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Terry Fairchild

Terry Fairchild
Terry Fairchild
  • Co-Chair of the Department of English: Creative Writing & Literature
  • Professor of Literature and Writing

Terry Fairchild has over twenty years of experience in college administration, curriculum design, and the teaching of literature, literary theory, film, and composition at the university level. His courses range from the classics to post–modernism, with emphasis on the twentieth century. He also has a strong background in such specialized areas as modern drama, Asian literature, media studies, and spiritual literature.

Terry earned his PhD in English from the University of Iowa. He teaches Film, Shakespeare, Medieval, Drama, Modern British, Proseminar (Literary Theory), American Literature II. Research areas include Literature and Literary Criticism of the Twentieth Century, Maharishi Vedic ScienceSM as Literary Theory, Bernard Malamud, T. S. Eliot, Frank Waters, Postmodernism.

Education

  • PhD English Literature, University of Iowa
  • MA English Literature, University of Utah
  • BA English Literature, University of Nevada

Faculty Appointments

  • 2016 —Professor of Literature, Maharishi International University
  • 1998 — Associate Professor of Literature, Maharishi International University
  • 1990 — Assistant Professor of Literature, Associate Department Chair, Maharishi International University
  • 1984–1989 — Graduate Instructor University of Iowa
  • 1983–1984 — Research Assistant, University of Iowa
  • 1975-1976 — Graduate Instructor University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dissertation

Life and Art: The Short Fiction of Bernard Malamud — a critical analysis of the major themes, style, and moral vision in Malamud’s significant body of short fiction, a relatively overlooked portion of the author’s oeuvre in the wake of general praise. Because so many of Malamud’s stories are concerned with art, this text examines the author’s aesthetic interests in light of the existential humanism that dominates the body of his work.

Areas of Interest

20th Century British and American Literature, Modernism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory, Modern Drama, Poetry, Shakespeare, Medieval Literature, Film.

Teaching Experience

“I have over twenty years of teaching experience in literature and composition ranging from the most basic introductory courses to advanced seminars and graduate courses.”

Teaching Assignments

University of Nevada

  • Introduction to Composition

University of Iowa

  • 8G:1 — Introduction to Literature
  • 8G:5 — The Forms of Comic Vision
  • 8G:6 — Narrative Literature
  • 8G:8 — Literature of the Theater
  • 8G:12 — Comic and Tragic Literature

Maharishi International University

  • Lit 205 — Introduction to Literature I (Fiction, Drama)
  • Lit 206 — Introduction to Literature II (Poetry, Research Paper)
  • Lit 330 — Literature of the Middle Ages
  • Lit 335 — Shakespeare I
  • Lit 336 — Shakespeare II
  • Lit 348 — Twentieth Century British Literature
  • Lit 351 — American Literature II (Realism to Present)
  • Lit 354 — Modern American Literature (Seminar)
  • Lit 360 — Contemporary Poetry
  • Lit 361 — The Novel
  • Lit 362 — Drama and Theater I (History of Drama)
  • Lit 363 — Introduction to Film
  • Lit 365 — History of Film
  • Lit 367 — Drama and Theater II (Modern Drama)
  • Lit 490 — Proseminar: Literary Theory
  • Lit 498 — Senior Project
  • Lit 503 — Bibliography and Methods
  • Lit 506 — Studies in American Literature II (20th Century)
  • Lit 518 — Studies in Modern British Literature
  • Lit 590 — Final Project

Publishing

  • “Stafford’s ‘Traveling Through the Dark,” The Explicator 55.3 (97)
  • “Consciousness and Literary Study” with Susan Andersen, Modern Science and Vedic Science Vol 7.1 (97)
  • “Father” (poem), In Other Words (Fall 97)
  • “Time, Eternity, and Immortality in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,” Modern Science and Vedic ScienceVol 9.1 (99)
  • “Loving Henry,” Chicken Soup for the Single Soul, 1999
  • “Operating on the Planck Scale in Frank Waters’ The Man Who Killed the Deer,” South Dakota Review (Accepted)
  • “The Varieties of Consciousness in Henry IV,” Studies in Literary Imagination Vol. 34.2 (Fall 2001)
  • “The Sins of the Father in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex” Consciousness, Literature and Art Vol. 3.2(99)
  • “Maharishi Vedic Science and Literary Theory,” Consciousness, Literature and Art Vol. 5.3(04)

Editing

  • Senior editor for Nevada Publications
  • Senior editor on variorum edition of William Morris’s Earthly Paradise and Women in Literature
  • Executive Editor of Modern Science and Vedic Science

Presentations

  • “Art and Artists in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud” — presented for Graduate Conference on Professional Publishing at the University of Iowa, Spring 1989
  • “Naming as Myth and Metaphor in the Novels of Bernard Malamud — Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Nov. 2–4, 1989
  • “Postmodern Paradox” — presented for the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, November 1990
  • “Time and Eternity in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,” for Iowa Council of Teachers, 1993

Faculty Positions

  • 2001–Present — Chair of MIU Literature Department — Presiding over every aspect of the department including recruiting and hiring of faculty, student recruitment, philosophical direction, curriculum design, course assignments, and department finance.
  • 1994–2000 — Associate Chair of MIU Literature Dpt.— Shared and assisted the Chair in all the duties of the Literature Department
  • 1992–Present — Departmental Advisor — Advise all Literature majors and minors on curriculum choices and the design of their programs as well as post-graduate choices

Committees

  • 2004 — Present FAPC Committee: Finance and promotions
  • 2002 — present Academic Council: Committee of department chairpersons.
  • 1993 — 2002 Curriculum Committee: Reviews additions or changes to curricula and/or faculty departments
  • 1996 Publishing Committee: Formed to give direction to faculty publications
  • 1997 Search Committee: Formed to locate distinguished faculty in the fields of Film Arts and Dramatic Arts
  • 1998 Expansion Committee: Formed to explore the means for developing the University’s buildings
  • 1999 — Present Film Committee: Chooses films and gives direction to film related projects for the university
  • 1999 — Present Drama Committee: Gives guidance in choosing plays and acts as a liaison between the university drama program and other drama programs in the community
  • 1999 — Present Library Committee: Gives advice on books and other programs for the library
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