Mark Scott, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor of English  

mscott@csm.edu  

(402) 399-2633 

   

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

Credentials: 

PhD, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1992 

MA, Rutgers, 1986 

BA, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1982 

   

Biography: 

 

            Mark Scott was born in Denver in 1959. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1977 to 1982, majoring in History and English. He spent the 1979-80 year studying European History at University College London.    

  

Before beginning his graduate studies in English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in 1983, Mark spent a summer in New York, writing a play with his uncle, Charles Mee, about the making of the first atomic bombs. He then spent seven months in Italy, mostly in Perugia, learning Italian. 

  

He received his Masters in 1986, and began teaching composition and literature at Rutgers in 1987. In 1990 and 1991, his poems appeared in Raritan and Poetry. He finished his dissertation in 1992, and went to work for HarperCollins Publishers as an Editorial Assistant in the College Division. 

  

Between 1993 and 1995, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature at Mills College in Oakland. From 1996 to 1998, he was an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. In 1995, he rode in the California AIDS Ride, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, in memory of his younger brother, who died of the disease in 1984. 

  

In 1998, Scott moved to Carbondale, Colorado, where he worked on a sod farm, waited tables, and hosted a soul and R&B show on the local radio station. In October, 1998, he began a three-year tenure as a proposal writer for Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy research and consulting center. In 2001, he went to China to teach English and American literature at Shanghai University. On returning from China, Scott taught Shakespeare at the University of Colorado, and drafted a book on small business management with the owner of University Bicycles in Boulder. He then taught high school for a year in Sterling, Colorado. He began teaching at CSM in 2005. As it happens, Scott's great-great grandfather, Jesse Lowe, was one of the founders of, the reported namer of, and the first mayor of, Omaha.  

   

His first collection of poems, Tactile Values, was published by New Issues Press in 2000. A Bedroom Occupation, his second, will be published in June, 2006, by Lumen Books. 

  

Academic Interest: 

 Modern British and American Poetry; Elizabethan prose, poetry, and drama; American Renaissance; William James; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Modern Drama. 

   

Courses: 

 Composition, Creative Writing (Poetry and Non-Fiction), Victorian Literature, Romanticism, Myth and Fantasy.