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Christopher Scott Chiron <br /> 48 Foster Lane <br /> Pittsboro NC 27312 <br /> Home: 919-913-7201 Work: 919-843-1870 Email: chrischiron@yahoo.com <br /> M.A.ENGLISH M.A.COMMUNICATION STUDIES B.A.COMMUNICATION STUDIES <br /> University of orthern Iowa University of North Carolina University of Northern Iowa <br /> Cedar Falls, IA Chapel Hill, NC Cedar Falls, IA <br /> August 2000 August 1999 May 1993 <br /> (additional graduate study 2001-2007) (Minor:Business) <br /> TEACHING(DESIGN&INSTRUCTION) <br /> Academic Courses: <br /> • (Lower-Level) Introduction to the Performance of Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill <br /> ■ Graduate Assistant(Fall 1994,Spring 1995) <br /> ■ Instructor(Summer 1995,Fall 1995;Spring 1996) <br /> • (Upper-Level)Narrative Literature in Performance: Adaptation(Fiction&Film),UNC-Chapel Hill <br /> ■ Graduate Assistant(Spring, 1995;Spring 1996) <br /> ■ Instructor(Summer 1996, Summer 2004) <br /> • (Upper-Level)Vietnam: Perspectives and Performance(co-taught,Spring 1993),UNI <br /> Other: <br /> • "Adapting Literature for the Stage,"Theatre Workshop: Edinburgh Fringe Festival,Scotland.August,2004. <br /> • "Poetry and Performance," T.S. Eliot:His Life, His Literature, His Legacy in The Program in the Humanities <br /> and Human Values:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.March, 1999. <br /> • "The Vietnam Conflict and Staging Vietnamese Chess(Guest Lecture),"Humanities 11(400-student general <br /> education course): University of Northern Iowa.Spring, 1994. <br /> • "Introduction to Homer's Odyssey(Guest Lecture),"Humanities I(400-student general education course): <br /> University of Northern Iowa. Fall 1993. <br /> RESEARCH GRANTS <br /> GRANT Co-DIRECTOR(DEC 1992-JUNE 1993) <br /> Iowa Humanities Board/UNI Department of Communication Studies <br /> • Achieved over$16,000 in grants,donations,and in-kind funding(including funding from the National <br /> Endowment for the Humanities and the Iowa Humanities Board)for a ethnographic study on stress and coping <br /> mechanisms in Vietnam veterans and their spouses. <br /> • Interviewed over 40 research subjects. <br /> Co-created interdisciplinary university course and ethnographic performance based on research subject. <br /> • Published two scripts(Iowa Stories and Vietnamese Chess)and research in a volume whose proceeds fund a <br /> scholarship at UNI for children of Vietnam veterans. <br />