Specializations
• Documentary video journalism: "Wisdom of Age Project," documenting stories of midlife-to-elderly people (www.wisdomofageproject.org). Hospice care end-of-life stories. Documentary film web site: (www.risingpress.org).

• Editing (DoubleTake / Points of Entry (Johns Hopkins University Press), a national documentary magazine/journal: 2006 and 2007, co-editor, layout designer, webmaster). Founded narrative journalism journal Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling in 2002. Combined Points of Entry with DoubleTake magazine in 2006. Project director for a U.S. Department of Education two-year grant ($100,000) to underwrite the combined journal and magazine DoubleTake / Points of Entry.

• Narrative journalism; News Reporting & Writing; Feature Writing. Active nationally with Nieman Narrative Journalism conference, Harvard University; Associated Writing Programs; National Council of Teachers of English. Editor and webmaster for online student narrative journalism—www.cnu.edu/lookout

• Photojournalism: taught for 20 years; former U.S. Air Force photographer and news photographer (and reporter)

• British & American Literature;dissertation on John Milton's 1667 epic poem, Paradise Lost.

• Jungian psychological approaches to literature;

• Book: Masculinity in American literature: my book, A New Path at Midlife: Transformative Relationship and Story for Men (Men's Studies Press, 2006), uses a Jungian approach to understanding the meaning of stories and films that are important on a personal level.

• Recent article: "Intrepid Exploring: Looking Past Fears of Short-Term Memory Loss in Aging to Deploy the Brain's Long-Term Memories and—Wisdom." Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts, Vol. 4, No.1. March 2010: 18-29.

• Article under review: "Radically Revising Student Perception of a Community Using Documentary Video-making and Service-learning: You Don’t Have to be Ken Burns." Discusses ways to use a college class to successfully challenge stereotypes of aging with service-learning projects in which students spend a semester documenting the stories of elderly subjects in a retirement community or adult day care center.

Education
Ph.D., English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. (1990)
Major fields of concentration:
Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Seventeenth-Century British Literature
Milton
Post-Jungian, Archetypal Psychology

MA, English (American Lit.), Syracuse University (1985)

BA, English, Syracuse University (1981)

DISSERTATION: "(Re)Imagining Satan in Paradise Lost: (Re)Valuing the Dark Side,
Transgression, and the "'Woman's Image.'" A Jungian reading of transgression in the
epic.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
• Associate Professor of English, Christopher Newport Univrsity, Newport News, Va. (1999)
• Assistant Professor of English (1994-1998), Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va.
• Assistant Professor English & Journalism (1991-1994), Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania
• Adjunct Professor of English (1990-1991), LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York
• Adjunct Professor of English (1990), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Other Publications


March 2010, "Intrepid Exploring: Looking Past Fears of Short-Term Memory Loss in Aging to Deploy the Brain's Long-Term Memories and—Wisdom." Vol. 4, No. 1, Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts, 18-29.

November 2006, Men's Studies Press / book
A New Path at Midlife: Transformative Relationship & Story for Men. For scholars
and eduated lay readers that interprets literature from a Jungian psychoanalytic
perspective that argues that literature can be a psychotherapeutic for men. This builds
upon my career-long research interests in both literature and Jungian psychology.

December 2005—September 2007
Co-editor of DoubleTake/Points of Entry, with Dr. Robert Coles, Harvard
University, and Dr. Roberta Rosenberg, CNU. A bi-annual magazine / journal for
scholars and lay readers.

May 2005 Documentary film
25-minute documentary about a student trip along the Appalachian Trail.

May 2006 Documentary film
"The Art of Seeing and Hearing" (14 minutes). Dr. Robert Coles, our co-editor at
DoubleTake/Points of Entry magazine, talks about the magazine's seminal work in
documentary writing and photography.

September 2004
Editor, third issue of Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling, Vol. 1, 2005:
216 pages.

September 2003
Editor, second issue of Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling, Vol. 1, 2004,
with editor’s introduction: 200 pages.

January 2003
“‘It Made Me Think, Seeing Myself Like That’: Affective Literary Representation
of the Inferior Masculine Self, or Good-bye Billy Pilgrim” Journal of Men’s Studies, Vol.
11: 2. Winter 2003: 175-188.

September 2002
Founded and edited Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling, Vol. 1, 2003,
with editor’s introduction: 120 pages.

December 2002
“Virtual Violence in Fight Club: This Is What Male Transformation Feels Like”(18
pp.) Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, Vol. 25: 3 & 4, Fall & winter 2002: 418- 423.

August 2000
"Teaching Journalism: Valuing a Literature Instructor's Expertise in Teaching
Critical Elements of Storytelling." Issues in Writing (10:2), 2000:pp. 152-170.

Spring 2001
"'Busting the Masculine Mystique': Failure as Empowerment in Men in Late
Twentieth-Century American Literature." Chapter in Women's Studies: An
Interdisciplinary Approach. New York: Peter Lang, 2001: 139-161.

August 1998
“‘Instigating Women’ and Initiation in Postmodern Male Identity: Women
Mentoring Men in Short Fiction by Michael Dorris.” Journal of Men's Studies (8:3) 1998: pp. 209-225.

December 1996
"Postmodern Soul Guides in the Fiction of Michael Dorris: Mining 'legible neon'
in 'Oui' and turning Cash into Gold in 'Earnest Money.'" Proceedings of 1996 Virginia
Humanities Conference.

Professional Skills
Expertise in using and teaching computer software:
• Adobe Photoshop CS3
• Adobe InDesign (and PageMaker)
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
• Final Cut Express 4.0
• Microsoft PowerPoint & Apple Keynote
• Microsoft Word & Apple Pages
• Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
• Web server administration & Webmaster

Expertise in video, photographic and computer equipment:
• Canon XH-A1 professional video camcorder, including professional sound mic use
• Prosumer camcorders, in mini dv tape and ACHDV formats
• All still photography formats, with a current emphasis on 35mm SLR digital cameras
• Darkroom technician in black-and-white chemistry and gelatin silver printing
• Mac Pro G5 multidisk hard drive computer
• Teaching applications listed above in college computer classroom on PC computers

Professional Memberships
American Film Institute
Media That Matters
Modern Language Association
South Central Language Association
College Media Advisor’s Association
American Men’s Studies Association
Aperture (photographic society)
American Men’s Studies Association
Student Press Law Center