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December 2011 

COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT FORMAT

BASED ON OAA Memorandum 99-1 Promotion and Tenure Dossier Format Guidelines

http://www.ipfw.edu/vcaa/forms/PDFs/OAA99-1P&TGuidelinesRev2010March.pdf

Name: Steven Alan Carr, PhD

* denotes contribution to graduate program.

B.  Teaching

1. Credit Courses Taught (all 3 credit hours and end-of-semester enrollments

3. Student Evaluations of Credit and Noncredit Courses (linked below)

5. Contributions to Course and Curriculum Development

• Co-ordinated COM 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies in Communication and taught introductory section on critical/cultural theory for the first time.* 
• Served as IPFW Campus Blackboard Faculty Fellow for Spring 2012.  Duties included supporting entire campus with faculty-to-faculty support, one-on-one sessions, development of model templates, and coordination with both CELT and ITS.  After every meeting with faculty, I solicited feedback.  Out of 26 responses, 21 responses rated our meeting as Very Positive and 20 responses rated the outcome of our meeting as Very Satisfied.  Of 21 responses indicating Very Satisfied when comparing various steps taken to resolve a problem, 17 identified contacting the Blackboard Fellow, 2 identified contacting CELT, and zero identified contacting ITS.

7. Unpublished Work Related to Teaching 

• The 2012 Last Lecture: Clicked to Death: How the Technology-Educational Complex Is Destroying Higher Education, and What You Can Do About It. Communication and Media Society / Lambda Pi Eta.  IPFW.  Fort Wayne IN, 27 Apr. 2012.  Selected to give this lecture by student vote.

8. Student Research Direction

In the past year, I have chaired six graduate advisory committees, in addition to serving on other graduate advisory committees.

10. Student Academic Advising

In the past year, I have advised almost 60 students.  Most, though not all, have been graduate students.  In my capacity as Graduate Program Director in Communication, I maintain and update the website, an important repository for information related to the graduate program.  I have pioneered the use of blogs, wikis, and other social media to keep students updated about upcoming dates and items of interest.*

12. Teaching Awards

Named an IPFW Campus Blackboard Faculty Fellow for 2012-14, a two year commitment to assist the campus as it transitions from Blackboard Vista to Blackboard Learn.  The program ended after one semester due to budget cuts.

C.  Research and creative endeavor

2. Unpublished Work Related to Research and Creative Endeavor

"Complicated Dictator": The Untold Story of the Concentration Camp Scenes from Chaplin's 1940 Hollywood Anti-Fascist Comedy That Audiences Never Saw.  2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago IL.  Accepted.  Rev. of:

• Complicated Dictator: The Untold Story of the Concentration Camp Scenes from Chaplin's 1940 Hollywood Anti-Fascist Comedy That Audiences Never Saw.  2011-12 IPFW Mid-Career Faculty Research Support Grant proposal (funded).

"Beasts of Burgeon: Animality in the Holocaust Menagerie."  Humans Gone Wild: Catastrophe, Inhumanity, Animality.  American Comparative Literature Association Seminar.  Brown U, Providence RI, 30 Mar. 2012.

"To Encompass the Unseeable": The Last Stage (1949) and Auschwitz in Cold War America.  Transatlantic Representations of Holocaust Cinema in the 1940s.  44th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies.  Sheraton Chicago, Chicago IL.  16 Dec. 2012. Rev. of:

• "To Encompass the Unseeable": Foreign Film, Taste Culture, and the American Encounter with the Postwar Holocaust Film.  Postwar Relief and Rehabilitation Films and Docudramas.  Twelfth Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust.  Northwestern U, Evanston IL.  2 Nov 2012. 
• "To Encompass the Unseeable": Foreign Film, Taste Culture, and the American Encounter with the Postwar Holocaust Film.  Art Films and the Politics of Taste.  2012 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Boston MA.  23 Mar. 2012.
• "Hollywood, Foreign Films, and the Birth of the Holocaust Film" - National Cinemas, Global Meanings.  9th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference, Chicago IL, 26 Mar 2011 (accepted;pdf).
• "To Encompass the Unseeable": The Last Stage (Times Film, 1949) and Auschwitz in the Mind of Cold War America.  Reimagining Jewish History in the Cold War.  Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.  U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX.  1 Oct. 2010.  

3.  Research and Creative Endeavor in Progress

• Invited to submit proposal for book-length manuscript for Hollywood, Nazism, and Globalization: Popular Culture and the Birth of the Holocaust Film, 1933-1945 to Northwestern U P as part of its new series, Cultural Expressions of World War II: Interwar Preludes, Responses, Memory.
• Invited to submit 30-40 page essay on film for Antisemitism in North America: Theory, Research and Methodology for Jewish Identity Series (Brill).
• Invited to submit 6000-8000 page essay for Oxford Handbook of the History of American Immigration and Ethnicity on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in Film (Oxford). 

4.  Grant Acquisition and Current Grant Proposals

• Received IPFW Senior Faculty Summer Grant for Summer 2012.  Spent month of June in Madison WI at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research conducting archival research with the United Artists Collection.

D.  Service

1.  University service

b.  IPFW level

• Member, Omnibus Lecture Series 
• Member, Instructional Technology Co-Ordinating Committee  

d.  Department level

• Chair, Communication/Journalism Search Committee, 2011-12 
• Member, Curriculum Committee (ex-officio), 2011-12
• Member, Promotion, Tenure, and Sabbatical Committee, 2011-12
• Chair, Communication P&T Committee, 2011-12 
• Library Liaison, 2011-12
• Chair, Faculty Assistance Committees for Art Herbig, Assem Nasr, and Dan Tamul, 2011-12

e.  Service to Student Organizations or Activities

• Faculty Advisor to the IPFW F.I.L.M. Club and Windsong Film Festival, 2011-12

4.  Community service

c. Publications and/or presentations for lay audiences

• Social Media and the 2012 Election.  IPFW College of Arts and Sciences Brown Bag Lunch Discussion 17 Oct. 2012.  Fort Wayne IN.