Rudolph Lewis Bio

EDITORIAL WORK

Editor (& Founder) ChickenBones: A Journal (www.nathanielturner.com), an online educational web site, 2001 to present.

Editor I Am New Orleans & Other Poems By Marcus Bruce Christian. New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 1999.

Editorial Assistant Labor’s Heritage, Spring 1997.

Contributing Editor The New Laurel Review, Spring/Fall 1984; Spring/Fall 1987

Editor (& Founder) CRICKET: Poems and Other Jazz. New Orleans, 1985.

LIBRARY APPOINTMENTS

Librarian, Baltimore City College High School, 2004 to 2005

Circulation/Reference Librarian St. Mary’s Seminary & University, 2000--2004

Reference Librarian Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, 1997-1999

Reference Librarian Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, 1997

Archival Consultant George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, 1996-1997

EDUCATION

M.L.S., 1997 University of Maryland, College Park

Archival Internship George Meany Memorial Archives, 1997. Activities included reference, accessioning and processing and preserving AFL-CIO, records (paper and audiovisual), writing finding aids, records management activities, editing Labor's Heritage

Reference Librarian Internship Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University, 1996. Activities included working at Reference Desk, and assisting in setting up archival web page; developed an alternative design for Milton's Web, the library's web page.

MA English, 1981, University of Maryland, College Park

Thesis Director Dr. Lewis A. Lawson, UM English, 1980-1981

Teaching Assistant University of Maryland, 1980-1981. Taught Freshman Composition, under the supervision of Eugene Hammond, author of Teaching Writing

BA, English, 1978 University of Maryland, College Park

Minors: Math, Philosophy. Independent Study with Dr. Max Wilson, former Chair, Department of Philosophy, Howard University, 1974-1976

TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

GED Instructor

Baltimore City Community College, 1993-1997

Civic Works, 1994-1995

Baltimore Reads, LPNW, 1990-1993

English and Literature Instructor

Coppin State College, Fall 2000

University of New Orleans, 1984-1986

Northeast Louisiana University, 1983-1984

University of District of Columbia, 1981-1983

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

English Skills Specialist, IED Program, University of Maryland, 1983. Made assessments of incoming high school graduates.

OTHER TECHNICAL SKILLS

Computer skills (including Internet, bibliographic searches, Web and HyperCard design); records management and preservation skills, editing, writing, visual arts layout, research, adult literacy consulting.

PUBLICATIONS & Other Writings

“African Records and Technology: Issues in Increasing Access and Preservation.” (1997). Unpublished essay.

“AFL-CIO Department of Organization (1955-1973).” Finding Aid. The George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, June 1997.

“The Appraisal and Disposition of the Negro Federal Writer’s Project Records.” Unpublished essay.

“Conjuring & Doctoring: A Modern Folk Tale.” The New Laurel Review, Spring 2000.

“Enoch Pratt Free Library and Adult Literacy Services.” Unpublished essay.

“The Ethnologic Image of Americans in Black and White: An Exploration of the Ethnic Writings of Martin R. Delany (1812-1885). Master’s Thesis, April 1981.

“Evtushenko in New Orleans.” The New Laurel Review, Spring/Fall 1987

“Extending the Boundaries of Liberal Educational Discourse: A Review of C.A. Bower’s Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of Education.” 1990. Unpublished essay.

I Am New Orleans & Other Poems By Marcus Bruce Christian. Edited by Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif. New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 1999.

“In Search of Books, Scholars, and Libraries in Sixteenth-Century Timbuktu.” 1996. Unpublished essay and HyperCard project.

“Instructional Materials Used By Baltimore Literacy Programs: An Evaluative Report.” 1997. Unpublished report.

“Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa.” New Orleans: May 1985.

Introduction I Am New Orleans and Other Poems by Marcus Bruce Christian. Edited by Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif. New Orleans: Xavier Review Press, 1999.

“Jesse Covington Dent: Concert Artist & Humanist.” The New Laurel Review, Spring/Fall 1984.

Letters of an Abiding Faith—1976-1994: Legacy of a Slave’s GrandDaughter to Her Son. Baltimore: Tinka Enterprises, Publisher, 2001.

“Life Pieced Together: Ella Lewis, Quilt Maker, The New Laurel Review, Spring/Fall 1984.

“Magpies, Goddesses, & Black Male Identity in the Romantic Poetry of Marcus Bruce Christian.” Paper presented at College Language Association, April 2000, Baltimore, Maryland.

“Man on a Mission: A Rhetorical Analysis of Frederick Douglass’ Oration on Abraham Lincoln.” 1980. Unpublished essay.

“Marcus Bruce Christian and a Theory of a Black Aesthetic.” Paper presented at the Zora Neale Hurston Society Conference held June 1999 at University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Published in The Zora Neale Hurston Journal, Spring 2000.

“My Room Without You.” Poem. The New Laurel Review, Spring/Fall 1987.

“A Preservation Report and Five-Year Plan for the Guy-Blache Moving Image and Sound Archive (GBMISA).” 1997. Unpublished.

“Setting Priorities and Making Compromises: The Artful Management of Materials in Electronic Formats.” 1996. Unpublished.

“Sons & Daughters of Sussex: A Family Memoir of Five Generations.” 1999. Unpublished manuscript.

“Tragedy of Real Estate.” Poem. Something Good: An Anthology of Poetry, Rap, Memoirs, edited by Nancy Travis. Newark, NJ: African American Word, Inc., 1987.

“Vanni Buscemi Montana Collection, 1925-1987.” Finding Aid. The George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, January 1996.

AWARDS

2000 Marcus B. Christian Community Service Award. University of New Orleans. Dr. Mackie Blanton, Dean

1995 Business and Continuing Education Center, Baltimore City Community College, Beverly Arah, Director of Literacy Programs

1991 The Learning Place Northwest, Baltimore Reads, the Mayor's Adult Education Program