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Dean Rader is a writer and professor who works widely in the fields of media, political, and literary studies.  In addition to two books, he has published dozens of essays, articles, book chapters, translations, and poems in both national and international journals and magazines.

At present, he is at work on a new anthology of American Literature (with Jonathan Silverman), a book on American Indian art, literature and film (entitled Engaged Resistance), and he is assembling his first collection of poems (tentatively entitled Works + Days).  Lastly, he is in the beginning stages of a long-term book project that explores the intersection of contemporary American art, politics and culture, for which his blog (http://deanrader.blogspot.com) will serve as a kind of testing ground.

In addition to teaching and writing, he has also worked as a consultant for a number of colleges and universities, and for several years he served as a site evaluator for the Texas State Higher Education Coordinating Board where he specialized in curricular and faculty issues. From 2000 to 2006, he served on the editorial board of Studies in American Indian Literatures, and he continues to evaluate manuscripts for various journals and presses.

Rader also serves on the Executive Board of Inforum of the Commonwealth Club of California.

Rader is an Associate Professor of English and former Associate Dean at the University of San Francisco.  He teaches a wide variety of classes, all of which explore the ways in which media, artistic, and literary texts influence and are influenced by larger cultural forces.  He also teaches a class on the ethics of langauge in which his students look at the ways common and uncommon uses of langauge enter the political sphere.