Randy Pease:

716A SE First Street
Evansville, IN  47713
812/423-3087 (Home)
812/461-5211 (Work)
rpease@usi.edu

Education

B.S., University of Evansville, 1977                                                               

M.A., Northeastern State University,1990.                                                    

 Doctoral Coursework: Nine hours, University of Southern Mississippi, 1993.

Teaching Experience:

Aug. 1999 to present: Instructor of English, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN. (English 100, 101, 105, and 201)

Aug. 1996 to May 1999:  Part-time instructor of English, University of Southern Indiana.

Jan. 1992-Dec. 1993: Part-time instructor of English, journalism, and speech; University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN.  (English 101 and 201; Speech 101, and Editorial Writing)

Sept. 1990-May 1992: Instructor of English, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK. (English 100, 101, and 201)

 

 

Professional Experience:

Dec. 1995 to July 1996: Copy editor, Evansville Courier, Evansville, IN.

Duties: Writing headlines, proofing news copy to ensure it was fit for publication, editing raw news copy, and designing pages.

Jan. 1994-July 1995: Staff writer, Tahlequah Times Journal, Tahlequah, OK. Duties: General assignment reporting, layout, headline writing, editing news copy, op-ed writing.

Sept. 1993-July 1995: Proprietor, Cafe Keetoowah, Tahlequah, OK.

Duties: Booking entertainment, brewing coffee, keeping books.

Jan. 1993-May 1995: Computer evangelist, Dept. of Academic Computing, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.  

 Duties: Surfing the net and writing about what I found for local and regional print media.

March 1992-Jan. 1993: Copy editor, Evansville Courier.

Creative Publications:

Call Me Ishmael (compact disk), Binky Records, Baton Rouge, LA. Summer  1998.  Copyright 1997 Decaf Music, BMI.

 

Sometimes The Moon  (compact disk), Binky Records, Baton Rouge, LA.  Fall 2002.  Copyright 2002 Decaf Music, BMI.

 

“I Love This Game,” (copyright 2002), Diamond Cuts: Vol. VII.  Hungry for Music, 2004.  (Tentative: I have unofficial word that this will be included the next Diamond Cuts CD, an anthology of baseball songs released annually since 1996.)

 

“Sawdust Trail,” (copyright 1997).  This song, recorded by Tom Skinner,will be included in a 2005 anthology dedicated to the music of Woody Guthrie.

 

Works in Progress:

 

The Fall of ’61 (book).  I have completed a first draft and am working diligently on a second draft.  I hope to start shipping out manuscripts to potential publishers by the summer of 2005.

 

Karaoke from Muskogee (play).  A first draft of this work has been read by representatives of the Repertory People of Evansville and Evansville Civic Theater.  It will be produced once it goes through another draft or two.  (See attached draft.) This has been on the back burner now for a year, but will move to the forefront again once the book is done.

 

Professional Organizations:

 

Modern Language Association

National Council of Teachers of English

North American Folk Alliance

Sigma Tau Delta

 

Conferences:

 

  • North American Folk Alliance, Feb. 1997 (Memphis), Feb. 1999 (Cleveland), Feb. 2003 (Nashville).
  • Ropewalk Writers Retreat, New Harmony, IN, June 13-19, 2004.  (Chapters of my book manuscript were read and critiqued here by Dr. Speer Morgan, editor of The Missouri Review and workshop facilitator for the creative nonfiction genre.
  • Ropewalk, New Harmony, IN, June 11-18, 2005. Book chapters were critiqued by noted nonfiction author Laura Wexler.
  • The New Harmony Project, June 2005. Although I did not attend this project as a participant, I was there as a journalist, assigned to write a piece for Evansville Living (publication date spring 2006). In the two afternoons I spent there, I interviewed several established playwrights and screenwriters, including Angelo Pizzo, who wrote the screen play for Hoosiers. Mr. Pizzo gave me some sound counsel for the writing of my own historically based sports book.
  • Prairie Home at Sea, August 20-27, 2005. I attended four writing workshops facilitated by noted author Garrison Keillor.  We discussed my manuscript in progress, and he made recommendations about how to approach several rhetorical problems.  I also attended a radio theater workshop hosted by Fred Noonan, Sue Scott, and Tim Russell for the purpose of helping me write Karaoke from Muskogee, a radio play I am working on.

 

Committees:

 

·         Adjunct Advocacy Committee (1999) – As chairman of this committee, I worked to draft a resolution which addressed the rights and concerns of adjunct faculty at the University of Southern Indiana.

 

·         Web Presence Task Force – I added input to the design and creation of the Liberal Arts web page in the university’s website.

 

·         Textbook Committee – I reviewed textbooks and made recommendations for textbook adoption in English 101 and 201.

 

·         Composition Committee – I have worked on textbook selection and the revision of the composition/rhetoric handbook.

 

·         Library Acquisitions Committee – I made recommendations for library book purchases.

 

·         Scholarship Committee – I made recommendations about who should receive scholarships sponsored by the English Department.

 

·        English Department content provider for Liberal Arts newsletter.

 

·        Reader for Southern Indiana Review and Aerie student literary magazine.

 

·        Curriculum Committee (present) – I review course offerings and make recommendations as to which courses should remain on the books, which should be dropped, and which should be added.

 

 

 

 

Departmental Workshops:

·        Writing for the Real World (Fall 2000)

·        Toward a Paperless Composition Class (Spring 2001)

·        The E-Essay: It Looks Good on Paper  (Fall 2001)

·        Grammar Study Group (Fall 1999)

 

Presentations:

·        Reading of chapters from The Fall of ’61 for the Reitz High School R-Men’s Club, April 2005.

 

Performances:

·        Six showcases of original work at the annual conference of the North American Folk Alliance in Nashville, TN, Feb. 6-9, 2003.

·        Two forty-five minute showcases at Winter Fest in Bend, Ore., Feb. 6-8, 2004.

·        See community service.

Community Service:

·        Performed at benefit concerts for Humane Society, Earth Day, AIDS Walk, National AIDS Awareness Day, Special Olympics, Evansville Greenway Project, El Salvador Fundraiser, WNIN Public Radio, Hoosier Woods Concert Series, Patchwork Central, Museum Contemporaries, Evansville Peace Coalition, Pickin’ on the Pigeon,  River Walk (2005), Funk in the City, All-American Picnic (also ran sound).

·        With Rowan Tree:  Performed for River Walk (2005); concerts at Central, Oaklyn, and Willard Libraries; Benefits at Angel Mounds (for Montessori teacher struck and paralyzed by drunk driver) and Barnes & Noble (for Patchwork Central).

·        Edited grants for Leadership Evansville ($5,000 from Toyota Corporation) and a Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Technical Assistance Proposal to the Department of Commerce for the funding of an inner city lending institution for low-income borrowers.

Interests:

·        Playing the acoustic guitar  

·        Bicycling

·        Travel

·        Reading and writing

·        Cooking

·        Hiking

 



 

 

 

 

 

 


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