My full curriculum vitae.  

A really short version for quick reference

Herb Kauderer
 
Hilbert College
5200 South Park Ave.
Hamburg, NY 14075
 
        Full Professor of English – Tenured
        August 2025 to present
 
        Tenured Associate Professor of English
        August 2021 to August 2025
 
        Associate Professor of English
        August 2012 to August 2021
 
        Assistant Professor of English
        August 2005 to August 2012 
 
     
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
         
English Faculty Hiring Search Committee April-June 2025
 
Public Art Space for Hilbert task force
     September 2024 to present
 
MSCHE Work Group VII Governance, Leadership & Administration
     Chair June 2024 to June 2025
     February 2024 to June 2024 Rank & file member
 
Curriculum & Gen Ed Committee
Fall 2018 to present
  • Rank and file member
 
Faculty Advisor to the Hilbert Hawks Football Team
     Fall 2022 to present
 
Faculty Development Task Force
Excellence in Teaching Award
     Spring 2024
 
Advancement and Promotion Committee
November 2021 to Fall 2023
  • Rank and file member
 
Faculty Development Task Force
Excellence in Teaching Award
     Spring 2022
 
Blackboard Task Force
     Fall 2021 to Spring 2022
 
Curriculum & Academic Policy & Procedure Committee
     Fall 2007 to Present
  • Continue as rank and file member since stepping down as chair
  • Co-chair for 2017-2018
  • Stepped in as Chair pro tempore November 2015 to May 2016
    • oversaw vetting of the new Risk Management Program
    • reorganized CAPP website    
    • initiated collaboration with the new Strategic Initiatives committee
  • Elected to two one year terms as Chair (2007-2009) during which the committee
    • established an intranet presence designed for transparency
    • streamlined procedures for consideration of New Course Proposals
    • and collected sample and template documents
 
CREATIVE WRITING EXPERIENCE:

  • 29 books & chapbooks of poetry and non-fiction
    • 2025 November? - The Book of Worlds
    • 2025 September - Sleepless Nights in the Dreamers Mall
    • 2025 July - East to West Volume One: Period Haiku for the SCA
    • 2024 December - Words Begat Words
    • 2024 July - Distilled from Water
    • 2023 December - The Book of Sleep
    • 2023 August - Memories of Bear: A biography of a friendship
    • 2022 December - The Book of Haibun
    • 2022 July - History of the Earliest Days of the East Kingdom
    • 2021 December - Curses and Recurses: Poems on Writing & Damnation
    • 2020 December - The Book of Fibs
    • 2019 June – Frozen at the Edges
    • 2019 April – Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead
    • 2018 July – Recalibrating the Future
    • 2017 October – The Detective’s Ghost
    • 2017 September – Pocket Full of Horror
    • 2017 August – Cascade of Stardust
    • 2017 June – Small Gatherings of Words
    • 2017 May – Flying Solo: A Book of the Lana Invasion
    • 2016 March – The Snowstorm of ’14: Poems from the Front Lines
    • 2015 July – Modern Poems of Pennsic: a biography of an event
    • 2014 July – The Book of Answers: A Book of Answer Poems
    • 2004 August – Wedding Songs: Poems of Family, Love, & Marriage
    • 2003 December – Beneath the Greasepaint: Poems of Creating & Creators
    • 2002 March – Ghosts Dream of Madmen
    • 2001 November – Hate Mail & Love Letters
    • 1999 April – Mid-Course Correction
    • 1996 May – Variations of Sleeping Alone
    • 1995 October – Olives: A Jar Full of Small Pokes

  • Beyond the Mainstream – Main screenwriter for an independent feature film released May 8, 2013.

  • “If You Wanna Be Happy” (AKA Life of a New Age Singer) 2013 short film – main screenwriter.

  • “Children of the Future” 2007 short film – contributing screenwriter.

  • Calliope, an animated children’s TV series in and out of development at KittyHawk Productions.

  • Bad Connections, a full-length stage comedy written in collaboration with Alan Katerinsky
    • A staged reading was performed in the summer of 2001. 
    • An excerpt was published in the Fall 2005 issue of Pitkin in Progress as “King of the Forest”.

  • Short works including:
    • 100 plus short stories,
    • short memoirs
    • reviews,
    • essays,
    • criticisms,
    • and commentary
 
  • Over 2500 poems published in more than one hundred periodicals and anthologies including, The Buffalo News, Artvoice, The Rhysling Award Anthology, The Dwarf Stars Award Anthology, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact.
 
EDUCATION:
 
University at Buffalo
          Ph.D.  in Transnational Studies, September 1, 2018
          Dissertation: Conspicuously Canadian: Canadian Identity in Anglo-
          Canadian Science Fiction
 
Goddard College  
          MFA in Creative Writing, July 1, 2007
          Master’s Thesis:  “The Elephant’s Ghost”
 
Buffalo State College  
          MA in English, August 13, 2000 
          Master’s Thesis:  “Lines of Separation”
 
University at Buffalo
          AGC (Advanced Graduate Certificate) in Canadian Studies, February 1, 2011
 
Hilbert College   
          BA in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude
          Minor in Sociology
          December 16, 2016
 
Buffalo State College  
          BA in English, December 21, 1987, Cum Laude 
 
Hilbert College
          AA in Liberal Arts, May 6, 2013
 
ACADEMIC WRITING AND PRESENTATIONS:

  • “Fifty Years After La Révolution Tranquille: An Anglo-American Tries to Understand the Impact of Quebec's Quiet Revolution” written with Dr. Eileen M. Angelini & delivered at The International Scientific Conference at Lomonosov Moscow State University 8 June 2021 via Zoom.

  • Recorded a Zoom panel discussion on Portrayals of Mental Illness in Horror with Mark Matthews, Jessica York, and moderated by Sarah Read and made available on-demand as part of the StokerCon World Horror Convention & Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference 20-23 May 2021.

  • Thirteen entries of roughly a thousand words each in the reference book Minimalism: A Handbook of Minimalist Genre Poetic Forms (August 2020 Hiraeth Press) edited by Teri Santitoro.
    • “The Inconstant Syllable”
    • “Rengay: New Forms from Old”
    • “Renku: The Social Form”
    • “Tanka: Love Song to Space Song” (includes a small amount of previously published material)
    • “Katuata, Sedōka, & Mondo”
    • “Haibun: A Balancing Act”
    • “Dividing Zappai from Haiku” (revised from previous publication)
    • “Erasure Poems: A Minimal Form Created by Nature”
    • “Found Poems as Minimal Verse”
    • “Finding the Poetry in Prose Poems”
    • “The Last Words: Epitaphs” (reprint)
    • “The Scifaiku Suite” (reprint)
    • “Toward a Personal Definition of Poetry”

  • “Questions About the New Inequality” an article about societal changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Published in From Earth to the Stars: The Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Author & Editor Blog 23 June 2020.

  • “The Distance Between Poet, Poem, and Reader” published in Scifaikuest August 2019.

  • Book Review of Ruminations by Ian Brunner published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Fall (Oct) 2018 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Metastable Systems by David C. Kopaska-Merkel published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Summer (Jul) 2018 print version of Star*Line.

  • “A History of the East Kingdom Written for the SCA’s 50 Year Celebration, and Updated for the East Kingdom’s 50 Year Event” published in the East Kingdom 50 Year book 28 June 2018.

  • Book Review of Debudaderrah by Robin Wyatt Dunn published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Spring (April) 2018 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Crossing Paths at Midnight by Alan Katerinsky published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Spring (April) 2018 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Secret Histories by Michael McInnis published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Winter (Jan.) 2018 print version of Star*Line.

  • “Fedora Hats and the Great Gazoo: Pop Culture References in Robert J. Sawyer's novels Triggers and Red Planet Blues” published electronically by McMaster University in the collection Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre October 2017.

  • “Lucidity Grows Around a Tree Trunk” an article on lucidity versus abstraction trends in poetry published in Scifaikuest August 2017 online edition.

  • “The Scifaiku Suite” an article synthesizing a new verse form published in Scifaikuest August 2017 print edition.

  • Book Review of Myths by Johnathan Harper published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and excerpted in the Summer (July) 2017 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Strange Land edited by Vertigo Xi’an Xavier published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Summer (July) 2017 print version of Star*Line.

  • Visiting Artist at Niagara County Community College, 27 April 2017 including classroom visits and a featured poetry reading."Rebranding Atwood: A Look at Margaret Atwood Admitting She Writes SF, then Redefining It as Slipstream" presented at Crossing Borders in March 2017 at Niagara University.

  • Book Review of Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016 by Bruce Boston published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Winter 2017 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of The Role of Lightning in Evolution by David Clink published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Winter 2017 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek by Timons Esaias published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Winter 2017 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Sacrificial Nights by Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Fall 2016 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of What Strange Miracles by James Brush published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Fall 2016 print version of Star*Line.

  • Book Review of Moon Facts by Bob Schofield published on the Star*Line Speculative Poetry Book Reviews webpage of the Science Fiction Poetry Association as adjunct to the Fall 2016 print version of Star*Line.
 
  • “Canada in Neuromancer: Gibson’s Altered View of National Identity” presented at the Framing the Self(ie)-Heterogeneity of identities in (non)spaces conference in April 2016 at the University at Buffalo.

  • “Cross-Border College Website Appeals to Undergraduates in the Niagara Binational Region” presented at the ACSUS biennial conference in October 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

  • “An American’s Look into Moodie’s Roughing It” presented at Crossing Borders in March 2015 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

  • “50 Years After the Quiet Revolution: An Anglo-American Tries to Understand” presented at Crossing Borders in March 2014 at University at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY.

  • “Fedora Hats and the Great Gazoo: Pop Culture References in Robert J. Sawyer’s novels Triggers and Red Planet Blues” presented at Science Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Genre in September 2013, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

  • “What Do Potential Cross-Border College Students See When Looking at Websites of Institutions in the Niagara Binational Region?” presented at Crossing Borders in March 2012 in Niagara Falls, NY.

  • “Arts Funding in Canada, Alberta, and Ontario”  presented at Crossing Borders in March 2011 in Niagara Falls, ON.

  • “Canadian Television Exports to the U.S.”  Presented at Crossing Borders in March 2010 in Niagara Falls, NY.

  • “Carl William Thiel:  An Appreciation” appeared in the program book for the Consonance 2008 conference in San Francisco, CA

  • Paper re-presentation:  “How History is Filtered” at the Confluence SF Conference in Moon Township, PA in July 2005.

  • “Sense of Place, Sense of Wonder” an introduction to Pulp: Poems in the Pulp Tradition by Scott E. Green, 2004 W. Paul Ganley publisher.

  • “How History Is Filtered” Paper originally presented at the 62nd World Science Fiction Convention in Boston in September 2004.

  • “Introduction” to Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue by David Clink, 2002 – published by believe your own press.