Professor Emeritus, Rhetoric and Public Communication
YORK COLLEGE of THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 1968-2017
CHAIR Department of Performing and Fine Arts, 1982-94; 2003-06; July, 2011 (pro tem)
FOUNDER Speech Communication discipline
DIRECTOR Basic (General Education) Speech Communication Course, 1968-2010
SABBATICALS fall 1974, spring-fall 1981, fall 2000, fall 2010
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Founding Member, New York C. S. Lewis Society, 1969
Education
Ph.D. Language, Literature, and Communication, Columbia University
M.Phil. Columbia University
M.A. Medieval English Literature, Fordham University
M.A. Public and Group Communication, Queens College
B.A. English Literature, Queens College
Professional Activity (from 1988)
Books
A Vision of the Ways of Despair: Poems with Stories. KDP, 2024.
A Harlem Tale, and other stories from the underside. KDP, 2023.
From Parlor to Public Square: A Very Brief Course on Our Many Conversations. KDP, 2023.
Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Look at C. S. Lewis and His Favorite Book, Winged Lion Press, 2022.
Walking Along: Cultural Excursions, KDP, 2021.
of a Day: Twenty-Four Poems (privately printed, 2020).
Carry Me Home:Ten Tales for the Childlike, KDP 2020.
The Folk Tales of Brusco and Giovanni, in Three Books, KDP, 2019.
C. S. Lewis: A Very short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2019.
‘The Tongue is Also a Fire’: essays on conversation, rhetoric and the transmission of culture . . . and on C. S. Lewis, The New English Review Press, 2015.
Why I Believe Narnia: Thirty-three reviews and essays on the work and life of C. S. Lewis, Zossima Press, 2008.
Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. Spence, 1998 (pb. spring 2000). New (2nd) ed., with Foreword and Errata, Wipf&Stock, 2016.
Remembering C. S. Lewis: Recollections of Those Who Knew Him, 3rd ed., Ignatius Press, 2005 of ‘C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table’ and Other Reminiscences. (Ed.) [2nd. ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (Harvest Paperback), New York, 1992. 1st ed., The Macmillan Company, New York, 1979; Collins, London, 1980; first paper ed., Collier-Macmillan, New York, 1983.]
Ed. (with original Appendices) Speech 101: Second Custom Edition. Pearson, 2009. [Royalties to the York College Men’s Center.]
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ENTRIES. “Notes from a Dinosaur,” in the Newsletter of C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits, 2024, v. 4 (Iasi, Romania). “C. S. Lewis, Architecton: Revisiting the Rhetorical Man,” in The Christian Mind of C. S. Lewis: Essays in Honor of Michael Travers, ed. Andrew J. Spencer. Wipf & Stock: Eugene, 2020. “In the Company of Strangers,” in The Undiscovered C. S. Lewis: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Mitchell, ed. Bruce R. Johnson. Winged Lion Press: Hamden, CT, 2021. “Culture and Public Philosophy: Another C. S. Lewis,” in C. S. Lewis: Views from Wake Forest, ed. Michael Travers. Zossima Press, 2008. “Stories About Hope,” in The Lion and the Land of Narnia, ed. and illustr. Robert Cording. Harvest House Publishing, 2008. “Elitism at the Core: Dare We Call it ‘Rhetoric’?” The Core and the Curriculum, University of North Texas Press, 1993, pp. 54-59. “C. S. Lewis’s Quantum Church,” in C.S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper, edd. Brendan Wolfe and Judith Tonning. T&T Clark: London, 2011. “Lewis, C. S.” Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy, Scarecrow Press, 2011. “An Apologia on the Way,” Mere Christians: Inspiring Stories of Encounters with C. S. Lewis, edd. Mary Anne Phemister and Andrew Lazo. Baker Books, 2009. “Lewis, C. S.” (entry), in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edd. Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson. ISI, 2006. “Believing Narnia” (ch.), in Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles, ed. Shanna Caughey. BenBella Books, 2005.“The Centrality of Rhetoric to an Understanding of C. S. Lewis,” New Dimensions in Communication, New York State Speech Communication Association, III (1990). [proceedings]
“John Milton, Farewell,” New Oxford Review, vol. LXXXIX, no. 6 (July-August, 2022). “A Downtown Debate,” November 5, 2019, The Human Life Review Blog. “Newman’s Grammar, Lewis’s Assent,” Touchstone, Sept/Oct 2019. “Mere Lewis,” The Wilson Quarterly, XXVIII.2 (Spring, 1994), pp. 109-117.“A Faithful Steward,” Crisis, February, 1992, pp. 34-37. “Spirit in Bondage,” The Chesterton Review, XXVII.3&4 (August/November, 1991 [special issue]), pp. 479-485. “Rhetorica Religii,” Renascence, 51:1 winter, 1999 [lead article, special issue].
NEW ENGLISH REVIEW. “Loosening James’s Screws,” December 2022. “In absentia: a Brief Note on the Poetry of the Sisters Brontë,” June 2022. “TV or Not TV,” October 2021. “Three Old Books to Read By,” August 2021. “Letter from My Neighborhood,” January, 2021. “Medieval Matters,” December 2020. “A Note on Shakespearean Figures,” September 2020. “Comparing Rhetorical Domains: with particular reference to President Trump and the Neo-Stalinoids,” August 2020. “A Jeremiad,” June 2020. “Faraway Places,” April, 2020. “Remember Don Emilio,” January, 2020.
“Letter from the Loire Valley,” October 2019. “Days and Work (Part Three),” September, 2019. “Branding: Fascists, ‘Folks’ and Stalinoids,” August 2019. “Days and Work (Part Two),” June 2019. “Emily,” May 2019. “Letter from ‘Berlin’,” April 2019. “Days and Work (Part One),” March 2019.
“Be Very Afraid, or Not” and “Reading and Reduction,” December 2018. “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” November 2018. “Letter from Fifty,” October 2018. “Woke,” a review of Michael Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academic memoir), August 2018. “Ritual, anti-Ritual,” July 2018. “Raging Bulls,” a review of Howard Kurtz’ Media Madness: Donald Trump, The Press, and the War Over the Truth, May 2018. “Letter from Madrid,” April 2018. “Spanish Siren,” March 2018. “Nine-Tenths a Loaf, ” a review of David Wallace’s Geoffrey Chaucer: a New Introduction, January 2018.
“Chaucerean Figures,” November 2017. “Some of the People, All of the Time,” a review of Frederic Crews’ Freud: The Making of an Illusion, November 2017. “Valedictory,” a Review of Paris in the Present Tense, October 2017. “A Look at the Novels of Mark Helprin,” September 2017. “Lords and Flies,” January 2017.
“Tastes and Opinions,” December 2016. “A Civil Action”: a review of Heather Hendershot’s Open to Debate and *”Sui Generis”: a review of Tom Wolfe’s The Kingdom of Speech, December 2016. “Received Rot”: an essay-review of Rodney Stark’s Bearing False Witness, November 2016. “Ratio non Grata: a demi-Rant,” October 2016. “PPK,” August 2016. *”A Note on Gossip,” June 2016. “Thornton Wilder: Two Laments,” February 2016.
“Pius XII and Received Wisdom,” December, 2015. “Resolved: Science has made God redundant,” October, 2015. “‘The Tongue is Also a Fire’,” May 2015. “The Mick: In Memoriam,” April 2015. “Obama’s Self-Organizing Rhetoric,” March 2015.
THE ICONOCLAST (New English Review Blog). “Progressively: A Morphology of Crisis Containment,” March 21, 2023. “The Idle Contrarian: 9. Racial Reparations,” February 15, 2023. “The Idle Contrarian: 8. Caveat Beholder,” January 21, 20223. “The Idle contrarian: 7. Bigotry,” November 20, 2022. The Idle Contrarian: 6. Tail v. Dog,” October 6, 2022. “The Idle Contrarian: 5. Miss Kitty,” September 18, 2022. “The Idle Contrarian: 4. King Kong,” September 12, 2022. “The Idle Contrarian: 3. Our Town,” September 6, 2022. “The Idle Contrarian: 2. Mantle v. Mays,” September 2, 2022. “The Idle Contrarian: 1. The Great Gatsby,” August 27, 2022. “‘The Centre Cannot Hold’,” November 28, 2021. “A Book divided Against Itself” (review), April 12, 2021. “Happy Birthday Narnia,” October 13, 2020. “Evidently: 14 Points on the Election,” February 13, 2020. “Table Talk: I”, December 29, 2019. “A Handy Dinner-Party Debate Primer for Woke and Semi-Woke Liberals. or, ten ways to disarm Deplorables,” November 10, 2019. The Red Herring Party,” October 4, 2019. “Sulzberger’s Selective Perception,” June 23, 2019. “Neo-stalinism: some thoughts,” March 25, 2019.
“Trump’s Talk,” April 30, 2018. “A Perspective on Peru,” January 19,2018.
“The Painless Knee: Some Questions,” September 27, 2017. “Old Paradigm, Older War,” July 11, 2017. “Resistance, Actually,” May 7, 2017. “Letter from Amsterdam,” March 24, 2017. “Lords and Flies,” January 25, 2017.
“Tastes and Opinions,” December 18, 2016. “The Artifact,” December 5, 2016. A Note on ‘Mainstream’ and the power of definition,” December 2, 2016. “Some Questions,” November 22, 2016. “Talking of Toilets,“ November 15, 2016. “On ‘Protesting’ the Election of Donald Trump,” November 14, 2016. “One Cheer for Ayn,” April, 2016.
“The Evil That We Do,” June 26, 2015. “The Talk,” June 23, 2015. “An Open Letter from a True Liberal,” June 20, 2015.
CSL: THE BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK C. S. LEWIS SOCIETY. “The Christian Communicator,” January/February, 2024. “Seek and Ye Shall Find: A Note on the Argumentative Lewis,” July/August, 2023. “Layered Landscapes: C. S. Lewis’s ‘Other Worlds’,” May-June, 2022. “Cooking Jack: A Contrarian View,” March-April, 2021. “50, At and Along,” (Special 50th Anniversary Edition), Nov.-Dec. 2019. “His Fugitive Voice: After Fifty Years,” 44:6 (November/December 2013), pp. 1-10, 12.
THE NEW CRITERION. “Lewis contra Bergson,” January, 2025. “God’s Ambassador” (review of Mary Ann Glendon’s In the Courts of Three Popes), August 12, 2024. “Squeezebox for Sale,” February, 2024. “The Parson Pardoning: On Chaucer’s Parson and His Tale,” (August 23, 2023). “Always More to Say,” (online), July 31, 2019. “The Shrew for All Season: on the actress Ada Rehan,” (online), May 23, 2019. “On the Depth of Wuthering Heights,” (November, 2018), pp. 34-36. “A Note on Roberstson Davies,” (October, 2017), pp. 39-42. “Letter from Peru: the outgoing tide,” 29:10 (June 2011), pp. 28-29. “Thornton Wilder & the Gods,” 29:9 (May 2011), pp. 78-80.*“True Minds” [of Reyes, ed., C. S. Lewis’s Lost ‘Aeneid’], 30:1 (September 2011: thirtieth anniversay issue), pp. 136-138. “Arc of surrender,” 25:7 (March 2007), pp. 60-64.
ARION: A JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND CLASSICS. “Rhetoric Renascent: Why Shakespeare Went to School,” 23.2 (fall 2015), pp. 135-53. “The Salon: Restoring Conversation,” 22:1 (spring/summer 2014), pp. 33-49.
THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE. “A Brief Meditation on Story,” October 11, 2024. “A Personal Meditation on Magnitudes,” July 29, 2024. “A Brief Note on Bartolomé de las Casas,” June 23, 2024. National Review: An Appreciation,” September 20, 2023. “Living Room Vexations,” August 11, 2021. “Anatomizing our Schizophrenia,” April 19, 2021. “Walker Percy’s The Second Coming,” June 24, 2020. “‘Until the End of Time’: God and Brian Greene,” June 4, 2020. “A Constellation Near and Wide: Thornton Wilder and Sigrid Undset,” January 21, 2020.
ST. AUSTIN REVIEW. Review of The Pope and the Holocaust (Ignatius Press), 2022), November/December, 2024. Review of Eduard Habsburg, The Habsburg Way (Sophia Institute Press, 2023), September/October, 2023. Review of Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski Colletion (Ignatius Press, 2022), July/August, 2023. Review of The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), May_June 2023. Review of The Wheelwright’s Shop by George Sturt (Angelico Press, 1923), January/February, 2023. “Borges, Briefly,” January/February 2022. Review, Michael J. McGrath, Don Quixote and Catholicism: Re-evaluating Cervantine Spirituality (Purdue University Press, 2020), November/December, 2022. Review, Peter Kwasniewski, Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timelessness of the Traditional latin Mass (Angelico Press, 2020), July/August 2021. Review: Anthony Esolen, Sex and the Unreal City: The Demolition of the Western Mind (Ignatius Press, 2020), January/February 2021. of Owen Barfield, Night Operation and Eager Spring, 10.1 (Jan/Feb 2010), pp. 39-41.
VII: AN ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW. “C. S. Lewis at the BBC,” 21 (2004), pp. 109-110. “Shadowlands [feature film]: ‘Even Though . . .’?” 11 (1994), pp. 31-33. “The Magic Never Ends” [television documentary], 18 (2001), pp. 115-16. Diana Pavlac Glyer, The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, 25 (2008), pp. 117-19.
NATIONAL REVIEW. “C. S. Lewis: Why All the Fuss?” http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364366/c-s-lewis-why-all-fuss-james-como, NRO, November 23, 2013. The Great Debate,” May 20, 2002, pp. 56-57. “Hero Storyteller [Mario Vargas Llosa and Peruvian Political Culture],” April 17, 1995, pp. 53-56 (conc. 72). (w/Richard Nebenzahl) “Mucho Mas [Roberto Duran],” March 6, 1995, pp. 71-72. “Land of Shadows,” February 7, 1994, pp. 72-74. “Debates, Debates, and Showbiz,” November 16, 1992, p. 37 [cover attribution] “Chinochet?” September 14, 1992, pp. 29-30. “Prolonging Peru’s Solitude?” May 14, 1990, pp. 26-27. “The Road Home,” December 2, 1991, pp.50-5.
Addresses, Presentations
Special Guest Interview, C. S. Lewis and Kindred Spirits (The Agora Institute, Iasi, Romania: via Zoom), April 4, 2024.
“From the Academy: On Being A Christian Communicator,” Keynote Address, The Inklings Fellowship, St. Giles church, Oxford England, July 4, 2022.
“Community as Gift,” Keynote Address, York College 55th Birthday Celebration, February 24, 2022.
Emcee, Our lady of Good Counsel Homes Fundraising Dinner, December 12, 2021.
“Layered Landscapes: C. S. Lewis’s Concentric ‘Other Worlds’,” Keynote Address (via Zoom), Agora Christie, Fifth Annual Conference, Iasi, Romania, November 18, 2021.
“50, At and Along,” Opening Address, Fiftieth Anniversary of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, Molloy Retreat House, New York, October 18, 2019.
Three Lectures, for C. S. Lewis and Friends Annual Symposium, Memphis Theological Seminary, April 4-5. 2016.
“C. S. Lewis: Then and Now . . . and Hereafter,” the Fourteenth Annual Ellen Hurwitz Memorial Lecture, Albright College, Reading, Pa., May 10, 2014.
“His Fugitive Voice: After fifty Years,” Opening Address, C. S. Lewis 50th Anniversary Celebration of The C. S. Lewis Foundation, University of San Diego, June 22, 2013.
“Performance Across the Curriculum, ” keynote address to the first Colloquium of the CUNY League of Active Speech Professors, Hostos Community College, May 4, 2012.
“Aristotle, C. S. Lewis, and the Virtue of Friendship,” keynote address, Petoskey C. S. Lewis Regional Festival, October 16, 2009
“The Screwtape Letters: Evil and Its Antidote” (opening address) and “Militant and Mild” (banquet address), April 3-4, 2008. Conference: The Communion of Saints, Grove City College.
“Culture and Philosophy: Another C. S. Lewis.” Plenary Address, October 27, 2007. C. S. Lewis: The Man and His Work, October 26-27, 2007. Southeastern College at Wake Forest.
“What Ruins? Which Culture? Whose Character?” Plenary Address, First North American Summer Institute, C. S. Lewis Foundation, Williams College, July 8, 2006.
“The Christology of the Chronicles,” Pauline Lecture Series, New York, N.Y., May 18, 2006.
“Believing Narnia,” public lecture for Narnia on Tour, Border’s Bookstore (Kip’s Bay, Manhattan), November 5, 2005
“The Prophetic Realist: A Philosophy Project,” Closing Address, VII Symposium of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, August 10, 2003
“Rekindling Hope,” New Life Series: National Presbyterian Church, Washington, March 10, 2000
“At the Brink: An Existential Rhetoric,” Wethersfield Institute: Cooper Union, New York, November 13, 1998.
“Low Notes, High Notes, and Keynotes,” The Kansas C. S. Lewis Centenary Celebration, The University of Wichita, November 18-22, 1998.
“Sources and Seminality: The Spirituality of C. S. Lewis,” The Christensen Symposium on Spirituality, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 18-19, 1995.
“Moral Learning In and Out of Narnia: C. S. Lewis and His Unexpected Band of Brothers,” The Third Annual Thomas More Lecture on Learning, St. Thomas More College, Fort Worth, Texas, April 27, 1995.
“The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis,” Tenth Annual Lewis-Tolkien Lecture, C.S. Lewis Center for the Study of the Common Tradition, Dallas, Texas, November 10, 1994.
“Congruent Christians: Literary Form and Christian Purpose in Walker Percy, Thornton Wilder, Robertson Davies, and William Kennedy,” Lecture Series, Episcopal Archdiocese of Long Island, 1988-89.
“Two Masters, Two Myths, One Meaning: the Congruencies of Wilder’s Alcestiad and Lewis’ Till We Have Faces,” paper read at the 27th International Conference on American Drama, Keane College, October 29, 2010.
Symposiast, “The Devil Made Me Do It,” The Lantern Theater of Philadelphia, September 21, 2002.
Program Director and Seminar Leader, Inauguration of the C. S. Lewis Foundation Study Centre at the Kilns (C. S. Lewis’s home), Oxford, England, July 29-August 11, 2001.
“Domain Theory: Toward a Taxonomy and Theory of Comparative Rhetoric,” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Thirteenth Biennial Conference, Warsaw, Poland, July 2001.
“Reason and Rhetoric,” The C. S. Lewis Foundation Summer Institute: Centenary Festival, Oxford [Wadham College], England, July 20-25, 1998.
“Peru Agonistes: Culture, Information, and Rhetorical Adventurism,” Annual Convention of the Speech Communication Association (International and Intercultural division), November, 1993.
Program Respondent, “Rhetorical Traditions and Advances,” and Program Moderator, “Basic Issues in Speech Communication,” Forty-Eighth Annual Convention of the New York State Speech Communication Association, October, 1993.
“Re-Constructing the Better Screwdriver: That Old-Time, Hermeneutic, Literary Rhetoric,” Fiftieth Anniversary Convention of the New York State Speech Communication Association, October, 1992.
Television and Radio
Podcast, The Eric Metaxas Show, Mystical Perelandra, [two parts] June 13th, 1022.
Podcast, Pints With Jack, Walter Hooper Remembered and Mystical Perelandra, December 2020.
The Eric Metaxas Show [radio and television]: The New York C. S. Lewis Society – 50 Years, and C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, week of June 24, 2019.
Radio Broadcasts, “C. S. Lewis,” for Radio Maria, second and fourth Sundays of March, April, May, 2012.
Television documentary: on-air commentator, De-coding Narnia, BBC, Easter, 2009.
Television biography: on-air commentator, C. S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia. Windborne Productions, Hallmark Channel, December 9, 2005.
Television documentary: on-air commentator, C. S. Lewis: The Reluctant Convert. Day of Discovery, PAX-TV, January 6, 13, 30, 27, 2005.
Television documentary: advisor and on-air critic, The Question of God: C. S. Lewis & Sigmund Freud. Tatge-Lasseur Productions, PBS. September 15th and 22nd, 2004.
Radio interviews (various, e.g. WNYE-FM, July, 1989; The Hugh Hewitt Program, Salem Broadcasting, June, 2001; Philadelphia Public Radio, June 20, 2002).
“C. S. Lewis and Rhetoric,” Mars Hill Audio Magazine, vol 35 (November/December, 1998).
Stories & Poems
STORIES A Harlem Tale and Other Stories, privately printed, May 2021. “Bridge of Dread,” The Erotic Review Magazine, June 23, 2017. “The Old School Skirt, or, Payback’s a Bitch,” The Erotic Review Magazine, February 2, 2017. “The Good Neighbors,” The Greenwich Village Literary Review, Spring 2015, Vol. II, No. 1.
The New English Review. “A Life of the Mind,” “No Matter.” “Bunny and the Boys: A Tale of Two Worlds.” “Truly” (Parts 1-3). “The Past Dies Only if You Kill It,” “Choice,” “I Wish More Women Were Like My Wife” and “Pastorale,” “Mimi & Magda,” “Communion of Saints,” “Tales of Rulx: The Salon,” “Scarlett, a fairy tale,” “The Grandfather,” “Goodbye World,” “Tales of Rulx: ‘. . . but didn’t you know you would haunt men’s dreams?'”, “Darkness, and Its Dreams,” “Tales of Rulx: Liberty and Death,” “Tales of Rulx: Enter Reynard,” “Charlie Faust: Grace’s Version,” “Emeritus: a jeu d’sprit,” “An East Harlem Tale,” “The Good Thief,” “The Well at San Gimignano,” “Heaven Knows,” “The Best Friend,”
POEMS.
Pilgrim: a journal of Catholic Experience. The Sacramental Cat,” “Original Sin,” “Spells and the Spirit,” “A Vision of the Ways of Despair,” “Him,” “Light,”
The New English Review. “Maria,” “My Yellow Wall,” “Poetry,” “The End of Counting,” “Comes the Dawn,” “Gaudeamus Igitur,” “Place for Love,” “Remembering Harry,” “On the Eighth Day,” “At Sea,” “Hanging Wallpaper,” “Off Key,” “Vale, Atque, Ave,” “Oh, Brother Mine,” “Entropology,”
“Holy solitude,” St. Austin Review, November/December, 2020.
Other
Member, Parish Council, St. Thomas More Church (Manhattan), 2019-2021.
Contributing Editor, The New English Review, 2017-2021.
Member, Editorial Board, Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal (Fuller Theological Seminary), 2008-2022.
Member, the advisory board of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, 2011-14.
Member, The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, 2000-2012.
Communication Consultant, ad hoc: Healthy Respect (a program of sexual education for public schools) * Good Counsel Homes for Pregnant Women at Risk.
Editor, CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society, 1974, 1993-1999.
“Abortion-on-Demand,” Debate at The Art & Work Ensemble, Synchronicity Space (The West Village, New York), September, 1990.
Colloquist, Liberty Fund: “The Idea of Liberty in the Political Thought of C. S. Lewis,” Tucson, Arizona, September 14-17, 2017 * “Freedom and Responsibility in Rhetoric,” Indianapolis, Indiana, March 5-8, 1998 * “Persuasion and Freedom,” Annapolis, Maryland, June 12-15, 1997 * “Liberty and Responsibility in Shakespeare’s Comedies,” Newport, RI, May 2-5, 1996.
Reader/Grant Program-Evaluator, William H. Donner Foundation, Inc., “Western Civilization Alternatives Project” ($315,000), Fall 1994.
Trustee, The C. S. Lewis Foundation, Redlands, California, 1999-2002.
Honors
Honoree, First Benefit Program, York College Male Initiative, August 18, 2017.
Featured Speaker, Post-Commencement Homecoming Reception, June 2, 2017.
York College Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, May 10, 2014.
Excellence in Teaching Award, Sigma Alpha Pi, The National Society of Leadership and Success, May 5, 2008.
Outstanding Contributions, York College Male Initiative and Men’s Center, February 7, 2008.
Chief Faculty Marshall (elected), York College, 2001 (declined), 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011.
Student Government Award for devoted service to York College as Vice Chair of the Senate, 2002.
Student Government Award for devoted service to York College as Vice Chair of the Senate, 2001.
As Chairman, President’s recognition for exemplary contribution to York College, 1993.
Salvatori Fellowship for Academic Leadership and Public Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1992-93 [in residence, June 13-23, 1992].
Honoree, Access to Excellence, 1992-93,The Chancellor’s Recognition of Outstanding Faculty.
Member, Sigma Delta Pi: The International Spanish Honor Society.
College Service
Governance, Administration and Service
Member, Advisory Board, York College Male Initiative Program, 2018-
Member, Provost’s Select Academic Advisory Council, 2008-10
Chair, Speech Communication Search Committee, fall 2008-09, 2010
Chair, Provost’s Lecture Series Committee, 2007-08
Mentor, York College Men’s Center, 2006-
Faculty Member, Auxiliary Enterprises Board, spring 2007-fall 2008
Senator, fall 2000-spring 2003; Vice Chair, Senate, spring 2001-spring 2002
Member, Faculty Committee to Review the Kidd Presidency, Primary Author, fall 2000
Coordinator (founding member, 1987), Faculty Forum, 1992-2002
Member, Faculty Development Committee for Sponsored Programs, 1997-00
Member, Provost’s Committee on Academic Advisement, 1998
Member, Provost’s Retention Committe, 1997
Chair, College Committee on Academic Standards, 1994-98
Member, College Curriculum Committee, 1997-98
Member, Steering Committee, Self-Evaluation for Middle-States Evaluation Visit, 1996-98
Co-chair, Academic Program Outcomes Committee (for Middle-States Evaluation), 1996-97
Member, 30th Anniversary Planning Committee, 1997
Member, Search Committee, Vice President for Administrative Affairs, Spring 1997
Member, Presidential Search Committee, 1995-96
First Coordinator (pro. tem.), Lyceum Series in Arts and Letters, spring 1994
Member, Search Committee: Vice President for Academic Affairs, summer 1994
Member, Latin American Cohort: Multi-Cultural Core, 1992-94
Member, Western Civilization Cohort: Multicultural-Core, 1990-91
Chair (and founder), Conceptual and Critical Thinking Group, 1987-1992
Chair, College Committee on Instruction, 1987-1990
Faculty Advisor/coach, College Rhetoric Society and Debate Team: First York College Inter-collegiate debates, 1988-89 (at CCNY, December, 1988; CCNY at York, April, 1989)
Presentations, etc.
“Critical Thinking in Context,” CETL Forum, Spring, 2009.
“Podcasting the Lecture,” Faculty Forum on Teaching and Digital Technology, March 15, 2007.
“How to be a Good Student,” Seminar for entering freshmen, York College Men’s Center, August 1, 2006.
Master of Ceremonies, York College Honors Program, May 31, 2006.
Master of Ceremonies, First CUNY Choral Fest, April 28, 2006.
“Conceptual and Critical Thinking,” seminar and workshop, Writing Across the Curriculum, November 29, 2001.
“C. S. Lewis: A Centenary Retrospective,” Faculty Forum, November, 1998.
“Cross-Cultural Oral Communication,” Multi-Cultural Planning Group, October, 1994.
“Peru Agonistes,” Faculty Forum, September, 1991.
“C. S. Lewis: In Memoriam,” Faculty Forum, November, 1989.
“Direct Oral Communication in the Classroom,” Workshop: One-day video review and criticism, (with two one-hour sessions thereafter of lecture-practicum), February/March, 1991.
Curriculum
All Speech Communication Curricula, 1968-
First podcast lectures at York: Speech 101, spring 2006
Speech Communication for Business, the Professions and Public Service (new concentration), 2006
First College Offering: Core 201: Latin America and the Caribbean, spring, 1994
Designed, The Nature of Human Communication (Humanities 300), spring, 1989
Participant, The Liberal Studies Major (Teacher Education Program), summer, 1988-spring 1989