Lionel C. Bascom

I am a veteran writer and editor and the honored alumni of an elite school of journalism and share that distinction with former vice presidents Al Gore and Dan Quayle, television personalities Pat Sajak, Gene Siskel and others. See Notable alumni http://bit.ly/2wdulE9

As a manager in various bureaus of United Press International, including New York, Chicago and Newark, it was my job to coordinate daily local and national coverage of crime, business, sports and lifestyle reporting and editing in an environment much like the internet today where we literally faced a deadline every minute. I was a foreign correspondent when I was 19 and traveled Asia writing feature stories for the largest daily newspaper in the world, Pacific Stars and Stripes.

As the metropolitan editor for a Times Mirror daily newspaper in Connecticut, I managed more than 30 reporters, editors, photographers, freelancers and administrative staff. As a freelance editor for Greenwood Press: http://bit.ly/2x3Ynro and Praeger, http://bit.ly/2x3CDMg

I developed, researched and wrote many non-fiction titles alone and as part of a team of editors.

See Worldcat for a comprehensive listings: http://bit.ly/2flE0hF

Summary of Professional Activities

My career includes editing and writing for a broad range of national magazines and newspapers, including Money and Fortune at Time Inc, The New York Times, the Detroit Free Press and United Press International; developing, editing and writing, publishing numerous nonfiction books, as well as working as a full time university professor for more than thirty three years.

My accomplishments include:

Numerous non-fiction books with mainstream publishers, including HarperCollins, John Hopkins University Press, Houghton-Mifflin Company, Simon & Schuster, Avon, Berkeley Books, Houghton Mifflin and Greenwood Press. My last book was Voices of the African-American Experience, (Three Vol)., The Lost Leaf of Harlem (St. Martin’s Press), was endorsed by Dr. Henry Louis Gates of Harvard; Cornell West at Princeton

A two-time member of the Pulitzer Prize Jury in Journalism at Columbia University, commentary, political cartoons.

A featured guest on National Public Radio's Morning Edition, and other NPR broadcasts in New York, Boston, Oregon, Los Angeles, Rhode Island, and Hartford.

Hardcover and paperback editions of A Renaissance in Harlem: The Voices of a Lost American Community favorably reviewed by The New Yorker, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal and others, 2000-2001, chosen by New York Public Library among the top 100 books about the Harlem Renaissance. Essayist in American's Best Short Stories, (Houghton Mifflin) fall 2001, A Lost Story of Dorothy West, My Baby, a WPA work; edited by Barbara Kingsolver, author of the Poisonwood Bible

Editor for Americana Encyclopedia Annual, 1990.

Associate Professor – Adjunct Professor in the Department of Professional Writing, Linguistics and the Creative Process; English Department, Western Connecticut State University, 1987-present.

Lecturer at Naugatuck Community College, Waterbury, Ct. 2009 to 2015.

Founder and CEO of Harvard Square Publishing, a collaborative venture with Fudan University Press, Shanghai, to publish or reprint classic World Literature Texts, including the newest English translations of 10 classic Chinese texts.

My creative activity has developed in recent years to the point where I have several book publishing projects in various stages of completion. These include a short story collection for St. Martins Press, The Last Leaf of Harlem: A Dorothy West Reader (2007), a three volume, 510,000 word reference work, Voices of African Americans, for Greenwood Press (Fall of 2008) and editing a new translation of Dao De Jing (The Book of Tao) by Yanan Ju (Central Connecticut State University/ Fudan University).

I am also compiling second, three volume reference work, Voices Across America: DeSoto to the Present, An Oral History of a New World, currently being considered by Greenwood Press.

Work in progress, reprint A Renaissance in Harlem, Lost Voices of a Community

Black Camelot: Stories of Harlem’s Renaissance A Misunderstood Social Movement 1920-1960.

Education: I was granted the equivalency status of a master's degree by Western Connecticut State University that was requested by the chairman of the English Department and a former graduate dean, Norman Puffet. It was documented in a state of Connecticut memo placed in my personal record in 1987. This status was based on my graduation from Defense Information School (Journalism and Public Relations) at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. and my extensive editorial background. Based on this status, I have been a professor in the Department of English and the Department of Writing, Linguistics and the Creative Process at Western for the past 27 years. This more than satisfies any the requirements of a BA or an MA.

Work Experience:

Journalism Professor, Western Connecticut State University (Danbury, Ct), 1987- Present. Lecturer: Naugatuck Community College, 2009-2015

Managing Editor, TheFreedomTower.com, 2005-2008

Immigration Link, a by-monthly tabloid newspaper published by the law offices of Spar & Bernstein, New York, N.Y. , Fall 2006

Freelance author, editor, 1987- present

Time Inc., Fortune, Money Magazine, staff writer, reporter, 1983-1986

The Advocate (Stamford, Ct.) Metropolitan editor, 1980-83.

Freelance writer, 1977-1980.

The Detroit Free Press, 1975-76

United Press International, staff reporter and staff editor in New York, Chicago, Newark, Trenton, 1971-1976.

New Haven Register, Danbury News Times, copy editor, reporter, 1970-1971.

Pacific Stars & Stripes; Armed Forces Radio & Television Network, Tokyo, 1968-1970.

Education: Masters equivalent. Western Ct. State University where I have 27 years of teaching experience as a full time professor and a part time lecturer in the Department of Writing, Linguistics and the Creative Process. References and official teaching transcript containing over 350 hours of teaching and certified by Western Ct. State University President James Schmotter. It is available upon request.

Books:

The American Mosaic: The African-American Experience, a wide ranging online database collection on African American history and culture. (ABC-CLIO-Greenwood Press 2014)

The Tarbaby Chronicles, Lost Tales from the Gullah Islands (Kindle Books, 2012)

The African-American Experience, Vol, 1, 2, 3 (A comprehensive, 510,000 word reference for the African-American Experience. Contextualized, crucial documents for the major ethnic group in the United States from Colonial times until today using oral histories and other primary sources. (Greenwood Press, Fall 2008)

The Last Leaf, The Hidden Legacy of Dorothy West (New York: St. Martin's Press, (2008)

A Renaissance In Harlem: Lost Stories of an American Community, (Chinese/English Edition, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press (Unpublished))

A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Stories of an American Community (Audio), 2005, Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically handicapped, Talking Book Project, edited by Lionel C. Bascom. read by Lindsay Ellison.2 cassettes. Essays culled from the WPA Writer's Project collection.

A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Stories of an American Community (New York: Hardcover, HarperCollins, 1999); paperback edition published by Amistad/HarperCollins 2001)

By The Light (Amazon Independent Publishing ebook 2013)

By The Light, (New York: Avon Books Paperback,1995)

Bailout: The Bankrupting of America, (Portsmouth, N.H.,Futura, 1993)

Full Circle: The Near Death Experience & Beyond, (New York: Simon & Schuster, Pocketbooks, 1990)

Full Circle: The Near Death Experience & Beyond, (Tokyo:Tuttle Mori Agency, 1993) Japanese translation.

Bizarre America II, (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1992)

Rubouts, (New York: Avon Books, 1991)

Masacres Famosas (Rubouts) /Richard Monaco; Lionel Bascom

1992 Spanish Books 216 p. : ill., ports. ; 12 cm.

México : Selector 1992

Encyclopedia Americana Annual, (Danbury, Ct.: Grolier, 1990), contributing editor; New York City Mayor David Dinkins profile, World Court, International Law, Central America

Jesus, The Son of Man, Lionel Bascom Ed., modernized version original book by By Kahlil Gibran, first published in 1928, modernized in 2007. (unpublished)

Voices Across America: An Oral History of the New World DeSoto to the Present Three Vols. (Work-in-Progress) Greenwood Press

Black Camelot: Stories of Harlem’s Renaissance/A Misunderstood Literary Movement 1920-1960, unpublished.

Works Cited in various texts:

Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man by Lucas E. Morel

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Vol. 2, Oxford University Press

The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood by Herb Boyd

FDIC: General Bibliography for the S&L Crisis

DeSoto, Richard J. and Lionel C. Bascom, Bailout: The Bankrupting of America,: Futura Press, 1992.

An African-American Experience: Langston Hughes: Understanding the Man, His Work and His Legacy, C.W. Post, Long Island University.

National Institute for Discovery Science Master Book List, By The Light cited.

American Association of School Administrators – Publications, Full Circle cited.

SciForums.Com Full Circle cited.

TeacherSource . Recommended Books . Social Studies | PBS, A Renaissance in Harlem

By Lionel C. Bascom, editor Published November 1999 This collection of essays

contains work that was part of a WPA Writers' Project.

Talking Book Topics, Vol. 71, No. 3, May-June 2005 Talking Book ...

RC 56684. edited by Lionel C. Bascom. read by Lindsay Ellison. 2 cassettes.

Essays culled from the WPA Writer's Project collection in the Library of Congress.

Black Issues in Higher Education, How Publishers Deploy Ad Dollars, September, 2001

Journal of Negro History, January 2001, Book Notes

The National Academies Press, National Academy of Sciences, New York Times article, by Lionel C. Bascom, "AIDS Shift Seen from Gay Men to Drug Users," New York Times, July 19, 1987, Sec. 11, pp. 1.

Rubouts: American Jews and Crime, An Annotated Bibliography, , By Robert Rockaway, American Studies International, February 2000, Vol. XXXVIII, No.

American Association of School Administrators, resource bibliography, Full Circle : The Near Death Experience and Beyond by Barbara Harris and Lionel Bascom. Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, New York.

A Renaissance in Harlem, preferred reference sources at John Henrik Clark Africana Library, Cornell University Library collection

Rose Caoli, Bird Lady of Scalzi Park, by Lionel Bascom, reviewed in A Gidion Moment, Champion Magazine, 2003, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, by Robert Field,

A Renaissance in Harlem, included in African Americans into the Millennium

55 Books for Black History Month and Beyond by Ann Burns with Emily J. Jones, A., Reprinted with permission from Library Journal, November 1, 1999

Copyright (c) 1999 for the U.S. Department of State

Research conducted by Lionel Bascom, contributed to A Survey of Compliance By Local Agencies, A Study on Access to public Information In Connecticut, Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, 1999

A Renaissance in Harlem Cited in, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Two Vols., Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2004

A Renaissance in Harlem, audio version cited in Talking Book Topics,May-June 2005, Vol. 71, 3

(For additional works in which my books or articles are cited, see Google Books. Search Lionel Bascom.

Reviews

Book Review for Voices of the African-American Experience:

...This work does a respectable job of pointing to some of the obstacles African Americans have had to overcome. Academic or public libraries that own To Make Our World Anew or TV shows such as the PBS video series Eyes on the Prize could use this as a companion.

By James Langan, Univ. of Pittsburgh Lib., Johnstown 2009Midwest Book Review - Wisconsin Bookwatch

"Bascom's work is an excellent addition to all public and academic library collections."

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ARBA

"This wide-ranging survey will prove useful in high school, public and academic libraries."

Library Journal

"Editor Bascom (English, Western Connecticut State U.) has compiled a collection of documents that reflect the experiences of African Americans from their early days as an enslaved people to their eventual status as Americans. Spanning a time period beginning with the initial importation of slaves to the English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia to 2008, this three-volume set includes almost 150 documents. The documents include relevant acts of Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court, correspondence, speeches, essays, interviews, and more. Authors range from Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams to James Baldwin and Al Sharpton. Entries are listed in chronological order and brief introductions place the entries in context. A substantial chronology of African American history also is included, as is a selected bibliography."

Reference & Research Book News

"Three volumes of text provide an exhaustive review of history through the inclusion of 145 documents that are presented in date order. Each entry includes a brief expository statement that provides framing and context for the reader. A substantial chronology precedes the entries, and a selected bibliography supplements the text. …Recommended for large public libraries, and smaller academic collections."

MultiCultural Review

"The majority of the selections in these volumes cannot be found with an online search; most are from non-digitized physical collections. And with the growing emphasis on the use of primary resources in schools, this set will be a valuable addition to a high school library. Public libraries whose patrons include historical or sociological researchers will also find it useful…this set will be an asset to reference collections in academic and public libraries.

The Free Library:Voices of the African American Experience is a three-volume scholarly compendium of primary testimonies and sources of African-American history (speeches, articles, mission statements, hymns, spiritual songs, slave narratives, memoirs, essays, and much more), offering an unparalleled glimpse into the lives of African-Americans during the past four hundred years, in their own words. Each document is presented with an introduction and additional contextual information, the better to aid students, scholars, or lay people researching the African-American experience. A thoroughly accessible resource sure to fascinate readers of all backgrounds, Voices of the African American Experience deserves the highest recommendation especially for public and college library collections.

Book Reviews of A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Voices of an American Community:

Publishers Weekly PWforecasts

A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Voices of an American Community

Between 1934 and 1939, the Work Progress Administration sent thousands of writers around the country to document local communities, and Harlem, the unofficial capital of black America, was one of them. The Harlem writers produced hundreds of slice-of-life vignettes that provide an intriguing view of ordinary African-Americans as they struggled to cope with the Great Depression and the pervasive racism of the times. Journalist Bascom has rescued 45 of these forgotten essays from WPA Archives. They include works by young luminaries-to-be, such as Ralph Ellison and Dorothy West, as well as talented unknowns like Vivian Morris. Ellison's "The Street" is a hilarious profile of a young musician unafraid of white hecklers. Often using fictional techniques, these nonfiction stories capture aspects of Harlem life during and after Prohibition: the backbreaking, poorly paid labor and union organizing; and such irresistible characters as Pullman porters--the train-riding cosmopolitans of the black working class--and an urban colony of ingenious black pushcart vendors. Although Bascom claims that the book corrects an overly middle-class, privileged view of Harlem life left to us by the Harlem Renaissance elite, these accounts are not quite a revelation. Renaissance writers like Langston Hughes and Rudolph Fisher also left many gritty, colorful sketches of working-class Harlem life. Nevertheless, Bascom has produced a delightfully engaging and diverse portrait of an almost legendary black urban community. (Dec.)

From The New Yorker

The precisely rendered testimony [in this book] . . . is by turns heartrending, enraging, strange, and hilarious.

BookList: Nov. 1999

Bascom asserts that the Harlem Renaissance began earlier and lasted longer than the 1920-29 period designated, and it included considerably more contributors than the marquee writers generally associated with the period. His collection includes unpublished material, long hidden in the Library of Congress, from the writers' program of the Work Projects Administration. Bascom includes works of such writers as Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, Frank Byrd, and Vivian Morris; and he provides historical context for these essays on common everyday life in Harlem. The collection presents a grittier image of Harlem than that of the celebrated Renaissance writers, who adopted a mission of uplifting the image of black people by avoiding dialect and any portrayals they thought might be viewed negatively. These voices recall the songs called out by pushcart peddlers of southern and Caribbean roots, the economics and sociology of rent parties, the tribulations of common workers from Pullman porters to domestics, and the sacred and profane lives of churchgoers, prostitutes, and religious hustlers in a struggling community during a vibrant passage in black American history. YA/C: Exciting; an absolute necessity for high-school American history studies. KS.

Publisher’s Weekly (1999)

Between 1934 and 1939, the Work Progress Administration sent thousands of writers around the country to document local communities, and Harlem, the unofficial capital of black America, was one of them. The Harlem writers produced hundreds of slice-of-life vignettes that provide an intriguing view of ordinary African-Americans as they struggled to cope with the Great Depression and the pervasive racism of the times. Journalist Bascom has rescued 45 of these forgotten essays from WPA Archives. They include works by young luminaries-to-be, such as Ralph Ellison and Dorothy West, as well as talented unknowns like Vivian Morris, Ellison's "The Street" is a hilarious profile of a young musician unafraid of white hecklers. Often using fictional techniques, these nonfiction stories capture aspects of Harlem life during and after Prohibition: the backbreaking, poorly paid labor and union organizing; and such irresistible characters as Pullman porters--the train-riding cosmopolitans of the black working class--and an urban colony of ingenious black pushcart vendors. Although Bascom claims that the book corrects an overly middle-class, privileged view of Harlem life left to us by the Harlem Renaissance elite, these accounts are not quite a revelation. Renaissance writers like Langston Hughes and Rudolph Fisher also left many gritty, colorful sketches of working-class Harlem life. Nevertheless, Bascom has produced a delightfully engaging and diverse portrait of an almost legendary black urban community. (Dec.)

American Library Association (2000)

A dynamic anthology of Harlem in the 1920s brings together unpublished material by Ralph Ellison and Dorothy West as well as the stirring voices of ordinary people, including peddlers, prostitutes, Pullman porters, and domestic workers.

GoodReads:Jbondandrews's review

5 of 5 stars

Read from August 20 to 23, 2011

A wonderful book. The individual stories were touching and heartfelt. Very worthwhile reading.

Digging beneath the glitter of the African American artistic outpouring early in this century dubbed the Harlem Renaissance, journalist Bascom unearths another Harlem from forgotten WPA Writer's Project manuscripts in the Library of Congress. Selecting 50 pieces by 11 WPA writers who worked in Harlem in the 1930s, Bascom challenges standard versions of the Renaissance's dimensions-everything from when it began and ended to its content and style. His selections take us beyond the close-knit circle of black intellectuals usually credited with producing the fruits of the most celebrated post-Civil War, pre-Civil Rights season of African American self-discovery. The pieces resound not with the voices of the glitterati but with a vernacular chorus about everyday life during the Great Negro Migration. (That migration, which brought blacks from the rural South to the urban North in massive numbers, changed not merely the complexion of upper Manhattan but transformed it into the world's black capital.) This important book promises to shift discussions about Harlem, the Renaissance, New York, and Depression-era America in popular culture, literature, history, and folklore. Highly recommended. By Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

Reviewed by Dr. Charleston R. Lee (APOAE 09180, VA USA) on Amazon.com.

This is perhaps the outstanding book this year on black life and culture in the U.S. during the depression years. I am drawn to it because I was born in the time frame and my parents, although in Chicago, lived a life similar to those depicted in these stories. I heard stories about how they had to make a living in those days. These stories also help me reach back to a time when my favorite aunt was living in New York during that time frame. She and her husband were black people who were not out of work (she a nurse, he a prison guard) so that I suppose they fit into some sort of "upper crust" Their honeymoon in 1939 took place in Bermuda!) With the help of these stories I can imagine in my mind's eye, my aunt and uncle in the Harlem clubs and on the scene in those days. I loved the tales of Vivian Morris and wonder who she was and what became of her. This book is why I think the one by L.O. Graham is so shallow as this reflects on where people came from, prior to being placed in some sham "elite": Bravo to the author and more! more!

From the Critics

Manie Barron - Black Issue Book Review

The period now regarded as the Harlem Renaissance produced a literary chorus of voices. Unfortunately, there was a flatness in the timbre of this chorus, since the day-to-day struggling, trying-to-survive-by-any-means-necessary voices of many Harlemites were not included. This omission is reminiscent of the position of W.E.B. Du Bois who felt black literature would be better served if the words and lives of these everyday people weren't included in the artful expressions of the "New Negro." Though the interviews collected in Lionel Bascom's superb A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Voices of an American Community took place long after the Harlem Renaissance's demise, the voices raised here for the first time are a welcome postlude to the sym-phony of the earlier period.

In a move to stimulate the lethargic economy and employ the masses during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as an integral part of his New Deal program. Using the un-employed to perform public services su>ch as street sweeping and road and building repairs to get relief monies from the government, the WPA was the forerunner of today's "workfare" programs.

The Invisible Man) and Dorothy West. They chronicled the lives and pains of everyday Harlem residents like the "Thursday girls" (as domestics were called because they had Thursdays off), hookers, gamblers, homeless craftsmen, and Pullman Porters. Though Ellison and West deliver as usual, the true finds in this volume (and well worth the price of the book) are Vivian Morris and Frank Byrd who conducted the bulk of the book's interviews.

Whether it's the sorrowful songs from the women who line up daily for the domestics' "slave market," the foot-stomping sermon of a deacon whose church is above a jazz club, or the laundry women who sing spirituals to forget the heat they're working in, Ms. Morris' people will grab you and hold you. Frank Byrd's vegetable peddlers may have been the predecessors to today's rappers, and Bess the prostitute –looking for love–will tear you up like Billie Holliday wailing, "Good Morning, Heartache."

A Renaissance in Harlem is a wonderful collection that belongs on your shelf, next to the family Bible. Though it has taken a long time for these voices to be heard, you will recognize their songs, for they are our songs.

From Nikki Giovanni

Lionel Bascom has done yeoman service by uncovering these lost stories. [He] brings the truth of ordinary folk back into the spotlight.

St. Petersburg Times

These are the ordinary folks of Harlem telling their stories in their voices . . . In short, this collection of long-lost work adds contrast, texture and realism to what undoubtedly remains the most creative time in black history.

The Advocate, Stamford, CT

"To say Bascom has unearthed a buried treasure would be a cliche, but also correct."

Emerge

"A unique chronicle ... the range of material is impressive ... the real life characters here stand out as vividly as any in fiction writings by Renaissance writers."

Talking Book Topics, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically, Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2005

Reviews of Full Circle: The Near Death Experience and Beyond

Journal of Near Death Studies, International Association of Near Death Studies, Inc. reviewed by Judith Miller, PhD, 1990

Articles:

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment (Review) The African-American Review, 2013, The Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University.

The Annual Budget Woes are Upon Us, Matrix: The Magazine for Leaders in Higher Education: Oct. 2001)

The Long Goodbye: Faced with Dwindling Enrollment and an anemic endowment, Trinity College Tried for Years to Put Off the Inevitable, Matrix: The Magazine for Leaders in Higher Education, June 2001:

Dorothy West's Hidden Legacy, ,Connecticut Review, Fall 2000

The Other Harlem, American Legacy, Forbes magazine group, Summer 2000

Money Matters, Decorating, Remodeling, New York Times Company, April 1990

The Thomas Gold Affair, an International Oil and Gas Scandal, Scoop, Investigative Journalism Journal, Stockholm, Sweden, 1990

Profile of Benjamin Andrews, president of the 20,000 member Connecticut branch of the NAACP, New York Times, Feb. 21, 1988,.

Aids Shifts from Gay Men to Drug Users, New York Times, July 19, 1987

New York Times, May 8, 1988, Op-Ed, Town Sells Off Pieces of Its Soul

Internet:

Blog Editor, FreedomTower.com, ImmigrantAmerican.blogspot.com, Fall 2006

Commodities Trading: No More Oil Slicks. Online Hubs Make An Old Game Fair Play, The Next Big Thing (www.TNBT.Com defunct), April 4, 2001.

Radio and Television Interviews:

Black Literature Today, hosted by Manie Barron. C-Span Television Network, 2000, Authors discussed literary styles, the need for different voices, books written for black readers, and the need to create an audience of black readers. They also responded to questions from the audience. Ms. Bell Hooks wrote Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Mr. Bascom wrote A Renaissance in Harlem, Mr. Omar Tyree wrote Sweet St. Louis, and Mr. Colin Channer wrote Waiting in Vain

City Folk, WFUV-FM, New York, N.Y., February, 2001

Jeff Horse Show, WJFF-FM, Albany, N.Y., February, 2001

Evening Drive, The Bernie McCain Show, WOL-AM, Baltimore, Md., February 16, 2001.

Profiles, KOPB-FM, Portland, OR, March 8, 2001

WEAA-FM, Baltimore, Md., March 13, 2001

Radioscope, Lee Bailey Communications Syndicated shows, Los Angeles, March 14, 2001

Morning Edition, National Public Radio, WNPR-FM. Hartford, Ct., March 21, 2001

Connection, WBUR-FM, Boston, March 30, 2001

Inquiry, National Public Radio, WICN-FM, Boston, April 13, 2001

Conference Presentations:

MFA in Professional Writing presentation, Research for Writing: A Practical Guide, January, 2007, three hour presentation at the Ruth Haas Library for MFA students. This presentation was done in conjunction with Librarian Joan Reitz in a workshop during the one week residency. Students received an overview of library research resources, including available and trial databases, scholarly and practical resources on the World Wide Web, libraries, publishing, professional development, including sources like the MLA, reference books and biographical resources, CONSULS, plus an array of research strategies and tactics.

Committee Work and Panels:

As a member of the Professional Writing Committee December, 2006, rewrote course outline for Basic News Writing ENG 270 to conform for new department of Professional Writing, Linguistics and the Creative Process. Rewrote ENG270 into WRT270 News Writing I, a 3 credit workshop where news writing is presented as a model for the writing process in all genres, including journalism, nonfiction and fiction.

Hosted a formal news conference with Mayor Mark Boughton on pressing immigration problems in Danbury (Oct. 5, 2006) in White Hall 306

High Tea: Western Connecticut State University, Warner Hall, I hosted a seminar in the Spring of 2006 with the permission of Dean of Arts and Sciences, Linda Vaden-Goad for students with exceptional writing projects to hear Random House author Victoria Secunda lecture on her book, Fathers and their Daughters: The First Love. She is the author of Losing Your Parents, Finding Yourself, Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life.

Modern Language Association 2,000 convention, December, 2000, Washington, D.C., scheduled to deliver paper on The Hidden Legacy of Dorothy West.

CSPAN Book TV, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Countee Cullen Library, Harlem, New York: Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, July 22, 2000

Reading Series: Western Connecticut State University, English Department, May, 2001, The Other Renaissance in Harlem: A Misunderstood Literary Movement.

Education: Graduated from Defense Information School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Ind. as a Naval Journalism Major, 1968; granted the status of an MA by Graduate Studies Dean, Western Ct. State University, 1987. (See Human Resources file, Fall 2006)

Teaching:

Western Connecticut State University, English Department Journalism Program, professor, 1987 to present. To date I have taught more than 350 certified hours of college level writing courses.

Courses:

Journalism I, II

Copy editing

Journalism Workshop

Investigative Journalism

Advanced Journalism

The Book

Magazine Development

Feature Writing

Magazine Writing

Faculty Developed Study:

Developing an Arts and Entertainment Publication

Freshmen Composition I, II

Freshmen Composition, Eng. 098

Introduction to Fiction

Introduction to the Essay

Writer's Toolbox