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Informationen zum Autor A gifted teacher and thought-provoking writer, Tom McGovern illuminates the connections between Jesus and well being, inviting diverse audiences to discover deeper understandings of their lives and a mindful spirituality. He was a founding faculty member and arts and sciences director at Arizona State University West where he developed interdisciplinary liberal arts programs for multigenerational and multicultural students. After a career as a scholar-teacher and administrator at Fordham University, Southern Illinois University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and ASU, he teaches now at the University of Southern Maine's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. A fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association, his recognitions include: Professor of the Year in Arizona by the CASE / Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, VCU Distinguished Teaching Award, ASU Outstanding Service Award, Riese Melton Award for Cross-Cultural Relations, and Fordham's Jouin Award in Theology. The American Psychological Association named him a G. Stanley Hall Lecturer at their centennial convention. Author of "Memory's Stories: Interdisciplinary Readings of Multicultural Life Narratives" and "Faculty Virtues and Character Strengths: Reflective Exercises for Sustained Renewal", he has published on counseling psychology, undergraduate education, professional and personal development, and the virtues and character strengths. He reviews books on liberal arts topics for "America" and for "PsycCRITIQUES". Klappentext Memory's Stories is an interdisciplinary analysis of multicultural life narratives. The author created an innovative schema to evaluate classic and contemporary texts, synthesizing theoretical perspectives from psychology, literary theory, feminist and multicultural studies. The schema is based on his fifteen years of teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, such as 'Multicultural Autobiographies' and 'Psychology, Multicultural Narratives, and Religion.' Chapter One introduces the author's schema and explores Saint Augustine's The Confessions. Chapter Two uses Erik Erikson's psychosocial development theory to examine Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. In Chapter Three, the author evaluates Black Elk Speaks and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, using William James's psychology of religion framework. Feminist literary theorists, like Sidonie Smith, provide the critical tools for Chapter Four and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior. In Chapter Five, with Dan McAdams's life story model of identity, the author analyzes three serial autobiographies by Richard Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory; Days of Obligation; and Brown. Chapter Six synthesizes recent interdisciplinary scholarship on redemption stories, innovative composition strategies, and cognitive science research on autobiographical memory, evaluating James McBride's auto/biography, The Color of Water. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Listening to Memory's Stories Chapter 2 Mapping the Examining Conscience Chapter 3 Revealing Prophetic Voices Chapter 4 Coloring Women's Stories Chapter 5 Continuing Anthologies of the Self Chapter 6 Transforming Chaos into Hope...
