Ph.D., Kent State University, 1969

Scholarly Interests:
American literature; 19th and 20th century British literature; modern poetry; Faulkner; Flannery O'Connor; C.S. Lewis; Solzhenitsyn

 

Recent Courses:
Development of Western Civilization 201 and 202
English 353: The Victorian Age
English 355: American Literature to 1865
English 356: American Literature 1865-1914
English 364: Modern American Fiction

Selected Publications:
"'The Mule's Hind Quarters': Flannery O'Connor as Hillbilly Thomist," Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 7 (Summer 2002), 26-39.

"Lewis and Cambridge," Modern Philology 96 (May 1999), 439-84.

"'Between Two Worlds': The Structure of the Argument in 'Tintern Abbey,'" Nineteenth Century Literature 48 (September 1993), 147-68.

"Poe and Tradition," Southern Literary Journal 10 (Spring 1978), 46-74. 

"The Great Gatsby and the American Past," Southern Review 9 (Spring 1973), 288-99.