Linda Wagner-Martin (formerly Linda W. Wagner)
Frank Borden and Barbara Lasater Hanes Professor of English
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599-3520
CB#3520 Greenlaw Hall: 919-962-8765 (voice mail), 919-918-4049
(The Linda Wagner-Martin Papers are available at The Lilly Library Rare Books and
Manuscripts Collection, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Employment:
1988-Present Hanes Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1972-1988 Professor of English, Associate Dean, Chair, Michigan State University
1968-1972 Associate Professor of English, Michigan State University
1966-1968 Assistant Professor of English, Wayne State University
1960-1965 Assistant Professor, Instructor, Bowling Green State University
1957-1960 Teacher, English, Drama, Toledo, Ohio & Dundee, Michigan
Education:
1963 Ph.D., Bowling Green State University; also M.A., 1959 and B.A. and B. S. in
Education, Honors in English, magna cum laude, 1957
Professional Experience and Activities:
1963-1967 College and departmental committees at Wayne State and Bowling Green;
President, English Association of Ohio
1968-1974, 1985 Director, Conference in Modern Literature, Michigan State
1968-1988 Poetry Editor, The Centennial Review
1973-present Reader for Oxford University Press, MLA Publications, Louisiana State
University Press, Stanford University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers
University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, University Press of Mississippi,
University of Oklahoma Press, W. W. Norton, University of North Carolina Press,
University of Michigan Press, Wayne State University Press, Random House, Michigan
State University Press, UMI Research Press, Harper & Row, University of Illinois Press,
Faculty Associates Press, University of Iowa Press, Cambridge University Press,
Columbia University Press, Garland Publishers, Indiana University Press, University of
Texas Press, Princeton University Press, State of New York University Press,
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Press of Kansas, Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich, University of Alabama Press, University of South Carolina Press, Wesleyan
University Press, Duke University Press, University Press of Virginia, University of
Tennessee Press, Northeastern University Press, Susquehanna University Press,
University of Missouri Press, University of Massachusetts Press, University of Florida
Press, Cornell University Press, HarperCollins, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Southern Illinois University Press, Purdue University Press, University of Georgia Press,
Fitzroy Dearborn Press, Ohio State University Press, Yale University Press, University of
California Press and others.
1974-present External faculty and program evaluation for such universities as
Dartmouth, Tulane, Montana State University, Claremont Colleges, Texas A & M,
Kingsville, Tufts University, Duke University, University of New Mexico, Florida State
University, University of Mississippi, West Virginia University, University of California
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at Riverside, University of Victoria, Harvard University, Temple University, Purdue
University, Elizabethtown College, Marquette University, University of Texas, Louisiana
State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Ottawa, University of
Windsor, University of Illinois, Case Western Reserve University, McMaster University,
College of William & Mary, University of Oregon, Washington State University,
Duquesne University, Pennsylvania State University, Queens College, Southern Alabama
University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Texas A & M University, George
Washington University, California State at Los Angeles, Toledo University, University of
South Carolina, Rutgers University at Camden, Emory University, University of
Southern California, Ohio State University, University of Delaware, St. Olaf's College,
University of Texas at San Antonio, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado, University of Massachusetts, Miami
University, Bowling Green State University, Arizona State University, State University
of New York at Buffalo, University of California at Davis, State University of New York
at Binghamton, Virginia Polytech University, University of Nebraska, Virginia
Commonwealth University, University of Tennessee, West Chester State University,
University of Michigan, George Mason University, University of New Hampshire,
Florida International University, Oregon State University, University of Southern Illinois
at Edwardsville, Colby College, and others
1974-1977 President and board member, Society, Study of Midwestern Literature
1975-present Editorial boards, Hemingway Review, Studies in American Fiction,
Southern Literary Review, E. E. Cummings Review, Papers on Literature and Language;
formerly on boards of American Literature, South Atlantic Review, Context, Studies in
Modern Fiction, Narrative, others. Regular reader for PMLA, College English, American
Studies, American Quarterly, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Twentieth Century
Literature, and others. Consultant for NEA, MLA, NEH, and Canadian Social Science
and Humanities Research Council.
1977-1979 Graduate Chair and Associate Chair, English, Michigan State University
1977-1979 Founder and Director, Internship Program, Michigan State University
1977-1981 Director and Founder, Life-Writing for Life Living (writing for senior
citizens)
1979-1981 Associate Dean, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
1980-1985 MLA, American Literature divison: extensive committee work
1980-present Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, board and committees
1981-1988 Michigan State University Press, faculty board member and president
1981-1985 Fulbright (CIES) Exchange, American Literature selection committee
1982-1988 Editor, The Centennial Review
1982-1987 Ellen Glasgow Society: President, interim editor, Glasgow Newsletter
1982-2003 Reconstructing American Literature project, board of editors; editor of
contemporary section of Heath Anthology of American Literature (4 editions)
1983
Judge, Florence Howe Essay Competition, MLA
1983
Judge, Hopwood Awards in Fiction, University of Michigan
1983-1989 Series editor for Hemingway books, UMI Research Press
1983-1985 Learning in Focus, American Novels film project, scripting and advisement
1984-1986 Garland Critical Essays Series, advisory board
1984
Michigan State University, winter commencement address
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1985
Judge, Ritz-Paris Novel Award
1986
Judge, Robert Miller Prize, College English Association
1986-1988 Fulbright (CIES) Chair Awards Selection Committee
1986-1989 Society for the Study of Southern Literature board
1986-1988 Chair, Women's Advisory Committee to the Provost, Michigan State
1987-1988 Chair, Council to Review Undergraduate Education, Michigan State
1988-1989 President, Society for the Study of Narrative Technique
1988-1989 Chair, C. Hugh Holman Prize Committee
1988
Hanes Chair Inaugural Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1988-1991 Margaret Church Modern Fiction Studies Memorial Prize Committee
1988-present Various university, college, and departmental level committees at UNC
1989-1990 Hemingway International Conference Planning Committee
1989-1994 Member, Advisory Board, American Literature Section, MLA
1989-present Member, Advisory Board, American Literature Association
1989-1995 Associate Literary Editor, American National Biography project
1989-1993 Dos Passos television project board of advisors
1989-1993 Member, Advisory Board, Women's Studies Program, UNC
1989-1995 Member, Advisory Board, Comparative Literature Program, UNC
1991-1992 President, Association of Women Faculty and Professionals, UNC
1993-1996 President, Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Board; past president and vice
president, 1996-1999
1993
Member, Foerster Prize Committee, American Literature
1994
Judge, Florence Howe Essay Prize Committee, MLA
1996
President, American Literature Section, MLA
1996
Keynote address, Netherlands conference on biography & autobiography
1997
Keynote, Fitz-Fest, Montgomery, Alabama (Fitzgerald conference)
1997-2001 The American Novel television project board of advisors
1997
Patton Collection, Rare Books Room, Presentation lecture, UNC
1998
Invited lecture, Faulkner Conference, Oxford, Mississippi
1998
Selection Committee, Dos Passos Award for Fiction, Longwood College
2000
Pogue/Kenan Research Award, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2000
Fellow, Arts and Humanities Institute, UNC, Chapel Hill
2000
Lamar Lecture in Southern Literature, Mercer University
2001
Helen Louise McGuffie Lecture, Bethany College
2002
Eidson Lecture, University of Georgia
2002
Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
2003-2005 President, Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society
2003
Invited lecture, Expatriate Exhibit, Rare Books Room, Wilson Library, UNC
2004
Kyoto American Studies Conference, Keynote (Kyoto, Japan)
2004
Smithsonian lectures on American Modernism
2007
Awarded the William C. Friday prize for Excellence in Teaching
Papers: not included on this c.v.
For the last forty years, I have given papers or chaired sessions at from two to five
conferences each year--MLA, ALA, College English Association, NCTE, Popular
Culture Association, SAMLA, MMLA, NEMLA, Poetry Society of America, etc.-- or as
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an invited speaker on such campuses as Dartmouth College, University of Florida, Peace
College, Pennsylvania State University, Radcliffe, University of Illinois, SUNY
Binghamton, MIT, University of Michigan, Auburn University, Ohio University,
Wheaton College, Northeastern University, Methodist College, University of Mississippi,
Keane College, Lawrence University, Bowling Green State University, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, Western Michigan University, Trinity College, Salem
College, University of South Carolina at Beaufort, Washington University, University of
Massachusetts at Lowell, University of Texas at El Paso, University of Texas at San
Antonio, University of Georgia and others
Awards & Honors: (in addition to fellowships and scholarships for education)
1975 In residence, The Bunting Institute, Radcliff
1975 Guggenheim fellow
1977 Centennial Review lectureship
1978 Faculty Women's Association Award, Michigan State University
1980 Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University
1982 American Woman of Letters Award, Robert Frost Society
1984 American Philosophical Society, research award
1984 National Endowment for the Humanities, research award
1984 Michigan State University, AURI award
1984 ACLS research award
1985 Michigan Association of Governing Boards, Outstanding Faculty Award
1985 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Bowling Green State University
1985 Jane Bakerman Award, Popular Culture Association
1985 Woman Achiever's Award, Michigan State University
1985 Carl Bode Award, Journal of American Culture
1985 Phi Beta Kappa lectureships, Michigan State and Bowling Green chapters
1989 Outstanding Alumnus Award, Bowling Green State University
1990 Bellagio Research Center appointment (Rockefeller Foundation)
1991 American Philosophical Society research award
1991 NEH research award
1992 Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities Senior fellowship
1994 Emory University, Visiting Professorship
1994 College English Association, Teacher-Scholar Award
1994 Citation for Exceptional Merit, The Ohio House of Representatives
1996 Women's Studies Teaching Award, University of North Carolina
1997 Post-Baccalaureate Teaching Award, University of North Carolina
1997 Women's Issues Network Outstanding Faculty Woman Award, UNC
1998 Brackenridge Distinguished Professorship, University of Texas, San Antonio
1998 Women's Issues Network Outstanding Faculty Woman Award, UNC
1999 Graduate Student Association Mentor Award, English Department, UNC
2000 Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina
2000 Member, Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, University of NC
(executive board, 2003-4)
2001 Kenan Research Leave, University of North Carolina
2002 Bellagio Research Center appointment (Rockefeller Foundation)
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2005 Kyoto American Studies Conference, Keynote (Kyoto, Japan)
2006 English semester leave & fellowship at the Ligurian Study Center (Italy)
2009 Fellowship at the Ligurian Study Center (Italy)
2007 Awarded the William C. Friday prize for Excellence in Teaching
Series Editorships: 2005-Present, Palgrave: Twenty-First Century Readings in American
Literature; 2009-Present, U of SC Press: Understanding Contemporary American
Literature
Memberships: Modern Language Association, American Literature Section of MLA,
American Literature Association, Edith Wharton Society, Ellen Glasgow Society,
Hemingway Society, Fitzgerald Society, American Women Writers Association
Publications--Books:
The Poems of William Carlos Williams, A Critical Study. Wesleyan UP, 1964.
Denise Levertov. Twayne U.S. Authors, 1967. (Some excerpts on poetry web sites.)
Intaglios: Poems. South and West, 1967.
The Prose of William Carlos Williams. Wesleyan UP, 1970.
Phyllis McGinley. Twayne U.S. Authors, 1971.
Hemingway and Faulkner: inventors/masters. Scarecrow, 1975.
Ernest Hemingway, A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1977.
William Carlos Williams, A Reference Guide. G. K. Hall, 1978.
Dos Passos: Artist as American. University of Texas P, 1979.
American Modern, Selected Essays in Fiction and Poetry. Kennikat, 1980. (my essays,
collected)
Songs for Isadora: Poems. Salome Press, 1981 and NY performance.
Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Convention. University of Texas P, 1982.
Sylvia Plath, A Biography. Simon & Schuster, 1987. Chatto & Windus, 1988. U.S.
paperback St. Martin's, 1988; U.K. paperback, Cardinal, 1990; German edition by
Suhrkamp (1990), Spanish by Circe (1989) and Catalan by Columna (1990); all
foreign paperback editions continuing.
The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945. Twayne Novel Series, 1989.
Wharton's The House of Mirth: A Novel of Admonition. Twayne, 1990.
Plath's The Bell Jar: A Novel of the Fifties. Twayne, 1992.
Telling Women's Lives, The New Biography. Rutgers UP, 1994.
"Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers UP, 1995.
Wharton's The Age of Innocence: A Novel of Ironic Nostalgia. Twayne, 1996.
The Mid-Century American Novel, 1935-1965. Twayne Novel Series, 1997.
Sylvia Plath, A Literary Life. Macmillan UK/St. Martin's, 1999.
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible. Continuum Contemporaries (UK), 2001.
Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: A Reference Guide. Greenwood P, 2003.
Revised edition, Sylvia Plath, A Literary Life. Macmillan UK, 2003.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, An American Woman’s Story. Macmillan UK, 2004.
Barbara Kingsolver, A Biography. Chelsea House, 2004.
Ernest Hemingway, A Literary Life, Macmillan UK, 2007.
Publications--Books Edited:
William Faulkner: Four Decades of Criticism. Michigan State UP, 1973.
Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism. Michigan State UP, 1974.
T. S. Eliot. McGraw-Hill, 1976.
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"Speaking Straight Ahead": Interviews with W. C. Williams. New Directions, 1976.
Robert Frost: The Critical Heritage. Burt Franklin, 1977.
Denise Levertov: In Her Own Province. New Directions, 1979.
Joyce Carol Oates: Critical Essays. G. K. Hall, 1979.
Sylvia Plath: Critical Essays. G. K. Hall, 1984.
Virginia by Ellen Glasgow, with Introduction. Penguin, 1986.
Ernest Hemingway: Six Decades of Criticism. Michgan State UP, 1987.
New Essays on Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Cambridge UP, 1987.
Sylvia Plath, The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
Anne Sexton: Critical Essays. G. K. Hall, 1989.
Denise Levertov: Critical Essays. G. K. Hall, 1991.
The Pearl by John Steinbeck, with Introduction. Penguin, 1994.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, with Introduction. Washington Square P, 1995.
New Essays on Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. Cambridge UP, 1996.
Ernest Hemingway: Seven Decades of Criticism. Michigan State UP, 1998.
Over West: Collected Writings and a Festschrift for Frederick Eckman, with David
Adams. Sagetrieb (National Poetry Center) and separate book publication, 1999.
Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway. Oxford UP, 2000.
The Bedford Cultural Edition of Stein's Three Lives. Bedford Books, 2000.
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook. Oxford UP, 2002.
William Faulkner: Six Decades of Criticism. Michigan State UP, 2002.
The Portable Edith Wharton. Penguin, 2003.
Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, with introduction. Penguin, 2005.
Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. Michigan State UP, 2009.
Publications--Textbooks:
Introducing Poems, with C. David Mead (Harper & Row, 1976).
The D. C. Heath Anthology of American Literature, with Paul Lauter, et al. (1990).
Editor, Contemporary Section (Second edition, 1994; third, 1997; fourth, 2001; onevolume edition, 2003).
Publications--Encyclopedia & Anthology:
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States, co-edited with Cathy
N. Davidson. Oxford UP, 1995.
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States, co-edited with Cathy N.
Davidson. Oxford UP, 1995. (Paperback edition, 1999)
Publications--Monographs:
Edgar Lee Masters, in American Writers, Supplement I (Scribner's, 1979).
Publications--Chapters in Books: (Invited essays)
"The Song of the Fox Sparrow," Studies in Paterson, ed. John Engels. Merrill, 1970.
"William Carlos Williams," Sixteen Modern American Authors, ed. Jackson R. Bryer.
Norton, 1973.
"American Poetry, 1930 to the Present," American Literary Scholarship, 1972, 1973,
1974, 1975, 1976. Duke UP, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978. (5 chapters)
"Stein, the Sentence, and Grape Sugar and Oranges," Sherwood Anderson: Dimensions
of His Literary Art, ed. David D. Anderson. Michigan State UP, 1976.
"Codes and Codicils: Faulkner's Last Novels," Itinerary: Criticism, ed. Frank Baldanza.
Bowling Green UP, 1977.
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"Tension and Technique: The Years of Greatness," American Fiction, Historical and
Critical Essays, ed. James Nagel. Northeastern UP, 1977.
"Faulkner and (Southern) Women," The South and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: The
Actual and the Apochryphal, ed. Evans Harrington. University Press of Mississippi,
1978.
"John Dos Passos: Reaching Past Poetry," Essays in Honor of Russel B. Nye, ed. Joseph
J. Waldmeir. Michigan State UP, 1978.
"Ellen Glasgow: Daughter as Justified," The Lost Tradition, Mothers and Daughters in
Literature, ed. Cathy N. Davidson and E. M. Broner. Ungar, 1980.
"William Faulkner," American Novelists, 1910-1945, I, Dictionary of Literary
Biographpy, ed. James J. Martine. Gale, 1981.
"Ernest Hemingway," A Bibliographical Guide to Midwestern Literature, ed. Gerald
Nemanic. University of Iowa P, 1981.
"The Making of Selected Poems, the Process of Surfacing," The Art of Margaret
Atwood, ed. Arnold E. Davidson and Cathy N. Davidson. House of Anansi P, 1981.
"'Proud and friendly and gently': Women in Hemingway's Early Works," Ernest
Hemingway, The Papers of a Writer, ed. Bernard Oldsey. Garland, 1981. Rpt. in
Major Literary Characters: Brett Ashley. Chelsea House, 1991.
"45 Mercy Street and Other Vacant Houses," American Literature: The New England
Heritage, ed. James Nagel and Richard Astro. Garland, 1981. Rpt. in Diane Hume
George, Anne Sexton: Selected Criticism. University of Illinois P, 1988.
"Ellen Glasgow," Realism and Naturalism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Earl
Harbert and Donald Pizer. Gale, 1982.
"Three Contemporary Women Poets: Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath,"
with Catharine Soule, Cindi Hoffman, and Carol Duane, American Women Writers,
ed. M. Thomas Inge, Jackson R. Bryer, Maurice Duke. Greenwood P, 1982.
"Charles Reznikoff, Master of the Miniature," Charles Reznikoff, Man and Poet, ed.
Milton Hindus. National Poetry Foundation, 1984.
"Toni Morrison's Mastery," Narrative Technique in the Writing of Contemporary
American Women, ed. Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick. UP of
Kentucky, 1985.
"William Faulkner," American Literary Scholarship, 1983, 1984. Duke UP, 1985, 1986.
"Ellen Glasgow," Fifty Southern Writers After 1900, ed. Joseph M. Flora and Robert
Bain. Greenwood P, 1987.
"American Poetry, 1900 to the 1940s," American Literary Scholarship, 1986. Duke UP,
1988.
"Hemingway, Stein, and Fitzgerald," Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed.
Emory Elliott. Columbia UP, 1988.
"Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Centenary," Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Life
and Work, ed. Sheryl Meyering. UMI Research P, 1988.
"H.D.'s Fictions: Convolutions to Clarity," Breaking the Sequence: Women's
Experimental Fiction, ed. Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs. Princeton UP, 1989.
"William Carlos Williams," Sixteen Modern American Authors, II, ed. Jackson R. Bryer.
Duke UP, 1989.
"Shirley Ann Grau," Southern Women Writers: The New Generation, ed. Tonette Bond
Inge. University of Alabama P, 1990.
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"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men--and Women: James Agee's Absorption in the Sexual,"
James Agee: Reconsiderations, ed. Michael LaFaro. University of Tennessee P, 1992.
"Wakoski's Poems," Still the Frame Holds, Essays on Women Writers, ed. Sheila
Roberts. Borgo P, 1993.
"Postmodernist Ignatow," "Meaningful Differences": The Poetry and Prose of David
Ignatow, ed. Virginia Terris. University of Alabama P, 1994.
"Gertrude Stein," Jewish American Women Writers, ed. Ann Shapiro. Greenwood P,
1994.
"Anne Tyler's Breathing Lessons," Anne Tyler as Novelist, ed. Dale Salwak.U of Iowa P,
1994.
"The Salons of Wharton's Fiction," with Robert A. Martin, "Wretched Exotic": Essays on
Edith Wharton in Europe, ed. Katherine Joslin and Alan Price. Peter Lang, 1994.
"'Giving Way to Bedrock': Atwood's Later Poems," Various Atwoods, ed. Lorraine M.
York. House of Anansi P, 1995.
"Joyce Carol Oates' Recent Novels," Traditions, Voices, and Dreams: The American
Novel Since the 1960s, ed. Melvin Friedman and Ben Siegel. Macmillan, 1995.
"Toomer's Cane as Narrative Sequence," Modern American Short Story Sequences, ed. J.
Gerald Kennedy. Cambridge U P, 1995.
"The Secrecies of the Public Hemingway" and "Hemingway and the Limits of
Biography,"
Hemingway: From Michigan to the World, ed. Frederic J. Svoboda and Joseph J.
Waldmeir. Michigan State U P, 1995.
"Glasgow's Time: The Sheltered Life," New Essays on Ellen Glasgow, ed. Dorothy
Scura. U of Tennessee P, 1995.
"'It is a Design,'" Critical Essays on William Carlos Williams, ed. Steven Gould Axelrod
and Helen Deese. G. K. Hall, 1995.
"Harriette Arnow's Cumberland Women," Harriette Simpson Arnow: Critical Essays on
Her Work, ed. Haeja K. Chung. Michigan State U P, 1995.
"Reflections on Writing the Plath Biography," The Literary Biography: Problems and
Solutions, ed. Dale Salwak. Macmillan, 1996.
"'Closer to the Edge': Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon," Teaching American Ethnic
Literatures: Nineteen Essays, ed. John Maitino and David Peck. U of New Mexico
P, 1996.
"Kate Chopin's Fascination with Young Men," Critical Essays on Kate Chopin, ed. Alice
Hall Petry. G. K. Hall, 1996.
"Afterword" (essay) to Mark Twain's What Is Man? The Oxford Mark Twain, Oxford
UP, 1996.
"Prospects for the Study of Edith Wharton," Resources for American Literary Study 22,
No. 1 (Spring 1996); as a chapter in Prospects for American Literary Study, ed.
Richard Kopley. New York UP, 1997.
"Preface" to Speaking the Other Self, American Women Writers, ed. Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. U of Georgia P, 1997.
"Kay Boyle, Always a Poet," Kay Boyle: Critical Essays, ed. Marilyn Elkins. G. K. Hall,
1997.
"The Issue of Gender: Continuing Problems in Biography," Writing Educational
Biography: Explorations in Qualitative Research, ed. Craig Kridel. Garland, 1998.
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"Around 1971: Academic Life and the Raising of Children,"The Family Track, eds.
Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George. U of Illinois P, 1998.
"Still Telling Women's Lives," Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography,
eds. Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam (Proceedings of the Netherlands American
Studies Conference). Amsterdam: VU Uitgenerij, 1998.
"'The VaNe Sisters' and Nabokov's 'subtle and loving' readers," Value and Vision in
American Literature: Literary Essays in Honor of Ray Lewis White, ed. Joseph
Candido. Ohio UP, 1999; rpt. Torpid Smoke: Vladimir Nabokov's Short Fiction, eds.
Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin, Rodopi, 2000.
"Go Down, Moses: Faulkner's Interrogation of the American Dream," Faulkner in
America, Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 1998, eds. Joseph R. Urgo and Ann
Abadie. UP of Mississippi, 2001.
"The Intertextual Hemingway," The Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway, ed. Linda
Wagner-Martin. Oxford U P, 2000.
"Overview of American Literature," Encyclopedia of American Studies, ed. Miles Orvell,
2001.
"Lee Smith, Writer for Our Time," Lee Smith: Special Issue, Pembroke Magazine, ed.
Sue Kimball, #33 (2001).
"The South as Universe" (Lamar lecture), in South to the Future: An American Region in
the Twenty-First Century, ed. Fred Hobson. U of Georgia P, 2002.
"The Romance of Desire in Hemingway's Fiction," Hemingway and Women: Female
Critics and the Female Voice in Hemingway, eds. Lawrence Broer and Gloria
Holland. U of Alabama P, 2002.
“Zelda Sayre, Belle,” Southern Cultures (Summer 2004), 19-49.
"At the Heart of A Farewell to Arms," Hemingway in Italy, ed. Rena Sanderson. U of
Idaho P, 2006.
"Death in the Afternoon: The Stein Subtext," New Essays on Hemingway's Death in the
Afternoon, ed. Miriam B. Mandel. U.K.: Camden House, 2004.
"Structures of Violence: Gender Roles in William Inge's Plays," William Inge: Critical
Essays, ed. Jackson R. Bryer. G. K. Hall, forthcoming.
"Modernist Narrative Before 1914," A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914, ed.
Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson, Blackwell,2005.
“Sylvia Plath and Contemporary American Poetry,” Cambridge Companion to Sylvia
Plath, ed. Jo Gill. Cambridge UP, 2006.
Publications--Essays: (asterisk indicates refereed journal)
"The Flowers of John Donne: George Herbert and Henry Vaughan," Bowling Green
Review l (Spring 1961), 54-65.
*"Ophelia, Shakespeare's Pathetic Plot Device," Shakespeare Quarterly 16, No. 2 (Winter
1963), 94-97.
"Pulitzer and Williams," South Atlantic Bulletin 28, No. 2 (March 1963), 3-4.
"Two Faces of Janus, Frost and Williams," Etchings in Prose and Verse (Fall 1963), 1416.
*"The Teaching of Modern Poetry," English Record 14, No. 2 (1963), 36-39.
*"Willliam Carlos Williams: Giant," College English 25, No. 6 (March 1964), 425-30.
*"Metaphor and Dr. Williams," University Review 31, No. l (October 1964), 43-49.
*"The Last Poems of William Carlos Williams," Criticism 6, No. 4 (Fall 1964), 361-78.
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*"The Student-Centered Theme Series," English Journal 53 (December 1964), 689-90.
"Secular and Religious Poetry in the Seventeenth Century," Lock Haven Review, No. 7
(1964), 13-22.
*"A Decade of Discovery," Twentieth Century Literature 10, No. 4 (January 1965), 16669.
*"An Interview with Robert Creeley," Minnesota Review 5, No. 4 (Winter 1965), 30927.
Rpt. in Making in All Its Forms, ed. A. Poulin (E. P. Dutton); The Poetics of the New
American Poetry, eds. Donald Allen and Warren Tallman (Grove Press, 1973),
Contexts: Interviews with Robert Creeley, ed. Donald Allen (Four Seas, 1975),
Creeley's edition of interviews (U of Michigan P, 1994), and Beat Writers at Work
(Paris Review, 1999).
*"The Dominance of Heredity in the Characterization of Henry James," South Dakota
Review 2, No. 2 (Spring 1965), 49-55.
"William Carlos Williams: Self Portrait," Grande Ronde Review 2 (Spring 1965), n.p.
*"The Poet as Novelist: Robert Creeley," Critique 7, No. 1 (Spring 1965), 119-22. Rpt. in
Robert Creeley's Life and Work, A Sense of Increment, ed. John Wilson. U of
Michigan P, 1987.
*"William Carlos Williams: Traditional American Poet," Renascence 16, No. 2 (Spring
1965), 115-25.
"A Note on Embryonic Character in 'The Custom House,'" English Record (February
1966), 32-35.
"A Look at Post-War Literature," Laurel Review 6, No. 1 (Spring 1966), 21-27.
*"Satiric Masks: Huxley and Waugh," Satire Newsletter 3, No. 2 (Spring 1966), 160-62.
*"The Significance of Sound: Denise Levertov's Poetry," Laurel Review 6, No. 2 (Fall
1966), 3-12.
*"Good Teaching through Passage Analysis," English Journal 55, No. 8 (November
1966), 1045-47.
*"The Sound of Direction," Massachusetts Review 8, No. 1 (Winter 1967), 218-25.
*"Dr. Williams' Prescription," Laurel Review 7, No. 2 (Fall 1967), 23-27.
*"A Bunch of Marigolds," The Kenyon Review 29, No. 113 (January 1967), 86-102.
Rpt. in Tematy (Poland), 7 (Winter 1968), 95-114.
*"Call Me Maximus," Trace (June 19697), n.p.
*"Williams' 'The Use of Force,'" Studies in Short Fiction (Summer 1967), 351-53.
"Ancients and Moderns: Some Similarities," East-West Review 3, No. 3 (Winter 196768), 273-80.
*"Practice Without Pain: The In-Class Journal," English Journal 57, No. 2 (February
1968), 221-22; rpt. in The Tools of English, ed. Hans P. Guth. McGraw-Hill, 1970.
*"William Carlos Williams: Poet-Physician of Rutherford," Journal of the American
Medical Association 204, No. l (Spring 1968), 15-20.
*"A Colloquy with Robert Creeley," The Paris Review, No. 44 (Fall 1968), 155-87; rpt in
various texts and collections (see "Interview with Robert Creeley" above).
*"The Great American Novel," The Novel 3, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 48-61.
*"Williams' 'Nude': Kora in Hell," South Dakota Review 7, No. 3 (Autumn 1969), 3-18.
*"Helen in Egypt: A Culmination," Contemporary Literature 10, No. 4 (Autumn 1969),
523-36.
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*"William Carlos Williams: The Unity of His Art," Poetic Theory/Poetic Practice, Papers
of the Midwest Modern Language Association I (1969), 136-44.
*"On David Ignatow," Tennessee Poetry Journal 3, No. 2 (Winter 1970), 41-45.
*"Spring and All: The Unity of Design," Tennessee Studies in Literature 15 (19970), 6173.
*"Faulkner's Fiction: Studies in Organic Form," Journal of Narrative Technique 1, No. 1
(January 1971), 1-14.
"Williams' 'The Red Wheelbarrow,'" Wisconsin English Bulletin 13, No. 2 (January
1971), 15-16.
"Olson and His Ages," Athanor 2 (Fall-Winter, 1971), 52-57.
*"Jason Compson: The Demands of Honor," Sewanee Review 79, No. 4 (Winter 1971),
554-75. Rpt. William Faulkner: Critical Assessments (UK, 1998); others.
*"William Carlos Williams: A Review of Research and Criticism," Resources for
American Literary Study 1, No. 1 (Spring 1971), 17-29.
*"The Sun Also Rises: One Debt to Imagism," Journal of Narrative Technique 2, No. 2
(May 1972), 88-98. Rpt. in Modern Critical Views: The Sun Also Rises, ed. Harold
Bloom, Chelsea House, 1987 and in Critical Essays on Hemingway's The Sun Also
Rises, ed. James Nagel (G. K. Hall, 1995).
*"The Marinating of For Whom the Bell Tolls," Journal of Modern Literature 2, No. 4
(November 1972), 533-47; rpt. in Ernest Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism
(1974).
"William Carlos Williams," Casette lecture, Everett/Edwards, 1972.
*"Horace Gregory: Voice in Action," Modern Poetry Studies 4, No. 1 (Spring 1973), 1322.
*"'A Hands-Off' Approach to the Teaching of Poetry," American Poetry Review 2, No. 3
(May-June, 1973), 58-59. Rpt. in American Poetry Review Anthology.
*"The Poem of Santiago and Manolin," Modern Fiction Studies 19, No. 4 (Winter 197374), 517-30; rpt in Gale Research Studies, 1976; in Ernest Hemingway: Six Decades
of Criticism (1987), Modern Critical Interpretations: The Old Man and the Sea, ed.
Harold Bloom (Chelsea House, 1999).
*"As I Lay Dying: Faulkner's All in the Family," College Literature 1 (Spring 1974), 7382.
*"A Note on Oedipa as Roadrunner," Journal of Narrative Technique 4, No. 4 (May
1974), 155-61.
"For Artemis, an essay on the poem," Eating the Menu: A Contemporary American
Poetry, 1970-74, ed. Bruce Taylor. Kendall/Hunt, 1974.
"A Note on Hemingway as Poet," MidAmerica 1 (1974), 58-63.
*"Stafford's Plain-Style," Modern Poetry Studies 6, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 19-30.
*"Hemingway: The First 75 Years," Al Majal (Arabic USIS Magazine), No. 66 (1975),
26-32.
*"William Carlos Williams: 'Speaking Straight Ahead,'" Ann Arbor Review, No. 21
(1975), 26-32.
*"The Latest Creeley," American Poetry Review 4, No. 4 (1975), 42-44.
*"Spindrift: The World in a Seashell," Concerning Poetry 8, No. 1 (Spring 1975), 5-9.
Rpt.in On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell, ed. Howard Nelson. U of Michigan P, 1988.
"Nails: Gary Gildner's House of Poetry," Great Lakes Review 2, No. 1 (Summer 1975),
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98-l0l.
*"Juxtaposition in Hemingway's In Our Time," Studies in Short Fiction 12, No. 3
(Summer 1975), 243-52; rpt. in Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time,
ed. Michael S. Reynolds. G. K. Hall, 1983.
*"Berryman: From the Beginning," John Berryman Studies 2, No. 2 (Spring 1976), 7179.
*"Ohhh, That Shakespearian Rag," College Literature 3, No. 2 (Spring 1976), 139-43.
*"From Sappho to Snyder," English Journal 621, No. 8 (November 1976), 1173-77.
*"The Poetry in American Fiction," Prospects 2, ed. Jack Salzman (Burt Franklin, 1976),
513-26.
*"Modern American Literature: The Poetics of the Individual Voice," Centennial Review
lecture, 1977; The Centennial Review 21 (Fall 1977), 333-54.
*"Plath's 'Ariel': 'auspicious gales,'" Concerning Poetry 10, No. 2 (Fall 1977), 5-7.
*"Deliverance: Initiation and Possibility," South Carolina Review 10, No. 2 (Spring
1978), 49-55; rpt. in Modern Critical Views: James Dickey, ed. Harold Bloom
(Chelsea House, 1987) and in James Dickey: Critical Essays, ed. Robert Kirschten
(Hall).
*"Creeley's Late Poems: Contexts," Boundary 2, 6, No. 3 and 7, No. 1 (Spring-Fall
1978), 301-08; rpt. in A Sense of Increment: On the Life and Work of Robert Creeley,
ed. John Wilson. U of Michigan P, 1987.
*"Oates, the Changing Shapes of Her Realities," Great Lakes Review 5, No. 2 (Winter
1979), 15-23.
*"Levertov and Rich: The Latest Poems," South Carolina Review 11, No. 2 (Spring
1979), 18-27.
*"Barren Ground's Vein of Iron: Dorinda and the Concept of Heroine in 1925,"
Mississippi Quarterly 32, No. 4 (Fall 1979), 553-64.
*"Wakoski's Poems: Moving Past Confesssion," The Atlantic Review (New Series, No.
2, Autumn 1979), 60-68.
"Damn it, Bill: they still haven't listened," American Poetry Review; rpt. in American
Modern.
"Personism: The She and He of It," Happiness Holding Tank 20 (1980), n.p.
*"E. E. Cummings: A Review of Research and Criticism," Resources for American
Literary Study 9, No. 2 (Autumn 1981), 184-214.
*"Oates' Cybele," Notes on Contemporary Literature 11, No. 5 (November 1981), 2-8.
*"The French Definition," Arizona Quarterly 30, No. 4 (Winter 1982), 283-302.
*"'Oh Pioneers!' Creeley's Wry Lament," Sagetrieb 1, No. 3 (Winter 1982), 175-81.
*"Harriette Arnow and the 1980s," Great Lakes Review 8, No. 1 (Spring 1982), 1-10; rpt.
in Critical Essays on Harriette Arnow (Michigan State UP, 1998).
*"Language and Act: Caddy Compson," Southern Literary Journal 14, No. 2 (Spring
1982), 49-61.
*"Margaret Laurence's The Diviners," Windsor Review 16, No. 2 (Spring-Summer
1982), 5-17.
*"A Note on Zelda Fitzgerald's Scandalabria," Notes on Contemporary Literature 12, No.
3 (Fall 1982), 4-5.
*"Save Me the Waltz: An Assessment in Craft," Journal of Narrative Technique 12, No.
3 (Fall 1982), 201-09.
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*"Plath's 'Lady Lazarus,'" The Explicator 41, No. 1 (Fall 1982), 50-52.
*"H. D.'s Hermione: Another Look at H.D. and Pound," The American Book Review 5,
No. 1 (November-December, 1982), 20-21.
*"Lillian Hellman: Autobiography and Truth," Southern Review 19, No. 2 (April 1983),
257-88; rpt. in Lillian Hellman: Critical Essays, ed. Mark Estrin (G. K. Hall, 1989),
Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale, 1990).
*"Dos Passos: Some Directions in the Criticism," Resources for American Literary Study
13, No. 2 (Autumn 1983), 201-07.
*"'The Fragment of Fire Within You': A Reply to Jonathan Holden," New England
Review 6, No. 1 (Autumn 1983), 34-42.
*"Plath's Ladies' Home Journal Syndrome," Journal of American Culture 7, Nos. 1-2
(Spring-Summer, 1984), 32-38.
*"The Outrage of Many Loves," Sagetrieb 3, No. 2 (Fall 1984), 63-70.
*"Sylvia Plath's Specialness in Her Short Stories," Journal of Narrative Technique 15,
no. 1 (Winter 1985), 1-14.
*"Plath on Napoleon," Notes on Contemporary Literature 15, No. 2 (March 1985), 6.
*"Paul Bowles and the Characterization of Women," Critique 27, No. 1 (Fall 1985), 1524.
*"The Centrality of David Ignatow," American Poetry 3, No. 2 (Winter 1986), 37-41.
*"Plath's The Bell Jar as Female Bildungsroman," Women's Studies 12, No. 1 (February
1986), 55-68.
*"A Note on Wharton's Use of Faust," Edith Wharton Newsletter 3, No. 1 (Spring 1986),
1, 8. Rpt. in Riverside edition of Wharton's The Age of Innocence (2000).
*"Teaching The Bluest Eye," ADE Bulletin (MLA), No. 83 (Spring 1986), 28-31.
*"The Anxiety of the Current American Poetry," American Poetry 4 (Winter 1987).
*"The Other Side of Modernism," The American Book Review 9, No. 4 (SeptemberOctober, 1987), 13, 20.
*"Epigraphs to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale," Notes on Contemporary Literature 17,
No. 2 (March 1987), 4.
"Glasgow Letters to S. Weir Mitchell at the Houghton," The Ellen Glasgow Newsletter,
No. 24 (November 1987), 12.
"Introduction" to Ernest Hemingway (Kipling, Classic Authors Series, Biographies for
Young Readers, 1988).
*"Hemingway's Search for Heroes, Once Again," Arizona Quarterly 44, No. 2 (Summer
1988), 58-68.
*"Quilting in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day," Notes on Contemporary Literature 18
(November 1988), 6-7.
*"Williams' Constant Spring," William Carlos Williams, Stephen Crane, Philip Freneau,
Papers and Poems Celebrating New Jersey's Literary Heritage, ed. W. John Bauer.
New Jersey Historical Commission, 1989, 39-48.
*"Billy Bathgate and Billy Budd: Some Recognitions," Notes on Contemporary
Literature 20, No. 1 (January 1990), 4-7.
*"Kiki of Montparnasse and Hemingway's A Moveable Feast," Hemingway Review 9,
no. 2 (Spring 1990), 176-77.
*"John Dos Passos as Poet," American Poets, 1910-1945, I, Dictionary of Literary
Biography, ed. Peter Quartermain. Gale Research.
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*"Maria Bruno," Women's Friendships, ed. Susan Koppelman. U of Oklahoma P,
1991, 242-44.
*"Levertov's 'Continuum,'" The Explicator 48, No. 4 (Summer 1990), 289-92.
*"'Just the doing of it': Southern Women Writers and the Idea of Community," Southern
Literary Journal 22, No. 2 (Spring 1990), 19-32.
*"Racial and Sexual Coding in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises," Hemingway Review
10, No. 2 (Spring 1991), 39-41.
*"The Anna (Aspern) Papers," Notes on Contemporary Literature 21, No. 1 (January
1991), 2.
*"A Note on Havelock Ellis as Hemingway's Mentor," Hemingway Newsletter, No. 21
(January 1991), 8.
*"E. E. Cummings' Him--and Me," Spring 1 (October 1992), 28-36.
*"Rosa Coldfield as Daughter: Another of Faulkner's Lost Children," Studies in
American Fiction 19, No. 1 (Spring 1991), 1-13.
*"A Note on Henri Rousseau and Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro,'"
Hemingway Review 11, No. 1 (Fall 1991), 58-9.
*"Notes from a Women's Biographer," Narrative 1 (October 1993), 265-73. Rpt. in
Critical Response to Gertrude Stein, ed. Kirk Curnutt (Greenwood, 2000).
*"Gibbons' On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon," Notes on Contemporary Literature
29, No. 3 (May 1999), 3-5.
*"The Imagining of American Literature," Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching
Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 2, no. 2 (Spring 2002), 271-75.
*"Reading William Carlos Williams," Context, 11 (Fall 2002), 1, 3.
“Introduction,” Peter K. Steinberg, Writing Life, A Biography of Sylvia Plath, Chelsea
House, 2004.
Publications--Encyclopedia Entries: (invited entries)
American National Biography: Sylvia Plath, Phyllis McGinley, Anne Sexton, Alice B.
Toklas, William Carlos Williams, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos
American Women Writers: Carolyn Kizer, Audre Lorde
Arete: William Carlos Williams
Benet's Readers' Encyclopedia of American Literature: Modernism, Sylvia Plath, Anne
Sexton, John Dos Passos
Book of Days 1987: A Guide to Anniversaries of People and Events: Sylvia Plath
Colliers: Elizabeth Bishop, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton,
William Carlos Williams
Contemporary Poets: Robert Vas Dias, Carolyn Forche, Gary Gildner
Encyclopedia of Appalachia: Barbara Kingsolver
The Facts on File Reader's Companion to the American Short Story: Gertrude Stein,
Modernism
Grolier New Book of Knowledge: T. S. Eliot
The D. C. Heath Anthology of American Literature: Introduction to Contemporary
Section
and, in various editions, headnotes and teaching materials on Sylvia Plath, Wallace
Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, James Welch, Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, Robert Bly,
and others
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The History of Southern Women's Literature: Shirley Ann Grau
International Encyclopedia of Sexual Representation: Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain Encyclopedia: "'What Is Man?'"
Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States: Sylvia Plath, Ellen
Glasgow, Gertrude Stein, Modernism, Biography, Ana Castillo, Michelle Cliff, Mari
Evans, Susan Glaspell, Poetry, Suicide, Recipe Books, Local Color, Regionalism,
others
Readers' Encyclopedia of American History: Robert Frost
Reference Guide to American Literature: Anne Sexton, William Carlos Williams, Ariel,
The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury
Reference Guide to Short Fiction: eight entries ("Snows of Kilimanjaro," The Yellow
Wallpaper," "Sweat," "Melanctha," others)
The St. James Press Reference Guide to American Literature: Carolyn Forche, Kaye
Gibbons, Three Lives; adviser to project
The St. James Press Guide to Biography: surveys of biographical treatments of E. E.
Cummings, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton
The St. James Press Reference Guide to Short Fiction: Three Lives, adviser to project
The St. James Press Reference Guide to Poetry: Carolyn Forche; adviser to project
Writers of the English Language: Anne Sexton, William Carlos Williams
World Book: Anne Tyler, Edith Wharton, Alice Walker, Nadine Gordimer, others
.Publications--Reviews:
"Pictures from Brueghel and William Carlos Williams," American Weave 27, No. 2
(Winter 1963), 37-39.
"William Carlos Williams: Current Publications," The Fiddlehead, No. 59 (Winter 1964),
68-72.
"A Year in American Poetry," The Fiddlehead, No. 62 (Fall 1965), 68-69.
*"The Gold Diggers," Studies in Short Fiction 3, No. 4 (Summer 1966), 465-66; rpt. in A
Sense of Increment: On the Life and Work of Robert Creeley.
*"The Phantom Setter," Studies in Short Fiction 5, No. 1 (Fall 19967), 85-87.
*"Mosby's Memoirs," Studies in Short Fiction 6, No. 4 (Summer 1969), 467-69.
*"Journal/Nocturnal," Studies in Short Fiction 7, No. 2 (Spring 1970), 331-33.
*"The Art of William Carlos Williams," Comparative Literature Studies 7, No. 2 (June
1970).
*"And the Farming of Our Ancestors," Windsor Review 5, No. 2 (Fall 1970), 107-10.
*"Williams, Wilbur, and Eberhart," Resources for American Literary Study 1, No. 2
(Autumn 1971), 252-54.
*"The Poetry of Ezra Pound," Journal of Modern Literature 1, No. 2 (1970-71), 293-98.
*"Dark Symphony," Studies in Short Fiction 9, No. 1 (Winter 1972), 97-98.
*"Wallace Stevens: The Poem as Art," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 30, No. 4
(Summer 1972), 567-8.
*"Turning to Look Back," Michigan Academician 5, No.3 (Winter 1973), 412-13.
*"Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time," Studies in Short Fiction 21, No.
1 (Winter 1974).
*"Compassion and Craft [Blotner on Faulkner]," The Michigan Daily (March 18, 1974),
1.
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*"Levertov: The Poet in the World," The Nation 218, No. 25 (June 22, 1974), 795-96;
rpt. in Denise Levertov, Selected Criticism, ed. Albert Gelpi. University of Michigan
P, 1993, 32-34.
*"W. H. Auden and Archibald MacLeish," Resources for American Literary Study 4, No.
2 (Autumn 1974), 231-33.
*"Faulkner: A Revelation," College Literature 1, No. 3 (Fall 1974), 236-37.
"No Sacrifice of Meaning," The Fiddlehead, No. 62 (Fall 1974), 68-69.
*"Sandusky and Back," New Letters 41, No. 1 (October 1974), 123-26.
*"Faulkner, A Biography," South Carolina Review 7, No. 1 (November 1974), 102-05.
*"Three Hemingway Studies," Journal of Modern Literature 4, No. 2 (November 1974),
345-47.
*"Two Hemingway Books," Modern Fiction Studies 21, No. 2 (Summer 1975), 287-89.
*"William Carlos Williams," Contemporary Literature 18, No.3 (Summer 1975), 378-80.
*"A Season for Unnatural Causes: Stories by Philip F. O'Connor," New Letters 41, No. 4
(June 1975), 117-19.
*"Broughton's Faulkner," South Carolina Review 8, No. 1 (November 1975), 72-73.
*"William Carlos Williams' The Embodiment of Knowledge," The Nation 222, No. 9
(March 6, 1976), 282.
*"Two Williams Books," Modern Philology 73, No. 4 (May 1976), 431-334.
*"Crossings and Three Other Books of Fiction," Studies in Short Fiction 13, No. 3
(Summer 1976), 387-89.
*"Bassett's Faulkner," Studies in American Fiction 4, No. 2 (Autumn 1976), 237-38.
*"Frost and Williams," Resources for American Literary Study 6, No. 1 (Spring 1976),
110-13.
*"The Yale Gertrude Stein," Studies in Short Fiction 18, No. 2 (Spring 1981), 193-94.
*"From the Limited to the Essential," CEA Critic 38, No. 4 (May 1976), 44-46.
*"The Third Coast," Book Forum (May 30, 1976).
*"The Freeing of the Dust," The Nation 223 (August 14, 1976), 121-22.
*"Three Faulkner Studies," Journal of Modern Literature 5, No. 4 (1976), 690-93.
*"Rukeyser's The Gates and Wakoski's Waiting for the King of Spain," The Nation 224,
No. 11 (March 19, 1977), 348.
*"The Novels of Theodore Dreiser by Donald Pizer and A Glossary of Faulkner's South
by Calvin S. Brown," Criticism 19, No. 2 (Spring 1977), 184-85.
"The Mark to Turn," English Language Notes 14, No. 4 (June 1977), 316-17.
*"The Most Contemporary of Poetics," Ontario Review 7 (Fall-Winter 1977-78), 88-94;
rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
*"The Tragic Vision of Joyce Carol Oates," Studies in Short Fiction 14, No. 4 (Fall
1978), 459.
*"Guerard on Faulkner," Faulkner Studies 1 (1980), 185-87.
*"Joyce Carol Oates," Studies in Short Fiction 18, No. 1 (Winter 1981), 107-08.
*"The Universal Drum," College Literature 8, No. 1 (Winter 1981), 94-95.
*"Alcott and Others," Resources for American Literary Study 11, No. 1 (Spring 1981),
143-47.
*"Modern Poetry, Charles Altieri," Literary Research Newsletter 6, No. 3 (Summer
1981),
129-30.
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*"H.D.'s Hermione," Resources for American Literary Study 9, No. 2 (Autumn 1981),
340-41.
*"Harriet Beecher Stowe," Studies in American Fiction 9 (Autumn 1981), 284-85.
*"Faulkner: Aesthetic, Gothic, Psychologic," The Novel 15, No. 1 (Fall 1981), 284-85.
*"Frost Letters," Resources for American Literary Study 11, No. 1 (Spring 1981), 15356.
*"Glasgow's Mature Characterizations," Southern Literary Journal 13, No. 2 (Spring
1981), 116-17.
*"Idiom and Wisdom in Some Recent Volumes of Poetry," Michigan Quarterly Review
2, No. 3 (Summer 1981), 301-07.
*"Bruccoli's Fitzgerald," American Literature 54, No. 2 (May 1982), 304-06.
*"Hemingway: Expressionist Artist," Modernist Studies 4 (1982), 234-36.
*"Sylvia Plath's Journals," Contemporary Literature 24, No. 4 (Winter 1983), 521-23.
*"The Lost America of Love," South Atlantic Review 48, No. 2 (May 1983), 103-4.
*"Mariani's William Carlos Williams," College Literature 10, No. 1 (1983), 89-90.
*"Faulkner's 'Negro,'" Studies in American Fiction 12, No. 1 (Spring 1984), 111-13.
*"The Art of William Faulkner," Studies in American Fiction 12, No. 2 (Autumn 1984),
244-45.
*"Faulkner's Compson Family," Studies in American Fiction 12, No. 2 (Autumn 1984),
241-42.
*"Plath's Incarnations," Contemporary Literature 25, No. 4 (Winter 1984), 509-10.
*"Garrett and Others," Michigan Quarterly Review 23, No. 3 (Summer 1984), 446-51.
*"New Approaches to F. Scott Fitzgerald," South Atlantic Review 49, No. 3 (September
1984), 87-89.
*"On Modern and Post-modern Poetry," Contemporary Literature 26, No. 4 (Winter
1985), 482-86.
*"Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald," American Literature 56, No. 3 (October 1984),
441-42.
*"Hemingway's Women," Hemingway Review 4, No. 2 (Spring 1985), 56-57.
*"Loewinsohn's Magnetic Fields," American Book Review 7, No. 4 (May-June 1985),
15.
*"Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, A Reference Guide," Studies in Short Fiction
1985), 425.
"Books Briefly Noted" column, Centennial Review 31, No. 2 (Spring 1987), 236-38.
*"Frances Kroll Ring on Fitzgerald," Modern Fiction Studies 33 (Summer 1987), 318.
*"Another Novel by H.D.," American Book Review 9, No. 2 (March-April 1987), 17.
*"The Life of Langston Hughes," Centennial Review 31, No. 2 (Spring 1987), 235-36.
*"Sanders' John Dos Passos," Literary Research 12, No. 4 (Fall 1987), 221-22.
*"To Live and To Write, Japanese Women Writers," Studies in Short Fiction 215, No. 1
(Winter 1988), 93-94.
*"On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner, Essays by
Cleanth Brooks," Studies in Short Fiction 25, No. 3 (Summer 1988), 336.
*"A Poetry of Presence," Modern Philology 85, No. 3 (February 1988).
*"Orchestrated Lives (Charlotte Mew and Her Friends), American Book Review 10, No.
6 (January-February, 1989), 21; rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale, 1990).
*"Robinson Jeffers, The Collected Poetry and Everson's Study," Centennial Review 33,
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No. 2 (Spring 1989), 187-88.
*"Warning: Requiem for a Dream and The Beautiful Room Is Empty," American Book
Review 11, No. 2 (May-June 1989), 15-16.
*"Walker's A Very Serious Thing," American Literature 61, No. 2 (May 1989), 279-80.
*"Willa Cather: Reassessment and Discovery," Contemporary Literature 30, No. 3 (Fall
1989), 444-47.
*"Tabor's Sylvia Plath," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 27 (1988), 14243.
*"Chopin--Recent Publications," Mississippi Quarterly 42, No. 2 (Spring 1989), 193-96.
*"Two Studies of Women's Autobiography," Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 9, No.
1 (Spring 1990), 139-42.
*"Judy Grahn's Mundane's World," American Book Review 12, No. 1 (March-April
1990), 24.
*"Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, No Man's Land, II," American Literature 62, No. 1
(March 1990), 107-08.
*"She Rises Like the Sun," American Book Review 12, No. 4 (September-October,
1990), 22.
*"Inspiriting Influences and Woman/Native/Other," Contemporary Literature 31, No. 3
(1990), 392-96.
*"Sing Soft, Sing Loud," Studies in Short Fiction 26, No. 3 (Summer 1989), 354-55.
*"William Carlos Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction," William Carlos Williams
Review 16, No. 2 (Fall 1990), 73-75.
*"Three Faulkner Studies," Modern Fiction Studies 36, No. 4 (Winter 1990), 559-62.
*"Spilka on Hemingway," The Novel 24, No. 1 (Spring 1991), 323-24.
*"Gish on Williams," Studies in Short Fiction 27, No. 1 (Winter 1990), 124-25.
*"Doctorow's Billy Bathgate," American Book Review 12, No. 6 (January-March 1991),
7.
*"Ruddick's Gertrude Stein," American Literature 63, No. 1 (March 1991), 156-57.
*"Redefining American Literary History," American Literature 63, No. 4 (December
1991), 736-37.
*"Writing the American Classics," Modern Fiction Studies 37, No. 2 (Summer 1991),
253.
*"Conflicting Stories," Studies in Short Fiction 28, No. 3 (Summer 1991), 383-85.
*"Benson's New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway,"
American Studies 31, No. 2 (Fall 1991), 123-24.
*"American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner," South Central Review 9,
No. 2 (Summer 1992), 89-90.
*"Jane Gallop's Around 1981: Academic Feminist Literary Theory," American Literature
63, No. 3 (September 1992), 628-29.
*"Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop," American Book Review
14, No. 3 (August-September, 1992), 16, 20.
*"Souhami's Gertrude and Alice," American Literature 64, No. 4 (December 1992), 83334.
*"Harrison's Female Pastoral and Romines' The Home Plot," Modern Fiction Studies 38
(Winter 1992), 943-44.
*"The Disruption of the Feminine in Henry James," Henry James Review 14 (Fall 1993),
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314-16.
*"Naked Heart, William Everson Talking," American Book Review 15, No. 2 (June-July
1993), 13.
*"The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History and Discord," New England
Quarterly 64 (December 1993), 664-66.
*"New Faulkner Biography," Southern Literary Journal 26, No. 2 (Spring 1994), 109-10.
*"The Restorationist Text One," American Book Review 16, No. 9 (October-November
1994), 15.
*"Davis' Nella Larsen," American Literature 67, No. 1 (March 1995), 159-60.
*"Crucial Conversations: Interpreting Contemporary American Literary Autobiographies
by Women," Biography 19, No. 4 (Fall 1996), 434-35.
*"The Woman Without Experiences," American Book Review 17, No. 6 (AugustSeptember 1996), 22.
*"Killoran's Wharton," South Atlantic Review 62 (Summer 1997), 136-38.
*"On Charles Olson's Collected Prose," American Book Review, 19, No. 5 (AugustSeptember 1998), 16.
*"American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment," Studies in the Novel, 31, No. 2
(Summer 1999), 252-53.
*"New Faulkner Biographies," Southern Literary Journal, 31 (Spring 1999), 118-21.
*"Strangeways's Plath," American Literature, 71, no. 2 (March 1999), 192-93.
*"The Hollins Group," Resources for American Literary Study, 25, no. 2 (1999), 272-73.
*"The Sounds of Feminist Theory," American Literature, 71, no. 3 (Sept. 1999), 601-2.
*"The New Glasgow Biography," Mississippi Quarterly, 52, no. 2 (Spring 1999), 35052.
*"Wright and Stein," African American Review, forthcoming.
*"Beyond Gender: Madeline Gleason, Collected Poems," American Book Review, 21,
no. 4 (May-June 2000), 13-14.
*"Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse
in American Modernism," Journal of American History (March 2000), 1835-36.
*"Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning," ANQ 14, no. 2 (Spring 2001), 54-56.
*"Lives into Print: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography,"
Biography, 23, no. 2 (July 2001).
*"Fraser's Translating the Unspeakable," American Book Review, 22 (Nov./Dec., 2000),
25.
"Yow's Bernice Kelly Harris: A Generous Life," Durham Herald Sun, July 16, 2000.
*"Railey and Towner on Faulkner," Southern Literary Journal, 34 (Spring 2002), 148-52.
*"Literary Lives: Biography and the Search for Understanding," Clio, 31, no. 4 (Summer
2002), 459-61.
*"A Symposium: Women Writing the South," Mississippi Q, 54, no. 1 (Winter 2000-01),
82-85.
*"Doyle's Faulkner's County," Southern Cultures (Spring 2003), 102-03.
*"Kathleen Norris: Journey, New and Selected Poems," American Book Review,
23, no. 1 (May/June 2002), 13.
*"Regarding Ellen Glasgow: Essays for Contemporary Readers," Virginia Magazine of
History and Biography, 110, no. 2 (2002), 116-17.
*"Lorine Neidecker: Collected Poems," American Book Review, July/August 2003, 16.
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*"Modernism and Renaissance," American Literature, forthcoming.
*"Gilman Again," American Literary Realism, forthcoming.
*"Modern Women Poets," American Book Review, 25 (January-February 2004), 14.
“Carolyn Forche’s Blue Hour,” American Book Review, 26 (March-April 2004), 13.
“Letters: Williams & Zukofsky, Duncan & Levertov,” Resources for American Literary
Study, 30 (2006), 386-89.
Publications--Poetry and Fiction:
"High on a Hidden Hill," Flame (Fall 1962), n.p.
"Green Kaleidoscope," The Fiddlehead, No. 60 (Spring 1964), 33; rpt. in Poems from
Bowling Green, ed. Frederick Eckman, 1966.
"In a Parked Car," Penny Poems 7, No. 5 (May 31, 1964), n.p.
"Analogy," Quartet 1, No. 2 (Summer 1964), 13.
"Late Arrival," American Weave 28, No. 1 (Summer 1964), 9.
"Despair," Essence (19964), n.p.
"A Space in Hell," Borderline 1, No. 1 (January 1965), n.p.
"Realization," South and West 4, No. 1 (Summer 1965), 7.
"The People of Marsh Road," Caravel, No. 14 (Fall 1965), 14.
"Depleted," PS (Alan Swallow), No. 8 (1965), 49. Rpt. in Poems from Bowling Green
and Michigan Signatures, ed. Albert Drake, 1969.
"September Song," PS, No. 8 (1965), 49.
"Poem on a Sister's Betrothal," Poet Lore 61, No. 1 (Spring 1966), 96.
"The Poets," Goliards 7 (May 1966), n.p.
"Bucky" (fiction), Ave Maria (July 9, 1966), 14-17.
"Barren Woman," Poems from Bowling Green, 66.
"In Brief," Poems from Bowling Green, 65.
"Love Scene," Poems from Bowling Green, 68.
"At Sunshine Acres," Human Voice Quarterly 3, No. 1 (Spring 1967), n.p.
"Dark Alleys," Cycloflame 15, No. 1 (Spring 1967), 11.
"Love Calls Us," Human Voice Quarterly 3, No. 1 (Spring 1967), n.p.
"Midwest Plenty," Human Voice Quarterly 3, No. 1 (Spring 1967), n.p.
"Revelation," Human Voice Quarterly 3, NO. 2 (Spring 1967), n.p.
"Supermarket Blues," Human Voice Quarterly 3, No. 1 (Spring 19967), n.p.
"Man in Winter," Literary Supplement (December 14, 1967), 5.
"Lullaby in Plastics," Cycloflame 16, No. 1 (Spring 968), 28.
"No Middle Way," Zeitgeist 2, No. 3 (March-April 1968), 68; rpt. in Michigan
Signatures.
"Anniversary Song," Main Line, No. 2 (June 1968), n.p.
"Detroit Winter," Main Line, No. 2 (June 1968), n.p.
"Late at My Singing," South and West 8 (Wummer 1969), 32-34.
"A Windless Lilac Dream," Sumac 2, No. 1 (Fall 1969), 80-81; rpt. in Golden Quill
Anthology, 1970.
"Replete," Laurel Review 10, No. 1 (Spring 1970), 90.
"Carnival," Red Cedar Review 8, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 42; rpt. in Michigan Hot Apples.
"Ho-Hum," Red Cedar Review 8, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 45.
"More Bell Jars," Red Cedar Review 8, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 43; rpt. in Tuatara, No. 12
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(Summer 1974), 34.
"On the Memory of William Carlos Williams," Red Cedar Review 8,No. 1 (Spring 1972),
41.
"To Cherish," Red Cedar Review 8, No. 1 (Spring 1972), 42.
"On Reading Pound's Cantos," Forum 15, No. 4 (Autumn 1972), 28; rpt. in Thistles 1,
No. 3 (1976), 23-24 and Arias and Silences: Poems for Ezra Pound, ed. Herbert
Martin.
"At 620 Porter Street," Happiness Holding Tank, No. 3-4 (1972), n.p.
"Mortality," Michigan Hot Apples (1972), 51; rpt. in Echoes from the Moon, 65.
"Out the Window," Happiness Holding Tank, No. 3-4 (1972), n.p.
"On Using the U.S. Mails," Movin' Out 3, No. 2 (Summer 1973), 12.
"Of Attis," Modern Poetry Studies 4, No. 3 (Winter 1973), 246.
"Safe Haven," fiction, Messenger of the Sacred Heart 83,No. 10 (October 1973), 12-13,
22.
"The Assassination of Linda Wagner," Cottonwood Review (Winter 1972-73), 31-33.
"X's and O's for Charles Olson," Tuatara, No. 13, 35; Cottonwood Review (Winter 197374), 36.
"Penelope," Stone Country 74, No. 3 (Winter 1974), 16.
"Vortex," Vagabond, No. 19 (Winter 1974), 40.
"Grasp," Eating the Menu: A Contemporary American Poetry, 1970-74, ed. Bruce
Taylor.
Kendall/Hunt, 1974, 4; rpt. in Poem, 1974.
"Visitors from Outer Space," The Nation 218, No. 13 (March 30, 1974), 410.
"Practical Woman," Garfield Lake Review, No. 4 (Spring 1974), 86.
"All My Pretty Ones," Forum 15, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 26.
"Medea," Eating the Menu, 3; rpt. Forum 15, No. 4 (Autumn 1974), 29.
"One Gift of Apollo," Eating the Menu, 3-4.
"A Good Place for Kids," Fadge (1974), 45.
"Life Poem," Ann Arbor Review, No. 18 (1974), 35-36; rpt in 4 Poems (1974).
"The Old Identity Problem," Ann Arbor Review, No. 18 (1974), 33-34.
"For Artemis," Eating the Menu, 2-3; rpt. in Marrow 1, No. 1 (May 1975), 1.
"Lament," Cottonwood Review (Winter 1974-75), 34-35.
"Living Here in Michigan," Forum 16, No. 2 (Spring 1975), 57; rpt. in Echoes from the
Moon, 68.
"Old Woman in Pink, Shopping," South Carolina Review 7, No. 2 (Spring 1975), 33; rpt.
in Garfield Lake Review, No. 4 (Spring 1974), 88.
"Syllables," Pearl, No. 3 (Spring 1975), 19.
"In Whom We Trust" fiction, Ontario Review, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1975), 44-52.
"Exactly," Ann Arbor Review, No. 21 (1975), 59.
"Green Growing," Ann Arbor Review, No. 21 (1975), 60.
"Metamorphosis," Ann Arbor Review, No. 21 (1975), 59.
"Notes from a Prison," Song 1 (1975), 74.
"Pact," Song 1 (1975), 73.
"Sharing Time," Fadge (1975), 45.
"After the Flood," Echoes from the Moon, 66-67.
"Notes from Down Under," Echoes from the Moon, 110.
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"Elegy for Anne," Thistle 1, No. 3 (1976), 25-26.
"Mixed Media: Identity," Ann Arbor Review, No. 23 (1976), 49-54.
"Learning to Care for the Burns," Thistle 1, No. 3 (19976), 27-28.
"Midwest Summer," Red Cedar Review 11, No. l (January 1977), 7.
"Ring Poem," Red Cedar Review 11, No. 1 (January 1977), 16-17.
"Light Grows," Modern Poetry Studies 8, No. 3 (Winter 1977), 116.
"Love Poem," New Letters 44, No. 1 (Fall 1977), 102; rpt. in From A to Z, 200
Contemporary Poets, ed. David Ray. Ohio University Press, 1981, 244.
"Duet," Jeopardy 14 (Spring 1978), 35.
"Finale," Bleb-The Ark 13 (November 1978), 56.
"Flower Poem," Bleb-The Ark 13 (November 1978), 56.
"Elegy, on the Drowning of the Children," Bleb-The Ark 13 (November 1978), 57; rpt. in
Salome and Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, 1979.
"'I'd Prefer the Sea . . .'" Bleb-The Ark 13 (November 1978), 58; rpt. in A Room of
One's Own 4, No. 3 (1979), 69 and Salome.
"My Space," Bleb-The Ark 13 (November 1978), 56; rpt. in A Room of One's Own 4,
No. 3 (1979), 68.
"Still," Happiness Holding Tank 20 (1980), n.p.
"You Taught Me Elegance," Happiness Holding Tank 20 (1980), n.p.
"The Too-Bad-a-Woman Poem," Earth's Daughters 16 (1981), folio 2.
"Death Words," Lake Shore Review, No. 1 (Spring 1982), 22.
"For Sylvia, Late," Lake Shore Review, No. 1 (Spring 1982), 19-21.
"Poems of Isadora," performed, Studio for Creative Movement, New York, 1982.
"Michigan Winter," Lake Shore Review, No. 2 (Fall 1983), 44-45.
"Story of Anorexia," Kansas Quarterly 15, No. 4 (Fall 1983), 115-17.
"Story of Stones," The Poetry Review (PSA), 5 (September 1985), 44-45.
"So, How Would You Like to Sleep in the Closet After all These Years?" Shameless
Hussy Press.
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