Jeff is a college English professor and an editor of poetry, creative nonfiction, biographies/memoirs, and martial arts books.
Areas of assistance:
English (including composition, literature, and rhetoric), Philosophy, Linguistics
- Topic selection
- Content organization
- Proofreading
- Format consistency
- Editing/revising for clarity
- Editing/revising for development
EDUCATION
M.A., Ph.D., English, Rhetoric and Composition Specialization
Literary Concentration: Modernism, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Dissertation: The Ethics of Writing.
Thesis: Cohesion as Logic: The Possible Worlds of Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress."
B.A., Philosophy (May 1981).
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Consultant -- Assistant Professor -- Adjunct Professor
Created and taught web-based Critical Thinking course that encourages skepticism and problem-solving; required service-learning component so that students contribute directly to their community, workplace, or discipline. Taught Professional Writing and
Research Techniques and Essentials for Business and Technology Communication to
Graduate Business majors. Hired as consultant by the College of Business to develop a Professional Communication course that would be required in the undergraduate
Business curriculum.
Rhetoric and Composition I and II; Honors Global Issues course on "Universal Human Rights and Cultural Identity" (Web-Enhanced using Blackboard, Writing-Intensive); integrated technology including Web-based software; provided symposia and workshops on writing for colleagues; developed innovative approach for teaching strategic writing (The Honorable Classroom).
Freshman English I and II (including Computer-Enhanced), Honors English II, Technical Writing, Professional Writing, Narration and Description (creative writing), Study Skills. Taught at-risk students in Summer Bridge Program: Freshman English and Study Skills.
CONFERENCES (sample)
"The Myth of the Fearless Warrior: The Japanese Fighting Code in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture," Fear and Awe: 21st Annual International Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-4, 2006.
"‘Secret’ Fighting Manuals of the Renaissance: On Selling a Fantasy," Arms and Letters: 20th Annual International Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, October 27-29, 2005.
"The Ethics of Deception: East Versus West," Truth and Mendacity: 19th International Conference on Literature and the Visual Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, October 22-24, 2004.
"The Good Liar: Notes toward a New Theory of Deception," The International Conference on Literature and Psychology," The University of Greenwich, England, July 2-7, 2003.
"The Hope and Failures of Technology: Dignity in First-Year Composition" (Chair and Presenter), College English Association Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, April 3-5, 2003.
"The Warrior Mind: On the Impossibility of Eliminating War-Like Thinking," South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 15, 2002.
"The Liar’s Paradox: Deception and Cheating in The Great Gatsby." The 6th Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 19-22, 2002.
"Psychological Realism Regained: Cognitive Psychology Versus Phenomenology in Modern Literature." The International Conference on Literature and Psychology, University of Sienna at Arezzo, Italy, June 26-July 1, 2002.
"Reopening Old Wounds: Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited and the Moral Life." International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, September, 1998.
"Frankenstein in Pain: Living Corpses, Dead Robots, and Tortured Cyborgs," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, March 1993.
WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS (sample)
"Honor and Reputation in the Workplace: How to Protect and Build Your Career in the 21st Century," Eckerd College, October 13, 2009.
"The Honorable Classroom: Helping Students (and Colleagues) Communicate with Strength Every Day," FCTE Professional Development Conference, Orlando, FL, October 17, 2008.
"Honor, Reputation, and Profit in the Workplace," Sertoma Club, Tampa, Florida, June 16, 2008.
"The Creative Life: An Arts and Creativity Workshop" (for Hillsborough County Magnet school administrators), Lyon’s Eye Institute, Tampa, Florida, June 22, 2007.
Poetry and Performance Workshop, Trinity Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida, February 9, 2006.
"The Honorable Classroom: A Workshop for Creating and Maintaining Excellence" (co- presenter), The Florida Council of Teacher’s of English, Orlando, Florida, October 13-15, 2005.
"Lying and Cheating in F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Mark of ‘Good’ Literature," The Sarasota Institute of Lifelong Learning, Sarasota, Florida, March 10, 2004.
"Writing Intensive Revisited" (co-presenter), The University of Tampa, March 22, 2001.
Technical Writing Workshop for Institutional Research and Planning, University of South Florida (presenter), SeptemberDecember, 1996.
"True Ease: A Writing Workshop for Artists" (copresenter), The Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Tampa YMCA Writer's Voice, March 1996
"Where's Waldo?: Giving the Professional Writer a Face" (presenter), Hillsborough County Summer Institute for English Teachers, June, 1995.
PUBLICATIONS
Nonfiction
"Receiving the News," under consideraation with the Bellview Review.
"The Teacher Prepares," Sandhill Review 11 (2010): 89.
"Savoring Life's Most Sumptuous Moments," St. Petersburg Times, 2007.
"Persevering through Peaks and Valleys," St. Petersburg Times, 2005.
"Unwanted Instructions," St. Petersburg Times, 2004.
"Passion, Civility, and the Case of Al-Arian," FCEA On-Line Newsletter, March 2002.
Reviews of James Lee Burke’s Burning Angel, Robert Crais’s VoodooRiver, Lawrence Block’s A Long Line of Dead Men in The Weekly Planet, May 30, 1996.
Poetry
Sonnets from the Andalusian Twilight. Chapbook under review. Currently working on multi-disciplinary performance.
"The Plains Are Filled with Men," White Pellican Review 3 (Spring 2002): 37.
"Stories from Under Your Bed" (cowriter), poetry and dance program for children, St. Petersburg Junior College, April 1997.
"Release from Nostalgia," Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference Anthology, 1994.
“I am very satisfied with Dr. Karon’s work. Maybe most noteworthy, he clearly understood the content of the article, which is not at all self-evident and was very helpful. I accepted practically all of his changes to the article.” - Professor, Northwestern University "I contracted Dr. Jeff Karon to copy edit my doctoral dissertation on philosophy and ethics. Not only was the quality of his work outstanding, his enthusiasm about creative writing and his encouragement carried me through very difficult times at the end of my program. I truly appreciated his comments and suggestions, many of which I will continue to work with as I am preparing a manuscript from my dissertation to be published as a book. Without reservation, Dr. Karon has my highest recommendations. He showed me how beautiful written language can be and reinvigorated in me the writing spirit that I had nearly lost in the strategic aspects of the dissertation process. It was a perfect fit both in terms of the topic and personality." —(Contact information on request) |
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