Curriculum Vitae - Teaching and Fellowships

W. D. Ehrhart

TEACHING and FELLOWSHIPS

	Current Employment
		Teacher of English & history, The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania, beginning fall 2002. American literature, British literature, American history, history electives. Assistant winter track coach; student literary & arts magazine advisor.

	Fellowships & Residencies
	•	Research Fellow, American Studies Department, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom. 1997-2000: explored various aspects of 20th century American wars and war literature. Special emphasis on Korean War. 2001-2002: background research on the Welsh in southern Ohio. Fellowship involved research & writing as well as visits to Swansea to lecture, conduct seminars, advise & consult.
	•	Guest-in-Residence, Unit One/Allen Hall, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1998. Lived, ate, and taught in first-year dorm. Offered programs nightly. Available during days for individual consultations with students.
	•	Writer-in-Residence, The National Writer's Voice Project of the YMCA of the USA, Downtown Detroit YMCA, 1996. Conducted master-level workshops at the Y for mature writers (post-undergraduate). Lectured in individual classes at Wayne State University, Macomb Community College, and the Center for Creative Studies.
	•	Visiting Professor of War and Social Consequences, The William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1990. Taught course on the Vietnam War. Edited special newsletter on women veterans' poetry. Researched VVAW Winter Soldier hearings.

	Teaching
	•	Director, Summer Writers' Workshop for High School Students, Department of English, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997-2000.
	•	Teacher of English and History at Sandy Spring Friends School, George School, Temple University-Ambler, Germantown Friends School, La Salle University, Bucks County Community College, and the Haverford School at various times between 1978 and 2001. Courses taught include Western Civilization, American History, American Literature of the 1920s & 1930s, Stephen Crane, Contemporary Poetry, Introduction to Poetry, English Romantic Poets, Literature of the Sea, Literature of the Vietnam War, History of the Vietnam War, History of Nonviolent Resistance in America, History of Revolutions (American, French & Russian), History of the Donner Party, Poetry Writing Workshop, Creative Writing Workshop, Composition.

	Recent Activities & Selected Highlights
	•	Featured Poet, The Home Front: Jane Irish's Art of War, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, February-March 2011.
	•	Featured Poet, Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, December 2010.
	•	Presenter, 17th International Boys' Schools Coalition Conference, June 2010.
	•	Featured Poet, Jane Crown's Poetry Radio (www.janecrown.com), August 2010.
	•	Featured Poet, A Celebration of Community, performances in honor of Rebecca Chopp's Inauguration as 14th President of Swarthmore College, May 2010.
	•	38th Joe Patterson Smith Lecturer & IC Connections Convocation Speaker, Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL, October 2009.
	•	Presenter, Vietnam Now! Symposium, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, July 2009.
	•	Keynote Speaker, "War & War's Aftermath," Netherlands American Studies Association, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, June 2009.
	•	Featured Poet, Cochin Chinoiserie , Jane Irish, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
	•	Featured Poet, River Poets Quarterly , v.2, #3, Summer 2008.
	•	Presenter, New Jersey Council for the Humanities Teacher Institute, 2008.
	•	Featured Poet, Paintings for Winning Hearts and Minds, Jane Irish, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, December 2007-January 2008.
	•	Featured Poet, Marah's DVD Sooner or Later in Spain, released November 2006.
	•	Featured Poet, Poets & Writers Festival, Community College of Philadelphia, Feb. 2006.
	•	Keynote Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Regional Conference & Undergraduate History Forum, April 2005
	•	Keynote Speaker, Pennsylvania College English Association, April 2005
	•	Featured Writer, Bucks County Writer, v.5, #3, Spring 2004
	•	Featured Speaker, Library of Congress Professional Association, 2003
	•	Featured Poet w/Marah ("the Last Rock-n-Roll Band") at the Tin Angel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
	•	Keynote Speaker, Margins Conference of Independent Secondary School Teachers of English, The Haverford School, Haverford, Pennsylvania, 2002.
	•	Visiting Scholar, Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Ball State University, 2002.
	•	Featured Guest, "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, Washington, DC, 2001.
	•	Keynote Speaker, Conference on Contemporary Views of American Literature and Culture in the Great 60s, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, 2000.
	•	Keynote Speaker, Conference on War in Memory, Popular Culture and Folklore, Center for the Study of the Korean War and the National Archives and Records Administration Central Plains Division, Kansas City, Missouri, 2000.
	•	Featured Poet, Acoma 18: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani, Rome & Bergamo, Italy, 2000.
	•	Participant, Korea-America Dialogue, Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, 1999.
	•	Featured Speaker, 25th Annual Eastern Community College Social Science Association, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1999.
	•	Participant, Vietnam-America Dialogue, Maureen & Mike Mansfield Center, University of Montana, 1998.
	•	Guest Editor, War, Literature & the Arts, Fall/Winter 1997 special issue titled I Remember: Soldier-Poets of the Korean War.
	•	Participant, 43rd National Security Seminar, U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 1997.
	•	Featured Poet, A Public Symposium: History, Literature & Music of the Vietnam War, El Paso, Texas, 1996.
	•	Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, Rutgers University-Newark, New Jersey, 1995.
	•	Featured Poet, Austrian Association of American Studies, Universitat Klagenfurt, 1993.
	•	Faculty, Second Mountain Empire Conference: Trauma & the Humanities, Department of Veterans Affairs, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1992.
	•	Featured Writer, Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series #9: American Writers of the Vietnam War, Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1991.
	•	Foreword, Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War, Warner Books, 1991.
	•	Participant, First Conference of U.S. & Vietnamese Veteran-Writers, Hanoi, 1990.
	•	Isota Tucker Epps Lecturer, Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1989.
	•	Poetry Advisor, The Lessons of the Vietnam War, Center for Social Studies Education, 1988.
	•	Featured Poet, Steinman Arts Festival, St. Lawrence University, New York, 1987.
	•	Contributor, Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, First Casualty Press, 1972.

	Education
	•	Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wales at Swansea, 2000.
	•	Master of Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, 1978.
	•	Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College, 1973.

	Military Service
	•	U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-69; Sergeant (E5); Honorable Discharge.

	Other
	•	Merchant seaman aboard US and Irish vessels, construction laborer, forklift operator and warehouseman, roofer, legal aide for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice, reporter, and writer-editor at various times between 1969 and 1984.