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David Seelow

Excelsior Title:  

Program Director for Arts and Humanities

Degrees:  

PhD, English and Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1990
MA, English, Columbia University, 1987
BA, English and Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1977

Programs and Courses

Courses Designed:

LA 490 Writing and Research in the Majors
COMM 498 Communication Studies Capstone
ENG 101 English Composition(coordinator)
LA 498 HUM Humanities Capstone

Project Director for the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab
Principal Investigator for a $589,000 FIPSE grant
Consulting editor for the Faculty Newsletter
 


Research and Publications

Books
Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud/Reich/D.H. Lawrence & Beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2005.

Articles
"D.H. Lawrence, Controversial Modern Novelist and Poet" and "Sigmund Freud, Founder of Psychoanalysis," in Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford: OUP, November, 2005.

"Outside/In: Infusing Popular Culture into the Curriculum," Arizona English Bulletin, Fall, 2003.

"Fatherhood: From Hero to Villain: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature of Advocacy," CHOICE, 36 (10), June, 1999.

"Loud Men: The Cultural Poetics of Robert Bly, Etheridge Knight and Ice Cube," The Journal of Men Studies, 7(1), January, 1998.

"Look Forward in Anger: Young Black Males and The New Cinema," The Journal of Men Studies, 5(2), November, 1996.

"Listening to Youth: Woodstock, Music, America and Kurt Cobain's Suicide," Child and Youth Care Forum, 25(1), February, 1996.

"The AWOL, Network Intervention and Residential Care: A New Look at Old Acts," Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 10(4), Summer, 1993.

Reviews

Served on the Editorial Advisory Board for a book entitled Information Technology and Constructivism in Higher Education: Progressive Learning Frameworks, edited by Dr. Carla Payne.
Regular book reviews for CHOICE, 1995 to present.
Review of William Dean Meyers, Monster, Alternative Network Journal 7, May 2001.
Review of Ice T as told to Heidi Siegmund, The Ice Opinion, Journal of Popular Culture, 31(2), Fall, 1997.
Review of Susan Mackay-Kallis,  Oliver Stone's America: Dreaming the Myth Outward, The Library Journal, June, 1996.
Review of James A. Doyle, The Male Experience, The Journal of Men Studies 3(2), May, 1995.

Selected Presentations

"The Graphic Novel as Advanced Literacy Tool," The Benefits of Using Science Fiction and Comic Books in Teaching panel, NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) annual conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,forthcoming November 20, 2009

"Creative Assessments and Student Performance," Excelsior College Faculty Seminar Series, Albany, New York, November 10, 2008.

"Using Audio Feedback to Improve Instruction," with John Prusch and Kyle Songer, Excelsior College, Online Education Learning Services Webinar, July 17, 2008.

Invited guest on "The Dr. Joe Parisi Show," WROW Radio, Albany Broadcasting Company, Latham, New York, January, 2005.

"Using Visual Arts and Technology to Meet E.L.A. Standards," The Long Island Language Arts Council Annual Conference, Melville, NY, April, 2001.

 "Cyberpunks: Textuality, Technology, and Gender at Century's End," The Hemingway Foundation, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA, April, 1995.

"The New Irish Renaissance: Cinema, Sexuality and Identity in the 90's," The International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature: Old and New Worlds, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, July, 1996.

"Hyper Real Men: The Altered States of Cyberpunk," International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference, Virtual Masculinity Panel. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, May, 1995.

 "Silenced Subjectivities: Race and the Wildman Image in the Poetry of Robert Bly, Etheridge Knight, and Ice Cube," International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May, 1994.

 "Expressing Invisibility: Young Black Males and the New Cinema," International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May, 1991.

"Beginning to Listen: The Dynamics of Faulkner's Voice," Northeast Modern Language Association, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, April, 1988.