Gerald Lucas' Resume (Last updated November 13th 2007)

Designed and taught undergraduate courses: Writing Second Life; Science Fiction and Futurism; Writing for Digital Media; Technology and the Creative Artist; Issues in Science Fiction; Senior Seminar: New Media; Professional Communication in the Digital Age; Technical Writing: Writing for Cyberspace (Online); World Literature I Online; English Composition II Online

Designed and taught undergraduate courses: Images of the Body in Contemporary Literature; Advanced Technical Writing: Graphics, Typology, and Design for Technical Writers; Introduction to Literature: From Gilgamesh to Cyberpunk; The Technological Imagination in Literature; Posthuman Prose Fiction; Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction; Technical Writing: Hypertext / MOO: Authoring and Theory; Introduction to Literature: Issues in Technology; First-Year Composition II: The Jazz Age; British Modernism; Literature of the Western World, from Homer to Dante; Composition I and II in both traditional and multimedia classrooms

Designed and taught courses in HTML coding and web design

Taught and technically supported a Workshop for International Teaching Assistants

Taught First-Year Composition I and II

"World.Lit: A Case Study." Teaching Language and Literature Online. Forthcoming from MLA.

"Three Visions of Science: Lem's, Tarkovsky's, and Soderbergh's Solaris." Ragnatela Magazine 3 Available: http://bigjelly.net/sflemsolaris (April 2004).

"The Research Essay Resources." Chapter 10 in Reading and Writing about Literature. Phillip Sipiora. Englewood Clifs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002 (2001).

"James Joyce's The Dead." Reading and Writing about Literature. Phillip Sipiora. Englewood Clifs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2002 (2001).

Review of Cybertext: Perspectives of Ergodic Literature, Computers and Composition 16.2 (1999).

"What Kind of Idea Are You? Healthy Blasphemy in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita," http://tinyurl.com/3aqodt (1997).

"The Harbors of the Moon: Media and the Mediated in Mailer's An American Dream" (Oct 2007)
The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA

"Visual Storytelling: Flickr in the Literature Classroom" (Nov 2006)
SAMLA, Charlotte, NC

"A Fine Time: Mailer Studies in the New Century" (Oct 2006)
The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA

"Science Fiction and the Metagame" (March 2006)
PCA/ACA, Atlanta, GA

"Humanities Online: Some Ethical Considerations and Recommendations" (September 2005)
Southeaetern Scholarship Conference on E-Learning, Macon, GA

"Distance Education for Literature Courses: Some Ethical Considerations" (March 2005)
CCCC, San Francisco, CA

"The Virtual Manifest: Solaris and the Persistence of Memory" (March 2004)
Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

"Three Views of Science: Lem's, Tarkovsky's, and Soderbergh's Solaris" (January 2004)
FSU Literature and Film Conference, Tallahassee, FL

"Crossing Sexual Boundaries in Sterling's Chattanooga Trilogy" (April 2003)
Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA

"The Ethics of Cyberspace" (March 2002)
CCCC, Chicago, IL

"Posthuman Masculinity: A Reading of 'Crash Into Me'" (March 2002)
Popular Culture Association Conference, Toronto (read in absentia)

"Computer Access in the Academy: Multimedia Rhetoric" (October 2000)
Watson Conference on Rhetoric, Louisville, KY (read in absentia)

"The X-Files Effect: The Case of José Chung" (April 2000)
Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA

"Posthuman Blasphemy" (April 2000)
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, NY

"Writing About Literature: The WWW and the Literature Classroom" (March 1999)
CCCC, Atlanta, GA

"Carl Sagan's Vision: Toward a Science Fiction Epic" (November 1998)
Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, MO

"Teaching HTML: In and Out of the Networked Classroom" (May 1998)
Half-day Seminar. Computers and Writing Conference, Gainesville, FL

"Toward a Science Fiction Epic" (April 1998)
Popular Culture Association Conference, Orlando, FL

Executive Board Member (Oct 2007-present)
The Norman Mailer Society

Panel Moderator (Oct 2007)
Panel on An American Dream, Norman Mailer Society Conference, Provincetown, MA

Associate Editor (October 2006-present)
The Mailer Review

Panel Chair (April 2006)
"From Vampires to Video Games: Cultural Anxiety and Science Fiction," PCA/ACA, Atlanta, GA

Panel Chair (March 2004)
"J.G. Ballard," Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Grant Recipient (Fall 2003)
Title III stipend to develop online literature class

Volunteer / Contact (February 2003)
Florida Suncoast Writers Conference, USF

Writer (Fall 2002)
MSC OWL, Title III Grant Project, http://tutorials.maconstate.edu/owl/

Volunteer (April 2002)
James Joyce on the Bay Conference, University of South Florida, Sarasota, FL

Panel Chair (April 2000)
"The X-Files: Investigating the Subtext," Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans., LA

Manuscript Reviewer (1998)
Bedford St. Martin's Press

Roundtable Facilitator (April 1998)
"Teaching Science Fiction," Popular Association Conference, Orlando FL

Panel Chair (April 1998)
"Writing New Wor(l)ds: Teaching Science Fiction," Popular Culture Association Conference, Orlando, FL

Grant Writer (1997)
"I-4 Corridor Project: The High Technology Professional and Technical Communications Center," with Joseph Moxley

Web Site Editor (Oct 2007-present)
The Norman Mailer Society, http://normanmailersociety.org/

Web Site Editor (Oct 2006-present)
The Mailer Review, http://mailerreview.org

Powerpoint Slide Designer (Fall 2006)
Technical Writing in the Twenty-First Century, from Prentice Hall

Technical Support (2003-present)
Faculty in MSC Division of Humanities. Assisted several faculty members in developing a web-based presence for traditional and online courses

System Administrator (2003-present)
MSC Division of Humanities Macintosh Xserve. Administrate the division's primary server that services the student-use Macintosh lab

Coordinator (2002-present)
Multimedia Lab, MSC Division of Humanities Macintosh Lab. Maintained hardware and software for computers servicing the CIT production and digital storytelling courses

Professional Web Master (1999-present)
LitWiki, a student wiki (2004-2006)
Humanities Index, http://humx.org/ (2004-pr)
MSC Division of Humanities, http://humanities.maconstate.edu/ (2002-pr)
MSC Division of Humanities DVD Database (2002-2006)
"Punctuation Made Simple," with Gary Olson (2000)
"LitMUSE," a courseware blog, http://litmuse.net/ (1999-present)
USF Department of English (1997-2002)
USF Department of English, Rhetoric and Composition (1999-2002)

Owner and Founder (2000-2002)
MacTampa, a Macintosh computer consulting firm that concentrates on support for Tampa Bay educational end users

Coordinator (1999-2002)
Computer-Assisted Classroom, USF Department of English multimedia classroom. Instructed students and faculty, maintained hardware, software, and network, and supported Windows 2000 workstations and Red Hat Linux workstations and servers

Technical Support Specialist (1999-2000)
USF Department of English. Provided computer support for faculty and staff

System Administrator / Root User (1999-present)
LitMUSE, USF Department of English and Macon State College. Maintained a Red Hat Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X (Xserve) Server for research and pedagogy

Owner / Administrator (1999-2000)
Rushdie: The International Listserv, for scholarly discussions on the work of Salman Rushdie

Guest Speaker / Workshop Leader (1997-1998)
"Literature Online: An Introduction to the WWW in the Literature Classroom," Literature Practicum, Professor Steve Rubin (1998)
"The World Wide Web in the Classroom," Various venues (1997-98)
MOOs and MUDs in an electronic teaching environment (1997)

Technical Coordinator (Spring 1998)
Hemingway / Fitzgerald Graduate Course; Professor Phillip Sipiora

Focus Group Participant March (1998)
Longman Focus Group on software development for first-year composition students, Conference on College Composition and Communication Convention, Chicago, Illinois

Associate Coordinator (1997-1999)
Computers and Writing Center, USF Department of English multimedia classroom; instructed students and faculty, and supported hardware, software, and network facilities

Web Site Coauthor / Editor (1996)
American Bar Association's Legal Writing web site with Joe Moxley

Operating Systems
Macintosh X and X Server; Red Hat Linux; FreeBSD Unix; OpenBSD; Solaris 9.0; Windows 2000 and XP

Programming and Web Design
(X)HTML; CSS; PHP; MySQL; Some Java; Some Perl; Some MOO Object-Oriented

Software
Adobe Photoshop, GoLive/Dreamweaver, Acrobat, InDesign; Apple iMovie, GarageBand, iDVD, iPhoto, iWeb, Keynote, Pages; Authorware; Microsoft Office; Various Internet and multimedia authoring applications on various platforms

Award for Excellence in Electronic Administration and Teaching (2002)
University of South Florida Department of English

Alice Hearne Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate (2001)
University of South Florida Department of English

The Provost's Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student (2000)
University of South Florida

The Provost's Commendation for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student (1999)
University of South Florida

Addison-Wesley, Longman Award for Teaching Excellence (1998)
USF Department of English

Joseph Bentley Teaching Fellowship (1997)
For Excellence in Teaching, USF Department of English

Pass with Distinction (1997, 2001)
M.A. and Ph.D. comprehensive exams, USF

Chair
Technology Resource Committee (2007-2008)

Faculty Adviser
MSC Mac Users Group (MMUG) (2007-pr)

Secretary
Technology Resource Committee (2006-2007)
Academic Personnel Policies Committee (2005-2006)
Executive Committee, Macon State College (2004-2005)

Committees
Technology Resource Committee (2006-2008)
Academic Personnel Policies Committee (2005-2006)
Arts Committee, Division of Humanities MSC (Spring 2005)
Search Committee, Spanish, Division of Humanities MSC (2004-2005)
Recorder, Collaborative Review of English Composition, MSC (2004)
Executive Committee, Macon State College (2004-2005)
Search Committee, Three Position in English, Division of Humanities MSC (2003-2004)
Personnel Policies Committee, Macon State College (2003-2004)
Technology Purchasing Committee, Division of Humanities MSC (2002-pr)
Undergraduate Textbook Committee, USF Department of English (1999-2000)
Executive Committee, Graduate Student Association, USF (1998)
First-Year English Essay Award Committee, USF (chair 1997-98)
Selection Committee for new Dean, USF College of Arts and Sciences (graduate representative 1996)

Faculty Consultant (Fall 2004)
Redesigning the Macon State College web site

Founder/Organizer (2003-present)
Publish-or-Pasta - Peer Research Group for Humanities Faculty

Senior Project Adviser
Christopher Wheeler (2006)
Hannah Marney (2005)
Robert Malone (2005)
Latitia Little (2003)

Co-Author (Spring 2000)
Proposal for New Multimedia Teaching Facility, with Phillip Sipiora

Editor / Typesetter (Spring 2000, 2001)
Department of English Newsletter, USF

Research Assistant (1999)
Professor Steve Rubin, Graduate Director, USF Department of English

Writer / Editor (1998)
Literature of the Western World Coursebook

Vice President (1998-1999)
Graduate Student Association, USF

Guest Lecturer (1997-1998)
"First-Year Composition," for the parents of incoming first-year students to USF (June 1998)
"An Introduction to Giambattista Vico," for Professor Valerie Allen's graduate Literary Criticism course, USF (1998)
"Preparing for the Graduate Qualifying Exams," for a workshop for new teaching assistants, USF (1997)

Writer / Editor (1997)
Course Book for First-Year Composition

Secretary (1996-1997)
Graduate Student Association

Web Master (Fall 2007-present)
Historic Vineville Neighborhood Association

Event Coordinator (Spring 2005, 2007)
Georgia Science Olympiad

Judge (November 2004, 2005)
Houston County High School Reflections Creative Writing Contest

Grader (April 2004, Nov 2006)
Georgia Regents' Exam

The Norman Mailer SOciety; Modern Language Association; National Council for Teachers of English; Society for Literature and Science; Popular Culture Association; Conference for College Composition and Communication

Digital Storytelling; New Media, including hypertextual fiction and the future of narrative; Writing for Cyberspace; World Literature: the epic genre, tragedy; modern Continental Literature; Science Fiction; Futurism; Popular Culture: Television and Film; Modern and Postmodern British, American, and Continental Literature