College of Graduate Studies 1085 Monterrey Drive
Lamar University Beaumont, TX 77706
P.O. Box 10078 (409) 860-0447
Beaumont, TX 77710
(409) 880-1721
(409) 880-1723 FAX
jerry.bradley@lamar.edu
Education
Ph.D., English, Texas Christian University, 1975
Dissertation: The Synthetic Perspective of Modernism
M.A., English, Texas Christian University, 1973
Thesis: The Thousand Variations of One Song: The Recovery of Order in Buckdancer’s Choice
B.A., English, Midwestern University, 1969
Teaching Experience
Professor, Lamar University, 2001-present
Professor, West Texas A&M University, 1994 2001
Professor, Indiana University Southeast, 1993 94
Associate Professor, New Mexico Tech, 1981 93
Guest lecturer, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, 1990 91
Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech, 1976 81
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1975 76
University Teaching Fellow, Texas Christian University, 1970 75
Professional Experience
Dean, College of Graduate Studies, Lamar University, 2001-present
President, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2007-2008
Associate Vice-President of Research, Lamar University, 2001-2006
Literary Arts Panel, Texas Commission on the Arts, 2005-07
Literary Arts Panel, Austin Writers League, 2004
Councilor, Texas Institute of Letters, 2002-present
Operating Council Member, Texas International Education Consortium, 2001-present
Graduate Faculty, Lamar University, 2001-present
Poetry Editor, Concho River Review, 1999-present
Council Member, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1999-2002
Board of Directors, Amarillo Bay, 1999-present
Editorial Board, New Texas, 1998-present
Manuscript Evaluator, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 1997-present
Committee member, Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year nominating committee, Texas College English Association, 2001-02
Department Head, Department of English and Modern Languages, West Texas A&M University, 1994- 2001
Graduate Faculty, West Texas A&M University, 1994-2001
Director, West Texas A&M University Summer Writing Program, 1995-2001
President, Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, 1998-2000
Executive Board, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1997-2000
Committee member, Individualized Master of Arts Program, Antioch University, 1997-2000
Secretary, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1997-1999
President, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1995-97
Dean, Division of Humanities, Indiana University Southeast, 1993 94
Member, President’s Council on the Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, 1993 94
Graduate Faculty, Indiana University, 1993-94
Director, Fund for the Arts, Indiana University Southeast, 1993-94
Editor, New Mexico Humanities Review, 1978 1993
Executive Council, College Conference of Teachers of English, 1991 92
Literature Panelist, New Mexico Arts Division, 1986 89
Chair, Department of Humanities, New Mexico Tech, 1984 87
Director, Swift Lizard book distribution project, 1979 86
Contributing editor, Abhath al Yarmouk, Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan, 1987
Editor, Saurian Press, 1980
Publications
Books:
Popular Writers in America and England with Samio Watanabe and Jerry Craven (under contract), Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 1997
Famous Writers of American Literature with Samio Watanabe and Jerry Craven , Tokyo: Asahi Shuppansha, 1997
Famous Writers of British Literature with Samio Watanabe and Jerry Craven, Tokyo: Asahi Shuppansha, 1997
The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s, Twayne’s English Authors Series, New York: Macmillan, 1993. Reviewed in Booklist, Choice, and Texas Writer’s Newsletter.
Simple Versions of Disaster, Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991. Reviewed in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1991, Albuquerque Tribune, Amarillo News-Globe, Books of the Southwest, Borderlands, Concho River Review, Dusty Dog Reviews, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Lufkin Daily News, North San Antonio Times, Odessa American, Redneck Review of Literature, Review of Texas Books, Socorro Defensor-Chieftain, Texas Books in Review, Texas Writer’s Newsletter, University Press Book News, Western American Literature.
Essays:
“Domestic Tranquility and National Defense: The Personal History of Walt McDonald,” The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt McDonald, Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech UP, 2002
“The Importance of Elsewhere,” Anthology, 8, 2002
“Don’t Dance—Don’t Wanna: A Twelve Step Approach to Country-and-Western Dancing,” Amarillo Bay, 3:4, 2001
“The Enforced Luck of Labor: An Interview with David Wagoner,” Dark Horse Review, 1:1, 1999
“A David Wagoner Bibliography,” Dark Horse Review, 1:1, 1999
“Remembering Jim Corder,” Amarillo Bay (www.amarillobay.org/contents/bradley-jerry/corder.htm), 1:0, 1999
“Robert Conquest and Science,” Readerly/Writerly Texts, 4:1, 1996
“Romanticism in the 1950s: The Movement’s Debt to Wordsworth,” CCTE Studies, 61, 1996 (winner of CCTE British Literature Award)
“Tentative Ideas for Poetry: Rhetorical Theories of Art in Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Idea of Order at Key West,’” CCTE Studies, 60, 1995
“Constant Desire for Learning Should Never Be Quenched,” Amarillo News-Globe, November 2, 1994
“John Wain,” Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Pasadena, CA: Salem, March, 1993
“Alan Sillitoe,” Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Pasadena, CA: Salem, March, 1993
“The Good Cop and the Bad Cop Meet the Poet,” Concho River Review, 6:2, 1992
“Ignoring Texas Literature,” CCTE Studies, 57, 1992
“In Defense of Books: The Writer as Idler,” RiverSedge, 6:1, 1991
“Laughing at Logic: The August Humor of Wallace Stevens,” Studies in American Humor, Fall, 1990
“A Girl in Winter,” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Pasadena, CA: Magill, 1990
“Jill,” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Pasadena, CA: Magill, 1990
“Malone Dies,” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Pasadena, CA: Magill, 1990
“Molloy,” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Pasadena, CA: Magill, 1990
“Pincher Martin,” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Pasadena, CA: Magill, 1990
“The Unnamable,” Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Pasadena, CA: Magill, 1990
“Philip Larkin,” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1989
“Donald Davie,” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Pasadena, CA: Salem, 1989
“Marketplace Ideas: Stamps, Giveaways, Dumping and Shutting Up,” Small Press Review, 19:12, 1987
“Sexual Irony in the Poetry of Philip Larkin,” WHIM, 3, 1985
“Lafayette Hamberlin,” Mississippi Authors Project, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982
“Poe’s Use of Music in His Fiction,” College Conference of Teachers of English Proceedings, 1975
Poetry:
“How the Big Thicket Got Smaller,” A Student's Treasury of Texas Verse, Fort Worth: TCU Press, forthcoming
“Dissuade Shoes,” Becoming: The Underground Journal, forthcoming
“At the End,” Taj Mahal Review, forthcoming
“Bad Day at the Psychic Fair,” “Bandaged Dogs,” Taj Mahal Review, 2006.
“Map,” “One for the Road,” “Sunday Drive,” Different Worlds:A Virtual Journey, Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net, 2006
“Monoxide,” 32 Poems, 2, 2005
“Egg and Spoon,” Eye, 3, 2005
“Indelicate,” Harvests of New Millennium, Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.net, 2005
“Counting,” “The Missing,” Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, 9:1, 2005
“Cat as in Catastrophe,” “I Never Think of My Father,” Iron Horse Review, 6:2, 2005
“Gall and Thrush,” “Self-Portrait with Spirits,” “Snowdeaf,” “The Student Research Conference,” New Texas, 2005
“Bart’s Night Out,” “Sorry Seconds,” Descant, 44, 2005
“Antenna,” “Disbelief,” Texas Poetry Journal, Fall, 2005
“The Artificial Owl,” “Listen to the Trees,” Taj Mahal Review, 4:1, 2005
“How the Big Thicket Got Smaller,” Falling from Grace: A Literary Response to the Demise of Paradise, San Antonio: Wings Press, 2004. Reprinted on the Big Thicket Association web site: http://www.btatx.org/index_html_05_21_2005
“A Canyon View,” Taj Mahal Review, 3:2, 2004
“Bad Coffee Is Grounds for Divorce,” “Heavy My Ruin,” Explorers: A Collection of Contemporary Literature, Allahabad, India: Cyberwit.Net, 2004
“Life, Death, Time, Love, and Scenery,” Burnside Review, 1:1, 2004
“Drifter,” Taj Mahal Review, 3:1, 2004
“Bible Lesson,” “Flint,” North Stone Review, 14, 2002
“For a Texas Beauty,” “How the Big Thicket Got Smaller,” Texas in Poetry 2, Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2002
“A Single Sheep, One Cow,” Anthology, 8, 2002
“Earshot,” New Texas, 2002
“Dinosaur National Monument,” “When the Continent Divided,” Poems from the Earth: On Nature and the Environment, forthcoming
“The Face of Vegetables,” “Rising Fish,” Paint Lick
“Lullaby,” “Visit to a Church,” “Waiting for Snow at Night,” Descant, 39:1-2, 2000
“Calling in the Dark,” “Natural Law,” Kimera, (www.js.spokane.wa.us/kimerav3n2/welcome.html), 3:2, 1998
“Rheum and Coca-Cola” New Texas, 1998
“. . . and Forty Nights,” Barkeater: The Adirondack Review, 1:1, 1998
“Binocular,” Poetry Motel, 1998
“Eating Live Fish,” “The Face of Vegetables,” “What I Did Last Year,” “Witness for the Prosecution,” Poetry Magazine www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/1998/jan/bradley.htm), 1, 1998
“Hark, Harold,” “Photographing the Cows,” “A Toast to Our Century,” Concho River Review, 11:2, 1997
“Simple Division,” “Unmade Love,” Chili Verde Review, 1:1, 1997
“At the Mental Health Clinic,” The Family Therapy Networker, 20:5, 1996
“Photographing the Cows,” “Dissuade Shoes,” “A Life by Animals,” “Lullaby,” Creative Writing
Publication (TCU), 1996
“Fairy Tale,” “Lost in the Divorce,” “Snake Jar,” A Language We Know at Once: Contemporary Poetry from Texas, Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1996
“Aqua Vitae,” “Without a Paddle,” Ridgelines, Las Vegas, NV: Las Vegas Arts Council, 1996
“Burning Love,” Legacy, 1995
“Margarita,” “Winter Flight,” Gulf Coast Collection of Stories and Poems, Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writers Press, 1994
“Meghan’s New Shoes,” The Sound of Poetry, Owings Mills, MD: National Library of Poetry, 1994
“The Jewel in the Lotus,” “Sodomy Chess,” Chakra, 1994
“At the Mental Health Clinic,” Leo, 4:2, 1993
“The Sex Researcher,” “This Afternoon,” CCTE Studies, 58, 1993
“The Sorrow of Lobsters,” The Listening Eye, 1993
“Imagine,” Borderlands, 1993
“If and Weather,” “Last Flight Out,” Southwestern American Literature, 18:1, 1992
“Jacob Wrestles His Angel,” “Letter to Brenda,” “Writer’s Block,” Old Crow Review, 1992
“A Postman’s Pension,” “Long Distance,” Snake Nation Review, 4:1, 1992
“The Soloist Speaks His Piece,” Toad Highway, 4, 1991
“For a Texas Beauty,” “Goodwill,” The Lithic Review, 3, 1991
“In the Casino at Circus Circus,” “The Insomniac’s Mirror,” “Margarita,” “Seed,” Rio Abajo Anthology, Socorro, NM: Tome Hill Press, 1991
“Ne Plus Ultra,” The Spirit That Wants Me, Albuquerque: Duff, 1991
“First Shot,” “Oral, He Said,” Piedmont Literary Review, 14:4, 1991
“New Year’s Day, Bosque del Apache Refuge,” “Waltzing the Arroyos” Re: Arts and Letters, 27:1, 1991
“Nighttime in the House of God,” “Yacht Brokers,” Weber Studies, 8: 1, 1991
“Bread and Water,” “Woke Up Dead,” RiverSedge, 5: 1, 1990
“First Marriage,” “Lost in the Divorce,” American Literary Review, 1:1, Spring 1990
“Electricity,” Mementos, Whitby, Ontario: Plowman, 1989
“Chocolate,” Slant: A Journal of Poetry, 4, 1990
“The Bathers,” “A Love Sonnet for Impressionists,” Rocky Mountain Review, 44:1 2, 1990
“Motel on the San Augustine Plains,” Conceptions Southwest, Spring, l 990
“Reliable Sources,” The Plowman Anthology: A Poem to Daddy, 1989
“Electricity,” The Plowman, 4, 1989
“Jacob Wrestles an Angel,” Seascape, Whitby, Ontario: Plowman, 1989
“The Astrologer Consults His Chart,” “Winter Flight,” Southern Humanities Review, 22:4, 1988
“Cursing the Photos,” High Plains Literary Review, 3:2, 1988
“Coming to the Road,” Concho River Review, 2:1, 1988
“Lunch at the Sushi Bar,” Concho River Review, 1:2, 1987
“Dinosaur National Monument,” “Familiar Ground,” First Inago Anthology of Poetry, 1984
“Uptown,” Southwestern Review, 8:11, 1983
“Tree History,” “Piano Lesson,” “Civil Defense,” “On the Movements of Women,” “Ne Plus Ultra,” Latitude 30 18, 1983
“Harold’s Wife,” Windows: Poems of Widowhood, Wichita State University, l982
“How the Big Thicket Got Smaller,” Southwestern Review, 1981
“Aeneas Visits the Metroplex,” “Familiar Ground,” “The Fourth Annual Interscholastic Wild West Poetry Riding Competition,” Vanderbilt Review, 2, 1981
“Farm Photo, 1955,” Scree, 19 21, 1981
“Estrangement,” “Pickings,” “Strike at Salmon Time,” “When the Continent Divided,” Modern Poetry Studies, 10:2 3, 1981
“Mischance,” “Arrest,” “Snake Jar,” Descant, 25, 1980 81
“Grief,” “Negative,” Newsletter lnago, 1:42, 1980
“Dear Dad,” New England Review, 3:1, 1980
“Geeks,” Colorado State Review, 8:1, 1980
“Pray the Prayer, Know the Truth,” Southwestern Review, 6:8, 1980
“Counting the Commandments,” “Graffitists,” “Workout,” Vanderbilt Review, 1, 1980
“Supermarket,” Back Bay View, 3:1, 1979
“Cinquains: Cyclops and Cheats,” Poesias Estudiante, 1979
“Harold’s Wife,” Whetstone, 4, 1979
“Fire Dream,” “Adultery in the Retirement Village,” Poetry Texas, 2: 1, 1978
“From the Opry,” Crow Call, 1978
“Spring Eclipse,” “Fire Prevention Week,” Rocky Mountain Review, 9, 1978
“Waiting for Your Wife,” El Nahuatzen, 1978
“The Gravedigger Goes to Work,” Chariton Review, 4:2, 1978
“Song of the Iron Lung,” Gathering Stars, 1978
“Snake Jar,” “Arrest,” “Mischance,” Descant, 22:4, 1978
“Soup to Nuts,” A Search of the Soul, 3, 1978
“Archaeology,” The Third Eye, 6, 1977
“The Penultimate Mohican,” Vega, 1977
“The Cheese Stands Alone,” Gathering Stars, 1977
“A Man Should Know a Great Hart by the Place Where He Has Frayed His Head,” Pearl, 1973
“Facets,” Writing Awards, 1973
“The Problem of Angels,” Ahimsa, 1969
“The Deserted Amusement,” Ahimsa, 1968
Fiction:
“Doreen Drinks a Glacier,” Big Tex[t], 1:2, 2005, http://bigtext.tamu.edu/main.php
“In the Afternoon of Cornbread,” “Vermeer in Vermont,” Suddenly, 3, 2000
“McLife,” Texas Short Stories, Dallas, TX: Browder Springs, 1997
“Making a Name,” New Texas 95, Denton, TX: Center for Texas Studies, 1995
“No Lousy Thank You for the Hot Dog,” Volunteer Periwinkles, Lawrence, KS: Lantana, 1976
Audio:
“Meghan’s New Shoes,” The Sound of Poetry, National Library of Poetry, 1994
Reviews:
“Petitions for Immortality: Scenes from the Life of John Keats,” Concho River Review, 18:1, 2003
“A Tale of the Grateful Dead,” Concho River Review, 18:1, 2003
“The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled,” Concho River Review, 17:1, 2003
“Facts of Life,” Concho River Review, 17:1, 2003
“Western Settings,” Concho River Review, 16:2, 2003
“A West Texas Soapbox,” Journal of Popular Culture, 33:2, 1999
“Blessings the Body Gave,” Texas Books in Review, 19:2, 1999
“Another Number: A Novel of the 70s,” Texas Books in Review, 18:1, 1998
“A West Texas Soapbox,” H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 1998
“A John Graves Reader,” Amarillo News-Globe, January 26, 1997
“Hunter’s Trap,” Amarillo News-Globe, November 24, 1996
“The Homesick Patrol,” Texas Books in Review, 26:1, 1996
“New Mexico Poetry Renaissance,” Western American Literature, 30:3, 1995
“A Wild, Cold State,” Texas Books in Review, 15:3, 1995
“Disciplinary Treatises,” Texas Writer’s Newsletter, 64, 1994
“Anecdotal Evidence,” Texas Writer’s Newsletter, 64, 1994
“North Atlantic Review,” Literary Magazine Review, 13:1, 1994
“The One Right Touch,” Western American Literature, 28:3, 1993
“A Fish To Feed All Hunger,” Western American Literature, 28:3, 1993
“Answered Prayers,” Review of Texas Books, 8:2, 1993
“Harvard Review,” Literary Magazine Review, 12:2, 1993
“No Roof But Sky,” Western American Literature, 27:2, 1992
“Mother of Pearl,” Texas Books in Review, 11:3,
“Let the Ice Speak,” Texas Writer’s Newsletter, 56, 1991
“The Tortilla of Heaven,” Texas Writer’s Newsletter, 56, 1991
“The Rochester Trip,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 34, 1991
“Mother of Pearl,” Texas Books in Review, 10:4, 1990
“The Ghostly Hitchhiker and Other Poems,” TACWT Newsletter, 54, 1990
“Winter Light: At the Border,” TACWT Newsletter, 53, 1990
“The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin,” Literary Research, 14:1 4, 1989
“Curved Like an Eye,” Small Press Review, 21:4, 1989
“Writers Quarterly,” Rio Grande Writers Quarterly, 1:2, 1986
“Blue Desert,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 9:2, 1986
“Vanderbilt Street Review,” Literary Magazine Review, 3, 1984
“The Succession: A Novel of Elizabeth and James,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 6:3, 1983
“Playland,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 6:2, 1983
“Different Fleshes,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 6: 1, 1983
“The Thirteenth Apostle,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 6: 1, 1983
“New Orleans Review,” Literary Magazine Review, 1:2, 1983
“The Attack on Literature and Other Essays,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 6:2, 1983
“Midquest,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 5:2, 1982
“The Cry of Aengus and Other Poems,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 5:2, 1982
“Rural Route,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 5:1, 1982
“Desire Charnay: Expeditionary Photographer,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 5:1, 1982
“Sangre,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 5:1, 1982 (reprinted in Hispanic Literature Criticism, Detroit: Gale Research, 1994)
“The Iron Road,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:3, 1981
“Poems for Goya’s Disparates,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:3, 1981
“How German Is it,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:3, 1981
“The Cold War of Kitty Pentecost,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:2, 1981
“Garage,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:1, 1981
“Are You Tough Enough for the Eighties?” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:1, 1981
“Portable Shelter,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 4:1, 1981
“Lighting the Furnace Pilot,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:3, 1980
“Brother Songs: An Anthology of Male Poetry,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:2, 1980
“The Dark Playground,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:2, 1980
“The River and the Train,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:2, 1980
“A Geography of Poets,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:1, 1980
“Often in Different Landscapes,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 3:1, 1980
“Bloodfire,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:3, 1979
“I Wanted To Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:3, 1979
“Halloween,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:3, 1979
“SuchAsUs/Sullivan’sHollow,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:3, 1979
“Southwest/The Indian Rio Grande,” Pawn Review, 1979
“The Elements of San Joaquin/A Tale of Sunlight,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“Refractions,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“A Figure of Plain Force,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“Along the Dark Shore,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“Sexlink,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“Gauguin’s Chair/Hawthorne,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“Intro 9: Close to Home,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:2, 1979
“The Elements of San Joaquin,” Western American Literature, 14:1 ,1979
“Blood, Hook & Eye,” Sam Houston Literary Review, 4: 1, 1979
“The Eggplant and Other Absurdities,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:1, 1979
“Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors/Non Sequitur O’Connor,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:1, 1979
“The Dam Builder,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 2:1, 1979
“In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:3, 1978
“Caliban in Blue,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:3, 1978
“I Would Have Saved Them if I Could/In the Future Perfect,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:2, 1978
“Elephant Bones and Lonely Hearts/The Slaughter of the Innocent,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:2, 1978
“Croquet Lover at the Dinner Table,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:2, 1978
“Time in Ezra Pound’s Work,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:2, 1978
“4.4.4,” Sam Houston Literary Review, 3:1, 1978
“The Mark To Turn: A Reading of William Stafford’s Poetry,” New Mexico Humanities Review, 1:1, 1978
“Returning to Palmolive and the Gang,” Richmond Mercury, 1973
Interviews:
“Dean’s Corner,” KVLU-TV, September 20, 2001
“Senior Soapbox,” KZRK, 1550 AM, April 22, 1999
“New English Department Head Started Out To Become a Lawyer,” The Prairie, September, 1994
“New IUS Dean Enjoys Life’s Little Ironies,” The New Albany Tribune, September 10, 1993
“Curtis Peters To Step Down as Humanities Dean; Jerry Bradley Named Successor,” The Horizon, April 20, 1993
“Poet To Challenge Stereotype, Enthrall Tarleton Audience,” J Tac, October 15, 1992
“Poet Returns Home To Share Writings,” Mineral Wells Index, October 11, 1992
“The Good Cop and the Bad Cop Meet the Poet,” Concho River Review, 6:2, 1992
“Colleges in U.S. Support Poetry, Keep Poets Alive and Writing,” Odessa American, November 21, 1991
“Bradley Published,” Socorro Defensor Chieftain, July 6, 1991
“Writers Talk Shop at Fort Festival,” San Angelo Standard Times, August 4, 1990
“Tech’s Literary Journal,” TECHnology, Spring, 1989
“Writer Makes Light of Dark,” Socorro Defensor Chieftain, 1988
Citations:
Robert Cooperman, A Killing Fever, Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press, 2006 (jacket blurb)
Jeff Guinn, “A Woman of Her Words,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 11, 2005
Janice Whittington and Andrew Hudgins, eds., The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt McDonald, Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2002 (jacket blurb)
Sandra Gail Teichmann, Killing Daddy, Spring, TX: Panther Creek Press, 2003 (jacket blurb)
Larry D. Thomas, The Woodlanders, San Antonio, TX: Pecan Grove Press, 2002 (jacket blurb)
Betty Wiesepape, Literary Societies and Writing Clubs 1890 to 1940: Their Role in the Development of Regional Literature, University of Texas at Dallas, 1998 (doctoral dissertation)
David Vancil, The Homesick Patrol, Woodbridge, CT: Viet Nam Generation & Burning Cities Press, 1995 (jacket blurb)
Albert Huffstickler, Working on My Death Chant, Austin, TX: Backyard Press, 1992 (jacket blurb)
Russ Pate, “Going Public,” Spirit, March, 1991
“Alexander L. Blackburn,” Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1985, Detroit: Gale, 1986
“Gary Soto,” Contemporary Literary Criticism, 32, Detroit: Gale, 198
John Simon, Paradigms Lost, New York: Potter, 1980
John Rothfork, “The Swiftest Lizard in the West,” Smudge, 1980
Presentations
“Simple Versions of Disaster: Using Humor To Write Serious Poetry,” National Federation of State Poetry Societies, San Antonio, TX, 2006
“Dr. Seuss Story Time Birthday Party,” Early Childhood Development Center, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 2004
“Literature and Class: We Should Be Kind While There Is Still Time,” Sigma Tau Delta induction speech, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX, 2003
“Straddling the Fence: Poetic Persona in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX, 2003
“How I Started in Research,” Lamar Student Research Organization, Beaumont, TX, 2002
“Robert Flynn: A Life in Letters,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Beaumont, TX, 2002
“The Democratization of Research: What Did We Learn from the ‘50s?” keynote speaker, Lamar University Student Research Conference, Beaumont, TX, 2002
“Some Thoughts on an Idle Profession,” Texas Association of Departments of English, College Station, TX, 2000
“Literature, Culture, and History of the Southwest,” Angelo State University Writers Conference, San Angelo, TX, 2000
“Small Presses and Literary Journals,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Huntsville, TX, 2000
“Texts and Teaching Methods in Creative Writing Classes,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Huntsville, TX, 2000
“James Dickey’s Use of Memory in Buckdancer’s Choice,” South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, TN, 1999
“A Grammar Refresher,” National Association of Legal Secretaries of Amarillo, Amarillo, TX, 1999
“Remembering Jim Corder,” Conference of College Teachers of English, Denton, TX, 1999
“From Brandy to Beer: Martin and Kingsley Amis and the Philistine Conspiracy,” South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, 1998
“Writing Not from Experience,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, UT, 1998
“Writing Winning Book Proposals,” Panhandle Professional Writers, Amarillo, TX, 1998
“Studying Creative Writing: An Educators’ Panel,” West Texas A&M University Summer Writing Program, Canyon, TX, 1998
“Editors Panel,” University of Mary Hardin Baylor Literary Conference, Belton, TX: 1998
“Writers Studying, Students Writing: The Classroom as Resource,” South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, TX, 1996
“Guiding Student Writers in the Creation of Fictional Characters,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Albuquerque, NM, 1996
“Resources for Poets,” Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1996
“How To Revise a Poem,” Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1996
“Cold-War Bards: Poets in the Novels of Richard Lourie and Robert Conquest,” Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Culture, Frankfort, KY, 1996
“Romanticism in the 1950s: The Movement’s Debt to Wordsworth,” Conference of College Teachers of English, Beaumont, TX, 1996
“Publishing and Editing,” East Texas Writers’ Conference, Longview, TX, 1995
“Yeats’s ‘Sailing to Byzantium,’” WTAMU Literary Forum, Canyon, TX, 1995
“Loosening Literary Thinking: Robert Conquest and Science,” Interdisciplinary Conference on Science and Culture, Frankfort, KY, 1995
“Tentative Ideas for Poetry: Rhetorical Theories of Art in Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Idea of Order at Key West,’” Conference of College Teachers of English, Waco, TX, 1995
“Thom Gunn’s Incapable Soldiers,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 1995
“The Elitism of Books: What I Know about Democracy,” Sigma Tau Delta annual banquet, Canyon, TX, 1995
“Writing from Experience,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Waco, TX, 1995
“The Fiction Writing Classroom,” Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, 1995
“Being Friends with Books,” keynote address, Panhandle Council Teachers of English, Canyon, TX, 1994
“Accounting for Our Time,” keynote address, Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1994
“Making a Name,” South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, 1993
“Selling Fiction to Little Magazines,” Western Writers of America, Springdale, AR, 1993
Magazine and Anthology Editors Panel, Center for Texas Studies Literary Festival, Fort Worth, TX, 1992
“How Elvis Almost Ruined My Career,” keynote speaker, Associated Departments of English, Memphis, TN, 1992
“‘The Fools Circel’: Reconnecting the Trinity in Riddley Walker, “South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, TN, 1992
“The Way We Do It: Contemporary Poets,” Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX, 1992
“The Future of English: An Ex Chairman’s View,” guest lecture, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 1992
“Ignoring Texas Literature: Why We Should Read Larry McMurtry Anyway,” Presidential Forum, Conference of College Teachers of English, Amarillo, TX, 1992
“Habitable by Style: Chairs, Heads, and Chairheads,” guest lecture, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1992
“While There’s Still Time: A Look at the Profession of English,” guest lecture, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MS, 1992
“Poet in Space: The Scientific Poetry of Robert Conquest,” South Central Modern Language Association, Fort Worth, TX, 1991
“Is It Art of the State or State of the Art?” Western Literature Association, Estes Park, CO, 1991
“In Defense of Books: the Writer as Idler,” Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX, 1991
“Creating Simple Versions of Disaster,” Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, 1991
“Aristocracy and Democracy --What Modern Poetry Can Teach Us,” Socorro Friends of the Library annual address, Socorro, NM, 1991
“Poe and Music,” South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, TX, 1990
“Wordsworth in the Fifties: Romanticism and the Movement,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Salt Lake City, UT, 1990
Editors Panel, Western Literature Association, Denton, TX, 1990
“Logic: A Guide to Straight Thinking,” Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, 1990
Editors Panel, Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX, 1990
“Advice to a Poet,” University of North Texas Literary Festival, Denton, TX, 1990
“The Synthetic Perspective of Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Idea of Order at Key West,”‘ Popular Culture Association, Toronto, Canada, 1990
“Returning to Life: Creative Writing and Composition,” Conference of College Teachers of English, College Station, TX, 1990
“A Southwest Publishing Workshop,” Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, Abilene, TX, 1990
“Sex and Class: Hurrying on Down in Post War Academic Fiction,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Las Vegas, NV, 1989
“Hypergamy and Atavism in Post War British Academic Fiction,” American Culture Association, St. Louis, MO, 1989
“Business and Humanities: The Ethics of Human Resources,” guest lecture, Embry Riddle University, Prescott, AZ, 1988
“An Idea of Order: The Integrated Theory of Wallace Stevens,” Rhetoric Society of America, Arlington, TX, 1988
“Exploring the Connections: Creative Writing and Composition,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fort Worth, TX, 1988
“Cradle of the Nation: The Western Saloon,” keynote address, New Mexico Society of Architects, Santa Fe, NM, 1986
“Sexual Irony in the Poetry of Philip Larkin,” Western Humor and Irony Membership, Phoenix, AZ, 1983
“The Western Saloon: The Last Frontier,” New Mexico Historical Society, Albuquerque, NM, 1983
“Staffing a Literary Magazine,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, San Marcos, TX, 1982
“Science, Poetry, and the Universe: Some Astrophysical Conceptions,” Popular Culture Association, Stillwater, OK, 1981
“The Southwest Small Presses and Distribution,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Denver, CO, 1980
“Editors and Publishers,” Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Nacogdoches, TX, 1980
“The Western Saloon: The Last Frontier,” Popular Culture Association, Stillwater, OK, 1980
“The Issues Involved in Teaching Multi Cultural Literature,” Conference on Composition and Literature, Lawrence, KS, 1979
“Book Distribution and Small Press Literature,” UTEP Writers Conference, El Paso, TX, 1979
“World of the Weeklies: Our Special Concerns,” National Council of College Publications Advisers, Houston, TX, 1978
“National Trends in Contemporary Literature,” Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, Albuquerque, NM, 1978
“Re Invigorating the Humanities Core Curricula in a Technological Institution,” Association for General and Liberal Studies, Ogden, UT, 1977
“What Happened to Speech?” College Conference on Composition and Communication, Kansas City, MO, 1977
“The Student as Evaluator,” Association for General and Liberal Studies, Boston, MA, 1976
“Poe’s Use of Music in His Fiction,” Conference of College Teachers of English, Austin, TX, 1975
“Norman Mailer’s Private Kaleidoscope of Death,” Texas American Studies Association, Houston, TX, 1974
Literary Readings
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Boston, MA, 2007
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2007
American Studies Association of Texas, Waco, TX, 2006
Spindletop Unitarian Church, Beaumont, TX, 2006
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Atlanta, GA, 2006
National Federation of State Poetry Societies, San Antonio, TX, 2006
College English Association, San Antonio, TX, 2006
Texas College English Association, Corpus Christi, TX, 2006
Angelo State University Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, TX, 2006
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2006
American Studies Association of Texas, Wichita Falls, TX, 2005
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Diego, CA, 2005
Conference of College Teachers of English, Waco, TX, 2005
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2005
South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, 2004
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, San Antonio, TX, 2004
Lamar Literary Festival, Beaumont, TX, 2004
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, 2004
Conference of College Teachers of English, Beaumont, TX, 2004
Angelo State University Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, TX, 2004
South Central Modern Language Association, Hot Springs, AR, 2003
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fredericksburg, TX, 2003
Borders Poetry Reading Series, Houston, TX, 2003
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, 2003
Conference of College Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, 2003
Angelo State University Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, TX, 2003
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2003
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, 2002
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2002
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Lubbock, TX, 2001
West Texas A&M Summer Writing Program, Canyon, TX, 2001
Gulf Coast Writers Conference, Fairhope, AL, 2001
Angelo State University Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, TX, 2001
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2001
South Central Modern Language Association, Norman, OK, 2000
Western Literature Association, Norman, OK, 2000
Vistas of the Word Conference, Norman, OK, 2000
West Texas A&M Summer Writing Program, Canyon, TX, 2000
Angelo State University Writers Conference in Honor of Elmer Kelton, San Angelo, TX, 2000
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 2000
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Huntsville, TX, 2000
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Conference (2 readings), Belton, TX, 2000
O.H.M.S., Amarillo, TX, 1999
KZRK 1550 AM, Amarillo, TX, 1999
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 1999
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Conference, Belton, TX, 1999
Hi-Plains Chapter, Poetry Society of Texas, Amarillo, TX, 1999
Midland College, Midland, TX, 1998
High Plains Book Festival, Amarillo, TX, 1998
Panhandle Professional Writers, Amarillo, TX, 1998
West Texas A&M Summer Writing Program, Canyon, TX, 1998
Gulf Coast Writers Conference, Fairhope, AL, 1998
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, Lubbock, TX, 1998
South Central Modern Language Association, Dallas, TX, 1997
B & E Coffeehouse, Amarillo, TX, 1997
West Texas A&M Summer Writing Program, Canyon, TX, 1995-97
O.H.M.S., Amarillo, TX, 1997
Conference of College Teachers of English, South Padre Island, TX, 1997
Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, 1997
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 1997
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1997
Poetry Society of Texas, High Plains Chapter, Amarillo, TX, 1996
Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1996
Gulf Coast Writers Conference, Fairhope, AL, 1996
Canyon Arts Guild, Canyon, TX, 1996
Bridge Street Books, Las Vegas, NM, 1996
Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Amarillo, TX, 1996
Conference of College Teachers of English, Beaumont, TX, 1996
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, Tulsa, OK, 1996
University of North Texas Literary Festival, Denton, TX, 1995
Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX, 1995
San Jacinto College (three readings), Houston, TX, 1995
Bookstop, Houston, TX, 1995
Earth Day festival, Amarillo, TX, 1995
Indiana College English Association, Muncie, IN, 1994
Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1994
Lacey’s on Main (three readings), Madison, IN, 1994
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, 1994
Shawe High School (two readings), Hanover, IN, 1994
Hanover College, IN, 1994
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Wimberley, TX, 1994
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1994
Twice Told Coffee House, Louisville, KY, 1993
South Central Modern Language Association, Austin, TX, 1993
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, 1993
Conference of College Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, 1993
Center for Texas Studies’ Literary Festival, Fort Worth, TX, 1992
Mineral Wells Writers Association, Mineral Wells, TX 1992
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX, 1992
Shakespeare Books, Dallas, TX, 1992
University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus, Los Lunas, NM, 1992
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1992
Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX, 1991
Odessa College, Odessa, TX, 1991
University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus, Los Lunas, NM, 1991
The Corner Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, 1991
Dana Bookstore, Socorro, NM, 1991
University of North Texas Literary Festival, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, 1991
Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, 1991
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Stephenville, TX, 1991
University of North Texas Centennial Literary Festival, Denton, TX, 1990
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, San Angelo, TX, 1990
Fort Concho Museum Press Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX, 1989
Ruth Stephan Poetry Series, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1989
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Las Cruces, NM, 1988
Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, LA, 1988
Conference of College Teachers of English, San Antonio, TX, 1987
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, San Antonio, TX, 1985
Deep South Writers Conference, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 1979, 1982
Workshops
Poetry, Angelo State University Writers Conference, San Angelo, TX, 2000
Fiction, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival, Belton, TX, 1999
Poetry, Midland College, Midland, TX, 1998
Proposals, Panhandle Professional Writers, Amarillo, TX, 1998
Poetry, West Texas A&M Summer Writing Program, Canyon, TX, 1995, 1997, 1998
Poetry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1997
Poetry, Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1996
Poetry, San Jacinto College, Houston, TX, 1995
Poetry, Rice University Writers’ Conference, Houston, TX, 1994
Poetry, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 1994
Poetry, Hanover College, Hanover, IN, 1994
Poetry, University of North Texas Literary Festival, Denton, TX, 1990, 1992
Poetry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1992
Poetry, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX, 1991
Poetry, Fort Concho Literary Festival, San Angelo, TX, 1989
Fiction, Deep South Writers Conference, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1982
Editing, Border Regional Library Association, El Paso, TX, 1980
Honors and Awards
Southwest /Texas Popular Culture Association (Jerry Bradley Award) given annually to the top graduate student in creative writing, annually since 2000
Who’s Who in America, 61st edition, 2007
Frances Hernandez Teacher-Scholar Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2005
Sigma Tau Delta, international English honor society, honorary member, inducted 2003
Outstanding Alumnus from Midwestern State University College of Liberal Arts, 2002
Directory of American Scholars, 10th edition, 2000
Joe D. Thomas Scholar-Teacher of the Year, Texas College English Association, 2000
Texas Institute of Letters, inducted 1999
Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century, 1999
International Who’s Who in Poetry and Poets’ Encyclopedia, 1999
International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, 1998
Winner, unrhymed poetry contest, Panhandle Professional Writers, 1998
Best of session award, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1998
Winner, rhymed poetry contest, Panhandle Professional Writers, 1997
Winner, Boswell Poetry Prize, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996
British Literature Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1996
Phi Beta Delta, honorary international scholars fraternity, inducted 1996
Second place, non-fiction article contest, Panhandle Professional Writers, 1995
International Authors and Writers Who’s Who
Nominee, Pushcart Prize, non fiction, 1982; poetry, 1983, 1993
First commended award, poetry, The Plowman, 1989
Honoree, best of Inago, 1984
Honoree, best of Descant, twenty fifth anniversary issue, 1980 81
Honorable mention, Rio Grande Writers poetry contest, 1978
Winner, TACWT Poetry Contest, 1976
Pi Kappa Delta, honorary debate fraternity, inducted 1968
Grants
Program support grant, Writers League of Texas, 2001
Program support grant, Austin Writers League, 2000
Program support grant, Hastings Books, Music, and Video, 2000
Program support grant, Austin Writers League, 1999
Program support grant, Hastings Books, Music, and Video, 1999
Program support grant, Amarillo News-Globe, 1999
Program support grant, Canyon News, 1999
Program support grant, Austin Writers League, 1998
Operating grant, Austin Writers League, 1997
Program support grant, Amarillo Area Foundation, 1997
Program support grant, Texas Literary Touring Program, 1997
Program support grant, Amarillo News-Globe, 1997
Program support grant, Canyon News, 1997
Program support grant, Austin Writers League, 1996
Program support grant, Amarillo News-Globe, 1996
Program support grant, Canyon News, 1996
Program support grant, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1996
Texas Circuit literature grant, Texas Commission on the Arts, 1995
Literary touring grant, Austin Writers League, 1995
Program support grant, Meadows Foundation, 1995
Title III computer classroom/laboratory grant, West Texas A&M University, 1995
Computers in writing faculty development grant, West Texas A&M University, 1995
Publication grants, Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Research grant, New Mexico Tech Research Division, 1991
Publication grants, New Mexico Arts Division, 1980, 1982, 1990
Publication grants, National Endowment for the Arts, 1982, 1983, 1984
Astrophysics and modern poetry grant, New Mexico Humanities Council, 1982
Distribution grants, Swift Lizard Book Distribution Project, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
Short story on film grants, New Mexico Humanities Council, 1978, 1980
Einstein centennial celebration grant, New Mexico Humanities Council, 1979
Publication grant, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, 1979
Professional Service
Judge, Natalie Ornish poetry contest, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005
Area Chair, fiction, Popular Culture Association, 2004-present
Manuscript evaluator, Lamar Literary Festival, Beaumont, TX, 2004
Judge, John Bloom humor contest, Texas Institute of Letters, 2003
Chair, creative writing session, South Central Modern Language Association, 2001
Chair, creative writing session, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2002
Chair, creative writing sessions, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2002
Area Chair, creative writing, Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association, 1992-present
Judge, Creative Writing Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2002
Program Chair, creative writing, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2002
Councilor, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1999-2002
Chair, Southern literature session, South Central Modern Language Association, 2001
Secretary, creative writing session, South Central Modern Language Association, 2001
Chair, creative writing session, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 2001
Chair, conference arrangements, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2001
Judge, Natalie Ornish Poetry Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2000
Secretary, Southern literature session, South Central Modern Language Association, 2000
Judge, Literature Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2001
Chair, literature session, Conference of College Teachers of English, 2001
Judge, Mabel Hare essay contest, West Texas A&M University, 2000
Membership committee, Texas Institute of Letters, 1999-2000
Hernandez endowment committee, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1999-2001
Judge, Rhetoric, Composition, and Technical Writing Award, Conference of College Teachers of English, 1999
Judge, Mabel Hare essay contest, West Texas A&M University, 1999
Judge, Hilda Simmons Levitt poetry contest, Midland College, 1998
Judge, High Plains Poetry Society poetry contest, 1998
Judge, Mabel Hare essay contest, West Texas A&M University, 1998
Chair, Western Writers I and II, Western Literature Association, 1997
Judge, Tri-State Fair persuasive essay contest, 1997
Judge, poetry contest, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1997
Judge, Mabel Hare essay contest, West Texas A&M University, 1997
Chair, computer applications in writing, College English Association, 1996
Chair, poetry session, University of North Texas Literary Festival, 1995
Judge, Austin Book Awards, 1994
Judge, Rice University Writers’ Conference, 1994
Nominating committee, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1994
Judge, New Albany Tribune Young Columbus Newspapers in Education contest, 1994
Chair, science fiction session, South Central Modern Language Association, 1993
Chair, student awards, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1993
Chair, editors panel, Center for Texas Studies’ Fall Literary Festival, 1992
Chair, romanticism session, Rocky Mountain Language Association, 1991
Judge, Harbinger Poetry Contest, Texas Tech University, 1991, 1992
Judge, Carruth Poetry Contest, University of Kansas, 1991, 1992
Chair, creative writing session, College Conference of Teachers of English, 1992
Secretary, science fiction session, South Central Modern Language Association, 1992
Judge, faux Faulkner contest, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1992
Chair, regional fiction writers sessions, South Central Modern Language Association, 1991
Secretary, romanticism session, Rocky Mountain Language Association, 1991
Chair, Southwestern literature session, Western Literature Association, 1991
Secretary, creative writing session, College Conference of Teachers of English, 1991
Moderator, poetic form panel, University of North Texas Literary Festival, 1991
Chair, poetry readings, University of North Texas Literary Festival, 1991
Area chair, creative writing sessions, Popular Culture Association International Conference, 1991
Chair, creative writing session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1990
Secretary, regional fiction writers session, South Central Modern Language Association, 1990
Chair, American literature session, Popular Culture Association, 1990
Judge, creative writing contest, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1990
Chair, literary magazines and small presses session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1989
Secretary, creative writing session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1989
Judge, creative writing contest, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1982
Chair, literary magazines and small presses session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1981
Chair, literary magazines and small presses session, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, 1980
Moderator, workshop on small presses, Border Regional Library Association, 1980 Adviser, Pay Dirt student newspaper, 1976 79
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Poets
College English Association
Conference of College Teachers of English
National Association of Foreign Student Advisers
Phi Beta Delta
Pi Kappa Delta
Popular Culture Association
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Sigma Tau Delta
South Central Modern Language Association
Texas American Studies Association
Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers
Texas Institute of Letters
Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association
Western Literature Association
Courses Taught
Literature:
American Literature Survey, I & II
British Fiction since World War II
British Poetry since World War II
Contemporary British Novel
English Literature Survey, I & II
English Poetry: 1840-1890
English Romanticism
Great Books, I & II
Modern British Poetry
Modern American Poetry
Studies in Literary Genres
Victorian Poetry
World Literature Survey, I & II
Directed Studies in American Literature
Directed Studies in English Literature
Directed Studies in World Literature
Thesis
Writing:
Creative Writing: Fiction
Creative Writing: Poetry
Advanced Creative Writing
Workshops in Creative Writing
English Grammar
Advanced Grammar
English Composition, I & II
Journalism, I & II
Rhetoric
Technical Communication Senior Seminar
Technical Communication: Word Processing
Thesis
Communications:
Debate
Logic
Persuasion
Public Speaking
Special Problems in Speech
References
Dr. James H. Bowden
1859 Yale Drive
Louisville, KY 40222
(502) 451-2194
jhbowden@insightbb.com
Ms. Carmen Breaux
College of Graduate Studies
Box 10078
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX 77710
(409) 880-8222 (office)
(409) 626-0094 (cell)
breauxci@hal.lamar.edu
Dr. Jerry Craven
Department of English
Lamar University
(409) 880-8562 (office)
(409) 383-3895 (cell)
cravenjerry@gmail.com
Dr. Millard Dunn
Valley Vista
Louisville, KY
(502) 454-7136 (home)
(502) 417-7230 (cell)
mdunn@iglou.com
Dr. Jill Patterson
English Department
Texas Tech University
MS 43091
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
(970) 325-9826
jill.patterson@ttu.edu
Dr. John Rothfork
Box 6032
English Department
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
(928) 523-0559
(928) 523-7074 (fax)
john.rothfork@nau.edu
Dr. Jeff Todd
6416A Westside Drive
Austin, TX 78731
(512) 795-0786
drtodd98@yahoo.com
Dr. David E. Vancil
Head, Special Collections Department
Cunningham Memorial Library
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
(812) 237-2611
libvanc@isugw.indstate.edu
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