Randy Bass
Director
Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies
Randy
Bass is Director of the Center for Electronic Projects in American Culture Studies
(CEPACS) at Georgetown University. He is also the Director of the American Studies
Crossroads Project, an international project on technology and education sponsored by the
American Studies Association, with major funding by the US Department of Education's Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education and the Annenberg/CPB Project. In
conjunction with the Crossroads Project, Bass is the supervising editor of Engines of
Inquiry: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Studies, and
executive producer of the companion video, Engines of Inquiry: A Video Tour of Learning
and Technology in American Culture Studies.
He
is a co-leader of the NEH-funded "New Media Classroom Project: Building a National
Conversation on Narrative Inquiry and Technology," in conjunction with the American
Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (at the CUNY Graduate Center). He is
also the Electronic Resources Editor for the Heath Anthology of American Literature
(third edition, Paul Lauter, ed.), and the founder of T-AMLIT, the "Teaching the
American Literatures discussion list."
He
has been working with educational technology since 1986 and has directed or co-designed a
number of electronic projects, as well as authored different print and electronic
publications on the use of technology in teaching culture and history, including the
"Guide to Interactive Multimedia and the Study of the United States" (United
States Information Agency, 1994; 1997). He is currently engaged in several other projects
on technology and education. For several years he has served as a facilitator and
consultant to the "American Memory Fellows Program" of The Library of Congress.
He is also a senior associate with the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group, with the
American Association for Higher Education.
In 1998-99, he served as a "Pew Scholar," in conjunction with the Pew-funded
Carnegie Teaching Academy, for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Bass
is Associate Professor of English and a member of the American Studies Committee at
Georgetown University.
In 1993-4 he served as the American Studies Keck Foundation Faculty Fellow at Georgetown.
He is the editor of Border Texts: Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers
(Houghton Mifflin, 1998); and co-editor of Intentional Media: Reflections on Learning
and Technology in the Culture and History Classroom (forthcoming, July 1999).
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