July 1996 - January 2006: Professor of Humanities, Arizona International College, University of Arizona, Tucson. Affiliate faculty member in Comparative Culture and Literary Studies and Women’s Studies.
1995: Lecturer, Graduate Institute of Liberal Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1992-1993: Adjunct Assistant Professor, American Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
1990: Lecturer, English Department, University of Maryland at College Park
1989-1993: Multimedia Consultant and Designer, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Grants and Service to the Profession
1999 - 2003: Founder and director of Arts Mentor Program, a collaboration between working artists in the community and students at The University of Arizona.
1990-2002, Editor and Publisher of Burning Cities Press, a small press that published books related to the Sixties, the Vietnam War, and their aftermath. The press specializes in publishing poetry, fiction and scholarly work with a progressive, peace-oriented perspective and has, to date, issued thirty titles.
1992-1995, Sponsor of the Sixties Generations Conference, an international conference on the Sixties, the Viet Nam war, and the aftermath of that historical era and the events connected with it.
“White Scholars and Black Rage: Reading Against the Grain,” Modern Languages Association Conference, December 2002.
“Room Full of Mirrors, or, Reflections Without the Man: The Death and Continuing Non-Life of Jimi Hendrix,” American Studies Association National Conference, November 2002.
“All the Cyborgs Are White, or, In Cyberspace No One Can Hear a Black Woman Scream,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, June 2002.
“Kickin’ up a fuss: race and gender in cyberspace,” Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation and Change, DIAC-02 Symposium, May 2002.
“Blank Generation: Critical Race Theory in Cyberspace,” Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline, University of Maryland, April 2002.
“Building Antiracist Organizations: A Challenge for Sustainable Development in the U.S.,” Sustainable Development in Urban Settings, The University of Arizona, January 2002.
“Race and Cyberspace: White Critics and Black Stereotypes,” Internet 2.0 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 2001.
“Radical Pedagogy in Practice: Feminist Visions,” International Conference on Interdisciplinarity, University of Brisbane, Australia, July 2001.
“The MOOseum Tools Project; A Workshop in Using the Museum Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Teaching on the MOO,” (with Danika Brown and Tari Fanderclai), Computers & Writing 2000 On- Line: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/cw2konline/attend/workshops.html
Facilitator for Focus Group on Academic Issues, Linking Our UA Communities. Diversity Action Council, University of Arizona, October 30, 1999.
“Panthers and Monsters: Reading Black Men With Guns,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, October 1998.
“Virtual Nation: Tec[know]logy, Culture and ‘Colored’ Citizenship at Century’s End,” invited talk at a Roundtable featuring Austin Clarke, George Elliot Clarke, and Kali Tal. Reshaping Afro-American Studies Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, 24 March 1998.
“Current Conflicts in Cultural Studies.” Invited talk, Articulating Conflicts in Cultural Studies: Agency, Resistance, and Social Change, University of Arizona, February 26, 1998.
“A Symposium on Ethics, War, & Poetry,” moderator. Participants: John Balaban, W.D. Ehrhart, D.F. Brown, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dale Ritterbusch, John Clark Pratt. The United States Air Force Academy, February 19, 1998.
Graphic Art, Web Development and Information Design
November 2001 – January 2002, “Conference on Nonprofit Organizations and Sustainable Communities,” Arizona International College, The University of Arizona (http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/humanities/susdevcon/)
Summer 2000 – Fall 2001, Arizona International College, The University of Arizona (http://www.azintl.edu). Site off-line because the college has been disestablished.
Fall 1996-Spring 1999, “Sixties Project,” Networked Associate Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia (http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/)
1996, “My Heart Is In Bosnia“ web site, for a collaboration between The Green Cross, the National Veterans Foundation, and the Traumatic Stress Network.
1988 – 1997, editor and book designer, Viet Nam Generation, Inc
Curriculum and Programs Development
AIC Arts Mentor Program (2000–2003)
Directed Studies in Visual and Performing Arts (1999–2003)
AIC Web Radio Station (1999–2000)
Program in International Business and Culture (1999–2000)
Program in Multimedia and Information Design (1999–2000)
Directed Studies in Multimedia and Information Design (1999–2000)
Courses
Advanced Studies in War and Peace: The Drug War
Afrofuturist Visions
American History Survey
American Literature Survey
Autobiographical Act
Critical Race Theory
Cyberculture: Theory and the New Media (Graduate)
Feminist Theory
Intersections of Race and Gender: Theoretical Models
Introduction to African American History
Introduction to African American Literature
Introduction to American Studies
Introduction to Trauma Studies (Graduate)
Introduction to Women’s Studies
Media, Culture and Society: From West Africa to the African Diaspora in the Americas
Origins of Problems in the Modern World: Focus on Race
Proseminar in Qualitative Research Methods
Race and Recent American Wars: Grenada, Panama, Gulf War
Race Issues and the Viet Nam War (Graduate)
Rape and Incest in U.S. Popular Culture
Science Fiction Studies
Technology and Information Culture: Race, Class, Gender and Place
The Sixties: Critical Perspectives (Graduate)
University Service
Dean’s Diversity Subcommittee, 2000 – 2005
President’s Council for Diversity, 2000 – 2005
Arizona International College Technology Team, 1998 – 2005
Arizona International College Faculty Workload Committee, 2001 – 2002
Undergraduate Council, 2000 – 2002
Instruction, Curriculum and Policy Committee, 2000 – 2002
Academic Senate, 2000 – 2002
Commission on the Status of Women, 2000 – 2002
Arizona International College Budget Committee 2000 – 2001