DEGREES

Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 1980. Dissertation: "Richardson's Nightmare of the Soul: A Psychological and Religious Interpretation of Clarissa." Supervisor: Prof. Thomas Lockwood.

M.A., University of Montana, Missoula, 1975. Thesis: "The Character of Henry VI and its Centrality to Shakespeare's Henry VI Plays." Supervisor: Prof. Walter King.

B.A., English, University of Montana, 1973 (with honors).

B.A., Journalism, University of Montana, 1973 (with honors). Senior project: "Criminal Justice and the News Media in Montana." Supervisor: Prof. Nathan Blumberg. Independent research project: "Formula News Writing: The Labor Story." Supervisor: Prof. Warren Brier.

TEACHING POSTIONS

Instructor of English, Alabama School of Mathematics and Science, Mobile, AL 36604. 1993-present.

Assistant Professor, English, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. 1988-93.

Associate Professor (untenured) of English and Department Chair, Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, WV, 26241. 1984-8.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana. 1983-4. Specialist in Restoration and 18th Century Literature.

Lecturer (part-time), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. 1982.

Instuctor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195. 1980-1.

Pre-Doctoral Associate / Teaching Assistant, University of Washington. 1975-6. 1977-80. Taught Freshman Composition.

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Technical Writer, Agency Records Control, Inc., Irving, Texas. 1983.

Sports Copy Editor (part-time), The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas. 1982-3.

Advertising Copy Writer, Tandy Corporation, Fort Worth, Texas, 1981-3.

Sports Reporter and News Editor, The Daily Missoulian, Missoula, Montana. 1973-5.

Advertising Copy Writer, Spiegel, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. 1969-72.

Reporter and Public Relations Writer, U.S. Army. 1965-8. (See below.)

Copy Editor, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. 1965.

MILITARY SERVICE

Reporter and Public Relations Writer, U.S. Army, 1965-8. Basic Training, Ft. Polk, LA, 1965. Defense Information School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN, 1966. Reporter, Lucky Times, Third Army Headquarters, Ft. McPherson, GA, 1966. Reporter and writer, Information Office, U.S. Commander, Berlin, 1966-8. Lead researcher and writer for the German-American Volksfest, a major public relations event in the Divided City. Honorably discharged in 1968.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Arizona Milton Institute --- An NEH-sponsored seminar on Milton's major works and on the problems of teaching Milton to undergraduates. Director: Peter E. Medine. Principal Lecturer: John T. Shawcross. Guest lecturers: Joseph Wittreich, Michael Lieb, Joan Bennett, John Ulreich. June 22-July 31, 1992, at the Unversity of Arizona, Tucson.

PAPERS

Published

"Dwindling into Wifehood: The Romantic Power of the Witty Heroine in Shakespeare, Dryden, Congreve, and Austen" in Look Who's Laughing: Studies in Gender and Comedy, Gail Finney, ed. NY: Gordon and Breach, 1993.

"Hero and Anti-Hero in Conrad and Coppola." Philological Papers, 35 (1989), 52-64.

"The Perception of Evil in conrad's Heart of Darkness and Coppola's Apocalypse Now." Selected Essays of the International Conference on Evil in Literature and the Visual Arts, (1987), 22-31.

"The Idea of Despair in Four Protestant Authors: Spenser, Milton, Bunyan, and Richardson." Selected Papers of the West Virginia Conference on Shakespeare and the Renaissance, (1987).

"Ophelia and Her Problems," The Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers, n.s. 9, 2 (Fall 1986), 6-13.

"Notes Toward an Understanding of 'Understanding.'" The Bulletin of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers, n.s. (Spring 1987).

"Formula News Writing: The Labor Story," Montana Journalism Review. 1971.

Conference Presentations

"Marvell's Satiric Seduction: A Reconsideration of 'To His Coy Mistress' as 'Self-Deconstructing' Artifact." Presented at The West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Conference, Spring 1990.

"The Community of Despair: A Spiritual Crises as Depicted in Two Pre-Reformation and Four Post-Reformation Works." Presented at the LeMoyne Forum on Religion and Literature. 1989.

"Heaven and Hell and Professor Fish: An Interpretation of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress." Presented at the LeMoyne Forum on Religion and Literature, October, 1985.

"Labyrinths and Lotteries: Teaching Borges as a Non-Specialist." Presented at the Conference On Jorge Luis Borges, Allegheny College, July, 1985.

"The Psychopathology of Robert Lovelace." Presented at a session of the MLA, 1984.

"A Jungian Interpretation of Henry VI, Part Two," Presented at the Conference on Jungian Themes in Art and Literature, Miami University, 1979.