THOMAS A. GREENFIELD
Professor of English
Special Assistant to the President
Lecturer in Music
Welles 219 • SUNY Geneseo • 1 College Circle • Geneseo, NY 14454

tag@geneseo.edu(585) 245-5199, 5273 • Fax: (585) 245-5181

Education
M.A., Ph.D. English (Dramatic Studies), University of Minnesota, 1973, 1980.
B.A., English, Grinnell College, 1970.

 

Humanities in Oxford 2010 Slide Show and Information



Honors and Awards (Selected)
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009.
Adviser of the Year for Student Activities and Organizations, 2009.
Geneseo Honoring Teachers, Honoree, 2007.
Phi Beta Kappa, Foundation Member, Alpha Delta of New York, inducted 2004.
Excellence Award, Student Association of Bellarmine College, for outstanding faculty/staff, 1990.

Major Publications and Recent Projects (selected)
Books

Work and the Work Ethic in American Drama, 1920-1970.
University of Missouri Press, 1984.


Radio.
Greenwood Press, 1989.

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Encyclopedia of Broadway and American Culture. Editor. Greenwood Press. In progress.

Articles, Reviews and Other Publications
"Hopeless Colored Names:
A Taxonomy of Naming and Re-naming Rituals in Baraka’s Dutchman." Co-author with Sarah Pinchoff. Names: A Journal of Onomastics 55:2 (June 2007).

"Theater in North America." Co-author with Monica Moschetta. Encyclopedia of World Culture. Gary Hoppenstand and Mike Schoeneke, eds. Greenwood Press, 2007.

“Rush Limbaugh.” American Icons: People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture. Eds. Dennis Hall and Susan Hall. Greenwood Press, 2006.

"Route 66." American Icons: People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture. Eds. Dennis Hall and Susan Hall. Greenwood Press, 2006.

"Where Miller Meets Chekhov." Death of a Salesman Production Playbill Commentary. Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, August 2004.

Re-inventing Modern Dublin by Yvonne Whelan.” Book Review, Names: A Journal of Onomastics. Fall 2003.

"Radio." Chapter for revised Handbook of American Popular Culture. Co-author with Erica Scharrer. Ed. Thomas Inge. Greenwood Press, 2003.

“'The Glass Menagerie as Social Drama.” In Readings in The Glass Menagerie. Ed. T. Siebold, Greenhaven Press, 1998.

Consultant/Reviewer
> National Endowment for the Humanities, Divisions of Research and State Programs
> Names: A Journal of Onomastics
> New York Council for the Humanities
> NY State Department of Education Grant, "Literacy and Urban Education"
> Middle States Commission on Higher Education

Administration and Recent Service (Selected)

> Chapter President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta of New York
> Middle States Commission Accreditation Visiting Team Member, Frostburg State, 2005
> Co-Chair, Phi Beta Kappa chapter application, SUNY Geneseo, 1998-2001
> Co-Chair, Geneseo College Middle States Self-Study, 1998- 2001
> Dean of the College, SUNY Geneseo, 1991-2002
> Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Bellarmine College, KY, 1984-1991

Class and Personal Links
Course Syllabi
Spring Break in Ireland (2001-2004)
Academic Resume
Musicianresume.htm
Photos (personal, Ireland, Music, etc.)
Humanities II in Oxford 2007

 


(Right) Phi Beta Kappa Chapter installation, Alpha Delta of New York (SUNY Geneseo), January 16, 2004.
(Left) Humanities at New College Oxford, August 2007 and Spring Break in Ireland (THE Dublin Door), March 2003.