JULIA KEEFER, PH.D.,CSCS, M.A., M.A. NSCA-CPT, NASM-CPT, LMT, ACADEMIC RESUME
(212) 734-1083, 408 East 78th St. #3B, New York, N.Y.10021,
julia.keefer@nyu.edu.
WEB SITE:(URL) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer (3000 pages personally
designed by Professor Keefer)
Present Positions: Associate Adjunct Professor of Cyber-Enhanced Multidisciplinary Writing/Research, Kinesiology, Electronic Media Performance and Theory, Literature and Screenwriting at New York University and the Media and Communication Dept of SUNY New Paltz.
Screenwriter, Novelist and Consultant, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Licensed Massage Therapist.
Editor-in-Chief for The Online Journal of Education, Media and Health for the World Association for Online Education (OJEMH, formerly JOE), including international journals on Education/Cognitive Development, Terrorism/Un-clashing Civilizations, and EvergreenEnergy: Health, Fitness, and the Environment.
Professor Keefer continues Aristotle's Triple Threat Legacy into the 21st century by specializing in screenwriting and global storytelling, (Poetics), kinesiology/health fitness (Physic), and cyber-rhetoric and online communication (Rhetoric).
EDUCATION:
B.S. Emerson College, Boston (Mass Communications)
M.A. equivalent: La Sorbonne, Paris (French Literature with a
specialty in the twentieth century)(bilingual French/English).
M.A. summa cum laude (Communication and Speech), Emerson College
PH.D. New York University (Drama with a sub-specialty in Kinesiology)
Certificates and licenses in health fitness updated every few years.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Classes on the NYU Server on the World Wide Web:
Media: Screenwriting (Beginning to Advanced Levels), Adaptations to the Screen, Classical Adaptations, Public Speaking, Argumentation, Radio and TV Performance,
MindBodyMedia, Your Community in Cyberspace, Technical Writing and the
Internet, How the Internet Changes the Way We Think: Cyber versus Traditional
Rhetoric.
Literature: Modern and Contemporary Global Literature, Eco-Literature, Forbidden Fruits/Censored Literature, Literature
and Terrorism, Drama, Terror and Myth, Major Twentieth Century Writers,
Introduction to Literature--Classics of the Canon.
Writing Workshops I and II: (Theme-based) Ecoliterature and the Global Economy, Jihad vs McWorld, The Brain
Gymnasium, Heaven or Hell, Self versus State, Lovers and Other Monsters,
Narcissism versus Psychological Depth, 2000 Years of Jokes and Mistakes, Humans
and Nature, Megalomaniacs of the Twentieth Century, Home Sweet Home.
Health Science: Kinesiology, Eco-disciplinary Writing, Evaluating Therapeutic Modalities for Diseases and
Disabilities, Language and the Body
Past Academic Teaching:
POLYTECHNIC
UNIVERSITY: Technical Writing and the Internet.
Anatomy/Kinesiology, Dance, Fitness and Critical Thinking at MARYMOUNT
MANHATTAN COLLEGE.
Back Care/Posture at BARUCH CUNY.
Experiments in the
Humanities, Oral Interpretation, Dialect Study, Voice and Articulation,
Argumentation, Mass Communications at EMERSON COLLEGE, BOSTON.
Acting, Voice and Movement, French and Screenwriting at the Discovery Center,
New York.
Life Experience Faculty Advisor for SKIDMORE COLLEGE (University
Without Walls, performing arts) and NYU(acting and dramatic writing, technical
writing and web design).
PUBLICATIONS:
Carving Your Story, an ebook on Screenwriting and Global Storytelling
An 800-page fantasy memoir called How to Survive as an Adjunct
Professor by Wrestling, consisting of Megalomania of the Twentieth Century,
Un-clashing Civilizations and the Bipolar Battle between QCD and EWF published by iUniverse, 2006. Copyright 2005. Part II will be translated into Arabic. Available online and at your local bookstore.
From Pain to Performance, a health/fitness e-book, including Dr. Keefer's Corrective Clinic, Evergreen's Fitess for the Four Seasons, Evergreen's Knockout Workouts, the Keefer Brain Gymnasium, and Cognitive Performance.
Articles and Conference Papers:
"Terror-Criticism: Expressions of 9/11 From the Inside Out," at an interntional multidisciplinary conference on literature, film, and terrorism, featuring representations of 9/11 at the University of Westminster, London, England, March, 2007.
"Four Narrative Styles in Transmedia Storytelling" for M.I.T.'s
Media-in-Transition Conference, The Work of Stories: May 2005.
“Against Homogeneity: Developing Cultural Diversity in Mass-Market Screenplays” presented in Marrakesh, Morocco, January 2005 at a Screenwriters Conference.
"America and Islam: A Loving Relationship" January 2003, and “Towards a Global Meta-Narrative” March 2003, Editorial December 2001 and Articles in EDUCATION AND TERRORISM: Edition 2001-06 for OJEMH, The Online Journal of Education, Media and Health.
"Six Levels of Mediated Learning" for Faculty Resource Network, June 2002.
"Developing Intellectual Hegemony on the WWW," for Northeast University Professors Education and Technology Conference, May 2001.
"Messing up the Box," for NYU's Technological Fair, April 2001.
"Collective versus Individual Creativity," for LTOL, Learning and Teaching Online in Guangzhou, China, sponsored by UNESCO and the Asian University Coalition, January 2001.
"Cyberperformance as an Academic Ritual," for MIT's Media-in-Transition
Conference, Oct 1999.
"Combining Meatspace, Cyberspace and Deepspace: How the Internet
Changes Conventional Education," presented and published at TCC98, Hawaii.
"Aching Backs in the Info Age," JOE, the WWW Journal for the
World Association for Online Education, Edition 99.
Short Fiction: "When Edges are too Soft" in Don't Open This Book,(Doubleday, 1998.)
"The Peace that Crusheth Understanding" in Angels of Darkness(Doubleday, 1995.)
"A Secret," in Lovers and Other Monsters (Doubleday, 1992.)
Screenplays: "Blast-Off," "The Race," "Sandcastles"(optioned.) "How to Survive as an Adjunct Professor by Wrestling" may or may not be produced by Hollywood!J
Reviews of academic press books in rhetoric and literature for Addison Wesley Longman and Houghton Mifflin. Screenwriting/Storytelling textbook in progress.
In Development: Huguenot St, a novel/screenplay.
ASSOCIATIONS: The World Association for Online Education-- founding
member and editor-in-chief of its online professional journal-- Online Journal
of Education, Media and Health
National Strength and Conditioning Association
National Academy of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine
The Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
The American Association of French-Speaking Health Professionals
Screenwriters Online
FITNESS SPOKESWOMAN on CBS news, Cable TV health shows. Presenter at meetings
of the American College of Sports Medicine. TV APPEARANCES on NBC Dateline,
Maury Povich and Court TV.
PUBLIC RELATIONS assistant for Air Canada and Penguin Books.
TRAINING: 20 years of advanced dance training in ballet, jazz and modern at
major New York studios.
Workshops in body therapies such as Laban's effort-flow, Bartenieff,
Sweigard/Todd ideokinesis, Alexander, rolfing, sportsmassage, kundalini yoga.
Screenwriting with Robert McKee, Ron Petersen.
Dramaturgy with Samuel French Inc., Jeff Sweet and Jeff Kitchen.
Fiction and Playwriting at the Writers Voice. Acting at The Acting Studio, HB
Studio, Soundstage, Banff School of Fine Arts, Canada.
Voice with Doug Houston and Lynn Starling.
Comedy at Chicago City Limits, Gotham City and Manhattan Punchline.
PERFORMING EXPERIENCE: Five original one-woman shows performed in New
York and Boston: "A Penal Fantasy," "Through the Broken
Glass," "Dreams," "Innocence and Experience,"
"The Cords of Time." Film: A Bronx Tale, and leading roles in
numerous independent films such as a demented French teacher, hooker etc. Roles
in classical theatre such as Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Emilia, Titania, Miss
Julie, Lady Teazle. Isadora Duncan Dance Company. Stand-up at the Improv and
Stand-Up New York.
Conception, direction and performance in CYBERPERFORMANCE I: Humans and
Nature, 5 May 1998, NYU
CYBERPERFORMANCE II: Self versus State? 19 December, 1998, NYU.
CYBERPERFORMANCE III: Educational versus Commercial Web Development, 28
April,1999, NYU.
CYBERPERFORMANCE IV: Heat Wave 99: Characters Sizzling in Time, 5 August 1999,
NYU.
CYBEPERFORMANCE V: 100 Years of Jokes and Mistakes, 18 December,1999, NYU.
CYBERPERFORMANCE VI: E-COMMERCE: Consumers versus Communitarians, 27 April,
2000, Polytechnic University
CYBERPERFORMANCE VII: Global Screenwriting Showcase, 29 April, 2000
CYBERPERFORMANCE VIII: Looking for Health, Wealth, Love and Knowledge Online, 6
May, 2000, NYU
CYBERPERFORMANCE IX: Eco-disciplinary Research, 9 August 2000, NYU
CYBERPERFORMANCE X: Narcissism versus Psychological Depth, 15 August 2000, NYU
CYBERPERFORMANCE X1: Megalomaniacs of the Twentieth Century, 16 December 2000,
NYU
CYBERPERFORMANCE XII: Osama Comes to New Paltz, online at
www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer