Education:
Ph.D., English - Brown University; June 1983
M.A., English - University of Tennessee; December 1979
B.A., English - University of Tennessee; March 1969
Academic Work History:
The Citadel - English Department Head; August 1998 to date
The Citadel - Professor; August 1993 to date
The Citadel - Associate Professor; August 1988-August 1993
The Citadel - Assistant Professor; August 1983-August 1988
Brown University - Teaching Assistant; September 1981-May 1983
Clemson University - Visiting Instructor; Spring 1980
University of Tennessee - Teaching Assistant; September 1978-December 1979
Books Authored:
The Fluent Mundo: Wallace Stevens and the
Structure of Reality.
Books Edited:
Anthology of American Literature.
Ninth Edition.
2 volumes.
Concise Anthology of American Literature.
Sixth Edition.
Anthology of American Literature. Eighth Edition. 2 volumes.
Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom.
Author-ity and Textuality:
Current Views of Collaborative Writing.
Satire or Evasion? Black
Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn.
Other Editorial Work:
Editor of the Mark Twain Circular, quarterly newsletter of the
Mark Twain Circle of America, with subscribers in 44 states (plus D.C.) and 17
foreign countries; February 1987 to present.
Managing Editor of The
Mark Twain Annual; 2004 to present.
Editorial Reader for American Quarterly.
Editorial Reader for The Wallace Stevens
Journal.
Editorial Reader for Nineteenth-Century Studies.
Editorial Reader for Mosaic.
Editorial Reader for Blackwell Publishing.
Manuscript Reader for
Essays (etc.) in Books:
"The Controversy over Huckleberry Finn" [with Thomas A. Tenney]. Satire or Evasion? Black
Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn.
Ed. James S. Leonard et al.
Five entries in the Mark Twain Encyclopedia, ed. James D. Wilson and
J. R. LeMaster (Garland Press, 1993):
"Blackwood's Magazine," "Editions," "Russia,"
"Sir Walter Scott," "Spiritualism"
"Let us not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments."
Author-ity and Textuality:
Current Views of Collaborative Writing. Ed. James S. Leonard et al. West
"Breaking the Silence: Collaboration and the
Isolationist Paradigm." Author-ity
and Textuality: Current Views of Collaborative
Writing. Ed. James S. Leonard et al. West
"Collaborative Writing: A Browser's Bibliography." Author-ity and Textuality: Current Views
of Collaborative Writing. Ed. James S. Leonard et al. West
Afterword to A
Tramp Abroad. The
"Who's Teaching Mark Twain and How?" Making Mark Twain Work in
the Classroom. Ed. James S. Leonard.
"A
"Huck, Jim, and the ‘Black-&-White’ Fallacy." Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship.
Ed. Laura Skandera-Trombley and
Michael J. Kiskis.
“Realism.” American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst and
Tom Quirk. 3
vols.
“Ku
Klux Klan.” American History
Through Literature, 1870-1920. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst and Tom
Quirk. 3 vols.
“Stevens, Wallace.” The
“Snyder,
“Alvarez, Julia.” The
“Mark Twain and Politics.” A Companion to Mark Twain. Ed. Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd. Blackwell, 2006. 94-108.
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of
Refereed Journal Publications:
"The Task of Amphion in Emerson's
`Politics.'" Papers on Language and Literature 16 (1980):
161-73 [with C. E. Wharton].
"The Achievement of Rondure in
Whitman's `Passage to
"Art as a Cry Against Extinction in the Poetry of
Wallace Stevens." The Wallace Stevens Journal 5.3-4 (1981): 37-42
[with C. E. Wharton].
"
"Whitman's `Passage to
"The `Mistresse Teares' in Donne's `
"Wallace Stevens' `Well Dressed
"Wallace Stevens as Phenomenologist."
"The Presence of Death in Typee."
Melville Society Extracts 58 (1985): 15-16.
"Melville's Ahab as Marlovian
Hero." ATQ 62 (1986): 47-58.
"Stevens' Conversion of Anselm: `The Utmost Must Be Good and Is.'"
"Delta Wedding: Eudora Welty's Plunge into Freudian Symbolism."
"James's Ghosts and the Art of Fiction."
"Notes on the Dry Eucalyptus: Wallace Stevens' Professorial Voices."
"Racial Objections to Huckleberry Finn.” Essays
in Arts and Sciences 30 (October 2001): 77-82.
“Lynching Colonel Sherburn.” The Mark Twain
Annual 1 (2003): 79-83
Commissioned Journal Publications:
Review of Helen Vendler's Wallace Stevens:
Words Chosen Out of Desire. American Literature 57 (1985):
522-24.
"The Shape of Mark Twain."
Review of Jacqueline Brogan's Stevens and Simile: A Theory of Language.
American Literature 59 (1987): 496-97.
Review of Erskine Caldwell's With All My Might.
American Literature: 60 (1988): 140-41.
Review of Robert Rehder's The
Poetry of Wallace Stevens. American Literature 60 (1988): 693-94.
Review of Richard Sawaya's The
Scepticism and Animal Faith of Wallace Stevens. The
Wallace Stevens Journal 14 (Spring 1990): 92-94.
Review of Tom Quirk's Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa
Cather and Wallace Stevens. American Literature 62 (December
1990): 726-27.
"Can Gilman March with the Corps of Cadets?" The Charlotte
Perkins Gilman Newsletter 4 (Spring 1994): 8-9.
Review of Uncle Mark (Videotape/Filmstrip). Mark
Twain Circular 8.3 (July-Sept. 1994): 3-4.
Review of Joe Boyd Fulton’s Mark Twain in the Margins. Arthuriana 12.3 (Fall 2002): 127-28.
Review of Philip Fanning’s Mark Twain and Orion Clemens: Brothers, Partners,
Strangers. Arkansas Review 34.3 (December 2003): 237-38.
CD-ROM Publications (On Huckleberry
Finn: The Complete Buffalo Manuscript -- Teaching and Research Digital Edition
(2002):
"Lynching Colonel Sherburn” (previously
unpublished)
“The Controversy over Huckleberry Finn” (originally published in Satire
or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn, coauthored with Thomas
A. Tenney).
“Who’s Teaching Mark Twain, and How?” (originally
published in Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom).
"Racial Objections to Huckleberry Finn” (originally published in Essays
in Arts and Sciences 30 (October 2001).
Newspaper Publications:
Review of Arthur and Cynthia Koestler's Stranger on the Square;
Review of Lyndall Gordon's Virginia Woolf: A
Writer's Life;
Review of John Fowles' A Maggot;
Conference Papers:
"Wallace Stevens' Ontological Argument"; Colloquium on Irony in
Modern Literature and Film;
"The Sexual Myth and Wallace Stevens' `Supreme Fiction'";
Conference on Gender in Modern Literature and Film;
"Delta Wedding: Eudora Welty's Plunge into Freudian
Symbolism"; Colloquium on the Modern Novel;
"James's Ghosts and the Art of Fiction"; Colloquium on Imagery in
Modern Literature and Film;
"Notes on the Dry Eucalyptus: Wallace Stevens' Professorial Voices";
Colloquium on the Teacher in Modern Literature and Film;
"Breaking the Silence: Collaboration and the
Isolationist Paradigm"; CCCC Convention;
"Reloading the Canon: Wallace Stevens' Notes on the Major and Minor";
Human-ties Conference;
"Reading the Centuries: Mark Twain's
"Race to the Finish: The Unfinished Racial Text of Huckleberry Finn";
Race, Gender, Marginality Conference;
"`It Must Change': Wallace Stevens' Notes on Political Process";
Social and Political Change in Literature and Film Conference;
"`In the flesh it is immortal': Aesthetic as Metaphysic in Wallace
Stevens' `Peter Quince'"; Modernism Conference;
"Talking like a Man: Dignity vs. Caricature in Huckleberry Finn's
Jim"; Visions and/or (Re)visions in Literature
and Film Conference;
"Improved Man Among the Commanches: Mark Twain's
Cross-Temporal Encounter"; Cross-Cultural Encounters Conference;
"Author-ity, Textuality, and Collaborative Writing"; Authority and
Transgression in Literature and Film Conference;
"Wallace Stevens: A Notable Writer and the Sound of Words"; Northeast
Modern Language Association Conference;
"Susanna and the Elders: Wallace Stevens' Apocryphal
Narrative"; The Voice of the Voiceless:
Non-Canonical Literature and Film and Non-Canonical Approaches to the Canon
Conference;
"A Change of Words Is a Change of Nature: Wallace Stevens' `Idea of
Order'"; Dynamics of Change Conference;
"Mark Twain, Time Travel, and the Dichotomizing Impulse";
Philological Association of the
"Fallacious Logic in Huckleberry Finn: Discovering the Hidden
Assumptions"; American Literature Association Conference;
"Drawing 'Half a Figure': Wallace Stevens' 'Angel Surrounded by Paysans'"; Colloquium on Literature and Film;
"Going in Circles: Images of Writing in A Tramp Abroad";
American Literature Association Conference;
"A Riverboat Pilot in the Jolly Corner: Henry James Rewraps Mark Twain's
Yarn"; American Literature Association Conference;
”Racial Objections to Huckleberry Finn”; National Council of Teachers of
English Annual Conference;
Other Conference Activities:
Chair of "19th-Century American Literature" session; NEGSE
Conference;
Chair of "The Metaphysical Poets" session; Fifth
Citadel Conference on Literature; The Citadel; March 1985.
Chair of "James and O'Neill" session; Colloquium on
Imagery in Modern Literature and Film;
Chair of "The Metaphysical Poets" session; Sixth
Citadel Conference on Literature; The Citadel; March 1988.
Chair of "Re-Canonizing" session; Human-ties
Conference;
Chair of "Myths of Nineteenth-Century America"
session; Southeastern Nineteenth Century Studies Association's "Myth,
Mythology, Mythmaking in the Nineteenth Century" Conference;
Chair of "Literary Criticism" session; Seventh
Citadel Conference on Literature; The Citadel; March 1991.
Chair of "Wallace Stevens" session; Modernism
Conference;
Chair of "Cross-Cultural Encounters in American
Literature" session; Cross-Cultural Encounters Conference;
Chair of "Teaching Huckleberry Finn" session;
American Literature Association Conference;
Chair of "Teaching the Racial Context of Huckleberry
Finn" session; National Council of Teachers of English Conference;
Respondent for "Mark Twain and Social Matters"
session; American Literature Association Conference;
Chair of "The New Huckleberry Finn"
session; South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference;
Respondent for "Mark Twain and the Printed
Word" session; American Literature Association Conference;
Discussion leader for "Teaching Twain: Race, Class, Gender" session;
State of
Chair of "Wallace Stevens: Excursions and Meditations" session;
Modern Language Association Conference;
Chair of one-day workshop: “Teaching Mark Twain: Issues to Consider, Pitfalls
to Avoid”; National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference;
Chair of “Visualizing the Middle Ages and Renaissance” session; Eighth Citadel
Conference on Literature; Charleston, SC; February 2002.
Discussion leader for “Teaching Late Twain” session; State of
Honors, Offices, and Awards:
NEH Summer Seminar Grant; "The Crisis of Western Culture and Its
Critics"; Yale; 1979.
The John C. Hodges Award for Exceptional Scholarship; 1980.
Huntington Library Fellowship (for study of the Wallace Stevens Collection); Summer 1984.
Southern Regional Education Board Uncommon Facilities Grant; Summer
1984.
SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention (for The
Fluent Mundo); 1984.
Citadel Development Foundation Research Grant each year since 1983-84 for research
focusing principally on Wallace Stevens and Mark Twain.
CDF Faculty Development Grant each year 1987-98 for a series of National
Council of Teachers of English Summer Institutes dealing with various issues in
pedagogy and literary criticism.
Sabbatical leave; 1989-90.
CDF Faculty Achievement Awards for 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994,
and 1997.
Chair, Nominating Committee, SAMLA Division of
Secretary, SAMLA Division of
Chair, SAMLA Division of
Sabbatical leave; 1997-98.
Member, Advisory Board, Huckleberry Finn Manuscript CD-ROM Project,
1999-2003.
Citadel Teaching Assignments:
Lower-division courses: Composition and Literature (ENGL 101 & 102);
Major British Writers (ENGL 201 & 202); Mythology (ENGL 211); Masterpieces
of American Literature (ENGL 215)
Upper-division courses: Twentieth-century British Fiction (ENGL 332);
American Romanticism (ENGL 342); American Realism (ENGL 343); Literary
Criticism (ENGL 407); Senior Seminar: Twentieth-Century Literature and the
Problem of Belief (ENGL 424)
Honors courses: The Novel in Context (HONR 202); The Arthurian Legend
(also HONR 202); Mark Twain and the Idea of Democracy (HONR 300)
Graduate courses: Modern British and American Poetry (ENGL 513); Modern
British and American Fiction (ENGL 514); Special Topics: Race in American
Literature (ENGL 517); Nineteenth Century
American Literature II--Realism (ENGL 524); Literary Criticism (ENGL
555)
Departmental Service Responsibilities:
Current:
Head, Department of English
Past:
Director, Graduate Program in English
Instructor for annual LSAT preparation workshops in logic and analytical
reasoning (1986-95)
Chair, Staffing Needs Committee
Member of Scheduling Committee, Merit Evaluation Committee, Curriculum
Committee, Computer Needs Committee, Library Committee, Freshman Committee,
Sophomore Committee, Faculty Evaluation Committee, Department Head Search
Committee, and two other search committees
College-Wide Service Responsibilities:
Current:
Member, Academic Board
Past:
Chair, Faculty Council
Member, Graduate Council
Member, Budget Review Committee
Chair, Graduate Council Subcommittee for Review of Faculty Credentials
Editor, Faculty Directory of Scholarly Activities
Member, Strategic Plan Implementation Committee
Chair, Research Committee
Chair, Self-Study Committee on Research
Member, Self-Study Steering Committee
Chair, Level II Strategic Planning Committee for Research
Chair, Joint Program Review Committee
Chair, Graduate Council Subcommittee for Faculty Teaching Load
Member, Faculty Council
Member, Level I Strategic Planning Committee for Administration
Member, Finance Committee
Member, Research Committee
Member, Faculty Development Committee
Member, Library Committee
Member, Campus Facilities Committee
Member, Westvaco Professorship Search Committee
Member, Committee on Ethics and Leadership
Member, Committee for the Summer Schedule
Inter-institutional Service Responsibilities:
Current:
Participant, South Carolina Association of Departments of English
Past:
Director, Joint M.A. Program in English (Citadel and College of Charleston)
Chair, Joint Program Committee for M.A. in English (Citadel and College of
Charleston) Associate Director, Joint M.A. Program in English
Vice-Chair, Joint Program Committee for M.A. in English
Member, South Carolina Conference of Faculty Chairs
Member, Association of Directors of Graduate Study in English
Member, Joint Committee for the Summer Schedule
Memberships:
Modern Language Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
American Literature Association
Wallace Stevens Society
Mark Twain Circle of America