Curriculum Vitae

Education:
University of Arizona: B.A. (1965), M.A. (1967), Ph.D. in English (1971
Teaching:
Murray State University 1976-present; University of New Orleans 1970-76
Teaching Specialties:
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Shakespeare
Victorian Literature
Relationships between Literature and Visual Arts
Administration:
Chair, Department of English, 1994-1998
Director of Graduate Studies in English, 1982-1986
Assistant Dean of the College, 1980-1982

                                                    Publications:

Books:
Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses, 2000)        Read the Introduction     Order This Book

Sisters: Relation and Rescue in Nineteenth-Century British Novels and Paintings (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press/Associated University Presses, 1995).   Order This Book

Hamlet in My Mind's Eye (University of Georgia Press, 1989). Winner of the 1987 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Studies Award.

Engaging English Art: Entering the Work in Two Centuries of English Painting and Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 1987).

The Poem in Question. With Robert E. Bourdette, Jr. (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).
 

Articles and Reviews:
 Renaissance topics: Dionysus in Literature: Essays on Literary Madness (1994), College Literature (1992), Shakespeare Quarterly (1990), The Shakespeare Newsletter (1988), Hamlet Studies (1987), and Milton Quarterly (1980, 1974).
Eighteenth-century literature and art: Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1998), Sibling Relationships in Literature (1993), Centennial Review (1990), English Studies (1982, 1971), Studies in Iconography (1979), The New Rambler (1977), and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research (1975).
 Nineteenth-century literature and art: Victorian Literature and Culture (1993), College Literature (1993), Nineteenth Century Studies (1992, 1989), Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts (1990), Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia (1988), The Victorian Newsletter (1986), Massachusetts Studies in English (1985), The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (1982), and Arizona Quarterly (1980).
 Twentieth-century literature and art: Semiotics 1994, Clues (1993), Poets' Perspectives: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry (1992), Studies in the Novel (1988), Naming the Rose: Essays on Eco's "The Name of the Rose" (1988), The Hemingway Review (1985), and Reading and Writing Poetry: Successful Approaches for the Student and Teacher (1983).
 

Conference Presentations:

Modern Language Association (1981, 1975), National Council of Teachers of English (1989, 1986, 1985, 1980), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1982), American Society for Aesthetics (1981), Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (1993), Semiotics Society of America (1994), DeBartolo Conference on the Eighteenth Century (1997), Popular Culture Association (1995, 1994, 1993, 1990, 1988, 1986), Victorians Institute (1994, 1978), and various regional and state societies (1971-present).

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