Curriculum VitaeRobert Dalyrdaly@buffalo.edu

Department of English306 Clemens Hall, Box 604610University at BuffaloBuffalo, NY 14260-4610716-645-0701

Education

Cornell University, Ph.D. 1972University of Akron, M.A. 1967, B.A. 1965

Research Fellowships

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1979-80Leverhulme Fellowship, 1972-73

Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Grants to Direct Summer Seminars, 1996-97, 1993-94, 1991-92, 1989-90, 1988-89

Faculty Grant for Instructional Technology, 1995-96New York State/United University Professions "Experienced Faculty Travel Award," 1987National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (with Professors Ruth Meyerowitz and James

Bunn), 1984-86SUNY Research Development Fund Grant, 1982International Communication Agency Travel Grant (to read papers in Hungary, Denmark, and

Norway), 1980American Comparative Literature Association Travel Grant (part of a block grant from the

American Council of Learned Societies), 1976Institutional Funds Travel Grant, 1975-76New York Research Foundation Grants, 1977, 1975

Awards

SUNY Distinguished Academy, 2012-Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, 2009Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Certificate of Appreciation, 2007Career Services Award, 2005Provost’s Award, 2003Generation magazine selection as one of “Our Favorite Professors,” 2001Doylestown High School Wall of Fame, 1991

Pan-Hellenic Council Chi Omega Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1989Student Association Milton Plesur Memorial Teaching Award, 1988Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977Phi Kappa Phi, 1972Guilford Prize, Cornell University, 1971Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship (Ford Foundation), 1969-72National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship, 1969-72Pixley Awards, 1964, 1965Phi Sigma Alpha Scholarship, 1964Ashton Prize, 1963

Academic Appointments

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor University at Buffalo 1990-Professor of English University at Buffalo 1985-90Associate Professor of English University at Buffalo 1977-85Assistant Professor of English University at Buffalo 1973-77Instructor in English Iowa State University 1967-69

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Professor of English Chapman University 1982 Visiting Associate Professor of English Cornell University 1980 Visiting Appointment, Faculty of Literature Cambridge University 1979-80 Leverhulme Visiting Fellow University of Essex 1972-73

Affiliated Appointment

Department of Comparative Literature University at Buffalo Full Member 1996- Associate Member 1993-96

Citations from Google Scholar

Citation indices All Since 2012Citations 164 22h-index 6 2i10-index 5 0

Publications

Book

God's Altar: The World and the Flesh in Puritan Poetry. Berkeley: University of California

Press, 1978.

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Articles, Book Chapters, Reference Entries

“Networked Communities in Satanstoe: The Dialectical Pluralism of Cooper’s Late Style.” The James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal. 28.2 (Fall/Winter 2016): 10-12.

“’Singularly Connected’ in Septimius: Multiple Perspectives in Hawthorne’s Late Work” and “What Is the Custom-House?” A Passion for Getting It Right: Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. Colacurcio’s 50 Years of Teaching. Ed. Carol M. Bensick. New York: Peter Lang, 2016: 113-122.

“The World, the Flesh, and God in Puritan Poetry.” Chapter three in The Cambridge History of American Poetry. Ed. Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015: 65-85.

“The United States of America in the Networks of the World: Transatlantic Perspectives in LEAR 6.” The James Fenimore Society Newsletter, 25.2, Whole No. 72 (Fall 2014): 1, 3-8.

“The More We Know, the More We Notice: Informed Awareness in LEAR 5.” The James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter 24.3, Whole No. 70 (Winter 2013): 1, 7-8.

“Network Culture in James Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.” James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art. Papers from the 2011 Cooper Conference and Seminar (No. 18). Oneonta, NY: The James Fenimore Cooper Society and the College at Oneonta, 2013.

“Reading in Detail and in Context: Situational Awareness in LEAR 4.” The James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter 23.2, Whole No. 66 (Fall 2012): 3-4.

“The Joys of Scholarship in LEAR 3.” The James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter 22.3 (2011): 6-8.

“Mohicans, Virtue Ethics, Literature, and Life.” Leather-Stocking Redux; Or, Old Tales, New Essays. Ed. Jeffrey Walker. New York: AMS, 2011. 86-102.

Introduction, note on text, and bibliography for Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011. Ix-xxvi, 539-542.

“Reading Sedgwick Now: Empathy and Ethics in Early America.” Literature in the Early American Republic 2 (2010): 131-152.

“Among Our Beginnings: The Inaugural Issue of Literature in the Early American Republic.” James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter 20.2, Whole No. 57 (Fall, 2009): 3-4.

“From Glimmerglass to Mirror Neurons: Rewiring the Brain in the Quest for American Character.” James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art: Papers from the

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2007 Cooper Seminar. Ed. Hugh MacDougall and Steven Harthorn. New York, 2009: 15-18.

“Guilty Pleasures: Cooper and Cognitive Theory.” The James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter 19.2, Whole number 54 (fall 2008): 12.

Entry on William Bradford (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2008.

“From World to Word and Back Again: Coopers Now and Next.” Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper. Ed. Jeffrey Walker. New York: AMS Press, 2007 (published in September, 2008). 76-94.

“Coopers Creole: Literature and Ethics in America.” James Fenimore Cooper: A Geography of the Mind: Papers from the 2005 Cooper Seminar: Keynote Address. Ed. Hugh MacDougall and Steven Harthorn. New York, 2007. 31-40.

Entry on The Last of the Mohicans (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2007.

Entry on The Marble Faun (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2006.

Entry on The Blithedale Romance (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2006.

Entry on The House of the Seven Gables (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2006.

Entry on The Scarlet Letter (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2006.

Entry on John Gardner (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2005.

Entry on Nathaniel Hawthorne (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2004.

“Mischief, Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods.” Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Lucinda Damon-Bach and Victoria Clements. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003.

Entry on The Scarlet Letter. Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.

“A Book for the Millennial Generation: The Linwoods and Sixty Years Hence in America.” Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society Newsletter 3.1 (2002): 5.

“Endgame: How to Finish up, Saddle up, and Get the Hell out of Dodge.” The Graduate Quill (April/May 2002) 5, 13. [Invited, not refereed.]

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"Burned by the Hangman: Puritan Agency and the Road Not Taken." Pynchon Notes 44-45 (1999): 205-213. Published in February, 2002.

“Lexias and Agency in Anne Bradstreet." Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 7 (2001): 1-22.

“Publication: How to Break into Print before You Break out in a Rash.” The Graduate Quill (September 2001): 11-12. [Invited, not refereed.]

“Nostalgia for the Millennium: The View from 2051.” Buffalo News. 7 January 2001. F1,4. [Invited, not refereed.]

“Literary Competence and the Ruling Classes.” UB Today (spring/summer, 2000): 48. [Invited, not refereed.]

"Anne Bradstreet." One-thousand-word entry in American National Biography. 24 volumes.

New York: American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press, 1999.

"From Paradox and Aporia to Cultural Hybridization and Complex Adaptive Systems: New

Theories and the Uses of Cooper at the Present Time." James Fenimore Cooper: HisCountry and His Art. Ed. Hugh C. MacDougall. New York: James Fenimore CooperSociety, 1999. 23-31.

"Teaching Hope to Postmoderns, with Help from CS and Others." Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Society Newsletter 1.1 (1999): 5-7.

"’We Have Really No Country at All': Hawthorne's Reoccupations of History." Arachnē: An

Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature 3.1 (1996): 66-88.

"Anne Bradstreet and the Practice of Weaned Affections." DISCovering Authors (CD-ROM). Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. Rpt. from God's Altar.

"Powers of Humility and the Presence of Readers in Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley."

Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 4 (1993): 1-23.

"Transatlantic Perspectives: Founding Fictions in British-American Literature." American

Literary History 5 (1993): 552-563.

"Engines of Discourse: God and the Odds in Postmodern Literature." Denver Quarterly 27

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(1993): 6-16.

"Cooper's Allegories of Reading and `the Wreck of the Past.'" Readers in History: Nineteenth-

Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Ed. James L. Machor.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. 109-137.

"Recognizing Early American Literature." Early American Literature 25 (1990): 187-199.

"Liminality and Fiction in Cooper, Hawthorne, Cather, and Fitzgerald." Victor Turner and the

Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology. Ed. Kathleen M. Ashley. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. 70-85.

"How We Read Literature and Why It Matters." Denver Quarterly 24 (1989): 97-106.

"The Danforths: Puritan Poets in the Woods of Arcadia." Puritan Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Peter

White. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985. 147-157.

"American Visionary History: The Literary Creation of a Usable Past." The Origins andOriginality of American Culture. Ed. Tibor Frank. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado,

1984. 563-571.

Entries on Samuel Danforth I, John Danforth, and Samuel Danforth II in the Dictionary of

Literary Biography: American Colonial Writers 1606-1734. Ed. Emory Elliott. Detroit:

Gale Research Company, 1984. 81-86.

"John Gardner and the Emancipation of Genres." The Georgia Review 37 (1983): 420-428.Rpt. in The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism: Twentieth-Century

AmericanLiterature. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

"Puritan Poetics: The World, the Flesh, and God." Early American Literature 12 (1977): 136-

62. Rpt. in Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Michael T.

Gilmore. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1980. In the series, Twentieth Century

Views. Ed. Maynard Mack.

"Dryden's Ode to Anne Killigrew and the Communal Work of Poets." Texas Studies inLiterature and Language 18 (1976): 184-198.

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"A Continuous Renaissance: Contemporary American Poetry." Literatura na swieci (1976):

302-312.

"Fideism and the Allusive Mode in ‘Rappaccini's Daughter.'" Nineteenth-Century Fiction 28

(1973): 25-37.

"History and Chivalric Myth in ‘Roger Malvin's Burial.'" Essex Institute Historical Collections

109 (1973): 99-115. Rpt. in The Critical Perspective 8. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York:

Chelsea House, 1989.

"William Bradford's Vision of History." American Literature 44 (1973): 557-569.

Reviews

James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, by Wayne Franklin. New York History 91.1 (2010): 73-75.

Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Harvey L.

Gable, Jr. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 25.2 (1999): 17-20.

The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology, by Wolfgang Iser.Comparative Literature Studies 32 (1995): 536-539.

Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry, by Jeffrey A. Hammond. Early

American Literature 29 (1994): 96-98.

The First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775, by John Leacock. Ed.

Carla Mulford. American Literature 62 (1990): 503-504.

The Poems of Michael Wigglesworth. Ed. Ronald A. Bosco. Early American Literature 25

(1990): 321-323.

W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet, by A. Norman Jeffares. Poet and Critic 4 (1967): 45-46.

Papers

“Networked Communities in Satanstoe: The Dialectical Pluralism of Cooper’s Late Style.” 20th International James Fenimore Cooper Conference and Seminar. State University College at Oneonta. 3 June 2015.

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“Navigating Character: Nautical Talk and Virtue Ethics in The Pilot.” 19th International James Fenimore Cooper Conference and Seminar. State University College at Oneonta. 8 July 2013.

“’Singularly Connected’: Mirror Neurons and Deep Ecology in Blithedale and Septimius.” MLA Convention. Boston. 5 January 2013.

“Network Culture in James Fenimore Cooper and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.” 18th International James Fenimore Cooper Conference and Seminar. State University College at Oneonta. 14 July 2011.

“Learning Clairvoyance: Conditions of Perception in The Linwoods; or, ‘Sixty Years Since’ in America.” The Irrational, the Spiritual, the Romantic: Contested Discourses in 19th-Century American Women’s Writing: A Symposium. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. 18 June 2010.

“Cooper’s Stoic Cosmopolitanism and His Gleanings in Switzerland.” 17th International James Fenimore Cooper Conference and Seminar. State University College at Oneonta. 14 July 2009. Also on panel, “Why Cooper Matters in the 21st Century.”

“From Glimmerglass to Mirror Neurons: Rewiring the Brain in the Quest for American Character.” 16th International James Fenimore Cooper Conference and Seminar. State University College at Oneonta. 10 July 2007.

“Beauty and Ethics in the Berkshires.” 5th Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium. The Red Lion Inn: Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 3 June 2007.

“Why We Have to Read this Stuff and, Worse Yet, Think about It: New Work on the Practical Value of Literature and Even Theory.” Annual Humanities Institute Lecture. University at Buffalo. 20 March 2007.

“Creole Coopers: James and Susan, Literature and Ethics in America.” Keynote Address to the 15th International James Fenimore Cooper Symposium and Summer Course. State University College at Oneonta 250-acre College Camp. 16 June 2005.

“Reading Your Way from Beauty to Ethics: Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Twenty-First Century.” UB This Summer Cutting Edge Lecture Series. 9 June 2005.

“Metanoia: Nineteenth-Century Writers in the Network Culture of Twenty-First Century Readers.” The Resisting Reader, Then and Now: A Symposium in Honor of Judith Fetterley. University at Albany: State University of New York. 6 November 2004.

“Networks of America: Assembling a Nation in The Linwoods.” Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium. Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 13 June 2003.

“Leslie Fiedler’s Coming to Iowa.” American Literature Association Convention. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 22 May 2003.

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“The Rise and Fall of Individualism in American Literature.” Canisius College. 19 September 2002.

“Nations without Nationalism and Agency without Individualism in Hope Leslie and The Linwoods.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 25 May 2001.

“Mischief, Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods; or, ‘Sixty Years Since’ in America.” The Sedgwick Symposium. Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 10 June 2000.

"Lexias and Agency in Anne Bradstreet." Society of Early Americanists Biannual Convention.

Charleston, South Carolina. 5 March 1999.

"Subversion as National Service: Catharine Maria Sedgwick as Canny Navigator on the Many

Seas of Convention." The Sedgwick Symposium. Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 7 June

1997.

"Cooper's Medicine for the Trauma of History." Central New York Conference on Language

and Literature. Cortland, New York. 21 October 1996.

"New Theories for Reading Literature and Life: Or Why We Should Care about Narrative

Therapy, Trauma Theory, Ecocriticism, and Literary Anthropology, as Well as Louise

Rosenblatt and Jean-Luc Nancy." University of Wyoming. 19 June 1996.

"Literary Lessons: What We Learn from Reading." Niagara County Community College. 2

April 1996.

"New Theories and the Uses of Cooper at the Present Time." The Cooper Seminar. Oneonta

and Cooperstown, New York. 14 July 1995.

"`We Have Really No Country at All': Hawthorne's Reoccupations of History." ModernLanguage Association. Toronto. 30 December 1993.

"Authoring Subjects." Modern Language Association. Toronto. 27 December 1993.

"Humility to Die For: The Ironies of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley." ModernLanguage Association. San Francisco. 27 December 1991.

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"On the Threshold of America with Washington Irving's Storytellers." American Literature Association. San Diego. 2 June 1990.

"Culture and Reading: A Better Road from Theory to Practice." Modern LanguageAssociation. Washington, D.C. 28 December 1989.

"Making Sense of Early American Literature, with a Little Help from Ludwig Wittgenstein."

University of Connecticut. 18 April 1989.

"How We Read Literature and Why It Matters." University of Connecticut. 17 April 1989.

"Early American Literature and Cultural Criticism: From Attempts at Thematic Unity toEpistemological Connections." Modern Language Association. New

Orleans. 28 December 1988.

"Rewriting an American Reader: The Example of James Fenimore Cooper." ModernLanguage Association. San Francisco. 30 December 1987.

"Reimagining the Past: The Romantic in America." Hilbert College. 7 October 1987.

"How to Survive in America." Canisius College. 17 April 1986.

"John Gardner and the Epistemology of Myth." Modern Language Association. Chicago. 28

December 1985.

"Another Theory of American Fiction." Louisiana State University. 11 December 1985.

"Liminality and Fiction in Irving, Cooper, Cather, Fitzgerald, and Gardner." ModernLanguage Association. Washington, D.C. 28 December 1984.

"Literature and Acculturation in Early America." Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. 27 December 1984.

"Liminality and Storytelling in Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Cather." University of Florida.

17 January 1984.

"Literature as History." University of California at Irvine. 15 February 1983.

"How Foundlings Become Founders." Chapman University. 7 January 1982.

"Reading America and Writing It." Modern Language Association. New York. 29 December

1981.

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"American Visionary History and the Search for an American Literature." University of East

Anglia. 5 June 1980.

"From Puritanism to the Present: An Important Continuity in American Literature." University

of Bergen. 17 April 1980.

"Puritan Influences on Contemporary American Literature." Copenhagen School of Economics. 15 April 1980.

"`American Literature' as Epistemological Category: From a Puritan Past to an Ethnic Present."

University of Copenhagen. 15 April 1980.

"The Literary Origins of American Culture." Hungarian Academy of the Sciences, Budapest.

11 April 1980.

"Colloquium on American Visionary History." University of California at Santa Barbara.

26 January 1979.

"American Visionary History: The Literary Creation of a Usable Past." University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. 25 January 1979.

"Liminality and the Continuing Need for American Visionary History." Modern Language

Association. New York. 28 December 1978.

"Anne Bradstreet and the Poetics of Weaned Affections." Modern Language Association. New York. 28 December 1978.

"American Visionary History." Modern Language Association. Chicago. 28 December 1976.

"The European Origins of American Visionary History." Plenary session. AmericanComparative Literature Association. Philadelphia. 23 April 1976.

"American Literature and an American's Identity." New York State English Council. Buffalo. 10 October 1975.

"Revising the Classics: The Use of John Seelye's True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."University of Essex. 9 November 1972.

Consulting

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Editorial Board, Literature in the Early American Republic, winner of the 2010 award for Best New Journal by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) 2008-

Advisory Board, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, 1997-2008, 2008-Board of Advisors, James Fenimore Cooper Society, 2006-2007, 2007-2009, 2009-

2012, 2013-2015, 2015-2021Evaluator, SUNY Faculty Diversity Program: Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

2016-2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010National Endowment for the Humanities Grant-Review Panelist, Washington D.C., 28-

29 April 2004.Selection Committee for papers to be given at the annual conference of the American

Literature Association, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, 2002Outside Evaluator: Department of English, University of Connecticut, 2000Reader: MIT Press, Thomas Briggs and Company, University of Virginia Press, Oxford

University Press, University of California Press, SUNY Press, University of Tennessee Press, Literature in the Early American Republic, Early American Literature, PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, Prose Studies, American Literary History, National Endowment for the Humanities Media Program

External evaluator on Promotions: New York University, Cornell University, UCLA, George Washington University, George Mason University, Colorado State University, Kansas State University, University of Connecticut, SUNY Oneonta, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Executive Committee, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, 1988-89Richard Beale Davis Prize Committee, 1991 (Chair), 1987Executive Committee, Division on American Literature to 1800, Modern Language Association,

1983-87 (Chair, 1986)Editorial Board, Early American Literature, 1980-83

Membership in Professional Associations

Modern Language Association, life memberAmerican Literature AssociationSociety of Early AmericanistsCatharine Maria Sedgwick Society, founding member, life member, Advisory BoardJames Fenimore Cooper Society, member of the Board of Directors, later Board of AdvisorsNathaniel Hawthorne Society

Teaching 1973-

Graduate Seminars

The Puritan TraditionDefinitions of AmericaNathaniel HawthorneThe American NovelNineteenth-Century American LiteratureContemporary American FictionAmerican Classics and American CultureResearch in American Civilization

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The Twentieth-Century American Novel

Undergraduate Courses

Early American LiteratureThe American RenaissanceHawthorneDefinitions of AmericaMajor American Writers I & IIAmerican Literature 1865-1914Biography and AutobiographyAmerican Visionary HistoryThe Novel in the U.S.Modern American FictionAmerican Literature and CultureFreshman Composition 101 & 201Mark Twain and His ContemporariesLiterature of American Democracy Science, Literature, and SocietyThe Modern American NovelVisions of AmericaAmerican Literature 1828-1865American Classics and American Culture

Ph.D. Qualifying Examination Committees

Sybil JamesMi-ae ParkAndrea RossHoward BennettSusan DixStephen KenneyCory IrelandPaula ReynoldsMary CappelloNan ClarksonValerie BabbJocelyn SheppardStratton RawsonPamela HanksLaura LaffradoMichael HodgeMarc SmithJeanne HollandDouglas PastelDouglas CrowellTerese HartmanRita LiottaLaraine FlemingNicole Williams

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Cheryl BellMadelyn JablonBeverly Anne SanfordRuth KirsteinMary Adams HilmerBeverly CrockettPaul ForteMaria Francesca CicardiMartha WernerRebecca CochranKathleen FerracaneScott EdelsteinIris BleekerMichael DegnanGeraldine StrubleDavid LundAmy CohenLucinda DamonJan OelhoeftJohn KeaveyClark DavisBarbara PorterJoseph LinzmeierPiotr ParlejMarcella ShermanWilliam BrownKandace LombartJames Martin-DiazCharles JonesArdeth EvansEllen WhittierScott MichaelsonGail BrissonKatherine WalkeAnthony HughesKathy PhelpsJennifer Spungin KehoeKristin DykstraHugh RheingoldKyunghoon JungElizabeth DillAnn KeeferBeth SnyderLaurel OdeRené RojasGregory FowlerYong-ju LeeKyeong-hwa LeeKan-anek JaruraksaRobert Zamsky

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Louise ContinelliKevin GraukeSinikka GrantElizabeth SantilloRobert O. LopezAnn RiveraCharity VogelRay StoneAyumi TakagiJohn MorsellinoBenjamin RobertsonSophia ForsterNora DooleyMaglina LubovichKevin PelletierChristopher LeiseSangjoon HanDeveryle JamesNozomi FujimuraSara KakasuElizabeth BurnsRichard GarnerMichael HurstDebra GoodmanTim BryantShosuke Kinugawa

Erika LaymanHiroshi AiikiClaire BrownDaniel SchweitzerErika Layman

M.A. Qualifying Examination Committees

Ian StapleyKatharine StifflerJane MarshallChristopher TeepeAllison FarrellJason PrattKathryn EnglishEric MillsPamela Emigh-MurphyCandace FaubertElise AllenJung-min Kim

Ph.D. Dissertations--Director

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James Martin-DiazStephen KenneyKathleen BooneBarbara PorterMichael DegnanBeverly Anne SanfordMary Adams HilmerLaura LaffradoScott EdelsteinPaula ReynoldsJeanne HollandBrenda BrockGeorge KelleyGail BrissonNaochika TakaoKathy PhelpsJennifer Spungin KehoeElizabeth Anne DillMakiko WakabayashiGregory FowlerZubeda JalalzaiKyunghoon JungRené RojasTodd NothsteinCharity VogelRay StoneAnn R. RiveraJohn MorsellinoDeveryle JamesMijeong ParkJosh WeinsteinShelby CrosbyNozomi FujimuraChristopher LeiseLouise ContinelliCrystal Gorham DossMin Young KimJohn Jay Wood

Ph.D. Dissertations--Reader

Thomas StenderMitchell BreitwieserBlair BooneSandra DuguidMarilyn MatisChristopher LalondMichael HodgePamela HanksJohn Keavey

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Ross PudaloffPeter SidleckiTerese HartmanMark MalonekDouglas CrowellNicole WilliamsRita LiottaDiane BonoraPatricia GannonJan OelhoeftPiotr ParlejRebecca CochranValerie BabbBeverly CrockettElizabeth ShipleyMargaret HendersonClark DavisMichael PikusMatthew GoodwinMartha WernerKatherine Walke GillespieAnn GoldsmithRobert DuranteAmy SmithLucinda L. Damon-BachCynthia DoellHugh RheingoldAnn KeeferBeth RheingoldLaurel OdeKevin GraukeRobert O. LopezLori JacobsonRoumiana VelikovaRobert ZamskyLia VellaKoichi SuwabeAndrew SutherlandKyeonghwa LeeElizabeth SantilloMaglina LubovichSinikka GrantKevin PelletierJonathan MurphyNora DooleySangjoon HanElizabeth BurnsElizabeth StoneChiou-rung DengRichard A. Garner

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Tim BryantZhen LiSara KakazuHeather DuncanMaki SadahiroClaire BrownHiroshi AiikiErika Layman

M.A. Theses--Director

Angelika IlgSheila RodriguezAndrea SullivanDaniel WeinsteinShimon TanakaSerena Shiuh-huah ChouMarc FontanarosaCharity VogelChristopher TeepeJoomi KimLeslie CrowellRussell SbrigliaJonathan CrowleyElise AllenJames Van WyckCheryl CamardoJennifer CollinsLisa LofasoJennifer JaworekMatthew AlexanderAustin Little

M.A.H. Theses--Director

Paula ReynoldsAmy RosenHarry HawthorneKatherine HaynieDonna DuselCecelia WallinJane HardingElizabeth Anne FinneganGentre Michael GarmonTalia Laura MaiyanDiane AuerbachKristen E. PerilloLaura Wiggins

Honors Theses--Director

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Henry HenkelElizabeth FlecheMarc PotolskyElizabeth OldachDavid KesslerJennifer LaClairAnn FoxPatrick KavanaghDiana WhippleJennifer FergusonLaura QuebralMitchell MaxickRobert WegrzynowskiAlexander GuambanaRafia MirzaJi-Hae ParkAngela SnyderElizabeth MassaLisa FanaroColleen BrittenAllison N. RitchieAimee WoznickBen CadyRyan FlemingJosh NewmanLauren AdornettoAmanda HaesslerFrancis NormanMadeline MorcelleDelaney MarscoChelsea ClutterCatherine PrendergastLaura DaynesEric CortellessaKatie MarcheseMax CrinninChristina SwiatowiGerard Kennedy

Graduate Advisor

Margaret KonkleJung-min KimMin Young KimRyan HudginsLaura HenschJohn Jay WoodHannah FogartyAlexandra French

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Service

Department of English

Administrative Positions

Director of Graduate Studies, 1983-85 Associate Chair, 1980-81 Vice Chair, Director of Teaching Fellows, 1976-77

Other Service

English Department Reunion, Back to the Classroom: “A Matter of Life and Death: Adaptationist Literary Criticism for Fun and Profit, with, of Course, a Handout.” 9 April 2016.

Reading and Interviewing Committee for the candidacy of Chad Lavin, 2015 Reader for Departmental Honors Program selection, 1992-2016 Graduate Review Committee, 2013-2015 Ad Hoc Awards Committee, 2014- “Literary Competence and the Ruling Classes”: “Faces and Voices” (a short lecture-

video on the University Website), 2013 Judge for the English Department Essay Contest, 2013 Assessment Committee for Middle States Accreditation, 2011-2012 Reading Committee for Andrew Stott, 2010 Judge for Cook, Hammond, Logan Prize, 2012, 2010 Inaugural Fireside Chat for English SA on “The Practical Value of Literature,” 18

November 2009. Executive Committee, 2007-2008, 2005-06, 1991-92, 1982-86, 1980-81, 1975-77 Chair, Reading Committee for Dimitri Anastasapoulos, 2006-2007 Senior Americanist Hiring Committee, 2006-2007 Department Chair Hiring Committee, 2005-2006 Advocate: Carine Mardorossian, Scott Stevens, Hershini Young, Daniel Hack, David

Schmid, Alan Spiegel Representative lecture for English, CAS 101, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005,

2004, 2003 Chair, Guidelines on Promotion to Tenure Committee, 1999-2000 Undergraduate Advising, 1998-99 Planning Committee, 1997-99 Endowed Chairs Renewal Committee, 1999 Placement Committee for English and Comparative Literature, 1996-99 Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 1994-95, 1983-85, 1976-77 Graduate Review Committee, 2014-15, l999-2000, 1992-94, 1983-85 Long-Range Planning Committee, 1989-90 Junior Recruitment Committee, 1989-90, 1984-85 Butler Chair Committee, 1986-87 McNulty Chair Search Committee, 1986-87, 1983-84 Executive Committee, 2005-06, 1991-92, 1982-86, 1980-81, 1975-77 Butler Prize Committee, 1990 (chair), 1983, 1982 (chair) University Open House, 1980-85

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Poetry Committee, 1978-79 Senior Recruitment Committee, 1977-79 Summer School Committee, 1983-85, 1976-77 Graduate Scheduling Committee, 1983-85 Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1980-81, 1975-77 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1982-83, 1975-79 Library Committee, 1975-79 (chair, 1978-79)

College of Arts and Sciences

Hiring Committee, African and African-American Studies, 2009-2010 Hiring Committee, Asian Studies, 2009-2010 Sponsored Research Advisory Group, 2003- Digital Humanities Grants Selection Committee, 2008 Hiring Committee, Comparative Literature, 2002-03 Dean’s Panel, Fellowships and Grants Workshop, 11 December 2002 Dean’s Panel, Promotion and Tenure Workshop, 21 October 2002 Committee on Awards and Recognitions, 2000-2001 Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee, 1999-2002, 1996-99, 1989-90, 1983-84 Presidential Fellowship Selection Committee, 1997 Bylaws Committee, 1992-93 Graduate Divisional Committee, 1983-85, (Summer chair, 1985, 1984) External Funds Committee, 1984-85 Committee on Tolstoy College, 1983-84 Educational Policy Committee, 1982-85 Search Committee for a Chair, Department of English, 1976

University

Elected Positions

Board of Directors, Campus Club, 1996-98 President, University Faculty Club, 1989-90, Vice President, 1988-89

Administrative Positions

Associate Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, 1986-89 Associate Dean of the Graduate School, 1985-89

Other Service

Center for Educational Innovation Seed Grant Review Panel, 2016, 2015 Advisory Council: Office of Educational Innovation and Assessment, 2014-2017 Reader for SUNY Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: 2016-2017, 2015, 2014,

2013, 2012, 2011 Reader and Judge for Millonzi Distinguished Honors Scholarship in Creative or

Performing Arts, 2014 Presidential Fellowships Committee, Graduate School, 2003-2015 University Honors College Admissions Committee, 2012-

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Chair, Dean Review Committee for School of Medicine, 2011-2012 UB Scholarship Gala Executive Committee, 2008-2011 UB Scholarship Gala Volunteer Committee, 2011-2012 Search Committee for Vice Provost and Director of University Libraries, 2010 Cultures and Texts Strategic Strength Faculty Advisory Committee, 2009-2014 Vice President’s Research Advisory Council, 2008-2010 President's Review Board on Faculty Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure, 2008-

2009, 1996, 1990-93 Chair, Provost’s Search Committee for the Dean of Arts and Sciences, 2006-2007 University Honors Council, 1998-2008 Provost’s Task Group on Research Incentives and Support, 2005 Provost’s Working Group on Academic Programs, 2005 Honors Convocation Readings: 11 May 2007, 12 May 2006, 13 May 2005, 7 May 2004, 9 May 2003 Alumni Association Awards Committee, 2003-2004 Provost's Committee on Honorary Degrees, 1991-2004 Committee on Distinguished Alumni Awards, 2000-2004 Provost's Selection Committee on Distinguished Teaching Professorships, 1999-2001 Provost's Selection Committee on Distinguished Professorships, 1999-2001 College of Arts and Sciences Founders Committee: Subcommittee on Personnel, 1998-99 Mentor, University Honors Program, 1985- Provost's Task Force: "Stresses on Research and Education," Subcommittee on Patterns of Institutional Support, 1996 Selection Committee, Conferences in the Disciplines, 1996 Selection Committee, Sesquicentennial Projects, 1996 University Committee on the Humanities, 1994-96 Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Planning, 1993-96 University Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate School, 1994-95 Chair, Humanities Institute Task Force, 1990 Graduate Program Evaluation Review Committee, 1989-90 Graduate School Executive Committee, 1985-89 (Chair, 1986-88) Chair, University Graduate Fellowships Committee, 1985-89 Minority Fellowships Committee, 1987-89 Mark Diamond Fellowship Research Council, 1987-89 Visiting Faculty Housing Committee, 1987-89 Chair, Faculty Club Board of Directors Nominating Committee, 1986-87 Chair, University Language Policy Action Committee, 1985-89 Graduate School Subcommittee on External Evaluation, 1986-87 Graduate School Representative on Recruiting Trips, 1984-89 Screening Committee, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching,

1987, 1986, 1981 Undergraduate Representative on Recruiting Trips, 1986, 1985 Graduate School Bylaws Committee, 1985-89 Undergraduate College Executive Committee, 1985-88 Arts and Sciences Publicity and Recruitment Subcommittee, 1982-83 University Search Committee for Dean, Faculty of Arts and Letters, 1981

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Screening Committee, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship, 1976-78 Faculty Senate Study Group, 1977 Faculty Senate Library Committee, 1976-79 Faculty Senate Bookstore Committee, 1975-76 Faculty Senate, 1974-77

Community: Lectures and Seminars

“Metanoia: Approaching Perfection Asymptotically.” Honors College. University at Buffalo. 24 September 2014.

“Our ‘Need of Being Versed’: Frost, Vergil, and the Uses of Poetry.” Inaugural Lecture at the 1st Annual Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection Event. 1 April 2014. Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo.

“F. Scott Fitzgerald and Buffalo, NY.” Introduction to the Buffalo premier of “The Great Gatsby.” Walden Galleria Theater. 7 May 2013.

Co-director, Cultures and Texts Strategic Strengths Workshop, “Word and the World.” Norton 9. 28 October 2011.

“Experience is the Worst Teacher: Learning through Mimesis, Imitation, Representation.” Honors College. University at Buffalo. 21 October 2011.

“Literary Form and Strategy in Life.” An Address to Students from the Urban League. University at Buffalo. 10 October 2011.

“Bringing the Muses Home.” Address at the Department of English Commencement. 13 May 2011.

“Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom: A Novel and the Future of Literary Criticism.” The Analytical Psychology Society. 20 April 2011.

“The Worst Class You Will Ever Teach.” Keynote address at the Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Awards Ceremony. 25 March 2011.

“Mirror Neurons and the Pragmatics of Literature.” The Analytical Psychology Society. 29 April 2009.

“Why We Have to Know This Stuff: Abstract Learning and Actual Life.” University Spring Forum. Drama Theater, Center for the Arts. 29 March 2008.

“Taking the World Seriously: Recent Work on the Practical Value of Literature.” C. G. Jung Center. 4 April 2007.

“The Grass Dancer, by Susan Power, and the Powers of Virtue Ethics.” The Garret Club. 20 and 27 October, 3 November 2006.

“Character Creole: Literature and Ethics in America.” Americanist Colloquium. 8 September 2005.

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Sole Faculty Responder to Six Papers, Graduate Americanist Symposium. 11 February 2005.

“The Work of Inspiration.” Department of English Commencement Address. 9 May 2004.

“Slow Reading: Why It Matters, How to Do It, How to Teach It.” UB Center for Teaching Resources. Clemens 120. 14 November 2003.

“The Honors Thesis: Why and How.” University Honors Program. 3 November 2003.

“Leslie Fiedler’s Coming to Iowa.” Come Back to the Raft: A Leslie Fiedler Symposium. UB. 30 October 2003.

“Bringing the Muses Home” Department of English Commencement Address. 11 May 2003.

“Emerson’s Society.” Unitarian Church of Amherst. 13 April 2003.

“Getting Things Done: Literature and Agency in the Information Age.” UB Alumni 50-Year Reunion. 15 June 2001.

Great Books Foundation panel discussion on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Buffalo Historical Society. 18 October 2000.

“Publication: An Outsider’s Guide.” English Graduate Students Association. 10 February 2000.

"Lies, All Lies: Reading Fictions for Fun and Profit." Dean's Lecture Series, College of Arts

and Sciences. 22 November 1999.

"Justice and Representation in The Scarlet Letter." Humanities One Series. University at

Buffalo. 19 October 1999.

"New Ways of Reading, with Toni Morrison and N. Scott Momaday." The Garret Club. 16,

23, and 30 April 1999.

"Publication, Fellowships, and Grants." English Graduate Students Association. 28 April

1999.

"The ‘Applicable Technology' of Literary Learning in Nathaniel Hawthorne's `My Kinsman,

Major Molineux.'" Humanities One Series. University at Buffalo. 29 September 1998.

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"Lexia and Agency in Literature and Life." Horizons Lecture. 15 September 1998.

"Publishing in Scholarly Journals." English Graduate Student Association. 10 December

1997.

"The `Applicable Technology' of Literature." Humanities One Series. University at Buffalo. 23 September 1997.

"William Butler Yeats: The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry." Garret Club. 1, 8, and 15

March 1996.

"Stories and Lives, Meanings and Nations: Or, Why We Bother Reading Things that People Just

Make Up." Inaugural Lecture, Provost's Distinguished Professor Series. University at

Buffalo. 20 February 1996.

"At Home in America: The Journeys of Nathaniel Hawthorne." Garret Club. 7, 14, and 21

January 1994.

"The Powers of Tradition and the Heroism of Wit: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and Dorothy Parker." Garret Club. 27 March, 3 and 10 April 1992.

"The Humanities of Science." National Science Foundation Distinguished Lecturers Series. Roswell Park Memorial Institute. 25 June 1991.

"The Human Values of a Life in Science." National Science Foundation Distinguished

Lecturers Series. Roswell Park Memorial Institute. 3 July 1990.

"Science, Literature, and Society." Emeritus Association, SUNY/Buffalo. 12 and 19 April, 3 and 10 May 1990.

"Mary Rowlandson, Willa Cather, and Emily Dickinson." Garret Club. 12, 19, and 26January 1990.

"Dorothy Parker and the Heroism of Wit." The Thursday Book Club of The Twentieth

Century Club. 6 April 1989.

"The Dangers of Self and the Need for Alterity." Keynote Address to the Conference on Cross-

Cultural Communication, The International Institute. 5 November 1988.

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"Uncommon Commonplaces: Buffalo Seminary Commencement Address." Westminster

Presbyterian Church. 4 June 1987.

"How We Read Literature and Why It Matters." Doylestown Lions Club. 17 March 1987.

"The Liberations of Culture in Susan Allen Toth's Ivy Days and Blooming." The Thursday

Book Club of the Twentieth Century Club. 5 February 1987.

"Children of the Word: The Puritan Founding of America." Highland Park Baptist Church.

13 August 1986.

"Living with Fiction in Willa Cather's My Antonia." Westminster Presbyterian Church. 25

May 1986.

"Reflections in a Compound Eye: Fiction and the Founding of America." Westminster

Presbyterian Church. 18 May 1986.

"A Chronology of the Research Essay." Faculty Workshop. West Seneca East Senior High

School. 10 March 1986.

"Liminality and Fiction in American Culture." Buffalo Seminary. 5 November 1985.

"American Classics and American Culture." Buffalo Seminary. 13 March 1985.

"The Practical Value of the Arts and Sciences." Conference on What Teachers Should Know.

SUNY/Buffalo. 5 February 1985.

"Hawthorne and Iser on History and Fiction." Nichols School. 13 November 1984.

"Cubism, Epistemology, Ontic Commitments, Semiotics, and Just Growing Up in Padgett

Powell's Edisto." The Thursday Book Club of the Twentieth Century Club. 1 November

1984.

"John Gardner and the Freedom of Art." Unitarian Church of Buffalo. 21 August 1983.

"The American Puritans and the Word of God." Highland Park Baptist Church. 30 March

1983.

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"The Vergilian Quest in American Poetry." The Twentieth Century Club. 23 February 1983.

"Thoreau's Religion." Unitarian Church of Buffalo. 14 November 1982.

"`The Rock Foundations of America.'" Emeritus Association. SUNY/Buffalo. 9 November

1982.

"The Uses of Education in Mickelsson's Ghosts." The Thursday Book Club of TheTwentieth-Century Club. 4 November 1982.

"Imagining America." Intensive English Language Institute. SUNY/Buffalo. 28 April 1982.

"How Foundlings Become Founders." The Twentieth Century Club. 17 February 1982.

"Our `Foundling Fathers' and the Real American Tradition." Unitarian Church of Buffalo. 5

July 1981.

"Finding the Right Name for the Past in Freddy's Book, `Rumpelstiltzkin,' and Other Recent

Work by John Gardner." The Thursday Book Club of the Twentieth Century Club. 5

February 1981.

"American Uniqueness: A European Import?" The English-Speaking Union. 12 December 1980.

"Liminality in American Literature." Nichols School. 22 September 1980.

"The Ironies of Millard Fillmore and His College." Awards Ceremony, Millard Fillmore

College. 6 May 1979.

"A Sense of Time, Place, and Community: A Lecture Including Reviews of The Stories of John

Cheever and Lauren Bacall by Myself." The Thursday Book Club of the Twentieth

Century Club. 5 May 1979.

"A Fan's View of The Silmarillion." Inaugural lecture in the series Scholars Scan the Sellers.

SUNY/Buffalo. 21 March 1979.

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"Literature as an Alternative World." Emeritus Association. SUNY/Buffalo. 15 March 1979.

"Poetry after 1950." Albright-Knox Art Gallery. 8 March 1978.

"Tolkien's Need for Middle Earth, and Ours." The Thursday Book Club of The Twentieth

Century Club. 6 April 1978.

"How Tolkien Made a World of Words." Amherst Senior Citizens Center. 3 March 1978.

"A Reader's Guide to Britain." The Twentieth Century Club. 22 February 1978.

"English Land and English Literature." Buffalo Seminary Graduates Association. 16

December 1977.

"Growing up in America." Amherst Senior Citizens Center. 15 March 1977.

"American Visionary History." Buffalo Seminary Graduates Association. 11 March 1977.

"Childhood in Colonial New England." Given to Mrs. Rubeck's fourth-grade class at Windermere Boulevard Elementary School. 9 December 1976.

"Acculturation in America: A Lecture Including Reviews of Loren Eiseley's All the Strange

Hours and Larry Woiwode's Beyond the Bedroom Wall: A Family Album." The Study

Club of the Twentieth Century Club. 8 April 1976.

"Books for the Bicentennial: A Lecture Including Reviews of Linda Pastan's Aspects of Eve, Richard Hugo's What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American, and Carl Dennis's A House of

My Own." MacAlpine Presbyterian Church. 18 January 1976.

"America and the History of the Future: A Reconsideration of the Pilgrim Thanksgiving." The

Twentieth Century Club. 5 November 1975.

"Creating an American Culture: A Lecture Including Reviews of Mary Helen Dohan's Our Own Words, William O. Douglas's Go East, Young Man, and E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime."

Amherst Reading Club. 9 October 1975.

"America at the Bicentennial: A Lecture Including Reviews of Edmund Morgan's The Birth of

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the American Republic, Daniel J. Boorstin's An American Primer, Gary Snyder's Turtle

Island, and James Wright's Two Citizens." Amherst Book Club. 2 October 1975.

"Anne Bradstreet and Annie Dillard: Pilgrims in Nature." The Culture Club of Kenmore. 9 May 1975.

"Defining an American Culture: A Lecture Including Reviews of Galway Kinnell's The Avenue

Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World, Robert Lowell's History, WilliamStafford's Someday, Maybe, and John Gardner's Nickel Mountain." The

TwentiethCentury Club. 26 February 1975.

"Toward an American Identity: A Lecture Including Reviews of Michael Kammen's People of Paradox, Larzer Ziff's Puritanism in America, and Alistair Cooke's America." Amherst

Book Club. 3 October 1974.

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