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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Department of Composition, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2004-

Director of Graduate Studies, Master’s in English, Department of English and Department of Composition, University of Minnesota Duluth, Fall 2004 through Fall 2005.

Associate Professor, Department of Composition, University of Minnesota Duluth, 1988-2004.

Assistant Professor, Department of Composition, University of Minnesota Duluth, 1987-1988.

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Co-Director, "Questions of Orality and Literacy: A Tribute to Walter J. Ong, S.J." A symposium celebrating Rockhurst College's 75th anniversary, 29 July to 1 August 1985. This symposium was supported in part by a grant of $7,500 from the Missouri Committee on the Humanities (local matching: $21,346). In addition to helping organize the symposium, Dr. Farrell delivered the keynote address and presented a paper.

 

Assistant Professor of English, Rockhurst College, 1982-1984.

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Admissions Committee

 

Associate Professor of English, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 1977-1979.

Dr. Farrell's appointment at Forest Park from 1969 to 1979 always included teaching in both the General Curriculum (developmental) and Humanities Divisions (transfer level).

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Assistant Professor of English, City College of the City University of New York, 1975-1976.

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Core Curriculum Committee on Communication

Staff member for long-range planning for all four locations of St. Louis Community College, 1974-1975 (half-time and both summers).
Edited and co-authored two documents:

(1) "A Descriptive Program Structure of SLCC" (September 1974; 66 pp.);

(2) "Guide for Evaluation of Departments Colleges" (September 1975; 85 pp.).

 

Assistant Professor of English, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 1972-1977 (with a leave of absence in 1975-1976 to teach at CCNY).

Chairperson, Department of Basic Academic Skills, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 1971-1974.
This department in the General Curriculum Division had ten full-time faculty members and offered courses in development writing, reading, and mathematics. Dr. Farrell was responsible for scheduling classes, budgeting, coordinating part-time teachers, and evaluating faculty members. Dr. Farrell also initiated the expenditure of grant money to carry out a follow-up study of former General Curriculum students and to implement certain teaching innovations.

 

Instructor of English, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, 1969-1972.

 

Teacher of tenth-grade English, Webster Groves High School, 1968-1969.

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