dynamics across literary, scientific, and social contexts. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University and a M.A. in English from the University of Akron. Dr. Chaloupka has taught courses in composition, technical writing, rhetoric, and literature at institutions ranging from Lakeland Community College to the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been published in Literature and Medicine, The Journal of Narrative Theory, and Disability & Society among other venues.

Education

2018
Case Western Reserve University
Doctor of Philosophy, English
2012
University of Akron
Master of Arts, English
2010
The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio)
Bachelor of Arts - NSCH Verified, English

Work Experience

2020 - Present
Franklin University, Program Chair, Writing
2018 - 2018
University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer, Critical Writing
2013 - 2018
Case Western Reserve University, Teaching Assistant, Cleveland, Ohio
2012 - 2013
Lake Erie College, Adjunct Instructor
2012 - 2013
Lakeland Community College, Adjunct Instructor
2012 - 2013
Ursuline College, Adjunct Instructor
2012 - Present
Bryant and Stratton College, Adjunct Instructor

Publications & Presentations

Chaloupka, E. (2023, Jan. 06). Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism. Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco.
Chaloupka, E. (2022, Jun. 29). Disabling the Paper Mind in McTeague. International Conference on Narrative, Chichester UK.
Chaloupka, E. (2020, Mar. 08). Trying to See the Mind: The Promise and Problem of Narrated Vision. Narrative, New Orleans.
Chaloupka, E. (2019). Idiocy and Object Attentive Reading in The Sound and the Fury. Literature and Medicine, 37 (2), pp. 368-395.
Chaloupka, E. (2017). Intersubjectivity and Narrative Technique in Of Mice and Men and "Johnny Bear". Journal of Narrative Theory, 47 (3), pp. 403-426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2017.0018
Chaloupka, E. (2016). 'Making Lovely Nonsense Out of Everything’: Individuated Receptions of Eugenic Theories of Cognitive Disability. Disability and Society, 31 (3), pp. 406-420.
Chaloupka, E. (2015). Imagining Cognitive Disability: Recursive Reading and Viewing Processes in Henry H. Goddard's The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeblemindedness. CEA Critic, 77 (3), pp. 269-277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cea.2015.0026

Professional Service

2016
Committee Member
Faculty Committee
(Cleveland, 157) End Date: 2017
2015
Committee Member
Executive Committee, Graduate Council of the Arts and Sciences
(Cleveland, 157) End Date: 2016
2015
Committee Member
Undergraduate Committee, Department of English
(Cleveland, 157) End Date: 2016
2015
Committee Member
Writer's House Subcommittee, Department of English
(Cleveland, 157) End Date: 2015
2014
Committee Member
Graduate Committee, Department of English
(Cleveland, 157) End Date: 2015
2013
Committee Member
Graduate Committee, Baker Nord Center for the Humanities
(Cleveland, 157) End Date: 2014
2013
Committee Member
Part-time Faculty Advocacy Committee
(Kirtland, 157) End Date: 2013
2012
Committee Member
English Portfolio Review Committee
(Painesville, 157) End Date: 2013