Faculty Profiles

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Portrait of Dr. Robert T Tally Jr.

Dr. Robert T Tally Jr.

  • Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Chair, Policy Committee. 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Communications Committee. 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Newsletter and Publicity Subcommittee. 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Alumni Outreach and Publicity Subcommittee. 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Bobcat Day Committee. 2024 - Present.
  • College Review Group Representative. 2024 - Present.
  • Member, English Department Chair Search Committee. August 2024 - Present.
  • Associate Chair. January 1, 2024 - Present.
  • Editor, American Book Review. March 2023 - Present.
  • Member, Humanities Award Committee. August 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Presidential Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity Committee. August 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Alternate, Research Enhancement Grant Committee. August 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Nominations Committe, American Comp Lit Assoc. August 2022 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Ecohumanism. 2021 - Present.
  • Honorary Director, Research Center of Literary Cartography (Southwest University, Chongqing, China). October 2021 - Present.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Modern Literature. January 2021 - Present.
  • Chair, Social Media Committee. August 2020 - Present.
  • Member, Curriculum Revision Committee. April 2020 - Present.
  • Book Manuscript Reviewer, multiple publishers. January 2020 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Genre. January 2019 - Present.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee, ATLAS: American Travel Literature about Spain (Alicante). January 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Multiple grants, tenure committees, and others. January 2019 - Present.
  • Member, Mentoring Committee. August 2018 - Present.
  • Advisory Board Member, Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. October 2017 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Multiples presses and journals. January 2017 - Present.
  • Editorial Board Member, Trans-Humanities. 2016 - Present.
  • Editor, Manuscript review, Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series. January 1, 2015 - Present.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea). January 1, 2015 - Present.
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Modern Literature. January 1, 2015 - Present.
  • Series Editor, Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. 2013 - Present.
  • Member, T.K. Lindsey Literary Committee. August 1, 2013 - Present.
  • Member, Graduate Studies Committee. August 1, 2007 - Present.
  • Member, MA Literature Committee. August 1, 2007 - Present.
  • Member, Sophomore Literature Committee. August 1, 2007 - Present.

2025

  • Texas State University's Representative, Texas Transfer Advisory Committee’s first discipline-specific Field of Study subcommittee (English). 2023 - 2025.
  • President, Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. October 8, 2023 - November 2025.

2024

  • Coordinator / Organizer, "Justice": Annual meeting of the SCLA. 2024.
  • Member, Dean’s Summer Teaching Policy Committee. 2024.
  • Chair, Mentoring Committee. September 1, 2018 - August 2024.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Jameson at 90: A Celebration of Theory (online conference). April 2024.

2023

  • Member, Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Organizer, Spatiality in the Americas (Aarti Madan Smith visit). May 2023 - October 2023.
  • Vice President, Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. October 2021 - October 2023.

2022

  • Chair, Am Lit pre1900 Search. October 2021 - 2022.

2021

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Spatial Imagination Conference. 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Ethics of Critique. 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society for Comparative Lit and the Arts. 2021.
  • Chair, African-American Literature Search Committee. August 2020 - 2021.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Geographies, Affects, and Diaspora seminar. April 2021.
  • Organizer and Chair, Northrop Frye: The Persistence of Criticism (MLA panel). April 2020 - January 2021.
  • Chair, Fredric Jameson's "The Political Unconscious" -- 40 Years On (MLA panel). April 2020 - January 2021.

2020

  • Member, Executive Committee, MLA Forum on Literary Criticism. January 1, 2015 - 2020.
  • Chair, Children's and Young Adult Literature search. August 2019 - April 2020.
  • Chair, Utopia in Dark Times (MLA session). May 2019 - January 2020.

2019

  • Member, Search committee (British Lit, post-1945). September 2018 - April 2019.
  • Organizer and Chair, "Spaces of the Novel," MLA Convention session. January 2019.
  • Chair, MLA Forum on Literary Criticism. January 2018 - January 2019.

2018

  • Member, Scientific Committee of JOEEL VI. February 2018 - October 2, 2018.
  • Acting Chair, Search Committee, Brit Lit post-1900. August 2017 - February 2018.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism at 25 (MLA session). January 2017 - January 2018.
  • Organizer and Chair, Edward Said's "Culture and Imperialism" at 25. January 30, 2017 - January 5, 2018.

2017

  • Member, Mentoring Committee. August 1, 2012 - December 1, 2017.
  • Chair, “The Present State of Practical Digital Humanities” (chair). NRF Global Research Project’s International Symposium: Digital Humanities and World Literature. November 2017.

2016

  • Organizer and Chair, "Revisionary Visions of The Hobbit and Its World” panel; Mythopoetic Society Conference. April 1, 2016 - August 10, 2016.
  • Organizer and Chair, "Unsung Heroes in Tolkien’s Legendarium" panel; Mythopoetic Society Conference. April 1, 2016 - August 10, 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Historical Materialism (journal). June 1, 2016 - August 1, 2016.
  • Book Manuscript Reviewer, Bloomsbury Publishing. April 1, 2016 - May 23, 2016.
  • Book Manuscript Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan. March 1, 2016 - April 30, 2016.
  • Book Manuscript Reviewer, SUNY Press. January 30, 2016 - March 1, 2016.

2015

  • Reviewer / Referee, Article referee, Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea). January 1, 2015 - December 1, 2015.
  • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Studies in History and Culture (India). January 1, 2014 - December 1, 2015.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. January 1, 2010 - December 1, 2015.
  • Chair, Tolkien in the Twenty-first Century panel, Texas Medieval Association. October 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article referee, Journal of Postcolonial Writing. August 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article referee, Paradoxa. September 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Outside review of tenure/promotion, Emilio Sauri, UMass-Boston. June 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Reviewer, National Endowment of the Humanities grant (D. Gladwin, U-Alberta). May 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, "Kurt Vonnegut and Genre" panel, ALA convention. May 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article referee, PMLA. May 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Derek Gladwin, Spatial Injustice: Studies in North Atlantic Environmental Humanities (Routledge). April 1, 2015 - May 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Daniel O'Hara, Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime: The Invisible Tribunal (Palgrave Macmillan). January 1, 2015 - May 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article referee, Genre. April 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Outside review, Swiss National Science Foundation grant (B. Piatti, ETH-Zurich). April 1, 2015.
  • Member, Faculty Hiring Committee (U.S. women writers). August 1, 2014 - April 1, 2015.
  • Chair, Poe: Influence and Affinity panel, Poe Studies Association Fourth International Conference. February 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Article referee, Radical Philosophy Review. January 1, 2015.

2014

  • Reviewer / Referee, Dr. Jeffrey Hole, Department of English, University of the Pacific: tenure/promotion. 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Dr. Susan Farrell, Department of English, College of Charleston, ACLS Fellowship. 2014.

2013

  • Reviewer / Referee, Dr. Kirsten Stirling, University of Lausanne: Swiss National Science Foundation grant. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Dr. Rachel McCoppin, Department of English, University of Minnesota, Crookston: tenure/promotion. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Prieto, Eric. Notes from the In-Between: Literature, Geography, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 2013.
  • Member, Faculty Hiring Committee (Film Studies), Texas State. 2012 - 2013.
  • Secretary/Treasurer, Poe Studies Association. 2012 - 2013.
  • Chair, "Mapping Spaces". Traveling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary conference. University of Zurich, Switzerland. November 1, 2013.
  • organizer and chair, Geocriticism and the Legacies of Edward Said. American Comparative Literature Association Convention. Toronto, Ontario. April 1, 2013.
  • organizer and chair, Literary Cartographies. Special session of the Modern Language Association Convention. Boston, Massachusetts. January 1, 2013.

2012

  • Reviewer / Referee, Dr. Gilbert McInnis: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Poe, Harry Lee. Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2012). 2012.
  • Vice-President, The Kurt Vonnegut Society. 2009 - 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Dromm, Keith, and Hannah Salter. The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy (Chicago: Open Court, 2012). October 1, 2012 - December 1, 2012.
  • organizer and chair, Vonnegut, Science, and Fiction. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. May 1, 2012.
  • organizer and participant, Vonnegut and Biography. Roundtable on Charles Shields's And So It Goes, sponsored by the Kurt Vonnegut Society. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. May 1, 2012.

2011

  • Reviewer / Referee, Dr. Peta Mitchell, Department of English, Media Studies, and Art History, University of Queensland, Australia: tenure/promotion. 2011.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Westphal, Bertrand. Le Monde plausible: Espace, lieu, carte (Paris: Minuit, 2011) [for Palgrave Macmillan, to determine whether to publish translation]. 2011.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Kurt Vonnegut: Life as Literature. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. Boston Massachusetts. May 1, 2011.
  • organizer and chair, Kurt Vonnegut: The Uses of Literature. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. May 1, 2011.

2010

  • Chair, New Perspectives on Saul Bellow's Fiction. Saul Bellow Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. May 1, 2010.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Reading Vonnegut, Teaching Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. May 1, 2010.
  • organizer and chair, Vonnegut, his Precursors and Successors. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. May 1, 2010.

2009

  • organizer and chair, Geocriticism: Mapping the Spaces of Literature. Special session of the Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 1, 2009.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Kurt Vonnegut. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boston Massachusetts. May 1, 2009.
  • organizer and chair, Kurt Vonnegut after the American Century. Kurt Vonnegut Society panel. American Literature Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. May 1, 2009.

2007

  • Member, First-Year Writing Committee, Texas State. 2006 - 2007.
  • Member, English Major/Minor Academic Support Committee, Texas State. 2005 - 2007.
  • Chair, Marxist Critical Theory and Utopia. Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Toronto, Ontario. October 1, 2007.

2006

  • Member, Professional Writing Curriculum Committee, Texas State. 2005 - 2006.

2001

  • Duke Law School Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Council. 2000 - 2001.
  • Executive Editor, The Alaska Law Review. 2000 - 2001.

1997

  • organizer and chair, Mapping the American Renaissance. Special session of the Modern Language Association Convention. Toronto, Ontario. December 1, 1997.

1995

  • President, Pitt. English Department’s Graduate Student Organization (GSO). 1994 - 1995.

1994

  • Member, Graduate Placement Committee, Univ. of Pittsburgh. 1993 - 1994.

1925

  • External Examiner for Graduate Student's Thesis/Dissertation, Gareth Langdon, A Self-Conscious Kurt Vonnegut: An Analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions. M.A. thesis in English Languages, Literature, and Modernity. University of Cape Town, South Africa. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, American Political Science Review. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Christian Thompson, Mark. Kafka's Blues: Franz Kafka and the Aesthetics of Blackness in Fin-de-Siècle Prague (Northwestern Univ. Press). 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, I review all submitted proposals and manuscripts for the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series published by Palgrave Macmillan. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of English Language and Literature. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Mythopoeic Literature. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Paradoxa. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Patricia Garcia, The Architectural Void: Space and the Postmodern Fantastic (Routledge). 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, PMLA. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Social Science History. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Style: A Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, The Looking-Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature. 1925.
  • Reviewer / Referee, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. 1925.