Position:	Department Head, Professor of English
	Degree:	Ph.D., Rutgers University
	Specializations:	American studies and technical writing
	Office:	Witherspoon 142
	Phone:	968-0484
	e-mail:	cbrucker@atu.edu

Courses

Engl 2013: Intro to American Literature (online) the opening page of the online version of Engl 2013 Bedford-St. Martins Online guide to citation styles.
	Engl 2053: Technical Writing (online) • the opening page of Engl 2053 • computing a Fog Index • Arkansas Tech Writing, 10th Edition in pdf format Presentations Graphics 1 (Tables, Bar and Column Graphs) Graphics 2 (Line Graphs) Graphics 3 (Charts, Diagrams, and Photographs
Engl 1053: Honors Composition II (Spring 2007) Videos of Guest Writers: Click the link above to view videos of the writers who visited this Honor Comp II class during the spring of 2007. Spaceship Click the link above to play with Samuel Collier's online version of Dr. MIchael Karl Ritchie's poem "Spaceship." One Wasted Class (240-320) One Wasted Class (480x640) Click the link above to play the video we filmed in class on April 25, 2007
Engl 4383/5383: Seminar in American Literature -- Capitalism • English 4383/5383 syllabus (summer 2006)	Engl 6213: Topics in Literature -- Hybridity English 6213 syllabus (summer 2005)
Engl 2173: Introduction to Film Presentations: The Silent Era The Studio Era High Noon International Film, Part One Japanese Film International Film, Part Two Citizen Kane Romantic Comedy Film Noir Hitchcock New Cinema Part One New Cinema Part Two: The Directors Taxi Driver Contemporary Cinema Blade Runner
	Amst 2003: American Studies: The Sixties Fall 2007 Syllabus (includes links to all presentations) The Sixties Intro Video

Selected Articles
	"Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Eye of the Whole Man," Studies in American Humor		"Chinua Achebe" in Survey of World Literature
	"Richard Wright," from Popular World Fiction 1900-Present		"Saul Bellow" In Nobel Prize Winners in Literature
	"Kurt Vonnegut" in Popular Fiction in America		"Ralph Ellison" in Magill's Survey of American Literature
	"Ishmael Reed's Long Fiction" in Survey of Long Fiction		"Virtue Rewarded: The Contemporary Student and Horatio Alger" in The Journal of General Education

Selected Links
	Bedford-St. Martin's Online Guide to citation styles. MLA, APA. CBE, and Chicago Manual of Style.		Karla's Guide to Citation Style Guides. A useful collection of links to sites that explain APA and MLA citation styles.
	Mummies of the Insane. A description of a bizarre museum in Philippi, West Virginia that houses some homemade mummies.
	Greatest Films. A collection of synopses of some of the most important Hollywood films, including most of the films viewed in my sections of Engl 2173.

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