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Writer and Editor: listed in Who's who in Editors and Writers Published. In the international sector, As a writer. I wrote a UNDP monitoring report on deinstitutionalization of children in the Republic of GA. and worked actively with UNIFEM and UNCEF in issues of child welfare and trafficking and abuse of women in war zones. I edited brochures for cultural heritage and preservation for cultural ministries. I edited for a Policy Institute, and edited grants for contemporary art funding. I trained staffs of UNDP, Save the Children and ngos, as well as human rights attorneys in documentation and protocol in Mongolia Azerbaijan and Kosovo. I edited several books for the educational press and for Nanjing University in China and for the AMA and for Doubleday&Co, McGraw Hill and Harcourt Brace in USA. As a Commonwealth speaker(NEH)in Pennsylvania administered by the University of Archaeology and Anthropology museum the University of Pennsylvania I gave presentations on culture and art and Buddhism in Mongolia, China and Japan. I videotaped and scripted 12 programs for cable tv,(Ch 55) through a NEH grant NAP ( National Arts Programming ).. "There and Here:. Bringing the Far Away Near" promoting cultural understanding I did museum development assessment which was presented in a formal report to a board of ambassadors under my Fulbright in Azerbaijan and in Uzbekistan, and also created the 2001 UN calendar. I worked in PR at The Guggenheim Museum for a Picasso exhibition and as program coordinator at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian. As a National Education Policy Fellow The Arts and Gifted, I worked in the education department at the Whitney museum of American Art, and with the Metropolitan Museum of Art education department and with the Rockefeller fund and conducted and wrote a feasibility study for a performing arts center whichever was created. I conducted an extensive survey of the arts in NJ and was responsible to a board of directors.
Universities, prep for university entrance, business competency, essay and thesis review as editor, editing of foreign English in Romance languages French and Italian English publications, medical editing ( Latin), multi and interdisciplinary specialization in Literatures( Comparative: French German Russian Chinese ) in music, film, art and architecture and poetry
Publications : “How To Teach a Play, Long Days Journey into Night Eugene O’Neill “ Theatre Studies , The Arden Shakespeare, Literary studies and Classics Bloomsbury 50 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DP 2019 Essay in a Journal : “ The Pen and The Brush : Eugene O’Neill, Visual Artists and Women Muses “ p 47-73. The Eugene O’Neill Review Vol. 38,no.1 and 2. 2017. Penn State University Press Essay. “Self-blessing : A Tribute to Galway Kinnell. P 116-122. Schuyllkill Valley Journal 25th anniversary edition. Vol 40 Spring 2015 Havertown PA Poems: “Radiant Retreat, Music” Tulum Mexico. P 39, Schuylkill Valley Review Vol 38 Spring 2014 Peter Krok Editor Havertown, PA Contributions: Essay “Amy Lowell: The Fragrance of Adapted Chinese Verse in “Fir Flower Tablets” p 64-99. “Susan Sontag’s Proposed Trip to China” p 146 and poem “A Lute From Tung Tree Wood” p 152, and Book Review “Peking Sun, Shanghai Moon: A China Memoir by Diana Hutchins Angulo p 177-78 in first revived edition of Journal of The RoyalAsiatic Society ( China, Shanghai ) Vol.74, no.1, April 2010. Editor/ writer of Eugene O'Neill Foundation newsletter, Danville,Ca while on Bd of Directors Writer. memoir of literary life and of a decade of international service in transitional and transformation societies including Mongolia ( Russia China Central Asia The Georgian Republic Central Europe (Fulbright and Soros Foundation and UNDP) Macedonia and Kosovo (EU. Writer in residence at Dorland Arts Colony California 2013
Copy edit and provide suggestions for revision on select Academic University level professional articles in Applied Linguistics for an academic journal published in English.
Writer's Residency Award based on submission of ten page manuscript, and 3 letters of reference, along with vita and submission of published writing. PRODUCTION: 250 word manuscript for revision. I did memoir writing, journal writing and penned 70 haiku and several new poems Averaged 50,000 words a month. INTERVIEW: PUBLICATION. See link interview : http://www.kcet.org/art bound/counties/riverside/Dorland-mountain-arts-colony.html
I provided a lecture on Pearl S. Buck for the 120th anniversary to the Johns Hopkins Chinese American Center and taught a short course for the anniversary program by Nanjing University on Lushan (Mt Lu) Pearl S. Buck's family's home and where she decided to be a writer. At Nanjing University, Department of English, I teach Masters of Arts candidates a survey course, "Greek & Roman Culture to Neoclassicism; Romanticism to Modernism. in Western Civilization(Literature and Art History) and an intermediate level and advanced level writing course to English majors. . I am editor for a book to be published by Peter Engel, Germany, on American playwright Thornton Wilder and his use of allegory. I continued as editor for the translation editor into Chinese of "Reborn", an auto-biographical work of Susan Sontag. with a preface by her son. .
Provision of three lectures to participants(summer program) in Chinese Cultural program in the year of Pearl S. Buck's anniversary. Lectures include Pearl S. Buck's parents home on Lushan, her life in Nanjing and Shanghai, and her significance as a Noble Prize Winning Author to the USA and to China.