Short Résumé
Les K. Wright, Ph.D.
2419 California Street leskirkwright@gmail.com
Eureka, CA 95501 Home 707 444 2835 / Cell 707 362 2801
COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR
ENGLISH, HUMANITIES, GERMAN
2010–, Tutor, multiple subjects, WyzAnt (https://www.wyzant.com/Tutor/)
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA 2007-2010
Professor English (adjunct)
• Expository writing instructor (College Writing Development, Freshman Composition, Critical Thinking)
Contributing Writer 2001––
• Film reviewer (international, independent, documentary, Hollywood genre film, art and museum exhibitions), CultureVulture.net, San Francisco, CA, (2001––)
• Essayist, “Out Lines” column, Voice Male, Men’s Resource Center, Amherst, MA, (2002––)
• Columnist, “Bear History,“ A Bear’s Life magazine, New York, NY, (2007––)
Mount Ida College, Newton Centre, MA 1993—2005
Associate Professor Humanities and English
• English Department Chair (2003-2004), Curriculum Coordinator (1995-1998), tenured (1999)
• Taught eight courses per academic year, including composition, introductory and advanced literature (English, world, and classics), and humanities electives (including World Religions)
• Developed curriculum, signature courses including: Aesthetics (for visual artists); Cultural Diversity in Film; Literature of Death and Dying; humanities seminar on Social “Otherness” (subaltern subjectivities)
• Supervised individual senior-year student mentor projects, Liberal Studies (BLS) program
• Served on elected and ad hoc faculty committees and task forces, notably Curriculum
• Organized panels, presented papers, pursued creative work, notably organized international conference on Queer Masculinities, Mount Ida College, 2000
• Served as faculty advisor to student clubs, notably Gay/Straight Alliance, film club, and Pointblank, the college literary magazine
Doctoral Studies / Dissertation 1989—1993
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 1988—1989
Visiting Instructor German and Russian
• Taught German language and literature courses, all instruction in German
• Taught Russian language and literature courses, language instruction in Russian, literary modernism in English translation
Part-Time / Adjunct 1975—2009
Human Sexuality courses (third-year and graduate levels), Health Science Department, Worcester State College, Worcester, MA 1998—2000
First-Year Composition, Comparative Literature program, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1985—1989
Program Director, English as a Second Language summer program, Los Angeles campus, Academy of World Studies, San Francisco, CA 1984
German, lower division language courses, German Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1981—1983
English as a Second Language courses (all levels), German-American Institute, Tübingen, Germany 1975—1979
CREDENTIALS
Instructor, California Community College, Language Arts, German, Humanities , 1986
California Basic Educational Skills Test, (CBEST), 1984
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
Master of Arts in Comparative Literature, University of California at Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Albany
Certificate of Thanatology, National Center for Death Education. Newton Centre, MA
Fulbright Fellow, Disease and Sexuality in German Culture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Regents Fellowship, Netherlandic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Certificat de langue française, Extension universitaire de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
Post-baccalaureate student (full-time), Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany
Academic Year Abroad Program, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany
Rotary International Exchange Student, Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany
WORLD LANGUAGES
English, German (native, near-native fluency)
French, Russian, Dutch, Latin (reading, writing, lesser speaking proficiencies)
Spanish (one year)
CREATIVE PROJECTS
Art Exhibition Bear Icons and Beyond series, curator, New York, Boston, Provincetown, Washington, DC, 1999-2002.
Publications, book-length
Queer Masculinities, special issue of Men and Masculinities. Les Wright, guest editor. 7:3 (January 2005): 243-320.
The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture. Les Wright, ed. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2001
The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture. Les Wright, ed. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1997
Publications, chapter or article-length
“San Francisco.” Queer Sites: Urban Histories of Gay Male Experience, David Higgs, ed. New York: Routledge 1999
“The Genre Cycle of German Gay Coming-Out Films, 1970-1994.” Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture. Chris Lorey and John Plews, eds. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998 (311-339)
“Gay Genocide as Literary Trope.” AIDS: The Literary Response. E.S. Nelson, ed. New York: Macmillan/Twayne, 1992 (50-68)
“Clinton, New York.” Hometowns: Gay Men Write About Where They Belong. John Preston, ed. New York: Dutton, 1991 (137-52)
(complete list of publications available upon request)
