Stephen Noyes Orton

Visiting Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Administration

School of Public Health | CB# 7400 | UNC-CH | Chapel Hill NC 27599-7400 | 919.966.3891 | fax 966.6961

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EDUCATION

May 98 Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Major: 20th Century
Minor: American

May 90 M.A., English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Thesis: "'A Broken System of Reliable Wires:' William Stafford's Poetics of Limitation." Directed by George Lensing

May 84 B.A., The Colorado College, with Distinction in English
Thesis: "Gravity's Rainbow: Raiments of the Void." Directed by John Simons

DISSERTATION

March 1998 "Banning the Tribes: Emily Dickinson and the Communitarian Movement." Directed by Townsend Ludington
Examines the influence of communitarian movements on Dickinson's thought and poetry, and traces the function and significance of communal/millenial themes in her work.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Literature

Sp 94 EN 28 (Major American Authors). Designed and led course with thematic focus on "The Figure of Death in American Literature," using several critical approaches. Student-centered teaching method, with small group discussions, limited lecture. Emphasis on critical approaches, historical and aesthetic contexts. Course evaluations and syllabus available.

Fall 93 EN 82B (American Literature 1930-present). Teaching Assistant for large lecture class (160 students) under the direction of Dr. Kimball King (with Kathryn McKee). Lectured the full class on Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath; lead weekly "recitation" sections for classes of 30-35 students. Responsible for test questions, paper assignments, and grading.

Business Writing

Sp 97-99 HPAA 72 (Business Communication for Health Administrators). Created new course based on an existing syllabus. Developed new writing assignments to include business letters, memos, electronic mail, analysis of world wide web site content, executive summaries, press releases, research reports, presentations. In 1998 added Web-based computer discussion forum. Course homepage on-line.

Fall 98 HPAA 106 (Issues in Health Care) Guest lecturer. Presented two 90-minute modules on business writing for MPH and MHA students.

Composition

Fall 97 EN 11 (Freshman Composition). Special Computer Forum course to introduce students to composition and rhetoric. Student-centered, workshop-style course with Web-based computer discussion forum to provide informal writing and rhetorical practice; emphasis on web-based research tools for policy arguments.

Sp & Fl 94 EN 12 (Freshman Composition). Writing Across the Curriculum style course with two papers in each of three divisions (humanities, social and natural science), designed to prepare students for academic writing demands at university level. Student-centered, workshop-style course; emphasis on student models of writing, group work, revision techniques, differential writing and rhetorical syles.
Student comments available from selected sections of these courses.

Sum &Fl 93 EN 10 (Freshman Composition). Beginning course for "battered writers." Created course along new Department guidelines, using a series of linked assignments in each unit building towards a large multi-draft paper. Emphasis on discourse communities, connections between speech and writing, analysis of non-print and print texts.

Sp 91 & 92 EN 2 (Freshman Composition). Writing in the humanities, social and natural sciences. Created new assignments for different textbooks each year; student-centered workshop-style sections, emphasis on writing conventions and ways of knowing in various disciplines; read William Carlos Williams, Hawthorne, and Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 (for topical course on Freedom and Authority) in humanities section.

Fall 90 & 91 EN 1 (Freshman Composition). Full responsibility for creating assignments along Department guidelines. Student-centered workshop-style class; emphasis on discourse community.

Writing Across the Curriculum

Sp 93 EN 12 Link with EN 23 (Intro to Fiction).WAC course with emphasis on critical approaches. Helped plan and synchronize linked course calendar and writing assignments; dual-submission papers; full responsibility for grading and administration. Worked with "content" instructors to plan lectures, develop critical approaches, and make text selections.

Fall 92 EN 11 Link with PH 22 (Ethics). Helped plan linked course in conjunction with Dr. Geoffery Sayre-McCord of Philosophy Dept.; created assignments to complement Ethics reading; administered several dual-submission paper assignments; full responsibility for two composition sections.

Honors Courses

Fl 98, Sp 99 HPAA 99 (Honors Research). Seminar course for select seniors who choose to write an honors thesis. Course pageincludes syllabus and course schedule.

TUTORING

Sp 95 Tutor, UNC Writing Center. Work with students ranging from freshmen to graduate students completing Masters theses and dissertations.

Fl 93-Sm 94 Tutor, After School and Saturday programs, Upward Bound, UNC-CH. Tutor disadvantaged college-bound high school students six days a month.

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

F 96-pres Editor, Community Independent School Newsletter. Create, edit and lay out articles for 6- to 10-page monthly newsletter on volunteer basis.

Sm 97-pres Assistant Editor, Journal of Health & Population for Developing Countries. Responsible for editing and formatting articles for this international health journal.

F 90-Sp 91 Reader, Carolina Quarterly.

PROFESSIONAL

Fl 94-Sp 95 Elected member of Freshman Committee. Responsibilities include peer review of twenty colleagues per year; new teacher training seminar; revise program teaching manual, including designing new assignments and semester calendars, with other members of committee; prepare group analysis of peer review system.

Fall 93-Sp 94 Group Coordinator, Department of Composition. Responsible for planning and chairing regular meetings of ten to twelve Teacher Assistants to discuss teaching methods and problems; creating Staff Manual for following year, which involves drafting detailed course descriptions and pedagogical goals for Department courses; selecting required texts for all Composition courses; assisting at three-day training workshop for new teachers.

Fall 92-Sp 93 Creative Speakers Co-Chairman, Association of Graduate English Students.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

9/95-pres Evaluation Coordinator, V.A. Primary Care Medical Education (PRIME) Program Evaluation. UNC-CH School of Public Health. Assist P.I. Kerry Kilpatrick, Professor and Chairman of the Health Policy and Administration Department, with evaluation of nationwide Graduate Medical Education training program, on contract with the Office of Academic Affiliations in the Veterans Affairs Department. Duties include writing reports, collecting and analyzing data, developing and distributing surveys, working with researchers and grant officers in the V.A. system, leading site visits, other coordination activities.

5/94-9/95 Program Coordinator, Executive Program in Health and Population for Developing Countries. UNC-CH School of Public Health. Primary responsibilities: student service (editing/tutoring on Masters papers; planning seminars and fourteen field visits each summer; arranging U.S. stay for foreign students); administrative duties (budgeting state and grant accounts; administering fellowships; handling applications and registration; etc.); liason responsibilities (with Contracts and Grants, Continuing Education, the Graduate School, donor agencies and others); writing and editing (involved with design plans, editing and distribution of marketing materials and newsletter; editing grant proposals; creating Web site; correspondence).

CONSULTING

6/95 Writing Consultant for INTRAH (International Training in Health), rewriting mission statement and brochure text for new $65 million program in international health training.

PUBLICATIONS

"John Bartlett" entry upcoming in the revised Dictionary of Literary Biography.
"C.C. Felton," "Samuel D. Robbins," "Timothy Walker" entries. Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
"De-centered Symbols in 'Endicott and the Red Cross.'" Studies in Short Fiction 30.4 (1993), 565-73.
"Gravity's Rainbow: Raiments of the Void." Colorado College Leviathan Vol. 10 (April 1984), 3-7.

WEB DEVELOPMENT & COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Lotus Domino-based discussion forums:

scribe.iat.unc.edu/Campus/ENGL/engl11-67.nsf
scribe.iat.unc.edu/Spring98/HPAA72-1s98.nsf
Business Writing for Health Administrators index, written by my students:

www.sph.unc.edu/courses/hpaa/undergrad/72/72_bmark.htm
Web pages for the Executive Program for Health and Population in Developing Countries (a departmental website redesign eliminated these pages last fall).
Personal homepage:

www.unc.edu/~sorton
Computer software/programming experience with Access, Excel, Word, HyperCard, FilePro, SuperPaint, BB Edit, Photoshop, HTML and HyperText language.

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EDUCATION
May 98	Ph.D., English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Major: 20th Century Minor: American
May 90	M.A., English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Thesis: "'A Broken System of Reliable Wires:' William Stafford's Poetics of Limitation." Directed by George Lensing
May 84	B.A., The Colorado College, with Distinction in English Thesis: "Gravity's Rainbow: Raiments of the Void." Directed by John Simons
DISSERTATION
March 1998	"Banning the Tribes: Emily Dickinson and the Communitarian Movement." Directed by Townsend Ludington Examines the influence of communitarian movements on Dickinson's thought and poetry, and traces the function and significance of communal/millenial themes in her work.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE *Literature*
Sp 94	EN 28 (Major American Authors). Designed and led course with thematic focus on "The Figure of Death in American Literature," using several critical approaches. Student-centered teaching method, with small group discussions, limited lecture. Emphasis on critical approaches, historical and aesthetic contexts. Course evaluations and syllabus available.
Fall 93	EN 82B (American Literature 1930-present). Teaching Assistant for large lecture class (160 students) under the direction of Dr. Kimball King (with Kathryn McKee). Lectured the full class on Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath; lead weekly "recitation" sections for classes of 30-35 students. Responsible for test questions, paper assignments, and grading.
Business Writing
Sp 97-99	HPAA 72 (Business Communication for Health Administrators). Created new course based on an existing syllabus. Developed new writing assignments to include business letters, memos, electronic mail, analysis of world wide web site content, executive summaries, press releases, research reports, presentations. In 1998 added Web-based computer discussion forum. Course homepage on-line.
Fall 98	HPAA 106 (Issues in Health Care) Guest lecturer. Presented two 90-minute modules on business writing for MPH and MHA students.
Composition
Fall 97	EN 11 (Freshman Composition). Special Computer Forum course to introduce students to composition and rhetoric. Student-centered, workshop-style course with Web-based computer discussion forum to provide informal writing and rhetorical practice; emphasis on web-based research tools for policy arguments.
Sp & Fl 94	EN 12 (Freshman Composition). Writing Across the Curriculum style course with two papers in each of three divisions (humanities, social and natural science), designed to prepare students for academic writing demands at university level. Student-centered, workshop-style course; emphasis on student models of writing, group work, revision techniques, differential writing and rhetorical syles. Student comments available from selected sections of these courses.
Sum &Fl 93	EN 10 (Freshman Composition). Beginning course for "battered writers." Created course along new Department guidelines, using a series of linked assignments in each unit building towards a large multi-draft paper. Emphasis on discourse communities, connections between speech and writing, analysis of non-print and print texts.
Sp 91 & 92	EN 2 (Freshman Composition). Writing in the humanities, social and natural sciences. Created new assignments for different textbooks each year; student-centered workshop-style sections, emphasis on writing conventions and ways of knowing in various disciplines; read William Carlos Williams, Hawthorne, and Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49 (for topical course on Freedom and Authority) in humanities section.
Fall 90 & 91	EN 1 (Freshman Composition). Full responsibility for creating assignments along Department guidelines. Student-centered workshop-style class; emphasis on discourse community.
Writing Across the Curriculum
Sp 93	EN 12 Link with EN 23 (Intro to Fiction).WAC course with emphasis on critical approaches. Helped plan and synchronize linked course calendar and writing assignments; dual-submission papers; full responsibility for grading and administration. Worked with "content" instructors to plan lectures, develop critical approaches, and make text selections.
Fall 92	EN 11 Link with PH 22 (Ethics). Helped plan linked course in conjunction with Dr. Geoffery Sayre-McCord of Philosophy Dept.; created assignments to complement Ethics reading; administered several dual-submission paper assignments; full responsibility for two composition sections.
Honors Courses
Fl 98, Sp 99	HPAA 99 (Honors Research). Seminar course for select seniors who choose to write an honors thesis. Course pageincludes syllabus and course schedule.
TUTORING
Sp 95	Tutor, UNC Writing Center. Work with students ranging from freshmen to graduate students completing Masters theses and dissertations.
Fl 93-Sm 94	Tutor, After School and Saturday programs, Upward Bound, UNC-CH. Tutor disadvantaged college-bound high school students six days a month.
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
F 96-pres	Editor, Community Independent School Newsletter. Create, edit and lay out articles for 6- to 10-page monthly newsletter on volunteer basis.
Sm 97-pres	Assistant Editor, Journal of Health & Population for Developing Countries. Responsible for editing and formatting articles for this international health journal.
F 90-Sp 91	Reader, Carolina Quarterly.
PROFESSIONAL
Fl 94-Sp 95	Elected member of Freshman Committee. Responsibilities include peer review of twenty colleagues per year; new teacher training seminar; revise program teaching manual, including designing new assignments and semester calendars, with other members of committee; prepare group analysis of peer review system.
Fall 93-Sp 94	Group Coordinator, Department of Composition. Responsible for planning and chairing regular meetings of ten to twelve Teacher Assistants to discuss teaching methods and problems; creating Staff Manual for following year, which involves drafting detailed course descriptions and pedagogical goals for Department courses; selecting required texts for all Composition courses; assisting at three-day training workshop for new teachers.
Fall 92-Sp 93	Creative Speakers Co-Chairman, Association of Graduate English Students.
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
9/95-pres	Evaluation Coordinator, V.A. Primary Care Medical Education (PRIME) Program Evaluation. UNC-CH School of Public Health. Assist P.I. Kerry Kilpatrick, Professor and Chairman of the Health Policy and Administration Department, with evaluation of nationwide Graduate Medical Education training program, on contract with the Office of Academic Affiliations in the Veterans Affairs Department. Duties include writing reports, collecting and analyzing data, developing and distributing surveys, working with researchers and grant officers in the V.A. system, leading site visits, other coordination activities.
5/94-9/95	Program Coordinator, Executive Program in Health and Population for Developing Countries. UNC-CH School of Public Health. Primary responsibilities: student service (editing/tutoring on Masters papers; planning seminars and fourteen field visits each summer; arranging U.S. stay for foreign students); administrative duties (budgeting state and grant accounts; administering fellowships; handling applications and registration; etc.); liason responsibilities (with Contracts and Grants, Continuing Education, the Graduate School, donor agencies and others); writing and editing (involved with design plans, editing and distribution of marketing materials and newsletter; editing grant proposals; creating Web site; correspondence).
CONSULTING
6/95	Writing Consultant for INTRAH (International Training in Health), rewriting mission statement and brochure text for new $65 million program in international health training.
PUBLICATIONS
"John Bartlett" entry upcoming in the revised Dictionary of Literary Biography. "C.C. Felton," "Samuel D. Robbins," "Timothy Walker" entries. Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996. "De-centered Symbols in 'Endicott and the Red Cross.'" Studies in Short Fiction 30.4 (1993), 565-73. "Gravity's Rainbow: Raiments of the Void." Colorado College Leviathan Vol. 10 (April 1984), 3-7.
WEB DEVELOPMENT & COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
Lotus Domino-based discussion forums: scribe.iat.unc.edu/Campus/ENGL/engl11-67.nsf scribe.iat.unc.edu/Spring98/HPAA72-1s98.nsf Business Writing for Health Administrators index, written by my students: www.sph.unc.edu/courses/hpaa/undergrad/72/72_bmark.htm Web pages for the Executive Program for Health and Population in Developing Countries (a departmental website redesign eliminated these pages last fall). Personal homepage: www.unc.edu/~sorton Computer software/programming experience with Access, Excel, Word, HyperCard, FilePro, SuperPaint, BB Edit, Photoshop, HTML and HyperText language.