Grant Logan Sisk
Brookhaven College
3939 Valley View Lane
L-421 and S-141
Dallas, TX 75244-4997
972.860.4788 work
972.567.5706 cell
GSisk@dcccd.edu (work)
GLSisk@gmail.com (home)
Education
Ph.D., Modern American Literature
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
August, 2000
M.A., Modern British Literature
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
August, 1995
B.A., English
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
May, 1988
Administrative Experience
Associate Dean, Department of World Languages, Brookhaven College. February 2011-Present.
Director, Brookhaven College Multicultural Center, July 2013-Present.
Director, Brookhaven College MAPs Study Abroad, February 2011-Present.
Dean, College of Humanities, University of Phoenix-Austin Campus, June 2005-January 2011.
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor, Brookhaven College, May 2011-Present.
Courses Taught: Freshman Composition I and II, World Literature and Modern American
Literature.
Guest Lecturer, National University of Vietnam, February, 2013.
Survey of American Literature 1945-Present.
Guest Lecturer, National University of Vietnam, February, 2012.
Survey of American Literature 1860-Present.
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Associate Faculty, Southern New Hampshire University (Online), October, 2011-Present
Associate Faculty, University of Phoenix-Austin Campus, June 2005-January 2011
Courses Taught: Literature Survey Courses, Humanities Survey Courses, World
Religions Survey Courses and Communications courses.
Associate Faculty, University of Phoenix Online Campus, September 2005-2011
Courses Taught: Literature Survey Courses, Humanities Survey Courses, World
Religions Survey Courses and Communications courses.
Associate Faculty, Richland College, January 2000-June 2005.
Courses Taught: Freshman Composition I and II, Technical Writing, Modern American
Novel: Twain, Faulkner and McCarthy.
Associate Faculty, North Central Texas College, Gainseville, TX, August 1997-May 2000.
Courses Taught: Developmental English I and II, Freshman Composition I and II, World
Literature I and II.
Teaching Fellow: University of North Texas, Denton, TX. August 1991 – May 1997.
Courses Taught: Freshman Composition I and II, World Literature I and II, Creative
Writing.
Professional Activities
Publications:
A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind, (novel) Lamar University Press. Forthcoming Fall 2014.
Cibolo, Archaeopteryx: The Newman Journal of Ideas, Volume 2, Spring 2014.
Review: Sandhill County Lines: Stories, by Clay Reynolds. Southwestern American Literature,
Spring, 2008.
Al Dente, New Texas: A Journal of Literature and Culture, Fall, 2006.
Chicken Slayer, Iron Horse Literary Review, Vol. Six, Fall 2004.
Terra Cognitae, Colorado Review, Vol.XXXI, Summer, 2004.
Review: Dead Man's Walk, by Larry McMurtry. Texas Books in Review Spring 1996.
Coconino Escarpment. Texas Short Fiction, Vol. 2. August, 1995.
Hotel Restoration Revitalizes Texas Town. Heritage Magazine, Fall 1994: 9-13.
Review: The Way of the Priests by Robert Conley. Western American Literature, August 1994:
159.
Review: Mackenzie, Brave Cavalry Colonel by J'Nell L. Pate. Review of Texas Books Winter
1995: 6.
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Review of Ranald S. Mackenzie, by Ernest Wallace, Bad Hand by Charles M. Robinson III and
The Most Promising Young Officer by Michael D. Pierce. Texas Books in Review Fall 1994: 23.
A Woman Her Age. North Texas Review Spring 1993: 111-114.
Featherstone. Grasslands Review #7 1992: 36-42.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation. North Texas Review Spring 1992: 39-66.
Presentations:
American Literature, 1945 to the Present, University of Social Sciences and Humanities,
National University, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, February 2013.
100 Years of American Literature, 1865-2005, University of Social Sciences and Humanities,
National University, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, February 2012.
All My Friends Are Gonna be Strangers: A Texan Crashes the Dallas Opera, Texas Association
of Teachers of Creative Writing, Annual Conference. Fort Worth, Texas. November 2010.
Al Dente, American Studies Association of Texas, Annual Conference. Waco, TX. November,
2006.
Chicken Slayer, Texas Association of Teachers of Creative Writing, Annual Conference. San
Angelo, Texas. August 2006.
Terra Cognitae. Texas/Southwestern Popular Culture Association, Annual Conference.
Albuquerque, NM. February 2002.
Excerpt from novel A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind. Texas/Southwestern Popular Culture
Association, Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2002.
Marion. Texas/Southwestern Popular Culture Association, Annual Conference. Albuquerque,
NM. February 2001.
You Are What You Eat: Cannibalism and Violence in the Southwest. Mosaic of Texas Culture.
Abilene, TX. March 2000.
Untitled Work in Progress, Texas/Southwestern Pop Culture Association, Annual Conference.
Albuquerque, NM. January 1999.
Novel excerpt: A Thousand Miles Out of My Mind, Texas Association of Creative Writing
Teachers, Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. February 1997.
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Strange Attractors: Sonny, Duane and Jacy's Dilemma in The Last Picture Show. Rocky
Mountain Modern Language Association, Annual Conference. Albuquerque, NM. October 1996.
Several Stories. Special presentation by invitation at the Grace Cultural Arts Center. Abilene,
TX. August 1996.
Revisiting Thalia: Stasis and Flux in ‘There Will Be Peace in Korea’. Mosaic of Texas Culture.
Abilene, TX. March 1994.
A Woman Her Age. Texas/Southwestern Popular Culture Association, Annual Conference.
Waco, TX. March 1994.
The Dream-Eden Motif in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove and Clay Reynold's Franklin’s
Crossing. South Central Modern Language Association, Annual Conference. Austin, TX.
October 1993.
Works in Progress: A Few Observations. Tarrant County Jr. College South Campus, Ft. Worth,
TX. April 1993.
Coconino Escarpment. North Texas Review Reading Series. Denton, TX. January
1992.
Service
Board, North Texas Council for International Visitors, October 2012-Present.
Sponsor, Asian Culture Club, Brookhaven College. August 2011-Present.
Co-Sponsor, Windmill Creative Writing Group, Brookhaven College. February 2011-Present.
Chair, Creative Writing: Fiction, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Annual
Conference. San Angelo, TX. August, 2006.
Chair, Creative Writing: Non-Fiction, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Annual
Conference. Fredericksburg, TX. September, 2003.
Chair, Southern Literature Section, South Central Modern Language Association, Annual
Conference. Austin, TX. October 2002.
Area Chair, Folklore, Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, Annual Conference.
Albuquerque, NM. February 2002.
Secretary, Southern Literature, South Central Modern Language Association, Annual
Conference. Tulsa, OK. October 2001.
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Area Chair, Humor, Texas/Southwest Pop Culture Association, Annual Conference.
Albuquerque, NM. February 2001.
Chair, Southwestern American Literature Section, South Central Modern Language Association,
Annual Conference, Houston, TX. Fall 1995.
Managing Editor, North Texas Review. University of North Texas, Denton, TX 1995.
Secretary, Southwestern American Literature Section, South Central Modern Language
Association, Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. Fall 1994.
Chair, Special Session, "Adult Comics: From Pulp to Pulchritude." Texas/Southwest
Popular Culture Association, Annual Conference. Waco, TX. February 1994.
Assistant Fiction Editor, American Literary Review, Vol. IV. Number 1. Spring, 1993.
Assistant Editor, New Texas ’93: Poetry and Fiction, Spring, 1993.
Organizations
Leadership Austin
Modern Language Association
South Central Modern Language Association
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
Texas Folklore Society
Research Interests
European, Asian and American prose and poetry of all periods, including Icelandic sagas,
Spenser, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Joyce, Cormac McCarthy, Roth, Greene and Frost, Basho,
Pham and Nguyen among others, as well as the literature of the Southwest and the Texas/Mexico
border and border culture. Lately I have been working more with the Vietnamese-American
literature concerning the post-Vietnam War immigrant diaspora.
References available upon request
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