DAVID DUNAWAY
University of New Mexico
Department of English
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
(505) 277-5573
dunaway@unm.edu

Personal Bio/Other Information:
David Dunaway is Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Media-humanities programs seem to work best when carefully planned with a comprehensive distribution plan prepared in the beginning. In the quarter-century that he has been producing such programs, David Dunaway has learned to work as a resource and archive and can help groups trouble-shoot programs before trouble arrives.

Public Lecture Topics:

Oral History in the 21st Century

Oral history has come a long way from the first interviews in Columbia University where they threw away the tapes, once transcribed. Today, new generations of oral historians are savvy about equipment, issues in interviewing, and cross-disciplinary research. This talk explores the history of oral history and the next directions it might take: automatically transcribed, used in broadcast Internet, and courts, presented in multimedia in schools and colleges. The speaker is co-editor of the standard text on oral history: Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology.

Public Programs:

His national specialty is the presentation of historical or literary topics via broadcasting. He has worked in television, film, but mostly in radio. For the California Council for the Humanities, he prepared Aldous Huxley's Brave New Worlds, which aired on 78 stations from Public Radio International. For the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1995, he wrote and produced "Writing The Southwest", about leading contemporary authors and their work, which aired on nearly 100 radio stations, including 20 in California. He works with those interested in developing projects from archives, libraries or citizen groups, taking them from program design, teaching field recording, and then scripting, production and distribution.

Publications:

He is the author of five volumes of history and biography, including one on Hollywood (Huxley in Hollywood), Oral History (Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, 1998), and Writing the Southwest (1995). He has published fifty articles in the Journal of American Folklore, Ethnomusicology, Oral History, Oral History Review, Journal of Life Narratives, and other journals. His newspaper articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Albuquerque Journal, and the New York Times.

Recommendations:

The Writing the Southwest website: www.unm.edu/~wrtgsw

David Dunaway has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 15-Nov-1999.