Wayne Stein, Ph.D., a professor, is the assistant chair of the department.
Fresh Takes, a composition reader, was just published by McGraw Hill. Stratagems and Languaging
Force X, an RPG were published by Fountainhead Press. A chapter on anime vampires in Asian Gothic is now out. Another chapter called Enter the Dracula: Asian Cinematic Vampires in a book on Dracula will come out soon. He enjoys teaching composition theory and rhetorical history classes.
He has worked on developing a Service Learning Composition Class and some online composition classes.
He was awarded the 2008 DaVinci Fellow from the "Oklahoma's Creativity Think Tank." He taught EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Seoul, Korea, the place of his birth. He was the past president and past webmaster of OKTESOL. He has chaired and helped to chair five conferences: three OKTESOL Conferences, and a couple of Oklahoma Buddhist Conferences. He was awarded the ESL Professional of the Year Award from OKTESOL (2003), the Service to the Sanga (Community) Award from the Stillwater OSU Buddhist Society (2003), Faculty Merit for Service (2004), and LA Creative Award (2004).
Dr. Stein has presented papers at international, national, and local conferences. He teaches Asian American literature, modern world literature, and cyberpunk fiction and is interested in the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the paranoia of Thomas Pynchon, and the postmodernity of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. He visited Vietnam (2002) as he prepared to teach his Vietnam War literature course.
He grew up visiting Chinatown in Los Angeles, watching Kung Fu films, and practicing martial arts, which were his ways of trying to act Asian. Thus, he brings much enthusiasm to his Kung Fu film class. Since Kung Fu films were influenced by the samurai films of Kurosawa, he also teaches a Kurosawa film class. Practicing the way of the sword (kendo), he is one of the sponsors of the Budo Society, the way of the warrior, and tells everyone to watch Red Beard, Toshio Mifune's last film with Kurosawa. He has also taught a course on graphic novels and on Anime (Japanese animation) and Manga (comics).
Promoting the benefits of technology, Dr. Stein has been the Liberal Arts Web-maintainer/master, the English Department webmaster, and the technical advisor of the UCO OWL, Online Writing Lab. He has been English Department Manager of Turnitin.com, fall 2003- spring 2005. He has promoted the idea of Lectureships for Composition Instructors.
Advisor
- Budo Society--Way of the Warrior-- Way of Harmony
- MEGA (Media Entertainment, Gaming and Animation) League
He has also been the advisor to the Malaysian Student Association, BLISS (Buddhist Learning International Society) and other various organizations.
Fall 2008
- Films of Bruce Lee
- Chinese Cinematic Vampires
Future Projects
- Book in Development: The Samsara of Hybridity: The Cinema of Shaolin, Samurai and Cyberpunk
- Develop Courses on John Woo and Samurai Films
- Develop a Steampunk Role Play Game
This is the Wayne Stein Profile Page. Last Updated: 04/08/08. If you have any comments or suggestions, please e-mail me. Wayne Stein --> wstein@ucok.edu
