Thomas Greenfield

Thomas A. Greenfield

Professor of English and American Studies

Lecturer in Music

Wells 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 (Drama Studies), University of Minnesota, 1973, 1980 
B.A., English, Grinnell College, 1970

Honors and Awards (Selected) 

Carol and Michael Harter Endowment Faculty Mentoring Award, 2011.
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 Projects (selected)
Books

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

 Work Work Ethic

Radio. Greenwood Press, 1989.

 Radiobook

Broadway: An Encyclopedia of Theater and American Culture. (Editor,Principal Contributor). 
ABC-Clio, 2010.

 Broadway

Articles, Reviews and Other Publications: 2000(c) - Present
"Broadway." Encyclopedia of American Music and Culture. Ed. Jacqueline Edmondson. ABC-Clio. Co-author with Kaitlyn C. Allen. In press. 

"Toil and Trouble in the 1920s and 1930s." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 224. Gale Publishing: 2010. Reprint from Work and the Work Ethic in American Drama.

"Elmer Rice." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 221. Gale Publishing: 2009. Reprint from Work and the Work Ethic in American Drama.

"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).

World culture encyclopedia

 "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.

 American icons

"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.

Handbook

"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.

 Glassmngrie

For earlier work, see link to Academic Resume on left hand table

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) 

  • Faculty Fellow, Geneseo Writers House, 2009-present.Phi beta kappa key
  • Chapter President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta of New York, 2006-2009; VP 2009-2010
  • 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