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Alan Schaefer

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction - English
Portrait of Alan Schaefer

Biography and education

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

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

  • Schaefer, E. A. (n.d.). “Where Firebirds Dwell: The Music of Prince Lasha.”
  • Schaefer, E. A. (Ed.). (2024). Journal of Texas Music History (Vol. 24). San Marcos, Texas, USA: Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University. Retrieved from https://www.txst.edu/ctmh/publications.html
  • 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.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. April 1, 2017
  1. Member

    Writing and Rhetoric Committee

  2. Member

    Undergraduate Technical Communication Committee

  3. Member

    Upper-Division Assessment Committee

  4. Participant

    This Week in Texas Music History, KUTX.ORG and KUTX 98.9 in Austin, Texas

  5. Volunteer

    NYOS Charter School

  6. Volunteer

    NYOS Charter School

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