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FRED STREBEIGH Office: Home: 002 Linsly-Chittenden Hall 53 Edgehill Road Yale University New Haven New Haven, CT 06520-8302 CT 06511-1343 203-432-2250 203-495-8749 Teaching Experience Lecturer, Department of English, Yale University, 1984-present; Senior Lecturer appointment 2006. Reading and Writing the Modern Essay (English 120), 1984-present. Non-Fiction Writing: Voice & Structure (English 454), 1989-present. Non-Fiction Writing (English 469), 1988. Tutorial in Writing (English 470), various years. Writing Concentration Senior Project (English 489), various years. Course director: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay (English 120), 1995- present. Lecturer, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1988-present; Senior Lecturer appointment 2006. Environmental Writing (F&ES 745, formerly F&ES 40002 or F&ES 583), 1988- present. Project in Environmental Writing (F&ES 1450 or F&ES 584), 1988-present. F&ES 809b, Politics and the Environment in the 2004 Election Year (co-faculty with Jim Lyons), spring 2004. Visiting Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities, Princeton University, spring 2008. Writing on the Environment and the Heirs of Thoreau (Princeton FRS 156). Tutor in Writing, Branford College, Yale University, 1979-1998. Teaching-related Awards Richard H. Brodhead '68 Teaching Prize for Teaching Excellence by Non-Ladder Faculty, awarded 2009. (The Brodhead Prize was presented by the dean at a college-wide ceremony during commencement after selection by Yale's Committee on Teaching and Learning.) William Clyde DeVane Award for teaching at Yale, awarded 2004. (The DeVane award, presented each year by Phi Beta Kappa to one member of the active faculty, is described by university publications as "the oldest and highest-ranking award for undergraduate teaching at Yale.") 2009 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Honorable Mention: Emily Appelbaum, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Laura Gottesdiener, essay written for English 489. 2008 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 3rd prize: Simon Tudiver, essay written for F&ES 745 (formerly numbered F&ES 40002). Honorable Mention: Kate Lund, essay written for English 120. 2007 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. File: StrebeighCV2013July28 Date: 7/28/2013 Fred Strebeigh/page 2 Honorable Mention: Rebecca Watters, essay written for F&ES 40002 (formerly numbered F&ES 583). 2006 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 1st prize: Kent Garber, essay written for English 454. 2005 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 2nd prize: Adriane Quinlan, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Alexandra Suich, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Zvika Krieger, essay written for English 454. 2004 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 1st prize: Jeremy Kutner, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Sarah Stillman, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Rebecca Sanborn, essay written for F&ES 583. 2003 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Honorable Mention: Rebecca Reider, essay written for F&ES 583. 2002 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 2nd prize: Samantha Culp, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Leah Swann, essay written for English 454. 2001 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 2nd prize: Maeve Herbert, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Matthew Underwood, essay written for English 454. Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Allison, essay written for F&ES 583. Honorable Mention: Samantha Rothman, essay written for F&ES 583. 2000 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 3rd prize: Jennifer Osha, essay written for F&ES 583. Honorable Mention: Mark Urban, essay written for F&ES 583. Honorable Mention: Andrew Cowdery, essay written for English 454. 1998 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 2nd prize: Jamie James, essay written for F&ES 583. Honorable Mention: Eli Kintisch, essay written for English 454. 1997 Student Writers' Competition of the Atlantic Monthly. Winner, 1st prize: Pam McElwee, essay written for F&ES 584. [In the nonfiction category of the Atlantic Monthly competition, held from 1997 to 2010 and open to all students in American universities, work written for my seminars received almost a fifth of all awards and more than a fifth of all prizes in nonfiction. No other university, except Yale as a whole, received as many awards.] Education Yale University, B.A. English, 1970-74. Brentwood School, England (English-Speaking Union Fellowship), 1969-70. Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1965-69. Professional Experience Free-lance writer and editor, 1977-present, for publications including American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Legal Affairs, New Republic, Reader's Digest, Russian Life, Sierra, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, and the op-ed pages of Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and the New York Times. Associate Editor, Yale Alumni Magazine (William Zinsser, editor), 1974-77. File: StrebeighCV2013July28 Date: 7/28/2013 Fred Strebeigh/page 3 Reporter, The Independent-Journal, Marin, California, summer 1973 and 1974. Reporter, Boston Herald-Traveler, Boston, Massachusetts, summer 1971. Honors 2012-2013 Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. 2010 American Bar Association Silver Gavel honor to Equal: Women Reshape American Law as one of the two best books of the year in its annual competition that honors "outstanding efforts to foster public understanding of the law." February 13, 2009, an all-day symposium at Rutgers School of Law, inspired by the narratives in Equal and held on its publication day, with keynote speech by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (At this event, a majority of the speakers were important figures in my book.) April 22, 2009, an all-day symposium at Georgetown University Law Center, inspired by the narratives in the final section of Equal, with primary speech given by Vice- President Joseph R. Biden. (At this event, a majority of the speakers were important figures in my book.) 2004 election to graduate membership in the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. 2003 selection for "notable science and nature writing of 2002" in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, for "Where Nature Reigns: Russia's underfunded yet vast ecological reserves are rich with brown bears, wild honey--and rare humanity," Sierra, March-April 2002. 1992 American Bar Association Certificate of Merit, "in recognition of a noteworthy contribution to public understanding of the American system of law and justice," for "Defining Law on the Feminist Frontier," New York Times Magazine, October 6, 1991. Publications Russian Nature Defenders [working title, in progress] "Defending Russian Wilderness," EnvironmentYale (Fall 2010); translation to Russian, "Защищая заповедную природу России," Spring 2011, by Elena Nikolaeva of the Environmental Education Center "Zapovedniks," Moscow, with assistance from Vsevolod Stepanitskiy, Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, Deputy Director in charge of nature reserves and national parks, Moscow. "Creating A College Of Writers," Yale Daily News, February 26, 2010 "Rutgers School of Law-Newark and the History of Women and the Law," Women's Rights Law Reporter, Volume 31, Number 2/3, Winter/Spring 2010, pp. 220-228. "The Violence Against Women Act Civil Rights Provision: Shaping It, Saving It, Litigating It, Losing It," Georgetown Journal Of Gender And The Law, Volume XI, Number II, 2010 Symposium Issue, pp. 551-556. Equal: Women Reshape American Law (New York: W. W. Norton, February 2009); related information at <www.EqualWomen.com>. "The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China" (adapted from Bicycling), Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond, Pearson, 2009. "Ladies' Man: The backslapping, bloviating hero of women's rights" [Joe Biden and the Violence Against Women Act], The New Republic, September 24, 2008. "The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China" (adapted from Bicycling), Norton Reader (12th ed.), 2008. File: StrebeighCV2013July28 Date: 7/28/2013 Fred Strebeigh/page 4 "Cycling Ecologically at Yale," Environmental Leadership Magazine [ELM], Spring 2005. "Could Kerry Have Won With Straight Talk on the Environment?" E: The Environmental Magazine, January/February 2005. "The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China" (adapted from Bicycling), Writing the Journey: Essays, Stories, and Poems on Travel, Longman, 2005. "Politics and the Environment: Observations and Conclusions," concluding essay, with James R. Lyons, for Red, White, Blue, and Green: Politics and Environment in the 2004 Election (edited by James R. Lyons, Heather S. Kaplan, Fred Strebeigh, and Kathleen E. Campbell), Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 2004. "Defending Russian Nature," Russian Life, September-October, 2003. "Standard Bearer: Long before she joined the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg challenged its members to treat gender like race," Legal Affairs, September- October, 2003. "Where Nature Reigns: Russia's underfunded yet vast ecological reserves are rich with brown bears, wild honey--and rare humanity," Sierra, March-April 2002. [Selected for listing of "notable science and nature writing of 2002" in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, p. 324.] "Training China's New Elite" (adapted from Atlantic Monthly), in Intersections: Readings in Sociology, ed. Ralph McNeal, Jr. and Kathleen