EMPLOYMENT

Associate Professor, West Virginia U. 1981- present

Assistant Professor, West Virginia U. 1974- 1981

Assistant Director of International Programs, Ohio State U. 1973-1974

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Supervision of academic programs; office management and budget operations; grants and contracts; composition and writing; African literature; Indian literature; law and literature; folklore and popular culture

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1972

The Ohio State University, M.A. 1966 Lake Forest College, B.A. 1964

LANGUAGES

English Limited conversational French

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Senior Fulbright Scholar, U. du Benin, Togo, 1990-1991

WVU-U. of Guanajuato(Mexico) Exchange. Rural Health and Nutrition Program.

Kellogg Foundation Grant, 1990

Senior Fulbright Scholar, U. of Ife, Nigeria, 1984-85

American Philosophical Society Grant, 1980

SELECTED WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS AND OFFICES

Composition Supervisor, 1985-89

University Senator President, WVUFA, A Higher Education division of NEA, 1986-90

Chair, WVU Faculty Welfare Committee

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Modern Language Association Law and Society Association

American Folklore Society

MELUS SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Rediscovering the British Empire,ed., Kreiger P. publication scheduled 2000.

Vernacular Architecture in America, with John Cuthbert and Margaret Keeler, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.

The West Virginia University Guide to Research,ed., Copley P.1986, 1987. Revised and published Tapestry P., 1989.

in progress, book on a tri-racial isolate group residing in West Virginia and contiguous states and book on law and African Literature (Achebe, Emecheta, Soyinka, P'Bitek, Ngugi)

Chapters in Books:

"Guineas and other Englishmen: Folklore and Race in a Tri-Racial Community," in Folklore in the 20th Century. Ed. Venetia Newall. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 1980.

Articles:

"Coagulating Into Clans: Poetry and Identity in a Mixed Blood Community, "Kentucky Folklore Record, 2, nos.1-2(1983), 39- 46.

"Grace Ogot" Encyclopedia of African Literatures, James Curry, 1999.

"Ken Saro-Wiwi," Encyclopedia of African Literatures. James Curry, 1999.

"Kofi Awoonor," Encyclopedia of African Literatures. James Curry, 1999.

"Okot P'Bitek," Encyclopedia of African Literatures, James Curry, 1999.

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