Department of English. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004. Office: Room 425 Hibbard Humanities Hall.  (715) 836-4369. (715) 836-5996 (FAX). ranowlan@uwec.edu.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION:

Syracuse University, Ph.D. in English, December 1993. Dissertation, Cultural Studies, Queer Theory, Marxism.  Qualifying Examination Areas: 20th Century American Literature and Culture; 20th Century British Literature and Culture with a Focus on Drama; and Marxist Theory of  Ideology, Subjectivity, Culture, and the State.  M.A. in English, May 1985 with a Focus on Poetry.  University Fellowships, 1983-1984, and 1984-1985; Syracuse Scholarships, 1986-1987, 1987-1988, 1988-1989, and 1989-1990.

Wesleyan University, B.A. in English, June 1983. Minors in Philosophy, History, and Economics.  Honors. Phi Beta Kappa. Senior Honors Thesis: Alienation and Incarceration in Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and James Joyce's Dubliners.

Southern Connecticut State University, Extension Student, 1983-1986. Courses in Computer Science, French, and German.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF INTELLECTUAL INTEREST:

Critical Theory. 

Cinema Studies. 

LGBTQ Studies. 

Scottish Studies.

Popular Music and Culture.

British Cultural Studies, 1945-The Present.

Mystery and Detective Fiction.

Progressive Politics and Culture.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Fall 1997-Spring 2003, Assistant Professor.  Fall 2003-Present, Associate Professor (Received Tenure and Promotion at End of Spring 2003 Semester).  Sabbatical, 2006-2007. 

        British Literature After 1790: Scottish Crime Fiction (Spring 2011)

Critical Approaches to Literature  (Fall 1997,  Summer 1998,  Fall 1998, Spring  1999, Fall 1999, Fall 2000)

Critical Theory and English Studies  (Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2010, Spring 2012)

Introduction to College Writing  (Fall 1997, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011)

Introduction to English Studies (Spring 2001)

Introduction to Film (Spring 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002)

Introduction to Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture  (Fall 2002, Spring 2003,  Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2008, and Spring 2010)

Introduction to Literature (Fall 1997)

Literary Criticism  (Spring 1998)

Progressive Film Festival (Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012)

Seminar in Theory and Culture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Popular Music Cultures (Spring 2008, Fall 2009)

Seminar in Theory and Culture: Ian Curtis and Joy Division in (Historical and Cultural) Context (Fall 2011)

Social Justice in Film and Music (Spring 2011 and Spring 2012; Co-Teaching with Ryan Jones)

Studies in American Fiction: Film Noir (Summer 1999)

Studies in Film: Contemporary LesBiGay and Queer Film  (Fall 1999)

Studies in Film: Critical Theories of Film (Fall 1998)

Studies in Film: the Art and Politics of Representation in Contemporary Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Film (Fall 2001)

Studies in Popular Culture: Music, Protest, and Resistance (Fall 2008)

Studies in Theory and Culture: Queer Theory and Culture (Spring 2006)

Topics in Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture: British Cinema  (Fall 2004, Fall 2007)

Topics in Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture: Cinematic Representations of Ireland and the Irish  (Fall 2002)

Topics in Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture: Film Noir  (Fall 2003)

Topics in Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture: German Cinemas (Spring 2009)

Topics in Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture: Scottish Cinema (Fall 2010)

Writing About Literature (Fall 2000)

The New School for Social Research, Spring 1997. Lecturer/Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Introduction to Marxist Philosophy  (Spring 1997)

Southern Connecticut State University, Spring 1985-Spring 1986 and Fall 1996-Spring 1997. Lecturer/Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Developmental Composition (Spring 1985, Fall 1985)

Intermediate Composition  (Spring 1997)

Introductory Composition  (Spring 1986, Fall 1996)

Arizona State University, Fall 1994-Summer 1996. Visiting Assistant Professor.

Contemporary Critical Theory (Fall 1994, Fall 1995)

Contemporary Feminist and Queer Theories (Spring 1995)

Critical Theories of Film  (Spring 1996)

Cultural Studies  (Fall 1995)

European Drama from 1914 through the Present  (Summer 1996)

History of Literary Criticism  (Spring 1995, Spring 1996)

Persuasive Writing on Public Issues  (Summer 1995, Summer 1996)

Structures of Knowledge (Fall 1994)

Approaches to Literature (Fall 1993)

Composition (Spring 1994)

Onondaga Community College, Fall 1990 and Fall 1992. Lecturer/Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Introduction to Composition and Literature  (Fall 1990, Fall 1992)

State University of New York College at Cortland, Fall 1990-Spring 1991. Lecturer/Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Academic Writing I  (Fall 1990)

Academic Writing II  (Spring 1991)

Syracuse University, Fall 1986, Spring 1987, Fall 1987, Spring 1988, Fall 1988, Spring 1989, Summer 1989, Fall 1989, Spring 1990, and Summer 1990. Graduate Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student Intructor.

20th Century American Literature and Culture (Summer 1989)

Critical Reading and Writing (Spring 1987, Fall 1987, Spring 1988)

Determinism in Literature  (Fall 1998, Spring 1989,  Fall 1989, Spring 1990)

Fiction  (Fall 1986)

Interpretation of Fiction (Summer 1990)

Reading and Writing about Advertising  (Fall 1987, Spring 1988)

Reading and Writing about Biological and Psychological Theories of Human Nature (Fall 1987)

Reading and Writing about College and University Education (Spring 1987)

Reading and Writing about Comics and Humor (Spring 1988)

Reading and Writing about Film (Spring 1987)

Reading and Writing about Work and Working (Spring 1987)

20th Century Class Struggle and American Imperialism -- a Film History  (Spring 1990)

Exploring the Interconnections: Poverty, Hunger, and the Destruction of Nature -- a Film History (Fall 1991)

Marxist Aesthetic and Cultural Theory  (Winter 1991)

Marxist Philosophy (Spring 1990, Fall 1990, Fall 1991)

Marxist Political Economy  (Spring 1990, Winter 1991, Winter 1992)

Marxist Social and Political Theory  (Spring 1990, Spring 1991, Spring 1992)

Transnational Capitalism, the Global Factory, and the Struggle for Labor and Environmental Justice -- a Film History (Spring 1991)

PUBLICATIONS:

Ongoing Work/Work in Progress:

Directory of World Cinema: Scotland.  Bristol: Intellect, 2014.  Co-editing and co-writing with Zach Finch.  A Contribution to Intellect's Directory of World Cinema Series.

Continuous Research, Development, and Preparation of Insurgence, Weekly Community Radio Show Featuring Progressive Music of Protest, Struggle, Resistance, Rebellion, Revolt, and Transformation,  Mixed Together with Familiar and Unusual Selections of Primarily Alt Pop, Indie Rock, and Electronic Dance.  Also for Prospective Eventual Web-Based Bibliography--with Linked Audio Files--of Progressive Music of Protest, Struggle, Resistance, Rebellion, Revolt, and Transformation, Past and Present, from Across the Globe.

Ian Curtis and Joy Division in (Critical and Theoretical) Context.  Prospective book, currently in preliminary stages (research, study, development of argument and approach).

Great Lakes Progressive News and Dispatch.  Continuous contributions.

Scholarly:

"Queer Theory, Queer Cinema."  Coming Out to the Mainstream: New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century.  Joanne Juett and David Jones, Editors.  Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 2-19.

"Queer Cinema and Urbania."  Coming Out to the Mainstream: New Queer Cinema in the 21st Century.  Joanne Juett and David Jones, Editors.  Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 233-256. 

"The Politics of Love in Recent U.S. and U.K. Films of Young Gay Romance:  A Symptomatic Reading of Beautiful Thing, Get Real, and Edge of Seventeen."   The Journal of Homosexuality.  50th Anniversary Volume, Volume 50, Number 4, Fall 2006: 141-184.  

"Teaching and Working as an Openly Gay Faculty Member at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,"  Radical Teacher, Issue #60, May 2001.

"Post-Marxist Queer Theory and the Politics of AIDS," Transformation: Marxist Boundary Work in Theory, Economics, Politics, and Culture, Volume 2, January 2001.

"Critique as Radical Praxis," The Material Queer: a LesBiGay Cultural Studies Reader, Westview Press, June 1996.

"Radical Political Praxis within the Late Capitalist Academy," Red Orange: a Marxist Journal of Theory, Politics, and the Everyday, May 1996.

"Teaching Against Racism in the Radical Composition Classroom: a Reply to a Student," Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy, State University of New York Press, June 1995.

"Reflections on the Life and Work of Derek Jarman, 1942-1994," Against the Current, May/June 1995.

"Responding to the Anglo-Irish Treaty: a Strategy for Republican Solidarity," Against the Current, November/December 1988.

Collective and Collaborative:

Queer Tides.  Feature-Length Fictional Film Screenplay.  October 2007-May 2008.  Together with John Nicksic. 

Faceless Fascism.  Feature-Length Fictional Film Screenplay.  September 2006-August 2007.  Together with James Boland. 

"Capitalism and Your University Education," Bulletin In Defense of Marxism,  March 1995. Collectively Written as part of the Marxist Collective at Syracuse University.

"Late Capitalist Culture and Cultural Critique," The Alternative Orange, in four parts: October 1992, November 1992, January 1993, and March 1993. Collectively Written as part of the Marxist Collective at Syracuse University.

"Leninism Lives!," Manas, Spring-Summer 1992. Collectively Written as part of the Marxist Collective at Syracuse University.

"Marxism, Socialism, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Liberation," The Alternative Orange, in five parts: October 1991, November 1991, December 1991-January 1992, February 1992, and April-May 1992. Co-written with Mark Wood.

"Reification and Ideological Struggle," The Alternative Orange, Spring 1991. Collectively Written as Part of the Marxist Collective at Syracuse University.

"The University and Revolutionary Practice," The Alternative Orange,  Fall 1990. Collectively Written as Part of the Marxist Collective at Syracuse University.

"The University as a(n Ideological) Site of Production," The Alternative Orange, Spring 1990. Collectively Written as Part of the Marxist Collective at Syracuse University.

"Of Debts and Entitlements . . ."  Great Lakes Progressive News and Dispatch.  13 April 2011.

"Welcome: Progressive Values and Progressive Praxis." Great Lakes Progressive News and Dispatch.  29 March 2011.

Official Procedures and Policies Manual, WHYS Community Radio, 96.3 FM Eau Claire.  July 2009.

"The Mediatheque at the Newly Renovated British Film Institute Southbank."   Progressive Outpost.  February 2008.

"Lessons from the Ghosts in the Urban Architecture of Berlin."  Progressive Outpost.  February 2008.

"The City of  Paris Starts an Innovative New Program to Make Bicycles Cheaply and Easily Available to the Public for Traveling About the City," Progressive Outpost, September 2008.

"Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival,"  Progressive Outpost, April 2007.

"Low Power FM: A Movement Comes to Eau Claire,"  Progressive Outpost, February 2007.

"WHYS Community Radio 96.3 FM Eau Claire Progressive Community Radio,"  Progressive Outpost, November 2006.

"No Death Penalty Wisconsin!,"  Progressive Outpost, November 2006.

"Opposition to the Proposed Civil Union and Marriage Ban: Personal Reflections," Progressive Outpost, November 2006.

"Fair Wisconsin Leading Effort Against Civil Union and Marriage Ban,"  Progressive Outpost, September 2006.

"On Kevin Barrett, Stanley Fish, and Open Discussion of Controversial Issues in UW Classrooms,"  Progressive Outpost, September 2006.

"MySpace, Facebook, and the Popular Phenomenon that is Internet Social Networking Services Today,"  Progressive Outpost, September 2006.

"The U.S. Today--a Proto-Fascist Society?," Progressive Outpost, July 2006.

"Thoughts on Coming Out," Catalyst, October 2000.

"Marxist Theory of Homosexuality -- Past to Present," The Alternative Orange, in three parts: November 1992, March 1993, and May 1993.

"The Bush Doctrine, the New World Order, and Desert Storm Revisited," The Alternative Orange, March 1993.

"Reflections on the Deportation of Joe Doherty and the Irish Republican Struggle," The Alternative Orange, April-May 1992.

Fear and Frenzy, Repression and Resistance, State Terrorism, Sexual Conflict, and Class Struggle: Film Noir and the (Post)Modern American Political Imaginary.  [Prospective Future Book.]

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES -- A SELECT LIST:

"Teaching Gay Issues in the Schools: Engaging Resistance."   Five-Hour, Three-Session Workshop, Sponsored by the Chippewa Valley Civil Liberties Union.  Northwest Wisconsin Education Association Conference.  Eau Claire, WI.  October, 2004.  Co-Organzizer, Co-Presenter, Co-Facilitator.

"The Wisconsin Anti-Marriage Amendment: Reflections and Perspectives."  Unitarian Universalist Federation of Eau Claire Forum.  September, 2004.  Co-Presenter and Co-Discussion Leader.

"The Impact of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles' upon Ian Rankin's 'Inspector Rebus' Series of Adventures in 'Tartan Noir',"   Joint Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the British Association of Irish Studies, and the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, U.K., July 2004.

"Queer Pedagogy, Issues and Experiences,"  Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, March 2004.

"As What Do We Come Out, and For What Do We Come Out, When We Do Come Out?,"  4th Annual National Coming Out Day Rally, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, October 2003.  Speech.

"Teaching 'Cinematic Representations of Ireland and the Irish'," American Conference for Irish Studies, Minneapolis, MN, June 2003.

"A Socialist Perspective on the Iraq War," Eau Claire Staff and Faculty for Peace and Justice Iraq War Teach-in, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, April 2003.  Co-Presented.

"Civil Liberties in Wartime: Lessons from the Past/Concerns for the Future," Eau Claire Staff and Faculty for Peace and Justice Iraq War Teach-in, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, April 2003.

"The Patriot Act and the Threat to Civil Liberties After 9/11,"  Co-Organizer and Co-Presenter, Unitarian Universalist Federation of Eau Claire Sunday Service,  November 2003.

"Against American Imperialism -- Fighting Back Against the War in Iraq, and Beyond," Vigil 'In Solidarity and Sorrow', sponsored by Amnesty International, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, March 2003.   Speech.

"Homophobia and Beyond -- Levels of Attitude,"  3rd Annual National Coming Out Day Rally, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, October 2002.  Speech.

"The Right to Teach:  Confronting Resistance to Dealing with Gay and Lesbian Issues in the Classroom," Principal Organizer and Featured Speaker, Chippewa Valley Civil Liberties Union Session, Northwest Wisconsin Education Association conference, Eau Claire, WI, October 2002.

"Terrorism, State Terrorism, War, and Peace: Socialist Reflections," 3rd Annual Human Rights Awareness Conference, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, November 2001. 

"The Meaning, Significance, and Urgency of 'Coming  Out' -- Now  More than Ever,"  2nd Annual National Coming Out Day Rally, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, October 2001.  Speech.

"9/11 and its Aftermath -- An Argument Against War," Tri-State Midwest Rally for Peace, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  September 2001.  Speech.

"Friendship, Sexuality, Love, and Class in Three Recent U.S. and U.K. Films of Young Gay Romance: Beautiful Thing, Get Real, and Edge of Seventeen."  Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, D.C., May 2001.

"On Coming Out: Personal and Critical Reflections," Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Greater Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin chapter meeting, October 2000.  Guest Co-Presentation.

"Commemorating National Coming Out Day: a Radical Perspective," 1^st annual National Coming Out Day Rally, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, October 2000.  Speech.

"Peace, Love, Diversity, and Equality,"  2^nd annual Peace, Love, and Diversity March and Rally, Eau Claire, WI, November 1998.  Speech.

"A Contribution to the Critique of the Politics of Film Noir," Society for Cinema Studies, San Diego, April 1998. Also, panel chair and co-chair.

"Teaching and Working as an Openly Gay Faculty Member," various Women's Studies and English Department courses, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1998-2001.   Guest lecture.

"Why Study Critical Theory," various Women's Studies and English Department courses, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Spring and Fall 1998.  Guest lecture.

"Making Sense of Postmodernism,"  Department of Communication and Journalism seminar in Communications Theory, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, November 1997.   Guest lecture.

"Class Politics, Criminal Pleasures, Noir and Neo-Noir," panel chair, Society for Cinema Studies, Ottawa, Canada, May 1997.

"Queer Theory, Performance, and Materialism," College English Association, Baltimore, April 1997.

"Class and Desire in the Film Criticism of Slavöj Zizek," Society for Cinema Studies, Dallas, March 1996. Also, panel co-chair.

"Teaching Controversial Issues in the Composition Classroom," Arizona State University Composition Program public forum, March 1996.

"Theoretical and Political Approaches in Contemporary Cultural Studies," Arizona State University Department of English series of lectures and colloquia on issues in Contemporary Theory and History of Literary Criticism, January 1996.

"Marxist Critical Theory," Arizona State University Graduate Scholars in English Association lecture series, December 1995.

"Marxism and Homosexuality: a Critical Reconsideration of David Fernbach's The Spiral Path: a Gay Contribution to Human Survival, " Midwest Modern Language Association of America, St. Louis, November 1995.  Also served as respondent.

"Marxism and Sexual Dissidence," Languages and Literatures Department and Humanities Program seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory, College of Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, April 1995.   Guest lecture.

"Ludic Feminism and Queer Performativity: a Marxist Critique," English Department and Humanities Program seminar in 20th Century Feminist Theater, College of Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, April 1995.  Guest lecture.

"Class Politics and the New Queer Cinema," Society for Cinema Studies, Manhattan, March 1995.

"Radical Pedagogy Within the Late Capitalist Academy," Radical Philosophy Association, Drake University, November 1994.

"We're Here, We're Queer, We're Fabulous, Get Used to It!: (Radical) Gay and Lesbian Theory and Practice, Politics and Culture in the 1990s," seminar in Critical Theory and the Visual Arts, School of Art, Arizona State University, October 1994.   Guest Lecture.

"Queer Theory and the Politics of (Post)Identity," Histories, Bodies, Identities, Binghampton University, April 1994.

"Teaching Against Racism," Conference on Racism and Class, Syracuse University, April 1994.

"Queer Theory, Queer Politics: Toward a Marxist Critique," Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, November 1992. Co-written and co-presented. Panel chair.

"Late Capitalist Culture and Cultural Critique," Activism Collides with Theory, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, May 1992.  Co-written and co-presented.

"Marxism, Socialism, and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Liberation," The Future of Socialism: the View from Cuba, University of Havana, June 1991.  Co-written and co-presented.

"Towards a Postmodern Marxism?," Marxism Now: Traditions and Differences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, November 1989. Co-written and co-presented. Panel chair.

"The Politics of Intelligibility and the Production of Knowledge in Religious Studies: Towards a Marxist Theory of Religion,"  New England section of the American Academy of Religion, College of the Holy Cross, April 1989. Co-written and co-presented.

"Marxism and Utopia," Marxist Scholars Conference, Louisville, KY, March 1989. Co-Written.

"Utopia, Ideology, and Socialism,"  Society for Utopian Studies, Emerson College, September 1988. Co-written.

"Critical Reading and Writing as Ideology Critique,"  Rhetoric Society of America, Arlington, TX, May 1988. Co-written and co-presented. Forum co-chair.

"Oppositional Pedagogy Within the (Postmodern) Academy," the Group for Research in the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Literary Studies, Carnegie-Mellon University, May 1988. Co-written and co-presented.

"Rethinking the Collective Subject," conference for Graduate Research in Marxist Studies, State University of New York College at Buffalo, April 1988. Co-written and co-presented.

"Reimagining Socialism," conference for Graduate Research in Marxist Studies, State University of New York College at Buffalo, April 1988. Co-written and co-presented.

"Representations of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Novels of Northern Ireland," American Committee for Irish Studies, University College Dublin, July 1987.

"Poetry and Politics in Northern Ireland: the Case of Derek Mahon," American Committee for Irish Studies, Boston College, May 1986.

Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley, WI, 1997- :

    Ongoing Projects and Activities:

Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival: Founder and Executive Director of Eau Claire Progressive Film Festival and Series, Fall 2005-the Present. 

Disc-Jockey and Producer, Insurgence (Progressive Music of Protest, Struggle, Resistance, Rebellion, Revolt, and Transformation), Eau Claire, Wisconsin Community Radio Station WHYS-FM, Summer 2005-The Present.

Great Lakes Progressive News and Dispatch.  Co-Editor and Co-Publisher (with Chris Chasteen) as well as Principal Writer, April 2011-The Present.

    Past Projects, Activities, and Achievements:

Board of Directors, Coordinator/Facilitator, September 2006-October 2009, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Community Radio Station WHYS-FM.

Chippewa Valley Branch Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin: Board of Directors, 2001-2009.  Vice-President, 2005-2007.

Progressive Media Network: Co-Executive Director, Spring 2005-Fall 2009 and Film Executive, Spring 2006-Fall 2008.  

Progressive Outpost, Editorial Board, Spring 2006-Spring 2008.

Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Eau Claire, Wisconsin: Founding Member and Member of the Steering Committee, Fall 2003-Spring 2004.

Action Wisconsin: State Board of Directors September 2002-May 2003.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of the Chippewa Valley, West Central Wisconsin: Founding Member, Board of Directors, September 2000-September 2002. 

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, 1997- :

  Ongoing Projects and Activities:

English Department: Department Personnel Committee Chair, 2011-2013; English Department Personnel Committee, 2003-the Present.

University Senate: English Department University Senate Represenative, 2009-2013. 

University Senate Academic Policies Committee, 2009-2014.

Wisconsin Board of Regents, UWEC Provost and Vice-Chancellor's Office, and UWEC Office of University Research and Sponsored Programs, Full Academic Year Sabbatical, 2006-2007, to work on "Progressive Music of Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolt: a Critical Bibliography."

UWEC Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant Project, Three Directed Study Courses, and a Capstone Senior Seminar Course: Collaborative Development of a Feature-Length Fictional Film Screenplay Focused on Issues of Fascism and Resistance in the Contemporary US, September 2006-May 2007.  Student Research Day Poster Presentation, April 2007, and English Fest Presentation, May 2007.  (One Student).

   Past Projects and Activities:

Spectrum (formerly The LGBT-Straight Alliance and prior to that GLOBE) : Faculty Advisor, Fall 1999-Spring 2006.

Graduate Thesis Director: "Teaching Film Genres," Written by Steve Sparks (2004-2005).

Ad Hoc Subcommitee of the University Faculty Tenure and Promotion Review Committee.  Spring 2005.

Graduate Directed Study Course:  Teaching Film Noir/What Film Noir Teaches, Fall 2003 (One Student).

Undergraduate Independent Study Courses:  Advanced Studies in GLBT Issues and GLBT Film, Fall 2001 (Six Students); Intermediate Studies in Film, Video, and Moving-Image Culture, Spring 2002 (Two Students).

Equality (UWEC Faculty and Staff in Support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues): Founder, Fall 1998. Chair, 9/98-2/99, 5/99-10/99, and for 1/01-12/01.

Ubiquity (Arizona State University Staff and Faculty Supporting Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues): Served as Vice-Chair and Chair. Organized and Conducted Educational Video Screening and Discussion Courses in the Spring and Fall of 1995 on "Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Films."

Served on Fifteen M.A. Thesis and Ph.D. Dissertation Committees in English, Humanities, and Communications; Supervised Independent Study Courses in Contemporary Theories of Resistance, Film Noir, and Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism.

Arizona Progressive Students Organization: faculty advisor; Arizona Progressive Unity Conference, October 1995: campus organizer.

Syracuse University, 1986-1994:

The Alternative Orange, 1991-1994. Alternative campus publication. Editorial Collective.

The Lesbian and Gay Graduate Collective, 1990-1994. Founding Member, Steering Committee, Activities Director.

Marxist Collective at Syracuse University, Postmodern Marxist Collective, and Student Marxist Collective, 1986-1993. Organizations for Education, Study, Research, and Intervention. Founding Member, Principal Organizer and Public Contact.

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