102 Santa Clara Drive
Richmond, VA 23229
Phone: 804-741-6584English Department
Hibbs Building
900 Park Avenue
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284-2005
804-367-1668EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English, Indiana University, November 1972.
Thesis: "A Transformational Analysis of the Prose Style of Sir Thomas Brown's Religio Medici."M.A., English, University of Richmond, August 1960.
Thesis: "Historical Personalities in the Poetry of Robert Browning."B.S., Business and Economics, University of Richmond, June 1958
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER SIGNIFICANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
Professor of English, 1987-Present, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284
Associate Professor of English, 1975-Present, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284
Assistant Professor of English, 1969-1975, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284
Teaching Associate, 1966-69, Indiana University Regional Campus at Indianapolis, Indiana
Teaching Associate, 1962-66, Indiana University at Bloomington Indiana 47401
Instructor of English, 1960-62, Richmond Professional Institute, Richmond, VA 23284
Technical Editor, Summer 1962, U. S. Army Research Command, Fort Eustis, Virginia
FIELDS OF SPECIAL INTEREST WITHIN DISCIPLINE OR PROFESSION:
Shakespeare, in particular use of film and performance in teaching
Composition and Rhetoric
SPECIAL AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER HONORS:
SAMLA Teaching Award, Four-year College Division, 1991
Nominated for State Council of Higher Education of Virginia Outstanding Faculty award by the University, 1989 and 1990.
Departmental Study Leaves, Spring, 1986; Spring, 1997
University Distinguished Teaching Award, 1985
Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand, 1984 (refused)
ADE-MLA Award for Excellence in Teaching Lower Division Courses in English, 1972
GRANTS:
VCU Teaching Excellence Grant, $3,500, 1998-99
"English Department Faculty Development Grant," $3,700 for spring, 1993; helped write grant proposal;
"VCU Writing across the Curriculum Project," National Endowmentfor the Humanities, $137,975 for 1983-85;
"VCU Faculty Writing Project," Virginia State Council of Higher Education, $79,594 for 1980-82; With Alan McLeod, School of Education;
"Virginia Writing Project," Title IV, $60,000 for 1979-81; With Alan McLeod, School of Education;
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Articles: Scholarly
"Reading and Teaching Shakespeare," Forthcoming in the International Shakespeare Yearbook.
"Students Studying Shakespeare," The Upstart Crow, 19 (1999): 35-49.
"Students Reading Shakespeare," Shakespeare and the Classroom, 7:2 (Fall 1999): 35-39.
"Improving Students' Writing Strategies: Knowing Versus Doing," College Teaching, 46.2:48-52.
"Interrogative Paper Assignments," Shakespeare and the Classroom, 6.1:38-40.
"Teaching Shakespeare: A Report," Shakespeare and the Classroom 5 (Spring 1997):44-52.
"Henry V's Decision: Interrogative Texts," Literature and Film Quarterly, 25.2:99-103.
"Subtext and Scopophilia: Dress and Undress in MND," Shakespeare in Performance Bulletin (Spring 1994):43-4.
"Teaching Shakespeare on Video," English Journal 78.7 (November 1989), 40-43.
"Teaching Shakespeare Through Videotapes," Shakespeare on Film Newsletter 13 (December 1988), 5.
"Headfirst: Two Introductory Assignments," Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication 50 (December 1987), 17-18.
"Programs for Writing Across the Curriculum: A Report," College Composition and Communication 36 (December 1985), 398-403.
"Using Writing to Teach Our Disciplines: A New Way of Thinking," Improving College and University Teaching 31 (Summer 1983).
"Responding to Student Writing," College Composition and Communication 33 (October 1982), 296-301.
"Being There: VCU's Writing across the Curriculum Program," Freshman English News, (Winter 1980).
"Writing in Response to Literature," Virginia English Bulletin 28 (Spring 1978).
"A Transactional Analysis of Huckleberry Finn," The Transactional Analysis Bulletin (October 1978).
"The PR Grade: Promise and Progress," Freshman English News 6 (Sring 1977).
"Where Do I Begin: Teaching Composition to Community College Students," Virginia English Bulletin 27, #1 (Spring 1977).
"Teaching Critical Approaches to Literature," Exercise Exchange 19 (Spring 1975).
Articles: Popular
"The Pond: A Discovery," Virginia Wildlife 38 (July 1977).
"When Will We Teach Johnny to Write?" VCU Magazine 5 (Fall 1976).
"Exploring Virginia's Rivers," Richmond Magazine 3 (August 1976).
Books and Chapters:
"Textual Studies and Teaching Shakespeare," Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century, ed. Ronald E.Salomone and James E. Davis. Athens: OH, Ohio UP, 1997.
"Writing Across the Curriculum Bibliography," in Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: The Second Phase, eds. Toby Toby Fulwiler and Art Young, New York: Heinemann, 1990.
Writing: A Guide for Business Professionals. San Diego, CA: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987.
Editor, Teaching Writing in Many Disciplines. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1982; Modern Language Association, 1984.
"Physical Fitness: A Bibliography," in Resources for the Study of Popular Culture in America, ed. M. Thomas Inge, New York: G. K. Hall, 1981.
"Virginia Commonwealth University: Adapting the Curriculum," in Options for the Teaching of English: The Undergraduate Curriculum, ed. Elizabeth Wooten Cowan, New York: Modern Language Association, 1975.