1968-72
B.A. Hobart-William Smith College, Geneva, NY
Major: English; Minor: Philosophy

Present
Associate Dean
School of Arts and Sciences
Saint Xavier University, Chicago,
Director, Undergraduate Honors Program

1991 to Present
Professor, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL
Senior Seminar, Early American Literature, American Romantics,
Seminar in Melville (graduate), Introduction to Literature,
Composition, British Survey I

1979-91
Associate Professor, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
Freshman Composition, Introduction to Literature,
British Survey, American Literature to 1865,
American Romantics, English Romantics, Senior Seminar

1976-79
Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Short Story, Composition, Developmental Writing

ARTICLES
"'The Example of our Heroine': Deborah Sampson and the Legacy of Herman Mann's
The Female Review." American Studies 41:1(Spring 2000): 93-113.
"She Bled in Secret": Herman Mann, Deborah Sampson, and
The Female Review. Early American Literature 34:2 (1999):190-220.

"'Like a bewildered star'": Deborah Sampson, Herman Mann,
and" 'Address, Delivered with Applause'".
Rhetoric Society Quarterly 29:2 (1999):5-24.

"Super Frustration Sunday: The Day Prodigy's Fantasy Baseball Died."
Journal of Popular Culture 30 (Winter 1996): 103-16.

"Disquieting Encounters: Male Intrusions/FemaleRealms in Melville."
Emerson Society Quarterly 40 (1994): 91-111. [Abstract of an earlierversion of
this paper published in Melville Society Extracts 95 (December 1993): 15-16.]

"`Nature, and but nature,': The Skeletons in Melville's Bowers."
American Transcendental Quarterly 5 (1991): 273-81.

"Deception From the Heights: Melville's Revision of `The Two Temples' Manuscript." Studies in Short Fiction 27 (1990): 73-79.

"From Pisgah to Egypt: Narrative Continuities in Melville's Israel Potter
and `The Two Temples.'"
Journal of Narrative Technique 19 (1989): 300-11.

"Melville and the Limits of Charity."
Tennessee Philological Bulletin 26 (1989): 56-64.

"A Parallel and A Prophecy: Arrest, Superimposition and Metamorphosis in Melville's Israel Potter."
American Transcendental Quarterly Spring (1988): 41-55.

"Later Freneau Poems in the New Brunswick Fredonian."
Early American Literature Spring (1980): 72-79.

"The Freneau Canon: Erroneous Newspaper Attributions."
American Literature May (1979): 260-66.

"The Mayor of Casterbridge: 'Some Grand Feat of Stagery.'"
South Atlantic Bulletin May (1977): 11-22.

1998
"Deborah Sampson's 'Address, Delivered with Applause,'"
competitive panel paper presented at the
National Communication Association

"She Bled in Secret": Herman Mann, Deborah Sampson and The Female Review," competitive panel paper presented at the
Northeast Modern Language Association

"The Female Soldier: Herman Mann and the Memoirs of Deborah Sampson,"
competitive panel paper presented at the Illinois Philological Association

Awarded Sabbatical for project in Early American fiction:
Research at American Antiquarian Society, Dedham Historical Society,
Newberry Library

1997
Selected as participant in 1997 Summer Seminar:
The History of the Book in American Culture.
American Antiquarian Society.

1995
Chair, session on "Poetry and Mysticism" at conference on
Literature and Spirituality
Saint Xavier University

1993
"From Tappa to Foolscap: Melville's Male Voyeursand Female Laborers,"
competitive panel paper presented at the
American Literature Association annual conference

"Super Frustration Sunday: The Day Prodigy's Fantasy Baseball Died."
Competitive panel paper presented at the
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference

1990
Chair, session on "Acknowledging Plurality" at FUTURE TENSE:
A Conference on Language Arts, Memphis State University

1989
"Melville and the Limits of Charity,"
competitive panel paper presented at the
American Literature I session,
South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference.

"The Theme of Charity in Melville's Short Fiction,"
competitive panel paper presented at the
Tennessee Philological Society annual conference.

1988
"Melville's Revisions in 'The Two Temples' Manuscript,"
competitive panel paper presented at the American Literature I session,
South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference.

"Israel Potter and `The Two Temples,'"
competitive panel paper presented at the
Tennessee Philological Association annual conference.

1987
Sabbatical: concentrated on the magazine fiction of Melville,
studied at Houghton Library at Harvard and Library of Congress.

Attended National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute
on contemporary critical theory.

1985
Chaired session on "Usage" at the NCTE Conference
on College Composition and Communication.

1984-87
Member, Board of Directors, Shelby Memphis Council of Teachers of English.

1981-90
Director of Internships in Literature and Languages,
Christian Brothers University

1979-98
Service on a wide range of university committees:

Christian Brothers University

• Modern Language Association
• Midwest Modern Language Association
• Northeast Modern Language Association
• American Literature Association
• Society of Early Americanists
• Melville Society
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Illinois Philological Association
  

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