Curriculum Vitae ROBERT JENSEN School of Journalism University of Texas at Austin 300 W. Dean Keeton (A1000) Austin, TX 78712-1073 phone: (512) 471-1990 fax: (512) 471-7979 twitter: @jensenrobertw Skype: robert.jensen5604 email: [email protected] home page: http://robertwjensen.org/ TEACHING EXPERIENCE: University of Texas at Austin 2009-present. Professor, School of Journalism. 1998-2009. Associate Professor, School of Journalism. 1992-1998. Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism. Undergraduate courses: --Fundamental Issues in Journalism (J301F) --Critical Issues in Journalism (J310) --Critical Thinking for Journalists (J310) --Writing for the Mass Media (J312) --Copy Editing (J314) --Feature Writing (J327) --Media Law (J350F) --Ethics in Journalism (J352F) --Media Law and Ethics (J360) --History of Journalism (J376) --Senior Fellows Symposium (COM370): introductory College honors course --Freedom of Expression (COM360): College honors course --Freedom of Expression (TC357): Plan II university-wide honors course --Social Justice and the Media (TC357): Plan II university-wide honors course --The Bomb, (LAH 350): Liberal Arts Honors course --The Ethics and Politics of Everyday Life (FS301): first-year seminar --Journalism and/in Democracy (UGS 303): university-wide Signature Course --Freedom: Philosophy, History, Law (UGS 303): university-wide Signature Course --Food: Culture and Agriculture (UGS 303): university-wide Signature Course Graduate courses: --Critical/Cultural Theory (J395) --Media Law and Freedom of Expression (J395) --Constitutional Issues in Media Law (J392) --Media Ethics (J395) --Social Justice and the Media (J382) --Qualitative Methods (J381) --Intensive Writing and Editing (J321L) University of Minnesota 1989-92. Instructor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Full teaching responsibilities for: --Reporting (Jour 3101) --Publications Editing (Jour 3155) --Mass Communication Law (Jour 3776) --Mass Media in U.S. Society (Jour 5721) 2 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: 2002-2010. Director, College of Communication Senior Fellows Program. The director of the college honors program is responsible for overall administration and budgeting; curriculum development and recruitment of professors to teach in the program; selection of students; and extra-curricular programming involving outside academics and professionals for lectures and symposia. COMMITTEE SERVICE: Primary service on the College of Communication’s Diversity Issues Committee, University’s Diversity Education Institute’s Advisory Committee, and Bridging Discipline Program’s Human Rights and Social Justice faculty panel. TEACHING AWARDS: 2014. Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award (University of Texas System). 2001. College of Communication Teaching Excellence Award (annual award to one professor, based on faculty committee vote). 2000-2001. Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship (university-wide award to honor excellence in undergraduate teaching, with an emphasis on teaching first-year students). 1996-97. Texas Excellence Teaching Award for College of Communication (annual award to one professor in each college of the university, based on student nominations). EDUCATION: Ph.D., School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May 1992. Fellow in Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. M.A., Journalism and Public Affairs, The American University, Washington, DC, August 1985. B.S., Social Studies/Secondary Education, History concentration, Moorhead State University, MN, May 1981. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Media law and ethics. The politics of news gathering and news construction. Media depictions of gender and race. Pornography and violence against women. Feminist philosophy and politics. EDITORIAL and ADVISORY BOARDS: 2015-present. Sexualization, Media, & Society. 2008-2010. Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting. 2004-2010. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 1997-2002. Violence Against Women. 3 MAJOR COMMUNITY PROJECTS: 2004-present. Founding member of the board of directors of Third Coast Activist Resource Center. This community group presents public-education programs on contemporary social and political issues. One main goal of the Center is to provide a forum to share the expertise of the University of Texas faculty with the community. http://www.thirdcoastactivist.org/ 2015-present. Member of the board of directors of Culture Reframed, the first health promotion effort to recognize and address pornography as the public health crisis of the digital age. http://www.culturereframed.org/ 2009-2015. Co-founder of 5604 Manor. This community center was a collaborative project of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center and Workers Defense Project. The groups purchased and renovated a building on Manor Road to provide office and event space for groups involved in grassroots organizing. In 2015, the WDP assumed full responsibility for the building. 2009-2014. Founding member of the board of directors of Cooperation Texas. This non-profit organization was committed to the development of ecologically sustainable worker cooperatives. The group’s mission was to empower low-income communities through a network of eco-friendly, worker-owned businesses in the Austin area. 2006-2010. Co-founder of Stop Porn Culture. This national group provided educational resources to people to resist the misogyny and racism in contemporary pornography. The primary tool was a slide show in PowerPoint and script that the co-founders developed for activists to use in community groups and college classes. 2007. Co-facilitator, Bermuda Race Relations Initiative. This project, initiated by the premier and sponsored by the Government of Bermuda, brought together Bermudians for a nine-month program to address racial-justice issues. The facilitators designed the program and led monthly dialogues on the island. 2012-2014. Member of the board of directors of Welcome Table, Inc., a non-profit organization that directs the outreach projects of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Austin. My work focused on the educational and organizing efforts of the Race Talk Project. 4 WORK IN PROGRESS: “American Journalism’s Ideology: Why the “Liberal” Media is Fundamentalist,” in, Savas Coban, ed., Media, Ideology and Hegemony (forthcoming). DOCUMENTARY FILM PROJECTS: Producer, “Abe Osheroff: One Foot in the Grave the Other Still Dancing,” directed by Nadeem Uddin ((Media Education Foundation, 2009, 46 mins.). Primary responsibility for fundraising and consultations with the director on structure, script, and final editing of the film. Senior Consultant, “The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships,” produced and directed by Miguel Picker and Chyng Sun (Media Education Foundation, 2008, 55 mins.). Detailed discussions with the producers from the origination of the project to final editing, and extensive on-camera interviews. 5 BOOKS: Robert Jensen, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2017). 184 pp. Robert Jensen, Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint/Soft Skull, 2015). 264 pp. Robert Jensen, Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog (San Francisco: City Lights, 2013).129 pp. Robert Jensen, We Are All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing, and Speaking Out (CreateSpace, 2013). 74 pp. Robert Jensen, La Angustia en el Sueño Americano/The Anguish in the American Dream, trans. Mariano Hernan Spina (Portland, OR: Unwork, 2013). 127 pp. Robert Jensen, All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2009). 194 pp. Robert Jensen, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (Boston: South End Press, 2007). 197 pp. Robert Jensen, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2005). 98 pp. Robert Jensen, Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2004). 144 pp. Robert Jensen, Ciudadanos del Imperio: Reflexiones sobre patriotismos, disidencias y esperanzas (Madrid: Editorial Popular, 2003). 94 pp. Robert Jensen, Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (New York: Peter Lang, 2001). 150 pp. Gail Dines, Robert Jensen, and Ann Russo, Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (New York: Routledge, 1998). 187 pp. David S. Allen and Robert Jensen, eds., Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York: New York University Press, 1995). 300 pp. 6 BOOK CHAPTERS: “Apocalyptic Teaching: Facing Our Fears and Teaching Through Tears,” in Vachel W. Miller, ed., Apocalyptic Leadership in Education: Facing an Unsustainable World from Where We Stand (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2017), pp. 3-11. “Writing Dissent in the Propaganda Flood,” in Mary Jean Braun and Gae Lyn Henderson, eds., Propaganda and Rhetoric in Democracy: History, Theory, Analysis (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), pp. 264-272. “Fracking’s Fundamentalism,” in Taylor Brorby and Stefanie Brook Trout, eds., Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America (North Liberty, IA: Ice Cube Press, 2016), pp. 217-225. “Letting Go of Normal when ‘Normal’ Is Pathological, or Why Feminism Is a Gift to Men,” in Donna King and Catherine G. Valentine, eds., Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insights and