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TIMOTHY K. CONLEY
TIMOTHY K. CONLEY
Professor Timothy K. Conley came to Bradley in 1982, from Pennsylvania State
University, where he received his Ph.D. and M.A. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St.
Louis University's Honors Program. His special fields of interest include American
Literature, American Studies, and Literary Theory. At Bradley, he has taught a range of
introductory, upper-level, and graduate courses in American Literature, both survey courses
and focused topics such as 18th Century Prose, Race and Gender in 19th Century Fiction,
Hemingway and Faulkner, and Literature of the American South. His teaching experience in
Literary Theory includes both undergraduate and graduate seminars in theory and special
topics, such as Feminist Theory, Michel Foucault, and Postcolonial Theory. He has three times
received the English Department's Professor of the Year Award and has been honored with
Bradley's New Faculty Award for Teaching. In 2002, he received the University's highest
recognition for outstanding teaching, the Putnam Award.
In addition, he served four years as Director of Bradley's Teaching Excellence
Programs and developed and directed seminars to enable Bradley faculty to incorporate
multicultural issues and topics into their courses and chaired the American Studies
program for seven years. He has received three Fulbright Scholar appointments in
American Literature and American Studies--two to the University of Vienna and one to
the University of Sarajevo. He has also delivered professional talks nationally from
Oregon to Pennsylvania and internationally in Wales, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and throughout
Austria.
Dr. Conley's publications include studies of eighteenth-century American writers,
several essays on Benjamin Franklin, William Bartram, Hector St. Jean de Crevecouer,
nineteenth-century American publishers, William Faulkner, the disciplines of American
Literature and American Studies, and the institutional history and formation of the
university. He has also edited a volume entitled Race, Gender, and an American
Campus, drawn from four years' experience as director of a grant to improve the campus
climate for racial and ethnic minorities and a collection of essays on the occasion of
Bradley's centennial, The University as Learning Community: Tradition, Innovation,
Prospects. He is currently working on a study of eighteenth-century American culture
and the emergence of competing notions of American identity and an anthology of Bosnian
literature from the 1990s war.
During his years at Bradley, he has served as advisor to the student literary
magazine; from 1986-1989 he served as the first Men's Varsity Soccer Coach, and, from
1992-1996, he served as advisor to the student environmental organization.
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