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Course co-instructor, professor
in English. Rich has taught Shakespeare since
arriving at Miami since 1971. He has also developed
the syllabus for and taught English/Film Studies 221,
Shakespeare and Film. Becoming interested in science
fiction in 1968, with the release of Stanley Kubrick's
meditation on human violence in 2001: A Space Odyssey,
he moved most of his scholarship into science fiction,
fantasy, and science fiction film, developing Miami's
literature course in science fiction and the film course
in "SF."
Rich had considered
a military career sufficiently seriously to take two
years of high school ROTC before dropping out of the
program as a junior, and did well in his two years of
required ROTC as an undergraduate at a land-grant university.
At the University of Illinois between 1967 and 1971,
Erlich was active in the anti-War movement, ending up
on the Executive Committee of the Graduate Student Association,
and, after 4 May 1970, as media relations person for
what was just called The Strike Committee. In the last
capacity, he lobbied informally in the General Assembly
of the State of Illinois and continued the study of
war and violence that began with his scholarly interest
in Kubrick's, and later Arthur C. Clarke's, 2001. In
1986, Erlich taught an honors seminar called simply
"Massacres" (English 380) and has incorporated
into his teaching serious consideration of issues of
war and peace. English 495.E / History 490.N, Vietnam:
War and Society is his first venture into co-teaching
a course and his first course on Vietnam.
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