Present Position:
The Decker Professor in the Humanities (1984-present)
Professor of English (1981-present)
Professor in the Writing Seminars (1977-present)
Chairman, The Writing Seminars (1977-96) Office Address:
The Writing Seminars
Gilman 135
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
(410) 516-6287 Home Address:
5313 Springlake Way Baltimore, Maryland 21212
Phone: (410) 435-5174
Previous Positions:
Editor (1974-1977) The Georgia Review
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
Assistant Professor (1970-1974) Department of English
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Other Teaching Experience:
Bread Loaf School of English
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
Summer 1976
Other Editorial Experience:
Founder and Editor of Strivers' Row at Johns Hopkins
Degrees:
B.A., 1962 University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, Major: English and French
M.A., Ph.D., 1970 Rice University
Other Graduate Study:
1962-1963 Yale University Fields of Specialization:
American Literature Modern Literature
Military Service:
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.) Managerial Experience:
Supervisor, Public Affairs Library, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tx 1966-67
Courses Taught at Hopkins:
Contemporary American Poetry
Contemporary American Novel
Survey of American Literature
Modern American Literature
Studies in Medieval Literature
Elementary Anglo-Saxon
Poe and Borges
Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway
Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Crane, and Stevens
14th Century English Alliterative Poetry
Hard-boiled Detective
Fiction and Film Noir
Eliot, Crane, and Stevens
Graduate Poetry Workshop
Offices Held At Hopkins:
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
1997- Chair, The Writing Program in the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs
Offices Held Elsewhere:
1995-97 Vice-President, Poe Studies Association Editorial Duties:
General Editor, Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Contributing Editor, Thalia (Studies in Literary Humor)
Member, Editorial Board, Poe Studies
Member, Editorial Board, The Arizona Ouarterly Awards and Fellowships:
Danforth Fellowship 1962-63, 1967-70
Guggenheim Fellowship 1991
Christian Gauss Prize from Phi Beta Kappa: Best Book in the Humanities 1994
Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for the Best Book in
Comparative Literary Studies in the Year 1994
Elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2005. Books, Criticism:
Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge: A speculative reading of Faulkner,
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the
American Renaissance, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story, Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Books, Poetry:
The Heisenberg Variations, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1976.
Just Let Me Say This About That, New York: Overlook Press, 1988.
As Long As It’s Big, Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. |
