Dr. James Armstrong has been a professor at Boise State University since 1992 where he has taught courses in reading education as well as reading and study strategies. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, he majored in English and completed the Honors Program in Humanities. He went on there to receive his master’s degree in education with a California teaching credential in English. He received his doctorate in reading education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Armstrong has written two textbooks, Reading Tools for College Study and Patterns and Connections, and two books of poetry, Landscapes of Epiphany and Moon Haiku. His recent interests have involved the collaborative integration of poetry, history and photography through the video medium. VideoPoetry offers a dissemination method that engages audiences in non-traditional ways and highlights the complex, important social functions of humanities research. In 2012, the paper, "VideoPoetry: Collaboration as Imaginative Method" was among the ten highest-ranked papers in the referee process at The International Journal of the Humanities, and the authors were presented with the journal's International Award for Excellence, in the area of New Directions in the Humanities.
Articles
VideoPoetry: Collaboration as Imaginative Method (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), International Journal of the Humanities (2012)
Three Idaho professors (a poet, videographer, and historian) have been collaborating for eight years on...
VideoPoetry: Historical Photography in the Desert Garden (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), International Journal of the Humanities (2010)
This paper presents an integration of poetry, history and photography through the video medium to...
VideoPoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry and History in the Classroom (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009)
VideoPoetry integrates video and poetry to explore historical or geographic subjects. VideoPoetry is both a...
Developing a Culture of Reclamation: Integrating History, Poetry and Video (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), International Journal of the Humanities (2004)
Culture of Reclamation (Armstrong, Lutze, & Woodworth-Ney, in progress) is a sequence of "videopoems" about...
Books
Presentations
A Day in History: Glimpsing the Land as Primary Source (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities (2012)
For nine years, three Idaho professors have researched the early culture of the irrigated settlement...
VideoPoetry: Collaboration as Imaginative Method (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), Ninth Annual International Conference of the Humanities (2011)
Virtual presentation of paper and video.
VideoPoetry: Historical Photography in the Desert Garden (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), Eighth Annual International Conference of the Humanities (2010)
Virtual presentation of paper and video.
VideoPoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry and History in the Classroom (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney), Third Annual International Conference on the Arts in Society (2008)
Audio-Visual Productions
Mary Hallock Foote at Stone House [DVD]. Boise, ID: Wolf Peach Press. (with Peter Lutze and Laura Woodworth-Ney) (2008)
A VideoPoetry Project: Cross-disciplinary video.
Mountain Seasons [DVD]. Boise, ID: The VideoPoets. (with Peter Lutze, Ben Burdick, and J. Kloss) (2002)
25-minute video program integrating video clips, music, and poetry.