Brian Gallagher

EDUCATION

Spring 1983 MELLON FELLOWSHIP IN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
Seminar Director: Alfred Kazin.
Individual Study Project: "American Literature, American Film: 1930-45."

1973-76 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES FELLOWSHIP IN RESIDENCE, BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Fellowship Seminar: "The Black American Experience: Insiders and Outsiders."
Director: Harold Pfautz, Sociology.
Independent Research Project: "Symbols of Otherness: Blacks in American Film, 1910-60."

1966-73 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: M.A. (English), 1967;
Ph.D. (English), 1973.
Dissertation: "The Historical Consciousness of Edmund Wilson."
Director: Robert Lucid, English (in conjunction with Gordon Kelly, American Civilization).
Ph.D. Examinations: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Nineteenth- Century American Literature, British Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
Language Examinations: French, German.

1963-66 FORDHAM COLLEGE, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: A.B., 1966.
Major: English. Minor: Philosophy.

1962-63 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, MANHATTAN COLLEGE.
One year's work--transferred. Major: Chemistry.

Scholarships and Fellowships
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship in "English Romantic Literature and the Visual Arts," Dartmouth College: 1987.
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship in "Literature as a Social Institution," Princeton University: 1983.
Mellon Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center (see above).
Feminist Press Institute on "Reconstructing American Literature," Yale University: June 1982.
NEH Fellowship in Residence, Brown University (see above).
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship in American Film, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University: 1979.
MLA Summer Seminar in Afro-American Literature, Yale University: 1977.
University of Pennsylvania Teaching Fellowships: 1967-70.
New York State Regents Fellowship: 1966-68.
New York State Regents Scholarship: 1962-66.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1998-2000 VISITING PROFESSOR, POLITICAL SCIENCE, VASSAR COLLEGE
Course co-taught: Visions of Community in Twentieth-Century American Politics and Film.

1987-88 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, ENGLISH, GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
Course Taught: The Teaching of College Writing: Theory and Practice.
Supervised teaching fellows.

1986-    PROFESSOR
1983-86 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
1977-83 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, LaGUARDIA C.C., CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.

1999 CUNY Performance Excellence Award (for career achievements)

2000-    FOUNDER/DIRECTOR/INSTRUCTOR, "New Mexico and the American Southwest" (half-year, eight-credit interdisciplinary program, with travel, for New York City teachers, 6-12, on sabbatical study leave)

1997-    FOUNDER/DIRECTOR/INSTRUCTOR, "Venice: Art, Humanism and Culture" (year-long, sixteen-credit interdisciplinary program, with travel, for New York City teachers, K-12, on sabbatical study leave)

1994-97 FOUNDER/DIRECTOR, "WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM" PROJECT (an interdisciplinary writing program)

1991-94 FOUNDER/DIRECTOR, "NEW STUDENT HOUSE" PROJECT (a "learning community" program of thematically linked developmental courses in speech, reading and writing)

1988-    FOUNDER/DIRECTOR/INSTRUCTOR, "Film and the Humanities" (year-long sixteen-credit interdisciplinary program for New York City teachers, K-12, on sabbatical study leave)

1988-91 FOUNDER/DIRECTOR/INSTRUCTOR, "SUPERCLUSTER" PROJECT (an integrated program of computer-based, thematically linked developmental courses in writing, reading and mathematics)

1985-    FOUNDER/DIRECTOR/INSTRUCTOR, "ENGLISH EXPRESS" PROGRAM (a series of intensive, computer-based writing courses)

1985-86 ACTING DIRECTOR OF COMPOSITION.

Writing Courses Taught: Basic Writing (developmental course), Composition I: Freshman Composition, Composition II: Writing Through Literature, Writing for Business (all courses taught in both regular and computer-based formats).

Literature Courses Taught: Introduction to Irish Literature, Afro-American Literature, Contemporary Black American Fiction, The Immigrant Experience in American Literature, Literature and Science, The Novel, The American Novel, The Short Story, Drama, Children's Literature, Shakespeare, Literature of the City: New York, Literature of the City: Venice.

Media Courses Taught: American Film, Media Arts, The Political Film, Literature and Film, Film and New York City, Film and Venice, Independent Study: Film and the Humanities.

History Courses Taught: History of New York City, History and Culture of Venice. History and Culture of New Mexico and the Southwest.

Philosophy Course Taught: Critical Thought Skills.

Interdisciplinary Courses Taught: Urban Arts; Ideal Societies; Violence in American Art and Culture; Art, Politics and Protest

Seminar Taught: Humanism and Technology.

1973-76 ADJUNCT LECTURER, ENGLISH, QUEENSBOROUGH C.C., CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
Courses Taught: Basic Composition, Introduction to Literature, Readings in Prose Fiction, Black Literature in America to 1930.

1971-72 ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Course Taught: Short Fiction.

1967-70 TEACHING FELLOW, ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Courses Taught: Freshman Composition, Introduction to Prose and Prose Drama, Introduction to Poetry and Verse Drama.

TEACHING INTERESTS (beyond courses already taught)

Survey and genre courses in American literature
Specialized courses in American and Afro-American literature
Film courses and film/literature courses
Interdisciplinary and American Studies courses
Courses on writing theory
Introductory courses in 18th-century British literature
Specialized courses in Irish literature

COMMITTEE AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT WORK

CUNY-wide: College Representative, University Faculty Senate; Budget Advisory, Status of the Faculty, Ad Hoc Committees on Remediation and Community College Caucus (University Faculty Senate); Task Force on English Articulation; Writing in the Disciplines Study Group; Grant Writer: Office of Academic Affairs, CUNY Central Office.

LaGuardia College-wide Service: Academic Computing Committee (chair), Tenure Review, College Senate, Study Skills Committee, Search Committee: Dean of Freshman Skills, Academic Standing Committee, Basic Skills Task Force, Tutoring-Counseling Service Committee, Computer/ Writing Committee, Software Analysis Committee, Liberal Arts and Sciences Committee, Freshman Skills Committee, Alternate Teaching Strategies Sub-committee, Building Program Committee.
Director, LaGuardia Grant Workshop Writing Program.

English Department Committees: Planning and Budget; Writing Through Literature (chair), Basic Composition, Writing for Business Revision Committee (chair), Grants, Professional Development, Scheduling, Tutor-Teacher, Interclass Transfer, Electives, Writing for Business, Extended Day, Textbook Review, Curriculum, Writing for Business, Standards, Writing Electives, Appeals, Critical Forum.
Department Scheduling Officer: 1981-83.

Courses Designed: Introduction to Irish Literature, Contemporary Black American Fiction, Literature and Film, Film and New York City, Literature and Science, Topics in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, and a series of intensive (one-week) computer/writing courses.

Q'borough Departmental Committees: Basic Skills, Curriculum, Composition.
Special Study Courses Designed: Sports in American Fiction, The Hollywood Novel.

GRANT WORK

Co-author of a grant for "A Tutoring-Counseling Service to Increase Retention of College Students with Limited Communications Skills" (funded at $400,000 for 1977-80 by the Office of Education).

Co-author of extension grant for the "Tutoring-Counseling Service" ($650,000 awarded for 1980-84).

Co-author of second extension grant for the "Tutoring-Counseling Service" ($450,000 awarded for 1984-87).

Co-author of third extension grant for the "Tutoring-Counseling Service" ($450,000 awarded for 1987-90).

Co-author of fourth extension grant for the "Tutoring-Counseling Service" ($470,000 awarded for 1990-93).

Acting Projector Director for the "Tutoring-Counseling" grant: 1982.

Training Coordinator for the "Tutoring-Counseling" grant: 1984-90.

Curriculum Coordinator for the "Tutoring-Counseling" grant: 1977-81, 1983-84.

Director, twelve-hour grant writing workshop program for the National Urban League: 9/82-10/82.

Instructor, New York State Education Department grant program in "Using Microcomputers To Teach Learning Disabled Students": 9/82-6/85.

Co-author of extension grant for "Microcomputer-Learning Disabled" program ($50,000 awarded for 1983-84).

Co-author of second extension grant for "Microcomputer-Learning Disabled" program ($63,000 awarded for 1984-85).

Author & Project Director, New York State Education Department grant program in "An Integrated Program of Computer-Based Developmental Courses in Writing, Reading and Mathematics" ($130,000 awarded for 1988-91).

Author and Project Director, New York State Education Department grant for a "New Student House Program" of integrated studies in Speech, Reading and Writing ($80,000 awarded for 1991-94).

Author, AT&T "Teachers for Tomorrow" grant for high school-college collaboration among the New York City Board of

Higher Education, the American Federation of Teachers, City College and Brooklyn College ($420,000 awarded for 1991-94).

Author and Project Director, New York State Education Department grant for "Writing Across the Curriculum Program in Natural and Applied Sciences and Computer Information Systems" ($60,000 awarded for 1994-96).

Author and Project Director, New York State Education Department grant for "Writing Across the Curriculum Program in Managerial Studies, Accounting and Cooperative Education" ($25,000 awarded for 1996-97).

Co-author and Curriculum Consultant, New York State Education grant for "Creating a New Basic Writing Curriculum for Students Coming From English as a Second Language Courses" ($25,000 awarded for 1997-98)

CONSULTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

Evaluator, Basic Skills Program, Passaic County Community College, Spring 1999.

Adjudicator, Distinguished Service Awards for 1993-95, Johnson County Community College, Oct.-Nov. 1995.

"Computer Technology 2000: What to Know, What to Expect and What Buttons to Push" (three-hour workshop), Center for the Advanced Study of Education, Graduate Seminar in Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, December 1992.

Consultant on curriculum development and computer/writing programs, New York State "Liberty Partnership" with Intermediate School 126, Astoria, Queens, Feb. 1990- June 1990.

Advisory Board Member, National Project on Computers and College Writing, 1987-90.

Member, Committee on Computers and Composition, EDUCOM Software Initiative, 1987-91.

Consultant, New York State Education Department Task Force on Learning Disabled Students, March 1986-October 1986.

"Computer-Assisted Instruction in Writing" (seven-hour workshop), Kean College, June 1986.

Consultant-Evaluator for the Computer/Writing Program at the County College of Morris, March-June 1986.

"The Use of Computers for Teaching Basic Composition" (seven-hour workshop), Kean College, April 1986.

"Using Computers with Learning Disabled Writing Students," Nassau Community College, January 1986.

"Using Visual Media to Teach Writing" (three-hour workshop), NCTE Convention, Philadelphia, November 1985.

"An Introduction to Word Processing for Faculty and Classroom Use" (four-hour workshop), John Jay College, April 1985.

"WordStar for Academic Applications" (four-hour workshop), John Jay College, April 1985.

"Further Computer Applications for Working with Learning Disabled Students," Kingsborough Community College, March 1985.

"A Basic Introduction to the WordStar Word Processing Program" (three-hour workshop), Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNY Graduate Center, March 1985.

"Word Processing For High School English Courses" (three-hour workshop), School of Professional Studies, Lehman College, January 1985.

"Integrating Computers in the Writing Curriculum" (four-hour workshop), CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors, December 1984.

"Writing on Computers for Learning Disabled Students," Kingsborough Community College, December 1984.

"Using Microcomputers to Teach Basic Writing: Is Word Processing the Answer?" (seven- hour workshop), CUNY-PSC Workshop Series on Computers and Teaching, Borough of Manhattan Community College, November 1984.

"Computers in the English Classroom," Upper Montclair High School System, April 1984.

"Writing with Computers," Darien Public High School District, October 1983.

PUBLICATIONS

Anything Goes: The Jazz Age Adventures of Neysa McMein and Her Extravagant Circle of Friends (New York: Times Books [Random House], 1987), 241pp.

Microcomputers and Word Processing Programs: An Analysis and Critique, Research Monograph Series, Report No. 9 (New York: CUNY Instructional Resource Center, 1985), 191pp.

”Film” (memoir), New York Stories, 3:1 (winter 2001), 30-31.

Review of Urban Spaghetti, Literary Magazine Review, 19:3 (Fall 2000), 27-33.

Review of The Michigan Quarterly Review, Literary Magazine Review, 18:4 (Winter 1999), 18-25.

Review of The Crescent Review, Literary Magazine Review, 18: 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1999), 24-28.

"Interview with Mike Wallace" (on Gotham), New York Stories, 1:3 (Spring 1999), 18-27.

Review of River Styx, Literary Magazine Review, 17:3 (Fall 1998), 17-22.

"Venice Observed (and Studied) by New York City Teachers," CUNY Matters, Summer 1998, 7.

"'Greta Garbo Is Sad': Some Historical Reflections on the Paradoxes of Stardom in the American Film Industry, 1910-1960," Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture, #3 (Spring 1997), 13,000 words in nine parts (online @ http://www.imagesjournal.com/index.html).

Review of Short Story, Literary Magazine Review, 15:2 (Summer 1996), 18-23.

"The New Student House," Interdisciplinary Courses and Team Teaching: New Arrangements for Learning. Ed. James R. Davis (American Council of Education and Oryx Press, 1997), 162-63.

Review of Fresh Ground: A Poetry Annual, Literary Magazine Review, 14:3 (Fall 1995), 11-14.

Review of It's a Print: Detective Fiction from Page to Screen, ed. William Reynolds and Elizabeth A. Trembley, Michigan Academician, 27:2 (March 1995), 227-31.

"The Production of Value and Process of Exchange in Sternberg's Shanghai Express," Michigan Academician, 26:2 (Winter 1994), 133-46.

"Special Problems and Significant Possibilities in Two-Year (and Small) College Computing," Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Small College Computing Conference (Allentown, PA: ESCCC, 1993), 99-104.

"New Student House," Resource, Summer 1993, 3-4.

"On Computers and Writing" (review essay), Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 18:2 (May 1991), 67-70.

"Capitalism and Patterns of Cultural Meaning in Classical American Cinema," Community Review, 10:1-2 (Fall 1989-Spring 1990), 51-64.

"Surviving as a Scholar at the Two-Year College: A Report from the Field," Community College Humanities Review, No. 10 (1989), 36-43.

Co-author, "Computers in Writing Instruction: Blueprint for Progress," Computers Across the Curriculum: Academic Perspectives, ed. William H. Graves (McKinney, Texas: EDUCOM/Academic Computing, 1989), 141-203.

"LaGuardia Community College," Computers and College Writing: Selected College Profiles, ed. Nora Eisenberg (New York: CUNY Instructional Resource Center and Office of Academic Affairs, 1989), 104-09.

"A Critique of the Organizational and Rhetorical World of Business Communications Texts," Writing in the Business Professions, ed. Myra Kogen (Urbana: NCTE, 1989), 222-45.

"Film Study in the English Language Arts: Technology and the Future of Pedagogy," English Journal, 77:7 (Nov. 1988), 58-61. Reprinted in The Education Digest, 54:7 (March 1989), 29-32.

"Microcomputer Word Processing and Language Teaching: Issues, Approaches and Practical Considerations," Computers in Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching, ed. Udo O.H. Jung (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 1988), 61-70.

Review of Bleeding Battlers from Ironbark: Australian Myths in Fiction and Film: 1890s-1980s by David Myers, Antipodes, 2:1 (Spring 1988), 68.

"Chaplin, 'Charlie,' and (Dis)pleasure," North Dakota Quarterly, 56:1 (Winter 1988), 165-76.

"Edmund Wilson's The American Jitters: A Classic of the Great Depression" (30 min. radio talk), WNYE, November 1987.

"'I Love You Too': Sexual Warfare and Homoeroticism in Billy Wilder's Film of Double Indemnity," Literature/Film Quarterly, 15:4 (October 1987), 237-46.

"Computer-Based Writing Programs: A Paradigm for Development and Expansion," Proceedings of the Third Annual Eastern Small College Computing Conference (Poughkeepsie: ESCCC, 1987), 246-49.

"History, Autobiography and the Uses of Region in Edmund Wilson's Upstate," Markham Review, 15 (Spring/Summer 1987), 43-49.

"Using Film Segments to Teach Narrative-Descriptive Writing," TETYC, 13:4 (Dec. 1986), 273-80.

"A Compelling Case" (on the poetry of Anne Sexton), Denver Quarterly, 21:2 (Fall 1986), 95-111.

"'But Like Everything, Nothing Is Perfect': Standard Dialect Acquisition and the Problem of Linguistic Logic," Collected Papers From the Fifth and Sixth Language Symposia, ed. Iona Anderson (New York: Medgar Evers College and Long Island University, 1986), 47-60.

"Computers, Word Processing and the Teaching of Writing," Research in Word Processing Newsletter, 3:4 (April 1985), 1-5.

"Using the Computer in the Classroom: Approaches and Issues" (cassette tape; Urbana: NCTE, 1984).

"On the Utility of Literature," TETYC, 12:1 (Winter 1984-85), 3-4.

Co-author, "Word Processing and the Basic Writer," Connecticut English Journal, 15:2 (Spring 1984), 60-66.

Co-author, "Word Processing: A Catalyst for the Basic Writing Student," Microcomputers and Basic Skills in College: Applications in Reading, Writing, English as a Second Language and Mathematics, ed. Geoffrey Askt (New York: CUNY Instructional Resource Center, 1984), 24-26.

"On the Teaching of Business Writing: A Review Essay," TETYC, 10:1 (Fall 1983), 73-81.

"Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep: A Paradigm for the Postwar American Family," North Dakota Quarterly, 51:3 (Summer 1983), 78-91.

"Explorations of Black Identity from The New Negro to Invisible Man," Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, (1982),1-9. Reprinted, in slightly altered form, in Community Review, 5:1 (Spring 1983), 6-13.

Review of Finley Peter Dunne by Grace Eckley, American Literary Realism: 1870-1910, 16:1 (Spring 1983), 142-45.

"Racist Ideology and Black Abnormality in The Birth of a Nation," Phylon, 43:1 (Spring 1982), 68-76.

"My Man Godfrey: Screwball Capitalism," Mid-Hudson Language Studies, 5 (1982), 137-48.

"Linguistic Structures and Filmic Paradigms: Notes Toward a Visual Pedagogy of Writing," Freshman English Resource Notes, 6:1 (Winter 1982), 1-13. Reprinted in Words and Images: Using Film to Teach Writing, ed. Jeffrey Spielberger (New York: CUNY Instructional Resource Center, 1985), 60-68.

"Evasions in Frankness: Wilson's The Thirties," Denver Quarterly, 16:4 (Winter 1982), 90-98.

"On Knowing Fred Astaire: Six Levels of a Student Sentence," Resource, January 1982, 18-19.

"'Incurably History-Minded': Edmund Wilson as a Writer," Markham Review, 11:1 (Fall 1981), 17-20.

"The American West in Film, Fiction and Myth," TETYC, 7:3 (Spring 1981), 237-42.

"About Us, For Us, Near Us: The Irish and Harlem Renaissances," Eire-Ireland, 16:4 (Winter 1981), 14-26. Reprinted in Literary Influences and African-American Writers: Collected Essays, Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture, ed. Tracy Mishkin (New York: Garland Press, 1996), 157-70.

"Speech, Identity and Ideology in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Film Criticism, 5:2 (Winter 1981), 12-22.

"The Virtues of a Holistic Approach to Reading for Basic Writing Students," FERN, 4:5 (Fall 1980), 11-13.

Reviews of The Sense of the Seventies: A Rhetorical Reader by Dolan and Quinn and Twenty- Three Plays: An Introductory Anthology by Arnott and Reinert, TETYC, 7:1 (Fall 1980), 75-78.

"Recorso: A Poem of War for the Allusive-Minded," The Poet, Autumn 1980, 395.

"The Uses of Myth in Young Mr. Lincoln," Michigan Quarterly Review, 19:3 (Summer 1980), 393-409.

"Transcendence and Immanence: Differing Attitudes Toward Material Reality in the Films of Chaplin and Keaton," Mid-Hudson Language Studies, 3 (1980), 137-48.

"Fantasia on a Photograph of H.H. Richardson's Library" (prose poem), New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:1 (Spring 1980), 36-38.

"'But I Don't Want to Go Among Mad People': Reducing Student Resistance to the Illogic of English," TETYC, 6:3 (Spring 1980), 225-28.

"Vocabulary in Business Writing: Six Propositions for Pedagogical Use," Journal of Basic Writing, 2:3 (Fall/Winter 1979), 40-58.

"Is Beauty Truth, Truth Beauty?: Epistemological Dissociations in Some Recent Films," Community Review, 3:2 (Fall 1979), 40-49.

"The Expanded Use of Simile in Anne Sexton's Transformations," Notes on Modern American Literature, 3:3 (Summer 1979), 9-13. Reprinted in Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale, ed. Steven Colburn (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1989), 257-62.

Reviews of Film And/As Literature by John Harrington and Short Story/Short Film by Fred Marcus, TETYC, 5:3 (Spring 1979), 239-42.

"Edmund Wilson's Letters on Literature and Politics 1912-1972," Community Review, 3:1 (Spring 1979), 40-42.

Introduction to "Rethinking the Afro-American Literature Survey Course" and "Design B. Thematic Approaches to Teaching Afro-American Literature" in Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction, ed. Dexter Fisher and Robert B.Stepto (New York: MLA, 1979), 234-35 and 240-43.

"Film Imagery, Literary Imagery: Some Distinctions," College Literature, 5:3 (Fall 1978), 157-73.

"Hearing, Seeing Black," LaGuardia Review, 2 (Winter 1977-78), 58-61.

"Peter Grimes at the Met," LaGuardia Review, 2, 64-69.

I also wrote 180 new exercises for Grassroots: The Writer's Workbook. Form B, by Susan Fawcett and Alvin Sandberg (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980).

In-House Publications:

The Future of Academic Computing at LaGuardia (1990, 79 pp.)

English Faculty Handbook, 3rd edition (1979, 51 pp.).

Supplementary text for English 112, "Writing for Business" (1977, 20 pp.).

EDITORIAL WORK

Contributing Editor, New York Stories, 1999.

Grant Proposal Reader, CUNY-PSC Research Awards in English, 1995.

Manuscript Reader, Michigan Academician: 1995.

Manuscript Reader, CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History: 1995.

Panel Member, CUNY-PSC Research Awards in the Performing Arts: 1993-95.

Grant Proposal Reader, CUNY-PSC Research Awards in the Performing Arts: 1993-94.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Teaching English in the Two-Year College: 1982-86.

Guest Editor, special issue on "Literature in the Two-Year College," TETYC, 12:1 (Winter 1984-85).

Member, Editorial Board, Esprit: A Humanities Magazine: 1983-89.

Book Proposal Reviewer, Longman, Inc.: 1984-86.

Reader, University of Alabama Press: 1984.

Software Reviewer, W.W. Norton: 1987-88.

Educational Software Reviewer, CUNY Central Office: 1987-88.

PAPERS DELIVERED

“ Coney Island and the Evolving Film Culture of New York City,” Gotham History Festival, Gotham Center (CUNY Graduate Center), October 2001.

"Creating Study Programs in Venice," Conference on "Why Italian?: Languages and Courses," John Jay College, April 1999.

"Coney Island and the Evolving Film Culture of Greater New York," Conference on "Brooklyn U.S.A.: A City Apart," Long Island University, October 1998.

"Smoke Gets in Your I's: THe Cinema of the Cigarette, 1942-47," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Alma College, February 1998.

"Interviewing the Survivors: The Algonquin Round Table and the Tone of Manhattan in the 1920s," TYCA Northeast Conference ("Manhattan as Metaphor"), New York, October 1997.

"The Creation and Suburbanization of Domestic Space in The Heiress," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Calvin College, March 1997.

"Writing in a Credit Banking Context," Nippon Credit Bank, New York, May 1996.

"Stopped at the Border: Why Writing Across the Curriculum (Often) Doesn't Work at Two- Year Colleges and Why It (Almost Always) Should," Conference on College Composition and Communication," Milwaukee, March 1996.

"Seeing in Widescreen with the Body's Eye and the Mind's Eye: A Purely Pedagogical Piece, with Confession," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Alma College, March 1996.

"Tutoring Metaphor," CUNY Writing Centers Association Conference, Kingsborough C.C., March 1996.

"Living in Xingu: Experiencing Collaborative Learning and Appreciating the Difficulties of Student Writers," Conference on Active Learning, Nassau C.C., March 1996.

"Writing, Banking and Real Esate Management," Citibank N.A., New York, June 1995.

"Writing in a Telemarketing Context," Dial-A-Mattress, New York, May 1995.

"Pare Lorentz' The River as Countertext," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ferris State University, March 1995.

"New Student House: An Overview," CUNY Personnel Conference, Kingsborough C.C., November 1994.

"New Student House: A Multidisciplinary, Multicultural Learning Community," Community College General Education Association Conference, Russell Sage College, May 1994.

"Paul Ricoeur on Metaphor and Narrative: Implications for the Teaching of Writing," College Composition and Communication Conference, Nashville, March 1994.

"Visconti Reading Mann: Death In Venice as a 'Decadently Failed Western'," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences," Michigan State University, March 1994.

"Building Effective Learning Communities at the Basic Skills Level: A Working Model," Conference on "Redefining Basic Skills: Transforming New Approaches into Pedagogy," Adelphi University, November 1993.

"Computing at Two-Year Colleges: Special Problems and Significant Possibilities," Eastern Small College Computing Conference, Monmouth College, October 1993.

"Changing Notions of the Literary 'Text' in American Higher Education," Victoria Institute of Technology, St. Albans, Victoria, Australia, July 1993.

"Collaborative Learning and Community College Education in the United States," Monbulk Secondary College, Monbulk, Victoria, Australia, June 1993.

"To the Finland Station: Edmund Wilson's Rejection of Marx as Scientific Historian," NYCEA Conference, New York University, May 1993.

"Alice Adams Observed, or Close Encounters of Three Kinds," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University, March 1993.

"Hayden White and Paul Ricoeur on Metaphaor: Implications for the Teaching of Writing," CAWS (CUNY Association of Writing Supervisors) Conference, Baruch College, October 1992.

"Computers across the Curriculum at Two-Year Colleges: Issues and Approaches," National Conference on Computers across the Curriculum, New York, May 1992.

"A Star is Shorn: Some Historical Musings on 'Stardom' and Individualism in American Cinema, 1910-1960," National Conference on "Film, Individualism and Community," Baltimore, March 1992.

"Greed: Non-Classical Style and Mode of Production," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Central Michigan University, March 1992.

"Can a Computer Tutor? An Experiential Look at Electronic Collaboration, " Fourth Annual Writing Center Association Conference, Queens College, February 1992.

"Biography as Autobiography: Startling Confessions and Bizarre 'Writes'," CAWS Conference, Baruch College, October 1991.

"Writing in the Next Millennium: Some Computer Ponderables," College Composition and Communication Conference, Boston, March 1991.

"Blade Runner: A Rhetorical Vision of Post-Rhetoricism," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences," Eastern Michigan University, March 1991.

"Computers in Language Arts Instruction," Computers and Composition Group, Bronx Community College, October 1990.

"Writing (??) in the Next Millennium: Some Ponderables from a Computer Future," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1990.

"Computers and New Curriculum Structures," National Conference on Computers and College Writing, New York, June 1990.

"Writing and the Language of Film in the Culturally Diverse Classroom," Tenth Annual Language Symposium, Medgar Evers College, May 1990.

"Cultural Narrative in 'Non-Narrative' Film: Bob Rogers' Ballet Robotique, Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Albion College, March 1990.

"Computer Technology vs. Computer Pedagogy: Utilizing the Computer Effectively in the Writing Classroom," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1989.

"Using Computer Technology in Intensive Writing Courses," Conference on High School- College Articulation, Brooklyn College, October 1989.

"The Educational Impact of New Technologies," Conference on Academic Leadership," Nassau C.C., April 1989.

"LaGuardia's Microcomputer/Writing Program: An Integrated Series of Courses," CCC Convention, Seattle, March 1989.

"Written Discourse and the Discourse on Writing," CCC Convention, Seattle, March 1989.

"Intensive, Computer-Based Courses in Writing, Mathematics and Other Disciplines: Several Working Models," Conference on Computers, Language and Literature, SUNY-Brockport, March 1989.

"Surviving as a Scholar in a Two-Year College," MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 1988.

"Composition vs. Writing: Educational Discourse and the Teaching of Written Communication," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1988.

"Close Analyses of Racial and Other Images in Film: A Practical Pedagogical Model," Conference on Integrating the New Scholarship on Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class into the College Curriculum, Hunter College, May 1988.

"Using Computer Technology in Teaching Writing to Linguistic Diverse Students: The Intensive Approach," Eighth Annual Language Symposium, Medgar Evers College, May 1988.

"Composition Theory and the Sickness unto Death," Conference on Curriculum Development, LaGuardia C.C., April 1988.

"LaGuardia's Microcomputer/Writing Program: Five Phases of Development," New York Metropolitan Association for Developmental Education Conference, Bronx C.C., March 1988.

"Sternberg's Shanghai Express: Surplus Value and the Commodification of Space," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Saginaw Valley State University, March 1988.

"Deprivileging the Literary Text and the Teaching of Composition," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1987.

"Computer-Based Writing Programs: A Paradigm for Development and Expansion," Eastern Small College Computing Conference, Marist College, October 1987.

"Computers and the Teaching of Writing in College," Academic Computer Center College Seminar, Queens College, March 1987.

"Self-Reflexivity in The Magnificent Ambersons," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of Michigan, February 1987.

"LaGuardia's Microcomputer/Writing Programs," New York State Education Department Conference of Local Administrators, Albany, February 1987.

"Integrating Film, Television and the Visual Arts into the Teaching of English: New Techniques for New Technologies," NCTE Convention, San Antonio, November 1986.

"LaGuardia's Computer-Based Program in Writing," CUNY Computer Group, CUNY Computer Center, November 1986.

"What's Happening?: The Status of Computer-Based Learning in the Teaching of Writing," SUNY Council on Writing Conference, Westchester C.C., October 1986.

"The 'English Express': A Series of Intensive, Computer-based Writing Courses," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1986.

"The Transition from a Small-Scale to a Large-Scale Computer/Writing Program: Issues, Questions, Approaches," Conference on Writing and Computers, University of Pittsburgh, May 1986.

"Integrating Computers into the English Curriculum," Conference on "Teaching English: Concerns and Approaches," Borough of Manhattan Community College, May 1986.

"Linking Student Voice and Literary Tradition: Introducing the Literary Text as Linguistic Object," CEA Convention, Philadelphia, April 1986.

"Liberal Education, Institutional Discipline and Intellectual Freedom," Community College Humanities Association Conference, New York, April 1986.

"'Just More Than Enough': Class and Gender in The Philadelphia Story," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences," Central Michigan State University, March 1986.

"Narrative and Visual Positioning of Black Characters in American Films of the 1930s and 1940s," Mid-Hudson MLA Conference, Marist College, December 1985.

"Microcomputers, Basic Skills and the Matter of Educational Privilege," Second National Conference on Microcomputers and Basic Skills, New York, November 1985.

"Writing, the Visual Arts and Perception," Conference on Writing and Other Arts, LaGuardia C.C., November 1985.

"Computers in the Writing Curriculum: Their Impact on Teacher and Program Evaluation," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1985.

"The Role of Literature in the Teaching of Writing, or the Uses of Difference," Sixth Annual Language Symposium, Medgar Evers College, May 1985.

"The Changing Role of Tutors in the Computer-Based Writing Curriculum," Conference on Learning Assistance Centers, Long Island University, May 1985.

"Black Figures in a White Universe: A Synchronic Study of Black Appearances in Classical American Cinema," CLA Convention, New York, April 1985.

"The Computer in the Basic Writing Curriculum: Bright and Dire Prospects," Conference on Developmental Education, Brooklyn College, April 1985.

"Film Ontology, Capitalism and Patterns of Cultural Meaning in Classical American Cinema," Annual Conference of the Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, March 1985.

"Teaching Learning Disabled Students to Write Using Word Processing," MLA Convention, Washington D.C., December 1984.

"Castration/Independence/Frigidity: The Philadelphia Story as Cautionary Entertainment," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, November 1984.

"What Do We Teach When We Teach English?" Conference on Writing and Social Issues, LaGuardia C.C., November 1984.

"Teaching Writing Using Computers: Approaches and Issues," NCTE Convention, Detroit, November 1984.

"Microcomputers and the Epistemology of Writing," Conference on Microcomputers and the Learning Process, Clarkson University, October 1984.

"Computers and Collaborative Learning in Writing," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, October 1984.

"What Is a Literary Text?" NYCEA Conference, LaGuardia C.C., May 1984.

"Teaching Business Writing with Computers: An Analysis and Critique," Conference on Computers in Instruction, CUNY Graduate Center, May 1984.

"'But Like Everything, Nothing Is Perfect': Standard Dialogue Acquisition and the Problem of Linguistic Logic," Fifth Annual Language Symposium, Medgar Evers College, May 1984.

"Chaplin: The Comic Body and Filmic Tension," Conference on American Comedy, Pennsylvania State University, April 1984.

"Fellowships and Levels of Intellectual Engagement," Conference on Teaching the Humanities in Two-Year Colleges, CUNY Graduate Center, April 1984.

"Word Processing in Composing: Praxis and Ontology," NEMLA Convention, Philadelphia, March 1984.

"Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons and the Death of an Urban Utopia," Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, January 1984.

"Film Ontology and Classical American Cinema," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, December 1983.

"The Rise of Film and the Revolution of Literary Narrative," Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies, Nassau C.C., November 1983.

"Literature, Literariness and the Teaching of Writing," Conference on the Use of Literature in Teaching Writing, LaGuardia C.C., November 1983.

"The Use of the Computer in Teaching Writing to Learning Disabled Students," College- University Reading Exchange Conference, C.W. Post College, October 1983.

"Genre as Genre: Stars Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Other Contemporary American Films," Society for Cinema Studies Convention, University of Pittsburgh, May 1983.

"Logical Statements and Cultural Inferences," CAWS Conference, John Jay College, May 1983.

"James Baldwin as a Writer on Film," CLA Convention, Philadelphia, April 1983.

"Structuralist and Poststructuralist Models of the Communications Process: Their Implications for Developmental Writing," Conference on Developmental Education, Brooklyn College, April 1983.

"The Literary Impossibilities of Cinematic Technology," Conference on Science, Technology and Literature, Long Island University, February 1983.

"Auteurial Omnipotence and Ego Survival in Chaplin's The Circus," Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, January 1983.

"The Writer Writes History: Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station," Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies, Nassau C.C., November 1982.

"Heroism and Determinism in Edmund Wilson's To the Finland Station," NYCEA Conference, LeMoyne College, October 1982.

"Autobiographical Strategies in the Later Works of Edmund Wilson," CUNY English Forum, CUNY Graduate Center, March 1982.

"Initiation and Enunciation in the Films of Frank Capra," Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, January 1982.

"My Man Godfrey: Capitalism and the Principle of the Excluded Middle," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, December 1981.

"Regionalism, History and Autobiography in Edmund Wilson's Upstate," American Studies Association Convention, Memphis, October 1981.

"Haven, Home and Hell: Visions of Harlem in Afro-American Literature," NEMLA Convention, Quebec City, April 1981.

"Race, Psychology and Segregation in King Vidor's Hallelujah!," Midcontinent American Studies Association Convention, Omaha, April 1981.

"The Irish Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance: Paradigms and Parallels," CEA Convention, Cherry Hill, N.J., April 1981.

"Racist Ideology and Narrative Displacement in The Birth of a Nation," CLA Convention, New Orleans, April 1981.

"The Quest for the Social Self in Afro-American Literature from Alain Locke to Ralph Ellison," Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 1981.

"Psycho-Sexual Transformations in Double Indemnity from Novella to Film," Comparative Literature Conference, Florida State University, January 1981.

"'Incurably History-Minded': Edmund Wilson as a Writer," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, December 1980.

"The Myth of 'Personalization' in Business Writing," American Business Communications Association Convention, New York, April 1980.

"The Use of Structural Film Analogues in Writing Courses," CAWS Conference, Hunter College, April 1980.

"Edmund Wilson as a Critic of Popular Culture in New York in the 1920s," NYCEA Conference, LaGuardia C.C., March 1980.

"The Black Community as Antagonist and Protagonist in the Early Works of Zora Neale Hurston," SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, November 1979.

"Business Writing as a System of Signs," NCTE Convention, San Francisco, November 1979.

"Transcendence and Immanence: Differing Attitudes Toward Material Reality in the Films of Chaplin and Keaton," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, November 1979.

"The Afro-American Writer's Audience: Five Turning Points," NYCEA Conference, St. Bonaventure University, October 1979.

"Basic Composition Visits the Orangery: Report on a Holistic Approach to Reading for Basic Writing Students," CAWS Conference, Hunter College, May 1979.

"At Ease with the Things of This World: The Comic Materialism of Buster Keaton," Conference on Comedy in Western Literature and Art, University of Alabama (Birmingham), March 1979.

"'But I Don't Want to Go Among Mad People': Overcoming Student Resistance to the Illogic of English," CAWS Conference, Hunter College, April 1978.

OTHER CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

Panelist, "Understanding Basic Skills," CUNY University Faculty Senate, January 1998.

Workshop Leader, "Changing Conditions in Remedial/Developmental Education," Conference on "Restructuring the [City] University," Barnard Baruch College, December 1995.

Respondent, section on "Computers in Writing and Foreign Language Instruction," MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 1988.

Planning Committee (Writing Area), Second National Conference on Microcomputers and Basic Skills in College, New York, November 1985.

Chair, section on "Word Processing," NEMLA Convention, Hartford, April 1985.

Panelist, section on "The Use of Microcomputers with Word Processing Software in the Teachingof Learning Disabled Students," Conference on Microcomputers and Basic Skills in College, New York, April 1984.

Panelist, section on "Using Microcomputers to Teach Writing to Learning Disabled Students," Conference on Microcomputers and Basic Skills, Long Island University, April 1983.

Chair, sections on "Film Studies," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, December 1982.

Panelist, section on "Literature and Film: 'A Jury of Her Peers'," MHMLA Conference, Marist College, December 1981.

Panelist, roundtable discussion on "Classics and Commercials: The English Curriculum and the Media," Conference on "English in 80's," City College of New York, May 1980.

Associate Chair/Respondent, panel on "Visual Approaches to Teaching Composition," CCC Convention, Washington, D.C., March 1980.

Chair, section on "Black English," CEA Convention, Savannah, March 1979.

Respondent, section on "Criteria for Judging Children's Literature," Conference on Children's Literature, Nassau C.C., April 1978.

FUTURE WRITING PROJECTS

Essay/monograph on "'Need Is Not Quite Belief': The Religious Vision in the Poetry of Anne Sexton"
Essay on Luchino Visconti's film of Death in Venice
Essay on "Paul Ricoeur and Writing"
Essay on "Self-Reflexivity in The Magnificent Ambersons"
A study of Edmund Wilson's view and use of history
Essay on the Tony Richardson film of Tom Jones

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Literature Section (MLA)
National Council of the Teachers of English (Member, Committee on Film Study in the English
Language Arts, 1984-87)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (NCTE)
College English Association
Society for Cinema Studies
American Association for Australian Literary Studies
Community College Humanities Association
CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences