David Bergdahl
Early Retired
20th Century British, English Language
Office: Ellis 320
Office Phone: 597-2758
Email: bergdahl@ohio.edu
Homepage
Degrees
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1971
A.M., Boston University, 1964
A.B., Syracuse University, 1962
Publications
[book review] Armin Paul Frank, Die Sehnsucht nach der Unteilbaren Sein: Motive in der Literaturkritik T. S. Eliots in Anglia: Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie no. 3/4 (1978), 542-545.
[book review] Monique Lojkine-Morelec, T. S. Eliot: Essai sur la g鮨sse d’une 飲iture (Paris 1988) in Etudes Anglaises vol. 44 no. 3 (1991), 361-364.
“Genre in a Cognitive Perspective: Eliot’s Four Quartets, “ Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire, vol. 75 no. 3 (1997), 731-741.
[monograph] Two Views of Style: Style as Signature/Style as Form. Athens, Ohio: Occasional Papers in Language, Literature, and Linguistics, series A, no. 19.
“The Electronic Message: A New Genre,” Focus: Teaching English Language Arts, vol. 23, no. 1 (Winter, 1996), 33-40.
“Mango: The Pepper Puzzlement,” American Speech, vol. 73, no. 1 (1996), 335-6
“Scoring Guides in the Process-Oriented Composition Class: Having Students Write Their Own Scoring Guides,” Exercise Exchange, vol 45, no. 1 (1999), 21-24.
Curriculum Vitae
Dissertation
“The Structure of Burnt Norton: An Exercise in Formal Stylistics”
Employment
1963-1968 Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, New York
ranks: Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
1968-present Ohio University
ranks: Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor
Honors
Fulbright Senior Fellowship, 1975-76. I was a Gastdozent at Georg August Universit䴬 G?ngen (Federal German Republic)
Colloquium on Teaching, 1998
Other Exchanges
Departmental exchange with the English Dept. of the University of Toulouse/ LeMirail, Toulouse (France) for fall quarter, 1988
Professional Organizations
American Dialect Society
Linguistic Society of America
Midwest Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Poetics and Linguistics Association
Southeastern Ohio Council of Teachers of English
Other Organizations
I attended The English Institute at Columbia in 1971 and at Harvard 1972.
Administration
During the years 1979-1983 I was director of composition. In addition I have chaired the undergraduate committee during 1977-1979 and served on the library resources, English language, tenure, promotion B, budget and rating, composition, computer, part time evaluation, administrative and graduate committees as well as several ad hoc committees.
At the college level I have served on the Arts and Sciences Curriculum Council and Distributed Learning Courseware Development Service Committees. At the university level I have served on the Academic Advancement Center Advisory Committee, the English Composition Advisory Committee, the University Hearing Board/Judiciaries, the Post Publishing Board, and on the University Curriculum Council.