RESUME FOR ROBERT G. FLICK

1028 Golfside Drive Winter Park, Florida 32792

BIRTHPLACE & DATE: Oblong, Illinois; 18 October 1930

MARRIAGE: To Ann Kibler, 4 August 1951

CHILDREN: Danalee (1952), Guy Carter (1956), Belinda (1960), Daniel (1961)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

            1952       Chicago Public High Schools, substitute teacher

1952-54 University of Florida, graduate assistant

1954-56 Sycamore (Illinois) High School, English teacher

1956-68 Jacksonville University, Instructor, Asst Prof, Assoc Prof

1968-69 Florida Technological Univ., Assoc Prof & Acting Chair

1969-79 FTU, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Humanities, Philosophy

1979-93 Univ. of Central Fla. (formerly FTU) Professor of Humanities

1993-98 UCF, Phased Retirement (half time employment)

2002-04 UCF, team teaching in interdisciplinary program

EDUCATION

            1952       B.S. in Educ., Eastern Illinois State College

            1954       M.A., English, University of Florida        (Gainesville)

            1967       Ph.D., English, University of Florida

TEACHING AREAS: English and American Literature; Humanities, Greek Culture, Mythology, Classical and Spiritual Ideal

PUBLICATIONS

            Emily Dickinson: Mystic and Skeptic, doctoral dissertation published by University Microfilms, 1967.

            "Humanities Colloquium at. S.A.M.L.A." in Humanities in the South, No. 36, Fall 1972.

            "Prospects for the Humanist in Public Policy Debate," Humanews Vol. 2, No.4, 1977-78.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS (partial list)

            “The Encantadas:  Melville’s Desert of Despair," paper given at South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Fall, 1961.

            Chair, organizational meeting, Humanities Colloquium at SAMLA, 1972.

            "The English Teacher and the Profession," presentation at Florida Association of Community Colleges meeting, 1972.

            "Individualized Teaching," presentation at Florida College English Association meeting, 1975.

            Various presentations to local community groups, Unitarian Society

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of University Professors (1957-77)

South Atlantic Modern Language Association (1957-1998)

Southern Humanities Conference

Florida College English Association (1964-present)

OFFICES, HONORS, AWARDS

  • American Assn. of Univ. Professors, state, local offices, 1964-68

  • Florida Endowment for the Humanities (now Fla. Humanities Council)

  • Board Member, 1973-79. Attended NEH meeting, Washington, 1974 Executive Committee, 1976-79

  • Chair, Operations Committee, 1978-79

  • South Atlantic Modern Language Assn., Program Committee, 1970-73

  • Florida College English Association

  • Executive Committee, 1973-76

  • Vice President and Program Chair, 1980-81

  • President, 1981-82

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Grant, 1980

  • "Dionysos and His Followers," University of Minnesota

  • Omicron Delta Kappa. Elected to honorary membership, Nov., 1988.

  • Phi Kappa Phi. Elected to honorary membership, April, 1992.

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences,

  • Founders Day, April 26, 1990.

GRANTS

            1974 "Medicine and Morality," a series of programs for the community with noted speakers. I was proposal writer and project director.

 

            1975 "Medicine and Morality II," second series funded by new grant.

FOREIGN TRAVEL, TEACHING, RESIDENCE

  • Selected to teach at the State University System Study Center in Florence, Italy, in 1976,1981, and 1985.

  • Studied at Oxford University, summer, 1979, works of J.M.W. Turner

  • Traveled to the Yucatan to visit Mayan sites, 1983.

  • International Summer School, University of Cambridge, 1984, 1985, 1995.

  • Attended Professional Development Seminar in Costa Rica, May 1989.

  • Travel in Europe (various countries from England to Greece) in 1971, 1976, 1973, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, Canada 1996, New Zealand 1999, England 2001 & 2002, Hawaii 2001, Elderhostel trip to Portugal & Spain, 2004.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

I have served on committees, task forces, and councils too numerous to mention. I was on the Faculty Senate for at least half of the 30 years I was a full-time faculty member at UCF, serving as Vice Chair in 1990-91 and on the Steering Committee several terms. In 1993-94 I served as chair of the Undergraduate Policy and Curriculum Committee. In the 1990's I was on the Library Advisory Committee, Admissions and Standards Committee, and on the President's Task Force on Values.