Faculty Profile for Alan Schaefer

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Alan Schaefer
Assoc Professor of Instruction — English
Brazos 206B
phone: (512) 245-3723

Biography Section

Biography and Education

BA in English, University of Texas, Austin
MA in Literature, Texas State University, San Marcos

Teaching Interests

World Literature
Technical Writing

Research Interests

Popular music of Texas

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Schaefer, E. A. (Ed.). (2023). Journal of Texas Music History (Vol. 23). San Marcos, Texas, USA: Center for Texas Music History.
  • [Review of DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution, by E. A. Schaefer]. (2022, December). Journal of Texas Music History. San Marcos, Texas, USA: Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University. Retrieved from https://www.txst.edu/ctmh/publications/journal.html#:~:text=The%20Journal%20of%20Texas%20Music%20History%20is%20the%20first%20academic,has%20subscribers%20throughout%20the%20world.
  • Schaefer, E. A. (2020, October). Review of Maria Golia’s Ornette Coleman: The Territory and the Adventure. Journal of Texas Music History. San Marcos, Texas, USA: Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University. Retrieved from https://gato-docs.its.txstate.edu/jcr:63fb6e6b-24cf-48f7-8fe3-410e3d1db765/JTMH_Vol_20_7_Review.pdf
  • Schaefer, E. A. (2015). Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Schaefer, E. A. (2015). Reframing a Portrait:  Flann O’Brien’s Interrogation of the Artist in Cruiskeen Lawn. In A. Goarzin (Ed.), New Critical Perspectives on Franco-Irish Relations (pp. 95–107). Oxford: Peter Lang.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. April 1, 2017

Selected Service Activities

Member
Writing and Rhetoric Committee
September 2024-Present
Member
Undergraduate Technical Communication Committee
September 2024-Present
Member
Upper-Division Assessment Committee
September 2024-Present
Participant
This Week in Texas Music History, KUTX.ORG and KUTX 98.9 in Austin, Texas
April 2024-Present
Volunteer
NYOS Charter School
January 2019-Present