(JOHN) THOMAS DUKES
Department of English
The University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-1906
330.972.6810 (office)
330.819.3160 (cell)
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, August 1984
Purdue University
English—Modern Literature
Master of Arts, December 1977
Bachelor of Arts, December 1975
The University of Texas at El Paso
English—Creative Writing
ADMINISTRATION and TEACHING
THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON
Professor of English
Associate Professor of English
Assistant Professor of English
1999-present
1989-1999
1984-1989
Administration
Associate Provost for Academic Policies, Procedures, and Reviews
January 2006-July 2007
• Evaluated RTP documents and wrote appropriate RTP memoranda for the Provost
• Supervised curriculum reports and data base, and negotiated objections
• Prepared curriculum and program documents for Provost prior to Board of
Trustees’ review
• Coordinated accreditation matters with the Higher Learning Commission of NCA
• Chaired Academic Policies Committee and Curriculum Review Committee; cochaired Exploratory Committee for the University Council; served on Student
Discipline Process Subcommittee, Lifelong Learning Committee, Student Success
Plan Committee, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory
Committee; spoke on gay academic-culture issues to Academic Leadership
Forum, etc.
• Worked closely with Office of Employee and Labor Relations (OELR) on contract
interpretation and application; facilitated answers to questions from Deans and
Department Chairs about the College Bargaining agreement; met (along with
OELR staff member) with Deans to discuss revision of their Merit Guidelines
• Gathered information from Deans, Associate Deans, and Assistant Deans
regarding administrative load responsibilities and stipends; conferred with the
Deans on a variety of administrative matters
• Supervised coordination of the revision of the undergraduate bulletin
• Facilitated the work of ROTC and Women’s Studies, which reported to me
• Gave opening remarks, spoke at and/or attended university functions (including
those for the College of Nursing, the College of Education, etc.) on behalf of the
Provost’s office; represented the Provost at such events as the Friends of the
Library Dinner and Veterans’ Day Ceremony; filled-in for the President at the
ROTC Awards Presentation Ceremony
• Answered questions from faculty, department chairs, and deans about the
University Rules document
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Wrote an e-distributed “Provost’s Perspectives” as requested on life and work in
the Provost’s office
Evaluated all part-time faculty personnel action forms
Coordinated Deans’ Review Committee work
Managed “final line” student complaints, parents’ complaints, student issues, etc.
Consulted with the General Counsel’s office on student and faculty issues
requiring legal advice
Taught one course a semester in the Department of English
In performing these duties, I worked very closely with the Provost, the other Associate
Provosts, and the Executive and Senior Administrative Assistants in the Provost’s
Office. Half of the Senior Administrative Assistant’s time was assigned to my office.
Assistant Department Chair—May 2003-January 2006
• Advised all undergraduate English majors (except honors)
• Attended college and university meetings as necessary
• Served as departmental representative when the chair is unavailable
• Advised chair on scheduling, student issues, and other matters
• Handled transfer-course articulations and evaluations
• Coordinated evaluation of the Director of Composition (2004)
• Served as Acting Chair: April-July 2004
• Taught three courses a year in the English Department; sometimes taught an extra
course as necessary
Graduate Studies Coordinator—July 1996-May 2003
• Advised undergraduates and graduate students about their studies and careers
• Processed paperwork for the graduate program
• Supervised thesis defenses and acted as additional reader
• Directed activities of research assistants
• Taught two courses a semester in the English Department; sometimes taught an
extra course as necessary
Assistant Director of Composition—January 1990-May 1991
• Interviewed and hired part-time faculty
• Evaluated teaching of part-time faculty
• Evaluated teaching of graduate students
• Handled student evaluations for composition program
• Handled discipline problems for composition teachers
• Acted as ombudsman for students with their instructors
• Advised composition director on matters affecting composition program,
including curriculum, program development, staffing, and so on, in role as
assistant director and as member of the Composition Program Committee
• Taught two courses a semester in the English Department
Conference Chair, Association for Business Communication-Midwest—1991
• Planned, budgeted, organized, and directed conference for more than 100 people
• Handled all relevant correspondence
• Coped with last minute crises not of my making (!)
• Negotiated with printer of conference Proceedings
Relevant Administrative Service
Chair, Search Committees for Director of Composition and American Literature
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positions
Chair, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School Search Committee (search postponed
after we finished our work)
Chair, Committee to Evaluate Coordinator of Graduate Students (English
Department)
Chair, Subcommittee on Developing Self-Study Instrument, Program Review
Committee
Chair, Membership Subcommittee of the Graduate Council
Chair, Visiting Writers and Speakers’ Committee (several years’ service)
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee (worked to revise RTP appeals procedures)
Vice-Chair, Graduate Council
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Member, Search Committee for Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning
Member, GEAC (General Education Advisory Committee)
Member, Dean’s Council
Member, Family Campaign Committee
Member, Academic Misconduct Committee
Member, Program Review Committee for the university
Member, Program Review Committee for the Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee to the President
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee to the Provost
Member, The University of Akron Press Board
Member, Search Committee for the Director of The University of Akron Press
Teaching
2003 Excellence in Education Award from OHIO magazine
2002 Outstanding Teacher Award, The University of Akron Alumni Association
(The University of Akron’s Campus-Wide Teaching Award)
2002 Chairs’ Award, Outstanding Achievement, Teaching
Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Akron
Graduate:
Writing Courses
Science Writing
Scholarly Writing
Writing for MBA’s
Management Reports
Undergraduate:
Management Reports
Writing for Computers
Professional Writing I , II
Critical Reading and Writing
Introduction to Poetry Writing
Specialized Writing: Business
Literature Courses
Modern British Literature
Modern European Literature
Virginia Woolf
Gay/Lesbian Literature
Contemporary Reading Theory
O’Neill, Williams, Miller
20th Century Literature
20th Century American Drama
Southern Women Writers
Independent Readings
American Literature II
Drama Appreciation
British Fiction Since 1925
20th Century American Drama
Poetry Appreciation
Detective Fiction
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Freshman Composition (Honors)
Freshman Composition
Freshmen Composition
(Science Learning Community)
Independent Writings
New Testament as Literature
Old Testament as Literature
Harlem Renaissance
The African American Novel
20th Century British Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
Independent Readings
Relevant Departmental Service
(some of these appointments are of several years’ service)
Chair, Undergraduate and Graduate Programs Committees
Member, Buchtel College Council
Member, Composition Programs Committee
Member, Subcommittee on Non-Thesis Option for the M.A. degree
(made the initial motion that started this process)
Member, Advisory Committee
Member, Salary Committee
Member, Search Committees for positions in business writing, creative writing:
poetry, medieval literature, American literature (twice); see also
Relevant Administrative Service
Member, Committee to Revise American Literature Survey Curricula
Member, Bauer Scholarship Committee
Faculty Advisor, Phi Sigma Alpha, Honors Society for Buchtel College
of Arts and Sciences (several years’ service; got
community and civic leaders to speak for free at the
annual banquet)
In 2009, I established the Alpha Omega Dukes Memorial Promising
Fiction Writer’s Award.
In 2008, I established the Othella and Hilah Dukes Scholarship for the
Department of English
In 2007, I established the John T. and Sam Ella Dukes Fund for English
Studies
In 2006, I established a literary award in memory of an aunt:
The Marian H. Smith Short Story Prize
In 2001, I established two literary awards in memory of my parents:
The Sam Ella Dukes Memorial Poetry Prize (two awards each year)
The John T. Dukes Memorial Prize in Composition
given to a graduate student who wrote an outstanding essay
in composition studies
I also arranged many retirement parties, hosted visiting writers, collected for staff
holiday gifts, collected for faculty retirement gifts, etc.
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Graduate Assistant (full responsibility for classes)—1979-1984
(out one semester)
Courses Taught
Business Writing, Technical Writing, Writing for Computers, Creative Writing,
Introduction to Drama, Freshman Composition, Writing Lab
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO
Graduate Assistant (full responsibility for classes and labs)—1976-1978
Courses Taught
Technical Writing, Freshman Composition
EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Part-Time Instructor—1978
Course Taught
Freshman Composition (multiple sections)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Sugar Blood Jesus : A Memoir of Faith, Madness, and Cream Gravy
White Sulphur Springs, WV : Order of St. Luke Press/Upper Room
Books. 2009.
Baptist Confidential. Emporia, KS : Bluestem/Emporia State U,
2007. [poems]
Winner of the 2005 Bluestem Poetry Prize
Creative Non-Fiction
“How I Got Over Feeling Wretched About Christian Charity.” Sacramental Life.
20.3 (Summer 2008): 25-29.
“Lost in the Outfield.” Muse. April, 2008: 18-20.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“Mappings of Secrecy and Disclosure: The Swimming Pool Library.” Journal of
Homosexuality 31.3 (1996): 95-107.
“From Fairy Tale to Film: The Completion of E. M. Forster’s Maurice.” West
Virginia University Philological Papers 38 (1992/1993): 91-98.
“Place in Fiction: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Eudora Welty.” The MKR Journal
of Florida Literature 3 (1992): 7-19.
“Evoking the Significance: The Autobiographies of Rumer Godden.” Women’s
Studies 20.1 (1991): 15-35.
“Desire Satisfied: War and Love in The Heat of the Day and Moon Tiger.” War,
Literature, and the Arts 3.1 (1991): 75-97.
“Patterns of Alienation in Cross Creek.” The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of
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Florida Literature 2 (1989-1990): 89-108.
“The Unorthodox Plots of Elizabeth Bowen.” Studies in the Humanities 16 (June
1989): 10-23.
“Christianity as Curse and Salvation in The Sound and the Fury.” Arizona Quarterly
35 (1979): 170-181. Reprinted in The American Classics Revisited: Recent Studies
of American Literature. P. C. Kar and D. Ramakrishan, eds. Hyderabad: American
Studies Research Center, 1985, 468-477.
Book Chapters
“Christopher Isherwood.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Travel Writers
1910-1939. Ed. Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits. Vol. 195. Gale: Detroit,
1998:168-178.
“Introducing Gay/Lesbian Issues in Freshman Composition.” Ideas for the Working
Classroom: Classroom Practices in Teaching English. Ed. Kent Gill. Urbana:
NCTE, 1993: 34-41.
Reference Book Entries
“Edward Albee.” Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-Z
Guide. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport: Greenwood, 2003.1-10.
“Christopher Durang.” Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights:
An A-Z Guide. Westport: Greenwood, 2003. 141-146.
“Harvey Fierstein.” Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An
A-Z Guide. Westport: Greenwood, 2003. 153-161.
“Broadway Musicals.” Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,
2000. 97-98.
“Truman Capote.” Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
114-115.
“E.M. Forster.” Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
222-224.
“Christopher Isherwood.” Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn,
2000. 308-309.
“Truman Capote.” Gay Histories and Cultures. George E. Haggerty. New York:
Garland, 2000. 169-170.
“Elizabeth Bowen.” The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. Ed. Claude J. Summers.
New York: Holt, 1995: 110-111.
“Truman Capote.” The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. Ed. Claude J. Summers.
New York: Holt, 1995: 141-142.
“Musical Theater.” The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. Ed. Claude J. Summers.
New York: Holt, 1995: 497-499.
“David Plante.” The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. Ed. Claude J. Summers.
New York: Holt, 1995: 546-547.
“Harlan Greene.” Contemporary Gay American Novelists. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson.
Westport: Greenwood, 1993: 172-177.
“David Plante.” Contemporary Gay American Novelists. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson.
Westport: Greenwood, 1993: 309-315.
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Refereed Proceedings
“Differences in Stylistic Perceptions Between Students in Undergraduate Courses and
Those in Industry Seminars.” Proceedings of the Association of Business
Communication 52nd Annual and 14th International Convention: 1987.
“Whar Yew Frum? Teaching Cultural Differences in the Business Communication
Classroom.” ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) #ED304899.
September 1988. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Eastern Michigan University
Conference on Languages for Business and the Professions. 9 pages [FL 017 839].
Non-Refereed Articles
“Should We Teach Software Use in Business Communication?” Bulletin of the
Association of Business Communication 56.3 (1993): 34-35.
“I Uphold the Patriarchy in my Business Communication Classroom—Why Can’t I
Stop?” Bulletin of the Association of Business Communication 52.1 (1989): 38-41.
“The Wall Street Journal in the Business Writing Classroom.” Bulletin of the
Association of Business Communication 51.1 (1989): 25-26.
“Notes from a Technical Writing Institute: Preparing Writers for the Real World—and
Other Nonsense.” The Technical Writing Teacher 16 (1989): 153-154.
“Business Writing and the Loss of the University.” The CEA Forum 19.3-4 (1989):
3-5.
“I Was a Victim of the Process Approach.” The Technical Writing Teacher 15 (1988):
78-83.
“Freshman Composition Can Prepare Students for Real Life.” Teaching English in the
Two-Year College 15 (1988): 153-154.
“Writing and Responsibility: A New Emphasis for the Student ‘Company.’” Bulletin of
the Association of Business Communication 51.2 (1988): 10-11.
“Using Microcomputers in School Administration.” Educational Technology 23
(1983): 38-39. (Co-authored with Ken Jones).
“The Writing Lab as Crisis Center: Suggestions for the Interview.” Writing Lab
Newsletter 5 (1981): 4-6.
Workbook
Study Guide to Accompany Business Communication: Skills and Strategies. New York:
Harper and Row, 1990.
Poetry
“For the Queens Who Dragged Marlene’s Furs Across My Life.” The South Carolina
Review. (Spring 2009) 41.2, 20.
“A Woman Bathes in the Ohio River on Sunday Afternoon” and “Stealing Lumber on
a Sunday Afternoon.” Muse. (January 2009). 2.1: 16-17, 22.
“Try Me” and “Coyote Walk up Oakdale Street on Christmas Eve.” Whiskey
Island Magazine. Fall 2007/Spring 2008: 69-70, 71-72.
“Many Bright Mansions Above.” Ohio Writer. 21.5: 4.
“A Horticulturalist’s Guide to Gay Marriage in Ohio.” The Connecticut
Poetry Review. 2007. 29.
“Odella at Eighty.” The Texas Review. 27:3&4. Fall/Winter 2006.
(appeared summer 2007). 116.
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“Deer Crossing Broadview Road at Dusk” and “Deer in the Cornfields of
Everett, Ohio” in Tributaries. (2007) 9.38-39
“Etudes for El Paso and Spanish Guitar. RHINO. 2007. 27-31.
“Knives.” Plainsongs. 27.2: 13.
“Abiding Light.” The South Carolina Review. 39.1. (Fall 2006): 204.
“I Need from You an Advisement.” Tar River Poetry. 45.1 (Fall 2005):14-15.
“Invitation.” Red Rock Review. Issue 17 (Summer 2005): 94.
“Havana Afternoon.” Ohio Writer. 19.1:6.
“Wild Turkeys at Brokensword Creek.” The South Carolina Review. 37.1. (Fall 2004):
123.
“Writing Daddy” War, Literature, and the Arts. 16:1&2:84-85.
“Whale Song.” ICON. 37.1 (Spring 2004): 3.
“After Winter.” South Dakota Review. 40.1 (Spring 2002): 156-157.
“Mennonite Funeral in Southwest Ohio.” I Have My Own Song for It: Modern
Poems of Ohio. Eds. Elton Glaser and William Greenway. Akron: The
University of Akron Press, 2002.
“Desire.” Jabberwock Review. 21.2 (Spring 2000): 6-7.
“Minerva, Ohio.” Poetry 162 (September 1993): 345.
“Snow in Ohio.” Poetry 161 (December 1992): 143.
“Museum of Science and Industry” and “Holmes County, Ohio.” New Mexico
Humanities Review 34 (1992): 100-102.
“For Ray” and “Riot in New Delhi.” The Rio Grande Review 11.2 (1992): 82-83.
“The Realms of Glory.” New Jersey Poetry Review 3 (1984): 81.
“June 31.” Kansas Quarterly 11.1-2 (1979): 183.
“Transfer.” Forum 15.2-3 (1977): 73
“His Hands.” Attention Please 20.2 (1977): 27.
“Irish Ships.” Cedar Rock 1.3 (1976): 9.
“Houston Retreat.” Gone Soft 2.1 (1975): 49.
Poetry Prizes
“Canal in Akron, Ohio.” Wayne College Regional Writing Awards. Second
Prize. 2009.
“A Woman Bathes in the Ohio River on Sunday Afternoon”. First Prize.
and “Stealing Lumber on a Sunday Afternoon.” Second Prize. First
Annual Muse Literary Competition. 2008.
“An American in Ohio Ballet.” First Prize, Poetry, Wayne College
Regional Writers’ Conference, 2008.
Poetry, First Place, Certificate for Poetry, Sandhills Writers’ Conference,
2008.
“Many Bright Mansions Above.” First Prize, Poetry, Poets’ and Writers’
League of Greater Cleveland Best of Ohio Writers Competition.
2007.
“Lambing in Ohio.” First Prize, Poetry, Wayne College Regional Writers’
Competition. 2007.
“Etudes for El Paso and Spanish Guitar.” Editors’ First Prize, RHINO. 2007.
“Lambing in Ohio.” Honorable Mention. Poets and Writers’ League of Greater
Cleveland. Best of Ohio Writers Competition. 2006.
Three Poems, First Place Certificate for Poetry, Sandhills Writers’ Conference:
2005.
“After the Fall, Angels Guard the Gates of Eden” and “January in the Ohio
River Valley” both Honorable Mention, New Words Competition, 2005.
“Havana Afternoon.” First Place. Poets and Writers’ League of Greater
Cleveland Best of Ohio Writers Competition: 2004.
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“Honky Tonk Jesus” Second Prize, New Words Competition, 2004.
“Persephone in South Akron.” Honorable Mention, New Words Competition, 2004.
“Whale Song.” Honorable Mention, Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Contest, 2004.
“Some of You Folks Got to Say Amen.” Second Place. Poets and Writers’ League
of Greater Cleveland Best of Ohio Writers Competition, 2003.
Creative Non-Fiction Prizes
“Memoir of a Soldier’s Son.” Second Place. Sandhills Writers’ Conference. 2008.
“Lost in the Outfield.” Second Place. Poets and Writers’ League of Greater
Cleveland. 2006.
Short Story Prize
“How Wanda Kaye Mullins Came to Say a Bad Word for the Second Time.”
Second Prize, Children’s Literature. Sandhills Writers’ Conference, 2008.
“Baptist Boys.” First Prize, Fiction. Wayne College Regional Writers’ Conference,
2008.
Readings
“Around Noon.” WCPN 90.3. Cleveland. March 5, 2009.
The Monthly Reading, Cedars Restaurant, Invited: April 18, 2007.
Others as part of awards celebrations, radio shows (WORDPLAY, The Poetry
Man), etc.
Journalism
“An Imperfect Church that Welcomes All.” The Plain Dealer. Saturday,
June 11,2005.
Other journalism includes an editorial in the Akron Beacon Journal, a commentary about
having Type I (juvenile) diabetes in the Diabetes Forecast magazine (the magazine of
the American Diabetes Association), book and performance reviews for The Purdue
Exponent, etc.
Book Reviews
Now You’re the Enemy. 2007. in The Barnowl Review.
www.barnowlreview.com/Reviews.html. 2009.
The Final Bell. Boston: Alyson, 1994, in Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature. 13:2:
200-201.
Closet Writing/Gay Reading. Chicago: U of Chicago, 1993, in Modern Fiction Studies
40: 921-923.
The Dreyfus Affair. New York: Random House, 1992, in Aethlon: The Journal of Sports
Literature. 10:150.
How Do I Look: Queer Film and Video. Ed. Bad-Object Choices. Seattle: Bay Press,
1991, in The Journal of Sexuality. 4: 475-478.
Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Fiction. Madison: U of
Wisconsin, 1991, in Modern Fiction Studies. 38: 397-498.
Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall. New York: Continuum, 1990, in Modern Fiction
Studies. 37: 352-353.
Principles of Business Communication, R. E. Dulek and J. S. Fielden. New York:
Macmillan, 1990 and The Random House Guide to Business Writing. New York:
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Random House, 1990, in the Bulletin of the Association of Business Communication,
53.3 (September 1990): 90-91.
Business Communication Today, C. L. Bovee and J. W. Thill. New York: Random
House, 1989; Effective Business Communications, H. A. Murphy and H. W.
Hildebrandt. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988; Communication in Business, W. Wells.
Boston: PWS-Kent, 1988, in the Bulletin of the Association of Business
Communication, 52.2 (June 1989): 39-40.
Business and Technical Communication: A Bibliography, 1975-1985. Debra L. Hull.
Metchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987, 243 pages, in Analytical & Enumerative
Bibliography, 1.2: 78-79.
Business Writing Using Word Processing: Apple Writer Edition. Arthur M. Segal.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1987, 131 pages (paper); IBM Wordstar Edition,
141 pages; IBM Easy Writer Edition, 141 pages, in the Journal of the Association
for Business Communication, 25.1: 106-107.
Business Communication: Process and Practice, Arthur H. Bell. Glenview, IL: Scott,
Foresman, 1987, 601 pages, in the Journal of the Association for Business
Communication, 25.1: 104-106.
Word Processing: A Formatting Approach, Roger F. Repohl. Englewood Cliffs:
Prentice Hall, 1986, 260 pages (paper), in the in the Journal of the Association for
Business Communication, 25.1, 107-108.
Competing in Time: Using Telecommunications for Competitive Advantage, Peter G.
W. Keen. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1986, 235 pages, in the Journal of the
Association for Business Communication, 24.2: 67-69.
Learning Activities for Business Report Writing, Mary J. Noblitt. New York: John
Wiley, 1986, 82 pages (paper), in the Journal of the Association for Business
Communication, 24.2, 68-69.
The Business Communicator, Second Edition, Robert E. Swindle and Elizabeth M.
Swindle. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1985, 562 pages, in the Journal of the
Association for Business Communication, 22.4: 87-88.
ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Advisory Editor
Reviewed manuscripts for the Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication,
1992-1998; Bulletin renamed Business Communication Quarterly.
Journal Referee
Evaluated articles for the Journal of the Association for Business Communication in 1990,
1991, 1992, 1998.
Conference Chair
Chaired the Midwest Regional Conference of the ABC in 1991. (See page two.)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Square Can Be Beautiful, Too: Victor, Victoria and the Conservative Reinvention
of the Hollywood Musical.” MLA. New York: December 2002: Speaker.
“Queer Pedagogy, Practices, and Identities: Creating the Classroom.” NCTE. November
2002.Atlanta, GA: Chair [Note: I organized this panel, getting the speakers, etc.; this
was not an appointed-for-form’s-sake chairship.)
“(S)he Stoops to Conquor: How Queens Compose Identity Through Popular Texts.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. October 2002. Louisville, KY: Speaker.
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“Sexing the Castrato: Consummation Anxiety in Cry to Heaven and Farinelli. Popular
Culture Convention—National Conference. March 2002. Toronto, Canada. Paper read
by Joseph F. Ceccio due to my illness.
“Drag as Performance, Performance as Drag in Victor, Victoria; Priscilla, Queen of the
Desert, and Love! Valour! Compassion!” SCMLA. November 2001. Tulsa, OK:
Speaker.
“’Something Happens to Us Here’: Transformative Landscapes and Kathleen Norris.”
Christianity and Literature Conference—Midwest Conference. October 2001. Dayton,
OH: Speaker.
“Cross-Dressing, Cross-Voicing, and Cry to Heaven.” Popular Culture Convention—
National Conference. March 2001. Philadelphia, PA:
“Forum on Training Professional Technical Writers Here and Abroad.” Association for
Business Communication—Midwest Conference. April 1999. Chicago, IL:Speaker.
“Homosexuality, the Business Writer’s Textbook, and Socialization.” Association for
Business Communication—National Convention. November 1996. Chicago, IL:
Speaker.
“When Hallucinations Collide: The Profane Angels of Angels in America, Philadelphia, and
Jeffrey.” Conference on the Sacred and the Profane. October 1995. Atlanta, GA:
Speaker; presented in revised form at Performing AIDS. February 1996. Cleveland, OH:
Speaker.
“Scholarly Writing: An Interdisciplinary Professional Writing Course.” Association for
Business Communication—Midwest Conference. April 1995. Indianapolis, IN: Speaker.
“Out of the Closet, Into Fortune Magazine: Business Communication, the Rhetoric of Social
Change, and Classroom Practice.” Association for Business Communication—National
Convention. November 1992. New Orleans, LA: Speaker.
“Reading AIDS Through Fiction.” MLA. December 1991. San Francisco, CA: Co-Chair
(with Sheryl Stevenson).
“‘What is Right?’ Filming Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day and The Death of the
Heart.” MMLA. November 1991. Chicago, IL: Speaker.
“How to Introduce Gay and Lesbian Texts in the Composition Classroom—and Survive.”
CCCC. March 1991. Boston, MA: Speaker, Chair.
“Place in Fiction: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Eudora Welty.” The Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings Conference on Florida Literature. March 1991. Jacksonville, FL: Speaker.
“Student Response to Japanese Business Before and After Writing Short Reports.”
Association for Business Communication—National Conference. October 1990. San
Antonia, TX: Speaker (Co-presented with Mary K. Kirtz).
“Wilde, Forster, and The Swimming Pool Library.” Colloquium Series, Department of
English, The University of Akron. October 1990. Akron, OH: Speaker.
“From Fairy Tale to Film: The Completion of Forster’s Maurice.” Fifteenth Annual
Colloquium on Literature and Film: Race, Gender, and Marginality. October 1990.
Morgantown: Speaker.
“I Knew Business Communication Before It Was a Virgin—the Role of Liberal Arts in
Business Communication Teaching and Research.” Association for Business
Communication—Midwest Conference. April 1990. Detroit, MI: Speaker.
“Julie Andrews: Last of the White Soul Sisters?” Popular and American Culture
Conventions. March 1990. Toronto, CAN.: Speaker.
“Cross Creek as the Autobiography of an Alienated Woman.” The Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings Conference on Florida Literature. March 1990. Ocala, FL: Speaker.
“Inclusion and Exclusion: ‘Mainstream’ Lives in Business Communication Texts.”
Association for Business Communication—Midwest Conference. April 1989.
Covington, KY: Speaker. (Invited Speaker: Plenary Session).
“The Discipline of Gay Studies in the English Department.” College English Association of
Ohio. April 1989. Columbus, OH: Speaker.
“Student Responses to Video Cases: Why Are They More Confident Than They Should
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Be?” Association for Business Communication—National Conference. October 1988.
Indianapolis, IN: Speaker (Co-presented with Diana C. Reep).
“Business Writing and the Loss of the University.” College English Association of Ohio.
October 1988. Dayton, OH: Speaker.
“Teaching Cultural Differences in the Business Communication Classroom.” Languages
and Communication for World Business and the Professions. April 1988. Ann Arbor,
MI: Speaker.
“I Uphold the Patriarchy in my Business Communication Classroom—Why Can’t I Stop?”
Association for Business Communication—Midwest Conference. April 1988.
Louisville, KY: Speaker.
“Gays, AIDS, and Television Drama.” Popular and American Culture Conventions. March
1988. New Orleans: Speaker.
“Differences in Stylistic Perceptions Between Students in Undergraduate Courses and those
in Industry Seminars.” Association for Business Communication—National Conference.
October 1987. Atlanta: Speaker (Co-written with Mary K. Kirtz).
“I Was a Victim of the Process Approach.” Association for Business Communication—
Midwest Conference. May 1987. Kansas City, MO: Speaker.
“Collaborative Writing in Business and the Professions: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy.”
CCCC. March 1986. New Orleans: Respondent.
“How Do You Choose the Right Textbook for Your Course?” Roundtable for Technical and
Business Writing Teachers. October 1985. Lafayette, IN: Co-Presenter.
“Teaching Audience Analysis in the Data Processing Documentation Course.” Association
for Business Communication—National Conference. November 1985. Chicago, IL:
Speaker.
“Writing for Computers.” Association for Business Communication—Midwest Conference.
April 1985. Milwaukee, WI: Speaker.
“Teaching Students to Write for the Computer Industry.” Roundtable for Technical and
Business Writing Teachers. October 1984. Lafayette, IN: Speaker.
“The Writing Laboratory.” Indiana College English Association. October 1984.
Indianapolis, IN: Speaker.
“Teaching Writing to the Deaf Student.” Writing Centers Conference. May 1984.
Columbus, OH: Speaker.
“Getting Started in Consulting.” CCCC. March 1983. Detroit, MI: Chair, Speaker.
“Selecting Hardware and Software for the Writing Lab.” Writing Centers Conference. May
1983. Lafayette, IN: Speaker.
“Incorporating the Computer in the Writing Laboratory.” Indiana College English
Association. October 1982. Indianapolis, IN: Speaker.
INVITED LECTURES
“Teaching as a Queen: You Can Swish Upon a Star, No Matter How Straight You Are.”
Faculty Colloquium, Oberlin College, April 1994, and Women’s Studies Conference,
Kent State-Salem Campus, April 1994.
“‘We Knew Each Other Before We Were Virgins’: Gays, Feminists,and the Cause(s).”
Women’s Studies Boundary Series, The University of Akron, April 1994.
THESIS WORK
Director: “Using a Series of Analytical Teacher/Student Questionnaires to Enhance
Communication and Evaluation in College Composition Courses” by Michael F.
Johanyak, January 1990. This student published an article based on his thesis in
Teaching English in the Two-Year College.
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I have directed a creative thesis (poetry) for an undergraduate English major in the Honors
program, served as second reader on other theses for such students, and I have served as
second reader on a number of M.A. theses.
GRANTS
The University of Akron Research Grant—$1300 to study the papers of Rumer Godden in
the Boston University library—Spring 1993.
Educational Research and Development Center—$600 to assess student attitudes in business
writing courses and improve teaching of same, The University of Akron—Spring 1993.
Grant not used.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Research Award, The University of Texas at
Austin—$1000 to study the papers of Elizabeth Bowen—1992.
Purdue University David Ross Summer Research Fellowship—$500 to write dissertation—
1983.
OTHER SERVICE
Judged Women’s History Month Poetry Contest: March 2005, May 2006, May 2007..
Spoke to the Public Relations Student Society on business communication:
March 2005.
Spoke on a panel about modern drama prior to a performance of Deathwatch:
October 2004
Served on Panel for New Teaching Assistants on Graduate School Life, 2003
Spoke on panel after a new stage adaptation of Winesburg, Ohio: October 2003
Interviewed applicants for Six-Year B.S. M.D. program :Northeast Ohio Universities
Consortium Medical School/The University of Akron (several years’ service)
Spoke on “New Directions in Gay/Lesbian Studies” (Co-presenter with Sheryl Stevenson) to
the Gay/Lesbian Student Resource, The University of Akron, Spring 1992.
Edited department newsletter Prefaces and Afterwords.
Evaluated and advised teaching assistants on their teaching.
Spoke on technical writing and technical writing careers to the Johnson Club (for English
majors), Literary Guild, Computer Science Club, two engineering classes, etc.
IN-SERVICES AND LOCAL PRESENTATIONS
“The American Musical Theater: Sometimes You Can Sing What You Can’t Say.”
The University of Akron Women’s Committee. October 2004: Speaker.
“Reading the Gay/Lesbian Community.” Kent State University L.G.R.C. February 1994:
Speaker.
“AIDS and the Homosexual Community.” Honors Colloquium Class of Dr. Brooke
Horvath, Kent State University-Stark Campus. October 1993: Speaker.
Workshop on Teaching Writing for the Department of Sociology, The University of Akron.
March 12, 1993: stressed origins of student error, need for student correction and revision
of papers (as opposed to teacher correction), and student application of grammar and
usage rules (two hours).
“Making Memos Work for You.” All Agency Inservice for the Staff of the Summit County
Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. March 1992. Speaker.
Akron Early English Composition Assessment Program’s 1985 Writing Teachers Summer
Institute. Consultant.
Conferencing and Small Group Workshops, Akron High School Teachers. 1984. Speaker.
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
AWP
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Church of Our Saviour, Episcopal 1994-present
Drafted and edited recruitment brochure for the Search Committee for the new Rector;
served on that Search Committee; Chalice Bearer; Vestry Member (Clerk: 1996-2001); Reader;
Usher; Member of Outreach Committee (social work); Member of Parish Life and Growth
Committee; Sunday School Teacher (of teens, no less; two years);Sunday School Teacher,
variety of adult classes; Brass Cleaner (ugh); Altar Guild,;Coffee Hour member; Coffee Hour
Coordinator (aka Coffee Hour Diva); Book Reviewer for the church newsletter; wrote “Caring”
portion for Stewardship brochure; Greeter; co-coordinator of Youth Book Club, etc.
Poetry Contest Preliminary Screening Judge—New Words Competition 2007, 2008, 2009
Readers’ Review Book Club: Paid discussion leader 2003-2005; guest discussion leader June
2006. I picked out the books, developed discussion questions, led the discussion.
This work financed the literary awards I established at The University of Akron.
Math Tutor at Mabel Riedinger Middle School for one semester
Northeast Ohio Romance Writers’ Association: Treasurer, 2004-2007;
Member of several years’ standing
Akron Poetry Collective: Member; Coordinator for meeting sites and times
for several years
REFERENCES
The University of Akron
Department of English, Akron, OH 44325-1906
Dr. Diana Reep, Professor
(330.972.6873; [email protected])
Dr. Antonia Forster, Professor
(330.972.7023; [email protected])
Dr. Janet Marting, Professor Emerita
(330.972.6604; [email protected])
Mr. Robert Pope, Professor
(330.972.7607; [email protected])
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Dr. Alan Ambrisco, Associate Professor
(330.972.7470 ; [email protected])
Dr. Julie Drew, Associate Professor
(330.972.7614; [email protected])
Mr. Elton Glaser; Professor Emeritus)
(330.836.3388; [email protected])
Purdue University
Dr. Margaret M. Rowe
(currently Professor of English; former Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
and former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences)
Department of English
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
(765.496.2811;[email protected])
Other References Available Upon Request