GENERAL CURRICULUM VITAE Robert Shenk Background Education: University of Kansas, PhD, English Literature, 1976. Dissertation: The Sinners Progress: A Study of Madness in English Renaissance Drama University of Kansas, MA. English Literature, 1971. University of Kansas, B.A. English Literature, 1965. Also: Seminar on Teaching Technical and Professional Communication, University of Michigan, 1983. Post-doctoral Seminar on Current Theories of Teaching Composition, Purdue University, 1981. Special Seminar on Classical Rhetoric with Prof. Edward Corbett of Ohio State, Integrated Humanities Program, Univ. of Kansas, 1972. Experience A. Academic: University of New Orleans: 1991-present; full professor; 1985-1991, associate professor United States Naval Academy: 1982-1985; military rank of commander, academic ranks of assistant professor and associate professor (first military officer at the Naval Academy to be promoted to associate professor via academic review process) United States Air Force Academy, 1979-1982; military ranks of lieutenant commander and commander; academic ranks of instructor, assistant professor and associate professor. Central Michigan University: 1978-1979; assistant professor. University of Kansas: graduate teaching assistant, Dept. of English, 1970-1972, 1977-1978; graduate teaching associate, Dept. of English, 1976-1977; graduate teaching assistant, Integrated Humanities Program, 1972-1975; 1977-1978. University of Wyoming: graduate teaching assistant, Dept. of English, 1969-70. B. Other professional: United States Navy: Various duties aboard a destroyer and on river patrol boats as a naval surface line officer, 1965-1969; various duties in naval reserve units, 1973-79, 1985-1993 (besides active duty at the two service academies listed above and summers on active duty in various locations). Retired in 1993 from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain (0-6).
Scholarly and Creative Productivity 1. Publications A. Books a. Scholarly books i. Refereed Robert Shenk, America s Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2012. Editor, Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery, 1920-1924. Columbia, SC: South Carolina University Press, 2008. C. Herbert Gilliland and Robert Shenk. Admiral Dan Gallery: The Life and Wit of a Navy Original. (Preface by Herman Wouk.) Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1999. Editor, Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1997. ** History Book Club selection, 1997** Editor, The Left-Handed Monkey Wrench: Stories and Essays by Richard McKenna. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1986. Willliam McCarron & Robert Shenk, Lesser Metaphysical Poets: A Bibliography, 1961-1980. Checklists in the Humanities and Education, No. 7, San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1983. The Sinners Progress: A Study of Madness in English Renaissance Drama. Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies, 74. Salzburg: Universitat Salzburg, 1978. ii. Non-refereed Co-editor with Donald Ahern, Literature in the Education of the Military Professional. USAF Academy, CO: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1982. B. Textbooks i. Refereed The Naval Institute Guide to Naval Writing, 3 rd Edition. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2008. The Naval Institute Guide to Naval Writing, 2 nd Edition. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1997. Guide to Naval Writing. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1990.
C. Articles, etc. i. Refereed/Invited Publications a. Book Chapters Introduction, Goodbye to Some. By Gordon Forbes. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1997. (Invited). 22 pages. Introduction, Away All Boats. By Kenneth Dodson. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 1996. (Invited). 21 pages. Introduction, The Sand Pebbles. By Richard McKenna. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institure Press, 1984. (Invited.) 15 pages. b. Journal Articles Black Sea Humanitarian Mission, Naval History, 27:1 (February, 2013), 34-40. To the 1920 Olympics by Cruiser, Naval History, 22:4 (June, 2008), 14-19. Ethos at Sea, Business Communication Quarterly, 58:1 (March, 1995), 5-11. Gender Bias in Naval Fitness Reports? A Case Study on Gender and Rhetorical Credibility, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 24 (1994), 367-387. Odysseus Aloof and Astray, Grazer Beitrage: Zeitschrift fur die Klassische Alterumwissenschaft, 20 (1994), 1-25. The coherence of the Biblical Story of Balaam. Literature and Belief., 13 (1993), 31-51. Ghost Writing in Professional Communications, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 18 (1988), 485-495. Researching for Real: Connecting the Freshman Research Paper to Live Literary Research, Louisiana English Journal, 27 (1988), 17-30. Ship s Engineer and Master Teacher: Richard McKenna s The Sand Pebbles and the Vocation of Teaching, RE: Artes Liberales, 14, No. 1 (Spring/Fall, 1988), 11-28. The Ancient Rhetorical Suasoria Versus the Modern Technical Case. Rhetoric Review, 7 (Fall, 1988), 113-129. Co-Author with Robert C. Gowdy, Technical and Professional Writing at UNO. Gulf Courant: Newsletter of the New Orleans/Gulf Gcast Chapter, Society for Technical Communication, 6, No. 4 (1986), 3-4. (Invited.) Editing Government Documents for Conciseness and Clarity, in Teaching Technical Editing, Assn. of Teachers of Technical Writing Anthology No. 6, ed. Carolyn D. Rude (Lubbock, TX: Assn. Of Teachers of Technical Writing, 1985), pp. 149-160.
The Self Enlarged: The Case for Good Literature in the Composition Class, The English Record, 32, No. 4 (Fall, 1981), 9-12. Teaching English in Uniform, ADE Bulletin, 69 (Fall, 1981), 32-34. McKenna s The Sand Pebbles and The Poetry of Machinery, Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 23, No. 1 (1981), 67-81. Robert Frost and the Early Puritan Idea of Vocation, Christian Scholar s Review. 10 ((1981), 229-237. The Liberation of the Loathly Lady of Medieval Romance, Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Assn. 2 (1981), 69-77. Our Vocation to Teach the Vocations: The Integration of Career Education with the Teaching of Literature and Writing, in Essays on Career Education and English, K-12 (Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1979), pp. 75-88. The Habits and Ben Jonson s Humours, The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 8, No. 1 (1978), 115-136. John Bunyan: Puritan or Pilgrim? Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo- Christian Tradition, 14 (1974), 77-93. c. Reviews. Review, Dennis Quinn, A Synoptic History of Wonder, published by University Press of America, 2002, for The Ben Jonson Journal, v. 10, 303-07. Encyclopedia Articles for Gidmark, Jill, ed., Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and the Great Lakes, (Greenwood Press, 2001). Articles on Away All Boats, 26; Beach, Edward Latimer Jr., 23-33; Coxe, Louis O., 95; Ellsberg, Edward, 130-31; Gallery, Daniel V., 149-50; Haley, Alex, 177-78; McKenna, Richard, 272-73; Naval Fiction, 314-18; Naval Memoirs, 318-19; Wilson, Sloan, 479-80. Review, M. Thomas Hester, ed., John Donne s desire of More : The Subject of Anne More Donne in His Poetry; Univ. of Delaware Press, 1996, for the Ben Jonson Journal. 5 (1998), 335-340. Review, Peter A. Huchthausen& Nguyen Thi Lung, Echoes of the Mekong, published by the Nautical and Aviation Press, 1996, for Naval War College Review. Review, Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, The Wit of Seventeenth-Century Poetry, for The Ben Jonson Journal, 3 (1996), 207-21. The Classics, the Military, and the Missing Modern Element, in Literature in the Education of the Military Professional, ed. Robert Shenk and Donald Ahern (USAF Academy: U.S. Air Force Academy, 1982), 11-20. (Invited.) 2. Items Accepted for Publication but Not Yet Published. Ethnic Cleansing, American Women, and The Admiral: Deep in Anatolia during the Turkish Nationalist Revolution. Accepted for
publication in the Proceedings of the conference on The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians: A Common Case Study, In Chicago (Skokie, IL) in May 10-11, 2013. 3. Artistic or other Creative Contribution A. Artistic Writing. Scriptwriter, Musical Director, Pianist and Producer/Organizer for The Other Wise Man, musical drama based on the short story The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke. Play was produced in a community theater production by the same name by players at Our Lady of the Lake Church, Mandeville, LA, March 10, 11 and 12, 2007, with roughly 900-1,000 total attendance. B. Technical Writing and Editing Emergency Content and Technical Editor for the Naval Institute Press, for the book they published with Chicago s Museum of Science and Industry, James E. Wise, Jr., U-505: The Final Journey, Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Edited all chapters and coordinated the writing of an additional chapter which I also edited, checked facts, visited U-505 being repaired and prepared for exhibit at the Chicago museum, also coordinated with the museum s Vice President in charge of their exhibit and this book s production, wrote legends for most photographs, etc. Project successfully completed and book published, 2005. Also: Editor for 2008 Strategic Plan, Univ. of New Orleans.. Technical Editor for Col. Arnold Lee Tesmer, USAF, The Politics Compromise: A Study of NATO AWACS, summer of 1982. For publication by the National Defense University (classified document). Technical Editor for Major N.S. Pacheco, Major S.J. Monaco, and Dr. J.A. Roberts, Failure-Free Reliability Tests, U.S. Air Force Academy Technical Report, 1981. Technical Editor for Major William A. Mitchell, Intercultural Education for the Mississippi Air National Guard ( Coronet Gyro ), U.S. Air Force Academy Technical Report, 1980. Technical Editor for Lt. Col. Robert L. Taylor and Capt. Deonn M. Wall, Air Force Professional Military Education and Executive Leadership and Management Development A Summary and Annotated Bibliography, U.S. Air Force Academy Technical Report, 1979. Editor, Shipboard Simulator Training Guide, Chief of Naval Reserve Instruction of November, 1978. Writer, Reserve Implementation of Damage Control PQS Training, Chief of Naval reserve Notice of October, 1978.
Writer, Revision of Training Planning and Scheduling, Chief of Naval reserve Notice of September, 1978. Writer, Consolidated Training Plan for the Naval Surface Reserve, Chief of Naval Reserve Instruction of September, 1977. Numerous other naval instructions, point papers, messages, personnel evaluations, memos, letters, etc. 4. Participation at Professional Meetings. Ethnic Cleansing, American Women, and The Admiral: Deep in Anatolia During the Turkish Nationalist Revolution, in a conference on The Ottoman Turkish Genocides of Anatolian Christians: A Common Case Study. Chicago (Skokie, IL, May 10-11, 2013). Dos Passos, Hemingway and the Navy: Constantinople, 1921-22., in a session on Song and Story: The U.S. Navy and Literature, Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, MD September 20-22, 2007. The State of Navy Writing, co-presenter with David Tomlinson of the Naval Academy, International Professional Communication Conference, Winnipeg, October, 1987. Read in absentia. Moderator, Keynote Address, South Central Christianity and Literature Society meeting, New Orleans, 1986. Professional Writing, Classical Rhetoric, and the Common Good, CCCC, 1986. Cultural Literacy or Cultural Mastery: The Context of the Writing Craft, CCCC, 1983. Moderator, Allocation of Strategic Resources, National Defense Colloquium, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1981. The Self Enlarged: The Case for Good Literature in the Composition Class, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn. Convention, 1981. Chairman of Panel on Medieval Drama, Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Assn. Convention, 1981. Researching for Real: Connecting the Freshman Research Paper to Live Literary Research, CCCC, 1981. The Self Enlarged: The Case for Good Literature in the Composition Class, Wyoming Conference on Freshman-Sophomore English, 1980. Respondent on Composition and Literature, CCCC, 1980. The Wild White Horses of the Sun, a talk on Career Education and English, NCTE National Convention, 1979. Panelist and Round-Table Discussion Leader, NCTE Pre-Convention Workshop on Career Education and English, NCTE National Convention, 1979. Richard McKenna s The Sand Pebbles and The Poetry of Machinery, Interface 79 (a technology and humanities assn. Conference in Marietta, Georgia), 1979. A Humanist s View of Engineering, talk given to the Advisory Committee for Humanities Programming in Northern Michigan, 1979. Robert Frost and the Early Puritan Idea of Vocation, Missouri
Philological Assn. Convention, 1977. The Liberation of the Loathly Lady of Medieval Romance, Missouri Philological Assn. Convention, 1977. Something of Woe and Wonder in Stephen Crane, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Assn. Convention, 1976. 5. Other Scholarly or Creative Activities. Keynote speech on The American Navy and the Pontus, 1919-1923, this in reference to scholarly research on America s Black Sea Fleet, New York City, May 17, 2013. Keynote speech in reference to scholarly research on America s Black Sea Fleet to Naval Order of New Orleans, New Orleans, February 28, 2013. Keynote speech on American Decisions at Smyrna at the American Hellenic Institute at Washington, DC, October 8, 2013, about the decisions American naval and other officials made during the great fire of Smyrna, September, 1922. And: Reviewer for a military manuscript under consideration at University of South Carolina Press, 2010; for a short story manuscript at the Naval Institute Press, late 1990s. 6. Awards, Lectureships, or Prizes. North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Prizes for 2012, Honorable Mention for Naval History, for America s Black Sea Fleet; Seawaves Magazine, Book of the Year for 2013, America s Black Sea Fleet. And military honors such as Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star with Combat V, Naval Commendation Medal with Gold Star and Combat V, Presidential Unit Citation, and theatre awards for Vietnam era service, 1965-1969. 7. Grants and Contracts. Book Contracts as indicated above. Research Grants for Travel, Department of English, UNO, May and Fall, 2001. Summer Research Grant for Travel, College of Liberal Arts, UNO, for Travel to archives in American universities in conjunction with major Research project, Americans in Constantinople, 1919-1923. Summer Release Time, Dept of English, UNO, for research in conjunction with major research project, Americans in Constantinople, 1919-1923. May, 2000.
8. Thesis/Dissertation Committee Service, last three years. Committee member for Andrea Marcotte, 2008. Committee member for Christian Carlsen, 2008. Committee member for Douglas Barry, April, 2011 Thesis Director for Chance Sweat, April, 2011. 9. Major Areas of Creative or Research Interest. Technical Writing and Editing Naval Professional Writing Naval Literature and Memoirs Classical Rhetoric Milton Bible as Literature 10. Other Professional Accomplishments A. Manuscripts under Submission. a. Two substantial article manuscripts under revision for resubmission, one on the rhetoric of American missionary to Turkey, Annie T. Allen; the other on the life writing of Americans in Turkey, 1919-1923. b. Two additional articles drafted for submission, one entitled The Angels of Ecclesiastes, obviously about the biblical book of Ecclesiastes; the other entitled Deliberative Stasis According to the Ancients, as Illustrated in Shakespeare s Henry IV. B, Course/Program design and development. a. Taught ENGL 6390 The Teaching of Literature, Spring, 2013. New course. b. Taught ENGL 4155 Professional Editing. Summer, 2012. New course for this professor. c. With Kevn Marti, proposed a 4000-level course in Bible as Literature, approved and taught in 1996-1998, and once since d.. Member of the committee to revise the graduate program, in the 1990s and again in 2009. a. Member of the committee to revise the undergraduate program. b. Proposed and developed a graduate exam area in classical rhetoric, currently in effect. C. Special recognition for teaching. None. D.. Academic Service
a. On-campus administrative positions. CURRENT: Graduate Coordinator, Dept. of English, Fall, 2010- to present. 1. Acting Assoc. Chair, Dept. of English, Univ. of New Orleans, Spring, 1993, 2000, 2008. 2. Summer Chair, Dept. of English, Univ. of New Orleans, Summer, 1993. 3. University Internship Coordinator, Univ. of New Orleans, 1991-92. 4. Associate Chairman, Dept. of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 1983-85. 5. Coordinator of Professional Writing, Dept. of English, Naval Academy, 1982-85. 6. Budget Officer, Dept. of English, U.S. Naval Academy, 1982-83, 7. Deputy Dept. Head for Lower Division Courses, Dept. of English, U.S. Air Force Acaemy, 1981-82. 8. Research Director, Dept. of English, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1979-82. 9. Director of Basic Writing, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1980. 10. Director of Rhetoric, Integrated Humanities Program, Univ. of Kansas, 1977-78. b. Significant on-campus committee service (at UNO unless otherwise specified) 1. Chair, Faculty Council Committee on Student Publications. Twice; first in the 1990s; again 2008-2011. 2. Chair and Member, English Dept. Promotion and Tenure Committees; most recently Chair, 2010 -- 2013 3. Chair, English Dept. Hiring Committee 4. Member of English Dept. Graduate Faculty Committee 5. Member of English Dept. Advisory Committee 6. Member of English Dept. Hiring Committee 7. Member, Organizing Committee, South Centrla Christianity and Literature Conference 8 at Naval Academy, member of Outcomes accreditation committee. 9 at Naval Academy, member of Honors Committee (developed an institutional honors program at the mandate of the Secretary of the Navy). c. Off-campus.
Taught professional seminars on naval writing at U.S. Coast Guard Station, New Orleans; Military Sealift Command Pacific, Oakland, CA: A naval/medical unit in Portsmouth, SC; the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command at Stennis Space Center, etc., 1993 and 2002.