With an increased focus on scholarship at RIT, RIT Libraries will shine a light on some of the University's finest by sponsoring the "RIT Faculty Scholars" series. This ongoing series spotlights the scholarly work of a different faculty member for each showcase.

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Featured RIT Faculty Scholar for April 2008:

Professor Vincent F.A. Golphin

Department of English, RIT’s College of Liberal Arts

Presentation title:
"Story"

Description:
"Story" is the title and substance of a presentation of the academic
pursuits of Vincent F. A. Golphin. Personal stories chart the basic
elements of human lives and societies, and in that sense, are a glue
that holds disparate parts into a structure. Stories are what Professor
Golphin deals with in various forms in the classroom, speeches and
publications as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, commentator,
memoirist, cultural analyst and ethnographer.

As April's featured Faculty Scholar, he will discuss the role of
stories in society and culture and share how they are used in a recent
memoir, poetry collection and ethnographic study.

Professor Golphin's Bio:
Vincent F. A. Golphin is an award-winning writer and journalist, who is
an assistant professor of Creative Writing and Literary Cultural
Studies in the Department of English at RIT. He is frequently sought as
a national speaker and consultant on African American history,
literature, and culture. Outside academia, his skills and insights are
used, as managing editor, to produce about…time Magazine, a
35-year-old, national publication that chronicles the black experience.

Since 1980, Golphin’s features and commentaries have appeared in the
National Catholic Reporter and a wide range of newspapers through news
services that include Religious News Service, United Methodist News,
Southern Baptist News, Newhouse, and the New York Times American News.
Those kinds of writing, as well as reviews, poems and short stories,
are included in popular magazines such as Christianity Today, Emerge,
Washington Living, Upstate New Yorker, about…time Magazine, and
literary journals such as Bridges, Drylongso, Fyah, Ishmael Reed’s
Konch Magazine, Mental Satin; and the Southern Poetry Review. His books
include Life and Other Things I Know: Poems, Essays and Short Stories;
Take Two, They’re Small; African-American Children’s Anthology; Grandma
Loves You: A First Primer; African American Stories: A First Primer;
and Like A Dry Land: A Soul’s Journey Through the Middle East.

PREVIOUS "RIT FACULTY SCHOLARS"

2008

JANUARY 22, 2008: Professor Marla K. Schweppe; "From the World Stage to the Virtual Stage: The Life of a Designer"

2007

SEPTEMBER 2007: Dr. Neil Hair and Dr. Victor Perotti; The Value of Online Social Networks: A Business Perspective
APRIL 2007: Jorge L. Diaz-Herrera, Ph.D.;Cyberinfrastructure: Supporting Scientific Discovery and Innovation in the 21st Century
MARCH 2007: David Pankow; Typographical Allegories and Erotic Ambiguities: The Strangest Book at RIT
FEBRUARY 2007: Dr. Uli Linke, Fascinating Bodies: Visual Culture, Pornography, and Violence in the Modern Museum

2006

OCTOBER 2006: Andrew Phelps; A Nexus of Education, Inspiration, Research and Play
APRIL 2006: Dr. Chance Glenn; When the Artistic Meets the Scientific
FEBRUARY 2006: Dr. Amit Ray; WWW/ Wiki, Wacky Web?: Wikis, Authority and the Public Sphere

2005

OCTOBER 2005: Frank Cost; Twilight of the Gatekeepers
APRIL 2005: Dr. Abi Aghayere; Enhancing Student Learning Through Continuous Course Assessment
MARCH 2005: Dr. Nabil Nasir, Innovative Technologies for a Sustainable Future
FEBRUARY 2005: Dr. John Schott, The Evolution of Remote Sensing at RIT

2004

OCTOBER 2004: Dr. Ryne Raffaelle; Nanotechnology