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| Foothill College English Professor Scott Lankford |
Scott Lankford, Ph.D.Professor of English; Foothill Center for a Sustainable Future Language Arts Division (650) 949-7540 voicemail
lankfordscott@foothill.edu scottatfoothill@yahoo.com http://foothill.edu/la/staff.php?s=1&rec_id=460Foothill campusOffice: 6015
Office Hours: Winter Quarter 2013 Office Hours (in Room 6015):
Tuesdays, Thursdays 1:30 to 2:30; Fridays 10:00-10:50
No appointment necessary -- just drop by!
Need additional office hours? Email me (or ask in person) to arrange an appointment at other times!
Comments: Students: Be sure to check out the blog links below for additional info!
Schedule: Winter Quarter 2013 Teaching Schedule
English 1A.07
Tu/Th 8:00-9:50
Fri 9:00-9:50
Room 6302
English 1AH.01 Honors
Tue/Thurs 10:00-11:50
Fri 11:00-11:50
Room 6401
English 1C.01
Tu/Th/Fri 12:00-1:15
Room 6303
Course information: Interests: My interests include telemark turns; trad climbs; cozy cafes; bookstores; one thousand kinds of tea; ecology; philosophy; literature; going to the gym; Tibetan yoga; surfing, snorkeling, and body boarding; guitar; treks; Zen and Bhodi Chitta Buddhism; adventure travel to anywhere and everywhere on earth (recently including Mexico, Costa Rica, Thailand, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Brunei, the Phillipines, Taiwan, Singapore, Nepal, Colorado, Washington DC, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey).
Biography: Born in Denver, I graduated from Manual High School -- an inner-city public school with a majority African American enrollment -- and still by far the best school I ever attended.
Growing up in Colorado, my hobbies were guitar, telemark skiing, and wilderness mountaineering. My first teaching experience came as a wilderness skiing and rock-climbing instructor in Alaska, Africa, and the Rockies. In 1985 I was a member of the American Mount Everest West Ridge Expedition (you can read all about it in my teammate Ed Webster's classic book Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest or another teammate's book, Robert Anderson's To Everest via Antarctica). Prior to entering grad school at Stanford, I even had a brief career as a singer/songwriter, working as a warm-up act for nationally-famous performers such as Don McLean and Harry Chapin on the New England college circuit. In fact, writing songs was what first got me interested in studying poetry!
I joined the Foothill faculty in 1989 and served as Dean of Language Arts from 1994-1996. In 1991 I became the co-founder of Foothill's award-winning Cultural Diversity Center, the Foothill Gay and Lesbian Employees and Friends Association, and the Foothill student Gay/Straight Alliance. In addition to courses in College Writing, I have taught Creative Writing, Poetry, American Literature, Lesbian/Gay Literature and a variety of special-topic Honors Seminars ranging from "Lake Tahoe's Literary History" to "Contributions of Islamic Cultures to American History," to "Blogging as an Emerging Genre."
Degrees
B.A. Philosophy, Williams College, 1980
M.A., Modern Thought and Literature, 1989
Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature, 1991
Publications
My book Tahoe Beneath the Surface: The Hidden History of the World's Largest Mountain Lake was released in October of 2010 and was awarded a Bronze Medal as 2010 Nature Book of the Year by Foreword Magazine (the leading national journal of independent publishers and independent booksellers nationwide).
My previous book, Northwest Passages: From the Pen of John Muir (revised edition 1998) won the Benjamin Franklin Prize from the Independent Publishers Association.
My next book, Paris Naked will focus on the epic, if often unclothed, misadventures of Americans in Paris from Ben Franklin to Madonna.
During my 2013-2015 Spring sabbatical quarters I'll be researching a book on the battle to save the largest lake on each of the 7 Continents -- including the sub-glacial lakes buried beneath the ice of Antarctica.
Faculty Committees
Foothill Academic Senate
Foothill Sustainable Learning Community
Native American Heritage Month Planning Committee
Asian American Heritage Month Planning Committee
LGBT Heritage Month Planning Committee
Minority Staff Association (Secretary)
Foothill College General Education Subcommittee
CSU/CC Campus Compass Project
Curriculum Initiatives
During the 2011/2012 academic year, I helped launch two brand new across-the-curriculum initiatives: The Foothill Center for a Sustainable Future (of which I'm a co-founder and co-director), and a collaborative effort to apply Stanford Design School founder Professor David Kelley's ideas for Teaching Creativity to the teaching of College Writing.
For 2012-2013 in collaboration with the Stanford Human Rights Education Intitiative to help launch an exciting new Human Rights Across the Curriculum program focused on using social media.
Personal Quote: "Alfred North Whitehead listed adventure as one of five necessities to the truly civilized community, next after truth and beauty, ahead of art and peace. It is a startling idea and he meant it to be so. Men and women are both taught to recognize adventure only as a passing fancy in the growing child, to be put aside with adolescence at the latest. The mature individual settles down; that is to say he does without adventure. Then he should do without beauty, and faith, and laughter, for these too are incidental to real life, to eating and begetting and keeping out of rain.
....Adventure is as needful to the real life of the spirit as food is to the body. The inadvisability of an action will not curtail it if it fills that need. Gambling is more or less bad for society, but people will play the tables so long as hope of sudden wealth connotes hope of change, variety. That is why it appeals broadly to the poor more than the rich: their lives are drearier. Workers go on strike not only for wages and decent hours but out of sheer dramatic hunger. A love affair imparts adventure, not merely because it is unsanctioned and a little risky, but because it proceeds on part-knowledge, like all creative endeavor. A general goes into battle; an artist paints; men climb Everest and fling themselves into the sky; become healers and judge a crime on part-knowledge. They have to, for that is the condition of living" --Michael Drury
Last update: 2013-02-28
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