The CV below offers a comprehensive compilation of activities and achievements. You can download the most recently curated & streamlined version of my CV as a PDF here.
(last updated May 2025)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in English Literature, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), 2022
› Dissertation: “Gonzo Eternal.”
› Director: Dr. Gerry Canavan
› Readers: Dr. Heather Hathaway; Dr. Amy Blair
Master of Arts in English, Marquette University, 2013
› Certificate in Contemplative Pedagogies, Marquette University, 2014
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (nonfiction), Chatham University, (Pittsburgh, PA) 2011
› Certificate in the Pedagogy of Creative Writing (optional track)
› Certificate in Travel Writing (optional track)
Bachelor of Arts in English & Sacred Theology, Madonna University (Livonia, MI), 2008
› Summa cum laude
TEACHING & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Alverno College, August 2025 – Spring 2025
› ENG 252 Fiction Into Film
› CA-400 / EN-453 Creative Arts / English Capstone Course Hybrid
Lecturer, Marquette University, Fall 2023
› ENGL 1001 Foundations in Rhetoric
› ENGL 3240 Intro to Creative Writing (online, asynchronous)
Teaching Assistant Professor, Marquette University, August 2022 – May 2023
› ENGL 1001 Foundations in Rhetoric
› ENGL 3240 Intro to Creative Writing
Teaching Assistant (instructor of record), August 2011 – May 2013 & August 2015 – May 2018
› ENGL 2011 (Books That Matter), Marquette University, January – May 2022
› ENGL 1001 (Foundations in Rhetoric) August 2018 – August 2019
› ENGL 1001 & 1002 (Rhetoric & Composition 1 & 2)
Lecturer, Marquette University First-Year English Program, August 2013 – May 2015
› ENGL 1001 & 1002 (Rhetoric & Composition 1 & 2)
Research Assistant
› various projects, Marquette University, August 2019 – May 2020
Composition Tutor, Marquette University Athletics Writing Center, Oct. 2013 – May 2014
Writing Tutor, Madonna University Writing Center (Orchard Lake campus), 2005 – ’06
PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITIES & FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Curriculum Development for New Rhetoric & Composition 2 Pilot Course
› Invited by Director of First-Year English Dr. Jenn Fishman to participate in a selective work group for a revised version of Rhetoric & Composition 2, to overhaul the standard curriculum into a new course with a long-form project-based model rather than a series of discrete terminal assignments. Participants were involved in discussion & planning the overall arc as well as the scaffolding, research, remediation, & critical reflection elements. Participants taught the pilot course in winter 2016; new course rolled out for all RC2 sections in winter 2017.
Departmental Presentation, “Foundations in Rhetoric Unit 1: Arc, Internal Logic, & Assignments Sketch”
› unit overview & course materials for Studies in Rhetoric & Composition course, 2019
Departmental Presentation, “Teaching Short Nonfiction Narrative Within the Structure of Rhetoric & Composition 2 in Marquette’s FYE Program”
› delivered at the Marquette Association of English Graduate Students / First Year English Unit 2 Planning Session Series, 2016.
› Various similar presentations given as part of faculty development sessions, 2014-2019 (see selected examples below)
Departmental Presentation, “Strategies for Teaching Personal Narrative in a Social Justice Context”
› unit overview for FYE Practicum, 2016
Departmental Presentation, “Teaching Unit 2: Personal Narrative”
› unit overview for FYE Practicum with Kathryn Hendrickson, 2015
Departmental Presentation, “Teaching Rhetoric & Composition 2: A Course Overview”
› course overview for FYE Practicum with Kathryn Hendrickson, 2014
Departmental Presentation, “Instructor Ethos in the Marquette First-Year English Classroom”
› for new teaching assistant orientation (TAO), 2012
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Ph.D. Co-President, Marquette University Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS)
› responsible for conducting organization business, overseeing AEGS projects & subcommittees, organizing & facilitating executive meetings, liaising between AEGS and the English Department chair, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the Graduate Studies Committee, and providing general overall guidance to AEGS, May 2016 – May 2018 (two-term limit); August 2021-2022
Treasurer, Marquette University Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS)
› responsible for management & budgeting of AEGS funds, ensuring funds are secure, disbursing funds per the decisions of the AEGS board, & actively organizing fundraisers, May 2018 – May 2019 (two-term limit); August 2020-May 2021
Founder of the Shakespeare 5K Run/Walk
› During the two years it was held, the SP5K was the only Shakespeare-themed run/walk event in the world outside of England. Conceived as a fundraiser for AEGS, the SP5K tripled the AEGS budget in its inaugural year. 2017-2018
Managing Editor, The Transept
› student literary journal, Madonna University (Orchard Lake campus), 2007-2008
Staff Writer, The Transept
› inaugural year. Madonna University (Orchard Lake campus), 2006
PUBLICATIONS
› Chapter, ”History Is Hard to Know: Recovering Lost Resonance in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“
› Accepted for critical volume on Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, ed. Kent Fielding. Date TBD, expected 2025.
› Chapter, ”For Your Servers Only: Surveillance and Infonationalism in Craig-Era Bond”
› with Dr. Kathryn Hendrickson. Included in Resisting James Bond, edited by Lisa Funnell and
Christoph Lindner, July 2023.
Contribution to the J.R.R. Tolkien Fandom Oral History Collection
› brief interview (#0085) for the Collection (curated by the Department of Special Collections at Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Library), 2019
Essay (nonfiction), “Patrol”
› Hidden Animals literary journal (now defunct), 2014
Chapbook, A Lolspeak Chaucer, Paper Tongue Press
› Paper Tongue Press, 2010
Essay (nonfiction), “Notes from the Front: Snapshots from the Cutting-Room Floor”
› by invitation to faculty literary journal Madonna Muse, 2008
PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
“I’d Just As Soon Not Be Dismissed As Some Drug-Addled Clown: Underground Comix, Pop Art, and Hunter S. Thompson’s Post-Vegas Presence in American Mass Culture“
› International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Poughkeepsie, New York 2025
“A Walking Tour of Lost Resonances in Vegas”
› Gonzofest, New Orleans, Louisiana 2025
“A Realisation Of Visions That Had Floated Down the Centuries”: The Literary Sports Journalism of Patrick J. Devlin”
› International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, 2024
“State of Sport: Hurling, Nationalism, and Irish Literary Journalism”
› International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Gdańsk, Poland 2023
“Library Anxiety in the Undergraduate Classroom”
› Northeast Modern Language Association, 2022
“Teaching Gonzo in the Writing Classroom”
› International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, Santiago, Chile 2022
“Gonzo Eternal: Remarks on Margaret Harrell’s The Hell’s Angels Letters”
› Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, 2021
“Distorted Presence, Distorted Present: Thompson, Vegas, and the Unknown Archive”
› International Association for Literary Journalism Studies, 2021 (postponed from 2020)
“’Replete With Unexpected Coherence’: Pale Fire and Émigré Experience”
› Société Française Vladimir Nabokov, 2019
Panel Chair, “Fear and Loathing in the Post-Certainty Milieu”
› Northeast Modern Language Association, 2018
“Learning to Teach (Together): Team-Teaching, Pedagogy, & Community at the Graduate Level”
› with Kathryn Hendrickson; Northeast Modern Language Association, 2017
“Fear and Loathing in Two Versions: Observations on a Variorum of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
› Louisville Conference for Literature & Culture Since 1900, 2016
“So You Think You’ve Read Pale Fire: Toward a New Reading of Nabokov’s Other Most Famous Novel”
› Marquette University History & English Presentations Series, Fall 2016
“First-Year English & Beyond”
› collaborative presentation with Dr. Jenn Fishman & Jenna Green Azab; Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English, Spring 2016
Moderator, “Health and the Environment” panel
› Marquette Undergraduate Humanities Conference (MuHuCon), 2016
“A Pox Upon Him: Defamation, Honor, and Venereal Disease In the Case of Jones v. Jones, 1614”
› joint History Graduate Student Organization – Association of English Graduate Students graduate presentation colloquium, Marquette University, 2012
“Mask, Intercessor, Ally”
› on authority dynamics in the freshman composition classroom; 18th annual UWM-MU First-Year English Graduate Pedagogy Conference, 2011
RESEARCH IN REVISION
Variorum of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
› compares the original 1971 Rolling Stone editions to the book version printed by Random House in 1972
Archival research into Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire
› aims to trace hitherto unrecognized historical resonances & influences, building toward a fresh (though by no means comprehensive or totalizing) approach to interpreting Nabokov’s novel. Findings were presented at the June 2019 International Symposium of the Société Française Vladimir Nabokov; article in development.
Assignments to address library anxiety in the first-year comp classroom
› responding to concerns about student familiarity & comfort with library facilities & resources, this research builds on the work of Constance Mellon, Qun Jiao, & Anthony Onwuegbuzie to help students effectively navigate information resources with practical approaches & assignments that may be incorporated easily into the frequently hectic schedule of a first-year writing course.
EMPLOYMENT & COMMUNITY INVESTMENT
Associate Editor (Nonfiction), The Fourth River
› Journal of Nature and Place-Based Writing, Chatham University MFA Program, Jan. – May 2021
Co-founder & co-producer of The KrickCast
› with Kathryn Hendrickson, 2018-present
City League Co-Captain, Referee, & Club Archivist
› Milwaukee Hurling Club
Freelance ghostwriting & editing projects
› both academic and creative, 2010 – present
Editor & data specialist for Foundations In Wisconsin
› Funding Information Center, Raynor Library, Marquette University, 2016-2021. Foundations In Wisconsin is a yearly directory that covers every active grantmaking foundation in the state of Wisconsin, publishing the profiles, assets, grants paid, areas of interest, and profiles of over 1200 organizations.
Volunteer, East End Cooperative Ministries (Pittsburgh, PA)
› general help for East Liberty food bank, 2010 – 2011
Independent Contractor
› interior/exterior painting, 2007 – 2011
Technical Assistant
› weekly radio program hosted by Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, WCAR 1090 AM (Detroit), December 2006 – April 2007
HONORS
Diane L. Hoeveler Fellowship Fund, 2022
Arthur J. Schmitt Fellowship, Marquette University, 2020-2021
Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate Instructor of Record, Marquette University 2020
English Department Travel Grant, Marquette University, 2018-’19
AEGS Travel Grant, Marquette University, 2016-’19
Ernest I. Nolan Award for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities, Madonna University, 2008
Benedict XVI Award for Outstanding Senior Thesis in Sacred Theology, 2008
Summa cum laude, Madonna University, 2008
References may be found in the PDF available above. Additional information is available upon request. Please feel free to contact me with any questions via the form on the contact page.
Dr. John F. Brick 