Tony Ardizzone, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Tony Ardizzone, former Director of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University from 1979-1987, now teaches at Indiana University. He is the author of two novels, In the Name of the Father, 1978, and Heart of the Order, 1986, which was awarded the 1985 Virginia Prize for Fiction and named by The National Sports Review as one of the ten best sports books of 1986. He has also published a collection of short stories, The Evening News, 1986, which won the Flannery O\u27Connor Award. His stories have been cited twice in Best American Short Stories and been given Prairie Schooner\u27s Lawrence Foundation Award and the Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs

Tony Ardizzone, 3rd Annual ODU Literary Festival

From the training grounds of Chicago and Bowling Green, Tony Ardizzone serves as running guard for the creative writing program at ODU. Author of a novel ( In the Name of the Father ) and a collection of short stories ( Idling ), he is also the editor of Intro, an annual journal of the best writing from college workshops around the country. In a nearly completed accompanying volume to In the Name of the Father, Ardizzone traces the route by which the character Vito Scaparelli reaches Vietnam. Ardizzone has published 15 short stories in distinguished fiction quarterlies. He believes that the writing of fiction is the crafting of interiorized drama

Tony Ardizzone, 1st Annual ODU Literary Festival

Tony Ardizzone, a writer from Chicago, teaches fiction at ODU. Previously on the staff at Bowling Green, Mr. Ardizzone has published short fiction in over fifteen periodicals, including Carolina Quarterly, The Chicago Review, and Epoch. His novel In the Name of the Father appears in October

A Community of Scholars? : Conversations Among Mid-career Faculty at a Public Research University

This article reports on a study of issues of faculty isolation and morale in mid-career faculty. Interview questions probed the dynamics of individual careers and asked about the quality of work life in the department and university, and changes in work life over the course of careers. Findings suggest that a majority of faculty, regardless of professional interests or scholarly prestige, would like greater interaction with departmental colleagues, more recognition from their department and university, a reward system based less on outside offers, and more fluid communications with upper-level administrators. Faculty comments clearly illustrate the advantages of an academic career: the autonomy and freedom to pursue one\u27s own interests and set one\u27s own priorities; the ability to have several careers in the course of a single faculty career. Findings suggest that faculty needs vary substantially with career stage and that effective faculty development programs will be responsive to this variation