Keith Cavedo, Ph.D. | College of Arts & Sciences | USF Sarasota-Manatee

film, film studies, literature, science fiction, horror, fiction, american literature, constructions, myth, alien

Keith Cavedo, Ph.D.
Visiting Instructor - English, Literature & Writing 

Dr. Keith Cavedo

Phone:   941-359-4722
Fax:       941-359-4489
Office:   SMC C267
Email: kcavedo@sar.usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae


Dr. Cavedo joined the USF Sarasota-Manatee faculty as a full-time visiting professor in Fall 2010. He teaches American and British Literature courses and serves as director of the Writing Resource Center. His areas of specialization are 19th and 20th Century American and British literature and film studies—especially horror and science fiction/cinema. (more...)

Dr. Cavedo has taught literature, film, composition, and online courses at the following schools in the Tampa Bay area: USF Sarasota-Manatee and Tampa; Eckerd College Sarasota and St. Petersburg in the Program for Experienced Learners; St. Petersburg College; and Hillsborough Community College-Brandon. Prior to these teaching experiences, Dr. Cavedo taught at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. The nature of teaching in various learning environments has, Dr. Cavedo trusts, made him a well-rounded and adaptable professor.

Dr. Cavedo earned his Ph.D. in Literature from USF in Tampa. He also holds degrees in Literature (M.A.) from Virginia Commonwealth University and English (B.A.) from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Dr. Cavedo has had former careers as a communications specialist for an international corporation, senior editor in a publishing company, proofreader for a metropolitan newspaper, and high school English teacher. (hide...)

Publications

Cavedo, Keith. Article (in book series): “(De-) Constructions of Masculinity in the Hemingway Myth.” Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. 2: Music and Literature. Ed. Bob Batchelor. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, January 2012.  

Cavedo, Keith. Book: Beyond the Infinite: Alien Encounters and the Alien/Human Dichotomy in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tarkovsky’s Solaris. Germany: VDM Publishing, September 2011. Originally doctoral dissertation: USF Tampa Library, May 2010.  

Cavedo, Keith. Review: Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938 by Todd Avery. The T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter, no. 67, Spring 2009.

Cavedo, Keith. Review: Action Writing: Jack Kerouac’s Wild Form by Michael Hrebreniak. The Comparatist, Spring 2008.  

Teaching

Syllabi from recent semesters.  Click on Course Prefix and Number to review course syllabus.
Example LIT 4930
Courses for Summer 2012
 Ref# 56188   LIT 4930   Sec: 591   Contemporary Short Stories & Film Adaptations, W  5:30pm - 9:20pm 

Courses for Spring 2012
 Ref# 26483  AML 3051  Sec: 591   Am Lit From 1912-1945, R 6:00pm-8:50pm
Ref# 26482  AML 4111  Sec: 591  19th-Century American Novel, T 6:00pm-8:50pm 
Ref# 24884  ENL 3273   Sec: 521  British Lit 1900-1945, TR 3:30pm-4:45pm 

Courses for Fall 2011
 Ref# 89888  ENL 3251  Sect: 591   British Lit 1780-1900, T 6pm-8:45pm
Ref# 91622  ENL 4132  Sect: 591   British Novel: Conrad-Present, W 6pm-8:45pm
Ref# 91623  ENL 4303  Sect: 521   Selected British Authors: Wells, Huxley, Orwell, TR 2pm-3:15pm