Education
B.S. Communication, magna cum laude, Boston University
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Goddard College
Professional development:
2010 Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive
2008-11, workshops at the University at Albany Institute for Teaching, Learning & Academic Leadership
2005, workshops conducted by the Princeton University Writing Program
Various: workshops and classes in short fiction, stage directing, adapation, dramatic screenwriting, and more
M.F.A. Creative Writing, Goddard College
Professional development:
2010 Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive
2008-11, workshops at the University at Albany Institute for Teaching, Learning & Academic Leadership
2005, workshops conducted by the Princeton University Writing Program
Various: workshops and classes in short fiction, stage directing, adapation, dramatic screenwriting, and more
Teaching: University at Albany, SUNY (fall 2008 to present)
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Documentary Studies Program
Media Fellow, New York State Writers Institute (half time fall '08 through fall '09)
Courses taught: Undergraduate
History on Film (student project received William T. Reedy Award for Best Undergraduate History Paper)
Theatrical Documentary and the War in Iraq
Theatrical Documentary and U.S. History
History on Stage
Narrative and Historical Media
Convict Labor, Peonage, and the Chain Gang
History and Theory of Documentary Film
Historical Media Storytelling (workshop in documentary storytelling)
Documentary Studies Seminar and Fieldwork Practicum (capstone)
Civil Rights: A Documentary Approach
Courses taught: Graduate
History and Theory of Documentary Film
Readings: Narrative and the Historical Imagination
Readings: Convict Labor, Peonage, and the Chain Gang
Practicum: Writing the Successful Proposal
Historical Media Storytelling (workshop)
Seminar and Practicum in History & Media (production workshop)
Courses taught: Community
Workshop in Intermediate/Advanced Dramatic Screenwriting
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, fall 2005
Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies
Course taught: History on Film
Also created and moderated American Visions in Documentary, a public screening series with visiting filmmakers Ric Burns (Eugene O'Neill);
Susan Froemke (Lalee's Kin); Muffie Meyer and Ronald Blumer (Benjamin Franklin); and Stanley N. Katz, Sam Pollard and me (Eyes on the Prize).
Visiting Professor, Westbrook College (now the University of New England), spring 1995
Inaugural Dorothy M. Healy Visiting Professor, American Studies
Course taught: History on Film
Writer in residence; public staged reading of full-length play, Skylark, presented by Westbrook College in association with Portland Stage Company.
Directed by Dawn McAndrews.
