Kenneth A. McClane W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow

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1 Curriculum Vitae Kenneth A. McClane W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Academic Degrees Cornell University, MFA, 1976 Cornell University, MA, 1974 Cornell University, BA, 1973 (with distinction in all subjects), the College Scholar Program Academic Employment Cornell University, Department of English, Professor, 1989 to present Cornell University, Department of English, Associate Professor, Cornell University, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Washington University (St. Louis), Visiting Professor of English, Wayne State University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar, 1987 Williams College, Luce Visiting Professor of English, The City University of New York, Assistant Director of the SEEK Program, Colby College, Instructor of English, Honors and Awards Non-fiction Judge, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, 2010, 2011 Elected as an Honorary Member of the Quill and Dagger Honor Society, 2011 Recipient of the 2009 Foreword Gold Medal Award for the best book of essays for Color: Essays on Race, Family and History Named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, March 2004 Distinguished Prose Award from the Antioch Review, September 16, 2002 Elected to the Adelphi University Board of Trustees, November 15, 2002 Presidential Medal for "Distinguished Work in the Arts," Adelphi University, May 5, 2001 Recipient of the Robert and Donna P. Paul Award for Academic Advising (Cornell), May 3, 2001 The Henry Adams Lecturer, the Collegiate School, NY, April 8, 2000 "Walls" selected for inclusion in the Best American Essays College Edition, 1995 W.E.B. Du Bois Lecturer at Duke University, April 6 and 7, 1991 Named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, 1987 "Walls" included in The Best American Essays, 1988 Named W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature, 1986 Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, 1983 Recipient, the George Harmon Coxe Award, 1973 Recipient, the Corson-Morrison Poetry Prize, 1973 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, 1973 Admitted to the Cornell University College Scholar Program, 1970 Cornell University Service Member, College Scholar Advisory Committee, 1983 to present Member, Graduate Field of the Africana Studies and Research Center, 1983 to present Member, Internal Transfer Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2007 to present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English, , Member, Presidential Search Committee to find a successor to President Hunter Rawlings, 2002 Member, Cornell University External Reaccreditation Committee, 2001 Member, A.D. White Professor-at-Large Selection Committee, Member, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee, Member, Board of Directors CRESP,

2 2 Director of the Cornell Creative Writing Program, Member, Search Committee to find a successor to President Frank Rhodes, 1986 Publications Books: Walls: Essays (reprinted, with a new introduction), University of Notre Dame Press, 2010 Color: Essays on Race, Family and History, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009 Walls: Essays , Wayne State University Press, 1991 Take Five: Collected Poems, , Greenwood Press, 1988 A Tree Beyond Telling: Poems Selected and New, the Black Scholar Press, 1983 At Winter's End, Emerson Hall Publishers, 1982 Moons and Low Times, Ithaca House, 1978 Out Beyond the Bay, Ithaca House, 1975 Selected publications in anthologies and magazines: Sonny s Blues Saved my Life published in Literature for Life: A Thematic introduction to Reading and Writing, ed. by Nina Revoyr, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia, Longman, 2012 Sonny s Blues Saved My Life published in The Story and its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, ed. by Ann Charters, Bedford/St. Martins, 2011 Driving reprinted in The Best African American Essays 2009, ed. by Gerald Early and Debra Dickerson, Bantam Books, 2009 The Mitchell Movement reprinted in After the Bell: Contemporary American Prose About School, ed. by Maggie Anderson and David Hessler, the University of Iowa Press, 2007 A Love Note: A.R. Ammons as Teacher reprinted in Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons, W.W. Norton & Company, poems reprinted in Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry, ed. by Jerry Ward, Jr., Mentor Books, 1997 "A Death in the Family" reprinted in The Perceptive I: A Personal Reader and Writer, ed. by Edmund J. Farrell and James E. Miller, Jr., NTC Publishing Group, 1997 "A Death in the Family" reprinted in The Anatomy of Memory, ed. by James McConkey, Oxford University Press, 1996 "Walls" reprinted in The Best American Essays College Edition, ed. by Robert Atwan, Houghton Mifflin, 1995 Introduction to James Baldwin s Sonny s Blues published in You ve Got to Read This: Contemporary Authors Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe, ed. by Ron Hansen and Jim Sheppard, Harper Perennial, 1994 "A Death in the Family" reprinted in Speech and Power: the African American Essay and its Cultural Content From Polemics to Pulpit, ed. by Gerald Early, The Ecco Press, poems reprinted in The New Cavalcade: African American Writing from 1760 to the Present, ed. by Arthur P. Davis, J. Saunders Redding, and Joyce Ann Joyce, Howard University Press, 1992 "At the Bridge with Rufus" reprinted in The Jazz Poetry Anthology, ed. by Sasha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa, Indiana University Press, 1992 "Walls" reprinted in The Art of the Essay, ed. Lydia Fakundiny, Houghton Mifflin, 1991 "A Death in the Family" reprinted in Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Pantheon Books, 1991 "Walls" reprinted in The Best American Essays 1988, ed. by Annie Dillard, Ticknor & Fields, Driving published in the Antioch Review, Fall 2006 Color published in Epoch Magazine, Fall 2005 "A Kings Holiday: A Personal Reminiscence of Dr. Martin Luther King" published in the Antioch Review, Fall 2002 "Teachers" published in the Antioch Review, Winter 2002 "Shadow Boxing" published in the Antioch Review, Fall 2000 A Death in the Family reprinted in the Black Scholar, 1987 The School published in the Northwest Review, 1987 Intimate Injustice published in River Styx, Fall 1986

3 3 Membership in Organizations and Boards Member, Board of Directors, the New York Council for the Humanities, Member, Advisory Committee of the Tompkins County Public Library, 2009 to present Member, Adelphi University Board of Trustees (Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee), Member, the Minority and Third World Study Research Group Summer Session Committee, Member Board of Directors, Ithaca Community of Asylum, Member, Tompkins County Library Foundation, Member, Advisory Committee, the Spirituals Project, Founding Member, The Tompkins County Community Foundation, Member, Board of Directors, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Member, Board of Directors, CRESP, Selected Public Readings and Lectures Yale University Wake Forest University Williams College Spelman College Dartmouth College Bates College University of Michigan Wellesley College LaGuardia Community College Duke University Paramount Lodge #73 Prince Hall Masons, Buffalo, New York Washington University University of Wisconsin Utica College of Syracuse University Adelphi University The Schomberg Library, New York Public Library Cleveland State University Oberlin College Wesleyan University The University of Bahrain The Collegiate School Colby College Auburn Correctional Facility Hobart and William Smith College Mansfield University Cayuga Community College University of Arizona Poetry Center Antioch College Hamilton College The New York Mercantile Library Madame Walker Urban Life Center Syracuse University The Nathan Mayhew Seminars Jamestown Community College Tompkins Cortland Community College Wells College Lake Forest University Connecticut College Tulane University The College of William and Mary

4 4 The United States Library of Congress (invited by Gwendolyn Brooks, United States Poet Lauriat) Television and Video Appearances The Life of Vladimir Nabokov, BBC Television, 2010 Introduction to James Baldwin s short story, Sonny s Blues, WKET Educational Broadcasting, as part of its GED Program

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