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MICHAEL GLENNON

Waterkeringweg 151

1051NZ Amsterdam

The Netherlands

phone: (020) 486-3526

michaelsglennon@gmail.com

mglennon@uno.edu

mglennon@iwcc.edu

PERSONAL

Date of Birth:  8 January, 1978

Place of Birth:  Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America

Citizenship:  United States of America

Visa Status:  United States – Passport; European Union, Netherlands –  Resident Alien

Languages: English, Dutch (advanced), German (intermediate)

EDUCATION

Universiteit van Amsterdam – Graduate School for Social Science, The Netherlands

Master of Research – Sociology, emphasis in qualitative research and interpretive methods, October 2009

Universiteit van Amsterdam – International School for Humanities and Social Science, The Netherlands

Master of Science – Sociology, emphasis in social theory and public affairs, September 2007

University of Nebraska at Omaha – College of Fine Arts, Nebraska

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Creative Writing, emphasis in poetry, August 2002

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Amsterdam Merit Award, 2007-2008

J. Madden Fine Arts Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2001

Missouri River Valley Reading Series ‘New Voices’ selection, 2001

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Adjunct Professor, Iowa Western Community College, Iowa

August, 2007 – present

Adjunct Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, College of Continuing Studies, Distance Learning Division, Nebraska

January 2008 – present

Adjunct Professor, Southeastern Community College, Iowa

January 2010 – present

DESCRIPTION OF COURSES TAUGHT

Contemporary Topics in Sociology (SOC  4800): Disability and Society, Online

This course takes a sociologically grounded but interdisciplinary look at the past, present, and potential future of disability. Along the way competing models and theories of disability are critically explored while substantive issues pertaining to disability are discussed.

Sociology of the Body (SOC 4200), Online

This course offers an overview of contemporary sociological theories of the body and uses these theories to explore substantive issues pertaining to the discourses, practices, and politics of the body in modern societies.

Major Social Issues (SOC 2800), Online

The course examines a major social issue with readings and required semester to semester. Students may take the course more than once. materials designed for non-majors. The specific topic will vary from

Social Problems (SOC 2100), Online

An analysis of the origins of social problems in American society. Attention is given to the  nature, consequences and solutions of selected social problems.

Introduction to Sociology (SOC 1010), Online

 An introduction to the study of human societies. The course presents the fundamental concepts and theories that make up the sociological perspective. These serve as tools for the analysis of social inequality, social institutions and social change.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

•    Civilization and Intellectual Disability

•    Political Economy

•    Esoteric Currents and History of Sociological Thought

•    Multilingual Children in Dutch Primary Education

PAPER PUBLICATIONS

Glennon, M.S. (2009). Making Social Cohesion or Marking the Human Security Threat? Tracing Disciplines of Place in Community-Based Services for the "Developmentally Disabled". Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal 5(3), pp. 38-47.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Glennon, M.S. (2012). ‘The Becoming-Minoritarian of Neurodiversity’ Centre for Disability Research, Conference Proceedings: Disability Studies Conference Lancaster University 11-13 September 2012.

Glennon, M.S. (2012). ‘“It is truly a fight to salvage human thought from despair”: the politics of affect and the effects of transitive power in the viewer comments to a video on autism as a native language’”. Conference Proceedings: Ninth International Conference, Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris 2-6 July, 2012.

Glennon, M.S. (2010). ‘Disability, Ideology, and the Professional Articulation of Transinstitutional Human Rights: a critical discourse analysis of a conversation between three human service professionals on an informal review of Nebraska's only short term service space for "people with developmental disabilities" in times of "behavioral" crisis.’ Centre for Disability Research, Conference Proceedings: Disability Studies Conference Lancaster University 7-9 September 2010.

Glennon, M.S. (2008). Foucault’s Fork: a poststructuralist analysis of disability studies discourse on the developmentally disabled. Invited Presentation, University of Amsterdam, International School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Glennon, M.S. (2008). ‘Notes on Subjectification and the Research of Community Based Group Homes for the Developmentally Disabled: constituting nomadology as emancipatory method for ethnographers who won't sit still.’ Centre for Disability Research, Conference Proceedings: Disability Studies Conference Lancaster University 2-4 September 2008.

REFERENCES

Available on request.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder, Isochromatic Records Nebraska, District of Columbia, and Chicago

October 1999 – October 2004

Recorded, published, and marketed albums by independent popular musicians.

Case Manager, Active Community Treatments, Inc., Nebraska

February 2004 – October 2004

Monitored quality of care, oversaw keeping and transmission of sensetive client case information within the agency and to relevant institutions of family, care, and criminal justice outside the agency, as well as oversaw proper practices in the health care access regimens of the agency’s developmentally disabled group home residents while investigating improper practices for instances of abuse or neglect.

Program Technician, Mount Vernon-Lee Enterprises, Inc., Virginia

September 2002 – September 2003

Supervised a team of community based job coaches responsible for working with the developmentally disabled clientele of MVLE; monitored the progress of clients in terms of the development of their employment and vocational skills. Sometimes also worked as a mediator and between potential employers and individuals with severe mental illnesses.

Volunteer Researcher, International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Research Committee, Washington, DC

January 2003 – August 2003

Initiated the development of research committees as part of the regular functioning of local and regional chapters of the anti-war and social activist group, International ANSWER.

Residential Assistant, Eastern Nebraska Human Services Agency, Office of Mental Retardation, Nebraska

December 2001 – September 2002

Provided residential care and support for five developmentally disabled adults in a group home setting including a middle aged autistic man prone to violent rages.

Literary Assistant, Lone Willow Press, Nebraska

August 2001 – December 2001

Worked as editorial and personal assistant for Nebraska poet and Lone Willow Press editor, Frederick Zydek.

The Crop, University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Fine Arts, Nebraska

August 2000 – July 2002

Co-organized group to host on-campus events devoted to raising additional funds to save, or at least delay the demise of the literary review of the College of Fine Arts of the University of Nebraska in Omaha, The Nebraska Review.

Editorial Assistant, The Nebraska Review, Nebraska

January 1999 – May 1999

Reviewed submissions to now defunct literary magazine put out by the Writer’s Workshop faculty and atudents in the College of Fine Arts of the University of Nebraska in Omaha. The Nebraska Review (Winter 2000, Vol. 28, 1).

Employment history prior to 1999 is available upon request.

MUSICAL PROJECTS, RECORDINGS, PUBLICATIONS AND PERFORMANCES

I have an enduring and abiding interest in music composition and recording, especially in the ironic folk, electroacoustic, (post)industrial, and ambient genres. I sing, I play keyboards, I sample, I tweak knobs, and manipulate all manner of found audio. I do it alone and I do it in groups. I have an abiding love of improvisation and working with different kinds of musicians and instrument combinations.

Cornagainstsorcery: For CAS every song is a prayer or a wheel, and the work of CAS in general that of alchemical intervention into the future courses and creases in the folding and unfolding of the universe and human beings. CAS produces drone, noise, ambience, melody and sometimes pulsing rhythmic effects on synthesizer and, for a time, organ. This is combined often with long-form sample mash-ups. For example, creating textures and a kind of narrative through a collage of audio ripped from videos taken during hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2006 and posted over time and left to YouTube. To this is added a vocal style inspired largely by the apocalyptic folk genre, the work of the late Johnn Balance, from Coil, and mystical Christian as well as secular troubadour music from the early to late Middle Ages.     

• (Forthcoming) Grabtheemustsword (eyeminerinn v. 3)
• (2014) Ascend You Must. Die!! (Eyeminerinn v. 2)
• (2010). Burn the Living (Eye Miner I.N.N. v. 1)
• (2007). Wunjo! Go slowly all the way; six of cups down round the outside. Deconomics Records

The Cobra Kai Electronic Dojo: This is/was one part performance art, one part art prank, and one part experimental band specializing in unconventional locations and instrumentation. It is similar in spirit to the work of People Like Us. Like most such projects the compositional style has become much more song oriented and easily listenable as opposed to sound or concept oriented and less easily listened to.

• (2015) Dojo Abbey
• (2008) We Had a Good Thing Going
• (2005b) Dojo, Go Camping!
• (2005a) Future Sex Plot
• (2004) Excelsior! Bon Voyage
• (2002b) New Jams
• (2002a) Exxterior
• (2001b) The Paul Album
• (2001a) Math is Power
• (2000b) Angry Cow B Sides
• (2000a) W
• (1999b) Disposable Simian Bobbies
• (1999a) swhalen@lonely
• (1998) Over the Shoulder, Again 

Dr. Snatchhnovellz: This is an intermittent diversion where I take songs put out by The Cobra Kai Electronic Dojo and do a vocal performance of the text only re-arranged to vintage video game music from the 1980s and 1990s.

• (2014) You Get Ate

Good: The initial concept of Good was simply to record improvised porch music with ironically misogynist lyrics. The set-up was basic and lo-fi: one or more acoustic guitars, one or more singers, and a microphone (usually plugged directly into the soundcard of a computer, kind of the digital age equivalent of the tape recorder). The second and third Good albums were rather different in that I and the other main songwriter, Paul Tulipana, lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. We independently developed and shared ideas, then took turns working on the ideas of the other. These albums are narratives, one of the computer game Civilization III and the other an epic struggle between Donkey Kong and Bowers in the world of Mario Kart. The most recent album is technically forthcoming, though exists in demo form. It is a return to the acoustic folk porch feel of the first good album.

• (2009) Cranberry Kid
• (2007) Good Is Dumb. Deconomics Records
• (2005) tear it down ii. Isochromatic Records.
• (2004) A tender folk music impossible for a woman to like

Ambient Dinosaur: This was/is a fluid core of players who improvised long-form ambient and electroacoustic music, heavy on synths, in both stage and studio settings. All recorded AD work is located at the still maintained AD website (www.ambientdinosaur.com). Below I will link to what I fancy to be some of the best of it.

• (2006) Gift of Respect, Lube to the Sun in 5 parts, gnomes, hams, books, doors and lions
• (2004) It’s a Good Day to Write a Song About the Moon Base
• (2001m) At the Junction (live w/ Landing)
• (2001l) Solid Chocolate Messenger Boy
• (2001k) Andrew Jackson’s Lunchmeat Fatigues and Marmalade
• (2001j) Drive Through Nativity Scene
• (2001i) Harmony Karin Rides The Neon Love Trail
• (2001h) Congratulations, Here’s Your Wedding Taco (Moon-unit Gillis)
• (2001g) The Secret Llamma Inside Yanni’s Heart (The Stinky Sweat-Pit Stockboys)
• (2001f) 7-11 Bomb Threat
• (2001e) Freedom Rock Anthem In The Frozen Tear Boy Eye Jail (garlic hands)
• (2001d) Intono Rumori: noise and audio art event installation at the Medusa Project gallery in Omaha, Nebraska
• (2001c) Retail Therapy Moment (Inside The Chop)
• (2001b) Maetrix Of Fashion, Solar Attrition Rate, Aren’t Handles Great?
• (2001a) Return þy Ye Oldde Wagon, It’s Gat Nastalgy
• (2000j) Jesus Philosophy Crates
• (2000i) The Self-Referential, Isochromatic Records.
• (2000h) Super Top Secret: Live performance at Washington University arts festival, St. Louis, Missouri
• (2000g) Beefy-T Research Center
• (2000f) Please Enjoy Earff
• (2000e) Comfy Jellyfish
• (2000d) I’m Not Going To Ask Your Mom For Some Goggles In C Minor (Do You Have Some Pants I Can Put On?)
• (2000c) Ancient Chinese Proverb
• (2000b) Chillin’ With Sappho
• (2000a) Peaches & Milk

Cathari: The original idea was to try to somehow fuse the industrial and ambient genres, but in all humility it did not, for various reasons, work out. My favorite Cathari material was never released, so I am posting it here as en exemplar of where the project stood at its dissolution and the great promise it showed.

• (2003). Cathari. Isochromatic Records
• (2003-2004). Catharatron Tour
• (1999) “I’m Disconnected from my Body” on Mind Forged Isochromatic Records 
• (1999) “Wraith” on Mind Forged. Isochromatic Records

Vast active living intelligence system: A precursor to cornagainstsorcery.

•         (1999). “the sacred portion” on Mind Forged. Isochromatic Records.

•         (1999). “Greensleeves”, on Mind Forged. Isochromatic Records.

HOBBIES AND OTHER INTERESTS

My family. Science-fiction. Kickboxing. Strategy games.