Randall Conrad, M.A., ASI
Copyediting / Proofreading / Indexing
1116 Massachusetts Ave. •  Lexington MA 02420
voice  781-674-2926  •  cell  781-424-6771  •  fax  781-674-2930  • e-mail  randall@calliope.org

 

Education
Université de Paris, General Curriculum
Columbia University, M.A., cum laude, Romance Languages & Literatures
Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa
Sweetbriar Junior Year, Université de Paris, mention bien
Phillips Exeter Academy, Classical Diploma

 

Information Architect and Webmaster – Calliope, Inc. 

 

§         Repurposed research archives of this award-winning educational media company into an information-rich web site with appeal to multiple audiences.

§         Enhanced history, literature, and popular culture topics for students and teachers with curriculum builders and interdisciplinary links.

§         Tailored access and navigation to multiple learning styles.

 

Art Translations from French (selected)

Eric Michaud, "The Real as a Primal Scene (A Note on Art and Devouring)," Utopia Post Utopia, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1988

(Edited and translated) Robert Benayoun, The Look of Buster Keaton,
NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983

Pier Paolo Pasolini, "The Cinema of Poetry," in Bill Nichols, ed., Movies and Methods, Berkeley: U of California Press, 1976

 

Managing Partner & Creative Writing Director – Think! Interactive Design  1996-2000
 

§         Wrote and edited reader-friendly content for HTML files.

§         Consulted with clients in planning and content sessions.

§         Collaborated with creative teammates on site design and architecture.

Editor in Chief – Compaq Computer Corp.  1999-2002
Managing Editor & Senior Writer – Digital Equipment Corp.  1986-1998

§         Responsible for biweekly web publications promoting high-end systems to enterprise decision-makers. Managed communication with worldwide content contributors. Supervised copywriters, both on-site and remote.

§         Responsible for consistency of tone, style, and presentation in an unpredictable, engineering-driven, jargon-plagued, highly competitive business environment.

§         Supported a challenging, merger-driven, multi-phase transition from casual
e-mail-based processes to a custom in-house editing/publishing workflow system… and finally to a flexible intranet framework suited to a virtual team.

§         Created and updated style guides to reconcile traditional, print-oriented corporate guidelines with new, HTML-driven format requirements.

§         Multimedia specialist (1999) for evolving prototype of ActiveAnswers Development Kit, a complex, web-based tool set for business partners and resellers.

 

Scholarly Publications (selected)

Book Reviews in Thoreau Society Bulletin:
Alan D. Hodder, Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness – No. 241 (Fall 2002)
Elizabeth Witherell, ed., Collected Essays and Poems of Thoreau – No. 238 (Winter 2002)
William Cain, ed., Oxford Companion to Thoreau – No. 233 (Summer 2001)
Michael West, Transcendental Wordplay – No. 231 (Spring 2000)

The Thoreau Institute: Grand Opening Commemorative Book (Lincoln MA, 1998)

"A Captain with the Insurgents: Jason Parmenter of Bernardston" in Martin Kaufman, ed., Shays’ Rebellion: Selected Essays (Westfield MA: Institute for Mass. Studies, 1987)

"No Blacks or Whites: The Making of Buñuel's 'Young One'" - Cineaste, 20:3 (1994)

"Mystery and Melodrama: A Conversation with Georges Franju" - Film Quarterly, 35:2 (1981-82)

"'I am Not a Producer!': A Conversation with Serge Silberman" - Film Quarterly, 33:1 (1979)

 

Full-Time Teaching
School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
-Filmmaking
-Film Department Head
Tufts University
-Art History: the French surrealist movement (various media)
-Art History: the history of film

 

Part-Time Teaching and Guest Lectures (selected)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Humanities Department
-Lecturer in Art Film History
Boston University, School of Public Communication
-Instructor in Basic Filmmaking
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (lectures in film history)
University of Massachusetts, Boston (extension course in American history)

 

Awards and Fellowships

Grand Prize, Best Dramatic Film, Sundance Festival
American Film & Video Festival
C.I.N.E. Golden Eagle (twice)
Governor's Commendation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Artist's Fellowship (twice), The Artists' Foundation
Fulbright Fellowship

Conferences

American Literary Association. Panelist-presenter. 2002 Conference, Long Beach, CA.

Independent Feature Film. Panelist. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, sponsored by the Massachusetts Film Office.

Independent Feature Production. Organizer and moderator. Boston. Conference supported by the Massachusetts Arts Council.

The Independent Feature Project. Steering Committee Member. Founding Conference, New York City.

U.S. Conference for an Alternative Cinema. Delegate of Boston Film/Video Foundation. Bard College.

Service and Program Administration

Calliope.org. Co-founding Officer and Webmaster, 1977-present. A nonprofit multimedia producer and web publisher celebrating 25 years in arts, humanities and public education.

The Thoreau Project (a public education initiative of Calliope.org). An Internet learning site for all ages dedicated to the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau and his times: www.calliope.org/thoreau/

Boston Film/Video Foundation. Co-Founding Board Member, 1976-80. President and Chairman, 1980-81. A nonprofit regional center for independent film, video and performance art, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Additional Professional Background
Member, American Society of Indexers
History Panelist, N.E.H., Media Program
Nominator, The Sundance Institute
Regional Juror, American Film Festival

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