Louie Crew

377 S. Harrison Street, 12-D, East Orange, NJ 07018, 973-395-1068
lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew

SPECIALTIES

Composition. Writing & Computers. Theology. Gay Studies.

EXPERIENCE

• 2002-- Emeritus Professor at Rutgers.
• 1989-2001 Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey
• 1988-1989 Associate Professor of English, Claflin College, South Carolina
• 1984-1987 Director of the Writing Program, Chinese University, Hong Kong
• 1983-1984 (On leave) Visiting Expert, Beijing Foreign Language Institute, China
• 1979-1984 Associate Professor of English, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
• 1973-1979 Associate Professor of English, Fort Valley State College, Georgia

Also earlier at The Experiment in International Living, The University of Alabama, St. Andrew's School, Middletown Delaware, Penge Secondary Modern School (London), The Darlington School, Georgia; & Auburn University.

PUBLICATIONS

Editor: Special issues on lesbigay writing for College English (1974) and Margins (1974). Review editor of Computers and Composition, 1988-90; member of editorial boards of Progressive Composition, 1988-1990; Empathy 90--; Journal of Homosexuality 1978-1983, 1989--; Notes on Teaching English 1974-79; SEAnet, 1987; Voice of Integrity, 1974-77, 1990--. Board of Directors of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, publishers of The Witness, from 1999--

Author of over 1,947 items in Asia Week, Change Magazine, Choice, Chronicle of Higher Education, Humanist, Independent School, New York Culture Review, Saturday Review, Small Press Review, Southern Humanities Review, Victorian Newsletter, etc. Samples:

• College Composition and Communication 1987. "Rhetorical Beginnings."
• College English 1974. “The Homophobic Imagination.” 1977. "The New Alchemy." On testing.
• Comparative Education Review 1990. "Using and Abusing Literacy."
• English as a Discipline, or is There a Plot in This Play? 1996. Chapter "Back to the Future
• English Record 1987. "Can Anyone Thunder? Writing Within the Bounds of One's Authority"
• English Teaching Forum 1985. "Teaching EFL Students to Write Well."
• Florida English Journal 1978: "Composition Outside English." 1988: "Discover Your Authority."
• Journal of Advanced Composition 1988. "The Style-Checker as Tonic, Not Tranquilizer."
• Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association 1986. "MailMerge Cantonese." [Reprinted from Hong Kong Computer Journal.; awarded "Best Article of 1985" by HK Computer Society]
• Journal of Technical Writing & Communication 1992. "Importing Technical Vocabularies to Describe Literary Structure."
• Midwest Quarterly 1974. "Charles Dickens as a Critic of ehe U.S."
• Phylon: Journal of Race and Culture 1975. "Linguistic Politics."
• Others