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Vincent W. Hevern, SJ
College Appointments
- Visiting Assistant Professor (1991-1993)
- Assistant Professor (1993-1998)
- Associate Professor (1998-2007)
- Professor (2007)
College Service
- Faculty Advisor, Alpha Sigma Nu, The Jesuit Honor Society (1992-1998)
- Secretary, Faculty Senate (1994-1996)
- Member, Elections Committee, Le Moyne College Faculty Senate (1996-1998)
- Founding Chair, Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects (1996-1998)
- Chair, Psychology Department (1997-2001)
- Member, College Committee on Information Technology (2000-2001)
- Member, Le Moyne College ADA Compliance Committee (2000-2002)
- Member, Professional Rights & Welfare Committee, Faculty Senate (2001-2003; Chair 2001-2002)
- Member, Academic Technology Advisory Committee (2003-2006)
- Member, Middle States Reaccreditation Subcommittee on Institutional Assessment (2004-2006)
- Member, Student Research Committee (2006)
- Faculty Representative, Master Plan & Technology Committee, Board of Trustees (2007-2008)
Courses Taught
- PSY 101 Introduction to Psychology
- PSY 280 Abnormal/Normal Psychology
- PSY 285 Abnormal/Normal Psychology for the Health Professions
- PSY 300 History & Systems of Psychology
- PSY 340 Brain and Behavior
- PSY 380 Counseling and Psychotherapy
- PSY 444 Story in Psychology: Narrative Perspectives on Human Behavior
- PSY 448 Clinical Neuropsychology
- HON 401 The Contemporary World (scheduled for Fall, 2008 with Fr. Donald Maldari)
Professional and Research Interests I trained as a clinical psychologist with relatively strong emphases or interests in psychometrics, adolescent clinical psychology, and neuropsychological assessment. Prior to my arrival at Le Moyne, I worked for seven years as a full-time clinician in the office I established in 1983 at Regis HS. There I dealt with diverse clinical and consulting tasks among a population of highly gifted urban adolescent males, their families, and teachers. I was also on a sabbatical from Regis during 1986-1987 to complete the Jesuit tertianship program which allowed me to visit Europe for ten weeks in the Spring of 1987.
Since my arrival at Le Moyne in 1991 my research interests have generally focused upon three major themes: (1) narrative as a stance in the social sciences, (2) the utility and impact of the Internet as a new communication medium, and (3) pedagogy in undergraduate psychology. In consequence, I have studied, presented, and written on a set of inter-related issues flowing from these themes:
- The theoretical foundations of and the historical emergence of a narrative perspective in the social sciences, particularly psychology, in the last third of the 20th century
- Narrative as it relates to clinical physical and mental health care
- Dialogical aspects of identity development
- The role of emerging Internet environments in the construction of the self
- The Internet as it contributes to the teaching of psychology
Since late 1998 I have been a member of the Virtual Faculty based at Massey University (New Zealand) and administered by A. J. Lock of Massey's Psychology Department. We are an international group of about 20 scholars who maintain a common interest in "what has been termed 'the discursive turn' (aka 'the second cognitive revolution') that has begun to occur in a number of areas of contemporary psychology." Begining in the Spring, 2004, Massey has begun to offer a Postgraduate Diploma in Discursive Therapy. In support of this program I team-taught an online graduate course, The Narrative Perspective, with Prof. Michael Bamberg (Clark University) from 2004 to 2006.
Selected recent publications include:
- Buskist, W., Beins, B. C., & Hevern, V. W. (Eds.) (2004). Preparing the new psychology professoriate: Helping graduate students become competent teachers. Syracuse, NY: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Retrieved November 25, 2004 from the STP website: http://www.teachpsych.org/teachpsych/pnpp/
- Buskist, W., Hevern, V. W., & Hill, W. G., IV (Eds.) (2002). Essays from e-xcellence in teaching 2000-2001. This text may be retrieved from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Web site: http://teachpsych.lemoyne.edu/teachpsych/eit/index.html
- Massey, A., & Hevern, V. (1996, December/1997, April). Postscript two: Literature as geodetic survey map [14 paragraphs]. The Qualitative Report [On-line serial], 2 (4), Available: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR2-4/massey3.html
- Hevern, V. W. (1999). Narrative, believed-in imaginings, and psychology's methods: An interview with Theodore R. Sarbin. Teaching of Psychology, 26, 300-304
- Hevern, V. W. (2004). Applying to teach at religiously-affiliated institutions: Advice for new faculty members. In W. Buskist, B. C. Beins, & V. W. Hevern (Eds.), Preparing the new psychology professoriate: Helping graduate students become competent teachers (pp. 91-94). Syracuse, NY: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Retrieved November 25, 2004 from the STP website: http://www.teachpsych.org/teachpsych/pnpp/
- Hevern, V. W. (2004). Listening to the storied lives of clients: Challenges and opportunities [Review of the book Healing plots: The narrative basis of psychotherapy]. PsycCRITIQUES. 48, Suppl. 5. Retrieved October 26, 2004 from http://www.psycinfo.com/psyccritiques/display/?uid=2004-19241-001
- Hevern, V. W. (2004). Threaded identity in cyberspace: Weblogs and positioning in the dialogical self. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 4(4) 321-335.
- Hevern, V. W. (2004). Ong, interiority, and the narrative turn in psychology. Explorations in Media Ecology, 3(1), 53-60.
- Hevern, V. W. (2005). Dialogical selves in the human digital ecology. In P. K. Oleś & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), The dialogical self: Theory and research (pp. 15-26). Lublin, Poland: Wydawnictwo Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski (KUL).
- Hevern, V. W. (2006). Using the Internet effectively: Home pages and e-mail. In W. Buskist, & S. Davis (Eds.), Handbook of the teaching of psychology (pp. 99-106). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
- Hevern, V. W. (2006). Building lives (and theory) in a post-positivist age [Review of the book Narrative identities: Psychologists engaged in self-construction]. PsycCRITIQUES–Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51(2), Article 11. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.
- Hevern, V. W. (2006). Shining city on the hill? Emplotting the American psyche [Review of the book The redemptive self: Stories Americans live by]. PsycCRITIQUES–Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 51(18), Article 8. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.
- Hevern, V. W., & Annese, S. (2005). Le homepage personali in rete: il sé a dialogo con l’altro [Personal homepages on the Web: The self in dialogue with the other]. In M. B. Ligorio & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), Identità dialogiche nell'era digitale [Dialogical identity in the digital age], (pp. 41-63). Gardolo-Trento, Italy: Editioni Erickson.
- Hevern, V. W., & Pugliese, A. C. (2005). Identità virtuali che si intrecciano con la storia: i weblog e le pratiche discorsive del sé [The interweaving of virtual identity and personal history: Weblogs and discursive practices of the self]. In M. B. Ligorio & H. J. M. Hermans (Eds.), Identità dialogiche nell'era digitale [Dialogical identity in the digital age], (pp. 65-76) Gardolo-Trento, Italy: Editioni Erickson.
- Irons, J. G., Burke, C., Beins, B. C., Buskist, W, Hevern, V. W., & Williams, J. (2006). Teaching in autobiography: Perspectives from psychology’s exemplary teachers. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available at the website: http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/tia2006/tia2006.php
- Hevern, V. W. (2007). Cinematic paths to the self: Challenging encounters [Review of the book Meeting movies]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(14), Article 17. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.
- Hevern, V. W. (2007). The enduring casualties of war [Review of the motion picture The ground truth: After the killing stops]. PsycCRITIQUES–Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52(40), Article 18. Available from the PsycCRITIQUES database.
- Hevern, V. W., & Blatner, A. (In press). The early influence of Moreno and psychodrama on Theodore Sarbin and role theory. Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, & Sociometry.
Selected recent presentations include:
- Hevern, V. W. (1999, August). Allport's (1942) Use of Personal Documents: A Contemporary Reappraisal. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
- Hevern, V. W. (1999, August). Pedagogical Uses of Internet-Based Personal Documents in Undergraduate Psychology. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
- Hevern, V. W. (2000, June). Alterity and self-presentation via the Web: Dialogical and narrative aspects of identity construction. Paper presented at the First International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- Hevern, V. W. (2001, April). Refocusing as teacher and scholar: Strategies for change. In M. E. Procidano (Chair), Current challenges in faculty recruitment and development. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
- Hevern, V. W. (2001, August). Teaching narrative in psychology: Scholarly foundations and advisement resources. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
- Hevern, V. W. (2002, October). Threaded identity in cyberspace: Weblogs & positioning in the dialogical self. In V. W. Hevern (Chair), Mediated identity: The dialogical self in the emerging digital age. Invited symposium conducted at the 2nd International Conference on the Dialogical Self: Meaning in Movement, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
- Hevern, V. W. (2004, August). Dialogical selves in the human digital ecology. Invited keynote address at the 3rd International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Warsaw, Poland.
- Hevern, V. W. (2006, July). Dramaturgy: Some 20th century influences on American psychology. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
- Hevern, V. W. (2007, June). Bruner, mind and the narrative self: Dramaturgical and philosophical influences. Paper presented at the joint meeting of Cheiron, The International Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences and the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, University College, Dublin, Ireland.
- Hevern, V. W. (2007, August). Millennials at the movies: Cinematic experience and contemporary psychology students. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
I held the Marchetti Visiting Jesuit Lectureship at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO during March, 2002. My two principal presentations were:
- Teaching and the Web: Exploring the Human Digital Ecology (March 20, 2002). Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence
- Storied Care: Health and the Narrative Social Sciences (March 21, 2002). School of Nursing and University Qualitative Research Committee
In August 1999, I was appointed to a three-year term as the first Internet Editor of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Division 2 of the American Psychological Assocation. I was reappointed in 2002 for a second term. In this position I was responsible for the overall efforts of STP on the Net which are gathered under the domain name, teachpsych.org. For six years, I designed and maintained the STP homepage.
A few years earlier in September 1996, I had been appointed Electronic Materials Coordinator for the Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP), an initiative of STP, and been charged with developing a WWW-based resource for the office which has been titled OTRP Online.
In February, 2003 I was invited by the President of the International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS), Dr. Hubert Hermans, to establish the first website for this new professional and scholarly association of scholars interested in the question of dialogue and the self. The site has been established at the ISDS domain, dialogical.org, and I have agreed to edit the site for the immediate future. I have also been appointed as one of the editors of the new International Journal for Dialogical Science which is published online at Le Moyne for the ISDS.
In April, 2004, I attended the Inaugural Lecture and organizing conference of The Narrative Consortium at the College of the Holy Cross & Clark University, Worcester, MA. Convened by Michael Bamberg (Clark) & Mark Freeman (Holy Cross), about 20-25 scholars gathered to listen/work with Jerry Bruner & Carol Feldman and to plan the initial operation of the consortium. I am serving as Internet coordinator for the group.
- I maintain and edit Narrative Psychology: Internet and Resource Guide (online since 1996)
- American Psychological Association Associate (1982), Member (1985), Elected Fellow (2001)
- Cheiron: The International Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Member
- Council of Undergraduate Teachers of Psychology (CTUP), Member
- International Society for Dialogical Science (ISDS), Member
- Media Ecology Association, Member
- Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Member
- The Narrative Consortium, Member
Born:
New York City
Click on photo for larger version. Stuyvesant Town, circled on larger photo, is where I grew up. (Photo: courtesy of Stan Flak at MacCentral)
High School:
Regis High School, NYC, Class of 1966
Entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at St. Andrew-on-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, NY
College:
Fordham University (A.B. in History & Philosophy)
Taught at
Xavier High School, NYC, 1971-1973
Theological Studies:
Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA 1973-1976
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