J o s e p h S t e v e n N a p o r a
Associate Professor of English, Ashland Community College
2205 Moore Street / Ashland KY 41101 606-324-1953 (H) 329-2999 (W); E-Mail: joe.napora@kctcs.net (H) napora@zoomnet.net (W) |
Education:
Master of Arts in English, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Master of Arts in Educational Media, Miami University
Bachelor of Education, St. Thomas University, New Brunswick, Canada
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Miami University
Work Experience:
1991 to Present: Ashland Community College, teaching writing, literarature, film
Book Publications:
Bloom Blood, poems, Bottom Dogs Press, 1987SCIGHTE, poems, poote press, 1987
The Journal of Elizabeth Jennings Wilson, poems, moonkosh & ragpicker presses, 1987
To Recognize This Dying, poems, Mr. Cogito Press, 1987
Snaketrain, Freightrain, poems, quelquefois press, 1992
The Walam Olum, translation of the Delaware Indian Epic Poem 1992
The Immigrants, poems, Blue Moon Press, 1992
Essays:
"Day Two: Fort Ancient" in Artful Dodge 24/25, Spring 1994"Day Three: Serpent Mound" in Artful Dodge 24/25, Spring 1994
"Survival and Resistance" in In Buckeye Country, 1994
"Poetry in the Middle" in Heartlands 1993
"Humanature: the Deep Ecology of Writing" in The Community College Humanities Association Journal, Dec. 1992
Forum on Political Correctness in Fiction International, 27, 1995
Poems, Fiction, & Drawings:
In various journals, including House Organ, juxta, Texture, The Asheville Poetry Review. nexus, and Cedar Hill Review
Book, Film, and Magazine Reviews:
Regular reviewer for The Small Press Review, reviews in Review of Contemporary Fiction, American Book Review, and The American Whitewater Association Journal
Presentations:
PRESENTED: ACC Teaching and Learning Conference, The Internet for English Research, October, 1996PRESENTED: ACC Teaching and Learning Conference, Using the Computer in the Student-Centered Curriculum, October, 1995
PRESENTED: a revised version of "The Perfect Text" at the Kentucky Philological Association Annual Meeting, March, 1994
PRESENTED: "The Perfect Text -Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl"Community College Humanities Association Annual Meeting, October, 1993
PANELIST UK English Conference on Diversity, Fall 1992
PRESENTED: "Introduction to The Walam Olum" at the Kentucky Philological Association
Annual Meeting, 1992, given Best of Section Award
Professional Organizations:
Member of Community College Humanities AssociationMember of ASLE, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Other Teaching Activities:
The Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program, summer of 1995Continuing Ed. course in Creative Writing at Federal Prison in Summit, Spring 1994
Community Ed. course on American Indian Pictographs, Spring 1993
Continuing Ed. course in white water kayaking, 1996 to the present
Poetry Readings given and arranged, 1992-present
Drama: June, 1988, Miami U. Program for Gifted & Talented High School Students
Creative Writing: Deertrack Poetry Festival, summers 1981-85
Other Professional Activities:
In 1993-94 I initiated the Truman Scholarship Committee which sponsored two ACC students in their efforts to receive a Truman ScholarshipIn 1993-94 I initiated a student publication, VOICES, essays to be used not only as examples of good student writing but also for instructional purposes in writing classes.To accompany these texts and to encourage other writing faculty to use it as a supplemental text I wrote a teacher's guide. Voices is now an online pubication.
In 1994 I began the literary journal BullHead, a journal of new poetry.
In 1996 appointed to the editorial board of First Intensity, a journal of new writing.
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