Education

Ph.D., English Literature; Certificate, Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies,
           City University of New York Graduate School, 1991
Doctoral Thesis: "The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages:
            The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona"
Thesis Adviser: Allen Mandelbaum; Readers: Robert O. Payne, Frederick Goldin

M.A.,  English Literature Hunter College, City University of New York, 1987
B.A.,   English Literature State University of New York at Cortland, 1983
 

Research Interests

Modern and Postmodern Literature, especially Poetry; Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies; Technology and Culture, especially Aesthetics; Textual Scholarship; Communications Technology and Epistemology
 

Experience

Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2006 - Present
Associate Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1998 - 2006
 Assistant Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1993 - 1998
 Special Lecturer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1990 - 1993
 Adjunct Lecturer, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1988 - 1990
 Adjunct Lecturer, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1987 - 1989
 Adjunct Lecturer, Queens College, City University of New York, 1987 - 1988
 Adjunct Lecturer, Empire College, State University of New York, 1987
 Teaching Fellow, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1984 - 1987
 

Teaching Activities
 

Courses Taught

 At NJIT

     Writing and Communication
 HSS 099,  Basic Skills Reading and Writing
 Eng 603,  Cultural and Technological Change (listed below)
 Eng 095,  ESL Reading, Writing, Conversation for Undergraduate Students
 Eng 502,  ESL Reading, Writing, Conversation for Graduate Students
 HSS 101,  Writing, Speaking, Thinking
 Eng 620,  Proposal Writing
 Eng 352,  Technical Writing
 Eng 352S,  Technical Writing for Foreign Students
 STS 304,  Writing Topics in Science, Technology and Society (listed below)

     Literature and Humanities
 Lit 320,  American Literature
 Lit 457,  American Literature 1950 to Present
 Lit 321,  British Literature 600 to Present
 Hum 112,  Foundations of Western Civilization
 Lit 331,  World Literature I (including Distance-Learning)
 STS 378,  Literature in Nature
 Hum 496H,  Literature and Medicine
 HSS 403,  Love in the Middle Ages
 HSS 403,  Medieval Literature of the West, after the Millenium
 Lit 480 (now Phil 380), Philosophy of Language
 HSS 211,  The Pre-Modern World
 HSS 403,  Romance in the Western Middle Ages
 HSS 213,  The Twentieth-Century World
 HSS 491H,  Word and Image, Past and Present

     Science, Technology and Society
 STS 348,  Esthetics and Modern Technology
 Eng 603,  Cultural and Technological Change (listed above)
 STS 310H,  Technology and Human Values
 STS 304,  Writing Topics in Science, Technology and Society (listed above)
 HSS 202,  Society, Technology, and Environment

 Additional Courses Taught at Other Schools

     Writing and Communication
 Basic Skills Reading and Writing
 Creative Writing
 ESL Reading, Writing, Conversation
 Expository Writing

     Literature and Humanities
 American Literature 1600 to Present
 American Literature 1900 to 1950
 Great Works of English Literature
 Introduction to Literature
 Labor Themes in American Literature
 

New Courses Developed, Moribund Courses Revived

 New Courses for NJIT Catalog

 Eng 496, Senior Project in Professional and Technical Communication, Proposed 1997,
   Piloted 2000
 Eng 491/492, Co-Op Work Experience in Professional and Technical Communication,    Proposed 1997, Piloted 1999
 STS 448 (now STS 348), Aesthetics and Modern Technology, Proposed and Piloted    Spring 1996
 Lit 340, Contemporary Literature, Proposed, 1997, to be piloted
 Lit 321, British Literature, Proposed and Piloted Spring 1997
 Eng 603, Cultural and Technological Change, Proposed and Piloted Spring 1994

  Newly Created NJIT GUR Capstone Courses

 HSS 491H, Word and Image, Past and Present, Developed and Taught in Distance Format on WebCT, Fall 2002
 HSS 403, Romance in the Western Middle Ages, Developed and Piloted, Fall 2001
 HSS 403, Love in the Middle Ages, Proposed and Piloted Spring 2000
 HSS 403, Medieval Literature of the West after the Millennium, Proposed and Piloted
   Spring 1999
 Hum 496H, Literature and Medicine, Piloted Fall 1998

  Courses Revived

 Lit 457 (now Lit 357),  American Literature Since 1950, Revived Summer 1991
 Lit 480 (now Phil 380), Philosophy of Language, Revived Summer 1990

  Courses Modified for Distance Learning

Helped to plan, author and pilot a manual on pollution prevention from humanities and social sciences perspectives, designed for lower division undergraduates (see "Grants" section, below)
Authored three of the manual's chapters:

  The Historical Dimension of Pollution Prevention
  The Cultural Dimension of Pollution Prevention, the Literary Imagination
  The Cultural Dimension of Pollution Prevention, the Visual Imagination
 

Teaching-Related Publications

“Analysis and Reflections about Preservation Week” a portion of Preservation Week Report, Spring 1998 (see "Scholarly Activities, 'Reports'" section, below)

Environmental Protection: Solving Environmental Problems from Social Science and Humanities Perspectives, a co-authored textbook (see "Scholarly Activities, 'Books'" section, below)
 

Thesis Advisement

Adviser, “The Psychodynamics of Language,” Pamela Margerm, MS in Professional and Technical Communication, 1998

Adviser, “The Semiotics of Webpage Design,” Shonell Bacon, Candidate for , MS in Professional and Technical Communication, unfinished thesis

Reader, "Arts on Wire: Bringing the Arts to the Virtual Space," Christopher Odediran, MS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2002

Reader, "A Thumb on the Scale: Biological Determinism and the Essays of Stephen Jay Gould," Kevin F. Ryan, MS in Professional and Technical Communication, 1999

Reader, “Electronic Research Administration: Implementation at New Jersey Institute of Technology,” Lauren Rethwisch, MS in Professional and Technical Communication, 1998

Reader, "Samuel Florman and a Literature of Technology," Paul Sharke, MS in Professional and Technical Communication, 1997

Reader, “Blogs: Open Source Diaries,” Kelly Schab, MS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2004 (in process)
 

Adviser, “First Generation Chinese Immigrant Children Experience: Biculturalism and Racism in the Struggle to Become American,” an ethnographic website, Chun Tat Kong, BS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2004

Adviser, “Existentialism and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening,” Janet Alejandro, BA in Professional and Technical Communication, 2003

Adviser, "Proposal for a Strategic Alliance: The Application of Technical Communication to Business Solutions," Paul Ray, BS in Professional and Technical Communication 2002

Adviser, “Say Word!: Hip Hop Culture and Its Ability to Communicate,” Jarrod Watson, Senior Project, BS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2002

Adviser, “Spaghetti and Cornflakes, a Novella,” Tenille Jordan, Senior Project, BA in Professional and Technical Communication, 2002

Adviser, “Tech Tourism: A Business Plan and Website for a Tourist.Com Venture,” Kamiludeen Olufowobi, Senior Project, BS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2002

Adviser, “Documentary on Student Life on Campus,” Ahmed Soliman, Senior Project, BS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2000

Adviser, “Original Film Drama of Cross-Country America,” Ersal Aslam, Senior Project, BS in Professional and Technical Communication, 2000
 
 

Scholarly and Artistic Activities
 

Books
 

 Critical Studies

 The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters, Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press / London: Associated University Presses, 1998; 211 pages. Peer-Reviewed
   Reviews:
    Lionel Kelly and Pat Righelato, Year’s Work in English Studies Vol. 79 (2001): p. 714
    R. W. (Herbie) Butterfield, American Studies Vol. 34 (2000): pp. 173-74
    Timothy Materer, American Literary Scholarship (1998): pp. 344-46
    Barry Wallenstein, Choice (December 1998): p. 687
    Jack Kimball, Sagetrieb Vol. 16, No. 3 (Winter 1997): pp. 129-31
    Anonymous, Books under Review

The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages : The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, New York / Washington, D.C. / Baltimore / Bern / Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna / Paris: Peter Lang Publishing, 1996; 288 pages. Paperback edition, 1999. Peer-Reviewed
   Reviews:
    Albrecht Classen, Arthuriana Vol. 10, No. 1 (2000): pp. 140-42
    John M. Ganim, Speculum Vol. 74, No. 2 (April 1999): pp. 443-45
    Amy Goodwin, Studies in the Age of Chaucer Vol. 20 (1998): pp. 283–88
    Eric H. Reiter, SHARP News (Newsletter of the Society for the  History of Authorship, Reading and
      Publishing)  Vol. 7,  No. 2  (Spring 1998): pp. 8-10
    Stephen Kelly, in the Journal of the Early Book Society Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 1997): pp. 162-63
    David Greetham, in Text Vol. 10 (1997): pp. 418-24
    Scott Gwara, in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Vol. 91, No. 3 (September 1997): pp.
      429-30
    Anne Berthelot, in The Medieval Review (May 1997): pp. 1-2  

First Life (poems), Jersey City, NJ: Jensen / Daniels, Publishers, 2000; 20 pages.
 Reviews:
    Thomas Fink, Boston Review Vol. 26, No. 6 (December 2001 / January 2002): p. 57
    Thomas Fink, Bookmark (Spring 2001): pp. 4-6

Musaics (poems), New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 1992; 52 pages.
  Reviews:
    Norman Finkelstein, in Sagetrieb Vol. 11, No. 3 (Winter 1992): pp. 135-41
    Edward Foster, in The Poetry Project Newsletter Vol. 152 (Dec. 1993 / Jan. 1994): p. 18
    Bernie Earley, in Home Planet News Vol. 9, No. 2 (September 1993): pp. 7, 23
 

  Textbook

  [as co-author]

Environmental Protection: Solving Environmental Problems from Social Science and Humanities Perspectives, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1997; 472 pages; Co-Authored with Nancy Coppola, Norbert Elliot, David Geithman, Nancy Jackson, and Eric Katz. Peer-Reviewed
  Principal Authorship:
    Chapter Four, "Literature and the Environment"
    Chapter Seven, "Aesthetics and the Environment"
  Reviews:
    Stephen Goldman, Science, Technology and Society(Fall 1997): p. 16
    Eugene McQuillan, on "Literature" chapter (pre-publication)
    Jackie Brookner, on "Aesthetics" chapter (pre-publication)
 

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

 Board Reviewed

"The Traces of Being: Armand Schwerner's Ephemeral Episteme," Poetry Criticism 42, Ed. Allison Marion, Detroit: Gale Group (forthcoming); a reprint of journal article (see Journal Articles section, below)

"Foreword," Bearing Across: Studies in Science and Literature, 2nd Edition, by Steven Carter, Washington, D.C.: International Scholars Publications, 2002, pp. ix-xviii

“‘Art As a Way’: ‘Absence and Presence, Aesthetics and Friendship in the William Bronk – Robert Meyer Correspondence,” in The Body of this Life: Reading William Bronk, Ed. and Intr. David Clippinger, Jersey City: Talisman House Publishers, 2001, pp. 40-52

"Ockham, Chaucer, and the Emergence of Modern Poetics," in Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne, Eds. John M. Hill, and Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2000), pp. 177-205

"The Language of the Text: Authorship and Textuality in Pearl, The Divine Comedy, and Piers Plowman," in The Medieval Book and the Magic of Reading, Ed. Albrecht Classen, New York and London: Garland Publishing (1999), pp. 123-48

"George Oppen and the Other: Carl Rakosi's 'Old Poet's Tale'," Carl Rakosi: Man and Poet, Ed. Michael Heller, Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1993, pp. 433-47
 

 Board Reviewed

“'Art new, hurt old': “A”, Ulysses, and Modernist Intertextuality," FlashPoint 7 (Summer 2004), http://www.flashpointmag.com/

“Text and Selfhood in Medieval and Postmodern Worlds,” Readerly/Writerly Texts 10.1, 10.2 (Spring/Summer-Fall/Winter 2002 and Spring/Summer 2003): 51-60

"George Oppen’s Silence and the Role of Uncertainty in Post War American Avant-Garde Poetry," Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36.2 (June 2003): 145-62

"Getting One’s Bearings: Writing after the Quantum," Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 10.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2003): 31-44

"The Historical Imperative in Contemporary Jewish American Poetry: Enid Dame, Michael Heller, and Nikki Stiller," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 21.1 (Fall 2002): 103-10

"A Conversation about Living Root between Michael Heller and Burt Kimmelman," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 21.1 (Fall 2002): 111-15

"Objectivist Poetics since 1970," in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, Eds. Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 23-26 (2002), pp. 161-84

“From Black Mountain College to St. Mark’s Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, di Prima, and Oppenheimer,” RainTaxi (Spring 2002), http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002spring/

“Quantum Syntax: John Taggart's Discrete Serialism,” FlashPoint 5 (Spring 2002), http://www.flashpointmag.com/

“The Internet, Selfhood, and the (Re)textualizing of Experience,” College English Notes 27.2 (October 2000), pp. 6-9

"‘Thanne motyn we to bokys’: Writing’s Harvest in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women,” Journal of the Early Book Society 3 (2000), pp. 1-35

"Worldlessness," Terra Nova: Nature and Culture 3.1 (Winter 1998): pp. 135-44

"The William Bronk – Charles Olson Correspondence,"  Minutes of the Charles Olson Society 22 (special issue, January 1998), pp. 2-6

"Worldlessness, Virtual Reality, and the Limits of Technology," Sycamore: A Journal of American Culture 1.4 (Winter 1997); http://www.unc.edu/sycamore/97.4/index.html

"The Problematics of Presence: William Bronk's Anti-Epistemology," Lo Straniero 25 (May 1997): p. 40

"Pound, Stevens, Bronk: Phenomenology and the Postmodern Lyric," The Journal of Imagism 2 (Fall 1997): pp. 34-63

"Visionary Science in Purgatorio XVII and Paradiso XXX," Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Vol. 26 (1995): pp. 53-74

"Ezra Pound's Medievalism and the American Avant-Garde," The Arkansas Quarterly, A Journal of Criticism 2.3, Summer 1993: pp. 213-41

"Centrality in a Discrete Universe: William Bronk's Poetry and Philosophy in Relation to Wallace Stevens," Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist / Objectivist Tradition 7.3 (Winter 1988): pp. 119-30

 [as co-author]

"Pollution Prevention across the Technological Curriculum: An Interdisciplinary Case Approach," The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 14.3 (1994): pp. 150-54; Co-Authored with Nancy Coppola, and Eric Katz

"Introduction" to William Bronk Special Issue, Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist / Objectivist Tradition 7.3 (Winter 1988): pp. 5-7; Co-Authored with Henry Weinfield
 

 Editor Reviewed

"Armand Schwerner 1927 - 1999," Poetry Project Newsletter 175 (June 1999): p. 7 (invited submission)

"The Traces of Being: Armand Schwerner's Ephemeral Episteme," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 19,devoted to the work of Armand Schwerner (Winter 1998/1999): 70-77; reprinted in Poetry Criticism 42 (see Book Chapters section, above)

"Papers Revisited," Lo Straniero 26 (May 1997): pp. 17-18

"The Autobiography of Poetics: Michael Heller's Living Root," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 10 (Fall 1993): pp. 67-76
 

  Encyclopedia Articles

  Board-Reviewed Essay Entries

"Howard Moss," in Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, Eds. Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press (1999), pp. 402-10

"Michael Heller," in American Poets since World War II, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 165, Fourth Series, Ed. Joseph Conte, Detroit, Washington, D. C., London: Bruccoli Clark Layman / Gale Research, 1996, pp. 108-19
 

  Board-Reviewed Short Entries

"Lyeys" Chaucer Encyclopedia, Gen. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (accepted for publication)

"Macedogne," "Chaucer Encyclopedia, Gen. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (accepted for publication)

"Marmoryke," Chaucer Encyclopedia, Gen. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (accepted for publication)

"Marrok," Chaucer Encyclopedia, Gen. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (accepted for publication)

"Mecene" ("Messina"), Chaucer Encyclopedia, Gen. Ed. Paul Ruggiers, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press (accepted for publication)
 

  Editor-Reviewed Essay Entries

   [as author]

“Norman Finkelstein,” Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic-American Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005

“Introduction,” The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Facts on File, Inc.,  2005, pp. xiv-xix

"The Journals,"  The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Facts on File, Inc.,  2005, pp. 248-50

"The Black Mountain School,"  The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2005, pp. 51-54

"William Bronk," The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2005, pp. 65-67

"Howard Moss,"  The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2005, pp. 328-29

"J. P. Donleavy," The Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Catholic American Writing, Ed. Daniel J. Tynan, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 68-70

"Michael G. Stephens," in The Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Catholic American Writing, Ed. Daniel J. Tynan, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 279-81
 

Articles Not Peer-Reviewed

"'Introduction' to 'Chances' Issue," Poetry New York 5 (Winter 1992 / Spring 1993): p. v; Co-Authored with Tod Thilleman

"'Introduction' to 'Geographies' Issue," Poetry New York 4 (Winter 1991 / Spring 1992): p. v; Co-Authored with Cheryl Fish
 

 Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceeding

 [as author]

"Diversity in Avant-Garde Publishing," Poetry and the Public Sphere Web Site, Rutgers University (Spring 1997), http://english.rutgers.edu/poetry.html
 

Conference Proceedings Not Peer-Reviewed

 [as author]

“The Estrangement of Twentieth-Century Science and Its Effects on Poetry,” Lo Straniero 41 (April 2005): pp. 36-37

"An Integrated Environmental Initiative: Common Ground for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Engineering," Proceedings of Gateway Engineering Education Initiative, First Annual Conference, 1993

 [as co-author]

"Pollution Prevention across the Technological Curriculum: An Interdisciplinary Case Approach," Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Technological Literacy Conference, National Association for Science, Technology, and Society, Washington, DC (1994), pp. 165-71; ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies / Social Sciences Education, 1994, p. 288; Co-Authored with Nancy Coppola and Eric Katz
 

Reports

 [as co-author]

“Analysis and Reflections about Preservation Week” a portion of Preservation Week Report, Spring 1998 from The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training by Kate Burns Ottavino and Ezra Ehrenkrantz, The Center for Architecture and Building Science Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology (July 1998), http://www.njit.edu/Directory/Centers/CABSR/research/prestech/spring98.htm

Pollution Prevention from Social Sciences and Humanities Perspectives, 3 Volumes, 1993; New Jersey Institute of Technology: Department of Humanities; submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency; Co-Authored with Nancy Coppola, Norbert Elliot, Nancy L. Jackson, Eric Katz and Robert Lynch.
 

Book Reviews

Review of In the Eyes of a Dog by Kevin Pilkington, Valparaiso Poetry Review (under consideration)

“Book Launch Introduction: The Light Sang as It Left Your Eyes: Our Autobiography,” The Blind Chatelaine’s Keys: Her Biography through Your Poetics, Ed.Eileen Tabios, Buffalo: Blaze VOX Books, 2008. 96.

Review of Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge by Mark Scroggins, Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist / Objectivist Tradition 18.1 (Spring 1999): pp. 195-203

Review of "Space to speke": The Confessional Subject in Medieval Literature by Jerry Root, Arthuriana 9.3 (Fall 1999): pp. 123-25

Review of Columbus by Daniel Gabriel, Home Planet News 9.3 (Summer 1994): pp. 7, 22-23

Review of Jigs and Reels by Michael Stephens, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter Number 149 (April - May 1993): pp. 22-23

"The Poet Inscribes Himself," Review of Objects of Thought, Attempts at Speech by Leonard Schwartz, The American Book Review 13.2 (August - September 1991): p. 20

Review of In the Builded Place by Michael Heller, St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter Number 139 (December - January 1990 - 1991): p. 20

Review of Artifice of Absorption by Charles Bernstein, Paper Air 4.2 (Spring 1989): p. 116
 

Recent Individual Poems and Creative Nonfiction

 [as author]

“Extending Professors’ Office Hours May Lead to a Loss of Productivity,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (2 March 2001): p. B16

“ABR’s Personalism,” The American Book Review 22.1 (Nov. / Dec. 2000): p. 3

“Adroit Navel-Gazing,” The American Book Review 20.2 (Jan. / Feb. 1999): p. 3

Invited Letter to a New York City elementary school student, which then became part of an art work comprised of student letters and letters from well-known Brooklyn authors, about Prospect Park; the artwork is called Letters to a Forest whose opening reception took place on 30 September 1995

Letter on Welch D. Everman's Review of The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction by Michael Stephens, The American Book Review 10 (May / June 1988): p. 3
 

Editor, Introduction and Appendicies, The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (see "Books" above)

Editor of a collection of critical essays by Serge Gavronsky, Michael Heller, Thomas Lavazzi, Brian McHale, Stephen Paul Miller, Arthur Sabatini, Kathryn Van Spanckeren, and Ellen Zweig, as part of a Special Issue of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 19, devoted to the work of Armand Schwerner (Winter1998/1999)

The William Bronk – Charles Olson Correspondence, Minutes of the Charles Olson Society 22 (special issue, January 1998; the introduction to this edition is listed above in "Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles" section), 30 pp.

Senior Editor and Publisher, Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation, 1988 to 2001

Co-Editor (1985 - 1990), Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes. Ed. Charles R. Blyth. Middle English Texts.  Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1999.

Co-Editor, Electronic Network Solutions for Rising Healthcare Costs, An Abridged Version of the 1994 New Jersey Institute of Technology and Thomas Edison State College Healthcare Information Networks Technologies Report, 1996; Co-Edited with Paul Elwood, Paul Hassen, and Patrick R. Brannigan, Principal Editor

Guest Co-Editor, Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist / Objectivist Tradition 7.1 (Winter 1988), a Special Issue on the Work of William Bronk, including essays by: Bruce Campbell, Louise Chawla, John Ernest, Norman Finkelstein, Edward Halsey Foster, Michael Heller, Burt Kimmelman, and Henry Weinfield; Co-Editor with Henry Weinfield
 

Professional Presentations

 [as author and presenter, unless otherwise noted]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNg0lCpjv4Y and http://cdn3.libsyn.com/whitehousepoets/Burt_Kimelman_17.mp3?nvb=20090720161316&nva=20090721162316&t=013973f447f5a345b8d9f

Organizer, New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University , South Orange , New Jersey (Spring 2008)

Chair, Satire in Literature and Film, New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey(Spring 2008)

Invited Speaker, “Small Press Editors Panel,” Manhattan ville Col lege , Purchase, New York (Spring 2008)

Invited reading, Closing Ceremony of “Painter and Poet: The Art of Herman Maril / The Poetry of William Bronk” exhibition (curated by Sheldon Hurst), Queensbury, New York / Adirondack Community College (Spring 2008)

2007    Invited reading of my poems, Phoenix Reading Series, Bengal Curry, New York (Fall 2007)

Invited reading of my poems, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Clifton, New Jersey (Fall 2007)

Invited reading of my poems, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair , New Jersey (Fall 2007)

Benefit reading for Home Planet News, Village Bistro, New York City (Fall 2007)

Celebratory reading in honor of Tom Weatherly’s 65^th birthday, Pace University, New York City (Fall 2007)

Invited reading of my poems, Morningside Books, New York City (Summer 2007)

2004   Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Flannery’s Bar, New York City (Fall 2004)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Bowery Poetry Club, New York City (Fall 2004)

Chair, Panel entitled “Medieval-Postmodern Intersections,” presented at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English Association  (Spring 2004)

Chair, Panel entitled “World Literature,” presented at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English Association  (Spring 2004)

“'Equal, That Is, to the Real Itself': Charles Olson, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology, Painting, and Avant-Garde Poetics
after the Second World War," presented at the "Poetries of the 1940s, American and International" conference, sponsored by the National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine (Spring 2004)

2003  Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, St. John’s University (Spring 2003)

 Chair, Panel entitled “Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American Autobiography,” presented at the Annual
 Conference of the New Jersey College English Association (Spring 2003)

 Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, New Jersey (Spring 2003)

 2002  “A Bird That Comes Down Too Easily: Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Poetics
 after the Second World War,” a paper that is part of a panel titled “When Physicists Go to Literature for Time,”
 sponsored by the Society for Literature and Science, presented at the Modern Language Association Convention
(Winter 2002)

 Invited reading of my poems, City University of New York Graduate Center (Fall 2002)

 Participant, "Composition II," Fall Roundtable of the New Jersey College English Association (Fall 2002)

 Chair, Panel entitled “Poetry and Fiction,” presented at the Annual Conference of the New Jersey College English
 Association  (Spring 2002)

 Reading of my poems, Marsh Hawk Press authors at the Cornelia Street Cafe, New York City (Spring 2002)

  Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation, “Art Attack” with Tom Kelly, WKCR FM, New York City (Spring 2002)

 Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at The Ceres Gallery, New York City (Spring 2002)

 2001 Panelist, "Literary Translation: Why is America Tongue-Tied?" (Sponsored by Poets and Writers, Inc.), Housing Works Book Café, New York City (Spring 2001)

Reading of my poems and lecture, Columbia High School, Maplewood, New Jersey (Spring 2001)

“Quantum Syntax: John Taggart's Discrete Serialism,” “To Gather Us In: A Symposium on Poetry and Poetics in Honor of John Taggart,” Shippensburg University (Spring 2001)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at Cup and Chaucer Bookstore, Montclair, New Jersey (Spring 2001)

Panelist, “Gender Socialization and New Media Collaboration,” New Media, New Links:
Strategies for Interdisciplinary Collaboration, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Winter 2001)

2000 Chair, Panel entitled “Contemporary Spanish,” presented at The Biennial Conference for Contemporary Literary Translation: Tyrannies of the Target Language (Fall 2000)

Chair, Panel entitled “Translation Theory and Practice,” presented at The Biennial Conference for Contemporary Literary Translation: Tyrannies of the Target Language (Fall 2000)

“Digital Media Integration into a Course on ‘Technological and Cultural Change’,” presented at the Second Annual Best Practices Showcase, New Jersey Higher Education Network (Fall 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation on KGB Bar Reading Series, New York City (Fall 2000)

Participant, Fall Chat Room, New Jersey College English Association, Union County College (Fall 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan New Jersey (Fall 2000)

"From Black Mountain College to St. Mark’s Church: The Cityscape Poetics of Blackburn, Di Prima, and Oppenheimer," The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s, National Poetry Foundation (Spring 2000)

"Morning at the Pond," a poem and painting collaboration with Fred Caruso, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibit (Spring 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited Presentation at The Cup and Chaucer Bookstore, Montclair, New Jersey (Spring 2000)

“The Trope of Reading in the Fourteenth Century,” presented at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 2000)

Chair, Panel entitled “Tracking Owners and Readers: Provenance and Related Perplexities,” presented at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 2000)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at A New Language: Russian and American Poetry Today, a conference held at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey (Spring 2000)

Dramatic reading of my poems by the What Exit? Theatre Company of Arts Maplewood (invited submission), Burgdorff Cultural Center, Maplewood, New Jersey (Spring 2000)

“The Internet, Selfhood, and the (Re)textualizing of Experience,” Meeting on “Literacy and Identity,” 23rd Annual Spring Conference of The New Jersey College English Association (Spring 2000)

1999  “‘Art As a Way’: Toward a Philosophy of Aesthetics in The Correspondence between Robert Meyer and William Bronk,” William Bronk Symposium, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey (Fall 1999)

“Teaching Writing and Research on the Internet,” NJIT/CSLA Career Day, Newark, NJ (Fall 1999)

“Text and Selfhood in Medieval and Postmodern Worlds,” Conference entitled “Intersections: Medieval and Postmodern Forms, Theory, and Semiotics,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (Spring 1999)

Roundtable Participant, “Developing Grant Projects in Environmental Studies/Sciences,” Lehman College, CUNY (Invited Presentation, Spring 1999)

“Readings in Celebration of Armand Schwerner” (readings from his works), Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York City (Winter 1999)

1998  "George Oppen and the Black Mountain School: The Uncertainty of Ellipsis,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco (1998)

Chair and Introduction, Roundtable entitled “Armand Schwerner: The Poet as Translator—The Translator as Poet,” Translation: Priorities, Theory, Practice, Stevens Institute of Technology (1998)

1997  Roundtable Participant, Many Cultures, One Environment: A Conference on Environmental Education, Queens College, CUNY

"Workshop on Communication Skills" (with Michael Kerley), First Regional Conference on Innovations in Teaching and Learning, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1997)

"The Problematics of Presence: William Bronk's Anti-Epistemology," Nineteenth Conference of the International Movement for the Interdisciplinary Study of Estrangement, Oxford, UK (Summer 1997) (Invited Presentation)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at The Three Cups, London, UK (Summer 1997)

Chair of Panel entitled "Lesser-Known Collections in Public Institutions: A Round Table Discussion," sponsored by the Early Book Society, presented at the Thirty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1997)

Organizer and Moderator of Panel entitled "Round Table on Diversity in Avant-Garde Publishing," presented at the Conference on Poetry and the Public Sphere, Rutgers University (Spring 1997)

"Wrot or Tolde": Chaucer's Writerly Revision of the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," presented at the Society for Textual Scholarship Bi-Annual Conference (Spring 1997)

"'Thanne mote we to bokes': Moving toward Writing in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," presented at "The Medieval World in Motion," annual Conference of the Medieval Club of New York (Spring 1997)

1996  "Self-Portrait," a collaboration of poetry and painting, installed in an exhibit, Keep Breathing / Keep Shouting, Artists and Writers Collaborating, at the 450 Gallery, New York City (Fall 1996, Karen Marston, Curator), Collaborator with Fred Caruso

"The World(lessness) of William Bronk and George Oppen," presented at "American Poetry of the 1950s" presented at the Conference of the National Poetry Foundation (Spring 1996)

"The Making of Belief: Faith and Writing in Langland and Chaucer," presented at the Thirty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1996)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at Word Thursdays and Speaking the Words Reading Series (Summer 1996)

1995  "Worldlessness, Virtual Reality, and the Limits of Technology," Presented at the National Association of Science, Technology and Society Annual Conference (Spring 1995)

 "Buffoonery, Eloquence and Authorship: The Defense of Silence in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," Presented at the Thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1995)

"Recollections of Robert O. Payne," Invited presentation at "A Colloquium on Robert O. Payne," City University of New York (Spring 1995)

Reading of my poems and lecture on poetry, Invited presentation at St. John's University (Spring 1995)

Organizer of poetry reading by contributors to Poetry New York, held at The Knitting Factory, New York City (Spring 1995)

1994  "Pollution Prevention Curricula at Technological Universities," Presented at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the National Association of Science, Technology and Society, Technological Literacy Conference (Spring 1994); Co-Authored and Co-Presented with Nancy Coppola and Eric Katz

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at "The New Freedoms: Contemporary Russian and American Poetry," Stevens Institute of Technology (Spring 1994)

Reading of my poems, Invited presentation at Biblio's Cafe and Bookstore, New York City (Spring 1994)

Organizer of poetry reading by contributors to Poetry New York, held at The Cedar Tavern, New York City (Spring 1994)

1993  "An Integrated Environmental Initiative: Common Ground for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Engineering," Presented at the First Annual Gateway Engineering Education Initiative Conference (Winter 1993)

"The Language of the Text: Authorship and Textuality in Piers Plowman," presented at the Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1993)

"The Subjectivity of Objectivism and the Search for Truth Values: The Case of Lorine Niedecker," presented at the National Poetry Foundation Conference on American Poetry of the 1930s (Spring 1993)

1992  "Thomist Epistemology in Purgatorio XVII and Paradiso XXX," presented at the Twenty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1992)

Organizer and Chair of Panel on "Poststructuralism and Medieval Thought," a session of the Twenty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1992)

"Ezra Pound and the Contemporary American Avant-Garde," presented at the New Jersey Institute of Technology Humanities Symposium (Winter 1992)

1990  "A Graceful Vision: The Thomist Epistemological Paradigm in The Divine Comedy," presented at the City University of New York Medieval Study (Winter 1990)

1989  Organizer and Chair, sessions on "Dante" held at the Twenty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1989)

"Ezra Pound's Medievalism," presented at the City University of New York Medieval Study (Winter 1989)

1988  "Reinventing the Miraculous: Christian Ideal in the Allegoroesis of the Anglo-Saxon `Phoenix', the Roman de la rose, and Shakespeare's `Phoenix and the Turtle'," presented at the Twenty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies (Spring 1988)

1987  "Lyric Voice as Icon of Limitation: Earlier European Courtly Antecedents of the Chaucerian Persona," presented at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1987)

Organizer and Chair of session on "Literature and History" held at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1987)

"Notes toward a Subservient Fiction: Objectivity and Modern Poetry's Search for Truth Values," presented at the New York Graduate Students' Philosophy Conference (Spring 1987)

1986  "The Heart of the Journeyman: Edmund Gosse and the Problem of Truth in Father and Son," presented at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1986)

"Centrality in a Discrete Universe: William Bronk's Poetry and Philosophy in Relation to Wallace Stevens," presented at the Jubilation of Poets Contemporary Poetry Conference, Cleveland State University, (Winter 1986)

"Meter or Madness?: The Meaning of Meaning in the Poetics of Louis Zukofsky," presented at the City University of New York English Forum (Spring 1986)

"Reading a World Text: Fact and Figure, Realism and Surrealism, Allegory and Dream in Chaucer's Prologue to the Legend of Good Women," presented at the City University of New York Medieval Study (Spring 1986)

Organizer and Chair of session on "Old and Middle English" held at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1986)

1985"The Fyrst Age: A Childgered Arthur as Paradigm for Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," presented at the Mid-Hudson Modern Language Association Conference (Winter 1985)
 

Proposals and Grants

Principal Investigator, NJ I-Tower IT Education Grant, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2001 ($4,000)

Principal Investigator, Provost's Challenge Grant for Using Technology in Teaching and Learning, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1999 ($4,500)

Principal Investigator, Grants to Publish Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation, New York State Council on the Arts, 1992 - 94, 1994 - 96 ($4,000)

Co-Principal Investigator, Gateway Coalition, Humanities and Social Science Joint Curriculum, National Science Foundation, 1993-94 ($43,000; $25,800 - NSF, $17,500 - NJIT match)

Investigator, From Virtual Classroom© to Virtual University: Institutionalizing of Asynchronous Learning Networks at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Grant #998246), The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997-2000 ($450,000)
         Created lectures for Distance Learning courses in World Literature:
    * Modernist American Poetry
    * American Poetry since World War Two
    * Roundtable Discussion of American Poetry (with Nancy Steffen-Fluhr and Norbert Elliot)
    * Twentieth Century Poetry of the British Isles
    * "Patriotism" by Yukio Mishima
    * "The Homecoming" by Ngugi Wa Th'iongo

Investigator, Science, Technology and Society Curriculum Modification, Integrated Pollution Prevention Initiative, Environmental Protection Agency, September 1992 through September 1994 ($144,000) (see "Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals," below)

Editor/Writer, Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals to Assist the State of New Jersey Speed the Transition from Defense to Civilian Related Industries, Gary Thomas, Principal Contact Person, a Narrative to Introduce Five Proposals to the Technology Reinvestment Project, United States Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1993 (two of which were awarded):
    * New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Partnership
    * Engineering Education in Manufacturing across the Curriculum
    * Practice-Oriented Master's Degree Program
    * Supplement to NSF I/UCRC Integrated Pollution Prevention Initiative in Engineering Education
    * Manufacturing Experts in the Classroom

Editor, Design and Development of Computer-Based Clean Manufacturing: A Decision Tool for Industrial and Academic Use, Technology Reinvestment Project, sponsored by the United States Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, 1994-95 (see "Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals," below, "Comprehensive Manufacturing Education Proposals")

Consultant, Exploring Poetry Through Interactive Computer Programs, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, 1994-95

Editor/Writer, Collaborative for Excellence in Teacher Preparation, National Science Foundation, ($50,000 awarded for refinement of goals), 1993

Consultant, "Developing Environmental Studies Programs for the 21st Century," City University of New York Research Foundation, 1998-2000

Co-Principal Investigator, Digital Newark: Telecommunications and the City's Future, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1999 (Presented to Provosts and Deans from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, as well as the Executive Staff of New Jersey Network, resulting in the formation of "Network Newark," a consortium to include other cultural and scientific institutions in the greater Newark area); this effort is ongoing (see the Network Newark website: http://www.networknewark.org/)

Principal Investigator, The Language and Epistemology of Mid-Century Avant-Garde Poetry and Physics in America, a critical book, American Council of Learned Societies, 2005 ($40,000)

Principal Investigator, Poetry, Physics, and Knowledge: The Mid Twentieth-Century American Avant-Garde, a critical book, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005 ($40,000)

Principal Investigator, Support of Poetry Writing Project, Simon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2005 ($40,000)

Other Grant Activity

Service Activities

Member, CSLA Committee on Travel, 2002 to 2005

Member, Committee on Academic Standing, 1999 to 2004

Curator, Cyber/Space/Image/Text New Media Series, consisting of four live presentations recorded ultimately for an Internet publication, by Stephanie Strickland, Tina La Porta, Diane Greco, and Christopher Funkhouser

Co-Author and Co-Organizer (with Norbert Elliot of NJIT and John Boyer of Rutgers University), Network Newark Initiative, a Coalition of Newark Universities and New Jersey Network, as well as other institutions such as the Newark Museum, Newark Public Library, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, for the purpose of establishing common enterprises linked by a communications system, 1998 to Present

Introduction to “José Saramago: The Novelist and the Nobelist,” Lecture by Carlos Veloso sponsored by Os Lusíadas, NJIT Portugese Student Association

Member, CSLA Committee on Retention, 1998

Member, CSLA Committee on Careers Day, 1998

Organizer and Introduction, "Crossing Borders: Art and Ecology" by Jackie Brookner, 1998 Goldberg Lecture
Host, NJIT Winter Open House, 1998

Host, NJIT Deans' Day, 1998

Consultant, Preservation Week at Arts and Business High School, New York City, sponsored by The Center for Architecture and Building Science Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology (1998)

Committee for Department and Program Assessment, 1995-97

Organizer and Introduction, "Lecture on the Limits of Technology" by Andrew Kimbrell, 1996 Goldberg Lecture

Co-Editor, Electronic Network Solutions for Rising Healthcare Costs, An Abridged Version of the 1994 New Jersey Institute of Technology and Thomas Edison State College Healthcare Information Networks Technologies Report, 1996; Co-Edited with Paul Elwood, Paul Hassen, and Patrick R. Brannigan, Principal Editor

Presenter at ABET Site Visit, November 1995

Faculty Adviser, NJIT Student Poetry Group, 1995

Presenter at NSF Site Visit, July 1994

Organizer and Introduction, "Lecture on Ecology" by Ed Sanders, 1995 Goldberg Lecture
Host, NJIT Fall Open House, 1995

Director of the BA/BS Degree Program in Professional and Technical Communication, 1997 to 2005

Member, Committee to Develop Communication, Arts, and Technology (CAT) Program, 2002 to present

Member, Academic Excellence and Teaching Awards Committee, 2003

Member, Faculty Search Committee, 2002 to 2003

Coordinator, Technical Writing (Eng 352), 1997 to 2002

Chair, BA/BS Self-Study Committee, 2002

Member, Teaching Evaluation Committee, 2002

Member, Visiting Professor Search Committee, 2002

Curator, Faculty Symposium Series, 2001 to 2002

Member, Long Range Planning Committee, 2001 to Present

Coordinator of the Minor in Professional Communications, 1997 to 1999

Coordinator of the Minor in Literature, 1998-1999

Operations Committee Member, 1999 to 2000

PTC Search Committee Member, 1999

Programs Committee Member, 1998 to 2000

Created and delivered six taped lectures on world literature (see "Grants" section, above), 1997

Organized and led effort to plan, propose and institute the BA/BS Degree Program in Professional and Technical Communication; Principal Author of various program proposals and ultimate Program Announcement, 1995 - 1997

Chair, Committee to Initiate New Departmental Bachelor's Degrees, 1995 - Present

Planning Committee to Develop an MS Program in Professional and Technical Communication, 1992 - 1994

Professional Staff Association, Department Representative, 1994 - 1995, 1997 to Present

Helped plan and piloted new freshman rhetoric course, HSS 101, in conjunction with course offered by the School of Engineering, FED 101

Humanities/SSPS Committee on Curriculum Revision, 1992 - 1995

Electives Committee, 1990 - 1991; Chair, 1991 - 1993

Referee, “English Literature in Context: The Middle Ages” by Valerie Allen, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2005

Referee, “Androgyny and the Avoidance of War in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Three Guineas’,” by Sundeep Bisla, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2005

Referee, “Inhibitors: Post-Protease AIDS Poetry” by Elizabeth J. Clark, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2004

Referee, “Edition of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale” by Mario DiGangi, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2004

Referee, “Poetry Lessons: Longfellow’s Cultivation of a Readership” by Matthew Gartner, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2004

Referee, “Shakespeare in Performance: The Dynamics of Classroom Productions” by Terezinha Fonseca, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2004

Referee, “Visual Interviewing in Literacy Educational Research” by Janis Massa, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxter’s Breviate of the Life of Margaret Charlton Baxter (1681)” by Carrie Hintz, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “Creative Writing and Literary Translation” by Marilyn Hacker, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “Home Alone: The Place of Women’s Relationships in Shakespeare’s As You Like It” by William Fisher, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “The Fact of Feeling: A Natural History of Pragmatism” by Joan Richardson, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “Radical Transcendentalism: Philosophy, Slavery, and the Civil War” by David Reynolds, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “The Letters of Davy Carr: A True Story of Colored Vanity Fair” by Adam McKible, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Referee, “Rehearsing the Restoration: ‘The Matchless Orinda’ and the Irish Stage” by Ann Huse, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 2003

Reviewer, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry by Nims and Mason, 4th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill 2000), 2001

Referee, “Freedom’s Angry Herald: John Brown and the Civil War” by David S. Reynolds, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 1998

Consultant, McGraw-Hill Publishing, College Division, prototype of Poetry to My Ear, a CD-ROM software package for teaching prosody, 1997

Referee, "Developing Environmental Studies Programs for the 21st Century," City University of New York Research Foundation, 1997

Referee, "A Reputation as an Explorer: Journeys to Chimborazo” by Eugene McQuillan, PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York, 1995

First Vice President, New Jersey College English Association, 2007 to 2008

Second Vice President, New Jersey College English Association, 2006 to 2007

Co-Judge, Graduate Student Essay Contest Committee, New Jersey College English Association, 2006

Trustee, New Jersey College English Association, 2001 to 2006

Board Member, William Bronk Foundation, 1999 to 2003

Chair, Graduate Student Essay Contest Committee, New Jersey College English Association, 2003

Professional Societies

Honors, Awards, Listings

Languages

Some reading knowledge or better: French, Italian, Latin, Middle English, Old English, Old French, Old Norse, Old Provençal, Spanish