NEH Lecturer: I lectured on Twain’s Huck Finn and its racial considerations, colonial women and their influence on feminist and civil rights issues, and nineteenth-century American feminist, Margaret Fuller. 1988-1990
Workshop Director: “So What Are We Worth? A Literary Historical Journey Through African-American Literature and Newspapers,” sponsored by The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, the African American Museum and the Dallas Public Library (a series of 15 public lectures) October 1995-July 1996
The White House Salute to American Authors: 29 November 2001. First Lady Laura Bush invited three Twain scholars to discuss with fellow scholars and area high school students and teachers Twain’s works and themes. The three scholars were Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Justin Kaplan and myself. This salute was the first in the series held in the East Room and was broadcast nationally.
Expert Consultant for Puyallup School District and ensuing court case in Tacoma, WA for English teachers and the district, regarding challenged texts: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Contender and Of Mice and Men from Summer 2001 and completed in the Fall of 2002— December. This consultation also included recommendations to the district about its overall multicultural curriculum, as well as other works included in the standing curriculum that needed more research and preparation before presenting to a class.
Featured Speaker: Stanford University for its “Teacher’s Institute: A Pedagogical Colloquium” Presented by the Center for the Support of Excellence in Teaching, American Studies Program, English Department, and Continuing Studies: 19-20 May 2010
“The Big Read: NEA’s Creating a Nation of Readers” for Shrewsbury Library: May 2013
Featured Keynote: WNET PBS-American Masters Premier: Lorraine Hansberry Sighted Eyes, Feeling Heart-January 2018
NCSS Webinar Series-2015 and 2016: Using New-Old Tools: African-American Periodical and Literature in Social Studies
Center for Mark Twain Studies—Curriculum Review and Recommendations—Elmira schools-K-HS-2017-present
Pearson—2018-Present
Folger Shakespeare Library—2018-Present
Interviews:
KDFW Channel 4, Insights, fall 1992 (Dallas-Ft. Worth)
PBS Connecticut, summer 1995
ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, August 1995
Dateline NBC, February 1997
National Public Radio, March 1998
WGBH Born To Trouble, fall 2000
The Merrow Report, spring 2001
Ken Burns Documentary Life of Mark Twain January 2002
BBC UK World Service-The Forum: One of four Mark Twain scholars for program: American Writer Mark Twain, July, 2018
MPR News: “Duluth teachers, district grapple with how to move on from “Mockingbird”
4 February 2019
Oregon Public Broadcasting: American Passages: A Literary Survey—Spring 2002. I was specifically requested to comment on the section of the documentary: Vernacular America: Twain, Charles Chestnut and Kate Chopin. Airdate Fall 2002.
NBC News Education—Fall 2013-Present: Expert Content Consultant for English language arts
The New York Times: “Celebrating James Baldwin, as Many Classrooms Ignore Him,” 24 April 2014
Consulting–Schools:
Secondary Schools (MS/HS) throughout the United States
MOST RECENT:
External Evaluator—Secondary English (6-12) Belmont Schools, Belmont, MA, November 2016
Governor’s Commonwealth
Seneca Middle School, Virginia
Capital Prep Magnet School, Hartford, CT
Ballard MS, Macon, GA
Lift for Life Academy, MO
Presented Papers:
Modern Language Association
American Literature Assoc
Colorado Language Association of Teachers
Texas Council of Teachers of English
Virginia Association of Teachers of English
Mark Twain House–Hartford, CT
International Conference on The State of Mark Twain Studies
American Association of Publishers (AAP)
Georgia State University
American Studies Association
Penn State Rhetoric Conference
Jocelyn A. Chadwick, PhD 