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Recent Courses

Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
Development Of The Narrator In Fiction
English Novel In The Nineteenth-Century
Independent Study Comparative Romanticism
Independent Study Doris Lessing
Literature In English II
Literature In English III
Modern Condition I
Modern Condition II
S/T: Development Of The Narrative In Fiction
S/T: World Literature After 1945
The English Novel In The Nineteenth Century

Books

. (2010). Rereading the Nineteenth Century.

. (2007). Ideas Across Time. New York: McGraw-Hill.

. (1984). Against Capitulation. London: Quartet Books.

. (1981). From Custom to Capital. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Recent Articles

. (2010, 1). "The Death Paintings". Notre Dame Review, 26

. (2009, 11). OMG. The Common Review, 8/2

. (2008, 7). Dickens in America: The Writer and Reality. Dickens Studies Annual, 39, 59-96

. (2007, 3). There Is No End To The Things You Can't Have. Notre Dame Review, 23, 163-194

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

Essays and Reviews

2008 "The Twilight of Zuckerman." The Common Review, Vol 6, No. 3

2007 "Passaging is His Anchorage," a review/essay on John Peck's RED STRAWBERRY LEAF: SELECTED POEMS appeared in the Winter ediltion of Notre Dame Review.

2006 "Buster Brown's America" in The American Scholar

2005 "Reading Mary Barton" in Literary Imagination

2004 "Our Greatest Living Novelist," review-essay on Philip Roth in The Common Review

2003 "Born Again," in Philip Roth (Modern Critical Views) eds. Harold Bloom, Gabe Welsch (Chelsea House Publishers)

2002 "T.S. Eliot's Achievements," review-essay on Denis Donoghue's Words Alone: T.S. Eliot the Poet, Partisan Review Vol. 69, No. 2 (Spring)

Fiction and Poetry

2008 "There Is No End To The Things We Can't Have." The Notre Dame Review. No. 25.

2007 "Schwermer in Paris" appeared in the Long Story issue of Notre Dame Review (Winter/Spring)

Professional Activities

Member, Associated Writing Programs
Member, American PEN
Member, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

Community and Corporate Leadership

President, North Shore Schools Board of Education