 Personal Information
Born Dec. 27, 1934, Fort Worth, Texas
Married, one child (Paul, born Nov. 8, 1978)
Military service: Nov., 1957-Sept., 1959: faculty of The
Adjutant General's School, U.S. Army;
(second lieutenant, first lieutenant); active reserve,
1959-66 (first lieutenant, captain)
Education
1959-65: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin; major
fields: English and American Literature; minor fields: History and Philosophy
1953-57: B.A., magna cum laude, Texas Christian
University; majors: English and Journalism
DISSERTATION: Malcolm Lowry: A Study
of His Life and Work Director: Oscar Maurer
Academic Honors
1995, Mortar Board Salute for "Commendable
Teaching," Tulane University
1963, Summer University Fellowship, University of Texas
1961, 1960, "Excellence in Teaching" Awards,
University of Texas
1953-1957, Special High School Scholarship, Texas Christian
University
Teaching Experience
1965-Present, Tulane University; freshman composition;
under- graduate and graduate courses in 20th century British, American, and Continental
Literature; Creative Writing; Advanced Expository Writing; Honors Freshman and Honors
Colloquia; directed B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. Theses
Summer, 1998, Visiting Professor, John Cabot University
(Rome) Summer Session; Creative Writing
Summer, 1996, Instructor, Tulane University Summer Abroad
in Paris Program; Americans in Paris, Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Summer, 1989, Instructor, Tulane University Summer Abroad
in Cambridge Program; Contemporary British Fiction, Women in Fiction Since 1800
Summer, 1973, Literature Specialist, Seminar for English
Teachers, Olomouc, Czechoslovakia; American Literature, English conversation
Summer, 1971, Literature Specialist, Seminar for English
Teachers,Rakovnik, Czechoslovakia; American Literature, English conversation 1968-69, The
University of Bucharest, Romania; Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature; 4th and 5th
year courses in American Literature; directed B.A. theses; public lectures on American
life and literature
1964-65, The University of Texas, Special Instructor;
freshman composition, sophomore literature
1959-64, The University of Texas, Teaching Assistant;
freshman composition, sophomore literature
1957-59, The Adjutant General's School, U.S. Army; military
subjects
Teaching Interests
Twentieth Century British, American, and Continental
Literature
New Orleans Literature
Creative Writing
Administrative Experience
August 1998-May 1999, Faculty Consultant, Center for
International Studies, Tulane University
August 1996-May 1999, Advisor, Rhodes and Marshall
Scholarships, Tulane University
August 1996-December 1997, Acting Director, Undergraduate
Study Abroad, Tulane University
August 1994-June 1995, Coordinator of Fellowships, Tulane
University
August 1993-August 1994, Professor-in-Charge,
Tulane/Newcomb Junior Year Abroad Program, Great Britainand Ireland
August 1990-June 1993, Coordinator of Fellowships, Tulane
University
May 1986-May 1987, Coordinator of Fellowships, Tulane
University
May 1983-July 1986, Director, The Tulane Honors Program
May 1978-September 1980, Director, Graduate Studies in
English, Tulane University
Publications
THE BIG EASY CRESCENT CITY THAT CARE FORGOT (Editor)
Mobile, AL: Negative Capability Press, 1994.
"Tippy, Hitler, My Father, and the Flight of the Red
Kite" (Story). Life on the Line: Selections on Words and Healing. Ed. Sue B.
Walker and Rosaly D. Roffman. Mobile, Al: Negative Capability Press, 1992. Pp. 600-604.
"Apple Core" (Story). Negative Capability,
xii, 1-2, 1992, pp. 137-142.
"Van Gogh in Arles" (Story). Negative Capability,
ix, 1, Fall 1989, pp. 145-152. Winner of 2nd prize in the R. P. Adams Short Fiction
Contest; nominated for Editor's Choice III Volume.
"Getting Help" (Story). The Crescent
Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1987, pp. 71-77. Nominated for Pushcart Prize Fiction
Volume.
"Plans for a Retirement" (Poem). South Coast
Poetry Journal, No. 3, Spring 1987, pp. 20-21.
"The World Seemed So Empty to Me if I Wasn't
Writing" (Interview with Alison Lurie). Negative Capability, VI, 6,
Fall 1986, pp. 149-64.
"Enter Two in Semi-Sumptuous Armour: A Review of Proceedings
of the London Conference on Malcolm Lowry,
1984." The Malcolm Lowry Review, Nos. 17 & 18, Fall
1985 & Spring 1986, pp. 95-99.
"To My Daughter," "Cedar Crest Lodge"
(Poems). Negative Capability, V, 4, Fall 1985, pp. 135-38.
"Going to Sidewall's" (Story). The Piedmont
Literary Review, X, 2, Fall 1985, pp. 43-44.
"Compaņero . . . A Review of Ackerley and Clipper's A
Companion to Under the Volcano." The Malcolm Lowry
Review, No. 15, Fall 1984, pp. 6-15.
"The New Member" (Story). Swallow's Tale
Magazine, No. 3, 1984, pp. 22-36.
"Mescalusiones." Quimera (Barcelona,
Spain), No. 38, May 1984, pp. 42-45.
"How Now, Bocanegra? Jake's Bull in the
Afternoon." Notes on Modern American Literature,
VII, 2, Fall 1983, pp. 7-9.
"Rejoinder," "The Happiness of the
Cretin," "Three Meetings" (Poems). New Europe, 41, Spring
1983, p. 44.
Review of Sherrill Grace's The Voyage That
Never Ends. Malcolm Lowry Newsletter, 12, Spring 1983,
pp. 3-7.
"Michael's Birthday" (Story). The Tulane
Literary Magazine, 1982-1983, pp. 39-51.
"Le Chien et les Fleurs" (Story). Telescope,
V/VI, Spring 1983, pp. 84-92.
"Homeward Bound" (Story). Negative Capability,
II, 3, Summer 1982, pp. 46-51.
"Estrus" (Story). The Amherst Review,
X, 1982, pp. 18-19.
"Once Again: Fathers and Sons" (Story). Descant,
XXVI, 1, Fall 1981, pp. 2-12. Winner of "The Frank O'Connor Award for Fiction"
(an award given annually to a short story published in the current volume of Descant).
Review of Jean Thompson's The Gasoline Wars.
Studies in Short Fiction, XVIII, ii, Spring 1981, pp. 198-99.
"When Does Frederic Henry Narrate A Farewell
to Arms?" Notes on Modern American Literature,
IV, 2, Spring 1980, pp. 14-15.
Review of Gerald Locklin's The Four-Day Work
Week and Other Stories. Studies in Short Fiction,
XV, ii, Spring 1978, pp. 208-09.
"Mescallusions, or The Drinking Man's Under the
Volcano." Journal of Modern Literature, VI, ii,
April 1977, pp. 277-88.
Review of Drewey Wayne Gunn's American and British
Writers in Mexico, 1556-1973. Journal of Modern
Literature, V, iv, 1976, pp. 556-57.
"Hunting the Lonely Hunter" (Review of Virginia
Spencer Carr's The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of
Carson McCullers). The Southern Review, XII, 2, Spring
1976, pp. 442-44.
"Crispus Attacks Falls" (Story). Quartet,
VII, 51-53, Summer-Fall-Winter 1975-76, pp. 51-62. Included in "Roll of Honor"
in Martha Foley's Best American Short Stories of 1977.
Review of Richard H. Costa's Malcolm Lowry. The
South Central Bulletin, XXXIV, iii, Oct. 1974, pp. 131-32.
"The Voyage Begins: Toward an Understanding of
Malcolm Lowry" (Essay-Review). Journal of Modern Literature,
IV, i, Sept. 1974, pp. 133-38.
"Recovery" (Story). Nunc Dimittis,
Number Three, 1973, pp. 19-29.
"'Correspondence': A 'Forgotten’ Carson McCullers
Short Story." Studies in Short Fiction, IX, i, Winter
1972, pp. 89-92.
"Walt Whitman and Contemporary American Poetry." Romania
Literara, June 5, 1969, p. 20. Carson McCullers. Austin, Texas: The
Steck-Vaughan Company, 1969.
Review of Christina Stead's The Puzzleheaded Girl.
Studies in Short Fiction, VI, i, Fall 1968.
"Under the Volcano: A Reading of
the 'Immediate Level.'" Tulane Studies in English, XVI, 1968, pp. 63-105.
"The Short Fiction of Malcolm Lowry." Tulane
Studies in English, XV, 1967, pp. 59-80.
"Lowry=Volcano=Mexico=?" Riata,
Spring 1965, pp. 7-21.
Papers Delivered
"The Summer of Sixty-Four: Malcolm, Margerie, Earle,
and Others." Banquet Address at 1997 Malcolm Lowry Symposium, Toronto, Canada, June
11, 1997.
"The Big Easy Crescent City That Care Forgot: New
Orleans in Literature," 44th Annual Tulane Educational Conference, April 5, 1997
"‘Falling Rat Fells Bicyclist’: Literary New
Orleans," University College Faculty Convocation, Tulane University, October 1996.
"Ripe Is All: The Last Voyage of Malcolm Lowry,"
International Malcolm Lowry Conference, Ripe, England, July 1994.
"Poetry Matters," Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Tulane
University, May 1993.
"Present Estate of the Strangely Comfortable
Profession." Closing Panel at "New Perspectives on Malcolm Lowry: An
International Symposium on the Life and Work of Malcolm Lowry," May 13, 1987,
University of British Columbia, Canada. Organizer and chairman of panel.
"The Exhilaration of Disintegration: Malcolm Lowry's Under
the Volcano and the `Final Frontier of Consciousness.'" National
Collegiate Honors Council Meeting, Nov. 1985.
"Jake's Two Calendars: Chronological Confusion in The
Sun Also Rises." American Literature II section, SCMLA meeting,
Oct. 1982.
"Will the Real Frankie Addams Please Stand Up."
Special Session, "The Alienating Effect of Love in Carson McCullers," MLA
meeting, Dec. 1978.
"Malcolm Lowry and Dylan Thomas." Special Session
"Malcolm Lowry: Directions in Criticism," MLA meeting, Dec. 1977.
"Mescallusions, or The Drinking Man's Under the
Volcano." Seminar, "The Fiction of Malcolm Lowry," MLA meeting, Dec.
1975.
"‘--': A Topography of the Typography of Under
the Volcano." Seminar, "The Fiction of Malcolm Lowry," MLA
meeting, Dec. 1974.
Critique of Tony Kilgallin's Paper on Malcolm Lowry.
Conference on Canadian Studies, March 1974, Austin, Texas.
"The Canadian Malcolm Lowry." Group 12,
MLA meeting, Dec. 1967.
"Malcolm Lowry and Conrad Aiken." Contemporary
Literature section, SCMLA meeting, Nov. 1966.
Research Support
Summer Grant, Tulane Council on Research, 1972
Travel Grant for collaborative projects in Romania,
International Research and Exchanges Board, 1971.
Summer Grant, Tulane Council on Research, 1967
Summer Grant, Tulane Council on Research, 1966
Graduate School Travel and Research Grant, University of
Texas, 1964
Miscellaneous
1997, Planning Committee, William Gilmore Simms/William
Faulkner Conference
1997-Present, Advisory Council, Pirate’s Alley
Faulkner Society
1997, Faculty Member and Liaison between Tulane and the
Faulkner Society for Perfect Words: A Writer’s Conference in New Orleans
1997, Selected as "All Around Most Valuable Faculty
Member" by scholarship students of Perfect Words: A Writers’ Conference in New
Orleans
1996-Present, Board of Directors, Tennessee Williams/New
Orleans Literary Festival
1995, Good in Bed, Finalist in Pirate’s Alley
Faulkner Society Fiction Contest (Novella)
1994-Present, Advisory Editor, Negative Capability
1993-Present, Program Committee, Tennessee Williams/New
Orleans Literary Festival
1992, "Mister Foodsteps," Finalist in
Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Fiction Contest (Short Story)
1992-95, Advisory Committee, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans
Literary Festival
Spring, 1993, Scholar/Facilitator, "Speaking of Poetry
II" (sponsored by New Orleans Public Library and Louisiana Endowment for the
Humanities)
Fall, 1992, Scholar/Facilitator, "Speaking of
Poetry" (sponsored by New Orleans Public Library and Louisiana Endowment for the
Humanities)
Spring, 1992, Scholar/Facilitator, "Poets in
Person" (sponsored by New Orleans Public Library and National Endowment for the
Humanities)
Guest Editor, THE BIG EASY CRESCENT CITY THAT CARE FORGOT,
Special New Orleans Issue of Negative Capability, 1992-94.
1989, Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center
1989, Fellowship, Dorset Colony House
1989, Fellowship, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1989, Fellowship, The Millay Colony
1981, Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
1980-Present, Editorial Consultant, The Malcolm Lowry
Review
1979, Fellowship, The Virginia Center for the Creative
Arts
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