Member, Faculty Senate Finance Committee &
Faculty Representative to the Finance Committee of the
Board of Trustees (2010-2011)
Member, New Core Curriculum
Committee, Div. 4 Social Science Representative
(2011-2012)
Member, Early Alert System Exchange (EASE) Committee (2013-)
Tutor,
Le Moyne College C-STEP Program (College Science and
Technology Entry Program) (2017- )
Courses Taught
PSY 101 Introduction to
Psychology
PSY 280 Abnormal/Normal
Psychology
PSY 300 History & Systems
of Psychology
PSY 302 Personality
PSY 340 Brain and Behavior
PSY 355 Psychology and Media
in the Digital Age
PSY 380 Counseling and
Psychotherapy
PSY 444 Story in Psychology:
Narrative Perspectives on Human Behavior
PSY 448 Clinical
Neuropsychology
HON 401 The Contemporary
World
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) digital media from a media
ecology perspective. 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
I was elected an Institute Associate of the Taos Institute in the early 2000s.
The Taos Institute® "is a community of scholars and
practitioners concerned with the social processes essential
for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value."
I was a member of the Virtual
Faculty based at Massey University (New Zealand) and
administered by A. J. Lock of Massey's Psychology Department.
We were 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." Beginning in the Spring, 2004, Massey offered 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.
Publications since 2000
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.
Buskist, W., Hevern, V. W.,
& Hill, W. G., IV (Eds.) (2002). Essays from
e-xcellence in teaching 2000-2001. Syracuse, NY: Society for the
Teaching of Psychology.
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.
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. Available
from the PsycCRITIQUES database.
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.
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. (2008).
Emotions and the sacred in human lives [Review of the book Spiritual
evolution: A scientific defense of faith] PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary
Psychology:
APA
Review of Books, 53(50), Article 1. Available from
the PsycCRITIQUES database.
Hevern, V. W. (2008). Why
narrative psychology can't afford to ignore the body
(Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the
NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society). Journal
of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 2(4),
217-233. Available from http://shell.newpaltz.edu/jsec/articles/volume2/issue4/NEEPShevern.pdf
Hevern, V. W. (2010). What
does the screen show us? [Review of The cinematic mirror for
psychology and life coaching by M. B. Gergerson (Ed.).]. PsycCRITIQUES,
55(32). doi:10.1037/a0020691
Hevern, V. W. (2010). [Review of History
of psychology in autobiography by L. P. Moss
(Ed.)]. Journal of the History of the Behavioral
Sciences, 46(4), 415-416. doi:
10.1002/jhbs.20460
Hevern, V. W. (2011). Building
human persons together [Review of Social constructionism:
Sources and stirrings in theory and practice by A. Lock
& T. Strong]. PsycCRITIQUES, 56(8). doi:
10.1037/a0022613
Hevern, V. W. (2011). The self on
Facebook and deceptive identity [Review of the motion
picture Catfish]. PsycCRITIQUES, 56(45).
doi:10.1037/a0025934
Hevern, V. W., & Blatner, A.
(2011). The early influence of Moreno and psychodrama on
Theodore Sarbin and role theory. Journal of
Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy, 60(1),
11-18.
Hevern, V. W. (2012). [Review
of A history of modern psychology in context by W. Pickren
& A. Rutherford.]. Journal of the History of the
Behavioral Sciences, 48(1), 71-73. doi:
10.1002/jhbs.21522
Hevern, V. W. (2012). Bartlett, F.
C. (Frederic Charles). In R. W. Rieber (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of the history of psychological theories (pp.
97-98). New York, NY: Springer.
Hevern, V. W. (2012). Mead, G. H.
(George Herbert). In R. W. Rieber (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of the history of psychological theories (pp.
669-670). New York, NY: Springer.
Hevern, V. W. (2012). Uexküll, J.
von (Jacob Joseph von). In R. W. Rieber (Ed.), Encyclopedia
of the history of psychological theories (pp.
1143-1144). New York, NY: Springer.
Hevern, V. W. (2012). Dialogicality
and the Internet. In H. J. M. Hermans & T. Geiser
(Eds.), The handbook of the dialogical self(pp. 185-199). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Hevern, V. W. (2012). Testifying to
humanity’s darkest possibilities (with hope) [Review of Witness
to an extreme century: A memoir by Robert J.
Lifton]. PsycCRITIQUES, 57(12). doi:
10.1037/a0027362
Hevern, V. W. (2012). How should we
judge deviant behaviors in virtual worlds? [Review of Transcending
taboos: A moral and psychological examination of
cyberspace by Garry Young & Monica Whitty].
PsycCRITIQUES. 57(50). doi: 10.1037/a0030470
Hevern, V. W. (2013). Living
connected lives in the media sphere [Review of Moving
data: The iPhone and the future of media edited
by Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vonderau]. PsycCRITIQUES,
58(28). doi: 10.1037/a0033018
Hevern, V. W., Josselson, R.,
& McAdams, D. P. (2013). Narrative. In D. S. Dunn
(Ed.), Oxford
bibliographies in psychology. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press. [**]
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0138
Hevern,
V.
W. (2014) Teaching at religiously-affiliated institutions:
Considerations for psychology faculty applicants. In J. N.
Busler, B. C. Beins, & W. Buskist (Eds.), Preparing the new
psychology professorate: Helping graduate students
become competent teachers (2nd ed.,
pp. 154-157). Retrieved from the Society for the Teaching
of Psychology web site: http://teachpsych.org/page-1862898
Hevern,
V.
W. (2015). Singing the body electric: Is it that simple?
[Review of the book Feeeling
mediated: A history of media technology and emotion in
America by B. J. Malin]. PsycCRITIQUES,
60(7).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038782
Hevern, V. W. (2015). [Review of the book Inventing
the egghead: The battle over brainpower in American
culture by A. Lecklider]. Journal of the
History of the Behavioral Sciences, 51,
221-223.
Hevern, V. W. (2016). Gordon W. Allport. In D.
S. Dunn (Ed.), Oxford bibliographies in psychology.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Hevern, V. W. (2016). Does psychology merely
reinvent the wheel? No. [Review of the book A
conceptual history of psychology: Exploring the tangled
web (2nd ed.) by J. Greenwood]. PsycCRITIQUES,
61(22), Article 3.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0040333
Hevern, V. W. (2017). Have we
found the theoretical span to connect them all? [Review of
the book Darwin’s bridge: Uniting the humanities and
sciences by J. Carroll, D. P. McAdams, & E. O. Wilson
(Eds.)]. PsycCRITIQUES, 62(2).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037.a0040690
Hevern, V. W. (2017). Seeing
the brain as artist and scientist [Review of the book The
beautiful brain: The drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal by
E. A. Newman, A. Araque, & J. M. Dubinsky (Eds.)]. PsycCRITIQUES,
62(30). http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0040973
Hevern, V. W. [Special Issue
Editor]. (2019). Using Personal Documentary Sources in
Psychological Research: 1940-1970. Qualitative
Psychology,6(1), 78-81.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0000112
Hevern, V. W. (2019). The
genesis of Allport's 1942 Use of Personal Documents in
Psychological Science. Qualitative Psychology 6(1),
82-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0000102
Hevern, V. W. (2019).
Challenges to dialogicality and individuation in
techno-digital culture. In R. Jones & L. Gardiner
(Eds.), Narratives of individuation (pp.
187-204). London, UK: Routledge.
Hevern, V. W. (2019). Moving
psychology outwards from the self (Review of The
priority of the other: Thinking and living beyond the self
by Mark Freeman). Theory & Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354319884649
Hevern, V. W. (2021). The
dialogical self, narrative, and the visual imagination in an
era of change and crisis. In C. Monereo, C. Weise, & H.
Hermans (Eds). Dialogicality: Personal, local, and
planetary dialogue in education, health, citizenship,
and research (pp. 264-275). International
Society for Dialogical Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/gqxq-ng18
Presentations since 2000 include
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 presented at the annual
meeting of the American Psychological Association, San
Francisco, CA.
Hevern, V. W. (2008, May). Why
narrative psychology can’t afford to ignore the body.
Paper presented at the 2nd annual meeting of the
Northeastern Evolutionary Psychological Society, Southern
New Hampshire University, Hooksett, NH.
Hevern, V. W.
(2009, June). Goffman’s dramaturgy and the narrative
perspective in the social sciences. In M. Pettit (Chair), Goffman
and the 50th anniversary of The Presentation of
Self in Everyday Life. Symposium conducted at the
annual meeting of Cheiron, The International Society for the
History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pennsylvania
State University, State College, PA.
Hevern, V. W.
(2009, September). Human personhood and psychology’s
narrative perspective. Paper presented at the
conference, Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and
Meaning, of the Institute of General Semantics, Fordham
University, New York, NY.
Hevern, V. W.
(2010, October). The human digital ecology redux: The
dialogical self, monologicality, and voices of darkness
online. Paper presented at the Sixth
International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Athens,
Greece.
Hevern, V. W.
(2012, May 29-June 1). Unreliable narrators in
cyberspace: Toward a taxonony of fabricated identity
online. Paper presented at the Narrative Matters
Conference, American University of Paris, France.
Hevern, V. W.
(2012, October). Dialogicality from the media ecology
perspective. Paper presented at the Seventh
International Conference on the Dialogical Self, Athens,
Georgia.
Hevern, V. W.
(2013, June). Teaching Media Ecology Across the
Disciplines: The Case of Psychology.
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Media Ecology
Association, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids,
MI.
Hevern, V. W. (2014, August). Encountering others
in cyberspace: Behavioral settings, dialogicality,
& social networking. Invited
lecture presented at the Eighth International Conference
on the Dialogical Self, The Hague University of Applied
Sciences (De Haagse Hogeschool), The Hague, The
Netherlands.
Hevern, V. W. (2015, August). Allport's
advocacy of personal documents as scientific data:
What happened? In J. Clegg (Chair), Personal
documents-Exploring the lost prehistory of qualitative
methods. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the
American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.
Hevern, V. W. (2016, September). What have
50 years as a Jesuit taught me about the dialogical
self? Invited lecture at the 9th International
Conference on the Dialogical Self, Catholic University of
Lublin, Poland.
Hevern, V. W. (2018, June). Challenges to
dialogicality and individuation in techno-digital
culture. Paper presented at the 10th
International Conference on the Dialogical Self,
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Hevern, V. W. (2021, June). The dialogical
self, narrative, and the visual imagination in an era
of change and crisis. Invited Lecture
presented at the 11th International Conference on the
Dialogical Self, Barcelona, Spain [Virtual conference]
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 is established
at the ISDS domain, dialogical.org,
and I agreed to edit the site for the immediate future. I was
the Associate and Managing Editor of the International
Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS) which
was published online at Le Moyne for the ISDS fro0m 2004 to
2018. The IJDS became part of the Journal of Constructivist
Psychology in 2019.
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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 is established
at the ISDS domain, dialogical.org,
and I agreed to edit the site for the immediate future. I was
the Associate and Managing Editor of the International
Journal for Dialogical Science (IJDS) which
was published online at Le Moyne for the ISDS fro0m 2004 to
2018. The IJDS became part of the Journal of Constructivist
Psychology in 2019.
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