1672 Linden
East Lansing, MI 48823
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hugh@culik.com

• 2008-present: Instructor of English, Developmental Composition Assistant Coordinator; Macomb Community College
• 2005-2008: Jim Crow Museum, Ferris State University; Advisory Committee (funding)
• 2005-2008: English Instructor, Ferris State University
• 2001-present: Consultant on funding, curriculum, and educational programming
• 2004-2005: Director of Grants and Partnerships, Michigan Humanities Council
• 2003-2004: Executive Director, Bonifas Fine Arts Center; Escanaba, MI.
• 2003-pres:ArtServe Michigan: Board of Directors
• 2002-2003: sabbatical
• 1998-2003: Governance Board for Program in Electronic Critique, Univ. of Detroit Mercy
• 1998-2003: Chair, Department of English, Univ. Detroit Mercy
• 1993-2003: Director, Writing Across the Curriculum, Univ. Detroit Mercy
• 1997-2003: Associate Professor of English, Univ. Detroit Mercy
• 1993-1997: Assistant Professor of English, Univ. Detroit Mercy
• 1989-1993: Adjunct Professor, Univ. Detroit Mercy
• 1980-1981: Part-time faculty, Wayne State Univ. English Dept.
• 1977-1980: Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University
• 1972-1973: English teacher, Plymouth Community High School

• Ferris State University School of Pharmacy: composition curriculum revision.
• 2004: Michigan Department of Education Task Force on Creativity Arts and Cultural Education; Chair, Work Group on Higher Education, Teacher Preparation & Professional Development
• 2001: Founded Dudley Randall Center for Print Culture: University of Detroit Mercy Publishing Center with press
• 2000-01: Advisory Board member for Grosse Pointe Community school
• 2000-01: McGregor Grant outreach to Westland Friendship Center (retiree center) for publication of chapbooks
• 1999-2001: Outreach teaching at Grosse Pointe Community School: ENL491(Information Design and Critique) and ENL405 (Editorial Processes and Products) to high school students at an experimental school as part of a collaboration between UDM and secondary schools
• 1999-2000: Information Technology Plan, College of Liberal Arts University of Detroit Mercy; primary author
• 1998: Co-director with School of Education faculty of web teaching and virtual library project for local elementary school.
• 1998: founded detRiot UDM's online journal;
• 1998: Discipline Committee, Grosse Pointe Public Schools, to study and propose alternatives for students who were disengaged from education in the regular classroom
• 1998: Core Curriculum Assesment Committee report on curriculum & achievement: primary author
• 1997-01: co-directed of "Prologues," UDM's orientation to disciplinary thinking for incoming students; winner of 1999 National JASPA Award for orientation programs. .
• 1997: core Curriculum Assesment Committee for report on curriculum and achievement for North Central: primary author
• 1996-2001: Curriculum Design: Information Architecture Degree, College of Liberal Arts, University of Detroit Mercy; author with Nick Rombes
• 1994-00: De facto director of student-based College of Liberal Arts website, http://libarts.udmercy.edu
• 1994: founded of [SIC], UDM's interdisciplinary undergraduate journal
• 1994: founded of Howling Wolf, UDM's chapbook series

Editorships

• Co-founder and co-editor of Post Identity, a national scholarly journal
• Inclusion of Post Identity by The University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service as one of the first 15 journals in its data base of emerging journal-based scholarship.

Grants (selected projects)

• 2005 - 2008: Grant Director: Jim Crow Museum; Ferris State University: Big Rapids, Michigan; Foundation Support: Funding strategies, tactics,
• 2005: NEH, We the People grant (contributing role)
• 2005: Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Partnership Grant (contributing role)
• 2005: Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Touring Grant (contributing role)
• 2004: NEH, We the People grant (contributing role)
• 2004: Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Partnership Grant (contributing role)
• 2004: Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, Touring Grant (contributing role)
• 2003: Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs: Local Arts Agency Grant for continuing education, educational enrichment, and operational expenses at the Bonifas Arts Center.
• 2003: Michigan Humanities Council (NEH) for educational activities and exhibits in the central Upper Peninsula.
• 2003: local foundations, re-granting agencies, and other revenue sources for operation of William Bonifas Fine Arts Center, a regional arts center for the Upper Peninsula.
• 2001: McGregor Fund Grant for development of online writing lab, program in Electronic Critique, and faculty development.
• 1999: Title III Grant for faculty training and development of digital literacies (consulting role)
• 1997: McGregor Fund Grant for planning and implementation of Web Site curricula, lab, and publications.
• 1996: DeRoy Foundation Grant to implement national journal addressing postmodern culture

Novel/Fiction

• Culik, Hugh and Raymond Buck, The Master Cure. New York: Berkeley Books, 1989.
• Culik, Hugh. "Virgin Land." Just a Moment, 6.2 (1995): 48-55.

Television

• Contributing writer to "Witness to History: Richard Sterba," Marilyn McKay producer. Presented at 1986 APA inWashington, D.C., and accepted for broadcast on National Public Television.

Scholarship

• "Residual Order: Mathematizing the Science of Failure." Beckett in Context. Ed. Anthony Uhllmann. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012 (forthcoming).
• “Midnight and Raining: Beckett and the Limits of Representation." Journal of Beckett Studies, 17, No. 1-2. (2008).
• “What Happened to Critique?" Reader 13, No. 3 (Summer 2005), p. 23-27.
• "The Interplay of Web Site Design and Teaching-Thinking-Learning Dynamics of Education." Collaboration, Cleveland: Cleveland State UP, Winter 1999.
• "Breaking Institutional and Learning Boundaries With Web Sites." ERIC ED 417173: Resources in Education (RIE). February 1998.
• "Invocation," Post Identity. 1.1 (1997): 5-12.
• "Neurological Disorder and the Evolution of Beckett's Maternal Images," Mosaic 22.1 (1989): 41- 53. Rpt. In Critical Essays on Samuel Beckett,Ed. Lance St. John Butler. Critical Thought Series 4. Aldershot, GB: Scolar, 1993.
• "Entropic Order: Beckett's Mercier and Camier," Eire-Ireland, 17, No. 1 (Spring 1982), p. 91-106. Rpt.
• "In Critical Essays on Samuel Beckett," Ed. Lance St. John Butler. Critical Thought Series 4. Aldershot, GB: Scolar, 1993.
• "Neurological Disorder and the Evolution of Beckett's Maternal Images," Mosaic 22, No. 1 (Winter 1989), p. 41-53.
• "The Place of Watt in Samuel Beckett's Development," Modern Fiction Studies, 29, No. 1 (Spring 1983), p. 57-71.
• "Samuel Beckett's Molloy: Transformation and Loss," American Imago, 39, No. 1 (Spring 1982), p. 21-29.
• "Entropic Order: Beckett's Mercier and Camier," Eire-Ireland, 17, No. 1 (Spring 1982), p. 91-106.
• "Mindful of the Body: Medical Allusions in Beckett's Murphy," Eire-Ireland, 14, No. 5 (Spring 1979), p. 84-101.

Presentations

• "Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines: disciplinarity and composition for pharmacy students." International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference , Austin, May 2008.
• "Integrating Cultural Theory: strategies for dual enrollment programs." Conference of College Composition and Communication (4Cs): Chicago, 25 March 2006.
• "Beckett, Aphasiology, and the Crisis of Representation." Florida State University. Beckett at 100: New Perspectives. February 9-11, 2006.
• "The Practice of Praxis: the dual enrollment in knowledge and resistance." Northeast Modern Language Association [High School Students in College Composition and Literature Courses: The Impact of Dual-Enrollment Programs]. Cambridge, MA, 30 March 2005.
• "Behind Gender: the collaborative career of Kahlo/Rivera." Latin American Studies Association: Marquette, Northern Michigan University. 10 October 2004.
• "Practical Steps Toward Publishable Fiction." The Box Factory Writers' Conference. Benton Harbor, MI, 6 November 2004.
• "Mother May I: Performance, Performativity, and the Role of Reiteration in Samuel Beckett's Footfalls." Modern Drama Society: South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis, 29 September 1999.
• "Making Public the Achievements of Public Education through Information Design." Michigan School Business Operations Society. May 1998.
• "Breaking Institutional and Learning Boundaries With Web Sites." Michigan Association of Computer Users for Learning. Grand Rapids, 12 March 1998.
• "Breaking Institutional, Disciplinary, and Learning Boundaries Through Web Site Construction and Use," American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. New Orleans, 26 February 1998.
• "A Womb of His Own: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and the Collaborative Body Shop," Society for Literature and Science. UCLA. November 1995.
• "Mathematical Metaphors for Postmodernity," Society for Literature and Science. Tulane University. November 1994.
• "Mathematics as Metaphor: Beckett and the Esthetics of Incompleteness," Indiana University's Symposium on Literature and Science, 7 February 1991.
• "Surd Quantities and Successive Approximations: Beckett's Mathematical Metaphors for Selves Without Words," Society for Literature and Science, University of Michigan, 21 September 1989.
• "The Self and the Self-Reflective Texts of Samuel Beckett," Perspectives in 20th Century Literature: self and other, University of Louisville, 21 February 1985.
• "Poemagogic Imagery in Beckett's Trilogy," Ohio State University Symposium in the Humanities: Samuel Beckett, Humanistic Perspectives, Colombus, Ohio, 9 May 1981.
• "Transformation and Loss in Samuel Beckett's Molloy," Modern Language Association, New York, 29 December 1981.
• "Allusive Structure: Neurology, Aphasiology, and Experimental Psychology in Watt," North-East Modern Language Association, Hartford, Connecticut, 30 March 1979.
• "The Physiognomy of Chaos: Phrenology and Neurology in Beckett's Novels," North-East Modern Language Association, Albany, New York, 25 March 1978.

• Approximate Pleasures: Beckett's use of scientific and mathematical metaphors. Partially completed book manuscript.
• A Warning Against Women. 154 page novella manuscript under consideration by a university press.
• Searching for Arnold Palmer. Novel.