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| Current Position:
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The Decker Professor in the Humanities (1984-Present)
Professor of English (1981-present) Professor and Chariman (1977-1996) The Writing Seminars
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| Previous Positions:
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| Other Teaching Experience:
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Bread Loaf School of English
Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont 05753 Summer 1976 |
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| Other Editorial Experience:
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Founder and Editor of Striver's Row at Johns Hopkins
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| Date of Birth:
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April 24, 1940
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| Place of Birth:
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Houston, Texas
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| Marital Status:
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Married
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| Degrees:
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B.A., 1962 University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas
Major: English and French M.A., Ph.D., 1970 Rice University
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| Other Graduate Study:
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1962-1963 Yale University
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| Fields of Specialization:
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American Literature
Modern Literature |
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| Military Service:
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1963-66 U.S. Navy, Communications Watch Officer on the staff of the
Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve (Ret.)
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| Managerial Experience:
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Supervisor, Public Affairs Library, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston, Texas 1966-67
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| Courses Taught at Hopkins:
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Contemporary American Poetry
Contemporary American Novel Survey of American Literature Modern American Literature Studies in Medieval Literature Elementary Anglo-Saxon Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville Nietsche, Heidigger, Crane, and Stevens |
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| Offices Held Hopkins:
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1971-72 Secretary, JHU Philological Assoc.
1972-74 Curator, The Tudor & Stuart Club 1978-79 President, JHU Philological Assoc. 1982-83 President, The Tudor & Stuart Club |
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| Offices Held Elsewhere:
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1995- Vice President, Poe Studies Association
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| Editorial Duties:
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General Editor, Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series, The Johns
Hopkins Press
Contributing Editor, Thalia (Studies in Literary Humor) Member, Editorial Board, Poe Studies Member, Editorial Board, The Arizona Quarterly |
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| Awards and Fellowships:
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Danforth Fellowship 1962-63, 1967-70
Guggenheim Fellowship 1991 Christian Gauss Prize, Phi Beta Kappa 1994 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association 1994 |
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| Books of Criticism:
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Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A Speculative Reading
of Faulkner, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975, 186
pp. Paperback edition published in 1980. Expanded Edition (246 pp.) published
in paperback in 1996.
American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance, New Haven: The Yale University Press, 1980, 371 pp. Paperback edition published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 520 pp. The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective
Story, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 520 pp.
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| Books of Poetry:
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(Most published under the pen name John Bricuth)
The Heisenberg Variations, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976. 98 pp. Paperback edition, Johns Hopkins Press, 1981 Just Let Me Sat This About That, New York: Overlook Press, 1998.
124 pp.
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| Books In Progress:
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Criticism:
A study of the poetry of Hart Crane from several different critical perspectives (estimated completion date of the first draft: Summer 2000). A study of the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald (estimated completion date of the first draft: Fall 2004). Poetry: A book-length narrative poem entitled Just As Long As It's Big. |