Current Position at Middlebury College:
Dean of Advising; Assistant Professor, American Literature & Civilization
Other Positions Held at Middlebury:
Dean of Students (1988-91); Faculty Head, Atwater Commons (1991-1999); Dean of Off-Campus Study (1976-95); Associate Dean of the College (1986-88); Associate Dean of Students (1980-86); Assistant Dean of Students (1976-80); Director, Pre-Enrollment Program (summer enrichment program) (1992-95)
Research Interests:
The Vietnam War and Vietnam War Literature; Literature and Culture of New England; Baseball, Baseball Literature and American Culture (specifically the Negro Leagues); Literature of Cross-Cultural Experience
Courses Taught at Middlebury Include:
Special Freshman Writing Seminar; Literature of the American Renaissance; The American Character in Literature; The Sporting Myth and the American Experience; Innocents Abroad: The American Character and Cross-Cultural Experience; Women and Minorities in Sports; Telling a True War Story: Vietnam; Baseball, Literature, and American Culture; Roads Less Traveled: Literature and Culture of Northern New England; African-American Narrative; Segregation in America: Baseball’s Negro Leagues
Selected Publications:
"Singing on the Run," Middlebury Magazine, summer 2002 (repreinted as "Mchakamchaka" in Abroad View, fall 2002
"Vietnam Stories: 1. 'Sportswriter at Khe Sahn'; 2. 'Ward Nine: Cardiac Convalescence'"; Elysian Fields Quarterly, Spring 2002
"William Clarence Matthews: The Jackie Robinson of his Time," chapter in Cooperstown Symposium - Baseball and American Culture: Jackie Robinson, McFarland Press, June, 2000
"'A Ball Near his Heart': The Life of Thomas James Lynch, 19th Century 'Base Ballist,'" chapter in The Green Mountain Boys of Summer (Anthology, March, 2000)
"'Dickie, Nick, Varsity Jim, and Bye-Bye': Teaching a True War Story - Vietnam," War, Literature, and the Arts, spring 2000, (www.usafa.af.mil/dfeng/wla/11_2/ current.html)
"The Fate of the Hero," (review of David Cataneo's Tony C: The Triumph and the Tragedy of Tony Conigliaro), NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives, fall, 1999
"William Clarence Matthews: Life of a Baseball Pioneer 1877-1928," Harvard Magazine, September-October, 1998 (www.harvard-magazine.com/issues/ so98/vita.html)
"'My Best Efforts': The Baseball Life of René Gonzales," The National Pastime, Spring, 1998, (web2.sportsline.com/u/baseball/bol/
sabr/tbi/G/Gonzales_Rene.tbi.html)
"If I Were Baseball Commissioner," NINE, April, 1998
"'Wild Play': Black and White in Jerome Charyn's The Seventh Babe,"NINE, September, 1997
"Bat-Over: Chick Leahey's 'Manager's Option'", The Baseball Research Journal, summer 1997
"'A Jungle in There': The Cross-Cultural Horror of the Vietnam War,"Phi Beta Delta International Review, Spring, 1997
"William Clarence Matthews: Challenging the Color Line in 1905," The National Pastime, spring 1997 (www.sabr.org/archive/art1.shtml)
"Vietnam: The Next Generation," Middlebury Magazine, Fall 1996
"William Clarence Matthews: Baseball Pioneer," Historic Roots: A Magazine of Vermont History, summer 1996
"The Book," The National Pastime, spring 1996
"Frank Kelley Steps Down After Ten Years of 'Making Haste Slowly,'" Middlebury Magazine, Summer, 1993
"Lefty and the Vet: Jeff McKay and Bill Lee of Red Sox Fame Seek and Share the 'Way' of Baseball," Middlebury Magazine, Spring, 1993
"You Can Go Home Again (profile of TV journalist Bob Elliot)," Middlebury Magazine, Spring, 1991
"A Father, a Son, and the Red Sox," Middlebury Magazine, Spring 1989;
"Safe at Home" (fiction), The National Pastime, Winter, 1987
"Working Together Separately: Clarifying the Relationship Between College Therapist and Dean of Students" (with Dr. Gary Margolis), Adolescence, Spring, 1986
"Also Plays," Middlebury Magazine, Winter, 1986
"Attend a British University - and Stay the Full Term," Transitions:The Resource Guide to Travel, Work, and Study Abroad Spring, 1984
"My Father's Watch," Middlebury Magazine, Winter, 1984
"I am not a farmer...," Christian Science Monitor, October 4, 1983
"Coaching as Teaching: Seeking Balance," Phi Delta Kappan, June, 1979 Related Activity:
Columnist-Essayist, Addison County Independent (newspaper); bi-monthly sports column, 1998-present, (www.middlebury.edu/200/addison_independent/social.html )
Teacher Workshop Series, Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, "Never-Ending Stories: Creative Ways to Use Local History in Your Classroom," September, 1999
Special Summer Seminar, Middlebury Admissions Office (high school juniors), August, 1997, 1998, 1999
Teaching Staff ("writer") - New England Young Writers Conference, Bread Loaf, 1992,'93,'94, 97, 98
Middlebury Alumni College, 1986,1995
DeWitt Clinton High School, Teacher Exchange, Bronx, NY, (Negro Leagues, James Baldwin), 1989, '90,'92,'93,'94
Related Professional Activity (more detailed information available upon request)
Conference Presentations:
"College Boys and Boozers," Professional Baseball in the Northern League, 1905, and 'the only colored player in league ball,'" The Fifteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June, 2003
Baseball fever," Henry Sheldon Museum, lecture accompnaying exhibition "Work First, Then Play: Leisure Life in 19th Century Vermont," March 2003
"Baseball and America," Middlebury College Alumni College XXVII, August 28-September 1, 2002
Baseball in Cuba," Havana, January 1,2001; "An Insider's View of Cuba" (sponsored by Middlebury College and Barnard College, December 29-January 5, 2001
"What It Means to Have Gone to Middlebury," Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium, Middlebury College, November 2000
"Vermont Baseball Players in the Major Leagues," Campus Discovery Day, Middlebury College, September, 2000
"Celebrating Athletics and the Liberal Arts," Middlebury Bicentennial Symposium, February, 2000
"Teaching the Vietnam War," Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference, Baltimore, April 1998
"William Clarence Matthews: The Jackie Robinson of his Time," The Ninth Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, June, 1997
"William Clarence Matthews, NINE Annual Spring Training Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March, 1997
"'It's a Jungle in There': The Cross-Cultural Horror of the Vietnam War" (panel on "Using Literature to Enhance Cross-Cultural Understanding"), National Meeting, NAFSA: AIE (Association of International Educators), New Orleans, 1995
Other Presentations on William Clarence Matthews, Jackie Robinson,Baseball's Negro Leagues, etc.:
Project Independence, February, 2003, also April 2001; Shoreham Historical Society, March 2001; "William Clarence Matthews: Baseball Pioneer," Martin Luther King Day Lecture, Pavilion Auditorium, Montpelier/Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, January, 1999; "The Talk of Vermont," WFAD Radio, October, 1998, April 1997; Middlebury Union Middle School ("Heroes Hour"), April, 1998; "Morning Edition," National Public Radio, March 1997 ; Ilsley Library (Middlebury, VT) 1998, 1995, 1994; Summit Country Day School (OH), 1992; Middlebury Union HS (VT), 1990; DeWitt Clinton HS (NY) 1989; Cornwall Elementary School (3rd Grade)(VT), 1989; Middlebury Union H.S. (Humanities Symposium: "Heroes"), 1989
At Middlebury College:
Abernethy Library Series, October 1996; Faculty Fridays Lecture Series, 1992; Human Relations Committee Lecture, 1988; Alumni College, 1987; Winter Term Lecture Series, 1986; Black Culture Week, 1984
Study Abroad Presentations - NAFSA-AIE :
Presentations at other National NAFSA:AIE meetings in San Francisco (1993) and Baltimore (1985)
Presentations at Regional NAFSA:AIE Meetings in Hartford, CT (1993), Portsmouth NH (1988), Stratton, VT (1987), Newport, RI (1985), New Haven CT (1984), Rockland, ME (1983), Albany NY (1982), Providence RI (1982), Sturbridge, MA (1980)
(details on subjects, composition of panel, etc. available on request)
Professional Travel:
visited over 30 universities in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on nine study abroad advisers' trips abroad; visited Middlebury Schools in Paris and Florence in 1989