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Dr. Tom Hoffman
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English » Associate Professor
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Contact Informationtom.hoffman@mwsu.eduMy Websites |
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InterestsHonors: Secretary of the Army of Commendation Medal awarded in 1964. Alpha Chi Lecturer for 1990 presented “Sanity in Satire: Layers of Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions” March 7, `1990. Selected to portray King Arthur in November, 1994 for Traveling Exhibit, “The Many Realms of King Arthur”, sponsored by the American Library Association, New York Public Library and the Newberry Library in Chicago—presentation given to Kemp Public Library, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1998. Chosen as the Mortar Board “Professor of the Year” for 1998. Named to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities in 2000. Invited Speaker to ;MSU’s Learning Center to demonstrate the use of the “Dramalogue” Method of teaching The Scarlet Letter in the character of the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale in the Fall of 2007. Invited Panelist to speak at TACT’s panel discussion on proposed state law allowing concealed handguns carried on college campuses in 2008. Invited Lecturer to Dr. Mark Farris’s six Honors Program classes to specifically use the “Dramalogue” method to teach Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in the roles of the two characters of Randle P. McMurphy and Dr. Spivey, in September of 2007 and 2008. |
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| Semester | Course # | Section | Course Name | Location | Days / Times | |
| Details | Fall 2012 | 5623 | 101 | American Romanticism | Prothro-Yeager Hall 205 | |
| Details | Fall 2012 | 4623 | 101 | American Romanticism | Prothro-Yeager Hall 205 | |
| Details | Fall 2012 | 2613 | 101 | Survery of American Literature | Prothro-Yeager Hall 205 | TR - 11:00-12:20 |
| Details | Fall 2012 | 1113 | 114 | Rhetoric and Composition | Prothro-Yeager Hall 205 | TR 8:00 |
| Details | Spring 2012 | 3313 | 201 | Comedy | Prothro-Yeager Hall 201 | TR 3:30 to 4:50 p.m. |
| Details | Spring 2012 | 2623 | 201 | Survery of American Literature | Prothro-Yeager Hall 102 | TR - 11:00 - 12:20 pm |
| Details | Spring 2012 | 1123 | 214 | Rhetoric and Composition | Prothro-Yeager Hall 205 | TR 8:00 to 9:20 am |
| Details | Spring 2012 | 1123 | 221 | Rhetoric and Composition | Prothro-Yeager Hall 203 | TR 12:30 - 1:50 |
| Details | Fall 2011 | ENGL 6223 | 101 | Modern World Drama | O'Donohoe Hall 110 | Tuesday - 6:30 to 9:20 p.m. |
| Details | Fall 2011 | 2613 | 101 | Survery of American Literature | Dillard College of Business Administration 338 | TR - 11:00 - 12:20 pm |
| Details | Fall 2011 | 1113 | Rhetoric and Composition | Dillard College of Business Administration 334 | TR 9:30 |
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| Details | Spring 2011 | 3333 | 201 | Satire | Prothro-Yeager Hall 201 | TR 3:30 to 4:50 p.m. |
| Details | Spring 2011 | 2613 | 201 | Survery of American Literature | Prothro-Yeager Hall 204 | TR - 9:30 - 10:50 a.m. |
| Details | Spring 2011 | 1123 | 214 | Rhetoric and Composition | Prothro-Yeager Hall 202 | TR 8:00 to 9:20 am |
| Details | Spring 2011 | 1123 | 220 | Rhetoric and Composition | Prothro-Yeager Hall 201 | TR 12:30 - 1:50 |
| Details | Fall 2010 | 5913 | 101 | Russian Literature in Translation | Prothro-Yeager Hall 210 | TR 2:00 - 3:20 p.m. |
| Details | Fall 2010 | 4913 | 101 | Russian Literature in Translation | Prothro-Yeager Hall 210 | TR 2:00 - 3:20 p.m. |
| Details | Fall 2010 | 2613 | 101 | Survery of American Literature | Prothro-Yeager Hall 202 | TR - 12:30 - 1:50 p.m. |
| Details | Fall 2010 | 1113 | 122 | Rhetoric and Composition | Dillard College of Business Administration 177 | TR 9:30 |
| Details | Fall 2010 | 1113 | 180 | Rhetoric and Composition | Prothro-Yeager Hall 205 | TR 5:30 |
| Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
| Ball State University | BS.Ed. | Aug 15 1966 12:00AM |
| Ball State University | M.A. | Aug 15 1967 12:00AM |
| University of Oklahoma | Ph.D. | Jul 28 1978 12:00AM |
| Institution | Position | Start Date / | End Date |
| Ball State University | Director of Experimental Theatre | August 1966 | August 1967 |
| West Texas A&M University | Instructor | August 1967 | August 1968 |
| Midwestern State University | Associate Professor | August 1968 | current |
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Publications: Editor and Publisher of The Five Star Review, official newspaper of the 168th Combat Engineer Battalion from 1961 to 1963. Editor of Crazy Quilt, first volume of poems by William Doty. Editor of Of Time, Truth and Trivia, second volume of poems by William Doty. Editor of Through a Knothole Darkly, third volume of poems by William Doty. Author of “The Theme of Mechanization in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano”, in Clockwork Worlds, Greenwood Press, Bowling Green, 1983. Author of “Layers of Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions”, Faculty Papers, Series 3, Vol. XIII, 1995-97, Midwestern State University Press, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1997. |