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  Philip Deslippe
Curriculum Vitae

Education
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
M.A. American Religious Culture (Projected December 2010)

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
B.A. English, Minor American Studies (2000)

University of Paris VIII, Paris, France
Laboratoire de Rescherche Sur L'Imaginaire Americain (1998-1999)


Academic Conferences
"Cooking Karma: The Restaurants of Religious Sects in America"
Presented at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society, University of Manchester, August 2009, Manchester, UK.

Presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society, Pennsylvania State University, May 2009, State College, PA.

"Chaos and Control: The Literary Response to the New York City Grid System"
Presented at the conference The Sublime and The City, University College, April 2000, Cork, Ireland.


Colloquia
"Modern America's Most Influential Occult Text: A History of The Kybalion from the Cosmic Lodge to the Supreme Court"
Presented at the conference Craft Critique Culture, University of Iowa, April 2010, Iowa City, IA.

"The Hindoo in Hoodoo: Fake Yogis, Pseudo-Swamis and the Manufacture of African-American Folk Magic"
Presented to the Department of American Studies, University of Iowa, March 2009, Iowa City, IA.

"Cooking Karma: The Restaurants of Religious Sects in America"
Presented at the conference Food Studies for The Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts, University of Iowa, December 2008, Iowa City, IA.


Awards
Research Travel Grant, The Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2010.
Kern Travel Fellowship, American Studies Department, University of Iowa, 2009.
Travel Fellowships from International Programs and the Graduate Student Senate, University of Iowa, 2009.
Grants from Honors Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Connecticut, 2000.
Frontiers in Undergraduate Research in Arts, Science and the Humanities Award, University of Connecticut, 2000.
New England Scholar Award, University of Connecticut, 1999.


Teaching Experience
Instructor, University of Iowa, Department of English, 2008-2010.


Courses Taught
American Lives: Religious Cults (08G:009) Fall 2009
Interpretation of Literature (08G:001) Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010