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THOMAS A. GREENFIELD
Professor of English Lecturer in Music
Welles 219 Phone: (585) 245-5199, 5273
SUNY Geneseo Fax: (585) 245-5181
1 College Pl email tag@geneseo.edu
Geneseo, NY 14454
Education
Ph.D. English (Drama Studies), University of Minnesota, 1980.
M.A. English, University of Minnesota, 1973.
B.A. English, Grinnell College, 1970.
Honors and Awards
Carol and Michael Harter Endowment Faculty Mentoring Award, 2011.
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009.
Student Organization Advisor of the Year, Presented by Division of Student
and Campus Life, Geneseo College, 2008-2009.
Honoring Geneseo Teachers, Geneseo Teaching Learning Center, 2007
Phi Beta Kappa (Foundation Member), Alpha Delta of New York.
Inducted. 2004. (Chapter President, 2006-2009).
Excellence Award, Student Association of Bellarmine College, for outstanding faculty/staff, 1990.
Finalist, National Ten-Minute Play Competition (1989).
Finalist/Nominee, George F. Freedley Award for Outstanding Book on Drama
of the Year, 1984.
Five Honorable Mentions (top 10% of entries), Billboard Magazine
Songwriting Competition 1980-1989.
Teaching Appointments
Professor of English, SUNY Geneseo, NY 1991 – Present.
Professor and Associate Professor of English, Bellarmine College (now University). Promoted to Full Professor, 1989), 1982-1991.
Assistant Professor and Instructor of Humanities, Virginia Union University.
(Promoted to Assistant Professor, 1980), 1973-1982.
Teaching: Regular Courses Taught (SUNY Geneseo, 1991-present)
INTD 105 First Year Writing Seminar (Selected Topics in Drama)
Humanities 220 Western Humanities I
Humanities 221 Western Humanities II
African-American Drama
American Drama 1960-2000
American Social Drama
American Studies: Broadway, Theater, and the Evolution of New York City
Modern Western Drama
Irish Drama (survey and various themes)
English and Irish Absurdist Drama
British Comedy of Manners
George Bernard Shaw and His Circle
Publications and Grants
Books
Broadway: An Encyclopedia of Theater and American Culture (editor and principal
contributor). ABC-Clio/Greenwood Press, 2010.
Radio. Greenwood Press: American Popular Culture Reference Series,1989.
Work and the Work Ethic in American Drama, 1920-1970. University of Missouri
Press, 1984. Nominee/Finalist, Freedley Award for Outstanding Book
in Drama, 1984.
Articles, Book Chapters, Reviews and Other Publications
“Broadway.” Encyclopedia of Music and American Culture, ed. Jacqueline
Edmonson. ABC-Clio. Co-author with Kaitlyn C. Allen. In press.
“Toil and Trouble: “Labor Drama in the 1920s and 1930s.” Twentieth Century
Literary Criticism: Vol 224. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2011.
Reprinted from Work and the Work Ethic in America Drama, Missouri, 1982.
“Elmer Rice.” Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: Vol 221. Farmington
Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2009. Reprinted from Work and the Work Ethic
in America Drama, Missouri, 1982.
“Theatre and Performance in North America.” Encyclopedia of World Popular
Culture. Michael Schoeneke, ed. Greenwood Press. Co-author with
Monica Moschetta. 2007.
"Hopeless Colored Names: A Taxonomy of Naming and Re-naming Rituals in
Baraka’s Dutchman." Co-author with Sarah Pinchoff. Names:
A Journal of Onomastics 55:2 (June 2007).
“Route 66.” American Icons: People Places and Things that have Shaped our Culture. Eds. Dennis Hall and Susan Hall. Greenwood Press. 2006.
“Rush Limbaugh.” American Icons: People Places and Things that have Shaped our Culture. Eds. Dennis Hall and Susan Hall. Greenwood Press. 2006.
"Where Miller Meets Chekhov." Death of a Salesman Production Playbill. Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, August 2004.
“Re-inventing Modern Dublin by Yvonne Whelan.” Book Review, Names: A Journal of Onomastics. 2004.
"Radio." Chapter for revised Handbook of American Popular Culture. Co-author with Erica Scharrer. Greenwood Press, 2003.
"Quick Studies: Notes on the First College Course on the Ten-Minute Play." In Ten- Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville Vol IV. Ed. Michael Bigelow Dixon, 1998.
“The Glass Menagerie as Social Drama.” Readings on ‘The Glass Menagerie.’ Ed. Thomas Siebold. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998.
"The Ends Mystify the Means: Late Stage Planning Revision in a Pilot Freshman Seminar Program." Abs. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Freshman Year Experience, 1995.
"Honor Thy Father: A Dean's Life after Asheville." Liberal Education Vol 81:No 1 (Winter 1995), 40-43.
"Elmer Rice." Modern Masters. Actors Theatre of Louisville performance program, 1995. Reprinted from Work and the Work Ethic in American
Drama, Missouri, 1982.
"Kentucky Humanities Council" and "Kentucky Arts Council." Kentucky Encyclopedia. _ Kentucky Bicentennial Commission, 1992.
"Masks of Intimidation: Commedia del Arte and Halloween." Commedia del Arte Monographs. Louisville: Classics in Context Festival, 1990.
Entertaining Charlene. Finalist, National Ten-Minute Play Competition, 1989.
Editor, Scholar and Educator Vol. XII: No 1 & 2 (Fall 1988/Spring 1989).
"Radio." Chapter in Handbook of American Popular Culture. Greenwood Press, 1989. Co-author with Nicholas Sharp.
Review Essay. Comparative Drama Vol 21: No. 2 (Summer 1987), 187-90.
"One Man Merton." Merton Seasonal. Vol 10: No. 2 (Spring 1985), 12-13.
"The Richmond Writer." Interview series in The Richmond Quarterly, Spring 1982- Summer 1983.
"Criteria for Humanistic Social Action." Chapter in Afro-American Perspectives in the Humanities. Collegiate Press, 1980.
"The Special Appeal of Job." Emphasis, May 1977.
"Excellent Things in Women." South Atlantic (MLA) Bulletin Vol 42:No 1 (January 1979), 43-52.
"Race and the Passive Voice at Monticello." The Crisis (NAACP official journal) Vol. 82: No. 4 (April 1975), 147-48. Reprinted in Excellence in Education Vol. 15, March 1977.
"The Departmental Writing Advisor." Virginia English Bulletin Vol 25: No. 2 (Winter 1975).
Ten poems published in various literary magazines, 1973-1979.
Grants and Institutional Support
AAC&U proposals (3) for faculty team support and participation in Summer Curriculum Workshops, total $17,000 in funded or partially subsidized services.
▪ Building Learning Centered Communities, Leesburg, VA, Summer 2001
▪ Boundaries and Borderlands, Providence, RI, Summer 2000
▪ General Education Renewal, Asheville, NC, Summer 1994
Genesee Valley Council on the Arts. $5100 to support production costs of Avon (NY) Community Theatre youth productions, 1995-1998.
Marine Midland Community Grant. Grant (under $5000; exact amount held confidential at donor's request) to support production costs of Avon (NY) Community Theatre youth production, 1997.
New York Council for the Humanities. $1000 to support program panels as enhancement to Avon Community Theatre youth productions, 1996, 1997.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Classics in Context Festival on the Victorians, $188,000. One of six writers of the successful grant proposal. Co-author with Rhea Lehman et. al., 1988.
C.E. & S. Foundation, Foreign Language Scholarships, $30,000. Co-author with Gabriele Bosley and Steven Permuth, 1989.
C.E. & S. Foundation, Foreign Language Scholarships, $75,000. Co-author with Ceil Lynch, 1986.
Lilly Foundation Grant for fundraising seminar for state humanities councils, $49,000. Co-author with Ken Gladish and Jamil Zainaldin, 1988.
Creativity Under Duress, Funds for National Russian History and Art Panel (fees and travel), Classics in Context Festival, $1000. 1989.
Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Film and Video Initiative, $30,000. Co-author with Ramona Lumpkin, 1987.
Miller Foundation, Kentucky Film and Video Initiative, $15,000. Co-author with Ramona Lumpkin, 1987.
Permanent Office Residence (rent-free and maintenance free) secured for Kentucky Humanities Council, value $110,000. 1987.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Urban Change and the Urban Church, $4,000. 1976.
American Chautauqua Society, Stipend for Jewish Studies Professor, $2265. 1984-1987.
Kentucky Humanities Council, Jazz Residency for Gary Giddens, $700. 1983.
Southern Regional Educational Board, Travel Grant, $400. 1984.
Administrative Experience
Special Assistant to the President for Community & Strategic Partnerships, 2002-2009.
Dean of the College and Professor, SUNY Geneseo, 1991- 2002.
Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, 1984-1991.
Department & Division Chair, English & Humanities, Bellarmine, 1982-1984.
Director of Honors Program, Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA 1979- 1980 and 1981-1982. (Instructor and Assistant Professor, 1973-1982).
Visiting Associate Examiner (Test Item Writer and Reviewer for GRE, GMAT, and LSAT), Educational Testing Service, In-residence, Princeton, NJ, 1981-1982; Freelance item writer for GMAT and LSAT, 1982-1984.
Major Administrative Accomplishments, 1991-2003.
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▪ Co-Chair and Principal Author, Middle States Self-Study Accreditation Steering Committee. Full Re-accreditation with Commission’s commendation of excellence for the Self-Study document, 2002.
▪ Co-Chair and Co-Author, Phi Beta Kappa chapter application committee. Geneseo awarded a chapter: one of seven successful applications out of 45 campuses applying, 2003.
▪ Chair of General Education Committee, 1991-2002. First-line administrative coordination for general education reviews, 1994 and 1999 (the latter in response to SUNY General Education mandates).
▪ Principal Designer and Chair, First Semester (Freshman) Seminar Program (INTD 101), 1994-2002.
▪ Principal Author, Geneseo Policy and Procedures for Academic Department Review, 1994 and revision 1999.
▪ Tripled student and faculty participation in Study Abroad during tenure as Dean.
▪ Team Leader, Geneseo AAC&U Boundaries and Borderlands Project, Summer 2000
Academic and Administrative Experience
▪ Special Assistant to the President for Community & Strategic Partnerships, 2002- present.
▪ Dean of the College and Professor, SUNY Geneseo, 1991- 2002.
▪ Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, 1984-1991.
▪ Department & Division Chair, English & Humanities, Bellarmine, 1982-1984.
▪ Director of Honors Program, Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA 1979-1980 and 1981-1982. (Instructor and Assistant Professor, 1973-1982).
▪ Visiting Associate Examiner (Test Item Writer and Reviewer for GRE, GMAT, and LSAT), Educational Testing Service, In-residence, Princeton, NJ, 1981-1982; Freelance item writer for GMAT and LSAT, 1982-1984.
Professional and Community Service (selected)
Boards
• Middle States Accreditation Visiting Team, Frostburg State College, 2005.
• Board of Directors, Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, 1994-2000.
• Board of Directors, WGSU FM, Geneseo, NY, 1993 - present.
• Board of Directors, Avon Community Theatre, (Secretary and Treasurer), 1993-1998.
• President, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Livingston Co., NY 1996-1997.
• Member, Board of Consulting Scholars, Classics in Context Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1989-1991.
• Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Federation of State Humanities Councils, Washington D.C., 1989-1990 (Board Member, 1987-1990).
• Chair, Board of Directors, Kentucky Humanities Council, 1986-1988. (Board Member, 1984-1988).
• Board of Directors, Trinity High School, Louisville, KY, 1985-1989.
• Executive Director, Society of Educators and Scholars, 1985-1988.
• Chair, Annual Conference, Society of Educators and Scholars, Louisville, KY, 1986.
Consultant (Selected)
• Southern Utah University, Preparing the Campus for a Phi Beta Kappa Application, Summer 2010.
• Speaker, Team Participant, TLQP Grant, NYSE Grant for Rochester City School
Professional Development, 2-3 presentations per year. Sharon Peck, P.I. 2003-2008.
• New York Council for the Humanities, Major Grants program reviewer, 2004.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Evaluator, Division of Research, 2003.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Evaluator, Division of Preservation and Access Division, 1997.
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Evaluator, State Humanities Councils Partnership Division, 1997.
Writer/Consultant, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. In residence
at Princeton, 1980-1981; test item writer for LSAT, GMAT, GRE, and
NTE examinations.
Public Humanities Activity
• Producer, Writer, Host, Folkal Point, Radio program for WXXI 91.5 FM (Rochester Public Radio), 1998-2000
• Symposium Director, “Politics and the Russian Artist,” co-sponsored by Bellarmine College and the Classics in Context Festival, September 26-28, 1989
• Symposium Director, “The Victorians: The Scholar and the Artist,” co-sponsored by Bellarmine College and the Classics in Context Consortium, September 19, 1988.
• Symposium Director, “The French Romantic Theatre,” co-sponsored by Bellarmine College and Actors Theatre of Louisville, October 19, 1987.
• Symposium Director, “Pirandello: His Life and Work,” co-sponsored by Bellarmine College and Actors Theatre of Louisville, October 17, 1986.
• Symposium Director, “Urban Change and the Urban Church.” Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia, March 1976.
• Producer, Television Special, "Race Relations and the Inner City," WCVE-TV, Richmond, Virginia, September 9, 1975.
Study Abroad Experience
Group Leader/Instructor
• Literary Dublin, Short course in Irish Literature, Dublin, Ireland, Geneseo College, March 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. Also, SUNY Faculty contact for Geneseo-managed SUNY Study Program at Trinity College, Dublin.
• Bellarmine-in-Oxford, Literature course at New College, Oxford, Summer 1988, 1989. (Precursor to Geneseo Humanities-in-Oxford Program).
• Geneseo Humanities Oxford Program, Administrative “Founder,” 1993; Faculty program director and lecturer, 2006; principal instructor, Summer 2007 and 2010.
• Geneseo Humanities in Athens, Greece. Program Director and Instructor, Summer 2011.
Administrator
• Interim Director of Study Abroad, Geneseo College, 1995-1996, 2000-2001.
• Principal negotiator and/ or initial administrator of the following programs and exchange agreements.
▪ Student internship, Shanghai Teachers University, PRC, Geneseo College 2001.
▪ Geneseo/Buffalo State University partnership, SUNY program in Siena, Italy, 1994-1998.
▪ Geneseo Summer program at American University in Rome, Italy, 2001.
▪ Geneseo at Oxford program, England, 1993-present.
(Adult) Student
• Archaeological dig, Tel Dor, Israel, University of California/San Diego Summer 1986.
• Biblical Study, Lake Forest Consoritum, Keeble College, Oxford University, England, Summer1985.
Personal.
Married, two grown children.
Principal avocations are travel, guitar, folk music, songwriting, and slow tennis.
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