Convention Papers Delivered

Reviews, articles, and other publications

Dissertation and Theses Committees 

Ph.D., April, 2000.  : University of Wisconsin-Madison; Educational Psychology. 
Dissertation:  "Red-Eye Milton and the Loom of Learning: English Professor Expertise.

Ph.D.: Oct. 1971 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; English Literature. 
Dissertation: The Early Fiction of George Orwell.

M.S.: June 1966: State University of New York, Cortland; English Education.

B.S.: Aug. 1963: State University of New York, Cortland; English Education

Areas of Specialization:
1. Psychological Approaches to Literary Criticism
2. English Education
3. Modern British and American Literature
4. Compostition and Rhetoric

Professional Experience:
1. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb; Department of English 1971--
A)  Editorial Board, Style 2001 --
B)  Editorial Board, College Literature  2002 ---
C) Co-Editor, Style1989-1991
D) Associate Editor, Style1985-1989
E) Coordinator, English Education 1983-1988
F)  Professor 1998
G)  Associate Professor 1979-- 1998
H)  Assistant Professor 1971-1979

2. University of Wisconsin-Madison; Research Associate, National Center on Effective 
Secondary Schools, 1986-1989; Stratification Project: Martin Nystrand 
and Adam Gamoran, P.I.'s.

3. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Graduate Teaching Assistant.
Department of English 1966-1971
Department of Secondary Education 1969-19714. 
Chittenango Central High School, Chittenango, N.Y. Teacher of English, 1963-1966.

Convention Papers Delivered

"Beyond Reductionism: Humanistic Psychology & Modern American Literature." 
Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 1975.

"Contract/Conference Evaluations of Freshman Composition." Virginia Union U. Conference. 
Richmond, VA. Jan. 1976.

"Orwell's Humor: 'Funny but not Vulgar.'" Twentieth Century Literature Conference, 
  Louisville, Kentucky, February 1980.

"The Seasons of a Man's Life in Literature," Conference on Men in the 1980's, 
  Rock Valley College, Rockford, Illinois, November 1980.

"Socrates' Therapist: Journey Toward Scientific personality in Pirsig's Zen 
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, 
Louisville, Kentucky, February 1981.

"Strategies for Individual Progress When Teaching High School Level Literature 
and Composition," New York State College Learning Association, 
Syracuse, N.Y., April, 1982.

"Family Rage and Systemic Order: A Family Systems-Psychological Reading of Henry Roth's 
Call It Sleep," Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, 
February, 1983.

"Politics vs Nature: An Overview of Orwell's Fictional Techniques." Chicago Public 
Library Cultural Center, January, 1984.

"George Orwell: Political Rationality and Natural Wisdom." Honors Council of the
Illinois Region/Upper Midwest Honors Council Conference, April 1984.

"Orwell's 1984: The Myth of Political Rationality; The Hope of Natural Wisdom." 
Illinois Phi Theta Kappa Keynote address, Peoria, Il., November, 1984.

"Teaching Family Systems Theory and Fiction." American Popular Culture Conference. 
St. Louis, MO. April, 1988.

"Teaching Literature Interactively." New ideas in History/New Ideas in English 
Conference. DeKalb, Il. Nov. 1991.

"Critical Process and Psychological Development: The Example of John Fowles's 
The Magus." 20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Ky. Feb. 1992.

"The Narrator's Bias: Family Systems & Lawrence's Sons and Lovers. 
International Conference on Narrative. Albany, New York. April 1-4, 1993.

"Foundations of Interdisciplinarity: The Notion of Evidence." Midwestern American Society 
for Eighteenth Century Studies. Bloomington, Illinois. Oct. 13-15, 1994.

"Foundations of Interdisciplinarity: What is (a) Discipline?" Midwestern American Society 
for Eighteenth Century Studies. Minneapolis, MN. Oct. 5- 7, 1995.

"Expanding the Conversation on Reflection: Innovative Practices, New Understandings, 
Current Practices."   NCTE, Montreal, Canada  June 26 - 28, 1997.

"Teaching Literature to Non-English Majors:  How to Tell a Novice Student from 
a  N.E.R.V.O.U.S. One."  6th Annual Graduate Conference on Film, Language, 
and Literature.  Dekalb, IL. March 28, 1998.

"Using Family Systems Psychotherapy to Teach Literature."  7th Annual Midwest 
Conference on Film, Language, and Literature.  DeKalb, IL.  March 27 - 29, 1999.

"Family Systems Psychotherapy and Shakespeare's *Hamlet.*  
International Conference on Narrative.  Dartmouth College, April 29 May 2, 1999.

"The Evolution of The Great Books: Literature and Psychology in the Humanities."  
U. of Illinois-Chicago/Great Books Foundation Conference.  April 26, 27, 2001

Articles Published (* = refereed; # = commissioned)

# "Objective Evaluation of Student Themes," Research Report #312, Office of Instructional 
Resources, University of Illinois (April, 1970): 1-27.

* "Essay Grading by Computer: A laboratory Phenomenon?" (with H. B. Slotnick), 
English Journal, 60.1 (January, 1971): 75-87.

# "Bits. Nybbles, Bytes: A View of Electronic Grading" (with H. B. Slotnick), 
Journal of Business Communication, 8.2 (Winter, 1971): 35-52.

* "Dance to a Creepy Minuet: Orwell's Burmese Days, Precursor to Animal Farm," 
Modern Fiction Studies, 21.1 (Spring, 1975): 11-29.

* "The Double Life of George Bowling: Orwell's Coming Up For Air," Review of 
Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, VIX.2 (1975-76): 109-125.

* "A Sensual New Jerusalem: Hawkes' The Blood Oranges," critique, 17.3 
(April, 1976): 5-24.

* "Contract/Conference Evaluations of Freshman Composition." College English, 
37.7 (March, 1976): 647-653.

# "A Sensual New Jerusalem," Reprinted in part, Contemporary Literary Criticism. 
7. (Fall, 1977).

* "Orwell's Fiction: 'Funny but not Vulgar,'" Modern Fiction Studies, 27.2 (1981): 294-301.

# "John Hawkes," Critical Survey of Short Fiction, 7 vols, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: ]
Salem Press, 1981: 4, 1598-1604.

# "George Orwell," Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 8 vols, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 
Salem Press, 1983: 5, 2055-2064.

# "John Hawkes," Critical Survey of Long Fiction, 8 vols, Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: 
Salem Press, 1983: 4, 1303-1313.

* "As April's Green Endures: Orwell's 1984," The Futurist, XVII, 6 (Dec. 1983): 27-30.

* "Life-Span Development in Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek," (with K.R. Elsman), 
International Fiction Review, II.1 (Winter, 1984): 37-44.

# "Strategies for Individual Progress in Reading Literature and Writing Compositions, 
The English Record, XXXV, (1984): 1-7.

* "Personality and Proof: The Mind of Science," Revision, 7.2, (Winter, 1985): 4-18.

# "Controversy: A Response to Mieke Bal's Psychopoetics," Style, Vol. 21.2 
(Summer, 1987): 259-280.

* "Pouring the Wine of Scientific Personality into a Well-Wrought Urn: The Example 
of John Steinbeck's 'The Snake,'" MOSAIC 22.1 (Winter 1988-89): 87-99.

"Introduction: Self-Preservation and Self Transformation: Interdisciplinary Approaches 
to Literary Character." Style 24 (Fall 1990): 349-364.

* "Classy Questions: Raising Student Achievement Through Authentic Discourse."
Illinois English Bulletin. 78 (Winter 1991): 42-55.

* "Animal Farm" Hegemony: An Interactive Game for the College Classroom." 
College Literature. 23 (June 1996): 143-156.

"Family Systems Psychotherapy, Literary Character, and Literature: An Introduction."  
Style 31.2  (Summer 1997): 223-254.

"National Trend, Local problems, Clinical Solutions: English Teacher Certification 
at Northern Illinois University."  *MLA Newsletter*  32.2  (Summer 2000): A7

"Situated Learning: Red-Eye Milton and the Loom of Learning."  

*Tomorro's Professor Listserv.  # 236. (July 6, 2000). Stanford University Learning 
Laboratory.  <tomorows-professor@lists.stanford.edu>

Essay-Review:  "Wandering Between Two Worlds: The MLA and English Department 
Follies."  *Style* 34.4 (Winter 2000): 635-669.

Reviews (All commissioned)

Robert Coles, Irony in the Mind's Life (UP of Virginia). Martin S. Lindauer, The Psychological Study of Literature (Nelson-Hall), Modern Fiction Studies, 21.4, (Winter 1975-76): 669-72.

  Frederic Jameson, Marxism and Form (Princeton UP) R. Lourie, An Approahch to Sinyavsky-Tertz (Cornell UP) H. T. Moore and A. Parry, Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (SIU Press), Modern Fiction Studies, 21.4 (Winter, 1975-76): 625-31.

  John Hawkes, Travesty (New Directions) Chicago Sun Times. (March 21, 1976). John Colmer, E. M. Forster: The Person Voice (Routledge and Kegan Paul). Bruce Bassoff, Toward Loving: Thes Poetics of the Novel and the Practice of Henry Green (South Carolina UP). Timothy Materer, Wyndham Lewis, The Novelist (Watyne State UP). Jeffrey Meyers (ed.), George Orwell, the Critical Heritage (Routledge and Kegan Paul). Modern Fiction Studies, 22.4 (Winter 1976-77): 659-664.

H. M. Daleski, Joseph Conrad, The Way of Dispossession, N.Y.:
Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1977. Marguerite Beede Howe, The Art of
the Self in D. H. Lawrence. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 1977. Stanley Weintraub
and Rodelle Weintraub, Lawrence of Arabia. Baton Rouge: The Louisiana
State UP, 1975. Robert Bloom, Anatomies of Egotism: A Reading of the
Last Novels of H. G. Wells. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
1977.
Modern Fiction Studies 23.4 (Winter 1977-78): 632-36.
 

Joseph P. Strelka (ed.), Literary Crtiticism and Psychology,
University Park: The Pennsylvania State UP, 1976, 306 pp. Keith M. May,
Out of the Maelstrom: Psychology and the Novel in the Twentieth Century,
N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1977, 135 pp. Robert Sprich and Richard W. Nolan
(ed.), The Whispered Meanings: Selected Essays of Simon O. Lesser,
Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1977, 237 pp. Harry R.
Garvin (ed.),Makers of the Twentieth Century Novel, Lewisburg:
Bucknell UP, 1977,&nbsp; 322 pp.
Modern Fiction Studies, 24.4 (Winter, 1978-79): 654-58.
 

Samsul Islam, Chronicles of the Raj, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1979. Richard I. Smyer, Primal Dream  Primal Crime:
Orwell's Development as a Psychological Novelist, Columbia: University
of Missouri Press, 1979.
Modern Fiction Studies, 26.4 (Winter 1980-81): 701-04.
 

Mary Lascelles, The Story-Teller Retrieves the Past, Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1980. Juliet and Rowland McMaster, The Novel from Sterne
to James, Barnes and Noble, Totowa, N.J., 1981. H. R. Klieneberger,
The Novel in England and Germany, Oswald Wolff, London, 1981. Adam
Gillon, Joseph Conrad, Twayne P, Boston, 1982.
Modern Fiction Studies. 28.4 (Winter 1982-83): 621-26.
 

aruch Hochman, The Test of Character; From the Victorian Novel to
the Modern. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1983; Nicholas Tredell, The
Novels of Colin Wilson, Barnes and Noble, 1982;
Modern Fiction Studies 29.4 (Winter 1983): 772-74.
 

P. J. M. Scott, E. M. Forster: Our Permanent Contemporary. Barnes
and Noble, 1984; John Halperin, C. P. Snow: An Oral Biography. St.
Martin's Press, 1983.
Modern Fiction Studies, 31.2 (Summer 1985): 363-65.
 

Malcolm Bradbury, No, Not Bloomsbury. NY: Columbia UP, 1987.
Modern Fiction Studies 35.2 (Summer 1989): 345.
 

The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of 'St.
George' Orwell, by John Rodden. (New York: Oxford UP, 1989): Orwell
and the Politics of Despair by Alok Rai. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge
UP, 1989). George Orwell: A Reassessment (Eds.) Peter Buitenhuis
and Ira B. Nadel. (Vancouver, B.C.: U of British Columbia P., 1989).
Modern Fiction Studies 36.4 (Winter 1990): 614-17.

Books Published
Literary Character. Editor, with an introductory essay. Lanham,
MD.: University Press of America, 1993.

Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism.
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996: 302 pp.

Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literacy Studies. 
13 original essays and an Introduction, co-edited with Kenneth Womack. 
(In Press)  University of Delaware Press, 2002.

Other Publications

Technical Reports:

1.Writing: Group Results A + B (with H. B. Slotnick) Washington,
D.C.: National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P>), 1973, 80
pp.

2.Six Case Studies: An Analysis of Wisconsin Career Information Service
in Wisconsin Public Schools (with J. Augustine). Madison, Wisconsin:
Wisconsin Vocational Research Center, 1980, 173 pp.

Journals Edited:

Style Editorial Board     2001 --
Style, co-editor,            1989 - 1991.
Style,  assiciate editor, 1985 - 1989.

Literary Character. Editor, with introductory essay, special
issue of Style (24.3) Fall 1990.

Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature, Guest Co-editor
(w/ Kenneth Womack), with introductory essay, special issue of Style,
(31.2) Fall 1997; in press.

Dissertation and Theses Committees
1. Reader, Laurie Erdmann, "The Working Situation of High School Newspaper
Advisors in Northern Illinois, "M.A. Thesis, Department of Journalism,
July 1982.
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1. Dissertation Director. Hanni Taylor, Bidialectalism in the Small
Liberal Arts College, Ph.D., Department of English. Completed, May
1986.

2. Committee Member. James Langlas, The Rhetorical Nature of Usage
and Usage Choices, Ph.D., Department of English. Completed, Fall 1986.

3. Committee Member. Gayla Steele, Sexual Tyranny in Wessex: Hardy's
Witches and Demons of Folklore. Ph.D., Department of English. Completed,
Fall 1990.

4. Committee Member. Ann Litow, Negotiating Teaching/Learning Interactions:
A Study of Reciprocity in Tutorial Discourse. Ph.D., Department of
English. Completed, May 1991.

5. Committee Member. Jamie Rothstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Anti-Imperialism.
Ph.D., Department of English. Completed, March 1995.

6. Committee Member. Kenneth Womack, Heavy Industry of the Mind:
The Campus Novel in Modern Literature. Ph.D., Department of English.
Completed, October 1996.

7. Committee Member.&nbsp; Wen-Ling Sue, Memory as Metaphor:
Bridging Past and Present in Modern Literature. Ph.D., Department
of English, in process.

8. Committee Member. Charles Fierz, Dialectic is
not Enough: The Pedagogy of Richard Weaver. Ph.D.,
Department of English. March 1998.

9. External Reader. Peter Robert Brown. Narrative,
Knowledge, and Personhood: Beckett's First Person Narrative.
McGill University, Paisley Livingston, Dir.; December 1998.

10. Committee Member, Stephen Delchamps. Gavin Ewart: A Critical Study. Ph.D., 
     Department of English, Completed Feb. 2000

11.  Committee Member, Michael Flaherty. Post-Joycean Experimentation in the Irish 
Novel: O'Brien, Beckett, and Banville.  Ph.D., Depatment of English. Completed May 2000.

12.  Committee Member,  Barbara S. Lebin.  A Seaman in Exile from the Sea: Joseph 
Conrad and *The Mirror of the Sea.*  Ph.D. Department of English.  Completed June 2001

Grants and Awards
1. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1977. University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Topic: Psychological and Sociological Approaches
to Modern Fiction
Director: Robert N. Wilson, Professor of Sociology.
 2. Excellence in Teaching Nominee, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979.

3. Illinois Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities,
"George Orwell: Unresolved Contradictions." Spring, 1984. Northern Illinois
University.

4. NIU Dean's Fund, Summer, 1983 "Composition Skill and Personality."

5. NIU Sabbatical Leaves, 1979-80, 1986-87, Spring 1994.

Membership in Professional Organizations
MLA , N.C.T.E.,  American Psychological Association, 
International Society for the Study of Narrative,