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December 2013 

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

• Facilitated meetings in 2013 to plan for team-taught COM 500 Introduction to Graduate Studies in Communication for Spring 2014 and completely reorganized the class around topics instead of individual faculty.*  

7. Unpublished Work Related to Teaching

• "Film Theory and Interpretation."  Invited guest lecture to class at Bethel U, Minneapolis MN.  5 Feb. 2014.
• Guest lecture on Propaganda, IPFW, Fort Wayne IN.  1 Apr. 2013.
• Invited guest lecture on All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).  Claremont McKenna College, Claremont CA.  5 Mar. 2013.

8. Student Research Direction

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

10. Student Academic Advising

In the past year, I have advised 36 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.* 

C.  Research and creative endeavor

2. Unpublished Work Related to Research and Creative Endeavor

• "Judging WWII Hollywood and the Jews: Cinema Studies and Recent Debates Over History and Accountability."  Workshop Proposer and Chair.  2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.  Sheraton Seattle, Seattle WA.  20 Mar. 2014.
•  "Hollywood, Nazism, and the Motion Picture Division of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee, 1938-1946."  War and Film.  2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.  Sheraton Seattle, Seattle WA.  19 Mar. 2014. Rev. of:
• "Hollywood, Nazism, and the Motion Picture Division of the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee, 1938-46."  The Politics Behind the Screen: Hollywood and the American Jewish Community in the 1930s and 1940s.  45th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies.  Sheraton Boston, Boston MA.  17 Dec. 2013.
•  "We Have No Right to Assert That This Is Reality Precisely Because It Is a True Story": Michael Verhoeven and the Taste Politics of the Late Foreign Holocaust Art Film.  The Nasty Past: Memory and History in the Holocaust Films of Michael Verhoeven.  Eleventh Annual Cultural Studies Conference.  Cultural Studies Association. Chicago IL.  24 May 2013.
• "Complicated Dictator": The Untold Story of the Concentration Camp Scenes from Chaplin's 1940 Hollywood Anti-Fascist Comedy That Audiences Never Saw.  Playing With/Against Fascism.  At Play in the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945.  DePaul U, Chicago IL.  20 June 2013.  Rev. of:
• "Complicated Dictator": The Untold Story of the Concentration Camp Scenes from Chaplin's 1940 Hollywood Anti-Fascist Comedy That Audiences Never Saw.  Seriously?! Genre, Reception, and the Politics of Cultural Value.  2013 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago IL.  8 Mar. 2013.

3.  Research and Creative Endeavor in Progress

• Submitted 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.
• Submitted 20 page essay on film for Antisemitism in North America: Theory, Research and Methodology for Jewish Identity Series (Brill).
• Submitted 21 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 $5000 grant from the Harry W. Salon Foundation Grant to bring the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum traveling exhibition "Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals" to Fort Wayne, the first time this exhibition will come to Indiana.  This project is in collaboration with the IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Artlink, Congregation Achduth Vesholom, and the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation. 

D.  Service

1.  University service

a. University System

• Member, Executive Committee, IU Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society, 2013-16.

b.  IPFW level

• Co-Director, IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
• Interim IPFW Faculty Senator, Spring 2014 (replacement for Marcia Dixson)
• Member, Omnibus Lecture Series 
• Member, Instructional Technology Co-Ordinating Committee
• Member of the ACITAS Subcommittee IPFW Blackboard Learn Task Force and Co-Author of its Report.

c. School

• COAS Council Representative, 2012-14

d.  Department level

• Interim Chair, Jan. - Jun 2014
• Graduate Program Director, 2013-15 
• Chair, Communication P&T Committee, 2013-14
• Ex-Officio Member, Graduate Assessment Committee, 2013-14 
• Library Liaison, 2013-14
• Chair, Faculty Assistance Committees for Assem Nasr and Dan Tamul, 2013-14

4.  Community service

c. Publications and/or presentations for lay audiences

• “It Will Provide a Beautiful and Moving Framework Into Which the Distressed Masses May Fit the Leaden and Prosaic Stereotypes of the Jew-Haters”: The Exhibition of Power (1934) and the Response of the Los Angeles Jewish Community."  Screening and invited presentation for Congregation Achduth Vesholom, Fort Wayne IN.  8-9 Feb 2014. 
• Panelist for "Remembering the Holocaust in Literature, Film, and Theology."  Bethel U, Minneapolis MN.  6 Feb. 2014. 
• Propaganda and Prejudice: Hollywood's Alliance With the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee, 1933-1945.  Invited presentation for the Fort Wayne International Affairs Forum 18 Nov. 2013.  Fort Wayne IN. 
• Women's History Month at IPFW op-ed, The Journal Gazette 29 March 2013. 
• "Anti-Semitism, Censorship, and The Great Dictator (1940) in Hollywood."  Invited presentation for Temple Beth Israel, Pomona CA.  5 Mar. 2013.
• "Complicated Dictator: The Untold Story of the Concentration Camp Scenes from Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 Hollywood Anti-Fascist   Comedy That Audiences Never Saw."  Screening and invited presentation for Congregation Achduth Vesholom, Fort Wayne IN.  9-10 Feb. 2013. 
• Panelist for Is There an American Nation?  IPFW College of Arts and Sciences UC2 Roundtable 22 Jan 2013.  Fort Wayne IN.