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Louie Crew

 

(a.k.a. Li Min Hua)

 

Emeritus Professor of English

Rutgers:  The State University of New Jersey

 

377 S. Harrison Street, Apt. 12D

East Orange, NJ 07018

 

973-395-1068 h.  lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu

                                                            

 

Revised: October 1, 2008

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Education

Employment History

Publications

     Books, articles, poems, about....

           Composition

           Computers

           Lesbigay Issues

           Poetry

           Religion

           Miscellaneous

     Editing

     Reviews about....

           Composition

           Computers

           Lesgay Issues

           Poetry

           Religious Issues

           Miscellaneous

     Audiovisual Publications

     Software

 

Conference presentations, lectures, demonstrations

           Composition

           Computers

           Lesgay Issues

           Poetry Readings

           Religion

           Miscellaneous

 

Secondary Materials about the work of Louie Crew

           Composition

           Computers

           Lesbigay Issues

           Poetry

           Religious Issues

           Miscellaneous

 

Grants, awards, directory listings,

honor societies

 

Service

        The Academic Profession

        The University

             Rutgers

             Claflin College

             Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

             Beijing Second Foreign

               Language Institute

             University of Wisconsin/

               Stevens Point

        Society at large:


 

Education

 

Degrees:

 

          D.H.L. (Honorary), Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2004.

          D.D. (Honorary), General Theological Seminary, 2003.

          D.D. (Honorary), Episcopal Divinity School, 1999.

          Ph.D.,  University of Alabama, 1971. 

          M.A., Auburn University, 1959. 

          B.A., Baylor University, 1958.

 

 

Dissertation:

 

 

          Dickens' Use of Language for Protest.  1971. 

          University of Alabama.  Dr.  E.  R.  Loomis, director.

 

 

Thesis:

 

          Certain Shakespearean Old Men. 1959

          Auburn University.  Dr. Norman Brittin, director.

 

 

Employment History

 

1989                                Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, Associate Professor, Academic Foundations Department, 1989-92; lecturer, 1992-94.   Lecturer at Associate Professor rank in English Department, 1994-2001.    On FASP leave, 1991-92; June-December, 2001.  Emeritus Professor of English from January 1, 2002

1988-89                           Claflin College, Orangeburg, SC, Associate Professor.

1987-88                           Salem Services, Chicago.  Consultant in Computer and business writing. 

1984-87                           The Chinese University of Hong  Kong, Lecturer in English (British rank system, equivalent  of U.S. Associate Professor).

1983-84                           Beijing Second Institute of Foreign Languages, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Visiting Foreign Expert on leave from Wisconsin.

1979-84                           University of Wisconsin/Stevens Point, Associate Professor of English.

1973-79                           Fort Valley State College, Fort Valley, GA, Associate Professor of English.

1971-73                           Claflin College, Orangeburg, SC, Professor of English.

1970-71                           Experiment in International Living, Academic Director in England of Independent Studies Program.

1966-70                           University of Alabama, full-time instructor, 1968-70; graduate assistant, 1966-68.

1965-66                           Penge Secondary Modern School [state], London, England, Master of English and English History.

1962-65                           St. Andrew's [Episcopal, boarding] School, Middletown, Delaware, Master of English and Sacred Studies.

1959-62                           Darlington School [private, boarding], Rome Georgia, Master of English and Bible.

1958-59                           Auburn University, Alabama, graduate teaching fellow.

 

Teaching

 

Courses taught at Rutgers University:

 

1994-01

 

.         English 101, 101 ESL, 102.  English Composition

          English 103, 104.  Honors English

          English 302 Computers & Composition.

          English 343-344.  Bible As Literature.

          Freshman Seminar:  Surfing the Internet.

          English 508.  Critical Theories.

          Oversaw Independent Study:  Omid Victory, 1996, Judith Hall, 1997.

 

1989-94. 

 

          Study Skills (summer).

          Communications Skills 142.

          Communications Skills 143.

 

          Mentor for Humanities Faculty on the "New

          Information Technology," Fall 1992.  Released

          part time to the Teaching Excellence Center.

 

 

At Claflin College, 1988-89.

 

          First-Year Composition.

          Advanced Composition.

          British Literature Survey, I.

          Modern Linguistics.

          Theatre Arts.

 

At Chinese University, 1984-87.

 

          The 4-semester sequence in academic writing required

          of all English majors in their first 2 years.

 

          British Literature Survey, I and II.

 

 

At Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, 1983-84:

 

          Composition, to 6 sections of seniors, all English majors.

          Rhetoric, in a weekly lecture to all seniors and English

             faculty.

          Writing Pedagogy.  A graduate course for 6 young teachers.

 

At the University of Wisconsin/Stevens Point, 1979-1984:

 

          Composition full-time:

 

          Standard first year-composition.

          Specialized sections for business majors.

          Advanced composition.

 

At Fort Valley State College, 1973-79:

 

          Advanced Composition.

          Composition for 1st-year students.

          Journalism.

          Linguistics.

          Modern Grammar.

          Shakespeare.

 

 

 

Publications 

Click on the graph to access alphabetical listings.

 

 Shading indicates a refereed publication.

 

 

Composition

 

Collection:

 

1987              "Eavesdropping on My Students." Chinese University, Fifth Month, 1987.   A collection of the best writing of Li Min Hua's students.  Used Li Min Hua.

 

Chapters:

 

1996             "Back to the Future."  English as a Discipline, or is There a Plot in This Play? Edited by James Raymond.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1996.  Page 44-61.

1978              "Wrenched Black Tongues."  Speaking of Words.  Edited by MacKillop and Cross.  Holt, Rinehart and Winston.  Reprinted from College Composition and Communication (1974).

1975              "Comment on James Sledd."  Making the Point.  Edited by J.  Alexander Scharbach and Carl Markgraf.  Crowell.  Pages 23ff.  Reprinted from College English (1973).

1975              "Wrenched Black Tongues."  Making the Point.  Edited by J.  Alexander Scharbach and Carl Markgraf.  Crowell.  Pages 23.  Reprinted from College Composition and Communication (1974).

 

 

Articles:

 

 

1995              “Useful Market Resources for Writers."  Writer's Ink 1.9 (September 1995):  9-10.

1994              "COVER.LET & QUERY.LET."  Silent But Deadly #1 (March 1993 [sic; means 1994]):  n.p.  Prints Li Min Hua's two letters and notes `likes to get lots of poems published and tell editors about his conquests'.  Used Li Min Hua.

1993             "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner:  Student Racism in China and America." Multicultural Teaching [U.K.] 11.2 (Spring 1993):  41-43.   Compares compositions from two continents.

1992              "Harm that Teachers Do with the Best of Intentions." Palo Alto Review 1.2 (Fall 1992): 50-51.  Used Li Min Hua.

1992             "Importing Vocabularies to Describe Literary Structure." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 22.1 (1992):  77-93.

1992              "Summer E-Mail." The Record Fall 1992.  Page 1.

1990             "Using and Abusing Literacy:  Nine Vignettes."  Comparative Education Review 34.1 (February):  85-94.

1989              "Re-Mystifying Composition."  ATAC Newsletter 1.2 (Fall): n.p.  Used Li Min Hua.

1988              "Abusing Literacy to Colonize Minds."  Focus 14.2: 15-22.  Used Li Min Hua.

1988              "Colonized Minds:  The Victims' Report."  Arizona English Bulletin 30.3: 49-51.  Used Li Min Hua.

1988              "Write Like a Flunky or Write Like a Colleague:  Discover Your Authority."  Florida English Journal 24.2: 7-12.

1987              "Abusing Literacy to Colonize Minds."  Resources in Education (ERIC) August.  (Paper date:  March).  Microfiche ED 280 062.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987              "Can Anyone Thunder?  Writing Within the Bounds of One's Authority."  ERIC Microfiche.  ED 276 040.  19 pages.  For 1985, in 1987.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987             "Can Anyone Thunder? -- Writing Within the Bounds of One's Authority."  English Record 38.3: 7-10.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987             "Comment on 'Contrastive Rhetoric:  An American Writing Teacher in China,' by Carolyn Matalene."  College English 49.7: 827-830.

1987              "Eureka:  The Proper Interjection for Education."  DECO 2:7-9.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987              "Eureka:  The Proper Interjection of Education."  TESOL Newsletter 21.6: 21, 23.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987              "First World/Third World Writing Course."  Progressive Composition Newsletter 13: 4-5.

1987             "Rhetorical Beginnings:  Professional and Amateur."  College Composition and Communication 38.3: 346-350.

1987              "Thus Spake Who?  A Study in Received Opinions."  Arizona English Bulletin 29.3: 49-56.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987              "Words from Lewis [sic] Crew."  Progressive Composition 13: 2-3.  Regarding Colonial Education in Hong Kong.

1985             "Teaching EFL Students to Write Well, Not Just Correctly."  English Teaching Forum 23.3: 9-11.

1984             "Professors Often Cause Bad Writing."  Wisconsin Academy Review 30.3: 39-41.

1983              "What Should We Tell Student Writers?"  Louisiana English Journal 22.1: 1-20.

1980              "Can Writing Survive Demystification?"  English in the 2-Year College 12.1: 1.

1980              "Composition in Classes Outside the Discipline of English."  Faculty Forum 2.2: 22-25.  Reprinted from Florida English Journal (1978).

1979              "Battling Windmills in the University of Georgia System."  Radical Teacher 14: 30-31.

1979              "Behold, a Sower!."  Independent School 38.3: 60ff.

1979             "Comment on Bill Linn's 'Psychological Variants of Success'."  College English 41.1: 112-114.

1979              "Composition in Classes Outside the Discipline of English."  M[oving] O[ut] October 1979: 1-3.  Reprinted from Florida English Journal (1978).

1979              "Testing Basics:  Battling Windmills."  Resources in Education ED 176-301.  See also Radical Teacher (1979).

1979              "What Should We Tell Student Writers?"  Resources in Education ED 179-968.  See also Louisiana English Journal (1983).

1978              "Composition in Classes Outside the Discipline of English."  Florida English Journal 2.2: 29-32.

1978              "Testing in the Style of the Georgia Mafia."  Politics & Education 1.4.

1977             "New Alchemy."  College English 38.1: 701-711.

1975             "Linguistic Politics and the Black Community."  Phylon:  Journal of Race and Culture 36.2: 177-181.

1974              "Lawd, Have Mercy, Ms.  Scarlet!."  Black Times 4.8: 7.  On testing and Black English.

1974             "Reply to Walter Hickman."  College English 35.4: 482-483.

1974              "Tapping the Collective Imagination."  Exercise Exchange 18.2: 2-5.

1974              "Tapping the Collective Imagination."  Notes on Teaching English 2.1: 8-10.  Reprinted from Exercise Exchange (1974).

1974                       "Wrenched Black Tongues:  Democratizing English."  College Composition and Communication 25: 42-45.

1973             "Comment on James Sledd."  College English 34.4: 585-587.

1973              "Composition as Discovery."  Notes on Teaching English 1.1: 1-2.

 

Computers

 

 

Articles:

 

1994              "Why I Write Computer Programs."  ACE Newsletter 9.1 (Fall 1994):  6.

1992              "Charting Ripples." A study of two lesbigay neologisms on the internet. Integrity/Austin News 7.3 (November 1992): 2-3.

1991              "Computing Stepladders, Demon Traps, Cock's Feathers and Black Patches." Kansas English 77:1 (Fall): 76-83.

1991              "Computing Stepladders, Demon Traps, Cock's Feathers and Black Patches." Academic Foundations Center:  Occasional Papers AFCOP No. 91-1 (Rutgers University, Newark:  Spring):  1-5.

1990              "CREATEDF.MM."  Scroll 5.5 (September-October):  3.

1989              "BASICA Tip:  Compilers Work Easily for Novices."  Foglight 4.5 (February): 13.

1989              "BASICA Tip:  The Perils of Searching Files of Comma-Separated Variables."  Foglight 4.7 (April): 16.

1989              "BASICA Tip:  When to Correct an Error."  Foglight 4.5 (December): 13.

1989              "BAS-TIPS."  Public [software] Library Newsletter (April): 28.  A collection of Crew's BASICA-TIPS and released as 'Programming Additions' Disk.

1989              "Envelopes on the Sly with WS4, Part 2."  Scroll 4.1: 8.

1989              "Proposal."  AEGIS No.  8 (September): 13.

1989              "Software that Puts the Computer into Composition."  ACE Newsletter 5.1: 4-5.

1989              "Sources for Inexpensive Software."  ACE Newsletter 5.1:2.

1989              "XCOPY to Back Up a Hard Disk."  Epson Lifeboat 6.1 (February): 19.

1988              "BASICA Tips:  Blinks; Menu Choices; Scrolling One Screen at a Time; How to CHAIN with Variables in a Compiled Program."  Foglight 4.3: 22-23.

1988              "BASICA Tips:  The Shell Command."  Foglight 4.2: 24-26.

1988              "BASICA Tip:  SideKick to Help Edit BASICA Programs."  Foglight 3.4: 28.

1988              "Envelopes on the Sly with WordStar.  Part 1."  Scroll 3.6: 4.

1988             "Style-Checker as Tonic, Not Tranquilizer."  Journal of Advanced Composition 8: 66-70.

1988              "Words' Worth with a Spelling-Checker and On-Line Thesaurus."  Hiram Poetry Review 44 & 45 (Winter-Spring):  78-80.

1988              "Abstract of 'MailMerge Cantonese' from JCLTA."  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts #8701376.  21.1: 166.

1987              "Around the Board." SEAnet News January 1:  1.  A report on SEAnet 2's Word-Processing Area.

1987              "BASICA Tips:  Combining Statements on a Line."  Foglight 2.1: 12-13.

1987              "BASICA Tip:  A Trick to Speed LOADs & SAVEs."  Foglight 2.1: 21-22.

1987              "BASICA Tip:  The RENUM Command as an Error-Tracer."  Foglight 2.1: 22, 29.

1987              "Brief and Unofficial History of SEAnet, Asia's Largest BBS."  SEAnet News June: 2-3.

1987              "Hong Kong Debates."  Hong Kong Public Libraries Office.  Electronic files edited by Louie Crew from SEAnet.  Available on disk.  Covers October 1986 through June 1987.

1987              "MS-DOS as a Cataloger."  Foglight 2.9: 12-13.  Used Li Min Hua.

1987              "SEAnet's Vital Signs."  SEAnet News June: 6.

1987              "Using SHELL while you create a program."  SEAnet News April-May: 2.

1986              "High Tech People in Low Tech Bureaucracies."  Small Press Review 18.5: 12.

1986             "MailMerge Cantonese."  Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association 21.21: 59-73.  Reprinted from Hong Kong Computer Journal (1985).

1986              "Oriental Electric-Brain Food."  Whole Earth Review 51: 126.  Used Li Min Hua.

1985              "Budget for Taxes."  Portable Companion 4.2: 14-18.

1985              "Cleaning Disk Drives."  Portable Companion 4.2: 28-29.

1985              "Let WordStar Do the Walking."  Foghorn 5.2: 33-40.

1985             "MailMerge Cantonese."  Hong Kong Computer Journal 1: 7-14.  Awarded 'Best Article of 1985' by the Hong Kong Computer Society.

1985              "Micros Bit Parts in China."  Computerworld March 25:22.  Used Li Min Hua and co-authored with Wu Zheng.

1985              "Orientalsk elektrisk hjernemat."  Gateavisa 107:  no page

1984              "Alphabetized Columns."  Foghorn 4.3: 50-53.

1984              "Managing Data."  Foghorn 3.1: 49-50.

1984              "Portable Projector."  Portable Computer 2.1: 21-22.

1984              "Prepare Your Envelopes as You Write Your Letters."  Johannesburg Osborne Group Disk Library.  Published as an electronic file.