Associate Professor, School of Arts and Communication
Dr. Lavelle is actively writing and publishing scholarly and creatively.
His novel, Oreads has been published by Roundfire Press.
His short stories have appeared in Red Rock Review, Spank the Carp,No Recordv Press, Trajectory, Stone Canoe, Appalachian Story, Pisgah Review, and others. His novel Oreads is forthcoming from Roundfire Books.
His scholarly book Blue Collar Theoritically: A Post-Marxist Approach to Working Class Literature was published by McFarland & Co.
Ph.D. in American Literature, contemporary British literature, and literary theory from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA. 2008
M.A. in Creative Writing University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fl. 2001
M.A. in English State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. 1998
B.A. in English, Cum Laude. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. 1994
Acknowledgements
The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. 7th edition. New York: W.W. Norton. xix.
Com 2150 Creative Writing
Com 5003 Preparing Academic Documents for Graduate Students
Com 4000 Senior/Graduate Level Thesis Writing
Seminar in Advanced Creative writing Fiction
Seminar in Beginning Creative Writing Fiction
Technical Writing 365
Advanced Exposition 360
Introduction to Creative Writing
Novel and Short Story
Modern British Literature
Contemporary American Literature
Early American Literature
Hum. Civilization 2 Renaissance Through Modern: both online and face-to-face
Hum Mythology-online
Hum Creative Arts Practicum
Com Composition and Rhetoric
Com Writing About Literature
John Lavelle is an associate professor of the graduate faculty at Florida Institute of Technology.
He has also taught at: the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA., Pima County Community College, Tucson, AZ., Valencia Community College, Winter Park, FL., the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
Proofreader for The Current Debate About the Irish Literary Canon: Essays Reassessing The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Ed. Dr. Helen Thompson. Queenston: Edwin Melon Press 2006
Editor Southwestern Review, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s graduate literary journal
Coordinator of Pegasus Summer Project for at-risk freshmen at the University of Central Florida
Supervisor of the Communication Student Support Center (Writing Center) Valencia Community College, Winter Park,
Correspondent for The Union Sun & Journal, Lockport, New York
Graduate Assistant Reporter for The Reporter, the faculty newspaper at SUNY at Buffalo
Reader for The Kiosk, the graduate literary magazine, SUNY at Buffalo.
Dr. Lavelle is advisor for Kaleidoscope, Florida Tech's Art and Literary Magazine.
Presentations
PCAS/ACAS Conference Washington DC. "Twain's Antithetical discourses in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" 2013
33rd International conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. "Monsters in America" 2012.
PCAS/ACAS Conference, New Orleans, LA. "An Alternate Concept of the Study of Class in Literature" 2009.
SCMLA, Dallas, TX. "A Working-Class Theory of Literature" 2006.
New Directions in Literary Theory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. "Toward a Real Theory of Working-Class Literature" 2005.
Cultural Contexts: Third Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA. "No Barbarians at the Gate: The Failure of Literature Departments to Negotiate Tjhere Worth in Today's Marketplace" 2005.
PCAS/ACAS Conference, New Orleans, LA. "Breaking the Code in Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Coded Messageas of Nineteenth Centure Women DEfining Their Own Sexuality" 2004.
Service
Literature Major/Minor Curriculum Committee
International American British Poetry Exchange
Member FIT Media Board
Committee: Summer Creative Writing Institute
Advisor to Kaleidoscope the FIT literary and arts magazine
Judge: Writers' Guild of Acadiana High School Creative Writing Contest.
Dr. Shelley Anne Martin Memorial Plaque Committee
Committee member: Graduate Conference on Language and Literature at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Membership
Golden Key Honor Society
Sigma Tau Delta
Modern Language Association
Advisor
Humanities
Humanities Pre-Law
Dissertation Committees
2011 Meyer, Emily:
Implementation of Evidence Based Practices in Inclusive Classrooms.Thesis. Florida Institute of Technology, 2011. Print.
2011 Erhayem, Mohamed:
The Effect of Electrolytes on Absorption of Various Fractions of Natural Organic Matter onto Titanium Nanoparticles.Dissertation. Florida Institute of Technology, 2011. Print.
2012 Privett, Aaron Ross:
Personality characteristics of child sex offenders using the Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory-2nd Edition—Restructural Form
2012 Fields, Stephanie
16PF Couple’s Counseling Report: Predictors of Marital Satisfaction, Personality Similarity,
and Relationship Adjustment Among Females.
2014 Garofalo, Alyssa
16PF Couple’s Counseling Report: Predictors of Marital Satisfaction, Personality Similarity,
and Relationship Adjustment Among Males.
Dr. Lavelle is currently both writing creatively and critically. While exploring the creative arts of short prose, longer prose, and poetry by actively writing and publishing, he is also extending his research on the way class is constructed at the micro level of society considering how ideology and narrative affect the construction of identity. Using Weber's theories of status groups he investigates how class is constructed and played out in literature.
Creative
Oreads: Roundfire Books Jan 2016 http://www.johnflavelle.com/
"Bo" and "Like Tea," Y2K Magazine.
"Milos and Phoebe," The Cypress Dome 11 (Spring 2001): 92-97.
"Buddys," Pisgah Review. 1.2 (Winter 2006).
"Dragon Flies" Stone Canoe No. 3, January 30, 2009
"Hierophany" The SYBHEL Project: Myths Fables and Synthetic Futures 2012 http://sybhel.org/?p=761
"Living in the Past" appeared in the anthology When Last on the Mountain, from Holy Cow Press/Turtle House Ink June 2010
"Little Feet" appeared in Appalachian Story 2013
"Summer's Eve" Trajectory Spring 2013
"Pantano Wash.” Red Rock Review 32 (Fall 2013)
“Little Sacrifices.” No Record Press 30. 15 Nov. 2014
“Keeping Trace’s Heart.” Spank the Carp. 15, Sept. 2014
"The Meta-Myth of William Kennedys Ironweed" published in American Multi/Discipline Studies at SUNY at Buffalo, May 2010.
Blue Collar, Theoretically: A Post-Marxist approach to Working class Literature, McFarland & Co. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4885-2
Email jlavelle@fit.edu
Frederick C. Crawford Bldg, 523
Phone: (321) 674-7271
Dr. Lavelle's creative interests center around his critical interests in identity, its construction through the interaction of people and its negotiation within social groups. His creative efforts center around the border between the social classes and what this negotiation means to the struggles of those finding themselves at this front.
Dr. Lavelle’s critical research interests are in the critical evaluation of literature and how it represents class and identity, how class is played out in literature and how it is also played out within academia.
Using weberian theories of class, he goes beyond the vulgar Marxist paradigm of class formation as three antagonistic groups vying for class interests. He constructs class in a postmodernist/poststructuralist paradigm where identity is fluid and negotiated and narrated within a social field mediated by habitus and class is a function of the relation to power systems and networks in society, that narration (ideology) allows or precludes relationships to power systems.
Using Nietzsche’s concept of morality he finds two core ideologies which are manifested through differing signs. One might be titled “working class,” the other “middle class.”
He finally suggests that study of class in literature should be based not on a Marxist theory of stultified classes, but on the idea of difference.
