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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2002-Present: Visiting Lecturer, Saint Louis University (SLU); Adjunct Instructor in
English (September 2002—December 2005), Assistant Dean of
the Graduate School (September, 2003—May, 2005).
1985 to 2002: Adjunct
Lecturer in English, University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, TX. Teaching duties included
Great Books, World Masterpieces, Academic Core Courses, basic courses in English,
Technical Writing, Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Creative Writing.
Created and maintained class websites through WebCT. Appointed Graduate Reader, Fall 1988,
Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies. Reviewed theses and dissertations for
style, finish and technical acceptability, advised authors on style, format and technical
issues, updated and revised UNT thesis manual, coordinated electronic thesis
and dissertation project from 1999, published finished theses and
dissertations on the World Wide Web, created and maintained graduate school
thesis and dissertation website, edited various university documents and
publications. Retired, August 31, 2002. Cantor from 1993, St. Barnabas
Episcopal Church, Denton, TX.
1980 to 1985: Director
of Public Relations, Visiting Assistant Professor, McMurry College, Abilene, TX. Taught
College English. Wrote and edited promotional materials. Consultant, Abilene Preservation
League, Abilene, TX; Trinity Arts Council, Bedford TX. Wrote and edited promotional
materials. Substitute Teacher, Abilene, TX Public Schools. Substituted at all grade
levels. Soloist, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Abilene, TX (1982-85). Choir Director,
St. Paul Methodist Church, Bedford, TX (1985-86).
1974 to 1980: Executive
Director, The Sandhills Arts Council, Southern Pines, North Carolina (Arts Council of
Moore County). Developed film series, newsletter, gallery, string program, choral and
theatrical programs, yearly membership drive, arts fund drive, local government funding.
Wrote first program grants for Weymouth Center at estate of writer, James Boyd. Wrote
press releases, brochures, newsletters, periodic and annual reports. Served as Vice
President and President of NC Association of Arts Councils. Coordinated 1980 Association
conference, Marketing Arts Councils. Served on advisory board, WUNC Radio, Chapel
Hill, NC. Choirmaster, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Southern Pines, NC. Founder and Musical
Director, Moore County Choral Society, Southern Pines, NC, 1974-1975. Adjunct Instructor
in English, Central Carolina Technical College, Sanford, NC, 1977-1980.
1960 to 1974: Instructor
in English, North Carolina State University, 1968-1973 (Fort Bragg Branch, 1970-1973),
Fayetteville Technical College, Fayetteville, NC, 1973-1974. Graduate Tutor in English,
Duke University, 1966-1968. University Scholar, Duke University, 1965-1966. Instructor in
English, North Texas State University, 1962-1965. Cokesbury Scholar in College Teaching,
Southern Methodist University, 1961-1962. Choir Director, Urbandale Christian Church,
Dallas, TX, 1960-1962.
EDUCATION
Southern Methodist University,
Dallas, Texas: B. A., 1961, M. A., 1962. Musical study at Southern Methodist University
and Aspen Music School. Pupil of Orville Borchers and Mack Harrell. Vocal coaching with
Lloyd Pfautsch, Felix Popper, James Levine, Robert Porco, Sylvia Olden Lee, Virginia
Gerhardt. Theatrical coaching with Morton Siegel, John Newfield, Madeleine Milhaud.
Coursework and languages completed for the Doctorate in English, Duke University, 1968.
ACUCAA Certification in Arts Administration, Duke University, Summer 1976. Literary
Studies, University of North Texas 1986-88, The University of Texas at Dallas 1995-96.
PUBLICATIONS AND CREATIVE
ACTIVITIES
Original Prose and Verse
Verse. "Fantastics, Serving
for a Perpetual Prognostication . . . ," The Sewanee Review (Spring, 1972).
Verse. "Carolina Autumn"
and other poems. The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC (1973-1982).
Journalism. "Timber, or
Discoveries." Occasional column. The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC (1973-1980).
Verse. "Though He Were Dead:
Four Meditations for the Advent Season." Pembroke Magazine (1978).
Verse. "Streams of
Mercy." Pembroke Magazine (1981).
Verse. "Salvationists
Escaping." New North Carolina Poetry, The Eighties, Selected and Edited by
Stephen E. Smith. Green River Press, University Center, MI: 1982.
Monograph. Once There Was a
Theater. Commissioned by the Abilene Preservation League. Abilene, TX: 1982.
Article. "Born Again: The
Revival of America’s Movie Palaces." American Arts (December, 1982).
Article. "The Portland
Story." American Arts (March, 1983).
Article. "The Lessor the
Better." Horizon (September, 1983).
Article. "Oh Lord, Won’t
You Build Me a Symphony Hall." Symphony (December, 1983).
Article. "More Stately
Mansions." Symphony (April, 1984).
Article. "The KiMo: King of
its Kind." New Mexico Magazine (September, 1984).
Article. "Going Steady with
the Paramount." Scenes: Tri-Star I (March, 1985).
Article. "A New Hilton?" Scenes:
Tri-Star I (March, 1985).
Review. "Chronicling the
‘unthinkable’ 2 books constitute definitive U. S. version of Iran’s
revolution." The Dallas Morning News (July 21, 1985).
Review. "Look at Hornes misses
some big issues." The Dallas Morning News (July 20, 1986).
Review. "Vietnam victim:
Cancer-ridden son bears witness to Zumwalt’s Agent Orange foray."
The Dallas
Morning News (September 28, 1986). Reprinted in The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC.
Essay. "A New Year and Some
Thoughts on Cactus." The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC (January 8, 1987).
Written during residency at Weymouth Center, Southern Pines, NC; partially
assisted by the the Center for Texas Studies, University of North Texas.
Essay. "More About Cactus and
Texas Folklore." The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC (January 15, 1987).
Written during residency at Weymouth Center, Southern Pines, NC; partially
assisted by the Center for Texas Studies, University of North Texas.
Review. "F. Barthelme Displays
Weird Terminal Wit." Texas Books in Review (September, 1987).
Verse. "Autumn
Catalogue." Weymouth, An Anthology of Poetry edited by Sam Ragan. The St.
Andrews Press, Laurinburg, NC: 1987. Reprinted in The Pilot, Southern
Pines, NC.
Review. "Two Voices of Sports
Past–One Sharp, One Flat." Texas Books in Review (April, 1989).
Essay. "The Ultimate
West." Pembroke Magazine (1992).
Review. "The Nova
Generation, by Lasca Lewis." Texas Books in Review (October, 1992).
Verse. "In Sure and Certain
Hope" Pembroke Magazine (1997).
Poetry Chapbook. High Wire Man.
Friends of the University of North Texas Library. Trilobite Press. Denton, TX: 1998.
Verse. "American Pie." New
Texas, 1998. Edited by James Ward Lee and Donna Walker Nixon. University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor. Belton, TX: 1999.
Verse. "Monumental
History," "Obiter Dictum." New Texas, 1999, Edited by James Ward Lee
and Donna Walker Nixon. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Belton, TX: 2000.
Verse. "Flatbush Waltz."
"Pressmen," "Reading Evening Prayer in an Empty Church,"
Windhover,
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Belton, TX: 2001
Compilations and Edited
Documents
Self Study. The Fort Bragg
Branch. Institutional Self-Study for North Carolina State University. Raleigh: 1973.
Journalism. Soundings. Cultural
Tabloid and Weekly Supplement. The Pilot, Southern Pines, NC: 1975-1980.
Manual. Preparation and Filing
of Dissertations, Theses, and Problems in Lieu of Thesis at the University of North Texas.
The Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies. Denton, TX: 1988-1994.
Manual. Running a School Library
Media Center: A How-to-Manual, by Risa Brown and Barbara Stein. Neal-Schuman
Publishers. New York: 1992.
Monograph. Art as an Inherited
Condition, by Jon I. Young. North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, D.
Jack Davis and R. William McCarter, Directors. Denton, TX: 1992.
Conference Proceedings. The Core
and the Canon: A National Debate. University of North Texas Press. Denton, TX: 1993.
Manual. Preparation and Filing
of Dissertations, Theses, and Problems in Lieu of Thesis in the Robert B. Toulouse School
of Graduate Studies. Revised Edition, September 1995. The Robert B. Toulouse School of
Graduate Studies. Denton, TX: 1995.
Self-Study. Institutional
Self-Study, 1993-95 for the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools. University of North Texas. Denton, TX: 1995.
Report. Electronic Transmission
of Theses and Dissertations at UNT: A Report from the Ad Hoc Committee. University of
North Texas, Denton, TX: May 16, 1997.
Memorial Volume. Last things:
Sermons by Charles Thomas Williams. St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. The Trilobite
Press. Denton, TX: 1998.
Report. Proposed Guidelines for
Filing Dissertations, Theses, and Problems in Lieu of Thesis Electronically in the Robert
B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies. University of North Texas. Denton, TX: June
15, 1998.
Manual. Preparation and Filing
of Dissertations, Theses, and Problems in Lieu of Thesis in the Robert B. Toulouse School
of Graduate Studies. Electronic Edition, May 1999. The Robert B. Toulouse School of
Graduate Studies. Denton, TX: 1999.
Conference Proceedings.
Arguing Communication & Culture. With Kathleen Farrell, Geoff Klinger, Lenore
Langsdorf, Gordon Mitchell, Ron Lee, and Charles Willard; G. Thomas Goodnight, general
editor. Selected Papers from the Twelfth NCA/AFA Conference on
Argumentation: Sponsored by the National Communication Association and the
University of Utah, July 2001. National Communication Association.
Washington, DC: 2002.
Conference Proceedings. Critical Problems in Argumentation. With G. Thomas Goodnight, Ronald Greene,
Sally Jackson, Scott Jacobs, Gordon Mitchell, and Carol Winkler; Charles Arthur Willard, general
editor. Selected Papers from the Thirteenth Biennial Conference on
Argumentation Sponsored by the National Communication Association, August, 2003.
National Communication Association. Washington, DC: 2005.
Readings and Lectures
Essay. "The Female Will in the
Novels of Joyce Cary." Presented at the Duke University Symposium on Satire. Durham,
NC: 1966.
Reading with Tom Walters and
Heather Ross Miller. Fayetteville Technical College. Fayetteville, NC: 1972.
Reading with Sam Ragan. The
Southern Pines Library. Southern Pines, NC: 1974.
Master Classes with Virginia
Gerhardt. Sandhills Community College. Southern Pines: NC, 1974, 1975.
Poetry in the Schools Residencies.
Fayetteville, NC City Schools; Sponsored by the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland
County. Fayetteville, NC: 1975, 1976, 1977.
Reading with Shelby Stephenson,
Stephen E. Smith, and Ron Bayes. St. Andrews College. Laurinburg, NC: 1979.
Poetry Under the Stars, with Calvin
Atwood, Julie Suk, and others. Sponsored by the Morehead Planetarium, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Chapel Hill, NC: 1979.
Readings with Shelby Stephenson,
Stephen E. Smith, Heather Ross Miller, Fred Chappel, Betty Adcock, and others. Weymouth
Center. Southern Pines, NC: 1979, 1980.
Poetry in the Schools Residency.
Episcopal Day School. Southern Pines, NC: 1980.
Panel Presentation. "The Phone
Company and You." UNT Panel on Ethics and Contemporary Society. Denton, TX: 1986.
Lecture. "Thinking about
Thinking." Dallas Independent School District Young People’s University. Dallas,
TX: 1989.
Lecture Series. Great books program
for the Mason Best Company. Dallas, TX: 1989.
Essay. "Where it All Comes
Out: A West Texas View of Postmodernists and other Lowriders." Presented at the UNT
Heidegger Conference. Denton, TX: 1988.
Essay. "In Reason’s Ear:
An Assessment of the Aesthetic Achievement of Russell Johnson." Presented at
the Southwest Session of the American Academy of Religion. Dallas, TX: 1989.
Workshop with Betty Adcock. UNT
Literary Festival. Denton, TX: 1990.
Panel Presentation. "Does the
University Kill the Truth." UNT Classic Learning Core Panel [Recorded for cable
channel 25, NTTV]. Denton, TX: 1993.
Essay. "The Rivers of Babylon:
What are Poets for in a Destitute Time?" Presented at the UNT Heidegger Conference.
Denton, TX: 1993.
Panel Presentation. "Victor
Farķas and Heidegger’s Rektoratsrede." Presented at the UNT Heidegger
Conference. Denton, TX: 1995.
Essay. "Nietzsche and the
Metaphysics of Music: A History of Error." Presented at the UNT Heidegger Conference.
Denton, TX: 1996.
Essay. "Dante and the False
and Lying Poets." Presented at the Realia Conference. Estes Park, CO: 1997.
Reading. Presenting High Wire
Man, a gathering of poems commemorating the twenty-second in the series Contemporary
Poets Reading, sponsored by the Friends of the UNT Libraries and the UNT English
Department. April 21, 1998.
Reading. Center for Contemporary
Arts, Abilene, TX. November 12, 1998.
Reading. University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor Literary Conference, Belton, TX. January 8, 1999.
Reading. North Texas Review Reading
Series, Denton, TX. December 3, 1999.
Reading. University of Mary
Hardin-Baylor Literary Conference, Belton, TX. January 5, 2000.
Reading. University of North Texas
Heidegger 2000 Conference, Denton, TX. April 19, 2000.
Panel Presentation: "ETD Technology for Implementors," with
Anthony Atkins. ETD 2001: The Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and
Dissertations. Caltech: Pasadena, CA. March 22, 2001.
Residencies
Writer in Residence. Weymouth
Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines North Carolina. January, 1987.
Writer in Residence. Weymouth
Center for the Arts and Humanities, Southern Pines North Carolina. May, 1999.
Musical Residencies and
Performing
Resident baritone, Lake Junaluska
Methodist Assembly, Lake Junaluska, NC (1956). Chorister, soloist for churches and
industrial shows, Dallas, TX (1957-1960). Chorister, Dallas Civic Opera (1958). Principal
Soloist, Aspen Opera Theater, Aspen CO (1959). First Young Artist’s Series, Aspen
Music Festival (1959). Appearances as soloist with Duke
University Chapel Choir, UNC Opera, Chapel Hill, NC, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra,
Fayetteville, NC, Fort Bragg Orchestra and Chorus, 82nd Airborne Band, The Pinehurst
Forum, Pinehurst, NC, Denton (TX) Bach Society.
Memberships, Past and Present
Modern Language Association of America.
American Association of University Professors. American Council for the Arts. Association
of Community, College, and University Arts Administrators, North Carolina Association of
Arts Councils (Vice President, 1978-79; President, 1980). Advisory Board, UNT Radio,
Chapel Hill. Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Denton (TX) Bach Society
(Board of directors, 1987-90, 1993-97).
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