|
Education Ph.D. (English/American Studies) Pennsylvania State University (1982) Teaching Experience 1984-- Professor of English, Ball State University (Associate, 1987-92;
Assistant, 1984-87) Administrative Experience 2006-2009 Member and Secretary, Board of Directors,
Thoreau Society External Funding Received NEH Summer Stipend, 2004, "Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson's
Early Biographers and the Politics of Genre" Internal Funding Received (BSU) Summer Research Grant, 2005, "Building Their
Own Waldos: Emerson's Early Biographers and the Politics of Genre" Selected Publications Books Transcendentalism and Romanticism, vol. 3 of Research Guide to American Literature. Co-author with Robert C. Nowatzki. New York: Facts on File, Inc., forthcoming 2009. Lives Out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation, in Honor of Robert N. Hudspeth. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004. Transcendentalism and the "Western Messenger": A History of the Magazine and Its Contributors, 1835-1841. Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985. Articles and Book Chapters "Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir," in Oxford Handbook to Transcendentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009. "Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the Challenges
of Writing Emerson's Biography in the 1880s,” in Emerson
Bicentennial Essays, ed. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. Boston:
Massachusetts Historical Society, distributed by the University of Virginia
Press, 2006, pp. 3-32. "George Washington Harris," in Antebellum Writers of New
York and the South, ed. Kent Ljungquist. Dictionary of Literary
Biography, vol. 248. Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 132-42. "Andrews Norton," in American Renaissance in New England, Third Series, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 235. Detroit: Gale, 2001, pp. 281-88. "Channing Remembers Emerson: Visits to Concord, 1870 and 1877." New England Quarterly 73 (2000): 495-506. "The Western Messenger," in American Renaissance in New England, Second Series, ed. Wesley T. Mott. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 223. Detroit: Gale, 2000, pp. 317-21. "Emerson's Lives: An Essay Review." New England Quarterly 69 (1996): 631-39. "William Henry Channing" and "Andrews Norton," in
Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley T. Mott.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1996, pp. 40, 186-87. "Franklin's Scientific Ethics: Exemplary Rhetoric in the Autobiography," in Early American Literature and Culture: Essays Honoring Harrison T. Meserole, ed. Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992, pp. 184-91. "Emerson's Compromised Optimism in the 'American Scholar': A Source in the Poetry." English Language Notes 27 (1990): 40-43. "Writing the Wrongs: American Literature in Defense of the New Nation," in An American Community Celebrates the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, ed. Joseph A. Losco and Thomas A. Sargent. Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1988, pp. 16-28. "William Henry Channing" in American Literary Critics and Scholars 1800-1850, ed. John W. Rathbun. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 59. Detroit: Gale, 1987, pp. 66-71. "Bernard Malamud," in Contemporary Authors Bibliographical
Series: American Novelists, ed. James J. Martine. Detroit: Gale, 1986,
pp. 261-291. "The Hesperian" and "The Western Messenger" in American Literary Magazines, ed. Edward E. Chielens. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986, pp. 171-75, 442-47. "Margaret Fuller's Journal for October 1842." Harvard Library Bulletin 33 (1985): 280-91. "The 'Spiral Ascending Path' of William Henry Channing." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 30 (1984): 22-26. "An Annotated List of Contributions to the Western Messenger" in Studies in the American Renaissance, ed. Joel Myerson. Charlottesville: U P of Virginia, 1984, pp. 93-179. "James Freeman Clarke's 1833 Letter-journal for Margaret Fuller." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 27 (1981): 47-56. Selected Book Reviews Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature by Bryan Waterman. Journal of American History 96 (June 2009): 197-198. In History's Embrace: Past and Present in Concord, Massachusetts by Leslie Perrin Wilson. Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 260 (Fall 2007): 6. Walden Pond: A History by Barksdale Maynard and Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, ed. Jeffrey Cramer. New England Quarterly 68 (2005): 133-36. Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading by T. S. McMillin. ANQ 14 (2001): 49-51. Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery by Thomas R. Mitchell. Studies in the Novel 32 (2000): 396-99. Emerson and Power by Michael Lopez. New England Quarterly 70 (1997): 163-65. English Traits (Harvard Edition of Emerson's Collected Works).
ANQ 10 (1997): 47-49. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the
Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds. Southern Humanities
Review 24 (1990): 83-85. Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and British Influence in the Age of Emerson by Robert Weisbuch. Journal of the Early Republic 7 (1987-88): 411-12. American Romanticism and the Marketplace by Michael T. Gilmore. Journal of American History 73 (1986): 187-88. Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer by David Robinson. New England Quarterly 56 (1983): 469-72. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement by Anne C. Rose. New England Quarterly 55 (1982): 464-66. Selected Presentations "Independence and Politics in Thoreau's Thinking," Workshop, Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, MA, 11 July 2008. "Rethinking Curriculum Design as Literary History," European Teacher Education Network Annual Conference, Liverpool, England, 26 April 2008. "Thoreau 101: Henry Thoreau and His Friends," Workshop, Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, MA, 13 July 2007. “’Who may in future undertake to write Father’s biography?’: The Emerson Family and Emerson’s Reputation,” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, 25 May 2007. "Emerson's English Biographers," Transatlanticism in American Literature, Rothermere American Institute and St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, England, 14 July 2006. "Transcendentalism: from Emerson to Thoreau," Workshop, Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, Concord, MA, 7 July 2005. "Building Their Own Waldos: Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the Challenges of Biography in the 1880s," Spires of Form: The Emerson Bicentennial Conference, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, April 25-26, 2003. "Teaching Literary Lives: Biography in the American Romantic Classroom," College English Association, St. Petersburg, FL, April 3-5, 2003. "Whose Waldo? Emerson's New England Biographers, 1881-89," American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA May 25, 2001. "'Between Love and Esteem': Henry Thoreau's Relations with Women," Modern Language Association, San Diego, CA December 27, 1994. Recognitions Love
of Learning Award, Phi Kappa Phi, 2007 Teaching Courses taught at Penn State University Freshman Composition I Courses taught at Ball State University Undergraduate: Graduate: Committee and Other Service Department Director of Graduate Programs in English (6 years) College University President, Ball State Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi (1 year; Vice President,
1 year; founding member) Profession Secretary/Treasurer, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Inc. (elected by membership 2001--): manage membership records for organization of ca. 250; manage all financial accounts (annual budget of ca. $30,000); sit on executive board Member, Board of Directors, The Thoreau Society (elected by membership 2006--): help make decisions about finances, policies, activities and personnel for the oldest and largest author society in the world, with ca. 1600 members
|
