HASWELL, Richard H(enry) 1940-

PERSONAL: Born January 30, 1940, in Springfield, MO; son of Richard Ellis (a college teacher) and Alice (a homemaker; maiden name, Sherwood) Haswell; married Judith Baker (marriage ended); married Janis Eileen Tedesco (a university teacher), June, 1994; children: (first marriage) Elizabeth Susan, Christine Baker. Ethnicity: "Anglo." Education: University of Missouri—Columbia, B.A., 1961, Ph.D., 1967; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, M.A., 1962. Hobbies and other interests: Coleoptery.

ADDRESSES: Home—1014 Memphis Dr., Corpus Christi, TX 78412. Office—Department of English, Texas A & M University—Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX 78412. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Washington State University, Pullman, WA, professor of English, 1962-96; Texas A & M University—Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, Haas Professor of English, 1996—.

MEMBER: National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication (member of executive committee, 1995-98), Phi Beta Kappa.

AWARDS, HONORS: Woodrow Wilson fellow, 1961-62.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with John Ehrstine) A Baker's Dozen, Star Publishing (Belmont, CA), 1979, 3rd edition, 1992.

(Editor, with John Ehrstine and Robert Wilkinson) The HBJ Reader, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1987.

Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Development and Interpretation, Southern Methodist University Press (Dallas, TX), 1991.

(Coauthor) Comp Tales: An Introduction to College Composition through Its Stories, Longman (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor) Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction within a University Writing Program, Ablex Publishing (Norwood, NJ), 2001.

Contributor of more than forty scholarly articles to professional journals. Translator from Spanish and French.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Gendership: Strategizing Gender for the Student of English, with wife, Janis Tedesco Haswell; an assessment of writing; research on interpretation theory and writing.

SIDELIGHTS: Richard H. Haswell once told CA: "There is the world outside us, which we know we have to share with others. And there is the world inside us, which we do not have to share. I believe that the inner world should be shared, and I praise all the forms of expression that serve—music, painting, sculpture, dance, cinema, photography, hobby, gesture, et cetera. Above all, I believe in language. There is no better road between selves.

"Professionally I am committed to helping people in college learn to build and maintain that road. My research and writing, and my preoccupations with evaluation and development, center on ways teachers can help their students communicate their singular inside worlds to others. It doesn't matter if what's inside is anger over a personal slight, insight into design problems of an exercise treadmill, or understanding derived from twenty years' study of Sufi religion. Whatever is inside does not readily come out; it needs encouragement.

"Of course, language can be used to hide from others and to deceive others about one's inner world. There is no end to the hurt of such language. I do not teach that kind of communication. I unteach it. My writings promote honesty, sincerity, and authenticity in language, whether reading or writing. From such practice I cannot help but believe, though perhaps I am sanguine in doing so, that more good has and always will come than harm."