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Diane Scharper
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Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Osher Program and Contributor, Freelance
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C. Diane Scharper dianes1420@yahoo.com dscharper@gmail.com cscharp2@alumn.jh.edu Education Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Master of Arts in Poetics, 1972, Master's Thesis: Poems College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD Bachelor of Arts, English Major, Writing Concentration Bachelor's Thesis: Poems Catholic University, Washington D.C. Credits toward an M.A. in Religion Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore Maryland Credits toward M.A. in Sacred Scripture Books Published The Laughing Ladies, A Collection of Poems, 1993 Radiant, A Cancer Memoir, 1996 Thy Mother’s Glass: Poems for Mothers and Daughters, 1998 Songs of Myself: Memoirs of College Students.1998 Thy Mother’s Glass: More Poems for Mothers and Daughters, 2000 Memoir, 2000 Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability, 2008 Other Publications 1986 to present: Approximately 1,000 book reviews, profiles, art reviews, op-ed pieces, and poems published in The Hopkins Review The Weekly Standard The Washington Examiner National Review Commonweal The National Catholic Reporter America The Wall Street Journal The New York Times Book Review USAToday The Washington Post The San Francisco Chronicle The Denver Post The Philadelphia Inquirer U.S.A. Today The Virginian Pilot Library Journal (I have written approximately 150 poetry reviews for LJ since 2002.) The Potomac Review City Paper The Catholic Review The Christian Science Monitor The Maryland Poetry Review The Baltimore Sun , Occupation From 1986 to present: Poetics Instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Osher Program, Spring, 2017. Memoir Instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Osher Program, Fall, 2017, Fall, 2018, Fall, 2019. Zoom Courses: Summer, 2020, Fall, 2020, Spring, 2021. . Courses Taught: Poetry is More than the Sum of its Parts The Art of Memoir Descriptive Writing, The Heart of Memoir The Pandemic Journal The Pivotal Moment Adjunct writing professor at Towson University Courses Taught, Graduate Level Masters of Professional Writing Program: Topics in Writing, Memoir Writing the Review Independent Studies in Memoir Courses Taught, Undergraduate Level English Department: The Writing of Poetry Writing for a Liberal Education Writing the Memoir Writing the Literary Essay Writing the Review Tradition and Form in Western Fiction Elements of Poetry Writing for a Liberal Education The Literary Essay Some Recent Professional Activities Composed and read the Inaugural Poem for the 2013 Installation of James F. Conneely Ph.D. as 12th President of Notre Dame of Maryland University, April 5, 2013. Judge for City Paper’s Poetry and Fiction Competition, December. 2011 Profiled in City Paper’s Big Books Issue, October 2011 Presenter and Panel Chair at the Maryland Department of Rehabilitation Services Conference Editor for the Helen Keller Memoir competition and anthology by the Helen Keller Foundation for Education and Research. 6, Presented "You Know What You Like. Do You Know Why?" a paper on teaching students how to write book reviews at The Modern Language Association Conference. Delta Epsilon Sigma, Membership
Biography Literary Fiction and Poetry. i also edit medical articles focusing on vision problems and surgery. Memoir
I cover all topics but specialize in biography, memoir, literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. If a memoirist can write about a topic, I cover it.
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De Pere, Wisconsin, United States