CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Idaho

NAME: Stephan Paul Flores                                                            DATE: 2 March 2020

RANK OR TITLE: Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT: English                                                              

OFFICE LOCATION AND CAMPUS ZIP:                                     OFFICE PHONE: 885-6156 (English)
122 Brink—83844-1102                                                                  208-885-6156 (Brink 200, department office)
                                                                                                   FAX: 208-885-5944 (Brink 200)
EMAIL: sflores@uidaho.edu
                                                                                                   WEB: www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores

DATE OF FIRST EMPLOYMENT AT UI: 10 August 1987

DATE OF TENURE: 1994

DATE OF PRESENT RANK: 1994

EDUCATION BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL:

         Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988, English Language and Literature
         Emphases: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British literature especially drama, critical theory, history and theory of rhetoric and composition, modern and contemporary drama, history of the novel; advanced reading knowledge, Spanish; basic reading competency, French.
         Dissertation: “Recognition and Repression: Ideology and Dramatic Success on the London Stage, 1660-1685.”  The dissertation shows how popular plays disclose, disguise, and negotiate the audience’s experience of cultural conflicts and contradictions under the restored monarchy of Charles II.  Directed by Dr. James A. Winn.

M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981, English Literature

B.A., University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 1979; Major: English; Minor Emphasis: Spanish Language and Literature

EXPERIENCE:

Teaching and Research Appointments:
        
Associate Professor, University of Idaho, 1994-present (split position, 40% in English/60% University Honors Program during academic year, from August 1998-Spring 2013; full-time in Honors in summers, 1998-July 2013; half-time Associate Director of Honors Program 1994-1998; resumed full-time position in English, August 2013)

Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, 1987-1994

Lecturer, English Composition Board, University of Michigan, 1986-1987

Graduate Student Teacher, Department of English, University of Michigan, 1982-1987

Undergraduate Teacher, University of Oregon, 1979

Academic Administrative Appointments:

Director, University Honors Program, University of Idaho, January 1999-June 2013 (fiscal year appointment, 60% Honors during academic year, 100% Honors Program during summer)

Interim Director, University Honors Program, University of Idaho, June-December 1998

Associate Director, University Honors Program, University of Idaho, 1994-1998 (half-time administrative appointment 50% Honors/50% English)
        
         Consulting and Outreach Service:

Consultant, reviewed (February 2019) proposal for Routledge press for Ethnic Resonances: New Perspectives on Performance, Literature, and Identity

NCHC Site Visitor (October 2008-2017)—upon application to and recommendation of the NCHC committee on Assessment and Evaluation, received approval from National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors to serve as an NCHC-approved consultant and external reviewer for honors programs and colleges.  The total number of NCHC-approved Site Visitors is approximately 33 (with more than 1,000 honors programs nationwide).  Served as co-reviewer of Northern Arizona University’s Honors Program (May 2000); served as sole external reviewer for the University of Montana Davidson Honors College, March 2011, and sole external reviewer for University Honors at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, November, 2014.

Consultant, reviewer for Broadview Press—including evaluation of proposals for new critical editions of novels by Francis Burney, and for book proposals in critical and literary theory.

Consultant for Northern Arizona University to evaluate and to review NAU's Honors Program, Flagstaff, 8-10 May 2000.  Co-reviewer with Dr. Len Zane, Dean of the Honors College at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Zane is a past-president of the National Collegiate Honors Council).

TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
        
         Areas of Specialization:

Contemporary critical theory, Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature (drama and fiction), Shakespeare, women novelists (eighteenth century-present), contemporary British fiction, modern and contemporary drama, literature of western civilization survey (seventeenth century-present), nineteenth-century British novels, film studies, contemporary American and Anglo fiction

         Courses Taught:

                 August 10, 1987-present, Department of English, University of Idaho:

Engl 400 (s) Seminar: Gender & Sexuality—History, Theory, Literature, Film Spring 2020
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/Engl400Sp20.html

Engl 310 Literary Theory (section 01 Mosow, section 02 Couer d’Alene via videoconference)
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/310Sp20cd.html

Engl 175 Literature and Ideas: Introduction to Literary Genres and Literary Analysis Fall 2019

Engl 356 Studies in Restoration & Eighteenth-Century Literature, includes videoconference section at the UI Couer d'Alene campus Fall 2019

Engl 511 Studies in Critical Theory: Gender & Sexuality—History, Theory, Literature, Film Spring 2019
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/511Sp19.html

Engl 429: Contemporary Fiction—The British Novel Since '2000', Fall 2018
(section 01 Moscow, section 02 Coeur d’Alene via videoconference)
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/429Fall2018.html

Engl 475.01/02 Novel Heroines (with videoconference section/link to Couer d’Alene campus), Spring 2018
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/475Sp2018.html

Engl 456.01/02 English Drama, 1660-1730 (with videoconference section/link to Couer d'Alene campus), Fall 2017
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/456Fall2017.html

Engl 511 Studies in Critical Theory: Modern and Contemporary, Spring 2017
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/511Sp17.html

Engl 429 Contemporary Fiction (including concurrent videoconference link to Couer d’Alene), Fall 2016
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/429F2016.html

Engl 456 Desire and Exchange in the 18th-Century Novel, Spring 2016
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/456cdSp16.html

Engl 222 History of World Cinema II/History of Film 1945-Present, Spring Spring 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/222Sp18.html

Engl 230 Introduction to Film Studies, Fall 2015

Engl 511 The Life to Come: Theories of Trauma, Narrative Retrospection, and Social Change, Spring 2015
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/511TraumaSp2015.html

Engl 475 Studies in Literary Genres: 18th-19th c. Novel Fall 2012
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/475Fall12.html

Engl 310 Literary Theory Spring 2012 [note: Tasha Thompson’s essay on the master-slave dialectic in Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, written for this course, won a Banks Award]
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/310sp2012.html

Engl 511 Studies in Literary Criticism: Contemporary Theory & Practice Fall 2011 http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/511Fall11.html

English 456/504 Desire for Exchange in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature Fall 2010
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/456Fall2010.html

Intr 404.12 Honors: How We Decide
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/HowWeDecide.html

Contemporary British Fiction, English 404/570 spring 2009 (all but one text a new prep of recently published novels) http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/570cdSp09.html

Honors Engagement and Communication, Intr 404 (one credit) fall 2008

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel, English 422, spring 2008

Teaching the Victorian Novel (practicum), Engl 502, spring 2008

Teaching Shakespeare (practicum), Engl 497, fall 2008

Contemporary British Fiction, English 404/504, spring 2007

Honors Reading in Fiction and Nonfiction, Interdisciplinary Studies 404 (one credit) spring 2007

Development of the English Novel: Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Austen, English 421/540, fall 2006

Introduction to Literary Theory, English 210, spring 2006, spring 2004 (also prior versions listed below)

Courtship, Wit, and Constraint in the English Novel, 1778-1816, English 540/404, fall 2005

Advanced Shakespeare, English 504/404, spring 2005

Honors Program: Intellectual History and the Narrative Quest of Identity, Intr 499 (1-2 crs), spring 2005

Studies in Literary Criticism: Contemporary Critical Theory and Practice, English 495/504, fall 2003

Teaching Shakespeare: Teaching Practicum, English 597, 3 credits, spring 2003

Restoration and Eighteen-Century British Fiction: Novel Subjects, English 540, fall 2002

Decorum, Writing, Passion, and Excess: Early British Novels by Women, English 540, fall 2000

Restoration and Early 18th-century British Literature: Love, Marriage, Sex, Infidelity, and Distress, English 540, fall 1996

Contemporary Critical Theory and Practice, English 511, spring 2002

Restoration Drama, 1660-1710, English 540, fall 1994

Contemporary Critical Theory and Edith Wharton’s Fiction, English 501, summer 1996

Literary Criticism: Poststructural Subjectivity and the Discourse(s) of Others, English 511, fall 1993

Alternative High School WWW Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream, English 502

Honors Program: The Law in Question, Inter 499, fall 2002

Honors Program: Novels of Community, Commitment, and Restoration, Inter 499, spring 2001

Honors Program: The Face of a Stranger: Murdering/Murderous Others in American “Detective” Fiction, Inter 499, spring 1999

Honors Program: Returning to Others, Restoring Oneself: Novels of Community and Commitment, Inter 499,  Spring 1997

Honors Program: Class, Culture, and Desire in the British Novel, Inter 499, spring 1996

Drama and Character, English 499

Shakespeare's History Plays, English 499

Literary Criticism: Subject to Desire, English 495, spring 1998

Contemporary Cultural Critique: New Historicist and Feminist Theory and Practice, English 495/511, spring 1991

Contemporary Critical Theory and Practice, English 495, spring 2002

Contemporary Critical Theory and Practice, English 495/511, fall 1989

History of Literary Theory: Plato to the Present, English 495/511, fall 1987

Jane Austen, English 482/550, fall 1993

Aphra Behn and Caryl Churchill: Staging Cultural Critiques, English 482/504, fall 1991

Contemporary American Women's Fiction, English 481, spring 1995

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Fiction: Novel Subjects, English 456, fall 2002

Sexual Politics in Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature, English 456/540, fall 1988

Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry, Fiction, and Prose, English 456/540, fall 1992

Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature: Nation, Gender, Class, English 456, fall 1996

English Drama 1660-1730, English 438/540, spring 2000

English Drama, 1660-1775, English 438/599, spring 1992

Shakespeare, twenty-four semesters, English 345 (includes Fall 2019) https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/345Fall18cd.html

Survey of British Literature I, English 341, eight semesters (including Fall 2018)
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/341cdFall18.html

Novel for Nonmajors: Women Novelists, 18th-Century to the Present, English 321, spring 1990

Restoration Theater and Crisis: The Drama of Behn, Otway, and Lee, English 295, fall 1999

The Play and the Power of Difference in Contemporary Drama, English 295, fall 1998

Literature of Western Civilization II, English 258, three sections (most recent, spring 1999)

Critical Approaches to Literature II (Writing Intensive), English 212, eight sections

Modern Drama and Fiction (Writing Intensive), English 212 (older version), four sections

Reading/Writing/Texts, English 210, spring and fall, 1997

Personal and Exploratory Writing (Creative Nonfiction), English 208, fall 2000

Advanced Expository Writing, English 205, fall 1995

Literature of Western Civilization II, English 112 (Honors Program), four sections

Literature of Western Civilization II, English 112, twelve sections

Introduction to Academic Composition, English 104, three sections

               University of Michigan 1982-87:

Introductory Writing Tutorial, English Composition Board 100, University of Michigan, two semesters

Introductory Composition, English 125, University of Michigan, two semesters

Intensive Composition, English 220, University of Michigan, two semesters

Introduction to Short Story and the Novel, English 230, University of Michigan, two semesters

               University of Oregon, 1979:

Innovative Fiction, English 200, University of Oregon, spring 1979

         Students Advised:

                  Undergraduate Students:

1996-2019, in the context of my academic appointment, I advise approximately nine undergraduate English majors in the teaching emphasis. Note: nominated for the University of Idaho Award for Advising Excellence (January 2005). http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/TeachingEmphasisCheckSheet2013.html

Note: in addition to regular advising and writing letters of recommendation, last year I wrote a letter of endorsement for UI’s nominee for the Rhodes Scholarships—Kendall Varin—and advised her through multiple revisions of a paper that she wrote in my film studies course, including helping her to search for potential journals that publish undergraduate work—she had it accepted for publication, then the journal bumped the paper because of ‘room,’ she tried again elsewhere, and was successful in having her essay on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” accepted for publication at the journal Forbes & Fifth at the University of Pittsburgh. Also offered advice/feedback to UI Rhodes nominee in Fall 2018 and Fall 2017, as invited member of the UI Rhodes Nomination Committee.

1994-2019, Advisor and faculty for Women's Studies Minor

                  Graduate Students:

Informal advising—no set advisees at the graduate level other than those related to thesis work.

                  Director, M.A. theses and non-thesis option projects/M.A.T. projects:

Deborah Green, M.A. non-thesis option completed Fall 2017—I served as her major professor to oversee revisions to two essays—she plans to file for degree in Summer 2018 (when fees are lower).

Tamera Toomey, M.A. thesis in progress—hiatus in her work—on topic of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction.

Tanya Thomas, M.A., December 2009, “’Eyes Glittering with Tears’: Interpreting Sentimentalism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, Ruth, and Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”

Mary Jo Biddle, M.A.T. project on Shakespeare’s Macbeth—in progress.

Nat Eoff, M.A., May 2006, “Caught in the Cave of Consumerism: An Analysis of Fight Club”

Charles MacDonell, M.A., 1994, ""I myself am best when least in company': mourning and melancholy in As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Pericles"

Anna Rose, incomplete thesis-work on “Frances Burney’s Evelina and Other Late 18th-century Novels by Women”

                  Service on graduate committees:

Tyler Gonelli, 2018-2019, member of School of Music master’s committee, thesis topic in music composition, comics, and opera

Jennifer Perez Lopez in-progress M.A. thesis on religion in Macbeth, April 2015

Thomas Hamrin, M.A. English, thesis on “Parallax Perspectives on the Industrial Novel in Victorian Fiction,” complete/defended in April 2014

William Malgren, M.A. English, thesis on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, defended April 2013

Kate Watts, M.A. English, thesis on British Romantic era writer Mary Robinson, defended spring 2011

Quinn Hatch, M.F.A. Theatre defended December 2012, member of his jury, focused on his screen- and playwriting

Dixie Johnson, M.A. English, thesis committee, topic on Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea—completed August 2007.

Laura Powers, M.A. English, thesis committee, “Elizabeth Gaskell’s Iconoclastic Fallen Woman Motif”—completed  May 2006. 

Paul Vanek, M.A. English, thesis committee, “Putting on Forgeries: Altering Identities in Shakespeare”—completed April 2005.

Krys Wood, MFA Theatre program jury member, 2002-2003 (jury members commit to attending a student’s performances throughout their graduate career, offering critical comments and feedback after each performance, and consulting on the student’s overall progress towards the MFA—completed 2003.
    
Allison Machlis, M.A. English, thesis committee, “’Nature Erring from Itself’: The Unnatural Transgressions of Desdemona and Jessica in William Shakespeare’s Othello and The Merchant of Venice”—completed 2004.

Yolanda Suarez, MFA Theatre program jury member, 2003-present (jury members commit to attending a student’s performances throughout their graduate career, offering critical comments and feedback after each performance, and consulting on the student’s overall progress towards the MFA

Leslie Swancutt, MFA Theatre program jury member, 2002-2004 (jury members commit to attending a student’s performances throughout their graduate career, offering critical comments and feedback after each performance, and consulting on the student’s overall progress towards the MFA
    
Travis Silvers, School of Music master’s thesis committee in music history (classical guitar), 2003-incomplete       

Consultant, Amy Edelblute, committee for M.A.T., Teaching Shakespeare on the Web, completed

Kathleen Hall’s committee for M.A.T.—status towards completion uncertain.

Wendy Secrist, M.A. English, 1997, “George Eliot and the Subversion of Victorian Marriage Ideals”

Kimberlie Johnson, M.A. English, 1989, "Contemporary Feminist Approaches to Shakespeare and the Question of Subjectivity"

Susan Donckels, M.A. English, 1992, "Feminist Dialogic Silences in Clarissa, Evelina, and Pride and Prejudice"

Darin Hocking, M.A., History, 1992, "The Buying and Selling of Estates in Essex and the North Riding of Yorkshire, 1660-1900"
 
Nina Chordas, M.A. English, 1993, "'Nothing Is But What Is Not': Macbeth and the Hybridization of Antithesis"

                  Examples of other student work, research, and recognition related to teaching:

During 1994, eight graduate students delivered papers--originally written in my courses--at conferences at other universities, and five more delivered papers in March 1995.

Students in my 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 level courses have received English Department Banks Awards for best critical essay among all courses at that level—some examples: a student received a best essay honor at the 200-level literature category for her work on critical and film theory and the novel Middlesex, a student for his essay on Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a 300-level course, a student won best essay for Engl 310 (spring 2012), a student for 400-level literature category for her work on Restoration drama, and a best critical essay by a graduate student for a 500-level essay about an eighteenth-century woman novelist. Most recent winner was a student’s essay from Engl 456 on gender roles, desire, and compulsory heterosexuality in Maria Edgeworth’s novel Belinda, from spring 2016.

         Materials Developed:

Variety of study, discussion, and secondary critical materials created and collected for courses taught, including handouts, scanned articles/PDFs available in Bblearn, library reserve materials, and extensive web-based resources, including online discussions and forums for exchange.

         Courses Developed:

I planned and developed all courses listed above to include specific course descriptions, syllabi, and related materials. In terms of participating in the initiation and design of new courses to be added to the curriculum, English 210 Reading-Writing-Texts/Intro to Literary Theory and the upper-division courses in critical theory, courses offered in eighteenth-century British literature, special courses that focus upon women writers are instances of curriculum development and expansion, including online/WebCt-Blackboard components, and recent courses in Contemporary British Fiction and a course on desire and exchange in Restoration and 18th-century literature that incorporates newly available narratives on prostitution. Most recent new preps were for two different versions of Engl 511, including Gender & Sexuality Spring 2019, Engl 230, Engl 222, and Engl 429 (from Spring 2015 to Spring 2017), and Engl 475 Novel Heroines Spring 2018 (six different women novelists from early 19th c. to present) and Engl 429 Contemporary Fiction—The British Novel Since ‘2000’ (five of the six novels were new preps that I hadn’t taught before), and Engl 175 Fall 2019.

         Workshops, Invited Lectures and Talks:

Introduction to Audacity (Podcasting workshop, to explore audio delivery of class lectures and discussions/sessions), University of Idaho, UI Library, March 7, 2018

Invited by Tara McDonald to speak about trauma theory and literature, with her Engl 490 capstone course—February 2017.

Invited by Erin James to participate in an advising presentation for graduate students on “Publicly Presenting Your Work” for which I also culled/assembled advice and made these materials available online: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~sflores/AdviceConferences.html—March 2017

Invited by Vice Provost Dr. Linda Morris to organize student panel for New Faculty Development Workshop; prepared summary handout and select bibliography for addressing “What the Best College Teachers Do” and arranged for honors student panelist participants, 14 August 2006

Invited panelist, "What Does Being a Feminist Mean to You?" Professor Debbie Storrs's Sociology of Gender class, University of Idaho, 29 November 2005

Invited panelist, "What Does Being a Feminist Mean to You?" Professor Debbie Storrs's Sociology of Gender class, University of Idaho, 20 April 2000.

Talk, invited by Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society to speak on the cultural and historical contexts of the film “Ridicule,” 21 October 1997

Invited speaker for New Student Orientation, 26 August 1995

Invited talk, presented plans on courses and pedagogy for Women's Studies Minor, University of Idaho Women's Center.  30 March 1994

Led workshop on Anna Deavere Smith's televised play, Fires in the Mirror (on conflict between Black and Jewish communities in Brooklyn), for Cultural Diversity Week at the University of Idaho.  2 November 1993.

         Consulting and Outreach Teaching:

Taught five class sessions on Verbal Reasoning for AED-MCAT Prep Course at Washington State University, March 2013, and again in March, 2014.

         Honors and Awards:

2004, Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence (named "Most Inspirational Professor" by Alumni Award for Excellence recipient, Elizabeth Bento, senior in English and Political Science, ASUI Vice President)

1997, One of four faculty members from across the university honored to be nominated (by students and department chair) for an ASUI Outstanding Faculty Award

1994, Among faculty selected for their teaching excellence to help the College of Letters and Science in development efforts that support strong teaching.

1994, Outstanding Faculty Award, Associated Students of the University of Idaho

1993-1994, In successive confidential department surveys, graduating English majors named five different lower and upper-division courses that I have taught as among the "most intellectually stimulating and challenging courses" they had taken at the University of Idaho.

1992, Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence (named "Most Inspirational Professor" by Gwen Bloomsburg, English and American Studies, Recipient of an Alumni Award for Excellence and a university "Outstanding Senior" award)

1992, Pi Beta Pi Commendation for Excellence as an Educator, University of Idaho

SCHOLARSHIP ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Publications:

         Scholarly Edition:

Flores, Stephan.  By invitation, edited Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery’s play Henry the Fifth (including scholarly introduction and notes, modernized spelling) published in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, (Broadview Press, 2001) pp. 2-37, under the general editorship of J. Douglas Canfield.  The completed manuscript of this play includes 123 pages of edited text and notes. 

         Refereed Articles/Essays:

Flores, Stephan.  1996. "Orrery's The Generall and Henry the Fifth: Sexual Politics and the Desire for Friendship."  The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 37 (1996): 1-19.

Flores, Stephan.  1993.  "'I am Arbaces, we all fellow subjects': The Political Appeal of Beaumont's and Fletcher's A King and No King on the Restoration Stage."  Essays in Literature 20 (1993): 171-96.

Flores, Stephan.  1993.  "Patriarchal Politics Under Cultural Stress: Nathaniel Lee's Passion Plays."  Restoration and 18th Century Theatre Research 8 (1993): 1-29.
    
Flores, Stephan.  1993.  "Negotiating Cultural Prerogatives in Dryden's Secret Love and Sir Martin Mar-all."  PLL: Papers on Language & Literature 29 (1993): 170-96.
    
Flores, Stephan.  1987.  "Mastering the Self: The Ideological Incorporation of Desire in Lillo's The London Merchant."  Essays in Theatre 5 (1987): 91-102.  Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Volume 131 (LC-131), ed. Larry Trudeau, (Gale, 2007).

         Reviews:

Flores, Stephan.  1997.  Review of Harold M. Weber, Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship under Charles II (Kentucky, 1996).  1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (invited review)

Flores, Stephan.  1993.  Review of Robert L. Montgomery, Terms of Response: Language and Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theory (Penn State P, 1992).  Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 47 (1993): 93-95.

         Other:

     Reviewer-Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities final review panel for major fellowships in British and American literature (one of five panelist-scholars invited nationally to provide written assessments of second and final round of 38 Fellowship proposals—typically book projects—each application includes several single-spaced pages of the proposal, with additional bibliography, and several letters of recommendation. The preliminary written assessment is concise (250 words); panelists meet in Washington, D.C. for a day long comparative discussion, debate, and review to determine the top-ranked proposals. Our recommendations are then forwarded to NEH officers and ultimately to legislators. This is the first time NEH has assembled a second and final round review. 15 August 2018 Washington, D.C. [this also listed under Scholarship and Professional Service]

Reviewer-Evaluator, NEH British Literature Panel (one of five panelists invited nationally to evaluate—in written assessment of each proposal and in panel discussion—over 40 fellowship applications in British literature, for $24,000+ and $50,000+ fellowship awards, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for University Teachers and for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, includes meeting in Washington, D. C., 19 July 2006 and 27 July 2010.

Reviewer/Evaluator, NEH British Literature Panel (one of five panelists invited nationally to evaluate—in writing and in panel discussion—thirty to forty fellowship applications, for fellowships that each total over $30,000), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, July 2001 and July 2000, Washington, D. C. 

Flores, Stephan.  1991.  "'I dare do all that may become a man': Passion, Politics, and Gender in Macbeth."  Invited essay.  Shakesperience Study Guide.  Boise: Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 1991.  14 pp.

Flores, Stephan.  1991.  "'That / question's out of my part': The Economy of Love, Words, and Gender in Twelfth Night."  Invited essay.  Shakesperience Study Guide.  Boise: Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 1991.  15 pp.

         Professional Meeting Papers and Workshops:

Flores, Stephan. 2020. “Queer Transits—Sexuality at the Limits of Early Modern Bonds and Embodiment.” Paper proposal accepted for the Early Modern Center conference, “Queer Crossings, Unruly Locales, 1500-1800,” University of California-Santa Barbara, 27-29 February 2020.

Flores, Stephan.  2019. “Queer Negativity and Transnational Sovereignty in Restoration Heroic Romance: Orrery’s Mustapha.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Studies, Arizona State University, 14-15 February 2019.

Flores, Stephan.  2018. “Baroque Loss and Theatrical Enjoyment in Restoration Drama; or, Forsaking Fantasies of the Good Life.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Studies, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, 16-17 February 2018.

Flores, Stephan.  2017. “Ephemeral Singularity: Theorizing Trauma, Loss, and the Limits of Sovereign Power for Early Modern Studies.” The Early Modern Center Conference on “Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral, 1500-1800,” University of California, Santa Barbara, 21 April 2017.

Flores, Stephan.  2016.  “Theorizing Early Modern Trauma Studies: Defoe’s Roxana, the Advent of Subjectivity, and the Limits of Sovereign Power.” Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Brookings, South Dakota, 15 April 2016. [also chaired a panel on 18th-century British literature at this conference]

Flores, Stephan.  2002.  “Figures of Exchange in Otway and Lee,” The Group for Modern Cultural Studies annual meeting, Tampa, Florida, 15 November 2002.

Flores, Stephan.  1997.  “Friendship Restored and Displaced: Sexual Politics and Civil Order in Orrery’s Mustapha and Tryphon,” Annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Nashville, 10 April, 1997.

Flores, Stephan.  1993.  "Political Seduction in Dryden's The Spanish Fryar," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, 15 October 1993. 

Flores, Stephan.  1993.  "Cultural Grotesques: The Politics of Hetero- and Homosocial Desire in Behn's The Rover, Part II," Early Modern Culture, 1492-1848, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 10 October 1993. 

Flores, Stephan.  1991.  "Descrying Agents: Intervening Among Post-Structural Theories of Agency," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Arizona State University,Tempe, 19 October 1991.

Flores, Stephan.  1990.  "Orrery's Popular Plays: Sexual Politics and the Ideological Appeal of Friendship," South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1 March 1990.

Flores, Stephan.  1989.  "The Political Popularity of Lee's Passion Plays, " Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 19 October 1989.

Flores, Stephan.  1988.  "The Decorum of the Maiden Queen: The Privileges of Rank and Gender in Dryden's Secret Love," New Languages for the Stage, University of Kansas, 28 October 1988.

Flores, Stephan.  1988.  "Reading, Writing, and Talking about Great Books: Feminist Pedagogy and the Literature of Western Civilization," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, 22 October 1988.

Flores, Stephan.  1987.  "The Ideological Appeal of Beaumont's and Fletcher's Plays on the Restoration Stage: A King and No King, " Modern Language Association of America, San Francisco, 29 December 1987.

Flores, Stephan, and Mary Flores.  1986.  "The Student Essay: Sourcebook for Teaching Grammar and Style in Context," The G.S.T.A Writing Workshop, University of Michigan, 26 August 1986.

Flores, Stephan.  1984.  "Mastering the Self: The Ideological Incorporation of Desire in Lillo's The London Merchant,"  Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Ferris State University, 23 March, 1984.

Flores, Stephan.  1983.  "Attitudes Toward Black English and College Composition: An Evaluative Review of the Controversy," CIC Minorities Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 31 October 1983.

         Workshops, Forums, Talks:

Introduction to Markdown and Pandoc for Academic Writing, February 21, 2020, University of Idaho, UI Library

Introduction to Text Encoding for Digital Humanities Scholarship and Teaching, University of Idaho, UI Library, November 14, 2018 [in potential preparation for encoding editions of late 17th c. texts]

Attended UI CLASS Creative and Research Activity Mixer: “Publication Considerations for Creative and Scholarly Work.” 5 April 2018
 
Invited talk, “Brush Up Your Shakespeare!: Cymbeline Then and Now” with Matt Foss UI Theatre Arts, University Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Hartung Theatre, 21 April 2015.

Invited panelist/respondent for UI Department of Theatre and Film’s post-performance and production review of Neil LaBute’s Some Girl(s), Hartung Theatre, Fall 2009.

Invited panelist/respondent for UI Department of Theatre and Film’s post-performance and production review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hartung Theatre, 11 December 2007.

Invited talk, “Between Disciplines: (Subjects) to Exchange,” University Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Whitewater Room, Idaho Commons, 30 March 2004.

Invited panelist, "Page to Stage: Eric Overmyer’s On the Verge," University of Idaho Colloquium on Theatre in Culture, Hartung Theatre, 14 February 2003.

Invited panelist and workshop presenter on “Internal and External Evaluations of Honors Programs/Colleges,” in the “Developing in Honors” workshop for continuing honors directors, at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 31 October 2002.

Invited panelist, "Page to Stage: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine " University of Idaho Colloquium on Theatre in Culture, Hartung Theatre, 19 October 2001.

Lillian White Fund Lecture, presentation on research for edition of Orrery's Henry the Fifth, 22 March 2000, University of Idaho.

Invited panelist, University of Idaho Multicultural Faculty Panel Presentation: “Educational Strategies Towards Building a Multicultural Community” 28 April 1998

"Searching for Mr. Goodbar: Or, How We've Tried to Stop Worrying in Pursuit of the Most Durable Consumer Good," Invited speaker for University of Idaho chapter of Mu Kappa Tau (Marketing Honor Society), 10 March 1996

"Naked Spaces--Living Is Round," Introduced and critiqued Trinh T. Minha's film, and spoke at roundtable discussion of four international films.  International Exchange Conference, Lewis-Clark State College, Lewiston, ID, 4 October 1994 and 13 October 1994

Grants and Contracts Awarded:

Flores, Stephan.  Lillian White Fund Award, Department of English, to underwrite travel to the Folger Shakespeare Library in July 1999 for research on the Orrery edition. $1000

Flores, Stephan.  "'When These Disorders End' Cultural Restoration and Dramatic Exchange During the Reign of Charles II," University of Idaho Seed Grant, 1994-95.  Support to conduct further research for book manuscript. $6,000

Flores, Stephan.  Lillian White Fund Award, Department of English to underwrite travel to UCLA's Clark Library in July 1994 for research purposes. $260

Flores, Stephan.  University of Idaho Small Travel Grant to deliver paper and to attend GEMCS conference in Norman, OK on 10 October 1993. $578.00

Flores, Stephan.  Humanities Consultant for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival's 1991 Shakesperience program, funded through a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council.  Contributed two essays as well as accompanying study questions to the Shakesperience Study Guide, distributed to the state's high school English teachers to introduce them to recent scholarship on Shakespeare.  Participant in workshop at Moscow High School, following the Shakesperience program.

Flores, Stephan.  "Recognition and Repression," University of Idaho Seed Grant, 1989-90.  Grant to revise chapters from my doctoral dissertation for publication. $4,000

Honors and Awards:

1980-84, CIC Minorities Fellowship in the Humanities (ten awards nationally, with choice to attend any Big Ten university or the University of Chicago or Northwestern University, full tuition, plus stipend); declined similar admission and graduate fellowships to Yale University and to Princeton University.

1979, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oregon

1979, Mortar Board Honor Society, University of Oregon

1978-79, Academic Merit Scholarship, University of Oregon

1977, Charles H. Stickels Scholarship for Spanish, University of Oregon

Sabbatical Leave Awarded:
Sabbatical leave Fall 2014 to research traumatic legacy of English Civil Wars in late 17th-century (Restoration period) drama, and reading and preparation for teaching a graduate level course in Spring 2015 on theories of trauma and trauma literature.

SERVICE:

Major Committee Assignments and Other Service:

               University of Idaho:

Fall 2019-Spring 2020 CLASS representative (at invitation-request of Dean Quinlan) on University Accreditation Committee

Fall 2019 Elected representative on Department of English Tenure and Promotion Committee

Fall 2016-Spring 2019, Teaching and Advising Committee, serving as chair 2017-2018 including serving as chair of sub-committee to review and to recommend recipients for university’s awards for Excellence in Teaching, and as chair of the committee, led a revision of the functions and structure of the committee, review/approval for revised forms for student evaluation of teaching, revisions to process for awards for excellence in teaching, research report on gender bias in students evaluations of teaching, and resumption of considering shift to plus/minus grading. I took the lead in drafting and compilation of research to produce reports and recommendations concerning gender bias in SETs and Plus/Minus grading. I am one of three TeAC members taking the lead on a sub-committee, tasked by Faculty Senate, to research the issue of timely, helpful feedback to students on progress and performance, and have developed surveys to be administered early in 2019, prior to developing a report and recommendations. I took the lead in preparing a report and recommendation for a shift to a plus-minus grading system, that was approved through all committees, approved by Faculty Senate and General Faculty, but denied by the president and provost-as-acting-president, in Summer 2019.

Fall 2018, Department of English representative on CLASS Tenure and Promotion Committee, 16 October 2018

Spring 2015-present, Department of English Assessment Committee

Fall 2016-present, Department of English Executive Committee

2017-2018 UI Accreditation Advisory Group, for UI’s mid-cycle accreditation evaluation

2013-2016 UI Faculty Senate (elected position—first year of three year term)—including ongoing liaison service on separate university Classroom Strategic Planning Group, and completed service on Brink Hall Renovation group

2013-2016 The UI Women’s Center Advocacy Council (invited position/two-year term, including subcommittee to organize spring 2014 celebration that commemorated the founding of the center)
 
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Department of English Chair Search Committee (elected position, chair)

Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Department of English Task Force on Assessment (chair), including report and assembled materials as well as pilot examples for assessment based on my review of students’ work in Engl 345 Shakespeare in spring 2014.

2012-2014 College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Assessment Committee (committee evaluates each department’s assessment, provides guidance/advice to the college’s departments)

2013 (February)—substitute teaching for Dr. Anna Banks—covered her English 222 course for a week, including preparing materials/handouts and lecture on Brazilian cinema nuovo and the film Barravento

Fall 2012-Spring 2013, UI Faculty Senate year-long substitute service for CLASS colleagues on sabbatical (including volunteer service on sub-committee that met in Fall 2012 to adjudicate a student’s appeal of the findings of the UI Judicial Council, and current volunteer service on sub-committee to adjudicate another appeal.)

Served as judge for College of Science undergraduate research poster/presentations, fall 2012.

Summer 2012, served on ad-hoc Brink Hall Renovation Committee that met regularly over the summer

15 February-18 April 2012, Invited by Carmen Suarez, Director of UI Office of Human Rights, Access, and Inclusion, to serve as sole faculty member/co-investigator of two students’ complaints filed against a faculty member for sexual harassment and intimidation. The investigation included interviews with multiple parties (complainants, respondents, other “witnesses,” attorneys, and other interested parties), site visits, culminating in substantial report, submitted following the nearly two-month investigation.

2007-2011, University Student Financial Aid Committee (Chair, 2009-2010)

2007-spring 2012, Department of English Curriculum Committee (Chair, 2010-2011, ongoing and new changes and initiated revisions to curriculum that were approved in 2011 and 2012)—this included also attending a series of University Curriculum Committee meetings

2010-spring 2012, Department of English representative on CLASS curriculum committee

1996-2011, Department of English Scholarships Committee

October 2010-2012, serving by invitation from enrollment management on series of recruitment workgroup meetings and workshops

April-July 2010, Served by invitation of the provost on special task force/committee that conducted a full review of the university’s policies/practices for awarding scholarships, and provided/forwarded recommended policies to central administration.

1998-2013, Faculty Advisor UI Chapter, Phi Eta Sigma national freshmen honor society, oversight of local scholarship awards and induction ceremony, and advising and nomination of students to national scholarship competition, with an ongoing average of one winner each year. In 2011 the chapter officers have been active with social and community service events.

2008-2012, act as liaison to facilitate placement of honors program students to serve in the public school district’s Moscow Mentors Program

2005-2012, act as liaison to facilitate placement of honors students to serve as tutors at McDonald Elementary

2008-2011, annual nomination committee for Professional Management Fellowship applications review (includes review and ranking of applications and meeting to select nominees)

2007-2012, Faculty Representative and Chair, Rhodes Scholarships Committee; 2001-2004; 1994-99, including advising 2010 nominee (also nominee in 2009), and 2007 and 2004 nominees who became finalists.

2004-2012, 1994-99, UI faculty representative for Marshall Scholarships (Chair, Selection Committee), including close advising for 2009 nominee

2002-2009 UI Faculty Representative, Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship (including mentoring past undergraduate and graduate winner, Jessica Lipschultz)

2008 (June-July); 2004; 1998: Chair, Search Committee for Associate Director of the University Honors Program

2006-2007, Search Committee for Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences—by invitation from the provost

2006-2007, Department of English Executive Committee (also served 2000-2001, 1999-2000, 1996-97, 1994-95, 1992-93)

2006, Department of History Tenure and Promotion Committee

2012, and 2006, School of Music, Third-Year Review Committee

2005, Department of Art, Third-Year Review Committee

2002-2005, University Committee on General Education (also 1992-1995)

2003, Search Committee for interim position of Associate Vice Provost for Academic Affairs—appointed by provost.

2003, Strategic Enrollment Management, sub-committee on retention

2002-2003, UI Faculty Representative for the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, chaired committee, conferred with applicants and nominees, sent nominees’ applications forward to national competition

2001-2003, UI Top Scholar Task Force (invited by provost to serve), including visit to Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College, March 2002, participation in drafting the task force report and presentation of conclusions to President Hoover and Provost Pitcher.

2001-2009, UI Faculty representative, Gates Cambridge Scholarship

2000-2001, President, Phi Beta Kappa, chaired committee to plan November 5-8 visit of Professor Eliana Rivero, including coordination of PBK Distinguished Lecture, other meetings and receptions with faculty and students and initiation banquet; served as vice-president 1999-2000.

2001, served by provost’s invitation on the search committee for the position of Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies

2000, Department of English Tenure Review Committee (elected position)

2000-2002, conferred with General Education Task Force

2000, Conferred with University Residences on Future Housing Task Force

2000, Served on sub-committee to interview and report on candidates for the position of Special Assistant to the President on Diversity and Human Rights

1999, Late fall participation on General Education Task Force (revisions to core curriculum), including sub-committee that evaluated proposals and selected courses for 2000-2001

1999, College Bowl, judge for campus tournament fall semester

2005, 2004, 2002, 1999, Reader for Department of English Banks Awards

1997, Department of English Tenure Review Committee (elected position)

1996-97, Letters and Science Tenure and Promotion Committee (Elected Representative for Department of English)

1996-97, Fulbright committees, invited by several students to serve on their interviews (including helping students to revise their applications--this year, one of these students is a finalist and is awaiting approval from the host country for the Fulbright)

1996-97, Department of English Graduate Admissions Committee

1995-97, Coordinating Committee, Women's Studies Minor

1994-97, UI Advisor for Goldwater Scholarships (Chair Selection Committee, but resigned this position in fall 1997)

1995-96, Department of English Curriculum Committee

1995-96, University Communications Committee, UI Early Childhood Center

1994-96, Faculty in Residence Program, The Scholars' Residence

1995, Department of English Tenure Review Committee (also elected and served 1989-92)

1995, Department of Chemistry Tenure Review Committee

1995, Faculty representative (introductory remarks) at Phi Eta Sigma banquet

1994, English Department Representative for Parents' Orientation, 27 August

1993-94, University Committee for Cultural Diversity

1992-93, Letters and Science Curriculum Committee

1991-93, Library Liaison Department of English (also served 1987-90)

1991, School of Home Economics Third-Year Review Committee

1990-91, Writing Proficiency Committee

1989-91, Dean's Advisory Committee (elected position)

1989-90, Parents' Advisory Board, Early Childhood Learning Center

1988-92, English Graduate and Undergraduate Studies Committee

1988-91, Juntura Committee (Minority Affairs), Chair 1990-91

         University of Michigan:

1983-84, English Introductory Composition Committee (elected position)

Professional and Scholarly Organizations:

Assisted in identifying honors student guests for special luncheon with Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lisa Pratt, September 2010.

Invited and coordinated faculty and student guests for special luncheon with Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Gary Nash, February 28, 2007.

Invited and coordinated faculty and student guests for special luncheon with Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Virginia Sapiro, October 2, 2003.

2002, Chair of panel on “The Marketplace and Its Discontents” at the annual conference of The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 15 November 2002, Tampa, Florida

1994-2013, Member of the National Collegiate Honors Council

1999-2000, Co-chair of the National Collegiate Honors Council Committee on Gender and Ethnicity

Member of Board of Advisory Readers for Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The Western Literature Association, Chair Robinson Jeffers Panel, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 12 October 1990

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association:

         RMMLA 17th-18th-century English Literature section, Secretary, 1990; Chair, 1991

         RMMLA Feminist Perspectives in the Classroom section, Co-Secretary, 1992; Co-chair, 1993

Honors and Awards:

1994, 2000, University of Idaho Alumni Service Award (invited member of Alumni Award for Excellence Selection Committee)

OUTREACH:

2019 Member of Advisory Board for artAbility. artAbility is a student-led project supported by the University of Idaho’s Center on Disabilities and Human Development (CDHD) in collaboration with the Idaho Self-Advocate Leadership Network (SALN), Moscow Chapter. The project was created in 2014 to encourage adults with disabilities to express themselves through participation in art workshops with local art instructors and University of Idaho student volunteers.

2018-2019 Participation in local PFLAG meetings. PFLAG is a national organization that unites parents, families, friends, allies, and LGBTQ individuals together while providing support, education, and civic advocacy about sexual orientation and gender identity.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

         Teaching and Advising:

Attended the workshop on “Leading Effective Discussions” offered by the UI Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 25 September 2017.

Attended the “Demystifying Bblearn Grade Center Workshop” and subsequently incorporated using the grade center in all my classes, enabling students to check their progress on graded assignments, absences, and any penalty points for missed work—this will also enable students to have more precise information on their grade, after they have left town for the semester. 28 September 2016.

Participant in Dr. Jodie Nicotra’s writing across the curriculum workshop, focused on designing effective writing assignments and writing assessment, 28 September and 12 October 2012.

Co-presenter with Dr. Alton Campbell for session at ACADA advising symposium, on “Best Advice for National Scholarships Advising, September 2011, and attendance at various campus-level ACADA presentations over the year.

Have participated each summer for past several summers in an informal theory reading group—this past summer, for example, we read/discussed Marx’s The German Ideology.

Attended university session on pedagogy, April 1, 2010

Co-presenter with Dr. Alton Campbell for session at ACADA advising symposium, on advising honors students, 11 September 2009, and attendance at various campus-level ACADA presentations over the year.

Attended UI ACADA information and advising presentation on “Study Abroad” presented by Bob Neuenschwander, International Programs Office, 3 December 2008

Attended presentation on mentoring graduate students, featuring several UI faculty and students, sponsored by College of Graduate Studies, 27 October 2008

Attended webinar, “On the Horizon: The Future of Academic Advising and Technology,” 12 December 2007

Attended CTI workshop on learning to use Blackboard, 4 December 2007

Attended “Innovative Teaching Workshop” on “Click and Clap: Engaging Students in the Classroom,” University of Idaho, presented by Professor Kathe Gabel, 13 April 2006.

Attended “Innovative Teaching Workshop” on “Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes: University, Program and Course Level,” University of Idaho, presented by Professor Bill McLaughlin, 9 March 2006.

Attended “Innovative Teaching Workshop” on “Teaching Outside the Box,” University of Idaho, presented by Jean Henscheid, 9 February 2006.

Invited and participated in the Teaching Institute, June 7-9, 2003, sponsored by the UI College of Engineering, with emphases on student learning, mentoring, and assessment—coordinated with Northwest Scholars’ Project.

Instructive experience and pleasure of attending dramatic performances, especially of Shakespeare, at the local Idaho Repertory Theatre, at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland Oregon (2001 production of The Merchant of Venice, backstage tour, and attended lecture by a prominent Shakespeare scholar, Dr. Ralph Berry) and at the New Globe Theatre in London (all-male cast production of Twelfth Night, June 2002). 

Applied and accepted to participate in the Lester and Agnes Schuldt Faculty Seminar on Diversity and General Education, Riggins, Idaho, May 19-22, 1998.

Attended ETS orientation workshop on new Faculty Computer Lab.  June 1997.

Attended presentation on using Powerpoint software and technology, 16 March 1997.

Participated in week-long Faculty Seminar on the “Use of Technology in Teaching the Humanities,” 20-24 May 1996

Attended homepage one evening "Level II" class offered by Computer Services, October, 1995

University of Idaho Humanities Representative at "Faculty and Librarians: Colleagues in Education" Workshop.  Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 28-29 February 1992.

         Scholarship and Professional Service:

Reviewer-Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities final review panel for major fellowships in British and American literature (one of five panelist-scholars invited nationally to provide written assessments of second and final round of 38 Fellowship proposals—typically book projects—each application includes several single-spaced pages of the proposal, with additional bibliography, and several letters of recommendation. The preliminary written assessment is concise (250 words); panelists meet in Washington, D.C. for a day long comparative discussion, debate, and review to determine the top-ranked proposals. Our recommendations are then forwarded to NEH officers and ultimately to legislators. This is the first time NEH has assembled a second and final round review. 15 August 2018 Washington, D.C. [this also listed under Research Scholarship in this C.V.]

Served on National Endowment for the Humanities British literature panel (medieval period to the present) to evaluate 42 applications for Fellowships for University Teachers, and for College Teachers and Independent Scholars ($24,000-50,000 awards)—includes meeting in Washington D.C., 19 July 2006 and 27 July 2010—other details listed above under consulting.

Served on National Endowment for the Humanities British literature panel (medieval period to the present) to evaluate applications for Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars ($30,000-40,000 awards)—includes meeting in Washington, D.C. July 2001 and 2000.

         Administration, and Professional Consultation and Service:

14-17 November 2012.  Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, Boston, MA—this included attending workshops for established and developing administrators, and panel presentations on various topics such as assessment and evaluation, fundraising, admission and retention criteria, honors course contract options and related curricular development, in honors administration.

19-22 October 2011.  Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, Phoenix, Arizona—this included attending a workshop “Established in Honors,” “Developing in Honors,” and other panel presentations on various topics (such as assessment and evaluation, fundraising) in honors administration.

6-7 March 2009.  Gave full session presentation on “Renewal and Validation in Honors: How NCHC-Site Visitors Can Help,” at Western Regional Honors Council Conference; also accompanied and helped to arrange for 10 honors students to present their research (a group of students working under Dr. Mark Warner’s supervision and also UI Martin Scholars) in two sessions and a poster session, including garnering funding from several sources for conference, travel, and hotel expenses, and assisting students in editing and submitting their abstracts.

22-26 October 2008.  Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, San Antonio, Texas—this included attending a workshop “Established in Honors,” “Developing in Honors,” and other panel presentations on various topics (such as assessment and evaluation, fundraising) in honors administration.

31 October- 4 November 2007.  Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, Denver, CO—this included attending a workshop “Established in Honors,” “Developing in Honors,” and other panel presentations on various topics (such as assessment and evaluation, uses of technology) in honors administration.

17 May 2007.  “Assessment Workshop.”  Hosted by Goal 1 team, including Bruce Pitman and Jeanne Christiansen.

14 February 2007.  “Using Direct and Indirect Measures,” presented by Bill McLaughlin, Jeanne Christiansen, and Jane Baillargeon.

31 January 2007.  “Writing Learning Outcomes,” presented by Jason Johnstone-Yellin, Dana Stover, and Jane Baillargeon.

15-19 November 2006.  Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, Philadelphia, PA—this included attending a workshop on “Developing in Honors,” and other panel presentations on various topics in honors administration.

8 November 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: “Core Curriculum,” presented by Gary Williams and Wes Chun

20 October 2006.  Enrollment Management Summit for deans and directors, led by Provost Baker and President White.

19 October 2006.  Academic Affairs and Student Affairs workshop on student learning outcomes and program mapping,

11 October 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: “Update on Enrollment trends, financial implications, recruitment, scholarships and retention,” presented by Archie George, Jane Baillargeon, Mark Brainard, Lloyd Scott and Dan Davenport.

25 April 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "The National Survey of Student Engagement—How Did We Do? What Actions, If Any, Are Needed to Improve Our Standings? How Might This Fit with Institutional Assessment?," and “Assessment at Institutional, Program, Course, and Student Levels—How Can We Make It Work for Us?” presented by Jane Baillargeon and Bill McLaughlin.

18 April 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "Transforming Undergraduate Education and The Role of the Core,” presented by Wes Chun.

11 April 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: “University Financial Planning—A Framework,” presented by Nancy Dunn.

28 February 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: “Moving from Research and a Brand Promise to Developing a UI Marketing Program: What Roles Do Campus Units Play and How Are They Affected?” presented by Wendy Shattuck.

14 February 2006.  UI “University Matters” workshop: “Building Quality Programs Using Recruitment and Conversion Strategies: What Are the Necessary Roles of Colleges and Departments?” presented by Lloyd Scott.

7 February 2006. UI “University Matters” workshop: “Strategic Enrollment Management Planning (SEM) and How It Affects Our Financial Future and Ability to Enhance Student Quality,” presented by Linda Morris.

15 November 2005.  "Focusing on Student Engagement to Achieve Enrollment Growth."  Raymond Kennelly, Vice President for Enrollment, Lewis University.  AACRAO SEM Conference, online presentation, University of Idaho.

10 November 2005.  "Understanding Teens: Presentation of Stamats 2005 Teens TALK Study."  Study college-bound teens. It looks at how they spend their time, choose their media, and who influences them. It includes a careful review of how they choose a college, by looking at who influences them and analyzing the college-choice characteristics of most importance to them.”  University of Idaho.

3 November 2005.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "Budget Reports and Analysis," with Beverly Rhoades and Mark Brainard.  Information on the annual calendar, budget issues and deadlines,  mid-year pay raises, carryover funds, information contained in the budget books and on the Budget Office web page.

18 October 2005.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "UI Personnel Matters that Enhance Performance," April Preston and Kathy Vellegas.  Salary Guidelines and Models, Hiring Practices/Diversity, Staff and Faculty Performance evaluations.

4 October 2005.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "Digital Measures: Collecting and reporting of Performance Measures," Matt Bartel.  Performance indicators that should be collected annually for continuous improvement and for institutional and college accreditation review; capabilities of Digital Measures, a new software tool for faculty and administrators.

22 September 2005.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "Access and Use of Institutional Research Data for Decision Making," Archie George and Linda Morris.  The legislative funding equity model examined in the context of the institutional data available for departments; this information benchmarked against national data and to some extent inter-state institutional data.

8 September 2005.  UI “University Matters” workshop: "Connecting Enrollment and Fiscal Management," Linda Morris, Mark Brainard and Archie George. Overview of the budget process and timelines, integration of strategic enrollment issues with fiscal performance indicators, and review of how student fee discounting affects the bottom line in terms of enrollments, revenues and costs.

Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 26-29 October 2005—this included attending a workshop on “Developing in Honors,” and other panel presentations on various topics in honors administration, including development/fundraising, learning portfolios, and program evaluation and assessment.

Evaluator for 2005 National Collegiate Honors Council 2005 Portz Scholars Essay Competition—evaluate and rank student essay submissions (nationally), June 15-August 1, 2005.

Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, New Orleans, LA, 10-13 November 2004—this included attending a mini-institute workshop on major scholarships advising, a workshop on “Developing in Honors,” and other panel presentations on various topics in honors administration, including program evaluation and assessment.

Participated in the National Collegiate Honors Council Faculty Institute on Honors Assessment and Evaluation, 8-11 July 2004, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 30 October- 3 November 2002—this included attending a mini-institute workshop on major scholarships advising, attending panel presentations on various topics in honors administration, including program evaluation and assessment, and participating as a presenter in the “Developing in Honors” workshop session on “Internal and External Program Review.”

UI Leadership Retreats for deans, directors, and department heads: August 2003, January 2003, August and January 2002, August 2001 and previous retreats.

Participated with Vice Provost Leonard Johnson, Dean Bruce Pitman, Dr. Thomas Bitterwolf, Ray Pankopf, and Caroline Miner as part of a group from the Top Scholar Task Force in visit to Arizona State University and the Barrett Honors College to explore models and best practices for top students, March 7-9, 2002.

Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference, Washington, D.C., 18-22 October, 2000—including coordinating moderators for fifteen panels on diversity, serving as moderator for two panels discussions, chairing two Gender & Ethnicity Committee meetings, and attending other sessions on honors administration.

Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference Orlando, 28-31 October 1999--this included attending sessions on honors administration and teaching, student research, and co-chairing the Gender and Ethnicities Committee.

Attended the National Collegiate Honors Council conference Chicago, 4-8 November 1998--this included participation in a workshop for honors administrators, attendance at other sessions on honors administration and teaching, and work on the Gender and Ethnicities Committee.

Attended Spring Leadership Forum (invited by Vice President Hal Godwin) to speak with student leaders and to hear Mark Trahant's speech on Native American leaders in journalism.  27 March 1997

Attended Introductory module on Banner Navigation as well as the session on student records, 19-20 December 1996.

Attended National Collegiate Honors Council conference in San Francisco, 31 October-3 November 1996--this included my participation in a workshop on facilitating debates over affirmative action and on challenges facing higher education.

Participant/facilitator (invited by Vice-President Hal Godwin) for weekend Student Leadership Retreat, 20-21 September 1996

Attended National Collegiate Honors Council conference in Pittsburgh, 1-5 November 1995.

Attended National Collegiate Honors Council conference in San Antonio, 26-30 October 1994.

         Other Work and Accomplishments Related to Administrative Appointment:

As director of the University Honors Program, I reported to the Dean of the College of Science (since 2010, prior to that the UHP Director reported to the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs), and acted in coordination with the program’s associate director, the program advisor, the Honors Program Committee, and the recently established group comprised of the Deans of CLASS and COGS, the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and the Dean of Student Affairs.  My work as director was multifaceted, and included primary responsibility for conferring with department heads and with other faculty, administrators, and staff regarding the program, and determination of curricular, personnel, and budgetary arrangements for ongoing and new honors courses and related program expenses.  I also worked directly with UHP staff on a variety of program offerings, with oversight for extracurricular activities and direct management of scholarship support.  The administrative and leadership responsibilities of this position encompassed the full range of the program, in accord with its goals and mission.

My work as Associate Director (1994-98), as Interim Director of the University Honors Program (July-December 1998), and Director (January 1999-June 2013) included advising honors students (over 400 members in the UHP with a peak of 650 members prior to revising admission and retention criteria), awarding scholarships and tuition and WUE-rate waivers to selected students and working with UHP staff to track their progress (including my individual annual review of each recipient’s transcript), reviewing transcripts to determine recipients of UHP Certificates and Core Awards, meeting with prospective UHP students and their parents, meeting with the Honors Program Committee and the Honors Student Advisory Board, evaluating over 200 short admission essays each spring and summer (including responding with written comments), meeting periodically with Honors Program faculty, assisting with the Honors Certificate Ceremony (and former Honors Convocation), helping to update the UHP brochure, managing the UHP website—including helping to oversee creation of another iteration of an updated website and design as well as former transition to learn to be a web author in Sitecore with full review and revision of the site—and planning and participating in enrichment activities, and program assessment and evaluation.  I reviewed each semester’s student teaching evaluations for honors sections/courses.  Discussions with individual faculty to promote development of new honors courses and sections as well as an online survey of students’ preferences and suggestions for honors course offerings are recent aspects of program oversight, assessment, and development.  Honors space needs has also been an ongoing and recent point of interest to coordinate among key participants who determine such needs and possibilities.  I met with international students on exchange at the start of each semester, and with high school counselors that come to campus on a periodic basis.  I offered information and advising sessions each semester on applying for major/national scholarships, and I also sent invitations to high GPA students across campus about such opportunities. 

Some examples (including course offerings new to the UHP curriculum)—

• Proposed revision to Honors Elective Agreement, approved by Honors Program Committee (fall 2012).
• Compiled, Reviewed, Assessed, Uploaded Assessment Materials and Analysis—also see updated UHP Profile and Data Fall 2012
• Initial Fall 2012 discussion with Honors Program Committee of my proposal to explore possibilities/models for providing for cohort, small groups of honors students to receive credit, engage in conversation with one another, and with professor, within and beyond context/setting of larger nonhonors courses/sections
• HON Engr 210 section approved: coordinated/conferred in 2011 with dean and associate dean of the College of Engineering in series of discussions and gathering/analysis of enrollment data that led to a proposal accepted by the Honors Program Committee for a first-time offering of an honors “hybrid” section of Engr 210 Statics, taught by Bob Stevens in spring 2012.  Conferred with this college on coordination and recruitment of their entering cohort of Engineering Scholars—a subset of these scholars also are members of the UHP.  
• HON Geog 200 approved: conferred with several faculty in Geography to explore designating new first-time offering of either Honors Geog 165 or Geog 200—this culminated in the offering of an honors section of Geog 200 in spring 2012 and again in Spring 2013. 
• HON IS 404 offered: “The Zombie Apocalypse and International Issues, Or, How World War Z Illuminates Global Topics”
• HON CORS 226 Weapons & War offered
• HON Intr 404 approved—

Here There Be Monsters: Advanced Interrogations of Monstrous Archetypes and Ethical Questions

• HON Intr 404 approved—

Turning of the Wheel: A Humanities Exploration

• Phi Beta Kappa initiation etc: Performed a substantial range of labor-intensive tasks that led to initiation of new PBK members in spring 2012 and spring 2011—the series of tasks includes reviewing approximately 120 transcripts of potentially eligible seniors and juniors, counting course by course within the liberal arts and sciences, credit by credit, to determine ultimate list of students invited to join PBK.  The acceptance rate requires reiterated invitations by various means (emails, phone calls, contacting their advisors and teachers).  Coordinated with chapter officers, departments that contributed to cover the costs of each initiate’s membership fees . . . .  also related production of PBK annual report, tracking expenditures/finances/gift monies, soliciting donations for students’ membership fees from departments, coordinating with chapter officers and assisting in trying to sustain sufficient participation at officer level.
• Phi Eta Sigma initiation etc.: inducted new members, oversight of scholarship awards to local members, meetings with officers, assisting to support local chapter’s social and service events.
• Phi Kappa Phi initiation etc.: as with PBK, this organization’s website and initiation system is time-intensive, with repeated contacts to enroll new members and to address problems with process by contacting national office. Substantial increase in new members initiated and with cost-savings to the local chapter of several hundred dollars (by switching to our own mailings and by intensive email and online membership process).
• Proposed revisions to Honors Program Committee for UHP Criteria for Good Standing, Core Award Requirements, Service Learning Points, and Priority Registration Privileges
• Proposal presented to HPC regarding potential designation of honors sections of courses outside the general education curriculum—proposal will undergo further revision and reconsideration, even as Engr 210 was piloted in spring 2012.
• With launch of new website worked with next level web coordinator to implement fully online system for students to apply for admission to the UHP, with programming for correlation of initial GPA and test score criteria and automatic replies to initiate the next step in the process.

I developed and offered a presentation on evaluation and assessment, particularly in relation to external program evaluation, for the 2009 Western Regional Honors Council Conference, and accompanied and assisted 10 honors students who presented their research from honors Core courses and from support through the Martin Institute at the conference (see further above)—I also attended other sessions at the conference.  As part of extending assessment into new contexts and data analysis, I analyzed recruitment and enrollment figures for incoming students who meet the “profile” of honors eligible students, both those admitted to the UHP and those invited but who did not apply—then, with UHP associate director Dr. Alton Campbell, I visited with deans and associate deans in the colleges to discuss the UHP in relation to each college, and to share the analysis of the data to enhance recruitment and retention efforts, and to explore further possibilities for curricular coordination, development, and support.  I initiated a new category of UHP Outstanding Student awards, and with the UHP program advisor planned an honors student-faculty mixer that included an occasion to recognize the academic, leadership, and service accomplishments of the ten students selected to receive the awards.  I initiated and coordinated a monthly “Honors Food for Thought” luncheon for honors students and faculty that provides an opportunity for conversation and social interaction.  I implemented and assessed results from the annual UHP Senior Exit Survey.  I took the lead in 2009 in overseeing new awards and renewals for UHP scholarship recipients (with assistance from the UHP program advisor and in consultation with the UHP associate director).  Working with the UHP associate director, the UHP proposed and the Honors Program Committee approved, a means for UHP students to earn Honors Service Learning points, to be counted in progress toward achieving the UHP Core Award or Certificate—this may also have encouraged more honors students to participate in sustained community service.  In coordination with the department chair and a faculty member in the Department of English, I was able to arrange for an honors section of English 102, offered for the first time in fall 2009, and to be offered again in fall 2010.  Working with students and another faculty member, I took the lead in developing two new fall 2009 courses that linked upper-division honors students to act as mentors in a group of incoming freshmen—the work of developing the class included reading and selecting textbooks, articles, excerpts (including recent sociological, anthropological studies of first-year students, and a text on leadership for college students, and a text on mentoring college students) building Blackboard sites for each class, creating a detailed syllabi and course schedules, and participating online and in person at various times over the course of the semester for these coordinated classes (EDCI 404 “Mentoring and Leading in Honors” and EDCI 200 “Connecting with Honors”, with Dr. Rodney McConnell as instructor of record), including monitoring students’ progress, meeting with mentors, and reading and commenting in reply to the students’ end of semester reflective papers (39 students total).  I also reviewed and substantially revised the honors admission process, including continued refinement/development of a hybrid online application process, and development of a wholly new format and topics admission compositions rather than a single essay—this format developed from my familiarity with research on writing placement and assessment through the National Council of Teachers of English; our “experiment” with a series of short compositions intended to provide a better sense of each applicants’ experiences, perspectives, and education, is modeled after the system adopted by Oregon State University (for all of its entering freshmen).  Worked with director of UI Housing to arrange for priority reservation privileges for honors students who wish to live in McCoy Hall (top floors of Theophilus Tower) and the Scholars LLC.  Assisted and participated with UHP spring and fall student leadership retreats.  I was instrumental in initiating coordination between a representative for the Washington [D.C.] Center for Internships and Academic Seminars and the UI Career Center that has led to the university establishing an “Affiliate” status with that organization, to facilitate internship opportunities for UI students.  With the associate director, I stepped up repeated recruitment contacts throughout year, spring, and summer.  It is important to note that with the appointment of Dr. Campbell as associate director, the summer portion of that appointment was discontinued, so that the UHP director and program advisor rely on less staff support relative to prior years, in the summer component of program work and commitments.

Some examples from 2008—I oversaw and contributed directly to the preparation of primary and supplemental materials for the UHP Self-Study and External Program Review (includes 52 p. annual report, 7 p. director’s summary/introduction with appended data, and director’s preparation of an additional 200 pp. of documents for the October 2008 review).  Recent program assessment included one-to-one interviews with 15 honors program faculty conducted by the UHP director and associate director in June 2008; I developed the survey questions and produced the final report on the interviews.  I revised the UHP senior exit survey and implemented a new mode of online delivery and incentives for the survey that greatly increased our return rate (see 2008 annual report).  In late summer 2008 I developed a hybrid online admission process in lieu of a full Banner module, which has to be created by university programmers.  I proposed the development of a new honors course on topics in medicine—a one-credit, interdisciplinary course on Business and Medicine will be offered spring 2009.  I talked with the director of admissions for the College of Law to propose the creation of a similar course on topics in law.  I initiated conversations with the new director of University Housing to propose revisions to the minimum GPA requirements for McCoy Hall and for Scholars LLC, and to propose privileges for UHP students to have priority in reserving rooms at these residence halls.  These proposals along with revisions to the text descriptions for these halls were accepted (implemented February 2009).  In fall 2008 I taught and facilitated a one-credit honors course entitled “Community and Engagement” in which a small group of UHP students interviewed honors students and faculty to produce narrative “profiles” with photos that I “published” on the UHP website.  I initiated and coordinate a new monthly “Honors Food for Thought” luncheon series that brings honors faculty and students together for conversation.  Also arranged for and accompanied 45 honors students to see the national touring production of “The Phantom of the Opera” at the Spokane Opera House, October 2008.  Ongoing meetings with a potential donor to the UHP came to fruition in late 2008, with an agreement for significant regular annual support for cultural and extracurricular enrichment beginning in 2009.

In fall 2007, the UHP director’s proposal with accompanying assessment data to revise the program’s admission and retention criteria was approved by the Honors Program Committee.  UHP program assessment and evaluation research initiated in fall 2006 and continued in spring 2007, with two Bus. 421 seniors working with the UHP in a directed study supervised by Dr. Steve Pharr to draw upon the fall semester research proposals and additional consultation to develop two surveys: a “retention” survey for current and former UHP members, and a “recruitment” survey for new and prospective members.  In February and March 2007, approximately 200 current and former honors students completed an online retention survey, and another 200 “invited and prospective” students who were not in the program completed an online recruitment survey; survey data was transferred to analysis software (SPSS) in April.  The two marketing seniors also received the UHP director’s permission to continue to work with the program as a “client” in the context of a student team’s project in Professor Michael McCollough’s Business 428 Marketing Management course, as part of a team of six students that developed a marketing plan for the UHP.  Student analysis of the survey data, other research, and accompanying recommendations comprise portions of the completed marketing plan (see UHP 2007 Annual Report for results and analysis of the recruitment and retention surveys).

Annual activities have included such events as bike tours on "The Route of the Hiawatha" rail-to-trail conversion in northern Idaho, an excursion to Elk River Falls and nearby fossil beds, Moscow Mountain day hike, past "Raft and Read" trips on the lower Salmon river (I led the book discussions for four years), the annual “Cultural Enrichment" trip (e.g., Victoria, B.C., Vancouver, B. C., fall 2004, 20 students, Portland, 2003, and in fall 2005 and 2002, Seattle, with twenty-four students), the September Ice Cream Social and Scavenger Hunt, on and off campus theater outings, and the end of the year HSAB picnic.  I contribute occasional columns on academic and cultural events to the HSAB produced periodical, “The Looking Glass.”  In rotation with the associate director, I teach the Honors Vacation Reading class every other year.  In Fall 2002 I developed a course titled “The Law in Question.”  I taught a new honors course spring 2005 that includes works in history, science, and literature, titled "Intellectual History and the Narrative Quest of Identity," and another new course in spring 2007 with recent prize-winning works of nonfiction and fiction.

In the last few years I have extended our avenues for advising and conversing regularly with honors students by compiling and maintaining an email distribution list that enables us to send announcements and advice simultaneously to all of the students in the program.  This has also been a terrific way for students to respond to us about the program, particularly concerning proposed curricular changes.  I arranged to manage this as a list-serve in 2001, thereby providing a more direct means for all UHP staff and for the chair of the Honors Student Advisory Board to communicate with all UHP members by email.

I have also played a significant role in producing a new honors brochure, including revising the text, searching for and selecting new photos, overseeing the layout (working in 2005 and in 2002 with UI Printing and Design, and colleagues Anna Banks and Cheryl Wheaton), and suggesting new strategies for enhancing its distribution and effectiveness for recruiting purposes.  This brochure was revised again in summer 2005 and fall 2007, with another revision scheduled for 2011.

Earlier accomplishments include a significant revision of the honors curriculum (approved in 1997) including changes to course and credit requirements, and an additional distinction called the "University Honors Core Award" given to students who successfully complete 19 credits in honors courses.  These revisions enable students—particularly those in the sciences and technical fields—to manage our curriculum requirements with more flexibility, and it provides important recognition for students who are unable to complete the requirements for the "University Honors Program Certificate."  Current revisions, plans, and progress are in the UHP Action Plan and Annual Report, and other specific notations on administrative work are listed above in other sections of the curriculum vitae.  For example, in 2002 the Honors Program Committee approved suggested revisions to admission criteria and to retention criteria, and I participated on the Top Scholar Task Force.  In spring 2003, the Honors Program Committee approved changes that I proposed to revise requirements for the UHP Certificate.  With the UHP associate director, I also conducted a wide-ranging comparison of the UHP with 17 peer and related honors programs and colleges.
    
     1994-98 Honors Program:

Fall 1994 enrichment activities that I programmed (primarily at The Scholars' Residence) included concerts, musical theater, a reception to enable students to meet leading administrators and honors faculty, a social hour for residents and their faculty advisors, a regular "Walk-in Wednesday" social hour in the Honors Center, and a faculty/student presentation on sexuality and public policy. 

During spring 1995 I presented a free weekly film series for UHP members, arranged for a faculty/student workshop on gender relations and civil rights, planned and accompanied students on a trip to Spokane to see G. B. Shaw's Candida, and established an online UHP newsgroup. 

During fall 1995 I ran a monthly film series, accompanied students to Spokane to see a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, arranged for student writers who work for the literary digest Fugue to read from their work, programmed faculty student presentations on "Legacies of the Holocaust" and "Women Scientists and Mentors," and made arrangements for a presentation by and reception for the renowned chamber music group An Die Musik.  With assistance from Gordon Thomas and David Korus, I also created (and now maintain) a website for the University Honors Program.  I continued to keep this page updated, appealing, and informative, by scanning in photos from recent trips, learning how to use new HTML software, and by making the HSAB newsletter available online.

Cultural and educational events during spring 1996 included showing the films "Diva" and "Man Facing Southeast," accompanying UHP students on a dinner and theater trip to Spokane to see the Interplayers Ensemble's production of Gurney's play "The Old Boy," and our spring trip to Vancouver, B.C., where we took students to the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology, enjoyed dinner at an Afghan restaurant, attended two comic one-act plays ("Howard Buys a Motorhome" and "Howard Goes to Hell"), toured the aquarium at Stanley Park, saw the film "Wings of Courage" at the IMAX theater, and spent time exploring this cosmopolitan city.  Events at The Scholars' Residence also included a presentation in February on computer art, and in April, faculty and students from the honors seminar "To Engineer Is Human" shared their views on this topic.

Among a range of activities across campus that we bring to UHP students' attention, during fall 1996 I invited and joined with honors students to view and discuss the film "Angels and Insects," and again led students on a theater trip to Spokane to see the Interplayers' production of "Camping with Henry and Tom."  The UHP film series also continued at The Scholars' Residence.

Spring 1997 activities that I have helped to organize include another Spokane theater trip to see Cocteau's "Indiscretions," and the renowned chamber music group The Guild Trio's presentation at The Scholars' Residence.

In October, 1997 I arranged and accompanied honors students on a dinner and theater trip to Spokane: we saw McNally’s play “A Perfect Ganesh” at the Studio Theatre.

In March 1998, Associate Provost Dene Thomas and Professor Gordon Thomas joined this semester’s theater trip to Spokane to see “The Woman in Black.”
 
In April 1998, I led the honors trip to Portland, cultural events included Maryhill Museum, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, the Portland Art Museum, a collective dinner at an Ethiopian restaurant, a performance of Macbeth at Portland’s Center Stage Theatre, a stop at Powell’s bookstore, and time for students to visit the Portland Zoo, the Japanese Gardens, and Portland’s lively Saturday Market.  Professor Tom Bitterwolf and Carrie Bitterwolf joined us for dinner, the play, and dessert after the production.

Beginning in July 1998, I assumed the duties of Interim Director, including ongoing advising, recruitment, and responsibility for the program’s budget.  I led the honors “Raft and Read” trip in September, have worked to coordinate and to serve as faculty representative for national scholarships, helped to arrange a “talk and play” chamber music presentation by The Peabody Trio at the Scholars’ Residence as well as a “social hour” for new students and their academic advisors.  Anna Banks and I also accompanied students to Spokane to see a performance of The Firebugs at the Interplayers Ensemble theater in November, after returning from the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in Chicago. 

During the past several years I have taken the lead in working with the Honors Program Committee to review and to revise the honors curriculum: for example, the committee approved rotating other social science and math, computer science, and statistics core classes into the curriculum as well as reconfiguring distributions requirements and adding new core courses.  The directors and program advisor also worked together to produce the UHP’s Strategic Action Plan to coordinate with the UI’s Strategic Plan.  The UHP website was wholly redesigned, and I continue to manage and to update the site.  I participate in the general university orientation for freshmen, meet with prospective and incoming UI Scholars, and have addressed high school counselors about the UHP. I have participated in meetings of the General Education Task Force on revisions to the university's core curriculum, and have led revisions to UHP admission and retention criteria.