1. Curriculum Vitae
Peter R. Saiz
Century College 498 Beaumont Street
Department of English Saint Paul MN 55130
3300 Century Avenue North (651) 797-2073
White Bear Lake MN 55110 petersaiz@century.edu
EDUCATION
Ph. D May 2003 English, Purdue University
M.A. 1992 English, Wichita State University, KS
B.A. 1987 English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master’s Thesis “The Creole Woman’s Heritage: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, and
‘Miss Sarah Jack of Spanish-Town Jamaica’”
Directed by Professor Christopher K. Brooks
Area of Specialization: British Victorian Literature
Ph.D Dissertation “Political Tyranny and the Master-Slave Paradigm in Selected
Sea Tales of Herman Melville and Jack London”
Directed by Professor G.R. Thompson
Area of Specialization: American Nineteenth and Twentieth
Century Literature 1865-1945
Secondary Area: Postcolonial Studies
Languages: Spanish
POSITIONS HELD
(ACADEMIC)
2007-present Century College, White Bear Lake MN
English and Humanities Department
Instructor English
2004-2007 UW-Platteville, Platteville WI
Humanities Department
Lecturer, English
2003-2004 Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View TX
Department of English
Assistant Professor

2. 1999-2003 Purdue University, West Lafayette IN
English Department
Graduate Teaching Assistant
1998-1999 Madison Area Technical College, Madison WI
Arts and Sciences Department
Instructor, English Composition
1994 University of Western Ontario, London ON Canada
Mestengo Press
Assistant Editor
1993 Wichita State University, Wichita KS
English Department, Lecturer, English Composition
1991.1992 Wichita State University, Wichita KS
Graduate Teaching Assistant, English Composition and
Remedial English, and Non-fiction editor of Mikrokosmos,
a graduate journal of the Creative Writing Department
EMPLOYMENT
(NON-ACADEMIC))
1986-1988 AT&T, Madison WI
Operator Services
Long Distance Operator, 3rd
Shift Supervisor
1999 AT&T, Madison WI
Buried Wire Service Department
Customer Service Specialist
HONORS AND AWARDS
2010 Student Voice Award for inspirational teaching; presented
by the Century College Education Club, Century College,
White Bear Lake, MN.
2007 Golden Apple Teaching Award for excellence in teaching;
presented by the Phi Theta Kappa Society of Century
College, White Bear Lake, MN.
1991 M.A. Thesis Award for quality of thesis prospectus;
Wichita State University, Kansas.

3. PUBLICATIONS
Books: Assistant editor of Altered Writings and Public Space of the Domestic Sphere
published by Mestengo Press, London, Canada, The University of Western Ontario,
1997.
Articles in Refereed Scholarly Journals:
“Colonialism and the Ponca Rabbit Stories,” in Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable
Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, (2001-2002),
“The Colonial Story in The Emperor Jones,” in The Eugene O’Neill Review, Vol. 17,
Nos. 1&2 (1993), 31-38.
Poetry:
“Of Standing Bear, Chief of the Poncas,” in American Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3, No.3
(1988), 220.
Reviews:
Modern Fiction Studies: Vol. 49, number 4, (Winter 2006), 846-848: Stasz, Clarice.
Jack London’s Women. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2004.
Books reviewed for Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature:
Vol. 11 (1994), 137-138, 201-202: Anderson, Douglas. First and Ten. New York:
Crown, 1993; Reiswig, Gary. Water Boy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993; Ours,
Robert. College Football Encyclopedia. Rocklin, CA: Prima, 1993.
Vol. 10 (1992-93), 213-214, 217-218: Hartje, Tod with Lawrence Martin. From Behind
the Red Line: New York: Macmillan, 1992; Walton, Gary M. Beyond Winning.
Champaign: Leisure, 1992; Boswell, Thomas. Game Day. New York: Penguin, 1990.
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WORK UNDER CONSIDERATION
Articles Under Consideration in Refereed Scholarly Journals
“To Follow or Not to Follow One’s Leader? Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno and Billy
Budd, Sailor” submitted to Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies
CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIUMS
(Presenter)

4. “The Radical Tradition in African-American Literature,” presented at Century College’s
Connections conference, 2011.
“Of Men and Dogs: Jack London’s Depiction of the Master-Slave Relationship in
Journeys to the Far North,” presented at Century College’s Journeys conference, April
20, 2010.
“The Pathology of Revolt”: A New Look at Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno,”
presented at Century College’s Revolutions conference, 2009.
“Contemporary Mass Media’s Racism and Hysteria: The New Indian Wars,” at Madison
Area Technical College, Madison WI, May 2005, and at the University of Minnesota-
Duluth, Duluth MN, April 2005.
“The Nature and Geography of Native-American Folktales,” presented at the University
of Wisconsin-Platteville Act 31 Symposium, August 2006.
“Jack London’s Boxers and Dogs: Antagonistic Brutes, Proletarians, and Anti-
Imperialists,” at the 2001 Theory and Cultural Studies Colloquium: “Contemporary
Representations of the Intellectual Inside and Outside of the Academy: A Call to
Responsibility through Secular Criticism.” Purdue University, West Lafayette IN,
September 14, 2001.
“Colonialism and the Ponca Rabbit Stories,” at the Beast Fable Society 8th
International
Congress, sponsored by Truman State University, Marrakech, Morocco, July 6-12 2001.
“A Close-reading of Paul Celan’s Poem Deathsfugue” at the 2001 Theory and Cultural
Studies and Student Colloquium: “The Holocaust and Critical Theory: Representing
Shoah in Theoretical Discourses.” Purdue University, West Lafayette IN. April 9, 2001.
“See-dai-mon-ka and Swallow Hill,” at the 24th
Annual Plains Indian Seminar on Sacred
Lands, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody WY. September 14-17, 2000.
(Panelist)
Brother to Brother panel discussion on the Trayvon Martin Shooting at the “Nest,”
Century College, September 19, 2013
MEMBERSHIPS
The Eugene O’Neill Society
American Literature Association
Jack London Society
Beast Fable Society
Academia.edu

5. REFERENCES
Servanne Woodward Professor, Dept of French, Western Ontario University
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Andrew Nesset Dean, English, Humanities, and Speech/Communication,
Century College
Duncan Harmon Instructor of English, Century College

6. REFERENCES
Servanne Woodward Professor, Dept of French, Western Ontario University
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Andrew Nesset Dean, English, Humanities, and Speech/Communication,
Century College
Duncan Harmon Instructor of English, Century College