Professor Robert L.Chianese
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About Professor Robert L.Chianese
Robert Chianese got his B. A. from Rutgers (1964) and M. A. and Ph.D.
from Washington University, St. Louis (1971). He is a professor of
English at California State University, Northridge and teaches courses
on British and American literature, literature and art, literature
and the environment, and men’s literature. He has received the CSUN
Distinguished Teaching Award (1989). He is a Mitchell Laureate (1979)
for an essay on sustainable societies and founder of The
Sustainability Council of Ventura County. He writes and lectures
on the humanities and society, the relationships between ecology and
American art, the American Arts and Crafts movement, sustainability,
and utopian societies. As a poet, he has published an artist’s book
of photographs and poems entitled Hall Canyon Suite (Art/Life Limited
Editions, 1998) and a chap book, Bonfire and Dreams: Poems of A Man’s
Life (2000). He plays the tenor banjo and the ukulele, drums with
men and women, and underwent the “Wilderness Fast” initiation ordeal
in 1998. He and Paula Chianese have restored two craftsman houses
in Ventura, which received historical designation, and they live in
the 1909 Erburu House. They have two grown children, Alex and Vanessa. |