1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
llanday@berklee.edu
Voicemail: (617) 747-2747
http://classes.berklee.edu/llanday
| DR. LORI LANDAY | |
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| Berklee College of Music 1140 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215 llanday@berklee.edu Voicemail: (617) 747-2747 http://classes.berklee.edu/llanday |
EMPLOYMENT
| Associate Professor | Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music |
2004-present |
| Assistant Professor | Liberal Arts Department, Berklee College of Music |
2001-2004 |
| Online Instructor | The Union Institute, Center for Distance Learning, “Theory and Practice of Digital Narrative” | Summer 2001 |
| Visiting Scholar | The Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College | 1998-2001 |
| Assistant Professor | Department of English and Journalism, Western Illinois University |
1995-1998 |
| Lecturer | Department of English Indiana University |
1994-1995 |
| Associate Instructor | American Studies Program, Collins Living-Learning Center, & Department of English Indiana University |
1989-1994 |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Indiana University, English and American Studies
M.A. Indiana University, English
M.A. Boston College, American Studies
Major: American Literature, Minor: American History
B.A. Colby College, Waterville, Maine
Majors: English and Economics
Year abroad: University of York, England, Politics and Sociology
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Immersive & Interactive Media
Virtual Worlds: Virtual Subjectivity, Virtual Art, & Machinima
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture (Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Women's Studies, Visual Culture Studies)
The Jazz Age: Literature, Film, Music, Modernism, The Harlem Renaissance, Advertising, Dance, & Popular Culture
Technology, Social Media, & Identity
Comedy in Film & Media
New Media & Digital Art
Silent Film
Gender, Race, Sexuality, & Class in culture
Cross-Cultural Study of the Trickster
PUBLICATIONS I Love Lucy. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series. TV Milestones. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010.
BOOKS
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Forthcoming:"The Mirror of Performance: Kinaesthetics, Subjectivity & the Body in Film, Television, & Virtual Worlds."Cinema Journal51, no. 3 (2012).
"Rethinking Virtual Commodification, or The Virtual Kitchen Sink." Journal Of Virtual Worlds Research, 2(4) (2010). Machinima & Written Commentary
"Virtual KinoEye: Kinetic Camera, Machinima, and Virtual Subjectivity in Second Life." The Journal of e-Media Studies 2 (1) (2009).
“Millions Love Lucy: Commodification and the Lucy Phenomenon.” Reprinted in Being and Becoming Visible: Women, Performance, and Visual Culture. Edited by Olga M. Mesropova and Stacey Weber-Fève. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
"Having But Not Holding: Consumerism & Commodification in Second Life."Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 1(2). Retrieved 2008-12-15, from https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/article/view/355/265
“I Love Lucy, Television, and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology.” In The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. Edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.
“The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance, and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics.” In A Feminist Reader in Silent Cinema . Edited by Jennifer Bean and Diane Negra. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 2002: 221- 248.
“Digital Transformations: The Media Is the Mix.” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 4.2 (April 2001). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0104/trans.php
“Millions Love Lucy: Commodification and the Lucy Phenomenon.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal 11.2 (Summer 1999): 25-47. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/journals/nwsa/nws11-2lan.html
“’Betwixt and Between’: The Trickster and Multiculturalism.” Review of Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Annette White-Parks. American Quarterly 48 (September 1996): 542-549.
and Elyse Demaray. “Senses of Self: Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: A Syllabus.” Feminist Teacher 5 (1990): 32-33.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
"Virtually There: Presence, Agency, Spectatorship, and Performance in Interactive Media" A Presentation at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Boston, March 2012. Paper
"Virtual Transitions: A Report from a Shifting Field: Virtual Art on & in the Unstable Platform."Presentation, Media in Transition 7: unstable platforms: the promise and peril of transition, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2011.Paper
Presentation Slides on slideshare.
"Play! A Game/Workshop from a Ludic Perspective." Workshop in form of a multi-player game, with original machinima cut scenes. BTOT (Berklee Teachers on Teaching), Berklee College of Music, Boston, January 2011.
"Virtual Subjectivity." Presentation, Immersive Education Iniative Media Grid Summit, Boston College, April 2010.
"I Love Ricky: Desi Arnaz, the Latin Music Craze, & Representations of the Other in I Love Lucy.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, March 2010.
"Welcome to Berklee." Mixed Reality Presentation, Entering Student Convocation, Berklee College of Music. January 2010, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxjOyRSxDXg
"Virtual Berklee? A Mixed Reality Event at Berklee College of Music & in Second Life" With Jon Lester/Pathfinder Linden, Robert Thoman/Dizzy Banjo, Grace Buford/Cylindrian Rutabaga, Andrew Woolf/Gaius Luminos, & Perry Geier/Perry Genna (of Fierce Tibetan Gods) and your faciliator in both realities, Lori Landay/L1Aura Loire. Berklee Teachers on Teaching, January 2010.
Tour of "The Future of Virtual Subjectivity, a Virtual Art Installation by L1Aura Loire." Presentation at Fiteiro Cultural in Second Life, shown live at Mercosul Biennial of Porto Alegre, Brazil, November 2009.
"Virtual Art, Virtual Subjectivity.” Presentation at National Writer's Union Digital Media Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, October 2009.
“The Future of Virtual Subjectivity, a Virtual Art Installation by L1Aura Loire.” Presentation at Fiteiro Cultural in Second Life, shown live at Utopics Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, August 2009.
“Virtual Art, Virtual Aura.” Presentation for Panel Discussion, Brooklyn Is Watching Best of Year One Festival. Jack the Pelicans Presents Gallery. Brooklyn, NY, July 2009.
"Virtual KinoEye: Mutability, Kinetic Camera, Machinima, and Virtual Subjectivity in Second Life." Paper, Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2009.
"Keynote Presentation, "Digital Transformations and Conversions in Art- Web 2.0 and Beyond: Virtual Subjectivity," (starts at 17:00) NMC (New Media Consortium) Symposium on New Media and Learning, March 2009.
Interview with Ray Kurzweil onstage as part of his Keynote Presentation. Berklee Teachers on Teaching, Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, January 2009.
"Representing the Crowd: From Silent Film to Digital Cinema." Paper, Media in Transition 5: Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2007.
“I Love Lucy: Television and Gender in Postwar Domestic Ideology." Paper, Media Ecology Association Annual Convention, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, June 2006.
"ReBoot: Using CampusCruiser." Presentation, Berklee Teachers on Teaching (BTOT), Berklee College of Music, January 2006, 2005, 2004.
"Reality” and the Founding Discourses of Television Or, Why We “Love Lucy.” Paper, MiT3: Television in Transition, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2003.
Organizer and Moderator, “Describing the Elephant: Four Views of Technology in Education.” Panel, General Education Department Annual Symposium: “What is an Educated Person? The Role of Technology in the Construction, Collection, Composition, and Communication of ‘Knowledge,’” Boston Architectural Center, Boston, April 2003.
“‘Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace,’ or A Critical Assessment of Technology in Media Scholarship and Pedagogy.” Presentation, Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Minneapolis, March 2003.
“The New Laptop Initiative: Critical Issues for Learning and Teaching.” Presentation, Berklee Teachers on Teaching (BTOT), Berklee College of Music, January 2003.
“Techno-topophilia: Phenomenology, Narrative, and Representations of Virtual Space.” Paper, Technotopias: Texts, Identities, and Technological Cultures, an international conference at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, July 2002.
“Digital Looks/Looking Digital: Spectatorship & Aesthetics in Digital Narrative.” Paper. Society for Cinema Studies conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2002.
“The Pedagogical Potential of Digital Media: Why (and Why Not).” Organizer and Chair, Workshop sponsored by the Information Technology Committee, Society for Cinema Studies conference, Denver, Colorado, May 2002.
“Technology, Learning, & Teaching: The Hows & Whys of Using the Web.” Presentation, Berklee Teachers on Teaching (BTOT), Berklee College of Music, January 2002.
“Storm Warnings: The Weather Channel, Digital Narrative, and Techno-Mediated Fantasies of Nature.” Invited participant, Paideia Retreat on Technology, Globalisation, and Culture, The Quetico Center, Ontario, Canada, August 2001.
“Building Communities: Using New Media Technologies in Classroom Teaching.” Workshop, Instructional Design Institute. Emerson College, July 2001.
"Creating Digital Culture: Technology, Pedagogy & the Actual/Virtual Classroom." Presentation for Information Technology Committee workshop on New Media Pedagogy, Society for Cinema Studies conference, May 2001.
“’Purity of Essence’: Comedy, Film, and the Sexual Revolution.” Paper, Society for Cinema Studies National Conference, Chicago, March 2000.
“It’s No Joke: Comedy and the Sexual Revolution in Sixties Film.” Paper, Focusing the Vietnam Era: Contemporary Views of American Literature and Culture in the Great Sixties, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, March 2000.
“The Disappearing Act: Passing, Race, and Female Trickery.” Paper, Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, December 1999.
The Jazz Age Gaze: Looking at the Flapper Film. Creative documentary and presentation. University Film and Video Association. Boston, MA, August 1999.
“The Power of the Glance: Jazz Age Media Industries and the Flapper.” Paper and video collage, Society for Cinema Studies National Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 1999.
“Economics and Erotics: The Flapper and the Jazz Age Culture Industries.” Paper and video collage, British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, March 1999.
“Please Don’t Throw Me in the Briar Patch: The Trickster and Multicultural Identity.” Paper, Third Annual Perspectives on Race, Identity, Sexuality, and Multiculturalism (PRISM) Conference, Emerson College, February 1999.
“Topophilia and the Garden Ethic: Experience and the Pedagogy of Place.” Paper, Representing Place: A Conference on Literature, Language, and the Arts, Northern Arizona University, November 1998.
“Dancing Across the Color Line: Race and Performance in Mae West’s I’m No Angel and Josephine Baker’s Princess Tam Tam.” Paper, Society for Cinema Studies National Conference, La Jolla, CA, April 1998.
“’It Is Good to Be Shifty’: The Trickster in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.” Paper, Folklore and Literature discussion group panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Toronto, December 1997.
“When Film Heroines Go Public, Why Do They Go ‘Bad?’” Session organizer and Chair, roundtable discussion, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 1997.
“Lessons from the Trickster: Interdisciplinarity and American Cultural Studies.” Paper, British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, UK, March 1997.
“Doin’Culture: Mae West as Eve in a 1937 Radio Sketch.” Paper, American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, March 1996.
“Liminal Lucy: Turner, the Trickster, and Postwar Domestic Ideology.” Paper, Society for Cinema Studies National Conference, Dallas, March 1996.
“Getting ‘It’: Elinor Glyn, Clara Bow, and the ‘Common Ground’ of Female Sexuality.” Paper, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, November 1995.
“Gwendolyn Bennett in Paris.” Paper based on research conducted with a Women’s Studies Research Grant, Black History Month Presentation, Women’s Studies Program, Indiana University, March 1991.
“Crossroads: Gwendolyn Bennett and the Canonization of the Harlem Renaissance.” Paper, North Central Women's Studies Association Conference, Bloomington, IN, November 1989.
INDEPENDENT FILM, VIDEO, and NEW MEDIA WORK: see http://www.youtube.com/user/ProfLL & http://vimeo.com/user4731451/videos
"Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink." (2011) [4:13] Mixed live footage and machinima video. Special Award for Breaking the Barriers in The MachinimUWA IV: Art of The Artists Competition & Mejor Obra De Investigación / Open This End Award of Excellence for Investigative Filmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCrjkzzDJk. "Open End: A Digital Silent Film Screwball Comedy about Irresolution." (2011) [12:12] Machinima video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsnXIAsg1Rw or http://vimeo.com/19367022 "The Falling Woman Story" (2009) [2:37] Machinima. A tale of virtual experience and re-experience. Writer, machinimatographer, and editor. Screened at MMIF (MaMachinima International Festival) in Amsterdam & in Second Life, February 2010. Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrVhf8hJ8tA “Rough Draft.” (2002) [2:48] Music video. Animated music video made with Flash. Song by Einstein’s Little Homunculus, Balancing Act (Accordion School Music). “Cadillac.” (2000) [3:20] Music video. Animated music video made with Flash. Song by the Trophy Husbands, Dark and Bloody Ground (Rustic Records). http://tricksterproductions.com/cadillac/ The Jazz Age. (2000) CD-ROM. Interactive multimedia CD on film, advertising, dance, music, and graphic design of American culture in the 1920s. Includes the coursesite for IN372: The Jazz Age. The White Album. (2000) Music CD. [33:28] A recording of original and classic acoustic folk music by Tammy Patrick (Rustic Records). Executive Producer. “Billy West.” (2000) Music video. [3:28] A music video shot on digital video for the web. Producer, director, videographer, graphics designer, and editor. Song by Tammy Patrick from The White Album (Rustic Records). The Jazz Age Gaze: Looking at the Flapper Film. (1999) Creative Documentary [13:00] A collage of clips from 1920s films, advertisements, photographs, and graphics set to popular music from the 1920s. Producer, director, writer, graphics designer, and co-editor. Presented at the University Film and Video Association, August 1999. The Writer in the House. (1998) Experimental. [2:00] Super-8 film. A comic exploration of what writers do when they don't write. Writer, director, cinematographer, editor. Summertime. (1996) Music video. [28:00] Super-8 and 16mm film. Seven interconnected music videos for songs from Summertime by the Bathtub Virgins (Odyssey Records). Associate Producer, videos and CD. Broadcast on PBS in the Midwest and screened at the New York Film and Video Festival, 1997. TEACHING BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC Film Scoring Department THE UNION INSTITUTE, Center for Distance Learning EMERSON COLLEGE The Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Department of Visual and Media Arts WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Independent Studies Directed INDIANA UNIVERSITY Collins Living-Learning Center (academic & residential unit of the College of Arts & Sciences) English Department GRANTS and AWARDS Special Award for Breaking the Barriers in The MachinimUWA IV: Art of The Artists Competition for "Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink." (2011) [4:13] Mixed live footage and machinima video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCrjkzzDJk. Mejor Obra De Investigación / Open This End Award of Excellence for Investigative Film for "Transformation: Virtual Art on the Brink." (2011) [4:13] Mixed live footage and machinima video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mCrjkzzDJk. Berklee College of Music Emerson College Visual and Media Arts Department Western Illinois University College of Arts and Sciences University NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINARS “The Dialectic of Enlightenment After Fifty Years,” Boston University (June-August 1997) GRANTS and AWARDS
"Domestic Technology or, Never Alone." (2010) [5:39] Machinima video. Screened at Cyberfest 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia (November 2010) and selected for the On the Wall Dance Film Series, Berlin, Germany (December 2010).http://vimeo.com/16986649 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvut1IIpco&hd=1
"Click: Immersive & Interactive Art." (2010) [3:02] Machinima video. Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Machinima Contest, 2nd place, Best Production, 2011. Winner of the Special Award for Crossover Impact, University of Western Australia Machinima 2 Art of the Artists Contest, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sf3Q2VAlKE&hd=1
“Toggle.” (2009) [4:09] Mixed reality digital video. Published on PBS Frontline Digital Nation site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/participate/
Liberal Arts Department
What Is Being? (LHUM P410) Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Digital Narrative Theory & Practice (LHUM 433)
Artistry, Creativity, & Inquiry (LHUM 100)
Approaches to Visual Culture (LAHS 333)
Technology, Society, & Self (LMSC P-240)
Culture, Diversity, & Artistry (LSOC 231)
The Jazz Age (LCOR 112: College Writing 2)
The Nature of Technology (LCOR 112: College Writing 2)
Ways of Seeing (LCOR 111: College Writing 1)
The Language of Film (FS-251)
Theory and Practice of Digital Narrative (Online Course) Summer 2001
The Jazz Age (IN372) Spring 2001
Ways of Seeing (IN123) Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2001
Digital Culture: Technophilia/Technophobia (IN115D) Fall 2000
The Trickster in American Literature and Culture (IN 371) Spring 2000, Spring 1999
Sexual Revolutions (IN125) Fall 1999
Digital Culture: GenderTech (IN115C) Fall1999
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (IN 112) Fall 1998, Spring 1999
Theory and Practice of Digital Narrative (MA497) Spring 2001
American Film Genres: Comedy (MA405) Spring 2001
Media Criticism and Theory (MA360) Fall 2000
History and Analysis of Media Arts, 1950-present (MA101) Spring 2000
American Film Genres: Comedy (MA 505) Spring 1999
History and Analysis of Media Arts, 1895-1950 (MA 100) Fall 1998
Department of English and Journalism
Film History 1 (EN 390) Spring 1998
American Film Genres: Comedy (EN 493G) Spring 1996
Introduction to Film (EN 290) Fall 1995-Spring 1998
The Trickster in American Literature and Culture (EN 400G) Fall 1997
Women and Literature (EN 301) Spring 1997
Freshman Honors Seminar: The Place of the Wilderness (GH 101) Fall 1996
Studies in 20th-C American Literature: The Jazz Age (EN 334) Fall 1995
Film History and Criticism, 1941-present (EN 409) Spring 1998
Women in Film, 1910-1941 (EN 409) Fall 1997
Film History 1: Combining History and Production (EN 409) Fall 1996 (4 students)
Feminist Film Criticism and Theory (EN 409) Fall 1995
Graduate Independent Study in Contemporary Am. Literature (EN 599) Fall 1995
American Studies Department
Declarations of Independence (A202) 1989-90
The State of the Women's Movement in America (L201) Spring 1994
Sexual Revolutions: The 20s, the 60s, (the 90s?) (L200) Fall 1990
Elementary Composition: Individual and Community (W131) Fall 1990-Spring 1992
The Place of the Wilderness (W350) Summer 1996
Introduction to Fiction: Passing and the Past (L204) Spring 1995
Professional Writing Skills (W231) Spring 1995
Identities: Public and Private (W350) Fall 1994
Sexual Revolutions: The 20s, the 60s, (the 90s?) (W170) Spring 1994
American Ideas (W170) Fall 1993
Elementary Composition: Memory and Myth (W131) Summer 1992
Elementary Composition: Individual and Community (W131) Fall 1990, Fall 1991
Groups Program for first-generation college students
Introduction to Composition (J101) Summer 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions Grant: "What Is Being?" (2010-2012)
Best Production, 2nd place, Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Machinima Contest, 2011. "Click: Immersive & Interactive Art." (2010) [3:02] Machinima video.
Special Award for Crossover Impact, University of Western Australia Machinima 2 Art of the Artists Contest, 2010. For "Click: Immersive & Interactive Art." (2010) [3:02] Machinima video.
Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship, “Virtual Worlds,” (2008-09)
Dean's Award for Excellence in the Professional Education Division, Interdisciplinary Teaching/Curriculum (2007)
Grand Marshal, Berklee College Commencement (2006)
Faculty Development Research Grant, Berklee College of Music (2004)
University Research Council Grant, Western Illinois University (Spring 1998)
Faculty Development Mini-Grant, Western Illinois University (Spring 1998)
Nominee, Emerging Scholar Award, American Association of University Women (1998)
Faculty Development Summer Stipend for Research, Western Illinois University (1996)
Dissertation Year Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University (1992-93)
Research Grant in Women's Studies, Indiana University (1990)
ACADEMIC SERVICE
National
Academic Advisory Board, CampusCruiser (2006-present)
Information Technology Officer, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2002-2005)
Executive Committee Member, ex officio, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2002-2005)
Member, Editorial Board,Jourmal of E-Media Studies(2004-present)
Member, Editorial Board, Trickster’s Way Journal (2001-present)
Information Technology Committee, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (1998-2002)
Executive Committee, Folklore and Literature, Modern Language Association (1999-2001)
American Departments of English Mock Interview Panel, MLA Annual Convention, Chicago (1995); Washington, D.C. (1996)
Coordinator of TiLT (Technology in Learning and Teaching), Liberal Arts Department (2002-present)
Search Committee, Liberal Arts Chairperson (2011-12)
Pilot Group, New Learing Management System (2011-12)
Learning Management System Evaluation Committee (2010-present)
Curriculum Development Committee for Contemporary Music History, required of all students (2009)
Curriculum Development Committee for Professional Development Seminar, required of all students(2009-2010)
Curriculum Development Committee for Artistry, Creativity, & Inquiry Seminar, required of all students (2008-2009)
FYSAP (First Year Student Advising Program) Advisory Board (2006-present)
Curriculum Initiative Review Steering Committee (2006-2008)
Faculty Development Advisory Committee, BTOT Planning (2002-present)
Workshop Developer and Leader, Reboot Camp: Summer Workshops on Teaching with Technology (2003-present)
Presenter, "ReBoot: Using CampusCruiser," New Faculty Orientation (2003-present)
TECH Committee, 2004-present
Professional Education Division Committee (2002-2005)
Beta tester of custom edition of Campus Cruiser (2003)
Participant, Faculty Initiatives Project (2001-03)
Pilot program member, Berklee Portal (2002)
The Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Institute Advisory Committee (2000-01)
Institute Faculty Writing Workshop, Co-organizer and leader (1999-2000)
Planning Committee (1998-99)
Teaching Committee (1998-00)
Spring Symposium on “Replications,” Co-coordinator (1998-99)
Graduate Committee (1998-00)
Department of English and Journalism
College of Arts and Sciences Anniversary Committee (Spring 1998)
Special Projects Committee (Spring 1998)
Search Committee (Department Chair) (Fall 1997)
Co-chair, Cultural Studies Minor Development Committee (1995-98)
Graduate Committee (1997-98)
Scheduling Committee (Spring 1997)
American Literature Area Committee (1995-98)
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Area Committee (1995-98)
Search Committee (Non-Western Lit. and Cultural Studies), English Department (1996-97)
Leadership 21 Living-Learning Program Steering Committee (1995-1998)
Leadership 21 Living-Learning Program Advisory Board (1996-98)
Search Committee (Faculty-in-Residence, Leadership 21) (1996-97)
Humanities Assessment Research Team (HART) (1996-1997)
Faculty Advisor, WIU Film Society (1995-98)
Multicultural/Cross-Cultural Assessment Research Team (MCCART) (1997-98)
New Faculty Mentor (1997-98)
“Literature and the Visual Arts,” Boston Athenaeum (June-August 2002)
Director: Dr. Richard Wendorf, Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian, The Boston Athenaeum
Director: Prof. James Schmidt, Department of Political Science, Boston University
Newbury Comics Faculty Fellowship, “Virtual Worlds,” (2008-09)
Dean's Award for Excellence in the Professional Education Division, Interdisciplinary
Teaching/Curriculum (2007)
Grand Marshal, Berklee College Commencement (2006)
Faculty Development Research Grant, Berklee College of Music (2004)
University Research Council Grant, Western Illinois University (Spring 1998)
Faculty Development Mini-Grant, Western Illinois University (Spring 1998)
Nominee, Emerging Scholar Award, American Association of University Women (1998)
Faculty Development Summer Stipend for Research, Western Illinois University (1996)
Dissertation Year Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University (1992-93)
Research Grant in Women's Studies, Indiana University (1990)
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Member, Steering Committee, Linden Endowment for the Arts, appointed by Linden Lab, owner of Second Life
Curator, "InterACT!" Interactive Virtual Art Exhibition, Linden Endowment for the Arts, Second Life, October 2011-January 2012
Consulted on & appeared in Finding Lucy, American Masters, broadcast nationally on PBS, 2000
Member, Board of Overseers, Boston Center for Adult Education (1999-2002)
Super 8 Film Production course, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (June-July 1998)
Participant, Workshop on General Education, Western Illinois University, May 1998
Program Development Research Associate, American Studies Dept., Indiana Univ. (Fall 1994)
Tutor, Learning Resources for Student Athletes, Boston College (1987-88)
Co-ordinator, Writing Workshop, AHANA Student Programs, Boston College (Fall 1987)
REFERENCES available upon request