824 Robinson Place
Shreveport, LA 71104
318/820-1414
 

Employment:

1991-99  Associate Professor of English
Centenary College of Louisiana

1991-92  Fulbright Professor of American Literature
University of Aarhus, Denmark

January 1987-May 1988  Visiting Assistant Professor of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Summer 1985  Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Italy)
Louisiana Polytechnic University at Rome

1983-91  Assistant Professor of English
Centenary College of Louisiana
(on leave Jan. 1987-Aug. 1988)

1975-76;  77-83  Teaching Assistant, Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

Education:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1977-83)
Ph. D. in English and American Literature (1984)
Dissertation: "Accent, 1940-1960: The History of a Little Magazine"

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, West Germany (1976-77)
Rotary Foundation Scholar in Contemporary European Literature

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1975-76)
M. A. in English and American Literature

Centenary College of Louisiana (1971-73; 74-75)
A. B. in English and Foreign Languages

University of Kent, Canterbury, England (1973-74)
Diploma in British Studies
 

Courses Taught:

Centenary College of Louisiana (1983-86; 88-91; 92-present)

University of Aarhus (1991-1992)

Undergraduate Seminar: American Fiction in the Age of Reagan/Bush
Undergraduate Seminar: Twentieth Century African-American Literature
Undergraduate Seminar: Modern American Poetry from Robert Frost to Sylvia Plath
Undergraduate Seminar: Southern Literature from William Faulkner to Alice Walker
Graduate Seminar: Radical Politics and Modern American Literature
Graduate Seminar: Feminist Theory and Classical Hollywood Cinema
 

University of Illinois (1987-88)

English 255: Survey of American Literature from the Puritans to the Civil War
English 256: Survey of American Literature from the Civil War to the Present
English 273: Intermediate Film Studies: Authors, Genres, Themes
English 351: American Literature from World War I to the Present
 

Louisiana Tech University at Rome (Italy, Summer 1985)

English 400: Survey of World Masterpieces: From Homer to Machiavelli
English 413: English Romantic Poetry
English 415: Shakespeare and Italy
 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1975-76; 77-83)

English 100: Tutor in Writing Skills, Educational Opportunities Program
English 101: Rhetoric I, Educational Opportunities Program
English 102: Rhetoric II, Educational Opportunities Program
English 104: Introduction to Film
English 105: Freshman Rhetoric
English 116: Masterpieces of American Literature
English 143: Advanced Expository Writing
English 251: Business and Technical Writing
 
 

Publications:

Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Co-author with Cary Nelson of the University of Illinois.

Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Co-editor with Cary Nelson of the University of Illinois.  [selected by CHOICE as one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1994.]

Edwin Rolfe: Trees Became Torches. Selected Poems.  Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Co-editor with Cary Nelson of the University of Illinois.

Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War.  New York and London: Routledge, 1996.

"Winds of Another Sphere: Edwin Rolfe's Spanish Civil War Poetry as Moral Geography," co-authored with Erich Nunn. In Rationality and the Liberal Spirit: A Festschrift Honoring Ira Lee Morgan. Shreveport, Louisiana: Centenary College, 1997.

"Richard Powers: On the Novel in the Digital Age,"  [interview] Poets and Writers Magazine  (July/August 2000), pp. 17-27.

in preparation:

[“Jack London:  The Contemporary Reviews."  Under contract to Cambridge University Press.  Co-editor with Earle Labor]

["'Your Poem Made Me Cry': Letters from Ernest Hemingway to Edwin Rolfe, 1940-1954". Under contract to University of Illinois Press.  Co-editor with Cary Nelson]
 

Publications--film journalism

Staff Writer for SB Magazine, Shreveport, La. [film and book reviews; monthly column "Southern Images" of cultural critique].      October, 2000 -- May, 2001.

Corresponding Editor,  Louisiana Film and Video Magazine.   February 2010 -- present.   

Conference Papers and Invited Talks:

"Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Italian Cinema,"  Keynote talk for the Italian Film Festival, Robinson Film Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, September, 2008.  

"Presence and Absence:  Tracing the Self in Contemporary Photography,"  Keynote lecture for the Celtic Myth Photographic Workshop, directed by Joyce Wilson, Sixmilebridge, County Clare, Ireland, July, 2008.  

"Reading Photography,"  Keynote lecture for the Mediterranean Light Photographic Workshop, directed by Joyce Wilson,  St.-Remy-de-Provence, France, June, 2007.  

"Mentoring and the Academic Tradition:  The Example of Cary Nelson,”  Panel on Mentoring in Undergraduate and Graduate Education, Poetry, Politics, and the Profession conference, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October, 2006. 

"Introductory Remarks: Postmodernism and American Narrative," Panel on Postmodernism and American Literature, Louisiana Philological Society, Shreveport, LA., March, 1998. [Panel of undergraduate papers from Centenary which I organized.]

"Introductory Remarks: Ironic Fascism," Panel on Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers, Louisiana Philological Society, Shreveport, LA., March, 1998. [Panel of undergraduate papers from Centenary which I organized.]

"A Spectre is Haunting Spain: Derrida, Marx, and Edwin Rolfe's Spanish Civil War Poetry," South Central MLA, San Antonio, October, 1996. Co-written and co-delivered with Erich Nunn, University of Florida [former student at Centenary].

"Against the Agrarian Grain: Religion and Radical Politics in the Poetry of Don West," South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Shreveport, February, 1994.

"The Female Gaze: The Question of the Body in Contemporary Film Theory." University of Odense, Denmark, April, 1992.

"The Male Gaze: American Feminist Film Theory and the Question of Essentialism." Copenhagen Business College, April, 1992.

"Post-Modernism in Recent American Film and Television: From Spike Lee to David Lynch and Beyond." Conference on "Contemporary American Culture," University of Aarhus, March, 1992.

"The Closing of the American Mind: The Problem of Political Correctness in American Universities." Open University of Jutland, Aarhus, March, 1992.

"Slouching Towards Bloomingdale's: Trends in Recent American Fiction." Aarhus Business College, February, 1992.

"Corn-Bread Culture: David Duke and the Rise of Neo-Populist Rhetoric." Aarhus University, February, 1992.

"Edwin Rolfe and Radical Poetry of the 1930s." University of Copenhagen, November, 1991.

"The Malling of Mississippi: Issues in Contemporary Southern Literature." American Embassy, Copenhagen, October, 1991.

"American Feminist Cultural Theory and Literary Theory Since 1968." East Asia Institute, University of Aarhus, September, 1991.

"Hemingway and the Cold-War Left: The Debate over The Heart of Spain." Conference entitled "Embattled Spain: Hemingway and Malraux." Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, October, 1990.

"Edwin Rolfe, Ernest Hemingway and The Hemingway Controversy among the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." Symposium on Edwin Rolfe in conjunction with an Exhibition of the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois. Champaign, Illinois, October, 1990.

"Introductory Remarks: Surveying the Field." Special session on "Representing Political History in 20th Century American Poetry," MLA, Washington, December, 1989.

"Introductory Remarks: Art and the Revolt of Conservatism." Special session on "Artists and the Rhetoric of Opposition," The International Communication Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, May, 1989.

"Rebel Poets: Radical Southern Poets of the 1930s." Special session on "Depression-Era Poetry: Modernism as Political Discourse," MLA, New Orleans, December, 1988.

"Accent and the Politics of Eclecticism." Special session on "Modern Poetry from the Vantage Point of Little Magazines" (a panel which I organized and moderated), MLA, San Francisco, December, 1987.

"Ernest Gaines and the Question of Minor Literature." Southern Literature Session, South Central MLA, Houston, October, 1987.

"Re-reading Proletarian Literature: Image and Metaphor in the Political Poetry of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright." West Virginia Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, Morgantown, October, 1987.

"Gender Studies/Film Studies: Teaching Sexual Difference in the Cinema." Special Session on "Teaching Film Outside Film Studies," Society for Cinema Studies, Montreal, May, 1987.

"Kerker Quinn's Direction: Aesthetics and Ideology in a Little Magazine of the 1930s." Symposium on "The Cultural Heritage of the Midwest," Michigan State University, East Lansing, May, 1987.

"The Tall-Tale Tradition in John William Corrington's Shad Sentell." The Red River Symposium on Regional Culture, Louisiana State University at Shreveport, April, 1985.

"Coming of (Literary) Age in the Fifties: William Gass and Accent." Special Session on Contemporary Fiction, MLA, New York, December 1983.

"Alienation and Identification in Richard Wright's `The Man Who Lived Underground': A Study in Narrative Suspense." Special session on "Richard Wright's Short Fiction: A Reassessment," MLA, Los Angeles, December, 1982.

"The Day the Earth Stood Still: Strategies of Narrative Adaptation." Science Fiction Research Association, University of Kansas, Lawrence, July, 1982.
 

Administrative Experience:

2002-present   Chairman, Board of Directors, The Robinson Film Center of Louisiana

    2009-present    Artistic Director

    2008-present   Chair, Programming Committee  

2005-2008  Chair, English Department

Spring 2001   Acting Chair, English Department

1995-present  Advisor, Critical Studies Track of the Film/Television/Video Program, Centenary College.

1992-2001   English department advisor, Centenary College-University of Aarhus, Denmark Student Exchange.

1984-86, 88-91, 1992-present  Founder and Faculty Advisor, Centenary Film Society.

1984-present  Coordinator for English department/Communications program internships.

1984-86; 1988-91; 92-95  Founder and Coordinator, Communications Program, Centenary College. Duties included initiating new opportunities for internships, and advising those students interested in pursuing a career in mass communications. Organized internships with various newspapers, news magazines, television stations, advertising agencies, hospitals, arts councils, and the Chamber of Commerce.

1984-85 Coordinator, Centenary Scholars Program. Organized and taught in this experimental honors program based on an interdisciplinary reading list from the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

1982-83 Assistant to the Director, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Grants/Honors/Awards:

2010 Wrote and awarded $1,200 grant from the Consulate General in France in New Orleans for a year-long "French Film Series" (2010-2011) for the Centenary Film Society     

2009  Wrote and awarded $2,300 grant from F.A.C.E (French American Cultural Exchange, NYC) for "The French Connection:  A French Film Festival in Louisiana," April, 2009

2007-2008.  Selected as Centenary College Research Professor in Humanities  (for research with student Steen Thomas)

2005-2006.  Selected as Centenary College Research Professor in Humanities  (for research with student Ashley Moss)

2004-2005.  Selected as Centenary College Research Professor in Humanities  (for research with student Ashley Moss)

2002-2003.  Selected as Centenary College Research Professor in Humanities  (for research with student Randi Smith)

2001-2002.  Selected as Centenary College Research Professor in Humanities  (for research with student Chris Jay)

1999-2002.  Selected to serve as the Willie Cavett and Paul Marvin Brown, Jr. Professor of English at Centenary

1996-2005. Elected to the Board of Directors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives located at New York University, NYC

1996-97.  Co-Writer (with Judy Godfrey of the Meadows Museum), $13,000 grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities for the Meadows Museum to host the show Shouts From the Wall :  Posters and Photographs Brought Home From the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers (January to March, 1997)

1995.  Edwin Rolfe:  Collected Poems selected by CHOICE as one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1994

1993-1995.  First recipient of the Centenary College Endowed Professorship in the Humanities (2-year award, with monies to be used for research on the book Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War )

1991-92.  Fulbright Professor of American Literature, University of Aarhus, Denmark

1991.  Co-Writer, $1,500 grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities for the Red River International Film and Video Festival, Shreveport, March, 1991

1987-88;  88-89  Elected Secretary, Southern Literature Section, South Central MLA; succeeded to Chair the next year

Summer, 1989.  Centenary College Alumni Research Grant to work on Edwin Rolfe bibliography at the Universities of Illinois and Wisconsin

Summer, 1987.  NEH Travel Grant. To visit the Marvin Sukov Little Magazine collection in the Archives at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

Spring, 1987.  University of Illinois Citation for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, for Intermediate Film Studies

Summers, 1984, 85, 86.  Lyons Research Grant. To work in the archives of the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin on Accent and post-war literary culture

1982-83.  University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Illinois

1978; 1980.  University of Illinois Citation for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching: 1980, for American Literature; 1978 for Advanced Expository Writing

1976-77.  Rotary Foundation Fellowship for the study of Contemporary European Literature at Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, West Germany

1975-76.  Ross Foundation Fellowship, University of Illinois
 

Grants Panels/Evaluations:

November, 1998.  Louisiana Division of the Arts (DOA) panel to evaluate state-wide Media fellowships (Baton Rouge).

June, 1998.  Louisiana Division of the Arts (DOA) panel to evaluate state-wide Media projects (Baton Rouge).

June, 1997.  Louisiana Division of the Arts (DOA) panel to evaluate state-wide Media projects (Baton Rouge).

May, 1997.  Manuscript evaluator for the University of Nebraska Press.

Spring, 1991.  Evaluator for NEH-sponsored program of lectures on Kate Chopin at various public libraries in North Louisiana. Organized by the Watson Library of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.

February, 1988.  NEH panel to evaluate proposals for 1988 Summer Travel to Collections Grant (Urbana).

May, 1986.  NEH panel to select proposals for 1987 Summer Seminars for College Teachers (Washington, D. C.).

March, 1984.  Panel to select participants for NEH Summer Seminar for High School Teachers, taught by Michael Hall at Centenary College (Shreveport).
 

Professional Writing/Media Consulting and Projects/Performances:

Fall, 1999.  Role of "Andre Sor" in Marjorie Lyons Playhous production of Coastal Disturbances.

Summer, 1997.  Malibu Productions feature film "The Return to Savage Beach"--Assistant Director and speaking role ("Guard").

Spring, 1997.  General Motors Corporation, Shreveport--scriptwriter and assistant editor for 18-minute promotional video.

Spring, 1996.  Ghost Night: An Adventure in 3-D. Children's book written and photographed by Neil Johnson. New York: Penguin Books.   I "played" the villain Jack.

Spring, 1995.  The Monde Group, Shreveport--copywriter for advertising brochure.

Spring 1995.  Role of "Sewerman" in Marjorie Lyons Playhouse production of The Devils.

1994-1995.  LifeCare Hospital, Shreveport--co-producer and copywriter for advertising brochure. This brochure won the "Addy" award in its category at the Northwest Louisiana Advertising Federation's annual awards ceremony.

Summer, 1990.  LSU Medical Center, Shreveport--seminar on professional communications.

Fall, 1985.  The Credit Bureau of Greater Shreveport--consultant on internal written communications.

Spring, 1985.  U. S. Postal Service, Shreveport--seminar on professional communications.
 

Professional Development for Computer-Mediated Teaching

1997-2001  Coordinator of Vietnam course for the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS)/Mellon Foundation Interdisciplinary Internet Course Pilot : Teaching and Learning via the Internet: Development of Team-taught Interdisciplinary On-Line Courses.  This grant, written by George Newtown of Centenary College, will help bring together faculty from institutions throughout the ACS to teach a series of on-line, interdisciplinary courses beginning in the fall of 1999.  I will coordinate the Vietnam course and serve as webmaster for the Web Resources page of this course (http://www2.centenary.edu/vietnam/Vweb.html).

ACS Workshop:  "Teaching Computer Literacy for the 21st Century,"  July 7-11, 1998,  Furman University.
Follow-up workshop (tentative): July 14-17, 1999.

ACS Workshop:  "Web-Deployable Education Technologies,"  June, 1998, Furman University.

ACS Workshop:  "Teaching and Learning via the Internet: Development of Team-taught Interdisciplinary On-Line Courses,"  June 2-6, 1998, Centenary College of Louisiana.   Follow-up workshop: July 28 - August 1 1999.

ACS Workshop:  "Interactive Multimedia Authoring for the Worldwide Web,"  July 31-August 2, 1997, Southwestern University.

ACS Workshop:  "Advanced Worldwide Web,"  June, 1997,  Furman University.

Academic Service at Centenary College:

2001-2002

2000-2001
    Acting Chair, English Department (spring 2001)
    Media Committee
    Faculty Development Committee
    Coordinator, Biedenharn Chair in Communications Search Committee  (hired Greg VanHoosier-Carey)  
    Coordinator, English Department Search Committee for Three-Year position  (hired Jennifer Strange)  
    Member, Dean of the Business School Search Committee
    Faculty Advisor,  Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1999-2000
    Media Committee
    Learning Resources Committee (spring 2000)
    Centenary 175th Anniversary Committee
    Coordinator, Biedenharn Chair in Communications Search Committee (search failed)
    Member, two-year Speech position Search Committee (hired Nathan Thomas)
    Faculty Advisor,  Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1998-1999:
    Conduct Review Committee
    Media Committee
    Coordinator, English Department Faculty Search (hired Dorsey Armstrong)
    Co-cordinator, English/Art Departments Joint Faculty Search (hired Lisa Nicoletti)
    Faculty Advisor,  Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Faculty Advisor,  Sigma Tau Delta Theory Group
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1997-1998
    Secretary, Learning Resources Committee
    Media Committee
    Freshman Advisor
    Faculty Advisor,  Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Faculty participant, Philosophy Club
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1996-1997:
    Academic Policy Committee
    Media Committee
    Coordinator, English Department Faculty Search (hired Bryan Alexander)
    Freshman Advisor
    Search Committee for Sociology position (hired Loren Demerath)
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1995-96:
    Faculty Personnel Committee
    Media Committee
    Search Committee for Director of Admissions (hired Joel Winkowski)
    Search Committee for Sociology position
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Advisor, Student Forums Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1994-95:
    Faculty Personnel Committee
    Freshman Advisor
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Communications Committee
    Advisor, Student Forums Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1993-94:
    Economic Policy Committee
    Faculty Appeals Committee
    Freshman Advisor
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Communications Committee
    Advisor, Student Forums Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

 1992-93:
    Communications Committee
    Advisor, Centenary-University of Aarhus Student Exchange
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Advisor, Student Forums Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1990-91:
    Chair, Communications Committee
    Co-sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Director, Centenary Film Society
    Advisor, Senate Forums Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1989-90:
    Chair, Communications Committee
    Co-sponsor, Pegasus, student literary magazine
    Co-sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Advisor, Senate Forums Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1988-89:
    Chair, Communications Committee
    Co-sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Co-sponsor, Pegasus, student literary magazine
    Advisor, Centenary Conglomerate (winner of an All-American rating, 1988-89)
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1986-87:
    Admissions Recruitment and Retention Committee
    Institutional Advancement Committee for the Institutional Self-Study
    Student Life Committee
    Advisor, Centenary Conglomerate (campus newspaper)
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1985-86:
    Secretary, Purpose Committee for the Institutional Self-Study
    Institutional Advancement Committee for the Institutional Self-Study
    Secretary, Scholarship Committee
    Admissions Recruitment and Retention Committee
    Admissions Brochure Committee
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1984-85:
    Recruitment and Retention Committee
    Faculty Organizational Committee
    Computer Planning Committee
    Chair, Humanities Division
    Freshman Advising Committee
    Advisor, Student Government Association
    Faculty sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Omicron Delta Kappa

1983-84
    ACCESS Committee
    Faculty Liaison to Admissions
    Coordinator, The Centenary Scholars Program
    Computer Planning Committee
    English Department Library Liaison
    Advisor, Student Government Association
    Faculty sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (Honorary English Society)
    Omicron Delta Kappa
 

Community Service:

2009.  Historical consultant/writer/researcher for the Shreveport Art Council's "Triumph Over Tragedy:  The Great Depression in North Louisiana" project which includes a photographic exhibit, touring speakers and films, and k-12 special events throughout North Louisiana.  

2006.  Served as judge for student films for the Louisiana Film Festival -- Student Division.

2005.  Served as judge for student films for the Louisiana Film Festival -- Student Division.

2002-present.   Working with an ad-hoc committee of townspeople and Shreveport's Downtown Development Authority to form a non-profit arts organization (entitled "The Red River Film Society" with the goal of creating and running an independent film center in downtown Shreveport (The Robinson Film Center of Louisiana).   

2001.  September-October.   Presented a series of four lectures for the community on the topic "Classic Hollywood Comedy" through the auspices of the Senior Adult Education series at Centenary

1999.  September-October.  Presented a series of six lectures for the community on the topic "Classic American Cinema" through the auspices of the Senior Adult Education series at Centenary.

1999.   March.  Presented a series of  lectures on "Spirituality in Contemporary American Cinema" to the First Presbyterian Church, Shreveport.

1995-present  Worked with David Nelson of Mini-Cine (an avant-garde film club) to bring to the Shreveport-Bossier area a wide range of experimental and avant-garde filmmakers from throughout the country.  Visiting film artists (many of whom showed their work on the Centenary campus) have included Jennifer Reeves of New York City, Craig Baldwin of San Francisco, and Beverly Lewis of Los Angeles.

1994-1996  Coordinating Committee, The Community Cultural Plan of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. This committee oversaw the expenditure of over $1,000,000 in federal and city funds for community arts in Shreveport.

1994.  Planning Committee, "Christmas in the Sky" bi-annual fund-raiser for the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.

1991; 1995  Coordinator, Red River International Film and Video Festival.  A joint Centenary Film Society/community project that brought international films and videos to Shreveport.

October, 1989.  Worked with Caddo Parish Teachers of English to organize a parish-wide meeting with the Centenary English department in March, 1990

October-November, 1989.  As Director of the Film Society, I worked with the Artists' Aids Response Committee to help coordinate their Aids Awareness activities.

February, 1989.  Centenary coordinator with Shreveport Black-White Communications Task Force to bring Hodding Carter, Jr. to Shreveport and to the Centenary campus.

April, 1989.  Worked in conjunction with the Art Department and numerous townspeople to help organize and publicize the
visit of avant-garde musician Dickie Landry to Shreveport and the Centenary campus.

1984; 1986.  Chairperson, Southern Images Film Festival,  a bi-annual national film festival held at the Red River Revel,
Shreveport, Louisiana, celebrating southern filmmakers and films about the South.

Spring, 1986.  Selection committee for the Strand Theatre Summer Film Festival.
 

Professional Affiliations:

Modern Language Association
American Association of University Professors
South Central Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema Studies