EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English Literature, Boston College, 1980.  Areas of Concentration:  English Novel, Poetics of the Novel.              Dissertation: “An Analytical Study of ‘Realism’ as a Critical Concept” (dir. Andrew Von Hendy).  University Fellow.

B.A. in English, magna cum laude, College of the Holy Cross, 1974.  Presidential Scholar.  Honors Program.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1980-present: University of Maine at Farmington.

Professor of English, 1994-present
Associate Professor of English, 1985-1994
Assistant Professor of English, 1980-1985

Fall, 1988: Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

1978-1980: Part-Time Instructor in English, Wellesley College, Northeastern University, Stonehill College, Boston College.

COURSES TAUGHT

English Composition
Introduction to English Studies (sophomore English majors)
Introduction to the Literary Text (close reading)
Greek Civilization (interdisciplinary Honors course)
Western Thought 1 & 2 (interdisciplinary Honors courses)
Early Masterpieces of Western Literature
British Texts & Contexts
Shakespeare: Earlier Works
Shakespeare: Later Works
18th Century British Literature
Victorian Literature
English Novel
Women and the Novel
Seminar: Self-Conscious Novel
Seminar: James Joyce
Seminar: Epic and Novel
Seminar: Austen, Eliot, and James
Seminar: Victorian Novel

NEH Summer Seminar, 1992: "Narrative Theory and Narrative Practice," dir. Michael Seidel, Columbia University.

National Humanities Center Fellowship, 1988-89.

NEH Summer Seminar, 1987: "English Romantic Literature and the Visual Arts," dir. James A. W. Heffernan, Dartmouth College.

Travel Grants, University of Maine at Farmington, 1983,1985, 1988, 1993.

NEH Summer Seminar, 1983: "The Origins and Development of the English Novel," dir. Ralph Rader, University of California-Berkeley.

Selected to teach first Honors course at UMF, fall, 1982.

University Fellow, Boston College, 1975-79.

Presidential Scholar, College of the Holy Cross, 1970-74.

Publications

"The Lexicographer’s Task: Language, Reason, and Idealism in Johnson’s Dictionary Preface," The Age of Johnson (forthcoming, summer, 2000).

"Is Clarissa Bourgeois Art?" Eighteenth-Century Fiction 10 (1997): 1-14.

"Three Failures," Ohio Review 56 (1997): 78-88.

"Beware of Imitations: Advertisement as Self-Referential Commentary in Ulysses,"   Twentieth Century Literature 42 (1996): 481-493.

Afterword to The Dissonant Heart, by Wesley McNair and Dozier Bell (Portland, Maine: Coyote Love Press, 1995).

"Dutch Painting and the Simple Truth in Adam Bede," Studies in the Novel 24 (1992): 366-380.

"The Name of Bloom," in Joycean Occasions, ed. Janet Dunleavy et al (Newark: Delaware Univ. Press, 1991), 33-45.

"Talking Heads, Italo Calvino, and the Surface of Things," Iowa Review 18 (1988): 162-173.

"In the Vicinity of Winthrop: Ideological Rhetoric in Persuasion," Nineteenth-Century  Literature 41 (1987): 403-418.

"Rip Van Winkle's Return," James Joyce Quarterly 24 (1987): 218-219.

"Visionary Theater: Pope's Eloisa as Tragic Heroine," Colby Library Quarterly 21 (1985): 142-153.

"Toward Social Criticism," in Politics, Society, and the Humanities, ed. Craig Barrow and Reed Sanderlin (Chattanooga, Tenn.: Southern Humanities Press, 1984), 75-81.  An earlier version of this essay appeared in The Writing Teacher, no. 3 (1984), 39-51.

"Making Art Strange: A Commentary on Defamiliarization," Georgia Review 38 (1984):   25-33.

Papers Read

"Free Indirect Discourse in Austen, Eliot, and James," University of Missouri-Rolla, January, 1999.

"Beware of Imitations: Advertisement in Ulysses," California Joyce Conference, University of California-Irvine, June, 1993.

"Dutch Painting and the Simple Truth in Adam Bede," Northeast Modern Language Association, Providence, Rhode Island, March, 1988.

"The Name of Bloom," Joyce in Milwaukee Conference, Marquette University, June, 1987.

"In the Vicinity of Winthrop," Ezra Pound Centennial Conference, Hamilton College, April, 1985.

"Literature, Society, and the Object Theory," Southern Humanities Conference, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, February, 1984.

"Three Commentaries on Intertextuality: A Response," International Conference on Mikhail Bakhtin, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, October, 1983.

Local Presentations

"Free Indirect Discourse in English Fiction,” UMF Faculty Forum, March, 1999.

“Language, Truth, and Ideology" (with Mark McPherran), UMF Academic Lecture Series, March, 1992.

"Variant Readings in the New Ulysses," UMF Faculty Forum, April, 1985.

"Jane Austen and the Real World," UMF Faculty Forum, October, 1983.

"Viktor Shklovsky and the Defamiliarized Text," UMF Conference on Russian Culture, April, 1982.

"The Formalist Theory of the Novel," UMF Faculty Forum, March, 1981.

Coordinator, B. A. in English Program, 1997-present.  Have directed comprehensive curriculum reform     effort,  including institution of new introductory, advanced, and capstone courses.  Developed and administer pilot assessment project, featuring intensive longitudinal study of selected students.  Currently working on ten-year program review.

Chair, Faculty Senate, 1993-1995.  Served as elected leader of chief faculty governance body.  Reformed sabbatical leave and dual degree policies.  Led faculty opposition to UMS distance education policies, which have since been reversed.

Chair, Department of Humanities, 1987-1992.  Supervised sixteen full-time faculty, five regular half-time writing instructors, and numerous adjunct lecturers.  Coordinated programs and faculty in English, foreign languages, philosophy, and religion.  Ordinary responsibilities included managing the department budget, attending Dean’s Council and Academic Council meetings, recruiting, orienting, and advising new faculty, and putting together course schedules in six disciplines each semester.  Instituted new freshman writing program, including intensive four-credit English Composition course.  Developed new creative writing curriculum and instituted B.F.A. in Creative Writing program.  Developed pilot version of experimental French Immersion Program.  Developed regular half-time composition positions (with benefits and voting privileges) to address situation of adjunct faculty.  Restructured English and foreign language faculty loads to allow for regular four-three schedule. Expanded and regularized research release program to allow each department member six credits of research time every three years.  Revised promotion and tenure criteria and peer evaluation criteria.  Discussed and instituted long-term affirmative action goals.

Coordinator, Freshman Writing Program and Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum Project, 1984-1987. Advised adjunct instructors and facilitated composition meetings.  Sponsored WAC breakfast meetings and wrote WAC newsletter.  Ran WAC workshops for UMF faculty and teachers in local schools.

Chair, Affirmative Action Committee, 1983-1984.  Wrote campus sexual harassment  policy, which was later adopted by the University of Maine System.  Coordinated a  series of sexual harassment workshops for faculty and staff.

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