Timothy E. Trask
Massasoit Community College • One Massasoit Boulevard • Brockton, MA 02302 • (508) 588-9100, x1980 • ttrask@massasoit.mass.edu

Teaching & Administrative Experience



Massasoit Community College • Brockton, MA
Professor, English and Communicative Arts, 1982 - present
 • Part time 1985 - 1997 while Director of Television/Radio Center; currently full time.
 • Teach courses in writing and literature

Massasoit Community College • Brockton, MA
Director, The Television/Radio Center, 1985 - 1997
 • Created and ran The Massasoit Channel, a 24-hour cable TV outlet
 • Co-creator of the Media Option in the Liberal Arts Studies Program
 • Obtained nearly a half-million dollars in grants to run the Center
 • Upgraded the facility and increased productivity and services during every year
 • Improved the technological capacity of the college in several areas, including satellite television,
   distance learning, cable programming, and classroom instruction.

Eastern Nazarene College • Wollaston, MA
Assistant Professor, English and American Literature, 1980 - 1982

Stephens Institute of Technology • Hoboken, NJ
Adjunct Professor (full-time), American Studies, 1978 - 1979

Columbia University, School of General Studies • New York City
Teaching Assistant (part-time), American Literature, 1975 - 1977
 

Education



Columbia University • New York City
 • PhD, English and Comparative Literature, 1982
 • MPhil, English and Comparative Literature, 1977
 • MA, English and Comparative Literature, 1974
 • Dissertation title: "Crying in the Wilderness: A Study of Thoreau at His Word"
       Dissertation sponsor:  Quentin Anderson

Eastern Nazarene College • Wollaston, MA
 • BA, Literature, 1973
 • Danforth Fellow nominee; Faculty Scholarship Recipient

 

Publications, Writing, Community Service



 • Presentations to MLA, Rotary, Duston/Dustin Family Association, MCC Faculty
    Newbury College Colloquium
 • Produced thousands of television programs, including tapes for NEH, GSA, and others
 • Former Member:  Kennedy Parent Advisory Council, Arnone School Iimprovement Council
 • Current Member:  MLA, Emerson Society, Tamarack Writers, NAACP,  CAB
 • Trustee, Brockton Historical Society
 • Editor, The Tamarack Writers, Vortext (literary journals)
 • Vietnam War Veteran, awarded Bronze Star Medal (Merit), 1968
 • Recipient, Massachusetts Pride in Performance Award, 1995
 • Recipient, Nisod Excellence Award, 2004
 • Edges of The Wall (essay); Beyond Basic (story)
 • Review of The Mark, by Jaques Leslie
 • Review of In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O'Brien
 • NISOD presentation on student-built courses, May, 2001
 • Review of Odysseus in America:  Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.
 • Review of Goofy Foot:  An Alex Rasmussen Mystery, by David Daniel
 • Review of The Marble Kite:  An Alex Rasmussen Mystery, by David Daniel
 
Review of Upstarts in Upstate, by Art Seamans
 
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