Courses
ENGLISH 441: BRITISH LITERATURES 1900-1930
ENGLISH 248: BRITISH, AMERICAN & CONTINENTAL FICTION
ENGLISH 455: MAJOR AUTHORS: D.H. LAWRENCE
ENGLISH 245: MAJOR AUTHORS: SAMUEL BECKETT
ENGLISH 442 B: BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SINCE 1930
ENGLISH 210: ENGLISH LITERATURE 1798 TO PRESENT
ENGLISH 342 B: BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SINCE 1930
ENGLISH 341: BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: TO 1930
ENGLISH 355: MAJOR AUTHORS -- TOPIC: D.H. Lawrence, A Reclamation
ENGLISH 248 B: MODERN BRITISH AND AMERICAN FICTION IN RELATION TO CONTINENTAL FICTION
ENGLISH 342 C: BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SINCE 1930
ENGLISH 300 B: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE -- TOPIC: Thinking and Writing About Some Great and Some Very Good Books
ENGLISH 296 C: HONORS SEMINAR, I -- TOPIC: Dostoyevsky and Modern Fiction
ENGLISH 355 C: MAJOR AUTHORS -- TOPIC: Conrad and Dostoyevsky
Educational History
B.A. University of Michigan, 1957
M.A. Columbia University, 1958
Ph.D Columbia University, 1962
Professional History
Professor, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1993-Present.
Publications
Books
Political Poems. Urbana, IL: The Depot Press, 1968. 20 pp.
Honey Out of Stone. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1970. 191 pp.
Heart of Darkness: Search for the Unconscious. Boston: G. K. Hall (Twayne Books), 1987. 116 pp.
Anna Karenina: The Bitterness of Ecstasy. Boston: G. K. Hall (Twayne Books), 1990. 157 pp.
Snow of Fire: Symbolic Meaning in 'The Rainbow' and 'Women in Love'. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991. 137 pp.
Jude the Obscure: A Paradise of Despair. New York: Macmillan (Twayne Books), 1992. 137 pp.
Retelling Dostoyevsky: Literary Responses and Other Observations. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001. 273 pp.
Reclaiming D. H. Lawrence: Contemporary Writers Speak Out. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002. 181 pp.
Naming Beckett's Unnamable. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2004. 187 pp.
"Strangury, A Beckettian Autobiography" 107 pages. Manuscript of poems completed 2005.
Articles
"Reading Dostoyevsky Post-Holocaust." Shofar 14.4 (Summer 1996): 85-115.
"Disrobing Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor: The Hidden Legacy of Christian Anti-Semitism in The Brothers Karamazov." The Comparatist 24 (May 2000): 83-98.
"Stalking Stavrogin: J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg and the writing of The Possessed." Journal of Modern Literature 23.2 (Winter 1999-2000): 351-357.
"The Man Who Rode Away: What Lawrence Means to Today's Readers." TriQuarterly 107-108 (Winter, Spring/Summer 2000): 508-536.
"Doubles on the Rocks: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled." Critique (Winter 2001): 166-179. 24 manuscript pp.
"Naming Beckett’s Unnamable." TriQuarterly 110/111 (Fall 2001): 303-322.
"Possession and Gothic Horror: David Storey's Use of The Idiot in Radcliffe." Journal of Modern Literature 24.1 (Fall 2000): 181-188.
D.H. Lawrence, Working Poets and Political Correctness." The Southern Review 38.2 (Spring 2002): 334-357.
"Torturer and Servant: Samuel Beckett’s How It Is." Journal of Modern Literature 25.1 (Fall 2001): 81-90.
"To Kafka with Love: Beckett’s Texts for Nothing." Pequod 46 (Winter 2004): 82-99.
"Tsypkin's Way with Dostoyevsky." New England Review 24.2. (Spring 2003): 168-181.
"Beckett and Kafka." TriQuarterly 117 (Fall 2003): 77-106.
"Beckett's Readers: A Commentary and Symposium." Michigan Quarterly Review 43.1 (Winter 2004): 54-70.
"Getting Started with Imre Kertesz." New England Review 25.1 & 25.2 (2004): 261-278.
"Fearful Symmetry: Beckett's The Lost Ones." Journal of Modern Literature 26.2 (2004): 164-169.
"Old Age and Beckett, An Autobiography." New England Review 20 ms. pp., forthcoming in 2005.
Poems:
Published in Meridian, The Prairie Schooner, Poet, The D. H. Lawrence Review, Sou'wester, The New Orleans Review, World Anthology: A Verse Mosaic by Living Poets.
Reviews:
Centerfold Review of Jeffery Meyer's D. H. Lawrence: A Bibliography, in Chicago Tribune Sunday, July 22, 1990.
Centerfold Review of John Worthen's D. H. Lawrence: The Early Years, "The Turbulent Origins of D. H. Lawrence," in Chicago Tribune Sunday, November 24, 1991.
Professional Consulting
Board Member, National Library Service for the Blind at the Library of Congress, 1999 and 2000.
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