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1 U N I V E R S I T Y O F B A L A M A ND English Language and Literature, P.O. Box 33 Amioun, El-Koura North Lebanon, Lebanon gerhen@gmail.com Skype gerihend G E R I H E N D E R S O N, P H. D. Academic Positions University of Balamand, Lebanon, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature, 2010-Present LCC International University, Associate Professor and Chair, English Department, New York Institute of Technology, Amman, Jordan and Bahrain Campuses Assistant Professor, English and Humanities, University of Nebraska, Kearney, Lecturer, English, Education Ph.D. English, Emphasis: English Medieval literature and interdisciplinary studies. Dissertation: A Sound Theology: The Vital Position of Sound to the Theology and Public Identity of Hildegard of Bingen. University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), M. A. English, Emphasis: Renaissance and Medieval English Literature, UNL, 1997 M. M. Emphasis: Musicology, Piano Pedagogy, UNL, 1984 B. Mus. Ed, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK, Primary and secondary education, Jamaica, West Indies Professional Work Experience 2010 Present Associate Professor of Languages and Literature, University of Balamand; Literature, writing, assessment, mentoring teacher: Freshman Composition; Literature and Identity; Renaissance-Romantic Literature; Faculty IT liaison for web managed courses and faculty trainer; Coordinator for multi-section composition course, course designer including the course text book and reading anthology Associate Professor and Department Chairperson, LCC International University Associate Professor of English: Academic Writing for first-year students; Developing academic writing and research skills; Rhetoric and Communication, freshmen writing course focused on writing responses to all media; British Literature; Introduction to Music History; Introduction to Literature; Expository Writing, third-year writing course required of all

2 English majors. Developed and taught, Allusion: Music and Literature, Children s Literature, Literary Research Methods, Thesis advisor. Department Chairperson: responsible for administration of the English faculty, including mentoring teachers; course selection; curriculum development; course approvals; budget management; recruiting and hiring professors; accreditation management; service on the Academic Division and Academic Council Presidential Inauguration Committee, October, 2009-March Strategic Planning Committee, September, 2009-May 2010 Committee, Annual Academic Conference, Responses to Cultural Homogeny: Engagement, Resistance, or Passivity, April Chair, Annual Academic Conference, Crisis: Catalyst for Creativity and Innovation, March, Recipient, 2008, Faculty Award for Excellence Director, Institutional Professional Development Chair, Faculty Award for Excellence Task Force Member, Faculty Ranking Committee Leader, Accreditation Self-Study, Lithuania Ministry of Education, English Department, Accreditation granted May Present Co-Editor, LCC Liberal Arts Journal, Lithuania Peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal Present Copy Editor, Mind Solutions International Press Completed editorial work includes: an anthology of collected works, two sets of the proceedings of the advanced languages conference, the AASTEEL newsletter, a dissertation to be published later this year on architecture in Israel (on Louis Kahn s subversive statements in designing the Hurvah), and The Road to Damascus Took Me Home, Elaine Rippey Imady, MSI Press Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology Fall/Winter Quarters: WRIT 101, PHIL 110, LITR 230, Art of Fiction Spring/Summer Quarters: LITR 230, Theatre 231, PHIL 110, Business and Technical Writing, and theatre production workshop. Faculty advisor for theatre productions helping direct rehearsals. Advisees were the Interdisciplinary majors Summer I, online courses in literature Summer II, Bahrain campus, online courses in Jordan Fall/Winter Fiction, Writing, Shakespeare, I (Comedies) Spring Shakespeare II (Tragedies), various online courses in both Writing and Literature 2

3 Lecturer, University of Nebraska, Kearney Expository Writing 101 & 102 and American Literature Culturally Diverse writing-intensive class; Introduction to Literature Owner, Henderson Studios Private and class lessons in piano, violin, theory, music appreciation, and music history; trained and managed student intern teachers; prepared high school seniors for scholarship auditions, theory tests, and senior recitals; created and published all studio brochures for workshops and educational trips Pedagogy and applied Instructor, Summer Music, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario Taught a teacher training program for two weeks each summer for private teachers and a summer camp for students that included private and class lessons for all ages. Creative consultant for new programs Publications 2010 Praxis in Preserving National Literary Identities, LCC Liberal Arts Studies The Word of God, the Words of Men, and the Songs of Angels: Speech, Sound, and Audition in the Writings of Seven Medieval Women, Mystics Quarterly Crossing Boundaries: Assisting International University Students Reintegration into First-Language Academic Rhetoric, Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences (ISSN ) Can I Go Home Now? Maintaining Professional-Level First Languages in International Higher Education. Presented at the Annual Academic Conference, LCC International University, Eglė Publishing House, Klaipėda, Lithuania Global Dialogues: Are Our Classrooms Large Enough? Baku University Press, Azerbaijan Introduction, Thoughts Without A Title, and ed.. MSI Press, CA 3

4 Presentations 2011 World Literature and World English: Erasing National Borders or Identities?, Annual Convention, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Gozo, Malta, March Looking Back and Forth, Speaker, Baccalaureate, LCC International University, May Praxis in Preserving National Literary Identities, Annual Academic Conference, LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania, March Enticed to Write: Using Media to Generate Exciting Writing, LAKMA (Lietuvos Anglų Kalbos Mokytojų Asociacija) Conference, Klaipėda, Lithuania, November Crossing Boundaries: Assisting International University Students Reintegration into First-Language Academic Rhetoric, Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences. Gottenheim, Germany Global Dialogues: Are Our Classrooms Large Enough? Baku University 2004 Hildegard, Metaphors of Sound, Early Modern Society, UNL 2004 Freshman Composition as Interdisciplinary Approach to Writing for Career Goals. 7 th Biennial Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, May, St. Louis Lectures on Medieval History, Philosophy, and Religion; and Piano Pedagogy for UNL, Hastings College, Ithaca College, Music Teacher s Federation of Jamaica 1999 Conflating Voices: Hildegard as the Voice of God, Medieval- Renaissance Society, Lincoln, NE Teaching Artist, Arts Are Basic, LIED Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE Short-term workshops in the public schools, pre-performance, postperformance; introduction to performing and visual arts; guiding students through their own creative performances. Technical and IT Experience 2010-Present Faculty Liaison for Web-based courses, Moodle, LCC International University and University of Balamand 4

5 Moodle based courses, NYIT, Jordan and LCC International University Blackboard based courses, University of Nebrasak-Kearney Easy familiarity and use of Mac and PC OS, html web work, Excel, Adobe, Publisher. Languages Spanish, high school, seven years and undergraduate minor German, two years, university Latin, proficient for research Lithuanian, conversational Italian, minimal conversational Arabic, minimal conversational Service to the Community President, Community Concert Board, Grand Island, NE Artistic Director, Community Arts Presenting Board, Grand Island, NE Member, Mid-America Arts Alliance Review Board, Kansas City, MO Member, LIED Center, Nebraska Artist Series Committee, Lincoln, NE Artist-Teacher, LIED Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, NE. Vice-President, Moonshell Arts Council, Grand Island, NE Music Critic ( ), The Grand Island Daily Independent, NE Performing Experience LCC International University, The Crucible, LCC International University, By the Skin of Our Teeth, 2008 Grand Island Little Theatre production, Importance of Being Earnest, 2003 Fund raising concerts for the community, Master s Recital, 1984 University solo piano recitals Various roles in undergraduate theater productions Various secondary education Shakespeare productions 5