8/78 - 8/81, PhD, Majors: early American literature and prose fiction, Minors: creative writing and American studies
5/76 - 8/78, MA, Major: creative writing (poetry)
8/72 - 5/76, BS, Major: English--graduated magna cum laude--Minor: journalism
(All degrees were earned at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.)
Rhode, Robert T. "Hankering, Gross, Mystical, Nude: The Persona in Leaves of Grass." Diss. Indiana U, 1981.
I have taught thirty-four separate courses at Northern Kentucky University. Twenty-six of these courses have been in English. Ten have been honors seminars. Three have been graduate courses. Seventeen have been American literature courses, ranging from colonial to modern. I have taught at NKU since August 1981.
Courses Taught
Studies in American Literature Since 1865, ENG 667
Readings in American Literature, ENG 510
Independent Study of American Literature, ENG 498
Special Project in Creative Writing--Poetry, ENG 490
Survey of American Literature II, ENG 399
Studies in American Literature: The Machine and the Garden, formerly ENG 397, then ENG 364, now ENG 464
Poetry Writing, ENG 394
Traditional Grammar, ENG 371
Nineteenth-Century American Literature--Poe, ENG 351, now ENG 461
Nineteenth-Century American Literature--Whitman, ENG 351, now ENG 461
Survey of American Literature II, ENG 306
Survey of American Literature I, ENG 305
American Novel, ENG 301
Survey of American Literature II, ENG 209
Survey of American Literature I, ENG 208
Literature and the Human Experience, ENG 265
Introduction to Literature, ENG 200
Advanced Writing, ENG 291
Composition II, ENG 102
Composition I, ENG 101
Honors Composition, ENG 151
Senior Honors Thesis/Project, HNR 401-HNR 402
Special Topics, HNR 305
Humanity and the Machine, HNR 304
The Humanities Tradition in Britain, HNR 303 (taught in Britain)
Humanity and the Imagination, HNR 303
Humanity and Society, HNR 302
The Role of Intellect in Society, HNR 101
Books
Spalding, John F. and Robert T. Rhode. The Steam Tractor Encyclopedia: Glory Days of the Invention That Changed Farming Forever. Boston: Quayside Group, 2008.
Rhode, Robert T. The Harvest Story: Recollections of Old-Time Threshermen. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2001.
Drake, Raymond L. and Robert T. Rhode. Classic American Steamrollers 1871-1935 Photo Archive. Hudson, WI: Iconografix, 2001. Recipient of the Silver Jubilee Certificate, awarded by the Road Roller Association, based in England, "for furthering the understanding of steamrollers."
Kersell, Nancy D. and Robert T. Rhode. Your Personal Writing Workout. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
---. Your Personal Writing Workout. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.
---. Your Personal Writing Workout. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Borne, Patricia C. and Robert T. Rhode. Speak No Evil! A Grammar Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.
Reviews of Rhode's Books
Old Glory Dec. 2008: 84. Old Glory is published
in England.
Packard, Vance, Jr. "Book Review." IA: The Journal of
the Society for Industrial Archeology 27.2 (2001): 68-69. Although the date is 2001,
this issue appeared in the winter of 2003.
Rayner, Derek. "Reading." Steaming 45.4 (2002):
236-37. Steaming is published in England.
---. "Review." Old Glory 150 (August
2002): 84. Old Glory is published in England.
---. "Book Review." Rolling (Autumn
2001): 16-17. Rolling is published in England.
Brown, Marjorie. "Review." Butler County Historical
Society Newsletter (March 2002): 3.
Rayner, Derek. "Bookshelf." Old Glory 139
(September 2001): 43. Old Glory is published in England.
Erb, Dave. "Book Review." Old Abe's
News 17.1 (2001): 34.
Hoffman, Ray. "Book Review." Heritage Eagle
55 (Fall 2001): front cover.
Mueller, Ann. "Two New Books Fueled by
Steam Enthusiast's Pontiac Memories." Threshermen's Reunion Fall
2001: 8, 12.
Erb, Dave. "Book Review." Old Abe's
News 16.3 (2001): 17.
Stafford, Tom. "The Steamroller City."
Springfield News-Sun 2 Jul. 2001: 21. This extensive newspaper
article is not so much a review as a celebration of the Drake/Rhode book.
"Purdue University Press Releases New
Historical Work on Wheat Threshing." Iron-Men Album Magazine 56.1
(2001):3.
Rayner, Derek. "Reading."
Steaming 44.3 (2001): 176. Steaming is published in
England.
Hoffman, Ray. "Book Review." Heritage
Eagle 54 (Summer 2001): front cover.
"The Book Nook." Price Hill Historical
Society Heritage on the Hill 12.1 (2001): 2.
Berry, Thomas. "Book and Video Reviews."
Equipment Echoes 61 (Summer 2001): 30. Weidman, Linda. "New Book from
Iconographix [sic] Celebrates the Steam Roller." Iron-Men Album
Magazine 55.6 (2001): 11. Invited Essay in an Anthology Rhode, Robert T. "In Withered Fields." Black Earth
and Ivory Tower: New American Essays from Farm and Classroom. Columbia: U of South
Carolina P, 2005. 111-19.
Invited Essay in an
Encyclopedia Rhode, Robert T. "Tractor."
American
Icons: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things That Have
Shaped Our Culture. Ed. Dennis R. Hall and Susan Grove Hall.
Westport: Greenwood, 2006. 698-704.
Invited Review of a Republished Book Rhode, Robert T. Rev. of The Furrow and Us:
Essays on Soil and Sentiment. 1946. Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2005.
Chapter in a Book Rhode, Robert T. "A Walk Around Pine Village in the Early
1920s." A History of Warren County, Indiana. 175th Anniversary Ed. Williamsport,
IN: Warren Co. Historical Society, 2002. 3-12.
Book Manuscript Edited for
Publication Rhode, Robert T., ed. The Aultman &
Taylor Company. By Dr. Lorin E. Bixler. Lancaster: STEMGAS
Publishing, 2000. Ogden Publishing, 2001-2003. Refereed Articles Rhode, Robert T. "The Persistence of Place: Alice Cary's
Authentic Rural Settings." Ohio Valley History 7.1 (2007): 47-59. Hermann, R. Timothy, B. Michael McCormick, and Robert T.
Rhode. "George W. Cutter: America's Poet Warrior." The Journal of Kentucky
Studies 18 (2001): 74-85. Rhode, Robert T. "Culture Followed the
Plow, However Slowly." Kentucky Philological Review 15
(2000): 49-56. ---. "William Dean Howells:
Hamiltonian, Bostonian, or New Yorker?" Kentucky Philological
Review 14 (1999): 32-39. Ellis, Allen and Robert T. Rhode. "Notes
on 'Invocation' by Ogden Nash." Notes and Queries ns 46.4 (1999):
497-500. Rhode, Robert T. "The Disenchanted
Generation." National Honors Report 20.4 (1999): 27-28.
Special issue of "noteworthy articles from the past" selected for
reprinting. ---. "The Road-Building Ruebels
of Cincinnati." Queen City Heritage 56.2 (1998):
29-35. ---. "When Steam Was King . . .
and Cincinnati Was Queen." Queen City Heritage 55.1 (1997):
36-48. Kersell, Nancy D. and Robert T.
Rhode. "Voices from the Margins: What Students Want to Hear from
Instructor Comments." The Teaching Professor 10.9 (1996):
5. Rhode, Robert T. "Famished for
Reading: How a Harvest of Machinery Catalogues Fed Rural America."
Studies in Popular Culture 19.1 (1996): 37-45. ---. "Review of The Narrative of
Arthur Gordon Pym and the Abyss of Interpretation." Poe
Studies Association Newsletter 24.1 (1996): 7. ---. "Review of Edgar Allan Poe,
Terror of the Soul." Poe Studies Association Newsletter
23.2 (1995): 5. Cottrill, Angela and Robert T. Rhode.
"In the Line of Fire: Honors Programs amid Ideological Battles."
Forum for Honors 21.1 (1992): 3-11. (Cottrill was a
student.) Rhode, Robert T. "Why We Have an
Honors Program." Forum for Honors 15.1 (1984):
13-16. ---. "Is Secular Humanism the
Religion of the Public Schools?" Dealing with Censorship. Ed.
James E. Davis. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1979. 117-24. (This publication is
a chapter in a book.) ---. "Legal Decisions and Censorship:
A Game of Chance." Dealing with Censorship. 76-84. (This
publication is a chapter in a book.) ---. "Are the Censors Confusing
Humanism with Secular Humanism?" Indiana English, Special
Issue on Censorship 1.1 (1977): 56-61. ---. "Legal Decisions and Censorship:
A Game of Chance." Indiana English: 34-40. Articles Scrutinized by
Editors Rhode, Robert T. "A Note on the Painting 'Poe's Mind.'"
Northern Kentucky Area High School Creative Writing Contest Winners. Ed. Gary
Walton. Highland Heights: Northern Kentucky U, 2006.
---. "Questions Useful in
Interviewing Applicants to an Honors Program." National Honors
Report 15.4 (1994): 18-20. ---. "Welcome to Honors Teaching!"
National Honors Report 14.2 (1993): 11-14. ---. "Why I No Longer Trust ACT
Scores as Indicators of Honors Participants' Academic Potential."
National Honors Report 14.1 (1993): 23-25. ---. "Preparing the Under-Prepared."
National Honors Report 13.4 (1993): 21-24. ---. "The Disenchanted Generation."
National Honors Report 13.3 (1992): 20-22. Borne, Patricia C. and Robert T.
Rhode. "Facing Down the Furies." National Honors Report 13.1
(1992): 23-25. Rhode, Robert T. "The Honors Lounge
in a Commuter Setting." National Honors Report 12.3 (1991):
6-7. ---. "The Virtues of Boundaries."
National Honors Report 12.2 (1991): 28-29. ---. "Challenges of Leading Honors
Seminars." National Honors Report 11.1 (1990): 6-7. ---. "When Is an Honors Banquet Not
an Honors Banquet?" National Honors Report 10.4 (1990):
16-17. ---. "What Should Every Honors
Student Know?" National Honors Report 10.3 (1989):
8-9. ---. "Northern Kentucky's American
Indian Celebration." National Honors Report 9.4 (1988):
17-19. ---. "A Call for Changes in NCHC."
National Honors Report 9.2 (1988): 20-21. ---. "Examining Utopias: The Kentucky
Honors Program Week III." National Honors Report 8.4 (1987):
9-11. ---. "What Is the Discourse Method
But Sowing Seeds." National Honors Report 8.1 (1987):
22. ---. "How We Did It: The Second
Kentucky Roundtable: Part 2 of 2." National Honors Report 7.4
(1986): 11-12. ---. "Second Round for the Kentucky
Roundtable: A State Council at Work: Part 1 of 2." National Honors
Report 7.4 (1986): 9-10. ---. "National Honors Semesters Build
Local Programs: Northern Kentucky." National Honors Report 6.4
(1986): 1-2. ---. "Edgar Allan Poe Resurrected in
Kentucky: or The Great Poe Hoax." National Honors Report 6.4
(1986): 8-9. ---. "Cooperation among State Honors
Programs: The First Kentucky Honors Program Week." National
Collegiate Honors Council Newsletter 6.3 (1985):
26-27. Articles on Agricultural History
and Literature Drake, Raymond L. and Robert T. Rhode. "The Kelly Empire: The History
of One of the True Giants of the Compaction Industry." Engineers and Engines Magazine 54.4 (2008-09): 15-19.
---. "Facts and Questions About
Harrisburg Steamrollers." Engineers and Engines Magazine 54.3 (2008): 7-11.
---. "Wright 'Rosetta
Stone' Is Found!" Engineers and Engines Magazine 54.2 (2008): 13-14.
Rhode, Robert T. "The Steam Bug." Heritage Eagle 82 (Summer 2008):
18-19.
Drake, Raymond L. and Robert T. Rhode. "The Influence of
the Wright Family on Steamrollers." Engineers and Engines Magazine 54.1 (2008): 6-10.
Rhode, Robert T. "Chromolithography." Engineers
and Engines Magazine 53.6 (2008): 47.
Rhode, Robert T. and Derek Rayner. "The First U.S.
'Tractor Trials' of 1872." The Road Locomotive Society Journal 61.1 (2008): 23-28.
Drake, Raymond L. and Robert T. Rhode. "Wright
Influence: Steamrollers Paved the Way to America." Steam Traction 62.2 (2007): 10-15.
---. "The Wright
'Rosetta Stone' Is Found!" Old Glory Oct. 2007: 68-69.
Rhode, Robert T. "Franklin Flood of 1913: Steam
Engines in the Path of a Disaster and How a City Coped." Steam Traction 62.1 (2007):
10-13.
Drake, Raymond L. and Robert T. Rhode. "Case Steam
Road Roller Information." Steam Traction 61.3 (2007): 3-4, 5.
---. "Steam Rollers
and the Wright Influence." Old Glory Jan. 2007: 66-69.
Rhode, Robert T. "Images from Ohio's Past."
Steam Traction 61.1 (2006): 31-32.
---. "The Multi-Faceted Business of
Threshing." Steam Traction 60.3 (2006): 10-14.
---. "Blymyer Iron Works: Cincinnati
Firm Built Numerous Steam Engines." Steam Traction 60.2 (2005): 22-24.
---. "Feats of Strength: On the Trail
of a Mythical Case Road Locomotive." Steam Traction 60.1 (2005): 5-7.
---. "Stories of Steam Thrashin':
Donald C. Thoma Reminisces about Ohio Threshermen." Steam Traction 59.5 (2005):
14-17.
---. "Name Correction." Steam Traction
59.3 (2005): 19-20.
---. "Steam and the Agriculture
Classroom." Steam Traction 59.3 (2005): 22-24.
---. "Figure 16." Journal of
the Oughtred Society 13.2 (2004): 7. This item is a photograph with
a caption.
---. "'Old Abe,' the War Eagle of Wisconsin."
Old Abe's News 20.1 (2004): 28.
---. "Setting the Record Straight."
Steam Traction 59.2 (2004): 20-21.
---. "More on
Undermounted Aultmans." Steam Traction 59.1 (2004): 23.
---. "Lavosier Spence:
An Overlooked Manufacturer of Steam Traction Engines in Martins Ferry,
Ohio." Steam Traction 59.1 (2004): 16-17.
---. "A Postcard View." Steam Traction 58.6
(2004): 12. This item is a photograph with a caption.
---. "'Steam Engine Joe' Rynda."
Steam Traction 58.5 (2004): 18-22.
---. "Ohio Origins." Steam Traction 58.5
(2004): 7-8.
---. "Tech Committee Q & A." Old Abe's News
19.3 (2004): 21. This item is a response to a question from a subscriber.
---. "Old Abe for Children." Old
Abe's News 19.2 (2004): 52. The illustration on the cover of this issue accompanies
the article.
---. "Ohio Engines." Steam
Traction 58.3 (2004): 9-10.
---. "Pig's Threshing Days: Memories of
an Old-Time Thresherman." Steam Traction 58.3 (2004): 6-8.
---. "Ingenious Applications of Steam
Power." Steam Traction 58.2 (2003): 23-25.
---. "More on the Curious Kitten."
Steam Traction 58.1 (2003): 15-17.
---. "Update on Isaac Lehmer."
Steam Traction 57.5 (2003): 4.
---. "Lehmer Update." Steam
Traction 57.4 (2003): 3.
---. "The First Ohio Traction Engine? Pushing Back
the Date of Traction Engineering in Ohio." Steam Traction 57.4 (2003): 9-10.
---. "Pitts Versus Aultman & Taylor."
Steam Traction 57.3 (2003): 12-13.
---. "The Mystery of the Lehmer Model:
An Old Traction Engine Model Leads to a Modern Mystery." Iron-Men Album Magazine
57.2 (2002): 6-12.
Hermann, R. Timothy, B. Michael McCormick, and
Robert T. Rhode. "George W. Cutter: America's Poet Warrior." Engineers and Engines
Magazine 47.5 (2002): 10-15.
Rhode, Robert T. "Byron W. Bernard: The Life of an
Extraordinary Engineer." Engineers and Engines Magazine 47.3 (2001): 6-9.
---. "Telling the Story
of North American Threshing." Engineers and Engines Magazine 47.2
(2001): 26.
---. "Leffel Cuts."
Engineers and Engines Magazine 47.1 (2001): 32, 36.
Drake, Raymond L. and Robert T.
Rhode. "At Last! A Book on
Steamrollers." Engineers and Engines Magazine 46.6 (2001): 5.
Rhode, Robert T. Letter to the
Editor. Iron-Men Album Magazine 55.4 (2001): 4.
---. "Generations of
Threshin' in Kentucky: Interviews with Cousins Billy and Joe Peel."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 55.2
(2000): 16-19, 22-23.
---. "The Haleys Build New Bunkers
for My 65-Horsepower
Case Steam Engine." Iron-Men Album Magazine 55.1 (2000): 4-7.
---. "Swayne, Robinson & Co.
Factory Burns Down." Engineers and
Engines Magazine 45.6 (2000): 9.
---. "Questions Raised about
Reinhard Scheidler." Engineers and
Engines Magazine 45.6 (2000): 38-39.
---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine
54.4 (2000): 3.
---. "The Steam Engine Collecting
of Glen J. Brutus."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 54.3 (2000): 22-28.
---. "The Haleys Build New Bunkers
for My 65-Horsepower Case Steam
Engine." Old Abe's News 15.1 (1999): 22-27 and back cover. ---. "William Heilman's Memoirs."
Engineers and
Engines Magazine 45.4 (1999-2000): 4-11. ---. "Threshing Equipment at
American World's Fairs." Iron-Men
Album Magazine 54.2 (1999): 14-21. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine 54.2
(1999): 10-11. ---. "The Steam Engine Collecting of
Glen J. Brutus." Heritage
Eagle 16.3 (1999): 18-22. ---. "The First Million the
Hardest: A. B. Farquhar's Autobiography." Engineers and
Engines Magazine 45.3 (1999): 24-30. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine 54.1 (1999): 12-15. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine 53.6 (1999): inside front
cover. ---. "A. D. Baker Story
Update." Engineers and Engines Magazine 44.5 (1999):
43. ---. "Old Abe." Engineers
and Engines Magazine 44.5 (1999): 43. ---. Cover Illustration. Old
Abe's News 14.1 (1998): cover. ---. "Case's Literary Legacy."
Old Abe's News 14.1 (1998): 21-26. ---. "A. D. Baker, Quiet
Genius." Engineers and Engines Magazine 44.3 (1998):
8-16. ---. Photograph of Wood, Taber
& Morse Steam Engine. Engineers and Engines Magazine 44.3
(1998): 19. ---. "The Birth of the Steam
Preservation Hobby in America." Engineers and Engines Magazine
44.3 (1998): 26-29. ---. Review of Richard H.
Zeitlin's Old Abe the War Eagle. Old Abe's News 13.4
(1998): 25. ---. "Who Built the First
Traction Engine in America?" Engineers and Engines Magazine
44.2 (1998): 14-15. ---. Photograph of Gaar-Scott
Thresher. Engineers and Engines Magazine 44.2 (1998):
21. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine 53.1 (1998): 16-17. ---. "Old Engravings."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 52.6 (1998): 4-5. ---. "The Scheidler Story."
Engineers and Engines Magazine 44.1 (1998): 12-18. ---. "Famished for Reading: How
a Harvest of Machinery Catalogues Fed Rural America." Iron-Men
Album Magazine 52.5 (1998): 24-27. ---. "The Education of a New
Engineer." Iron-Men Album Magazine 52.5 (1998):
30-31. ---. "An Engine and an
Epidemic." Engineers and Engines Magazine 43.6 (1998):
38-43. ---. "Glimpsing the Past in
Pine Village, Indiana." Iron-Men Album Magazine 52.3 (1998):
22-25. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Heritage Eagle 11.1 (1998): 6. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.6 (1997): 23. ---. "What's in Store at OVAM."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.6 (1997): 24-25. ---. Letter to the Editor.
Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.5 (1997): 19-20. ---. "What's in Store at
OVAM." Engineers & Engines 42.6 (1997): 30-32. ---. "Hamilton, Ohio's
Contributions to Agricultural Steam Power." Iron-Men Album
Magazine 51.4 (1997): 22-30. ---. "From Panning Gold to
Melting Steel: A Portrait of Oliver S. Kelly." Iron-Men Album
Magazine 51.3 (1997): 21-29. ---. "Women at the Throttle."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.2 (1996): 9. ---. "An Analysis of America's
Two Threshing Novels." Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.2 (1996):
22-25. ---. "From Iron-Ore to
Engines." Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.1 (1996): 4-7,
22-25. ---. "Why All Pitchforks Are
Not Alike." Iron-Men Album Magazine 51.1 (1996):
14. ---. "How I Became a Case Man."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 50.6 (1996): 27-29. ---. "Doris Lindenmier:
Engineer Extraordinaire." Iron-Men Album Magazine 50.5 (1996):
7-9. ---. "The Art of Loading and
Feeding Bundles." Iron-Men Album Magazine 50.4 (1996):
6-8. ---. "When Steam Was King . . .
and Cincinnati Was Queen." Iron-Men Album Magazine 50.3
(1996): 2-7. ---. "Don't Blow Your Stack! The Game
of Identifying Engines." Iron-Men Album Magazine 50.2 (1995):
10-11, 19. ---. "A Note on Bursting
Pressure." Iron-Men Album Magazine 50.2 (1995):
12-15. ---. "William Fletcher's
Comparison of British and American Engines." Iron-Men Album
Magazine 50.1 (1995): 7-9. ---. "Kelly Traction Engine
Cuts." Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.6 (1995): 18-19. ---. "Bill Lamb Remembers Harry
Woodmansee and Steam Shows." Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.5
(1995): 21-23. ---. "Keck-Gonnerman Memories."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.5 (1995): 30. ---. "Bill Lamb's
Reminiscences: Part 2." Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.4 (1995):
5-7. Lamb, William M. and Robert T.
Rhode. Editorial. Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.3 (1995):
12-14. Rhode, Robert T. "A Richland
County Tale." Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.3 (1995):
16-19. ---. "A Hoosier Town and Her
Engines." Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.2 (1994):
21-23. ---. "A Darke County Tale."
Iron-Men Album Magazine 49.1 (1994): 22-24. ---. "Bill Lamb's
Reminiscences." Iron-Men Album Magazine 48.6 (1994):
28-31. ---. "King Steam's Gallant
Knights." Iron-Men Album Magazine 48.5 (1994):
23-26. ---. "A Reeves Rig in the
Steaming Teens." Iron-Men Album Magazine 47.6 (1993):
18-20. Poetry in Refereed
Journals Rhode, Robert T. "Treehouse" and "The
Well." Sunrust. (1987): 19, 29. ---. "The Sketch." Raindrops of
Spring. Ed. Richard S. Danbury III. South Thomaston, ME:
Northwoods/Dan River P, 1987. 47. ---. "Spring's Denial." Farmer's
Market. (Spring/Summer 1986): 51. ---. "Re-Creation." Sunrust.
(1986): 51. ---. "Mr. and Mrs. Hopkinson" and
"Witchery." Sunrust. (1985): 14, 47. ---. "So Wind Joins Wind."
Artemis 8 (1985): 63. ---. "Special Feature of Rhode's
Poetry." Sunrust. Ed. Nancy E. James. New Wilmington, PA: Dawn
Valley P, 1984. (The entire issue was devoted to my
poems.) ---. "House of Poe." Random
Weirdness 4 (1984): 36-37. ---. "Eternal Cycles." Body &
Soul 54 (1984): 6-7. ---. "Onion Liturgy." Artful
Dodge 4.2 (1982): 40-43. ---. "The Book of the Dead."
Artful Dodge 2.1 (1980): 55-68. National Conference
Presentations Borne, Patricia C. and Robert T.
Rhode. "Humans, Humanities, Humanitarians: Preparation, Research, and
Enlightened Action." National Collegiate Honors Council. St. Louis,
30 Oct. 1993. Meyer, Gina, Thomas Nichols, and
Robert T. Rhode. "Passages: Images and Notes from Paris to Peking."
National Collegiate Honors Council. St. Louis, 30 Oct. 1993. (Meyer
and Nichols were students.) Borne, Patricia C. and Robert T.
Rhode. "Fin de Siecle: Education in the Eye of the Hurricane."
National Collegiate Honors Council. Los Angeles, 31 Oct.
1992. Rhode, Robert T. "Academic Curricula
and Social Equity II." National Collegiate Honors Council. Chicago, 2
Nov. 1991. ---. "And Mother Pizza Said, 'Let
There Be Dough!': Exploring the Relationship between Cosmogonies and
Art." National Collegiate Honors Council. Chicago, 1 Nov.
1991. ---. "Poe Came Here to Die: Reopening
the Investigation into Baltimore's Most Famous Corpse." National
Collegiate Honors Council. Baltimore, 26 Oct. 1990. ---. "Knots, Loops, or Nets?:
Identifying the Function of Honors Student Associations." National
Collegiate Honors Council. Baltimore, 25 Oct. 1990. ---. "Genetic Engineering, Science
Fiction and Exxon." National Collegiate Honors Council. New Orleans,
28 Oct. 1989. ---. "Handbooks: Everything You Want
to Know But Are Afraid to Ask." National Collegiate Honors Council.
New Orleans, 28 Oct. 1989. ---. "Leaving Home to Discover the
Homeless: UNS IV Participants Call for Awareness." National
Collegiate Honors Council. Las Vegas, 28 Oct. 1988. ---. "Mapping Cultures: The Mexican
Honors Semester and the Case for Experiential Learning." National
Collegiate Honors Council. Dallas, 29 Oct. 1987. ---. "Nagasaki, U. S. A.--Collision
or Coincidence of Cultures?" National Collegiate Honors Council.
Dallas, 31 Oct. 1987. ---. "Patterns of Success:
Experiencing Change." National Collegiate Honors Council. Miami, 1
Nov. 1986. ---. "Idea Market." National
Collegiate Honors Council. Miami, 1 Nov. 1986. ---. "Edgar Allan Poe Presentation."
National Collegiate Honors Council. Miami, 31 Oct. 1986. Featured
entertainment. ---. "Daring to Challenge Authority:
Building Genius in an Honors Program." National Collegiate Honors
Council. Salt Lake City, 1 Nov. 1985. ---. "Symbiosis: Local and National
Ties in Theory and Practice." National Collegiate Honors Council.
Salt Lake City, 2 Nov. 1985. ---. "The Role of Intellect in
Society: Ethical Education for All Majors." National Collegiate
Honors Council. Memphis, 26 Oct. 1984. ---. "Soap Operas and the Dramatic
Power of Words." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Pennsylvania State U, 13 Jul. 1984. ---. "Creative Dramatics in Teaching
Composition." Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, 29 Mar. 1984. ---. "Thesis Statements--Far Out!
Staging the Nature of Argument." Conference on College Composition
and Communication. Detroit, 18 Mar. 1983. Invited
Presentations ---. "A. D. Baker and the Fourth
of July." Sauder Village. Archbold, OH, 2 Jul. 2004. ---. "Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of
Amontillado': Can Anyone Escape Evil?" Boone County Public Library. Erlanger, KY, 27 Oct.
2003. ---. "Writing a Successful Book Proposal."
Fall 2003 Faculty Brownbag Ser. Northern Kentucky U. Highland Heights, KY, 14 Oct.
2003. ---. "William Dean Howells: Hamiltonian."
Fitton Center. Hamilton, OH, 10 May 2003. ---. "Thomas Hardy's Tess of the
d'Urbervilles and Roman Polanski's Tess." Boone County Public Library.
Erlanger, KY, 4 Nov. 2002. ---. "Edgar Allan Poe's
Investigation into the Case of Mary Rogers." Campbell County Public
Library. Cold Spring, KY, 30 Oct. 2000. ---. "Let's Talk
about Favorite American Authors: Walt Whitman." Campbell County Public
Library. Cold Spring, KY, 13 Oct. 1999. ---. "William Dean Howells:
Hamiltonian, Bostonian, or New Yorker?" Butler County Historical
Society. Hamilton, OH, 4 Oct. 1999. ---. "William Dean Howells:
Hamiltonian, Bostonian, or New Yorker?" Miami U Elderhostel.
Hamilton, OH, 12 Oct. 1998. ---. "When Hamilton, Ohio, Built
Agricultural Steam Engines." Butler County Historical Society.
Hamilton, OH, 6 Oct. 1997. ---. "Let's Talk about
Historical Fiction: James Alexander Thom's Follow the River."
Campbell County Public Library. Cold Spring, KY, 7 Apr.
1997. Borne, Patricia C. and Robert T.
Rhode. "Grammar Workshop." Cincinnati Writers Project. Covington, KY,
20 Nov. 1996. Rhode, Robert T. "Discussion of Walt
Whitman's 'Song of Myself.'" Mt. Adams Bookstore. Cincinnati, OH, 10 Nov.
1996. ---. "The Meaning of Rejection." Just
Write Workshop. Northern Kentucky U--Covington Campus. Covington, KY, 27 Apr.
1996. ---. "'And Yet the Earth Remains
Unchanged': Native American Views of Winter." Nu Omega Chapter of
Sigma Tau Delta, Thomas More College. Erlanger, KY, 11 Dec.
1994. ---. "Keynote Address." Virginia
Collegiate Honors Council. Afton Mountain, VA, 17 Sep. 1993. ---. "Poe's Detective Fiction."
Campbell County Public Library. Cold Spring, KY, 1993. Regional, State, and Local
Presentations Rhode, Robert T. "Walt
Whitman, the Steam-Powered Poet." Kentucky Philological Assn.
Owensboro, 4 Mar. 2000. I also chaired a session at this
conference. ---. "William Dean
Howells: Hamiltonian, Bostonian, or New Yorker?" Kentucky
Philological Assn. U of Louisville, 6 Mar. 1999. Miller, Andrew, Rhonda Pettit, and
Robert T. Rhode. "Using Creative Writing and Visual Assignments in
the English Classroom." Kentucky Philological Assn. U of Louisville,
5 Mar. 1999. Rhode, Robert T. "Cather: The Golden
Age of Agriculture Is No Myth." Kentucky Philological Assn. Northern
Kentucky U, 6 Mar. 1998. ---. "Realism and Romanticism:
America's Novels about Threshing." Kentucky Philological Assn.
Eastern Kentucky U, 8 Mar. 1997. ---. "Farmished for Reading: How a
Harvest of Machinery Catalogues Fed Rural America." Kentucky
Philological Assn. Morehead State U, 1 Mar. 1996. ---. "Voices from the Margins: What
Students Need to Hear from Instructor Comments." Kentucky
Philological Assn. Western Kentucky U, 3 Mar. 1995. (This paper was
co-authored with Nancy D. Kersell, who could not attend the
conference.) Borne, Patricia C. and Robert T.
Rhode. "Fin de Siecle: Education in the Eye of the Hurricane."
Teaching Academic Survival Skills. Cincinnati, 6 May 1993. ---. "Fin de Siecle." Mid-East Honors
Assn. Dayton, 27 Mar. 1993. ---. "Fin de Siecle." Kentucky
Philological Assn. Murray State U, 6 Mar. 1993. ---. "A Seminar Dramatizing the
Interplay of Intellect and Society." Mid-East Honors Assn. Toledo, 4
Apr. 1992. Rhode, Robert T. "Crisis in the Petri
Dish: Bioengineering and Technology." Mid-East Honors Assn. Columbus,
31 Mar. 1990. ---. "In the Footsteps of Handel."
Kentucky Philological Assn. Northern Kentucky U, 3 Mar.
1990. ---. "Winter--the Sinister Season in
Verse?" Kentucky Philological Assn. Kentucky Wesleyan College, 4 Mar.
1989. ---. "Nagasaki, U. S. A.--Collision
or Coincidenc of Cultures?" Mid-East Honors Assn. Dayton, 17 Apr.
1988. ---. "The Hazards of Bringing Edgar
Allan Poe to the Stage." Kentucky Philological Assn. Morehead State
U, 4 Mar. 1988. ---. "Writing the Modern Lyric: How
to Hear Internal Sound." Kentucky Philological Assn. U of Louisville,
7 Mar. 1987. ---. "Becoming a Detective." Mid-East
Honors Assn. Dayton, 13 Apr. 1986. ---. "Heaven and Handel: Theories of
the Affections in the 'Ode on St. Cecilia's Day.'" Kentucky
Philological Assn. Western Kentucky U, 7 Mar. 1986. ---. "Soap Operas and the Power of
Words." Kentucky Philological Assn. Centre College, 2 Mar.
1985. ---. "The Role of Intellect in
Society: Reviving the Past to Understand the Future." Mid-East Honors
Assn. Kent State U, 8 Apr. 1984. ---. "Edgar Poe." Kentucky
Philological Assn. Eastern Kentucky U, 2 Mar. 1984. ---. "Poe's Infernal Illumination."
Kentucky Philological Assn. Murray State U, 5 Mar. 1983. ---. "Whitman's Homoerotic Persona."
Kentucky Philological Assn. Georgetown College, 6 Mar.
1982. ---. "Are You a Secular Humanist Who
Knows the Laws about Censorship?" 26th Annual Conference of Secondary
Language Arts Teachers. Bloomington, IN, 27 Oct. 1977. ---. "Johnny Hears Ragtime." 25th
Annual Conference of Secondary Language Arts Teachers. Bloomington,
IN, 29 Oct. 1976. I have acted original, one-person
plays depicting the lives of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. I
performed over thirty productions as Whitman and two-hundred
productions as Poe for a combined audience of over twenty-thousand
people. In the spring of 1988, I performed for the Baltimore Poe
Society, which named my play the authorized stage version of Poe's
life. That Society brought me back in 1990 for repeat
performances. named an honorary member of Golden Key International Honour
Society, 2007
received the Bicentennial Historian of the Year Award for
scholarly and creative work on William Dean Howells; the Award acknowledges Rhode's
increasing of public awareness of Ohio history by his having published a flyer on Howells,
having composed a Bicentennial marker recognizing Howells, and having presented three
scholarly talks on Howells in the last three years, 2003
received the Silver Jubilee Certificate, awarded by the
Road Roller Association, based in England, "for furthering the understanding of
steamrollers by publishing the book on classic American steamrollers," 2003
named a Presidential Ambassadors Lamplighter "Flame"
Honoree, 2002; nominated by Mary Anne Kordenbrock, herself the recipient of the Ambassador
Award (2001) and the Outstanding Senior Award (2002) (A description of the award states
that "Flame" honorees are faculty or staff members who have not only supported and
encouraged but also befriended and guided a graduating Presidential Ambassador throughout
his/her NKU career.)
accepted the Purdue University Press' nomination of The
Harvest Story to receive the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award given annually for the
best book in American agricultural history, 2002
served on the Editorial Board of the
Kentucky Philological Review, 2000 and 2001 won the Kentucky Philological Assn. Best
Paper of Session Award, 2000 earned a sabbatical for the 2000 fall
semester to complete work on a book about American tycoons won the Kentucky Philological Assn.
Best Paper of Session Award, 1999 chaired "Problems of Evaluation and
Rhetoric" at Kentucky Philological Assn. conference, 1999 won the Kentucky Philological Assn.
Best Paper of Session Award, 1998 received endorsement of composition
faculty when Your Personal Writing Workout (co-authored with
Nancy D. Kersell) was included on list of recommended texts for ENG
101, 1998-9 received award in recognition of
outstanding contributions to LaLink, the student organization within
the Literature and Language Department, 1998 promoted to the rank of Full
Professor, 1997 won the Kentucky Philological Assn.
Best Paper of Session Award, 1996 received the Strongest Influence
Award, sponsored by the NKU Alumni Assn., 1995 earned a sabbatical for the 1994
spring semester to conduct research on Edgar Allan Poe and to
complete an exhaustive study of agricultural history and
literature served as scholar for the National
Endowment for the Humanities grant entitled "A Paradigm of the
Integration of Scholarship and Classroom Practice through the Study
of Edgar Allan Poe," 1990-91 consulted in the development of the
Honors Program of St. Francis College in Fort Wayne,
1991-92 consulted in the development of the
Sinclair College Honors Program in Dayton, 1989 served as Vice-President, then
President, then Past-President of the Mid-East Honors Assn.,
1986-89 served as President of the Kentucky
Honors Roundtable, 1985-86 won the Kentucky Philological Assn.
Best Paper of Session Award, 1987 received tenure and promotion to the
rank of Associate Professor, 1987 won Second Place in the Artemis
Poetry Contest, 1985 appointed Director of NKU's Honors
Program, 1983 won Seventh Place in the World Order
of Narrative Poets competition, 1979 received the Indiana University
Lieber Award for Distinguished Teaching by an Associate Instructor,
awarded to only four graduate students annually, 1981 secured a grant from the Kentucky
Humanities Council to help to underwrite the costs of bringing
renowned author Ntozake Shange to NKU to read from her works,
1993 brought grants in excess of $30,000
to NKU's Honors Program from the Michael Francis Zalla Memorial
Foundation earned a prestigious Portz Grant to
help to plan the first Kentucky Honors Program Week,
1983-84 secured a grant from the Kentucky
Humanities Council to perform ten productions of original plays on
Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, 1982-83 co-presented (with Patricia C. Borne)
several workshops for area grade school and high school teachers and
administrators to train them in portions of the Kentucky Education
Reform Act, 1993-1998. served as a member of the Composition
Task Force, 1998 served as a member of the following
committees: The NKU Literature and Language Department Committee to
Hire New Faculty in American Literature, the Search Committee for the
English Education Position, the Search Committee for the Writing Programs Director, the
Search Committee for Rhetoric and Composition, the Student Committee, the Lecture Series
Committee, the Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, the
Full Professor Committee, the Committee for New Students, the
Composition Committee, the ENG 101 Subcommittee, the English Major
Homepage Ad Hoc Committee (which I chaired), the Kentucky
Philological Association Publicity Subcommittee (which I chaired),
the Ad Hoc Committee to Revise the Department Handbook, the Ad Hoc
Committee on Performance Review, and the Ad Hoc American Literature
Committee served on the Symposia Committee for
the Installation of NKU President Votruba, 1997 wrote "Academic Procession" essay for
publication in booklet commemorating President Votruba's installation
and in future commencement programs co-authored essay on history of NKU
presidential inaugurations to be published in volume celebrating the
installation of President Votruba judged the Certified Public
Accountants Assn. Essay Contest, 1995 judged the Optimist Club Essay
Contest, 1994 served as guest speaker for the
Kentucky Honors Program Weeks VII and VIII co-directed the Kentucky Honors
Program Weeks held in 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988 served as guest critic for the
Cincinnati Writers League, 1984, 1985 served as guest speaker for awards
evenings at Holmes High School and Glen Este High School,
1985 served as guest commentator for the
Year-End-Series New Play Festival, 1983, 1985 judged numerous literary
competitions, including the Contra Costa Contest in Antioch, CA, and
the National Council of Teachers of English Program to Recognize
Excellence in Student Literary Magazines, 1986, 1987, 1990 directed the Arts and Sciences
College Commencement, 1988, 1989 founded the Honors Exchange between
the Pennsylvania State U and NKU, 1985 served on the Steering Committee for
the Inauguration of NKU President Boothe, 1984 painted the commemorative oil
portrait of outgoing NKU President Albright, 1984 authored scripts for various NKU
promotional videotapes performed piano concerts for many NKU
events contributed illustrations for
numerous publications at NKU and throughout the United States (I have
served many years as a commercial artist and illustrator.)Presentations
Performances
Honors and Awards
Grants
Service