Curriculum Vita
James M. Hutchisson
Professor and Director of Graduate Study in English
The Citadel
Charleston, South Carolina 29409
Voice: (843) 953-5139
Cell: (843) 303-0698
Fax: (843) 953-1881
Email: hutchissonj@Citadel.edu
Education
Ph.D University of Delaware, 1987
M.A. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1984
B.A. Radford College, 1982
Employment
1999 1994-99
1989-94
1987-89
Professor and Director of Graduate Study (2009 -), The Citadel
Associate Professor, The Citadel
Assistant Professor, The Citadel
Assistant Professor, Washington and Jefferson College
Academic Honors and Awards
2014
Faculty Spotlight Award
2013
2006
2005
1999
1998, 1995,
1992
1996-97
1986-87
Faculty Research Award
Krause Award for Faculty Achievement
Sabbatical Leave Grant
Honorary Membership, Phi Kappa Phi
Citadel Faculty Achievement Award
Sabbatical Leave Grant
University of Delaware Dissertation Fellowship
James M. Hutchisson
Publications
Books
Ernest Hemingway: A New Life. Penn State Univ. Press, forthcoming 2015. 450 pp.
Moveable Feasts: New Essays on Hemingway’s Posthumous Work, ed. Kent State Univ. Press
(under contract).
Conversations with Paul Auster, ed. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales, ed. Broadview Press, 2012.
Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism, ed. Rowan and Littlefield, 2011.
Poe. xvii. 290 pp. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005.
Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940, ed. With
Harlan Greene. xi. 246 pp. 25 illustrations. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2003.
A DuBose Heyward Reader, ed. xlvi. 288 pp. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2003.
DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and The World of Porgy and Bess. xix. 225 pp. 19
illustrations. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2000.
Sinclair Lewis: New Essays In Criticism, ed. vii. 257 pp. Troy, NY: Whitston, 1997.
The Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930. xii. 272 pp. 32 illustrations. University Park: Penn State
Press, 1996. Paperback reissue, 2001.
Babbitt. By Sinclair Lewis. Edited with biographical and critical introduction, explanatory notes,
and bibliography. xxxii. 367 pp. NY: Penguin, 1995. 2nd edition (revised with new introduction
and bibliography). NY: Penguin, 2004.
Articles - Academic
"On the Restoration of Texts: The Scholar as 'Better Editor.'" Text 16 (2005): 344-55.
"Sinclair Lewis: A Rebel Reclaimed." Review 25 (2003): 45-59.
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"Dreiser Treads the Boards." Text 15 (2003): 410-18.
"'Elizabeth Stock's One Story': Kate Chopin and the Writing Lives of Women." Topic: A Journal
of the Liberal Arts 50 (2000): 70-76.
"Nathanael West, Contempo Magazine, and The Composition of Miss Lonelyhearts." Resources
for American Literary Study 24.1 (1998): 84-100.
"The Revision of Dreiser's Financier." Journal of Modern Literature 20.2 (1997): 201-15.
"Poe, Hoaxing, and The 'Digressions' in Arthur Gordon Pym." CEA Critic 58.2 (1996): 24-34.
"The Rise of Sinclair Lewis." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 26 (July 1995): 202-10.
"Sinclair Lewis Manuscript Collections: A Descriptive Survey." Bulletin of Bibliography 52.3
(Sept. 1995): 229-39.
"The Marguerite Tjader Collection at the Humanities Research Center." Dreiser Studies 25.2
(1994): 36-40.
"Poe, Anna Cora Mowatt, and T. Tennyson Twinkle." Studies in the American Renaissance 22
(1993): 245-54.
"Sinclair Lewis, Paul de Kruif, and The Composition of Arrowsmith." Studies in the Novel 24
(1992): 48-66.
"William Ellery Channing and American Literary Nationalism." Massachusetts Studies in
English 11 (1992): 42-53.
"Babbitt in Overalls: Sinclair Lewis' Abandoned Labor Novel." South Dakota Review 29 (1991):
5-22.
"'All of us Americans at 46': The Making of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt." Journal of Modern
Literature 18 (1991): 95-108.
"The Creation (and Reduction) of The Financier." Papers on Language and Literature 27
(1991): 243-59.
"Historical Poe, Theoretical Poe." Review 10 (1989): 177-92.
"The Composition and Publication of 'Another American Tragedy': Dreiser's 'Typhoon.'" PBSA
81 (1987): 25-35.
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Book Chapters, Introductions, and Afterwords
“Poe and the South.” Poe in Context, ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013.
"Storytelling, Narrative Authority, and Death in 'The Thousand and Second Tale of
Scheherezade." Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism, ed. James M. Hutchisson. Cranbury,
NJ: Assoc. Univ. Presses, 2012.
"Introduction." Peter Ashley. By DuBose Heyward. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2004.
"The Charleston Renaissance Considered" and "A Who's Who of the Charleston Renaissance."
With Harlan Greene. Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Lowcountry, 19001940, eds. James M. Hutchisson and Harlan Greene. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2003, pp.
1-18; 199-210.
"Professional Authorship in the Charleston Renaissance: The Career of DuBose Heyward."
Renaissance in Charleston: Art and Life in the Carolina Lowcountry, 1900-1940, eds. James M.
Hutchisson and Harlan Greene. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2003, pp. 96-114.
"Afterword." Porgy. By DuBose Heyward. Foreword by Dorothy Heyward. Jackson: Univ. Press
of Mississippi, 2001, pp. 159-66.
"World So Wide: The Life Journey of Sinclair Lewis." Sinclair Lewis: A Descriptive
Bibliography, ed. Stephen R. Pastore (New Haven, CT: Yale Books, 1997), pp. 21-36.
"Arrowsmith and the Political Economy of Medicine." Sinclair Lewis: New Essays in Criticism,
ed. James M. Hutchisson (Troy, NY: Whitston, 1997), pp. 110-24.
"The Reviews: Evolution of a Critic." A Companion to Poe Studies, ed. Eric W. Carlson
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996), pp. 296-322.
"Death and Dying in Jennie Gerhardt." New Essays on Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt, ed. James L.
W. West III (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), pp. 208-17.
"William Gilmore Simms and Charleston." A Literary Map of South Carolina, ed. Beverley
Spears (Florence, SC: Francis Marion University, 1993), pp. 7-11.
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Philatelic Articles
“Waterworld: Leicester Hemingway’s New Atlantis Collection.” Stamp Magazine (UK),
February 2012.
"Little Gems: Children's Literature on Postage Stamps." British Philatelic Bulletin, August
2010.
Other Writings -- Notes, Encyclopedia Essays, and Miscellaneous Articles
"Sinclair Lewis." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Eds. Justin Niemeyer et
al. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, 2009.
"Edgar Allan Poe." Critical and biographical headnote in Prentice-Hall Anthology of American
Literature, eds. Dean Rader and Jonathan Silverman. NY: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2007.
"The Smiths: An Introduction." The Smiths. Exhibition Catalog. Charleston: Smith-Killian Fine
Art, 2005.
"Main Street." In American History through Literature, 1870-1920, edited by Tom Quirk and
Gary Scharnhorst, pp. 656-658. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006.
"They Had Plenty of Somethin': The Heyward-Gershwin Collaboration on Porgy and Bess," The
Twenties. Online. University of Charleston. Available:
http://www.cofc.edu/jazzage/hutchart.html
"DuBose Heyward," South Carolina Encyclopedia (Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press),
2003.
"DuBose Heyward," "Porgy," "James Weldon Johnson," "Charles Anderson," Encyclopedia of
the Harlem Renaissance, eds. Cary Wintz and Paul Finkelman (Chicago: FitzroyDearborn),
forthcoming 2004.
"A Long Pull To Get There: The Life and Hard Times of Porgy and Bess." Charleston Magazine
May/June 2001, pp. 89-91.
"Dorothy Thompson," "Sinclair Lewis," and "Nobel Prize." The Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia,
ed. Keith Newlin (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003), pp. 230-31; 283-84; 363-64.
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"Charleston" and "Porgy and Bess." The Companion to Southern Literature, eds. Joseph M.
Flora and Lucinda MacKethan (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001).
"Dorothy Heyward: In the Shadow of Porgy." Carologue 15.2 (Summer 1999): 3.
"Edith Wharton and Grace Lewis." Sinclair Lewis Newsletter 3.2 (Fall 1994): 5.
"Typhoon," by Theodore Dreiser. Edited with biographical introduction. The Heath Anthology of
American Literature, ed. Paul Lauter, et al. (NY: D. C. Heath, 1989), Vol. II. Pp. 1127-54.
Successive editions. With James L. W. West III.
"Whales and Confidence-Men: Two New York Tribune Items from the Summer of 1849."
Melville Society Extracts, 71 (November 1987): 8.
"James M. Cain" and "Raymond Chandler." Popular Fiction in America (Washington, DC:
Beacham Publishing, 1986), pp. 207-15 and 232-39.
"Theodore Dreiser." Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (Washington, DC: Research
Publishing, 1985), pp. 372-75.
Feature Articles for Charleston Magazine
“Belle Baruch: Baroness of Hobcaw,” Charleston (Sept. 2013)
“Alfred Hutty: A Life’s Work,” Charleston (Feb. 2012)
“Finding Eden: John Henry Dick,” Charleston (Oct. 2011)
"Love Stories." Charleston 24.2 (Feb. 2010)
"Shifting Sands: Botany Bay Plantation." Charleston 22.11 (Oct. 2008)
"Law and Order: Charleston's Old City Jail." Charleston 22.11 (Oct. 2008)
"The Heyday of the Silver Screen." Charleston 22.8 (July 2008)
"The Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art." Charleston 22.6 (May 2008), pp.
177-189.
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"The Talented Mister Catesby." Charleston 22.1 (Jan. 2008).
“A Well-Written Life: Josephine Humphreys.” Charleston 21.14 (Nov. 2007).
“The Naturalist: Herbert Ravenel Sass.” Charleston 21.13 (Oct. 2007)
“House Rules: Charleston’s Board of Architectural Review.” Charleston Home 21.11 (Fall
2007), pp. 160-69.
“Living Art: Brookgreen Gardens.” Charleston 21.12 (Sept. 2007), pp. 122-27.
“Setting the Stage: Charleston’s Theatrical Arts.” Charleston 21.6 (May 2007), pp. 100-07.
“Teatime in Charleston.” Charleston 21.5 (April 2007), pp. 94-99.
"Building on the Past: Architect Albert Simons.” Charleston 21.4 (March 2007), pp. 92-97.
“American Hero: The Life and Legacy of Robert Smalls.” Charleston 21.2 (February 2007), pp.
133-39.
“Devils and the Deep Blue Sea: Pirates of the Lowcountry.” Charleston 21.1 (January 2007), pp.
131-39.
"Linking the Past to the Future: Penn Center.” Charleston 20.11 (October 2006), pp. 148-156.
"Shades of the Lowcountry: Silhouettist Clay Rice." Charleston (October 2006)), pp. 160-173.
"Cultural Evolution: Spoleto USA at Thirty." Charleston (May 2006), pp. 158-166.
"The Muse: Dorothy Heyward." Charleston (May 2006)), pp. 90-93.
"The Rites of St. Cecelia." Charleston (March 2006), pp. 118-125.
"Beloved: The Art and Passion of the Portrait Miniature." Charleston (Jan/Feb 2006), pp. 132139.
“Of Mortar and Memory: Susan Pringle Frost and Charleston’s Preservation
Heritage” Charleston 19.13 (Nov. 2005), pp. 122-31.
“Grace v. Hyde: The Bloody Battlefield of Mayoral Politics from 1911 to 1919,” Charleston
19.13 (Nov. 2005), pp. 72-76.
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“A Life Less Ordinary: The Legendary Adventures of Lowcountry Socialite Gertrude
Legendre,” Charleston 19.10 (Oct. 2005), pp. 70-74.
“Culture Club: The Gibbes Museum of Art Celebrates a Century of Artistic
Endeavors,” Charleston 19.10 (Sept. 2005), pp. 78-80.
"William Halsey and Corrie McCallum: In Love With Art." Charleston 19.7 (Sept. 2005)
"Creative Spark: Countess Alicia Paolozzi" Charleston 19.5 (June 2005)
"Impressing Charleston: Elizabeth O'Neill Verner." Charleston 19.4 (May 2005)
"The Cradle of Jazz: The Jenkins Orphanage Band." Charleston 19.3 (Apr. 2005).
"Joie De Vivre: Josephine Pinckney" Charleston 19.2 (March 2005).
"Handmaidens of History: The Pollitzer Sisters" Charleston 19.1 (Jan/Feb 2005).
"The Invisible Artist: The Life and Times of E. A. Harleston." Charleston 18.4 (May 2004).
"The Era of Expression: Charleston's Literary Renaissance" Charleston 18.1 (Jan/Feb 2004), pp.
76-83.
Book Reviews and Review Essays - Academic
Review of David A. Giemza, Irish-American Writers and the Invention of Southern Literature,
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 2014.
Review of Jonathan Rogers, The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery
O’Connor, Georgia Historical Quarterly, 2013.
"The Permanence of Poe." Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2011.
Review of Scott Donaldson, Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days, by Scott
Donaldson. Resources for American Literary Study, 2010.
Review of Anthony Arthur, Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels--From Mark
Twain to Tom Wolfe, by Anthony Arthur. Dreiser Studies 34.2 (Winter 2003): 116-18.
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Review of George Killough, ed. Minnesota Diary, 1942-1946, by Sinclair Lewis. Minnesota
History 57.8 (Winter 2001-02): 438-39.
Review of Martin Bucco, ed. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis Newsletter 4.2 (Spring 1996): 2.
Review of Yvette Eastman, Dearest Wilding. Dreiser Studies 26.2 (Fall 1995): 31-33.
Review of Glen A. Love, Babbitt: An American Life. Sinclair Lewis Newsletter 2.2 (Spring
1994): 6-7.
Review of Edward E. Chielens, American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography n.s. 12--for 1986 (NY: AMS Press,
1992), p. 315.
Book Reviews - Newspaper and other media
Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910. Edited by Angie Sinkler
Whaley LeClercq. University of South Carolina Press. Charleston Post and Courier. August
2006
Ordinary Heroes. By Scott Turow. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. Charleston Post and
Courier. November 2007.
A Friend of the Earth. By T. C. Boyle. Knopf. Charleston Post and Courier.
The Knox Brothers. By Penelope Fitzgerald. Charleston Post and Courier.
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. By Jeffrey Meyers. Norton. Charleston Post and
Courier. November 2004.
Roxanna Slade. By Reynolds Price. Charleston Post and Courier. 1998.
Celebration. By Harry Crews. Charleston Post and Courier. 1998.
Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. By Andrew
Hoffman. Charleston Post and Courier. 1997.
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. By David
Cordingly. Random House. Charleston Post and Courier. 1996.
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Carolina Moon. By Jill McCorkle. Random House. Charleston Post and Courier. 1996.
Beach Music By Pat Conroy. Random House. Charleston Post and Courier. 1995.
A Man on the Moon. By Andrew Chaikin. Knopf. Charleston Post and Courier. 1994.
The Crossing. Cormac McCarthy. Charleston Post and Courier. 1994.
Cavaliers and Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649. Charleston Post and Courier.
1993.
A Lesson Before Dying. By Ernest J. Gaines. Charleston Post and Courier. 1993.
Bat Out Of Hell. By Barry Hannah. Charleston Post and Courier. 1993.
The Man Who Was Late. By Louis Begley. Charleston Post and Courier. 1993.
Where is Here? By Joyce Carol Oates. Charleston Post and Courier. 1993.
My Life as Author and Editor. By H. L. Mencken. Charleston Post and Courier. 1993.
English Music. By Peter Ackroyd. Knopf. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
Ripley Under Water. By Patricia Highsmith. Knopf. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
The Double Life of Stephen Crane. By Christopher Benfey. Knopf. Charleston Post and
Courier. 1992.
The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy. By Frederick Crews. Charleston
Post and Courier. 1992.
Sailor Song. By Ken Kesey. Random House. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
Colony. By Anne Rivers Siddons. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
All That Remains. By Patricia Cornwell. Scribner. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
Dangerous Friends: At Large With Hemingway and Huston in the Fifties. By Peter
Viertel. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
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Fooling America: How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional
Wisdom. Charleston Post and Courier. By Robert Parry. 1992.
Easy Keeper. By Mary Tannen. Charleston Post and Courier. 1992.
After the War. By Richard Marius. Charleston Post and Courier. Knopf. 1992.
Papers Presented
"Poe and American Literary Naturalism." Poe Bicentennial Conference. Baltimore. October
2009.
"The Marriage of Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson." American Literature Association.
Cambridge. May 2003.
"DuBose Heyward's Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston." Society for the Study of
Southern Literature. Charleston. April 1998.
"Sinclair Lewis, Professional Author." Sinclair Lewis Anniversary Conference. Sauk Centre,
MN. July 1997.
"Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis: A Reexamination." American Literature Association. Baltimore,
May 1997.
"DuBose Heyward, The Charleston Renaissance, and The Main Currents of Modernism." South
Atlantic Modern Language Association. Savannah, November 1996.
"Poe as a Southern Author." College English Association. New Orleans, April 1996.
"The Revision of The Financier." American Literature Association. Baltimore, May 1995.
"Reading Gender and Race in Classic Naturalistic Texts: The Bibliographical Foreground."
Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, March 1995.
"Sinclair Lewis and the Democratization of Science," Popular Culture Association in the South.
Charlotte. October 1994.
"Paul De Kruif and The Composition of Arrowsmith." American Literature Association. San
Diego, June 1994.
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"Poe as a Professional Book Reviewer." Philological Association of the Carolinas. Charleston,
March 1994.
"Sinclair Lewis at Work." American Literature Association. Baltimore, May 1993.
"Dreiser's Two Financiers." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Knoxville,
November 1992.
"The Making of Babbitt." Bibliographical Society of America. Columbia, S.C., March 1992.
"Creating A Critical Text of Dreiser's Financier." Penn State Conference on Editorial Studies.
University Park, P.A., April 1989.
"The Composition and Publication of Dreiser's 'Typhoon.'" Modern Language Association.
Washington, December 1984.
Invited Lectures
Response to Gershwin At Folly. Charleston Stage / Dock Street Theater. April 2014. With
Harlan Greene and Jonathan Green.
Response to DuBose Heyward and the Charleston Renaissance. Piccolo-Spoleto Festival.
Literary Conversations series. June 2012. With Harlan Greene, Katherine Glick, and Dorothea
Benton Frank.
Response to Edgar Allan Poe, a one-act play by John MacNicholas. Piccolo-Spoleto Festival.
June 2011. With Scott Peeples.
"Main Street: Carol Kennicott's Story." Keynote Address - Celebrating Sinclair Lewis in the 21st
Century. July 2010. Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
"Ernest Hemingway: Life and Legend." Citadel Senior Scholars. November 2009.
"Edgar Allan Poe and the 'Kingdom by the Sea'." Piccolo-Spoleto Festival. Literary
Conversations series. June 2006.
Response to Nevermore, by Julian Wiles, Charleston Stage Company, perf. Dock Street Theatre,
22 Oct. 2006.
"Edgar Allan Poe: Life and Legend."
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Library Society. Charleston. October 2005
I'On Trust. Charleston. October 2005
"History in the Making." South Carolina Humanities Council Book Fair. Columbia. February
2005.
"Charleston in the Age of Porgy and Bess." Charleston Area Rotary Club. Charleston. July
2004.
"What Was the Charleston Renaissance?"
Arkansas Executives Conference. Charleston, SC. October 2007.
Friends of the Daniel Library. Charleston, SC. August 2003.
Phi Kappa Phi. Charleston, SC. September 2003.
Friends of the Charleston County Library. Charleston, SC. October 2003.
Poetry Society of South Carolina. February 2004.
Senior Scholars. Charleston, SC. March 2004.
Wachovia Lecture Series. Program in the Lowcountry and the Atlantic World, College of
Charleston. Charleston, SC April 2004.
Heyward Family Association. April 2004.
"The History of Hampton Park." The Community Foundation. Charleston, SC. March 2003.
"DuBose Heyward's Peter Ashley: Charleston History and Culture." Friends of the Daniel
Library. Charleston, S.C. September 2001.
"Edgar Allan Poe: Life and Work." Citadel Senior Scholars Program. Charleston. July 2001.
"Poe's Detective Fiction." Friends of the Daniel Library. Charleston, SC. February 2001.
"Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Friends of the Daniel Library. Charleston, SC.
September 1999.
"DuBose Heyward and the Charleston Renaissance." The Morris Museum of Art. Augusta, GA.
September 1999.
"DuBose Heyward and Mamba's Daughters." Spoleto Festival USA. Charleston, SC. June 1999.
"DuBose Heyward and the Charleston Renaissance." The Charleston Renaissance: A
Symposium. Columbia Museum of Art. Columbia, SC. May 1999.
"DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess."
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Citadel Senior Scholars Program. Charleston. October 1997.
Poetry Society of South Carolina. Charleston. March 1997.
The Shepherd's Club. Charleston. February 1997.
Friends of the Daniel Library. Charleston. April 2000.
Charleston Library Society. Charleston. April 2000.
Charleston County Public Library. May 2000.
Charleston Tour Association. May 2000.
English Speaking Union. Charleston. January 2001.
South Carolina Humanities Council Book Fair. Columbia, SC. April 2001.
Center for Creative Retirement. Charleston. May 2001.
Harbour Club. Charleston. May 2001.
South Carolina Historical Society. Charleston. April 2003.
Elderhostel. Charleston. 2-3 times a year 2001 - 2007
"DuBose Heyward's Poetry." Poetry Society of South Carolina. Charleston. May 1996.
"The American Scholar Today." Phi Sigma Tau National Philosophy Honorary Society.
Washington and Jefferson College. February 1989.
"The Making of Dreiser's Financier." The Citadel. January 1989.
"Poe, Anna Cora Mowatt, and 'The Velocity of Composition.'" Washington and Jefferson
College. October 1988.
"The Adventures of 'Carter Holmes': An Episode of the American Literary Revolution." Indiana
University at Indianapolis. January 1988.
Grants
1999
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Publication grant for A DuBose Heyward Reader. The DuBose and Dorothy
Heyward Memorial Foundation.
Numerous grants-in-aid from The Citadel Foundation for research, travel, and
conference presentations
"The Composition of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt." NEH.
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Service to the Profession and Other Scholarly Activity (Selected)
Referee for:
Continuum; Harvard University Press; Yale University Press; Cambridge University Press;
Oxford University Press; Polity Press (UK); University of South Carolina Press; Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich; Longman/Pearson; Penn State Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; University
of Delaware Press; Southern Illinois University Press; University of Idaho Press; University of
Colorado Press; Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing; Society for the
Study of Southern Literature; PMLA; PBSA; Nineteenth-Century Studies; Studies in American
Fiction; South Atlantic Review; Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor; Dreiser Studies; Southern
Cultures; Mosaic; Text; Sinclair Lewis Newsletter; American Literary History; Studies in the
Novel; Edgar Allan Poe Review; Modern Fiction Studies; Journal of American Folklore; others.
Chair of:
Nominating committee, American Literature (SAMLA, 1994); Nominating committee, Textual
and Bibliographical Studies (SAMLA, 1995); Charleston session (SSSL 1998); Lewis sessions
(ALA, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998); Dreiser session (ALA, 1994); Textual and Bibliographical
Studies (SAMLA, 1994); Faulkner session (Popular Culture Assoc, 1994); American Literature
sessions (SAMLA, 1992). President (1994-98), Board Member (1998 - ) of Sinclair Lewis
Society (1994-97); Director-at-Large, International Dreiser Society (1995-98). Local
Arrangements Director, Society for the Study of Southern Literature biennial conference,
Charleston, 1998; Editorial Board, Edgar Allan Poe Review; others
Memberships - Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association (MLA)
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
American Literature Association (ALA)
International Dreiser Society
Sinclair Lewis Society
Edgar Allan Poe Society
Ernest Hemingway Society
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)
Courses Taught (Selected)
At The Citadel:
Freshman English; Major British Writers; Survey of British Literature (for English majors);
Masterpieces of American Literature; Public Speaking; Southern Literature to 1900; Southern
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Literature; American Romanticism (undergraduate and graduate levels); American Realism and
Naturalism (undergraduate and graduate levels); Modern American Fiction; Seminar (Poe)
(undergraduate and graduate levels); Honors English (Utopian Literature; Poe); Honors Tutorial
(Poe); Principles of Literary Research (graduate); Lowcountry Literature (undergraduate and
graduate); World War One in Literature and Film
Administrative Service (Selected)
At The Citadel:
Core Curriculum; Assessment of Institutional Effectiveness; Library Acquisitions; Faculty
Research; Community Relations; Faculty Employment; Computer Services; Advisor, English
Majors Club; Department Seminar Coordinator; Faculty Council (1995-96; 1997-99); Committee
on Post-Tenure Review; Committee on Grading Systems (chair); Committee on Summer School
Enrollment (chair); Department Curriculum (1995-96; 1998-99; 1999-2000); Department Search
Committee (1997-98; 1998-99) (Chair, 2003-04; 2007-08); Department Head Search Committee
(1997-98); Freshman Majors Advisor (1997-01); Graduate Program Committee (1998- );
Sabbaticals Committee (1998-99); Faculty Development Committee (1998-99); Faculty Tenure
and Promotions Committee (chair) (1999 - 2002); (2002- ); Faculty Employment Committee;
Financial Affairs Committee; Graduate Council; Professional Education Board; Fine Arts
Committee (1999 - ); Scheduling Committee (chair, 2000-07); others.
Service to the Community (Selected)
Verger and Master of Acolytes, Grace Church (Episcopal), 2010- present.
Vestry, Grace Church (Episcopal), 2010-2013; 2015 - present; Board of Trustees, Charleston
Collegiate School, 2009-2011; Volunteer at Crisis Ministries (2000 - ). Outreach activities
(various) for Grace Church (Episcopal) (2000 -). Reader for Association for the Blind (1996-97).
Book reviewer for Charleston Post and Courier (1992- ). Judge for Poetry Society of South
Carolina competitions (1991-92; 2002, 2003); others.
Memberships (Selected)
Verger's Guild of the Church of England
Officer, The Most Venerable Order of St. John Hospitallers of Jerusalem (OSt.J)
South Carolina Historical Society
Charleston Horticultural Society
Charleston Library Society
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Media (Selected)
Reviewed in:
Boston Globe; Washington Post; Washington Times; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; The
State (Columbia); Post and Courier (Charleston); Richmond Times-Dispatch; Oxford American;
others
Interviewed by:
National Public Radio; South Carolina Educational Radio; BBC World Service (radio);
Radio Free Europe (Russia); Associated Press; The Observer (London); The Guardian
(London);The Times (London); Washington Post, Orangeburg Inside/Out (South Carolina ETV);
Raleigh News and Observer; Charlotte Observer; Sandlapper; Chronicle of Higher Education;
Charleston Post and Courier; New York Observer; others.
Listed In
Directory of American Scholars; Who's Who in the South and Southeast; Contemporary
Authors; Writer's Directory; Dictionary of International Biography; Encyclopedia of South
Carolina Writers
last revised 2/9/16
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