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Terry Lee

Virginia, USA

Assoc. Professor English / Journalism

Tags: political/social issue documentaries  

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Title/Occupation:  Educator 

Gender: Male

Brief Message to Members: I'm exploring ways of representing experience from the subjects' points of view. My current projects: • Hospice care documentary • The Wisdom of Age Project

Biography: My career pursuits—journalism, photography, literature, Jungian psychology—are all focused on storytelling, especially from the subjects' points of view. I've worked in video for about four years, jumping in because of its incredible storytelling capabilities. At 17, I began work as a journalist at the Syracuse Herald-Journal (now the Post-Standard), served three years as a photographer in the air force, resumed my reporting and photojournalism career ... and a few years later began two new, parallel careers—a stay-at-home father and grad student. For the last twenty years, I've taught English literature and journalism, becoming deeply involved with narrative journalism in the last ten. I founded the journal "Points of Entry: Cross-currents in Storytelling" in 2002, a journal focused on "complicating" storytelling for journalists (i.e., there are multiple "truths" in any story). In 2005, I took on the task of reviving "DoubleTake" magazine, merging it with my journal and calling the new magazine, which I co-edited and produced (layout and design), "DoubleTake / Points of Entry." We—Robert Coles, Roberta Rosenberg, and I—produced, over two years, four issues of that documentary-focused magazine. At 57, I am again working as a reporter, doing immersion work with subjects in hospice, working with nurses on the road and patients, and doing immersion work with seniors and boomers who, alas, are themselves aging. In both projects, my interest is in honoring my subjects (I think of them as my subject-authors) and representing their worlds, as best as I can, from their points of view. Other bio info: http://english.cnu.edu/lee.html