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Edward J. Katz
Associate Vice Chancellor for University Programs
Associate Professor

Education:
Ph.D., University of Rochester
M.A., University of Rochester
B.S., Michigan State University
B.A., University of Washington

Contact information:
Office:  218 Phillips halll
Office Phone:  (828)250-3872
ekatz@unca.edu

Edward J. Katz
Recent scholarship:
"Issues of Pedagogy in English: Creating a Culture of Inquiry," Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, SC 1-3 March, 2001: chair and respondent for this student panel.

Books edited
The Asheville Reader: The Modern World.  2nd ed.  Eds. Edward J. Katz and Tracey
Rizzo.(Acton, Mass: Copley, forthcoming, 2003).  I served as lead editor for the book, which will be used as the core reader for Humanities 324

Articles
“UNCA Case Study (on General Education Reform).”  Fear Less: and Other Patterns for Introducing New Ideas into Organizations.  Eds. Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising.  New York: Addison-Wesley/Longman (forthcoming 2003).

“Gathering Faculty Feedback for Curricular Review: The UNCA Listening Project.”  AGLS News: The Newsletter of the Association for General and Liberal Studies. 19.2 (Winter 2003): 4-5.

 "'Action and Speaking are One': A Logological Reading of Smart's Prophetic
Rhetoric."  In Christopher Smart and the Enlightenment, ed. Clement Hawes (New York: St. Martins, 1999) 47-66. 

Reviews
Review of The Theory and Practice of Teaching, ed., Peter Jarvis (London: Kogan Page, 2002), in Effective Teaching: The Carolina Colloquy's Electronic Journal of University Teaching and Learning.  http://www.unca.edu/et/br011402.html

Review of Beth Aviv Greenbaum, Teaching About the Holocaust: Bearing Witness. (Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2002) in Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and of Lorry Stillman, The Spirit That Moves Us: Using Literature, Art, and Music To Teach About the Holocaust at the Secondary and College Level  (Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 2001) in Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 46 (March 2003): 533-35

Review of Arthur J. Cropley, Creativity in Education and Learning: A Guide for Teachers and Educators (London: Kogan Page, 2001) in Effective Teaching: The Carolina Colloquy's Electronic Journal of University Teaching and Learning.  http://www.unca.edu/et/br011402.html

Review of Robert L. Mack. Thomas Gray: A Life. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.
Albion: A Journal of Reviews (Fall 2001-Spring 2002).

 Presentations
Katz, Edward, and Jeff Konz.  “Designing an Integrated General Education Program: The ILS Program at UNC-Asheville.”  For presentation at the Annual Conference for the Association of Integrative Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 9-12 October 2003 (forthcoming).

 “Meditating on Place: Where We Live and the Meanings We Make,” presented at Connecting the Text and the Street, the 53rd Annual National Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL; 21 March 2002.

“Cisco Learning Engine Pilot.”  Edward Katz, Mike Ruiz, and Chuck Bennett.  Project participant, developing Humanities 324 content for digital e-based instructional platform.  Work on the UNCA Cisco Grant Activity reported with Chuck Bennett as part of the invited presentation of Helen Parke (ECU), “Cisco Learning Engine Pilot,” University of North Carolina Instructional Technology etreat, Broyhill Conference Center, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, May 30 – June 1, 2000.

Chair and respondent, “Issues of Pedagogy in English: Creating a Culture of Inquiry,” a student panel at the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Charleston, SC, 1-3 March 2001

 

 

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