IUP and Community Service

Mentoring

The doctoral program in Literature and Criticism provides extensive mentoring for 1st and 2nd year TAs. I coordinated the mentoring program 2012 - 2017

ACPAC Technology Vision Committee

I have been active in ACPAC (Academic Computing Policy Advisory Committee) for a decade, previously chairing the Emerging Technology Sub-Committee. This grouped helped to bring blogging to IUP. In Summer 2014, I helped to reorganize the ACPAC sub-committee structure and now co-chair the standing Vision subcommittee with Dr. Mike Powers. We have a full agenda for the upcoming year

IUP Sailing Club

Founder and faculty advisor, I enjoy spending time with members of the Sailing Club at Yellow Creek State Park whenever possible. My service here is complimented by community involvement as chair of the non-profit Friends of Yellow Creek and volunteering for the board of the Moraine Sailing Club

BIO 

Kenneth Sherwood is Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches and writes about poetry, oral performance, and digital humanities. He edited poet Louis Zukofsky's A Useful Art Essays and Radio Scripts on American Design (Wesleyan UP, 2003); critical writing has appeared in journals such as Oral Tradition, Postmodern Culture and scholarly collections with Wesleyan and Oxford. For three years, he as a participating scholar in the NEH-funded project: "High Performance Sound Technology for Access and Scholarship." He also founded and co-edited the first online journal of experimental poetry RIF/T and was assistant editor for the American Anthropologist. He earned a BA in English, Bates College (High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, 1991); MA from SUNY Buffalo (Creative Thesis, 1997); PhD SUNY Buffalo English/Poetics (2001).

Current /Ongoing Projects: Sherwood is presently at work on two solicited essays: "Oral Poetries Are (not) Lost to Us: Recovering Ethnopoetics and Teaching Oral Traditions for a Digital Age" and "Mary English' Loon Song: On Ethnopoetic Listening." Ethnopoetics.org, a collaborative scholarly wiki, was launched in Summer 2021. Since its advent in a summer seminar, four IUP students have joined the collaborative team as ongoing contributors/editors. Sherwood offered the special topics graduate course "Literature as a Genre: Podcasting, Narrative, Poetics, and Sound" in 2020, received a 2022 grant from IUP LSE for teaching undergraduate podcasting in ENGL 202, and is developing an in-house podcast entitled "Human Matters."

Service: Sherwood has been an active member of the Academic Computing Policy Advisory Committee for years, and is currently completing his second term as faculty chair, as well as serving as the rules chair on APSCUF Executive Committee. Sherwood previously served as the Mentoring Coordinator for Literature and Criticism TAs. He co-founded and serves as co-director of the Center for Digital Humanities and Culture,

Creative: In 1990, Kenneth Sherwood (Interpretation) began performing his own poetry, solo and with a live jazz group. He has given readings in New York, Texas, Maine, New Hampshire, Maryland, and Pennsylvania and has published four chapbooks of poetry, most recently Code of Signals (2017);. His early Flash poetry composition, "Kodachrome Blue Syntax" was reviewed in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The installation "Coal Code Node" a multi-modal digital collaboration with Bob Sweeny was shown in the IUP Kipp Gallery in 2018 and accepted for collection in the peer reviewed, Electronic Literature Organization ELC 4 -- forthcoming 2022.

Courses: Permanent IUP courses developed by Dr. Sherwood include: Engl 421 Digital Writing, Engl 756/856: A Domain of One's Own: Digital Literacy for the English Professional; and ENGL 757/857: Digital Composition, Literature, and Pedagogy.

DHC projects: Sherwood led /co-led or assisted in the following: Reading Rebooted: Glimpsing the Future of Literature in the Digital Age (electronic literature exhibition, Kipp Annex; Sherwood and ENGL 983); Creative Coding Residency / Workshops (training workshops for IUP students; Sherwood and Dr. Sweeny with Dr. Tomi Dufva, Aalto University visiting International Scholar); Open Source Toolkit (digital productivity and software freedom, flash drive and workshops; Sherwood, Weinstein, and student interns); Digital Storygame Project 2018 (Hypertext narrative creation; IUP graduate and undergraduate interns, with public school students; with Dr. Sell); first IUP Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon (digital writing, public humanities, social justice; with Dr. Vetter). Womens’ Diary Project (IUP archive digitization, public humanities; with Dr. Heflin); MyDomain IUP (digital literacy, personal website creation; html and css workshops, honors college undergraduates; Sherwood); Transnational Pedagogies (digital course project, CAL graduate program; with Dr. Sánchez-Martín); #Keywords: Chats on Digital Culture (roundtable presentations; Mark DiMauro, graduate student coordinator; IUP graduate students, presenters and audience).