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Richard Jewell

(fully revised as of 11-05; updated 9-08)
                

        For students: When academic workers such as college and university teachers write a resume, it more often is very detailed and is called a C.V. or "curriculum vita" ("life's studies").   The curriculum vita below is long, so you may want to skim it, or you can use the links here in the left-hand column to go more quickly to parts of it.  

Instructor, Full Time Unlimited (Tenured), Department of English, Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.  

            
Teaching responsibilities: composition, humanities, basic writing, and literature courses. 

                        
Additional work: Coordinator, Writing-Intensive (WAC) Program, 2005-present.  Coordinator, Campus-wide Student Success Day (20% release time), 2005-present.  Lead Advisor, Honor Society (10-15% release time), 2006-present.  Coordinator, Minnesota Colleges & Universities English and Writing Conference (annual; MnSCU and Univ. of Minn. systems), 2008-present.

Education

M.A., English, St. Cloud State University, 1985: Emphasis in rhetoric, composition, and creative writing. Training in the teaching of freshman composition, process writing, holistic scoring, portfolio assessment, research writing, and theories of private and public discourse. Course work from St. Cloud State's Director of Freshman Composition, who was trained in the Amherst freshman writing experience (one of the first major U.S. freshman writing programs) and in the University of Iowa WAC program--one of the first major U.S. writing-across-the-curriculum programs. G.P.A.: 4.0.

B.A., Philosophy, Monmouth College (Illinois), 1970: Minor--creative writing and composition. Editor, student literary magazine. Student government: Communications Board. G.P.A.: 3.6.

Other Schools and Significant Training:

• University of Iowa Summer Writers' Workshop, graduate credit (A).

• University of Minnesota Split Rock Program in Novel Writing, grad. credit (A). 

• University of Minnesota Web design and Web writing workshops (noncredit).

• Indiana University Writers' Conference (noncredit).

• WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) Training, St. Cloud State University.

• Knox College Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, Illinois.

• Two years of college with Shimer College (University of  Chicago Great Books Program):
         1 year on Mt. Carroll, Illinois campus
         1 year on Oxford, England campus

• San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1970-1973, two masters' degrees in religion and theology. Courses included work in writing and in facilitating groups.

College and University Teaching

Present Position: as above

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 1997-2001.  Assistant Education Specialist, Full Time, Department of English. Teaching responsibilities: upper- and lower-division composition courses. Administrative duties: Webmaster, English Department Composition Web Site; Coordinator, Composition Web Committee. Minnesota, 1997-2001
        

Anoka Ramsey Community College, 1992-1996.
North Hennepin Community College, 1989-1992.
St. Cloud State University, 1985-1989 (Instructor), 1983-1995 (Teaching Assistant)

Other Teaching: Austin Community College, NEI College of Technology, College of St. Scholastica, St. Cloud Business College, College of St. Francis, University of Minn. (Ext. Program), Hamline University, Vermilion Community College, Minnesota School of Business.

English Courses Taught

Business Communications
Basic Writing ("English Essentials" and "Refresher English")
         
1000/100 Level:
        
Business Writing
College Composition I (writing based and essay based)
College Composition II (writing based and essay based)
Creative Writing
Freshman English I (literature based)
Freshman English II (      "               "     )
Honors University Writing & Critical Reading
Honors Writing Practice I
Intermediate Expository Writing
Introduction to Literature
Technical Writing
University Writing and Critical Reading
University Writing and Critical Reading
Writing for Publication
Writing Practice I
Writing Practice and Cultural Diversity I

2000/200 Level:

College Composition
Introduction to Literature
Literature of Mythology

3000/300 Level:

Advanced Expository Writing
College Composition
Fiction Writing
Selected World Literature
Technical Writing for Engineers
Writing about Science
Writing in the Health Sciences
Writing in the Social Sciences

4000/400-5000/500 Level: Magazine Writing

6000/600 Level: Writing in the Elementary Classroom
           

Other College Courses Taught

College Success Seminar, Comparative World Religions, Pathways to Success, Philosophy and Modern Society, Introduction to the Humanities, Humanities I--Ancient Civilizations through the Renaissance, Philosophy of Religion, Creative Problem Solving, Religion in America.

Other Special Activities

• New 1-credit, 1000-level Creative Writing course, English Department, Austin Community College, 1985

• New 1000-level Introduction to Humanities course, all branches of Rasmussen Business College, 1989

• Redevelopment of 1000-level Professional and Technical Writing course, English Department, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, 1991

• New 3-credit course, "ENGC 3029W Professional Writing," English Department, University of Minnesota, 2001        

Computer Technology

• Regular instructor of hybrid physical-classroom and online-classroom courses in composition, developmental composition, literature, and the humanities.

• Author of the online college composition textbook CollegeWriting.info: http://umn.edu/home/jewel001/CollegeWriting/home.html  

• Author of the Online Grammar Handbook: http://umn.edu/home/jewel001/grammar  

• Personal Web Site: www.Richard.Jewell.net 

• Author of own multi-course Web site, UMN and Inver Hills CC: www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001. 

• Taught writing in computer classrooms since 1985

• Author of a successful $130,000 grant proposal for a collaborative computer classroom for first-year composition courses, English Dept. Composition Program, UM.

• Author of a successful $9000 grant proposal for hiring an undergraduate Assistant Webmaster to revise the EngC (Composition) Web site.

• Webmaster of the English Department's EngC (Composition) Web site, UM (at http://composition.cla.umn.edu): coordinated the revising and redesigning of an extensive Web site.

• Author, English Department Web Site, Inver Hills Community College.

Writing Center Work

• Director, Center for Writing, NHCC: helped plan, implemented, and coordinated the first year of the NHCC Center for Writing.

• Director and Tutor, Twin Cities Tutoring Program, CSF.

• Night Manager and Tutor, English Tutoring Center, SCSU.

• Volunteer Tutor, UM and ARCC Writing Centers.

Social Work

• Intern, The Point, Camden, New Jersey.  Worked with youth and in a church.  Was trained in community social work.  Summer 1971.

• Director, the Drop-In Center, Berkeley, Cal., and related street social work. 1972-73.

• Youth Worker, NE Neighborhood Services, Minneapolis.  1974-1975.

Special Positions: See "Additional Work" under "Present Position," above.

College-/University-wide:

• Academic Affairs Council (IHCC) 

• Advisor, Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society (IHCC)

• Advisory Committee to the Center for Writing (NHCC)

• Advisory Committee for Developmental Education (NHCC)

• Calendar Subcommittee (ARCC-AHTC)

• Committee to Create a Writing Center (NHCC)

• Developmental Committee (IHCC & NHCC)

• Energy Pool (ARCC)

• Graduation Planning Committee (ARCC)

• Guidelines for Campus Computer Use Subcommittee (NHCC)

• International Student Travel Center Board, Faculty Advisor (UM)

• Semester Conversion Committee (ARCC)

• Student Success Day Committee Chair and Program Coordinator (IHCC)

• Writing Across the Curriculum Work Group (SCSU)

• Writing Intensive Committee, Chair (IHCC)

Departmental:

• Composition Research Committee, Coordinator (ARCC).

• Curriculum Committee, Composition (UM).

• Composition Web Site Committee, Coordinator (UM).

• Honors Awards Selection Committee (ARCC).

• Literature Discussion Group (ARCC).

• Portfolio Grading Group, Facilitator (ARCC).

• Semester Conversion Committee, Composition (UM).

• Specialist and Lecturer Monthly Meeting Group, Facilitator (UM).

• Technology Committee, English Department (UM).

Union-established:

• Academic Affairs Council (IHCC)

• Academic Standards Committee (IHCC)

• Executive Council (ARCC).

• Faculty Development Committee (ARCC).

• Facilities Committee (NHCC).

• General Matters Committee, Alternate (ARCC).

• Student Conduct Committee, MCCFA Rep. (ARCC).

• Student Stipend Committee, MCCFA Rep. (ARCC).

Regional:

• Member, Creative Writing Section Committee (Midwest Modern Language Assoc.), 1989-90.

• Proposer and Chair, special program section on computers and composition, Two-Year College Association Conference, Minneapolis, 1998.

• Double Session Organizer, 1999 Midwest Modern Language Association Conf.

• Secretary, 2000 M/MLA WAC (Writing across the Curriculum) Writing Section.

• Chair, 2001 M/MLA WAC Writing Section.

Seminars for Teachers: Taught 84 seminar hours to elementary and secondary teachers on "Writing Across the Curriculum" and/or "Teaching Creative Writing" in nine seminars at seven Minnesota schools and educational cooperative service units (when living near St. Cloud State University, 1983-1989):

Little Falls Public Schools, Central Minnesota ECSU (Educational Cooperative Service Unit), North Central Minnesota ECSU, West Central Minnesota ECSU, St. Mary's School, Little Falls, Sartell Middle School, Clearbrook Public Schools, Sartell Middle School.

Seminars in Community Education Programs: Taught over six hundred hours of seminars in over two dozen communities throughout Minnesota on "Writing for Publication," "Writing for Magazines," "Creative Writing," "Writing Family History," et al.

Publications

Academic Articles--nine publications (oldest first): 

• "Using the Right Brain to Teach Writing," Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching 17.3-4 (1992); 

• "Creative Writing in Other Writing Classes," Minnesota English Journal, Winter/Spring 1992; 

• "Overcoming Classroom Design: Group Writing in Computer Classrooms," The Assembly on Computers in English Journal--The Journal of the NCTE Assembly on Computers in English, 1.2, (Fall 1997);

• "Case 7. Too Much Thinking," Dilemmas in Teaching--Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection, Ed. Chris M. Anson, Lesley K. Cafarelli, Carol Rutz, & Michelle R. Weis, Madison, Wisconsin: and The Collaboration for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Mendota Press, 1998; 

• "Using Role Playing to Teach Critical Thinking," Innovation Abstracts, Vol. XX, No. 9, 1998; 

• "The Heart of the Muses: Teaching Narrative Writing Using Mythic/Archetypal Literary Criticism," Minnesota Council of Teachers of English Journal, 1999-2000, #1;  

• "The Nobel Prize: History and Canonicity," Midwest Modern Language Association Journal (winter 2000);

• "Belles Emails" (short excerpt from), PMLA (Dec. 2000); and 

• Anson, Chris, and Jewell, "Shadows of the Mountain," (lead essay), Moving a Mountain, National Council of Teachers of English (2001).

• Literary Prose and Poetry--about eleven publications in seven literary journals, one magazine, and one public radio station production: Lake Country Journal, Loonfeather, The Northland Quarterly, Optimistic Times, Thin Coyote, Minnesota Public Radio Station KCRB, et al.

• Magazine Articles--about sixty-three publications in twenty-seven magazines.

• Magazine Fiction (nonliterary short stories)--about seventeen publications in twelve magazines.

Conference Presentations (in each section, oldest first)

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL:

• "Peer-group Writing Using Computers." San Francisco, December 1998.

• Jewell and Chris Anson. "'Education Specialists': University of Minnesota." San Francisco, December 1998.

• "A Tale of Three Systems--Almost Adjunct Paradise."   Chicago, December 1999.

• "Observing Action: Stories of What Works." Chicago, December 1999.  

• "Inductive Writing: From Classroom to Workplace." San Diego, December 2003.   

• "Using Heuristics . . . for Exploratory Discourse." Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Diego, April 1993.

• "Mythic Dimensions of Travel Writing--A Travel Writer Speaks." Conference on American and British Travel Writers and Writing. Minneapolis, Nov. 1997.

• "A Two-Year College Writing Intensive Program That Transfers to the University of Minnesota." Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Conference.  Anchorage, July 2005.

REGIONAL:

MMLA (Midwest Modern Language Association Conventions--largest Midwest conference for college English and foreign language teachers):

• "Creative Writing in Other Writing Courses." Minneapolis, Nov. 1989.

• "Differences in Male and Female Voice." Kansas City, November 1990.

• "The Poetics and Politics of the Nobel Prize." St. Louis, November 1992.

• "Thinking as the Text of Composition." Minneapolis, November 1996.

• Organizer of Double Session, "Adjunct Issues: What Works." Mpls., Nov. 1999.  

• "Building a Composition Web Site," Cleveland, November 2001.

• "A Phenomenological Critique of Process and Post-Process Theories," Minneapolis, November 2002.

• "Stages of a Writer's Development," Minneapolis, November 2008.

MCTE (Midwest Council of Teachers of English) Conference:

• "The Seduction of my Friend," a reading. In "Teachers and Students Writing Personally"--presentation with two of my own writing students. Madison, April 1993.

TYCA-Midwest (Two-Year College Association-Midwest) English Conference:

• "Computer Labs and Peer Writing Groups." In "Connecting Writing on Computers: a Panel Presentation on Computer-Aided Writing Instruction." (Organized by Jewell: presentations by Jewell; Jon Cegielski, Anoka-Ramsey Community College; and Julie Eckerle, UM-Twin Cities.) St. Paul, October 1998.

• Student Narratives of Navigating Writing: Helping Students Place Themselves on a Scale of Writing Development." Duluth, October 3, 2008.

The Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching & Learning Conference:

• Jewell, Richard, Renee Mabey, and Michael Ahlen. "Using Role Playing to Connect Critical Thinking to Authentic Experience." Minneapolis, February 1997.

STATE OF MINNESOTA:

MCTE (Minnesota Council of Teachers of English) Conferences:

• "Critical Thinking Games." Alexandria, April 1997.

• "Starting a WAC Writing Center." Mankato, April 1991.

• "Where We Stand with Computers in Writing Now." Brooklyn Park, April 1990.

MnSCU (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities) and MCCS (Minnesota Community College System)--Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Conferences, et al.:

• "Hello & Goodbye Journals as Assessment." A GIFT Session. MnSCU CTL Conference. Bloomington, Minn., April 1996.

• "Replace Lecturing with a Thinking Tool." MCCS CTL. Brainerd, August 1995.

• "Using a Metacognitive Thinking Tool to Examine a Learning Experience." A GIFT Session. MnSCU CTL Conference. Bloomington, Minn., January 1996.

• "Building a Departmental Web Site."  MnSCU I-TEACH Technology Conference, May 2001.

• "Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing-Intensive Courses in the MNSCU System." A Keynote Lunch Panel Presentation.  Discussion Leader: Richard Jewell, Inver Hills Community College.  Panelists:  Bill Dyer, Bill Wagner, Anne O'Meara, Minnesota State University-Mankato; Kirsten Jamsen, University of Minnesota.  MnSCU English Discipline Workshop. Oct. 2004.

• "The College Writing Landscape: Navigating Intersections Between Disciplines, Genres, Pedagogies & Styles."  Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2004.

• "The Aftermath in Sierra Leone, Post-Civil War." Never Again, All Over Again: Teaching Genocide: MnSCU Discipline Workshop.  St. Paul, November 9-10, 2006.

• Coordinator, MnSCU English Discipline Meeting, 2008.

Other State Conferences:

• "From Personal to Academic Writing." Minnesota State University System Teaching Conference. St. Louis Park, 1989.

• "Writing for Publication." St. John's U. Writers' Conf., Collegeville, 1987.

Memberships and Awards

Memberships and Miscellaneous, Present and Past:

• seven academic/professional organizations (CCCC, MLA, M/MLA, NCTE, MEA, NEA, TYCA-Midwest).

• five writers' organizations (The Loft, et al.)

• editor of college literary magazines

• high school honor student and student council member; high school and junior high class president; Eagle Scout; member of choir, band, Latin Club, et al.

• graduated in three years from high school with higher grade point average than the valedictorian of graduating class (was disqualified from receiving honors because of early graduation)

Academic Awards as a College Student:

• National Merit Scholar Honor Award

• Fellowship, Mellinger Foundation (four years)

• National Semifinalist, Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship

• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, St. Cloud State University

State and Regional Awards for Creative Writing:

• Two University of Indiana Writers' Conference Competitive Scholarship Award offers, 1988 (nonfiction) and 1986 (fiction)

• Three Awards, KCRB-Minnesota Public Radio/Loonfeather Literary Magazine Contest, 1987

• Finalist, The Loft-Mentor Creative Nonfiction Program, 1995

• Finalist, The Loft-Mentor Creative Fiction Program, 1995

• Finalist, David Ross Memorial Poetry and Essay Competition, Wichita, 1995

Academic Awards as a Teacher--from Students:

• Best Composition Instructor of the Year Award, Department of English, University of Minnesota, 2001

• Seven Quality Instructor Citations from the Student Success Program, North Hennepin Community College, 1997-2003

• Two Distinguished Teaching Citations from the student body of St. Cloud State University, 1988 and 1989