Steinberg, Erwin R(ay) 1920-

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STEINBERG, Erwin R(ay) 1920-

PERSONAL: Born November 15, 1920, in New Rochelle, NY; son of Samuel (a women's clothes cutter) and Leah (Neumann) Steinberg; married Beverly Ann Mendelson, August 15, 1954; children: Marc W., Alan J. Education: Attended City College (now City College of the City University of New York), 1937-38; Plattsburgh State Normal School (now State University of New York—College at Plattsburgh), teaching certificate, 1940; New York College for Teachers (now State University of New York—Albany), B.S., 1941, M.S., 1942; New York University, Ph.D., 1956.

ADDRESSES: Home—5025 5th Ave., Apt. 3A, Pittsburgh, PA 15232. Office—Department of English, Carnegie-Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890. E-mail—es2t@andrew.cmu.edu.

CAREER: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., instructor, 1946-49, assistant professor, 1949-55, associate professor, 1955-61, professor of English, 1961-75, professor of English, interdisciplinary studies, and rhetoric, 1975—, Thomas S. Baker Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, 1980-93, department head, 1956-60, dean of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College, 1960-73, dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1965-75, chairman of board, Carnegie-Mellon Education Center, 1968-75, director, Carnegie-Mellon Communications Design Center, 1979-81, vice provost for education, 1991-96. Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, visiting scholar, 1970-71. Illinois Board of Higher Education, vice chair, Commission of Scholars, 1977. Communications consultant to Learning Institute of North Carolina, American Institutes for Research, and other companies and institutions. Military service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 1943-46; became sergeant.

MEMBER: National Council of Teachers of English (member of executive committee, 1960; member of board of directors), Conference on College Composition and Communication (past chair; member of executive committee), Modern Language Association of America, Society of Technical Writers and Publishers (Pittsburgh chapter), Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.

AWARDS, HONORS: Carnegie-Mellon University, Carnegie Teaching Award, 1956, Robert Doherty Prize, 1990; named distinguished alumnus, State University of New York—Albany, 1969; named alumnus of the year, State University of New York—College at Plattsburgh, 1971.

WRITINGS:

(With William M. Schutte) Communication in Business and Industry, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York, NY), 1960, reprinted, Krieger Publishing (Malabar, FL), 1991.

(Editor, with William M. Schutte) Personal Integrity, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1961.

(With William M. Schutte) Communication Problems from Business and Industry, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1961.

(Editor) The Rule of Force, W. W. Norton (New York, NY), 1962.

Needed Research in the Teaching of English, U.S. Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), 1963.

(With others) Curriculum Development and Evaluation in English and Social Studies, Carnegie Institute of Technology (Pittsburgh, PA), 1964.

(Editor, with Lois S. Josephs, and contributor) English Education Today, Noble & Noble (New York, NY), 1970.

(Editor, with Alan M. Markman) English Then and Now: Readings and Exercises, Random House (New York, NY), 1970.

The Stream of Consciousness and Beyond in "Ulysses," University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1973.

(Editor) The Stream-of-Consciousness Technique in the Modern Novel, Kennikat Press (Port Washington, NY), 1979.

(Editor, with L. W. Gregg) Cognitive Processes in Writing, Erlbaum (Hillsdale, NJ), 1980.

(Editor, with Alan M. Markman) Exercises in the History of English, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1983.

(Editor) Plain Language: Principles and Practice, Wayne State University Press (Detroit, MI), 1991.

(Editor, with K. McCormick) Approaches to Teaching James Joyce's "Ulysses," Modern Language Association of America (New York, NY), 1993.

(Editor, with Akram Midani) D. Bonnaud, Numa Bles, and L. Boyer, Ulysses on Montmartre: An Earlier Ulysses in Another Nighttown, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 2002.

Contributor to books, including New Theology—Number One, edited by M. E. Manty, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1964; Patterns and Models for Teaching English, edited by Michael Shugrue, National Council of Teachers of English (Urbana, IL), 1964; Twentieth Century Interpretations of "The Castle," edited by P. F. Neumeyer, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1969; Approaches to "Ulysses," edited by T. F. Stanley and B. Benstock, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1970; and New Light on Joyce from the Dublin Symposium, edited by Fritz Senn, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1972. General editor, "Insight" series, Noble & Noble (New York, NY), 1968-73. Contributor to numerous periodicals, including Literature and Psychology, Journal of Modern Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, James Joyce Review, Quarterly Journal of Speech, English Journal, Educational Forum,University Quarterly, PMLA, and American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

The Stream of Consciousness Technique in the Modern Novel has been translated into Spanish.