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            M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Chicago, 1973

            B.A. in English Literature, Boston College, 1972

Northrop Frye Visiting Professor of Literary Theory, Division of
Comparative Literature, Autumn 2002

Perkins Prize, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, for best book in narrative studies in 2005 (Living to Tell about It) (awarded 2007)

Residency Fellowship, Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Letters and Science, Oslo, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006

NEH Summer Seminar, “Narrative Theory: Rhetoric and Ethics in Fiction and Autobiography,” 2005

Nancy Dasher Award, College English Association of Ohio for best pedagogical publication 1994-1996 for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A
Case Study in Critical Controversy, 1997 (co-edited with Gerald Graff)

NEH Masterworks Grant, “Fiction, Poetry, and Drama in the High Schools: A Rhetorical Approach,” 1994-95

Best New Journal Award given by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals to Narrative, 1993

NEH Masterworks Grant, “Fiction, Poetry, and Drama in the Middle Schools: A Rhetorical Approach,” 1992-93

Finalist, Outstanding Teacher Award, Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, 1980, 1981

Narrative theory, Critical theory, the English and American novel, 20th-Century English and American literature

The Nature of Narrative. With Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg. 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Scholes has written a new preface and made minor alterations in the original text; I have written a substantial new chapter on developments in narrative theory since 1966.

Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Worlds from Words: A Theory of Language in Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Beyond the Tenure Track: Fifteen Months in the Life of an English Professor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991.

Joseph Conrad: Voice, Narrative, History, and Genre. Co-edited with Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn. Columbus: Ohio State University Press (in production), 2008.

Understanding Narrative. Co-edited with Peter J. Rabinowitz. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994.

Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. Ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989.

The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Co-edited with Gerald Graff. Boston: Bedford Books, 2000.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Co-edited with Gerald Graff. Boston: Bedford Books, 1995. Second edition, 2004.

What’s at Stake?: Contested Concepts in Narrative Theory. With Peter J. Rabinowitz. Under advance contract with Ohio State University Press.

Reading the Twentieth-Century American Novel. Under advance contract with Blackwell Press.

Options for Teaching Narrative Theory. New York: MLA Publications. Co-edited with Brian McHale and David Herman. Initial proposal approved by MLA Publications Board.

After Testimony: The Future of Holocaust Narratives. Co-edited with Susan R. Suleiman and Jakob Lothe.

Editor, Narrative, Journal of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 1992-

Guest Editor, Pedagogy. Special issue: Wayne C. Booth: Perspectives on a Master Teacher 7 (January 2007)

Co-editor, with Peter J. Rabinowitz, Ohio State University Press series on the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative, 1992-

1.Beaty, Jerome. Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm.
2. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays
3. Butte, George. I Know That You Know That I Know: Phenomenology and Deep Intersubjectivity from Moll Flanders to Marnie
4. Gomel, Elana. Bloodscripts: Writing The Violent Subject
5. Herman, David. Ed. Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis
6. Kafalenos, Emma. Narrative Causalities.
7. Langland, Elizabeth. Telling Tales: Gender and Narrative Form in Victorian Literature and Culture
8. Lehman, Daniel. Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge
9. Lothe, Jakob, Jeremy Hawthorn, and James Phelan. Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre.
10. Malina, Debra, Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis and the Construction of the Subject.
11. Mandelker, Amy. Framing Anna Karenina.
12. Martinsen, Deborah. Surprised by Shame: Dostoevsky’s Liars.
13. Peel, Ellen, Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopia.
14. Phelan, James. Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, Ideology.
15. ________. Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative.
16. Phelan, James and Peter J. Rabinowitz. Eds. Understanding Narrative
17. Rabinowitz, Peter J. Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation.(reprint)
18. Richardson, Brian (ed). Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure and Frames
19. Richardson, Brian. Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction. Awarded Perkins Prize for 2008.
20. Richter, David H. The Progress of Romance: Literary Historiography and the Gothic Novel.
21. Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. A Glance beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity.
22. Tyson, Lois. Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature.
23. Warhol, Robyn. Having a Good Cry: Feminine Feeling and Pop-Culture Forms.
24. Young, Kay. Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy.
25. Zunshine, Lisa. Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel
26. Walsh, Richard. The Rhetoric of Fictionality.

“Narratives in Contest; Or, Another Twist in the Narrative Turn.” PMLA (forthcoming).

“The Beginning of Beloved: A Rhetorical Approach.” Narrative Beginnings. Ed. Brian Richardson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming).

“Rhetoric and Ethics in The Great Gatsby; Or, Fabula, Progression, and the Functions of Nick Carraway.” Approaches to Teaching The Great
Gatsby. Eds. Jackson Breyer and Nancy van Arsdale. New York: MLA, in production.

“Introduction: Joseph Conrad and Narrative Theory.” Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre. Columbus: Ohio State University
Press (forthcoming). With Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn.

“‘I affirm nothing’: Lord Jim and the Uses of Textual Recalcitrance.” Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre. (forthcoming)

“Completion and Farewell.” American Book Review, 29, 2, January-February (2008),

“The Ethical Turn and Rhetorical Narrative Ethics: An Interview with James Phelan” by Tan Seisheng. Foreign Literature Studies 29, 3 (2007): 9-18.

“Rhetoric/Ethics.” The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed. David Herman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007: 203-16.

“Estranging Unreliability, Bonding Unreliability, and the Ethics of Lolita.” Narrative 15 (Spring 2007): 222-38.

“Wayne C. Booth: The Effect of His Being.” Pedagogy 7 (2007): 91-98.

“Wayne C. Booth, 1921-1985.” Narrative 14 (2006): 113-15.

“Rhetorical Aesthetics and Other Issues in the Study of Literary Narrative.” Narrative Inquiry 16 (2006): 89-97.

“Rhetoric, Politics, and Ethics, in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo.” What Democracy Means Now. Eds. Amy Lang and Cecilia Tichi. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2006).

“Dialogue with Stanley Fish: From ‘Data, Danda, and Disagreement.’” In The Critical Tradition, 3rd edition, edited by David H. Richter. Bedford/St.
Martin’s: Boston, 2006: 1031-34. (Reprint of excerpt from1981 essay below).

“On First Lines, and the First Lines of Pride and Prejudice and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.” American Book Review, 27, 2, January-February
2006.

“Introduction: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Narrative Theory.” A Companion to Narrative Theory. Oxford: Blackwell (2005). 1-16. With Peter J. Rabinowitz.

“Narrative Judgments and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative: The Case of McEwan’s Atonement.” A Companion to Narrative Theory. Oxford: Blackwell (2005). 322-36.

“Narrative.” New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005.

“Who’s Here? Thoughts on Narrative Imperialism and the Narrative Identity Thesis.” Narrative 13 (2005): 205-10.

“Rhetorical Ethics and Lyric Narrative: Robert Frost’s ‘Home Burial.’” Poetics Today 25 (2004): 627-51.

“The Rhetoric and Ethics of Lyric Narrative: Hemingway’s ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.’” Frame (2004).

“Reading across Identity Borders: A Rhetorical Analysis of John Edgar Wideman’s ‘Doc’s Story.’ Reading Sites, ed. Elizabeth Flynn and Patrocinio Schweikart. New York: MLA Publications, 2004. 39-59.

“Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever”: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise.” A Companion to Rhetoric, ed. Wendy Olmstead and Walter Jost. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. 340-354.

Entries on “Distance,” “Progression,” “Rhetorical Approaches to Narrative,” for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (2004)

Entries on “Narrator” and “Narrative Techniques” for RENT with Wayne C. Booth (2004).

“Dual-Focalization, Retrospective Fictional Autobiography, and the Ethics of Lolita.” Narrative and Consciousness. Eds. Gary D. Fireman, Ted E. McVay, and Owen J. Flanagan. New York: Oxford UP 2003. 129-45.

“The Beginning and Early Middle of Persuasion; Or, Form and Ideology in Austen’s Experiment with Narrative Comedy.” Partial Answers, vol. 1, no. 1 (2003): 65-87.

“Voice, Distance Temporal Perspective, and the Dynamics of A Farewell to Arms.” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, volume 115. Detroit: Gale, 2002. (Reprint of essay in Narrative as Rhetoric)

“September 11, 2001 and Narrative Explanation.” Narrative 10 (2002): 104-06.

“What Do We Owe Texts? Respect, Irreverence, or Nothing at All?” A Dialogue with James R. Kincaid. Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Donald E. Hall. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 60-86.

“Redundant Telling, Preserving the Mimetic, and the Functions of Character Narration.” Narrative 9 (2001): 210-16.

“On Teaching Critical Arguments: A Matrix of Understanding.” Pedagogy 1 (2001): 527-300.

“Why Narrators Can Be Focalizers--and Why It Matters.” New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective. Ed. Seymour Chatman and Will van Peer. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. 51-64.

“Sethe’s Choice: The Ethics of Reading in Beloved.” Mapping the
Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Ed. Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2001. 93-109. (Reprint)

“Narrative Theory: Two Stories.” PMLA 115 (2000): 1992-93. With Wayne C. Booth.

“Authorial Readers, Flesh and Blood Readers, and the Recursiveness of
Rhetorical Reading.” Reader no. 43 (2000): 65-69.

“What Do We Owe Texts? Respect, Irreverence, or Nothing at All?” A Dialogue with James R. Kincaid. Critical Inquiry 25 (1999): 758-83.

“Sethe’s Choice: The Ethics of Reading in Beloved.” Style 32, 2 (1998): 318-33.

“The Lessons of ‘Weymouth’: Homodiegesis, Unreliability, Ethics, and The Remains of the Day. Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999. 88-109. Chinese translation 2001; Danish translation 2004

Entries on “Beginnings and Endings,” “Plot,” and A Farewell to Arms. The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul Schellinger. Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998.

“‘Now I Lay Me’: Nick’s Strange Monologue, Hemingway’s Powerful Lyric, and the Reader’s Disconcerting Experience.” New Essays on the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Ed. Paul Smith. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998. 47-72.

“Sandra Cisneros’s ‘Woman Hollering Creek’: Narrative as Rhetoric and as Social Practice.” Narrative 6 (1998): 221-35.

“Character, Progression, and Thematism in 1984.” George Orwell. Ed. Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughery, and Nahem Yousaf. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1998. 97-114. Reprint of pp. 28-43 from Reading People, Reading Plots.

“Before Reading in Its Own Terms.” Preface to reprint of Peter J. Rabinowitz, Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998. ix-xxv.

“Assessing Narratives Proclaiming the Death of Something.” Narrative 6 (1998): 96-101.

“Narrative as Rhetoric: Reading the Spells of Porter’s “Magic.” The Critical Tradition, second edition. Ed. David H. Richter. Boston: Bedford Books,1998.[Rpt. of Introduction to Narrative as Rhetoric]

“Toward a Rhetorical Reader Response Criticism: The Difficult, the Stubborn and the Ending of Beloved.” Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Ed. Nancy J. Peterson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997). 225-44. (Rpt.)

“Charlie Marlow, Character-Narrator, Discourses on ‘Youth.’” College English 59 (1997): 569-75.

“Sharing Secrets.” The Secret Sharer: A Casebook in Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Daniel R. Schwartz. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997. 128-44.

“The Life of the Mind, Politics, and Critical Argument: A Reply to Jeffrey Williams.” College Literature 23, 3 (1996): 147-61.

Entries on “Wayne C. Booth” and “Rhetoric and Fiction.” The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1996. 81-82; 609-12.

“Narrative Theory.” The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1996. 454-57. With Elizabeth Patnoe.

“Teaching James and the Ethics of Fiction: A Conversation on The Spoils of Poynton.” Henry James Review 17 (1996): 256-63.

“Teaching Theorizing/Theorizing Teaching.” Literary Theory: Curriculum, Pedagogy, Politics. Ed. James Slevin and Arthur Young. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1996. 223-37.

“Functions of Character.” Narrative/Theory. Ed. David H. Richter. White Plains, New York: Longman, 1996. 108-22. Rpt. of pages 1-14 of Reading People.

“How to Solve the Huck Problem.” The Washington Post, August 17, 1995. (With Gerald Graff.) Rptd. in Atlanta Constitution, Bergen Record, elsewhere.

“Self-Help for Narratee and Narrative Audience: How I-- and you?--Read “How.” Style 28 (1994): 350-65.

“Pluralism, Politics, and the Evaluation of Criticism.” Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne C. Booth. Ed. Fred Antczak. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1994.

“Reading for the Character and Reading for the Progression: The Example of Great Expectations and John Wemmick.” Great Expectations: A Critical Casebook. Ed. Roger Sell. London: Macmillan, 1995. [Reprint of Chapter 4 of Reading People]

“Narrating the PC Controversies: Thoughts on Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education.” Narrative 2 (1994): 244-67.

“A Monologic Imagination” (Reply to D’Souza’s Response). Narrative 2 (1994): 270-71.

“Understanding Narrative.” In Understanding Narrative. With Peter J. Rabinowitz. 1-15.

“Present Tense Narration, Mimesis, the Narrative Norm, and the Positioning of the Reader in Waiting for the Barbarians.” In Understanding Narrative. 222-45.

“Toward a Rhetorical Reader Response Criticism: The Difficult, the Stubborn and the Ending of Beloved.” Modern Fiction Studies 39 (1993): 709-28.

“What Hemingway and a Rhetorical Theory of Narrative Can Do For Each Other: The Example of ‘My Old Man.’” The Hemingway Review 12, 2 (1993): 1-14.

“What Does It Mean to Work At Reading Narratives?” With James Sosnoski. Modern Fiction Studies 38 (1992): 927-38.

“Why Wayne Booth Can’t Get with the Program; Or, The Nintentional Fallacy.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 22, 3 (1992): 54-58.

Entries on “Literary Criticism Since 1960,” “Wayne C. Booth,” and “The Chicago Critics.” Benet’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. George Perkins. HarperCollins, 1991.

“Is King Lear Like the Washington Monument or the Pacific Ocean?: Pluralism and Literary Interpretation.” The Monist 73 (1990): 421-36.

“Character and Judgment in Narrative and in Lyric: Toward an Understanding of Audience Engagement in The Waves.” Style 24 (1990): 408-21. Reprinted in Literary Character, Ed. John Knapp. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1993.

“Vanity Fair: Listening as a Rhetorician--and a Feminist.” Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism. Ed. Laura Claridge and Elizabeth Langland. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990. 132-147. Reprinted in Norton Critical Edition of Vanity Fair.

“Distance, Voice, and Temporal Perspective in Frederic Henry’s Narration: Powers, Problems, Paradox.” New Essays on A Farewell to Arms. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 53-73.

“On the Nature and Status of Covert Texts: A Reply to Gerry Brenner’s ‘Letter to De Ole True Huck.’” Journal of Narrative Technique 20 (1990): 235-44. Reprinted in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy.

“Reading for the Character and Reading for the Progression: The Example of Great Expectations and John Wemmick.” Journal of Narrative Technique 19 (1989): 70-84.

“Introduction: Dialogue and Diversity in Narrative Theory.” Reading Narrative: ix-xviii..

“Introduction: Poetics in Contemporary Narrative Theory.” Papers in Comparative Studies 5 (1986-87): 1-9.

“Narrative Discourse, Character, and Ideology.” Reading Narrative: 132-46.

“Character in Fictional Narrative: The Example of John Marcher.” Henry James Review 9 (1988): 105-13.

“Wayne C. Booth.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 67 (1988): 49-66.

“Character, Progression, and the Mimetic-Didactic Distinction.” Modern Philology 84 (1987): 282-99.

“Meaning as Concept and Extension: Some Problems.” With James L. Battersby. Critical Inquiry 12 (1986): 605-15.

“Thematic Reference, Literary Structure, and Fictive Character: An Examination of Interrelationships.” Semiotica 49, 3-4 (1984): 345-65.

“Pluralism and Its Powers, Metapluralism and Its Problems.” College English 48 (1984): 63-73.

“A Supplementary Bibliography, 1961-82.” In Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983): 495-520.

“Validity Redux: The Relation of Author, Reader, and Text in the Act of Interpretation.” Papers in Comparative Studies 1 (1982): 80-111.

Walter Jost, ed. The Essential Wayne Booth. American Book Review January-February, 2007.

Martin Kreiswirth, et al. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory. 2nd Edition. University of Toronto quarterly (2006).

Bruce Kawin. The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable. Modern Philology 83 (1985): 98-101.

Susan Sniader Lanser. The Narrative Act: Point of View in Prose Fiction. Criticism 25 (1983): 69-71.

Jonathan Culler. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Deconstruction, Literature. Modern Philology 80 (1982): 222-25.

Barbara Herrnstein Smith. On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language. Modern Philology 78 (1981): 340-43.

ESSAYS IN PROGRESS (selected)

“Progression, Speed, and Judgment in Kafka’s Das Urteil” Invited for a collection on Kafka and Narrative Theory.

“Teaching Voice: Or, Authors, Narrators, and Readers.” Teaching Narrative Theory. MLA Options for Teaching Series.

INVITED AND KEYNOTE LECTURES (selected—last five years)

University of Tromsø (2007), University of Southern Denmark (2007), Colorado College (2007); Conference on Unreliable Narration, University of Leuven (2006); Auburn University (2006); University of Bergen (2006); Unversity of Hamburg (2005); University of Arhus (2005); University of Tampere (2005); University of South Florida (2005); Peking University (2004): Guangxi Normal University (2004); Xi’an International Studies University (2004); Case Western Reserve University (2004); University of Maryland (2004); Northrop Frye Lectures, University of Toronto (2002)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected--last three years)

“Defamiliarizing the Perpetrator: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Reliable and Unreliable Narration in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow.” Colloquium on Holocaust Narrative. Berlin, June 2007

“What Cognitive and Rhetorical Theories Can Do for Each Other: The Case of Unreliable Narration.” Narrative Conference, Washington D.C., March 2007.

“Wayne C. Booth, Ethics, and Unreliable Narration.” MLA Convention. Philadelphia, December 2006.

“Portrait Narratives and the Narrative Identity Thesis.” Watson Conference on Narrative Knowledge. University of Louisville, October 2006.

“Progression and Judgment in Kafka’s Das Urteil.” Colloquium on Franz Kafka. Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway, May 2006.

“Rhetorical Aesthetics: After Wayne C. Booth.” Narrative Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April, 2006.

“The Interdisciplinary and the Intradisciplinary: Toward a Productive Dialogue.” MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December, 2005.

“’I affirm nothing’: Lord Jim and Textual Stubbornness.” Colloquium on Joseph Conrad, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway, September 2005.

“Is it Any Good? Evaluation within the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative.”
Narrative Conference, Louisville, KY, April 2005.

“Lyric Narratives: Ann Beattie’s ‘Janus.’” Narrative Conference, Burlington, VT, April, 2004.

“Twain’s Evasion in Huckleberry Finn: Lessons from and for Narrative Theory.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2004.

“Narrative Judgments: Six Theses.” Modern Language Association. San Diego, CA. December 2003.

“Progression in Lyric Narratives: Hemingway’s ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ and Beattie’s ‘Janus.’” Modern Language Association. San Diego, CA. December 2003.

“Narrative Judgments. Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” Contemporary Narrative Theory: The State of the Field. Columbus, October 2003.

“Edith Wharton’s “Roman Fever”: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise.” International Conference on Narrative,
Berkeley, March 2003.

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate:
Freshman Composition, Informative Writing, Critical Writing; Introduction to Fiction, Masterpieces of English Literature I & II, The Individual and Society, Masterpieces of American Literature; Studies in Fiction (The Sense of an Ending; Narrative Tragedy; Point of View in Fiction; Plot, Progression, and Theory of Fiction); History of Literary Criticism; Linguistics and Literature; Studies in Critical Theory; The Relation of Language and Literature; Narrative Theory: Form, Ethics, Ideology; Literary Studies and the Real World; Twentieth Century American Fiction; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Culture Wars; Introduction to Narrative and Narrative Theory; Film and Literature: Adaptation

Graduate:
Introduction to Narrative and Narrative Theory; Theories of Form and Formal Innovation in the Twentieth-Century; Introduction to Graduate Study; Critical Approaches to Literature; Nineteenth Century British Fiction; The Theory of Fiction; History of Criticism; Introduction to Critical Theory, 1900-Present; Studies in Critical Theory (The Relation Between Language and Literature; The New Criticism and After; Theories of Narrative; The History of Rhetoric and the History of Criticism; Reader Response Criticism; Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative;) Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative; Narrative Discourse; Studies in Rhetoric: The Split Between Literature and Composition; Narrative Theory; Narrative Ethics

Dissertations Directed: 25
Eric Heyne, Joanne Blum, Beth Boehm, Linda Raphael, Jane Zinman Lasarenko, Jamie Barlowe Kayes, Susan Calovini, Marge Lynd, Sarah Sloane, Steven Jensen, Scott Leonard, James Buckley, Susan Richardson, Jane Greer, Jeanne Desy, Christine DeVinne, Elizabeth Patnoe, Elizabeth Preston, Michael Davey, Mubarak Al-Khaldi, Molly Youngkin, Matthew DelConte, David Fitzsimmons, Gerasimus Katsan, Edward J. Maloney

Dissertation Committee Member: approximately 30 others

Dissertations in Progress: 3

ACADEMIC SERVICE AT OSU

Departmental Service (selected)

Department Chair, 1994-2002

Director of Graduate Studies, 1986-90

Chair, New Personnel Committee, 1991-93

U ndergraduate Studies Committee, 2004-06; 1981-83

Graduate Studies Committee, 2006-07; 1993-94; 1978-81

Course Director, Introduction to Fiction, 2004-

Acting Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, Autumn 2004

Member, Executive Committee, 1979-81, 1985-87, 1990-92

College and University Service (selected)

Arts and Sciences Leadership Committee (elected), 2004-07. Chair of Subcommittee on Defining the Value of an ASC Degree

Dean’s Representative, History Department Chair Search Committee, 2000

Dean’s Representative, African and African American Studies Chair Search Committee, 1996

Arts and Sciences Executive Dean’s ad hoc Grievance Investigation Committee, 1999

Chair, Ohio State University Press Editorial Board, 1992-99; Press Board Member 1989-92

Consultant for Tenure and Promotion Cases, OSU Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Language and Literature, 1985, 1986, 1992

Executive Council, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, 1986-89; ex officio since 1992

External Program Reviewer, University of North Carolina (2006); University of South Florida, 2003; North Carolina State University, 1998; College of Wooster, 1997; Southern Illinois University, 1996; University of Nebraska, 1991, 1993.

Coordinator for First and Third, International Conferences on Narrative Literature, Columbus, April, 1986, 1988; Co-ordinator for Eleventh Conference, 1996

Member, MLA Delegate Assembly, 1984-86, 2003-05; Committee on Resolutions, 1986, 1987

“Academic Critics and General Readers.” Campus Comment, 1, no. 3 (1981), 5-6

Consultant for Tenure and Promotion cases, York University; Queen’s College; University of Louisville; University of California, Irvine (2); University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis; Brandeis University; Virginia Polytechnical Institute; Georgia Tech (2); University of Texas (2); King Saud University (Saudi Arabia); Clarkson Institute; Temple University; Penn State University-Altoona; Northern Arizona University; University of West Florida; Stanford University; University of Tulsa, University of Kentucky; Open University of Israel; University of Findlay; University of West Virginia

Reader for Critical Inquiry, Journal of Narrative Technique, PMLA, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Stanford University Press, Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Toronto Press, Ohio State University Press, Indiana University Press, University of Missouri Press, University of Nebraska Press, Blackwell Press, Bedford Books, Edward Arnold Press, Johns Hopkins Press, University of Virginia Press