Educational Background

M.A. University of the Pacific 1971 English
M.A. Michigan State University 1969 Education
(included study at the Univ. of Nigeria)
B.A. University of Maine 1965 English


Professional Experiences

1999-Present Finlandia University, Professor of English, Language and Literature Department
1976 - 1999 Finlandia University (Suomi College), Chairman, Language and Literature Department
Summer,1995 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; taught English at a
math/science camp for highly gifted minority students.
1983-1984 Indiana University, taught technical writing, juniors & seniors
majoring in career programs
1972 -1976 American Collegiate Institute, Izmir, Turkey; Chairman of
English Dept.
1971-1972 Mizpah High School of Micronesia, Truk, ECI; Chairman, English Dept.
1969-71 University of the Pacific, Lecturer, Freshmen English
1967-69 Newport, Vermont, high school English teacher
1965-67 Peace Corps Volunteer, Bornu Teachers' College,
Maiduguri, North, Nigeria

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

MLA
MMLA
ACTFL
CCHA
Hemingway Society
Council of Michigan Foundations
Friends of Nigeria

Current Professional Assignments and Activities (non-teaching)

Instructor, MS-2 National Math and Science Program for Gifted Minorities; Phillips-Andover Academy, Massachusetts

Selection Committee for Guest Writer on Isle Royale, Houghton, Michigan

Publications

Children of the Kalevala, North Star Press, 1997

Heikki Heikkinen and Other Stories of Upper Peninsula Finns, North Star Press of St. Cloud, MN, 1995

1992-1994, "The Mining Journal, Marquette, Michigan newspaper, a
weekly fictional profile of an Upper Peninsula Finn; reports were reprinted in The Peninsula News and in the Finnish-American Reporter, of Duluth, MN.

Hunting Hemingway's Trout, short fiction collection, Atheneum, 1990
"Pictures" and "Hunting Hemingway's Trout" in Sampo An Anthology of

Finnish-American Literature, New Rivers Press, 1989

Small Winter Wars, a book-length collection of short fiction, Burgess, 1983
"The Audience as Judge in Athol Fugard's The Island," Notes on Contemporary Literature, Jan. 1986

"Colorful Revenge in Silko's Storyteller," Notes on Contemporary Literature, Sept., 1985

"Grandfather and I" (fiction), Passages North, 1981

"Letter from Smyrna (fiction), Riverside Quarterly, 1977, reprinted May, 1983.

Snow White and Others, a book-length collection of poetry, Silver Hammer Press, 1971

"One Year in Nigeria" (memoir), Michigan State University, 1967.

Papers Presented

MLA, Dec., 1995.

Research

Received Grant from Lutheran Fund for Higher Education to do research in
Mexican literature, University of Guadalajara, 1980

Honors

Selection for NEH Institute on Pacific Islands Culture, Honolulu, 1999
MLA guest writer, 1995
Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future, 1988
Who's Who in the Midwest, in American Education, in International
Biography, 1993 to present
Selection for NEH Institute in Commonwealth Literature, Indiana University, 1985
Selection for U.S. Peace Corps/MSU Master's Degree in Education Program,
1965
Selection for NEH Seminar in Twelfth-Century Civilization, Mount Holyoke;
1983
Selection for NEH Seminar in American Humor, University of New Mexico,
1981
Selection for NEH Seminar in Slavic literatures, Cornell University, 1978
Selection for Master Teacher Program, University of New Hampshire, 1977
Graduate Assistantship, University of the Pacific, 1969071
Selection for U.S. Peace Corps/MSU Master's Degree in Education program, 1965
All-State basketball player, Maine; 1959, 1960, 1961