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Diane Scharper

  • Lecturer, Johns Hopkins Osher Program and Contributor, Freelance
Baltimore
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Covers:  Biography, Literary Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry. i also edit medical articles focusing on vision problems and surgery.
Doesn't Cover: I cover all topics but specialize in biography, memoir, literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. If a memoirist can write about a topic, I cover it.
Author, Poet, Book Critic. Editor, English professor Johns Hopkins Osher Program.
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Diane Scharper’s Biography

C. Diane Scharper
dianes1420@yahoo.com
dscharper@gmail.com
cscharp2@alumn.jh.edu

Education

Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Master of Arts in Poetics, 1972,
Master's Thesis: Poems

College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Bachelor of Arts, English Major, Writing Concentration
Bachelor's Thesis: Poems

Catholic University, Washington D.C.
Credits toward an M.A. in Religion
Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore Maryland
Credits toward M.A. in Sacred Scripture

Books Published

  1. The Laughing Ladies, A Collection of Poems, 1993
  2. Radiant, A Cancer Memoir, 1996
  3. Thy Mother’s Glass: Poems for Mothers and Daughters, 1998
  4. Songs of Myself: Memoirs of College Students.1998
  5. Thy Mother’s Glass: More Poems for Mothers and Daughters, 2000
  6. Memoir, 2000
  7. Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability, 2008

Other Publications

1986 to present:
Approximately 1,000 book reviews, profiles, art reviews, op-ed pieces, and poems published in

The Hopkins Review
The Weekly Standard
The Washington Examiner
National Review
Commonweal
The National Catholic Reporter
America
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times Book Review
USAToday
The Washington Post
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Denver Post
The Philadelphia Inquirer

     U.S.A. Today

The Virginian Pilot
Library Journal (I have written approximately 150 poetry reviews for LJ since 2002.)
The Potomac Review
City Paper
The Catholic Review
The Christian Science Monitor
The Maryland Poetry Review
The Baltimore Sun
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Occupation

From 1986 to present:

Poetics Instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Osher Program, Spring, 2017.
Memoir Instructor for the Johns Hopkins University Osher Program, Fall, 2017, Fall, 2018, Fall, 2019. Zoom Courses: Summer, 2020, Fall, 2020, Spring, 2021. .
Courses Taught:
Poetry is More than the Sum of its Parts
The Art of Memoir
Descriptive Writing, The Heart of Memoir
The Pandemic Journal
The Pivotal Moment

Adjunct writing professor at Towson University 

  Courses Taught, Graduate Level

Masters of Professional Writing Program:
Topics in Writing, Memoir
Writing the Review
Independent Studies in Memoir

   Courses Taught, Undergraduate Level

English Department:
The Writing of Poetry
Writing for a Liberal Education
Writing the Memoir
Writing the Literary Essay
Writing the Review
Tradition and Form in Western Fiction
Elements of Poetry
Writing for a Liberal Education
The Literary Essay

Some Recent Professional Activities

  1. Composed and read the Inaugural Poem for the 2013 Installation of James F. Conneely Ph.D. as 12th President of Notre Dame of Maryland University, April 5, 2013.
  2. Judge for City Paper’s Poetry and Fiction Competition, December. 2011
  3. Profiled in City Paper’s Big Books Issue, October 2011
  4. Presenter and Panel Chair at the Maryland Department of Rehabilitation Services Conference
  5. Editor for the Helen Keller Memoir competition and anthology by the Helen Keller Foundation for Education and Research.
    6, Presented "You Know What You Like. Do You Know Why?" a paper on teaching students how to write book reviews at The Modern Language Association Conference.
  6. Delta Epsilon Sigma, Membership