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2010 Annual Report

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                                                                                                                                  September 2010

 

 

                                                                                   

                   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

 

B.  Teaching

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

Session

Course Prefix and Number

Course Title

Enroll

Max

Spring 2010

COM 421

Media Genres

13

30

COM 531

Hollywood and Nazism Before World War II

18

20

INTL I200

Intro to International Studies (Media and Globalization section)

39

40

Fall 2010

COM 330

Theories of Mass Media

28

30

COM 584

Historical/Critical Research in Communication

17

20

 

 

2. Other Courses Taught

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

Session

Course Prefix and Number

Course Evaluations

Responses

Enroll

Max

Spring 2010

COM 421

Media Genres

13

13

30

COM 531

Hollywood and Nazism Before World War II

13

18

20

 

 

4. Peer Comments on Credit and Noncredit Teaching

5. Contributions to Course and Curriculum Development

·        For Spring 2010, I taught two (2) new courses, each of which I created, in Spring 2010.  COM 531 was a special topics course, which permitted me to share my current research project with upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.  After getting approved by college and campus curriculum committees, COM 421 Media Genres is now a permanent part of the COM and Film and Media Studies curricula.

·        I also worked with the Communication Department to West Lafayette to submit a revised course description for COM 330 Theories of Mass Media.  In addition to revising this description, I have established a set of pre-requisites so that a student must take COM 248 Media Analysis (another course which I redesigned) and COM 250 Media and Society.

 

6. Publications and Productions Related to Teaching

7. Unpublished Work Related to Teaching

·        Led a post-film discussion of the film Europa, Europa (1990; Orion, 1991) on 15 Sep. 2010 in NF 101 for INTL I208 International Cinema.

·        I have given presentations of “Beyond Triumph of the Will: Teaching Holocaust Media Literacy in the Age of YouTube” to a class at Carleton U in Ottawa ON Canada on 24 Nov. 2010 and to a group of secondary school teachers as part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Belfer Next Step Indianapolis Regional Conference in Indianapolis IN on 29 June 2010.

·        I gave a presentation delivered for COM Week on 24 Mar 2010 entitled “Graduate School: The What, How, and Why.”

·        I participated in The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Master Teaching Institute in Holocaust Education Workshop on using film in the classroom to teach the Holocaust, held in conjunction with the annual Abram Matlofsky Memorial Program at Rutgers U, New Brunswick NJ (see below), 11 Mar. 2010.

 

8. Student Research Direction

In the past year, I have chaired five (5) graduate advisory committees, in addition to serving on numerous other graduate advisory committees.

 

9. Grants for Teaching Improvement

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.  I completely overhauled the Plan of Study, turning it into a downloadable PDF with drop-down menus and auto-filled entries that make submission of this form much easier for the student.  I worked extensively with West Lafayette to ensure that the form design would move through the certification process without difficulty.

 

11. Institutions, Workshops, conference, Expositions, and Other Programs Attended

12. Teaching Awards

American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education – U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Belfer First Step Program Teacher Educator at IPFW, 2010.  This is a national program targeting pre-service teachers before they enter the classroom to ensure quality teaching of the Holocaust.  The program required attending a week-long intensive training workshop on-site at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2010.  It also requires that both Dave Lindquist and I supervise a one-day workshop at IPFW in April 2011, and recruit 100 participants from the regional area to attend this event.

 

13. Other Evidence of Teaching Effectiveness

 

 

C.  Research and creative endeavor

1.  Publications

"Jew and Not-Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Postwar Hollywood Social Problem Film."  The Wandering View: Modern Jewish Experiences in World Cinema.  Lawrence Baron, ed.  Waltham MA: Brandeis U P, forthcoming.

 

Historical Adviser, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, February 2009 – December 2011, http://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/.

 

2. Unpublished Work Related to Research and Creative Endeavor

National Cinemas, Global Meanings Chair and contributor to pre-Constituted Panel proposal I organized for the 9th Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference, Chicago IL, 24-26 Mar 2011 (accepted; pdf).

 

Anti-Semitism and the Postwar Hollywood Social Problem Film - Paper Proposal accepted for the 2011 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, New Orleans LA, 10-13 Mar 2011.

 

Invited Lecture given at Carleton U, Ottawa ON Canada, in conjunction with a rare screening of The Search (MGM, 1948), and a reading from the first chapter of my current research project, “Hollywood, Nazism, and Globalization: Popular Culture and the Birth of the Holocaust Film, 1933-1945.”

 

The Last Stage - Paper and Proposal presented for Cold War Conference in Austin TX, 1 Oct. 2010.

 

Can the Holocaust Be a Television Sitcom? "Wowschwitz," Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Show, and How Taste Still Matters - Position Paper for The Sitcoms Have Become Self Aware, Flow Conference 2010, Austin TX, 1 Oct. 2010.

 

Review of Screening a Lynching: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television.  By Matthew H. Bernstein.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 2009.  Submitted to American Jewish History.

 

Response to Deidre Butler, “Witness at the Blackboard: Reflections on the Phenomenon of Survivor Testimony in Canadian Schools” and Rosemary Horowitz, “Methodological Considerations for Using the Videotaped Testimony of Holocaust Survivors in the Classroom,” Teaching the Visual Image, Bearing Witness: Memory, Representation, and Pedagogy in the Post-Holocaust Age, Shenandoah U, Winchester VA, 13 Apr. 2010.

 

Movies, Jews, and Profits to Lose: Hollywood and the European Market Before World War II - Paper delivered for Hollywood History / Jewish History: The Past and Future of a Popular Jewish Identity, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles CA, 20 Mar 2010.

 

3.  Research and Creative Endeavor in Progress

4.  Grant Acquisition and Current Grant Proposals

·        Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Loewenstein-Wiener Fellowship for 2010-11, to be held in residence at Cincinnati OH in May 2011.

·        Co-Director with David Lindquist of the IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, an IPFW Center for Excellence.

 

5. Institutes, Workshops, Conferences, Expositions and Other Programs Attended

6. Peer Comments on Research and Creative Endeavor

7. Other Evidence of Effectiveness in Research and Creative Endeavor

 

D.  Service

1.  University service

a.  System level

·        IPFW and Regional Campus Representative, Arts and Humanities Area Council Chair, and Executive Steering Committee Member, Purdue University Graduate Council for 2010-11.

·        Member, New Task Force to review policy for combined degree programs, Purdue University Graduate Council for 2010-11

 

b.  IPFW level

·  Purdue Representative, IPFW Graduate Subcommittee, 2010-11.

·  Member, Instructional Technology Coordinating Committee, appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs to improve the support of instructional technology on the IPFW campus, 2010-11.

·  Member, Omnibus Lecture Series Committee, 2010-11.

 

c.  School level

d.  Department level

·  Member, Curriculum Committee (ex-officio), 2010-11

·  Member, Promotion, Tenure, and Sabbatical Committee, 2010-11

·  Chair, Communication P&T Committee, 2010-11

·  Member, Ad-Hoc Media Group Committee, 2010-11

·  Library Liaison, 2010-11

·  Chair, Faculty Assistance Committees for Art Herbig, Assem Nasr, and Wei “Kitty” Luo, 2010-11

·  Chair, Search Committee for Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Media Production, 2010

·  Member, Search Committee for Communication and Culture, 2010

·  Member, Faculty Assistance Committee for Carrie Kennedy-Lightsey, 2010

 

e.  Service to Student Organizations or Activities

Faculty Advisor to the IPFW F.I.L.M. Club and Windsong Film Festival, 2010-11

 

g.  Other

2.  Professional service

a.  Offices held in professional organizations

b.  Journal editing

c.  Reviews of publications/manuscripts

Reviewed 1 manuscript for Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2010.

 

d.  Reports and Studies

e.  Other

3. Continuing Education Service

4.  Community service

a.  Consulting Activities

b. Public and/or Governmental Service Activities

IPFW Campus Liaison, Bike Fort Wayne Task Force, 2010

 

c. Publications and/or presentations for lay audiences

Presentation of “Jew and Not-Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Postwar Hollywood Social Problem,” Soloway Jewish Community Centre, 21 Nadolny Sachs Private, Ottawa ON, Canada, 22 Nov. 2010.

Introduction to Ken Auletta, Omnibus Lecturer, IPFW Auer Recital Hall, Fort Wayne IN, 7 Oct. 2010.

Panelist for IPFW Center for Mideast Peace post-screening discussion of the documentary Little Town of Bethlehem (Ethnographic Media, 2010), IPFW Classroom Medical Auditorium, Fort Wayne IN, 5 Oct. 2010.

Panelist with The Nation film reviewer Stuart Klawans and scholar Alan Mintz on Hollywood and the Holocaust, Annual Abram Matlofsky Memorial Program, Rutgers U, New Brunswick NJ, 11 Mar. 2010.

d. Media interviews

f.  Other

5.  Peer Comments on Service

6.  Other Evidence of Effectiveness in Service


 

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