Department of English

Randy Bass is Associate Professor in the Department of English. He earned his PhD and MA degrees from Brown University and his BA from the University of the Pacific.

His teaching and research interests include:19th century American literature and American cultural studies; American documentary; and representations of violence and social crisis. His primary interests include use of new technologies in humanities instruction and pedagogy, theory and practice of digital textuality.

Bass' selected publications include: serving as Co-editor of Intentional Media: The Crossroads Conversations on Learning and Technology in the American Culture and History Classroom (Works and Days, 2000); serving as Editor of Border Texts: Cultural Readings for Contemporary Writers (Houghton Mifflin, 1999); serving as supervising editor of Engines of Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Using Technology in Teaching American Studies; and serving as director of the American Studies Crossroads Project (crossroads.georgetown.edu). He also wrote "Story and Archive in the 21st Century" College English. (June, 1999)

Honors, grants, and awards Bass has won, include a $2.67 million grant for Visible Knowledge Project (2000) and EDUCAUSE medal for outstanding achievement in technology and undergraduate education (1998).He also served as a Pew Scholar and Carnegie Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1999).

Bass is currently working on Visible Knowledge Project (national research project on learning and technology in the humanities), and the book project: Hyper Activity and Under Construction: Learning Culture in the 21st Century.