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John Rothfork, PhD

John Rothfork, Ph.D. (University of New Mexico, 1973)

Department Chair (2011– ); Professor, Professional Writing

Dr. Rothfork has been with NAU since 2001.

Online learning

2011–present, Professor; English Department Chair (2011– ); 2006–11, Associate Professor; English Department Associate Chair (2009–11); 2001–06, Assistant Professor; English Department, Northern Arizona University. Specializations: online courses in the graduate Certificate and M.A. programs in professional writing.
1999–2001, Assistant Professor; English and Modern Languages Department, West Texas A&M University. Specialization: American literature.
1986–98, Professor; 1977–85, Associate Professor; 1973–76, Assistant Professor; 1970–72, Instructor; Humanities Department, New Mexico Tech. Specializations: philosophy, literature, technical writing. Editor of the New Mexico Humanities Review, 1978–93.
English Language Fellow: Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt (2007-08). Senior Fulbright Professor: Indian Institute of Technology—Madras (1990), Indian Institute of Science—Bangalore (1989), Tokyo University (1985), Keio University (1985), Indian Institute of Technology—Kanpur (1981–2).

Literature

“The Theater and Small Town Texas in Clay Reynolds’ The Tentmaker” Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 48.1 (Winter 2007).
“Cormac McCarthy as Pragmatist,” Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 47.2 (Winter 2006): 201-14.
“Beauty and History in Clay Reynolds’ Franklin’s Crossing,” Southwest American Literature, 30.2 (Spring 2005): 29-44.
“The Missing Beauty in Clay Reynolds’ Agatite Trilogy,” Texas Review, 25.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2004): 80-102.
“Language and the Dance of Time in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian,” Southwest American Literature, 30.1 (Fall 2004): 23-36.
“Redemption as Language in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree,” Christianity and Literature, 53 (2004): 385–97.
“Confucianism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled,” Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, 4.1 (October 2004).

Education

“Remaking the American University: Open for Business,” Education Review, 9.3 (March 2006): 1-14.
“Doom, Gloom, and the Misunderstanding of Higher Education: An Essay Review of Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk,” Education Review, 8.2 (November 2005): 1-14.
“Review: Putting the University Online,” Open Learning, 20.2 (June 2005): 193-99.

Recent funded grants

USGS–Flagstaff, professional writing mentoring, 2008–11.
U.S. Department of State, English Language Specialist Program grant to participate in the English Language Teacher Training Institute in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nov., 2006.
National Writing Project, Mentoring Project, 2005-06.
Advanced Technology Institute for National Writing Project Technical Liaisons, Marshall University, 2005.