Skip to main content Alan Schaefer
- Assoc Professor of Instruction at English, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- 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.
- Volunteer, NYOS Charter School.
January 1, 2018 - Present.
- Volunteer, NYOS Charter School.
January 1, 2017 - Present.
- Member, Library Committee.
2011 - Present.
2023
- Member, Ad hoc FYE Subcommittee.
November 2019 - 2023.
- Member, First-Year English Committee.
2011 - 2023.
2022
- Organizer, "Oral History, Community Storytelling, and the Legacy of DJ Screw" sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History and the Center for the Study of the Southwest.
October 6, 2022.
- Participant, COLA Welcome Back event.
August 2022.
2021
- Participant, Step Up For State fundraiser.
October 2021 - October 27, 2021.
- Participant, COLA Major/Minor Fair.
October 7, 2021.
- Participant, Assessment of graduating senior papers.
April 2021 - May 2021.
2020
- co-organizer, Center for Texas Music History presents Bill Malone, a Common Experience Event.
February 26, 2020.
2019
- Volunteer, NYOS Charter School.
December 2019.
- Co-organizer, "Houston Rap Tapes: H-Town's Hip-Hop History," a Common Experience event presented by Center for Texas Music History.
October 9, 2019.
- Participant, Old Settler's Music Festival.
April 13, 2019.
- Organizer, "The Roots of the Texas Country Scene" panel discussion, presented by the Center for Texas Music History.
April 2, 2019.
- Organizer, Film screening of VINYL GENERATION.
February 28, 2019.
2018
- Organizer, El Disco Es Cultura: A panel about performing and preserving cultural identity through musical archives.
October 18, 2018.
- Organizer, Screening of TREE OF LIFE and a talk with Martin Woessner entitled “Terrence Malick’s Texistentialsm: Film, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning”.
October 8, 2018 - October 9, 2018.
- Reader/editor, Honors College/Texas State Undergraduate Research Journal.
March 22, 2018 - March 29, 2018.
- Member, FYE Handbook Selection Subcommittee.
November 2017 - February 2018.
2017
- Organizer, Screening of THROUGH THE REPELLENT FENCE.
October 12, 2017.
- Member, Honors College Scholarship Review Committee.
March 2017 - April 2017.
- Member, Undergraduate Technical Communication Committee.
October 2016 - April 2017.
2016
- English 1320 Reader Review Subcommittee.
2015 - 2016.
- Organizer, Film Screening of LISTOPAD; a Common Experience event.
November 2, 2016.
- Participant, Fusebox Festival's Revolutions Per Minute program.
April 9, 2016.
- Member, 1320 Textbook/Reader Subcommittee.
October 2015 - February 2016.
2015
- Curator, Homegrown: Austin Music Posters, 1967 to 1982, Wittliff Collections, Texas State University.
2015.
- English 1310 Essay Contest Reader.
2015.
- Discussion Moderator, “Truth or Fiction? Does Truth Exist in Documentary Cinema?”, Discussion with Polish filmmaker Pawel Wysoczanski, hosted by the Honors College and the Terry Scholars of Texas State University.
October 2015.
2011
- Interviewer, Esquire Ballroom Oral History Project, Wittliff Collections, Texas State University.
2011.
2010
- Docent, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.
2008 - 2010.
