Rate My Professor Vincent King

Vincent King is a Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Black Hills State University, where he has held faculty positions including Assistant Professor as noted in 1998 publications. His education includes studies at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. King received the Governor's Award for Teaching with Technology from Black Hills State University in the summer of 2000, recognizing his contributions to innovative pedagogy. Within the English department, he oversees key program assessments for majors, including the review of student portfolios, administration of exit exams, and conduction of exit interviews via questionnaires.

King's academic interests focus on humanities and American literature, with particular attention to postmodernism, Southern literature, and major authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Ezra Pound, Robert Penn Warren, and others. His scholarly output includes numerous articles, such as "Robert Penn Warren, the Reader, and the Reconciliation of Opposites in 'The Ballad of Billie Potts,' 'Brother to Dragons,' and 'Audubon'" in The Southern Literary Journal (1997); "Giving Destruction a Name and a Face: Thomas Pynchon's 'Mortality and Mercy in Vienna'" in Studies in Short Fiction (1998); "The Wages of Pulp: The Use and Abuse of Fiction in William Faulkner's The Wild Palms" (1998); "Hopeful Grief: The Prospect of a Postmodernist Feminism in Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina" in The Southern Literary Journal (2000); "Toward a New Southern Poetry: Folk Art and the Post-Christian Vision of Tony Crunk" in Mississippi Quarterly (2000); "'Foolish Talk'Bout Freedom': Simms's Vision of America in the Yemassee" (2003); "William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South (review)" in MFS Modern Fiction Studies (2010); "'What Have You Done. What Have You Failed to Do': Aesthetic and Moral Complacency in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men"; "Postmodern Palimpsest: Recovering Ezra Pound's Diptych Rome-London"; "Faulkner's Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide"; and "Metamorphosis and poetic voice: a reexamination of Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley". He has also contributed commentary on Michael Chabon's work for the Pulitzer Prize organization.