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Leonard J.
Deutsch
EDUCATIONAL
BACKGROUND
Ph.D., English Kent
State University, 1972
M.A., English
City College of New York, 1967
B.A., English
City College of New York, 1965
Minor, History
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE
As Dean of the Graduate College at
Marshall University, I supervised all facets of the school's operation.
In this capacity, I was responsible for 2,000 students per semester and I
worked with approximately 450 graduate professors. I served as interim
dean from August 1986 until July 1, 1988. Under my leadership, Marshall
University became a Ph.D. granting institution in November of 1992.
I served as Acting Associate Provost
for the 1990-1991 academic year.
In my capacity as campus coordinator
for EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research), I oversaw
all aspects of this National Science Foundation program at the university and
administered a $5,000 planning grant NSF awarded to Marshall University.
An implementation grant worth $1.8 million began in 1990. It was renewed
in 1993 at the level of $2.8 million.
I organized and chaired the ad hoc
Science '93 Committee which has raised over one and a half million dollars for
science equipment.
As Chair of the English Department, the
largest academic department on campus, I supervised 28 full time instructors,
several part-time employees, ten graduate assistants, several work-study
students, and two secretaries.
Between 1983 and 1985, I served as
Director of the Language Arts Preparatory Program. I conceived and
introduced this highly successful program which offered a summer camp for
nine-to-fourteen year olds. The camp employed six full time faculty and
three half-time teachers, and had an enrollment of over 50 students. I
was responsible for juggling budgets, scheduling classes, arranging room
assignments, selecting faculty, and trying to move bureaucratic mountains.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS DEAN
• Initiated the annual Hooding Ceremony
• Created the Graduate Dean's Advisory
Board
• Served as campus coordinator for EPSCoR
which raised the research profile of the university
• Spearheaded development of Graduate
Certificate programs
• Started the TA Training Workshops
• Wrote The Teubert Foundation grant
which jump-started the certification program for teachers of the blind and
visually impaired
• Established the Ronald McNair Scholars
Minority Graduate Assistantship with Concord College
• Initiated the Financial Aid brochure
and other publications for graduate students
• Inaugurated the ETD requirement
• Created numerous awards, including
- Outstanding Graduate Faculty Advising
Award
- Distinguished Graduate Student Alumnus
Award
- Graduate College Reassigned Time
- Summer Thesis Grants
• Marshall developed its first four
doctoral programs
• Served as self-study coordinator for
Higher Learning Commission (North Central) comprehensive regional
accreditation visit that occurred in April of 2006.
ACADEMIC
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
Honors English, City College of New
York
New York State Regents Scholarships,
1960-64
Assistantship to Rice University,
1966-67
Scholarship
offers declined: University of California, Davis, 1966-67; University of
Wisconsin, 1966-67; University of Arizona, 1966-67.
Teaching-Fellow, Kent State University,
1967-70
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow
(Ethnic Studies), 1971-72
Humanities Foundation of West Virginia,
summer grant, 1981
National Science Foundation, EPSCOR
planning grant, 1989
Teubert Charitable Trust grant,
$43,800, 1998
Sloan Foundation, Phase A grant,
$8,150, 2002
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
I served three years at Kent State
University as a Teaching-Fellow. During that time, I taught six courses
a year including Composition, Poetry, and a Senior Colloquium in Black
Literature.
Hired at Marshall University in
September of 1970, I am currently tenured at that institution. Besides
teaching Freshman Composition on a regular basis, I have also taught American
Literature (graduate and undergraduate), Black Literature, Major
African-American Authors, The Short Story, and Film and Fiction (a course I
designed and introduced at Marshall University).
In addition, I have taught a course in
the American Novel to 1915, and a Seminar in Literary Studies for the West
Virginia College of Graduate Studies; and, on a part-time basis, I have taught
American Literature, Drama, Advanced Composition, Great Books, and the Comic
Mode in Literature for Ohio University at the Ironton, Ohio, campus.
For my approach to teaching, the Black
United Students at Marshall named me an "Outstanding Educator" in 1975.
COMMITTEE
EXPERIENCE
Revenue Enhancement
Multicultural Commission
Academic Planning
Academic Standards and Curricular
Review
Faculty Development
Research Committee
Graduate Committee/Graduate Council
University Functions
Catalog Revision (chair)
Search Committee for College of
Education Dean (chair)
Search Committee for Assistant Provost
(chair)
Search Committee for College of
Business Dean
Search Committee for Grants Officer
Search Committee for VP, Research and
Economic Development
Faculty Concerns Committee, English
Department (chair).
Evaluated such personnel matters as
promotion, retention, and tenure.
Budget and Appropriations
Computer Literacy Subcommittee
Dean's Advisory Council, College of Liberal Arts
Biotech Integration Council (Chair)
Core Curriculum Task Force
PUBLICATIONS
“Hello,
Aristotle,“ Free Inquiry, February/March 2021 vol. 41, no. 2, p. 37.
“The
Changing Nature of the Comprehensive Assessment as the Culminating
Experience for the Acquisition of the Master's Degree,” co-author
Bobbi Nicholson, IR Applications (Association for Institutional
Research), XIII, February 14, 2006, pp 1-10.
“Greenlee,
Sam,” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, ed.
Emmanuel S. Nelson, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2005, pp 884-887 (vol.
2).
“Kelley, William
Melvin,” Encyclopedia of
Multiethnic American Literature, ed. Emmanuel S.
Nelson, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2005, pp. 1223-1225 (vol. 3).
“Redding, J.
Saunders,” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson, Greenwood Press,
Westport, Conn., 2005, pp. 1864-1867 (vol. 4).
“Spencer, Anne,” Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American
Literature, ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson, Greenwood Press,
Westport, Conn., 2005, pp. 2091-2093 (vol. 4).
"Ellison's Early
Fiction”, reprinted in Short
Story Criticism. ed. Anna Sheets. Gale Research Detroit, 1997, pp.6-11.
"Ralph Ellison
Obituary”, Dictionary of
Literary Biography Yearbook: 1994
ed. James W. Hipp. Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., Detroit and London,
1995, pp. 261-265.
"The Sky is Gray," an essay about Ernest Gaines' story, The
Reference Guide to American Literature, St. James Press, Detroit and
London, 1994, pp. 1039-1040.
"Ralph
Ellison" entry in Essential Bibliography of Fiction. ed.
Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. Foreward by Keneth
Kinnamon. Manly, Inc. and Facts on File, Inc., New York, 1994, pp.
19-31.
"Carter G. Woodson" entry in Black Writers: A
Selection of Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Second edition.
ed. Sharon Malinowski, Gale Research, Inc., Detroit, MI, 1993, pp. 678-680.
"Henry
Louis Gates" entry updated in Black Writers: A Selection of
Sketches from Contemporary Authors. Second edition. ed.
Sharon Malinowski, Gale Research, Inc., Detroit, MI, 1993, pp. 237-240.
"Ann Kathryn Flagg,
1924-1970," in the Proceedings of
the First Two Conferences on West Virginia's Black History. ed. Joe W.
Trotter, Jr., and A. Bickley, 1991, pp. 289-315.
"Ralph
Ellison," Bibliography of American Fiction: 1919-1988.
Facts on File, New York, 1991, pp. 161-166.
"Graduate
Faculty Appointments: Deciding Who Teaches in Master's Degree Programs." Proceedings of
the Thirtieth Annual Meeting, Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, D.C.,
1991, pp. 115-119.
"Invisible
Man and the European
Tradition", a chapter in Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible
Man (part of the Approaches to Teaching World Masterpieces Series), ed.
Susan Resneck Parr and Pancho Savery, Modern Language Association of America,
New York, 1989, pp. 96-101.
"Golden
Anniversary: The Graduate School is Meeting Demands of our Complex Society”, Marshall
Alumnus, Winter 1989, pp. 18-19.
"Introduction"
to The Plays of Ann Kathryn Flagg, ed. Dr. Ancella Bickley. Amistad,
Inc., West Virginia, 1988.
"Ralph
Ellison," Afro-American Writers 1940-1955, Volume 76 of the DLB series.
ed. T. Harris, Gale Research Company, A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, Detroit,
1988, pp. 37-55.
"Ralph Waldo
Ellison," The New Consciousness, 1941-1968:
Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography. Gale Research Company,
A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book, Detroit, 1987, pp. 185-197.
"Ann
Kathryn Flagg," an essay on the Black dramatist, chosen by a blind
referee process from approximately sixty submissions, was published along with
fifteen other essays in Missing Chapters II, a project of the West
Virginia Women's Commission, 1986, pp. 86-99.
"The
Named and the Unnamed," a chapter on Sounder, in Children's
Novels and the Movies. ed. Douglas Street, Frederick Ungar Publishing
Company, New York, 1983, pp. 214-226.
"Afro-American
Writers of West Virginia" (53 pages) was supported by a Humanities
Foundation of West Virginia grant during the summer of 1981. It is catalogued
in the Morrow Library, Marshall University, and is available through
inter-library loan.
"The
Unpublished Manuscripts of Rudloph Fisher: Description and Commentary," Obsidian:
Black Literature in Review, VII:2 (Summer 1980), pp. 82-87.
"The
Streets of Harlem: The Short Stories of Rudolph Fisher," Phylon,
XL:2 (June 1979), pp. 159-171.
"Cajun
Culture - An Interview," MELUS, VI:1 (Spring 1979), pp. 81-89.
"Ralph
Ellison," American Novelists Since World War II (part of the Dictionary
of Literary Biography series) ed. Helterman and Layman. Gale Research Corporation,
Bruccoli Clark Publishers, Detroit, 1978, pp. 153-141.
"A
Corrected Bibliography for Rudolph Fisher," Bulletin of
Bibliography, XXXVI:1 (January-March 1978), pp. 30-33.
"The Waste
Land in Ellison's Invisible Man," Notes on Contemporary
Literature, VII:4 (September 1977), pp. 5-6.
"Is
Appalachian Literature an Ethnic Literature?," MELUS, III:4 (Winter
1976), pp. 21-24.
"Ligeia's Satire on
Transcendentalism," Bulletin of
West Virginia Association of College English Teachers, III:2 (Fall 1976),
pp. 19-22.
"Ellison's
Early Fiction," Negro American Literature Forum, VII:2 (Summer
1973), pp. 53-59.
"Ralph
Waldo Ellison and Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Shared Moral Vision," College
Language Association Journal, XVI:2 (December 1972), pp. 159-178.
I was co-founder and Editor of Penumbra;
my poems have been published in this and other poetry magazines
including Black Sun, Congress, and Kauri.
For three years, 1973-76, I served as
Editor-in-Chief of the West Virginia Civil Liberties Union Newsletter.
I edited and wrote a preface for the
Fourteenth Annual English Institute Proceedings which contained
an address by Dr. Edward Stone on Billy Budd and a panel discussion of
Melville.
PAPERS READ / PANEL
DISCUSSIONS
December 8, 2006, Council of Graduate
Schools, Washington, D. C., a presentation: “Funding at Master's
Institutions”.
April 8, 2005, co-presented with Dr. Jan
Fox, “Using Microsoft SharePoint for Preparing an Institutional Self-Study” at
the NCA/HLC annual meeting in Chicago.
October 14, 2004, served as co-chair of
session on “Educational Challenges” at the Third International Conference on
Healthcare Systems, Charleston, WV.
December 6, 2001, I presented a paper:
“Master's Focused Institutions: Comprehensive
Examinations and Capstone Projects” at the
Council of Graduate School's annual conference in San Diego.
February 2000, I participated in a panel
discussion at the Conference of Southern Graduate
Schools in Nashville, TN, on the changes
occurring in master's degree programs.
March 5, 2000, I chaired a session on
“African-American Writers in Appalachia” at Piecing It Together: Ethnicity and
Gender in Appalachia held at Marshall University.
December 2-3, 1999, I chaired a
session, “the Role of Faculty in Predominantly Master's
Institutions,” and the next day
presented a paper, “The Role of Research in
Predominantly Master's Institutions” at the
Council of Graduate Schools' annual meeting, Washington, D. C.
October 23-25, 1997, At the Women in West
Virginia Conference, Institute (West Virginia State College), I gave a paper
during the session entitled: “No More 'Missing Chapters': A Look Back and
Forward.”
October 3, 1997, I spoke on “Hoboing
Transformed into Art: Ralph Ellison's Short Stories of the Depression Era,” at
Bang, Boom, Bust and Bang (Again): The Space Between: Precursors and
Aftermaths, 1915 - 1945, Reno, Nevada.
December 6, 1990, I presented findings of
national research on the appointment process to the Graduate Faculty.
This was part of a session, "Master's Only Institutions; Maintaining Program
Integrity." Council of Graduate Schools, San Francisco, California.
Invited as Keynote speaker at the West
Virginia Communications Association's Annual Conference, October, 1989. I
spoke on "Research: The Role of Graduate Students."
Spring 1988, I presided at the Shakespeare
and Renaissance Association of West Virginia Sixteenth Annual Conference
session featuring a presentation by Dr. Ronald G. Shafer.
April 22, 1988, I read a paper, "Ann
Flagg, Dramatist," at the West Virginia Conference on Black History in
Charleston, West Virginia.
November 12, 1982, I read a paper, "Moral
Dilemmas in the Work of John Frederick Matheus," at SAMLA (South Atlantic
Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia).
Fall 1982, I chaired a session, "Utilizing
Computers in British Studies" at the Carolinas Symposium on British Studies
(Appalachian State University).
Fall 1981, I chaired a SAMLA session in
Louisville, Kentucky. The next day I read a paper, "The Black Literary
Tradition in West Virginia," at the Middle-Atlantic Writers Association
Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, November 6, 1981.
Fall 1980, I served as Secretary to a SAMLA
session on "Ethnic Writing in the South" (Atlanta, Georgia).
Fall 1978, I delivered a paper, "The
Cinematic Nature of Dickens' Great Expectations," at West Virginia
University's Colloquium on the Art of Film.
Fall 1976, I gave the bicentennial talk on
"The Contributions of Black Americans, 1776-1976," for the West Virginia
Association of Humanists.
I have given numerous radio talks in
Huntington and in Charleston, West Virginia. Moreover, I continue to
attend regional and national professional meetings.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
May 2006, I served as a paid consultant to
assess graduate education at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
I produced an eleven page report.
I was part of the North Central
Association's accreditation team that visited the following universities:
Bradley University, (comprehensive visit), November 6‐8, 2000; Argosy
University, (focus visit), November 8‐11, 2004; Missouri State University,
(comprehensive visit), November 7‐9, 2005; Indiana University East, (focus
visit), November 10‐11, 2006.
September 19‐21, 2004, hired as a
consultant by Radford University regarding their graduate program in
Psychology.
Appointed by President Debra Stewart on May
20, 2003 to serve on the Council of Graduate Schools' Committee on Master's
Education in Predominately Master's Institutions.
August 2000 I was asked to serve as a
reviewer for Communicator, a nationally distributed periodical
published in Washington, D. C.
Spring 2000 issue of Marshall Magazine
highlights my contributions to the EPSCOR program, pp. 34-39.
At West Virginia State College's
Student Leadership program on April 1, 1999, I made a presentation about
“Graduate and Professional Schools,” Institute, WV.
I was a member of North Central
Association's accreditation team visit to Lake Superior State University,
Sault Ste. Marie, May 4-5, 1998 and Colorado Technical University, Colorado
Springs, March 13-15, 1997.
Henry Louis Gates, in his Preface to the Norton Anthology of African American Literature,
1997 (pages xxxiii-xxxiv) discusses the difficulty I had in assembling a
dissertation committee as a touchstone to the state of African American
studies at that time.
September 20, 1996, I addressed
Leadership West Virginia at their Fairmont meeting: Education in West Virginia
-- Present and Future. My presentation was entitled “Post Baccalaureate
Programs.”
On May 26, 1995, I introduced Jan
Karski who spoke on "The Final Solution: Messenger from Poland" at the World
War II Crusade and Legacy Conference, Marshall University. I also chaired the
session on "The Holocaust and the Voice of Conscience."
I serve on the Southern Conference of
Graduate Schools' thesis awards committee.
I presented a seminar on "Opportunities in
Graduate Education" to the National Society of Black Engineers," December 11,
1993, at the Cabell County Library, Huntington, WV.
November 1‐3, 1993, comprehensive visit
to University of North Dakota.
Consultant for Virginia Council on Higher
Education. Assessed Hampton University's readiness to escalate to Ph.D. status
by helping to evaluate their proposed doctorate in Physics. May
26-28,1992.
During the summers of 1985, 1986, 1987,
1988, and 1989, I served as an evaluator of humanities grant proposals
submitted to the New Jersey Department of Higher Education.
Besides serving as national membership
chairperson of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the
United States, I served for years on the Editorial Advisory Board of their
journal, MELUS. I have written numerous book reviews for this
journal and other periodicals.
From 1987 to 1992, I edited the annual
issues of Research in Review which highlights research projects at
Marshall University.
1988-94, member of the steering committee
for the West Virginia Conference on Black History.
ORGANIZATIONAL
ACTIVITIES (Community and
other)
Software Valley
(member)
Blind Ambition,
Inc. (Advisory Board member)
Tri-State AIDS
Task Force (“buddy” to AIDS patients)
Teubert
Interagency Council for the Blind and Visually Impaired (chair of Education
Committee)
American Lung
Association of West Virginia (Board of Directors member)
Huntington
Institute for Research and Education, Veterans Administration (Board of
Directors member)
Forensic Science
Program Advisory Committee (member)
Cabell County
Tobacco Free Coalition (member)
Educational Testing
Service's GRE Master's Advisory Committee (member)
Marshall
University Child Development Academy Advisory Board (member)
Forensic
Science Program Advisory Committee (member)
Tri-State AIDS
Task Force (office staff)
Huntington
Museum of Art (docent)
Cabell County
Tobacco Free Coalition (chair, Legislative Committee)
Harmony House
(assist homeless individuals apply online for employment)
Usher for Marshall
University's Artist Series
Volunteer docent
for Heritage Farm (occasionally)
Member of Moms
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