ACADEMIC AND WORK EXPERIENCE:

Employment: Teaching and Administration

1968- : Department of English, St. Thomas University
2000-2001: Acting Chair, Department of English
1997-99: Aquinas Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies, St. Thomas University
1992-95: Learning and Teaching Development Officer, St. Thomas University
1991-92: Acting Vice-President (Academic), St. Thomas University
April-June 1989: Visiting Research Associate, Discourse and Rhetoric Group, University of Loughborough, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
October-March 1988-9: Guest Professor, Forschungsinstitut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Gesamthochschule Siegen, Siegen, West Germany
June-September 1988: Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Literary Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
1971-1991: Freelance journalist and broadcaster, primarily with Canadian Broadcasting Company
1982-83: Visiting Research Associate, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Chair, English Department, STU 1980-1983
Acting Chair, English Department, STU, 1978-1979
1974-75: Instructor, Freshman English, University of Maryland European program (Worms [Germany], Athens, Nea Makri [Greece])
1966-68: Instructor, Department of English, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois
1965-66: Instructor, Department of English, Central YMCA Community College, Chicago, Illinois
1963-1966: Teaching Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Professional and Scholarly

Initiator and maintainer, interactive archive site for the Inkshed 19 Working Conference, May 2002 -
Chair, Program Committee, Inkshed 19 Working conference, Stanhope, P. E. I., May 9-12 2002.
Initiator and maintainer, interactive archive site for the Inkshed 2000 working conference, June 2000 - .
Local arrangements committee, program committee, and conference Web site owner, 27th Annual Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Fredericton, October 1997
Member, Executive Committee, Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturewissenschaft, August 1996 - August 1998
Co-organizer, Inkshed Working Conference 14, Ontario, May 1997
Member, English Language Review Committee, Bishop's University Fall 1995
Co-organizer, Text Strand, Third International Conference of IGEL: Internationale Gesellschaft für Empirische Literaturwissenschaft, Budapest 1993-1994
Co-Organizer, Online component, Computers and Writing '94 Annual Conference, Columbia, Missouri, 20-23 May 1994
Co-organizer, Inkshed Working Conference 11, Fredericton, May 1994
Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, 20th Annual Children's Literature Association International conference 1991-1993
Chair, Program Committee, 20th Annual Children's Literature Association International conference 1991-1993
Co-organizer, First Inkshed Working Conference 1 1983-1984
Secretary, Canadian Association of Chairmen of English 1980-1982