EDUCATION:

EMPLOYMENT:

St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vermont	Instructor in English Summer 1968
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont	Instructor, Poetry Workshop Summers 1970, 197l
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana	Visiting Lecturer in English Spring 1973
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC	Assistant Professor, 1980-87 Associate Professor, 1987-

OTHER APPOINTMENTS:

Visiting Research Fellow Trevelyan College, University of Durham, England (permanent member, University of Durham Society of Fellows)	1985-1986
Trevelyan Lectureship	March 6, 1986
Summer Research Fellow, Institute of Southern Studies, USC	1987
Belk Lectureship, Wesleyan College, GA	Sept. 27, 1990
Co-Director, Center on Religion in the South Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, SC	1990-2000
Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (Survey of American Lit. and Culture Lecture for Third Year, Monographic Lecture and MA Seminar for Fourth Year, Seminar and MA Thesis guidance for Fifth)	Sept. 1988-Jun. 1989
NEH Summer Seminar: "Rousseau and Blake: Inventing the Modern Self" Harvard (Leo Damrosch)	1993
Principal, Preston College USC's first residential college, created in 1995: 240 undergraduate residents, 5 graduate-student staff residents, one half-time College business manager, 36 Faculty Asociates. My wife Becky and I created the College.	1995-98
Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature English Department Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza (Metaphysical Poetry, Romanticism for Fourth Year, rotating lectures in Poetry, Short Story, American Drama for Second and Third)	Sept. - Dec. 1998
Visiting Fellow (Title F - permanent status) Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England	Jan. - Jun. 1999
Cullum Lectureship, Augusta State Univ, GA	Feb. 22, 2000
Named Fulbright Senior Specialist (listed as a consultant)	2001-

PUBLICATIONS:

The Appeal of Muggletonianism (The Trevelyan Lecture, 1986). Published by Trevelyan College in association with the Society of Fellows of the University of Durham Research Foundation. June 1986. 33 pp. ISBN 1 869948 00 9.

The Changing Shape of Protestantism in the South. Co-edited with Marion Aldridge. Macon, Georgia: Mercer Univ Press, 1996. ISBN 0-86554-518-9. "Afterword," 79-85.

PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES Refereed (Selected)

• "Innocence and Experience," Born Into a World at War, Essays contributed by members of Harvard Class of 1965. Eds. Nancy Blackmun and Maria Tymoczko. Manchester, England: St. Jerome Publishing, 2000. 291-300. (Re-published, re-titled "Memory, Religion, and Vision: A Father, an Uncle, and the Inheritance of a World at War," in The Emergence of Men into the 21st Century, eds., Ed Madden, Patricia Munhall, and Virginia Fitzsimmons, Jones and Bartlett in collaboration with the National League of Nursing, 2002, 398-406.)
• "Nathanael West and American Apocalyptic." Tradition and Postmodernity: English and American Studies and the Challenge of the Future. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English and American Literature and Language. Eds. Teresa Bela and Zygmunt Mazur. Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian Univ., 1999. 435-43.
• "John on Patmos and the Painters." Arts: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies 5:3 (Summer 1993). 18-23.
• "Poland: During, After, and Later." The Fulbright Difference: 1948-1992. Eds. Richard T. Arndt and David Lee Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1993. 419-32.
• "Religion in South Carolina Addresses the Public Order." Religion in South Carolina. Ed. Charles Lippy. Columbia: Univ of SC Press, 1992. 182-97.
• "America's Obsession with Doom: Images of Apocalypse in Popular Culture." Agora: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Discourse. Luther College (Spring 1991). 47-55.
• "The Impasse of Coleridge and the Way of Blake." The Interpretation of Belief: Coleridge, Schleiermacher and Romanticism. Ed. David Jasper. London: Macmillan, 1986. 225-34.
• "The Use of Blake and the Recovery of Fideism," Journal of the American Academy of Religion LIV, 4 (Winter 1986). 741-757.
• "Superstardom and Transcendence." Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature 2:2 (Spring 1985). 47-54.
• "A Theologian on the Courtly Lover Death in Three Poems by Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath." Lamar Journal of the Humanities (Spring l982). l3-21.
• "The Lonely Marathon." Theology Today (April l982). 39?45. Reprinted as "We Miss A Lot If All We Do Is Run." Christian Living (February l983). 8?12. Reprinted in One for the Higger: Jack Higgs, A Man for all Seasons. Ed Lyle Olsen. Johnson City: East Tenn State Univ. Press, 1994. 143-49.
• "Anybody Who Isn't Schizophrenic These Days Just Isn't Thinking Clearly." The Humanities: Philosophical Designs and Practical Visions. Ed. C. Edward Kaylor. Medical University Press of MUSC (for the Southern Humanities Conference), 1981. 26-31.

PUBLICATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS (Selected)

• "Auden, Wystan Hugh." Die Religion in Geschicte und Gegenwart: Handworterbuch fur Theologie und Religionswissenschaft. 4th ed., Vol 1, Tubingen: Mohr-Siebach, 1998.
• "Understanding Terror," Christian Networks Journal (Fall 2003), 8-10 (www.cnj.org).
• "The Mystery of [George] Mallory." SportsJones: an online sports magazine (May 17, 1999). Http://www.sportsjones.com (archived). Linked to NewCity.com.
• "New Voices." Op-Ed page. Jerusalem Times (Oct. 23, 1998) 5.
• "On the Heresy of Literalism." Newsletter of the Center on Religion in the South, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, SC) 14 (Fall 1997). 1-2. A slightly different version reprinted in Humanities in the South 81 (1998), 35-6. (linked here)
• "The Personae of College Teachers," Teaching at USC (University Instructional Development Project). 3rd Edition (Fall 1993), 20-21.
• "In Praise of Irony." Agora: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Discourse. Spring 1991 (Luther College). 80-81.
• "Wizyta Na Koszt Wlasny" (tr. by Piotr Pienkowski from English, "A Visit at One's Own Expense"). ARKA (Polish free press quarterly) 25 (March 1989). 13-16.
• Over forty reviews for Journal of Religion, Religious Studies Review, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Southern Quarterly, Journal of Church and State, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Scottish Photography Bulletin, Rare Books Newsletter, 1975-1999. (Books on William Blake, modern poetry and theatre, poetic theory, Thomas Merton, the culture of the sixties and seventies, Theodore Roethke, theology, dance, religion and the fine arts, Victorian agnosticism and literature of death and dying, the Muggletonians, spirituality, perennial philosophy, Southern religion, the Holocaust, and a poetry collection).
• "Letter from America: Report on Literature and Religion," Newsletter III, National Conference on Literature and Religion, England (November l983). 3-6.
• Lead contribution to the "Forum on the Teaching of Religion and Literature." Christianity and Literature (Spring 1980). 26-30.
• Poetry in Studia Mystica, The Christian Century, Anglican Theological Review, The Buffalo News, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, University of Chicago Magazine, 1977-2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS (in search of a publisher)

Monograph: "American Lonesomeness: Representations of Loneliness Transfigured in Fiction, Poetry, Art, and Music."

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (selected, half the total)

• "The Weightless Magic of 'Amazing Grace'," SE/AAR, Chattanooga, March 16, 2003.
• "Remorseless Entertainment," Tenth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem, Dec 27-31, 2001.
• "American Lonesomeness in Hopper," Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbia, October 25, 2001.
• "Catastrophe, Koran, and Curriculum at the Islamic University of Gaza," SCAR, Newberry College, Feb. 19, 2000.
• "Nathanael West and American Apocalyptic," Conference: "Tradition and Post-modernity: English and American Studies and the Challenge of the Future." Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. April 8, 1999.
• "The Counter-Myth of American Apocalypse." Plenary presentation, conference: "The Myth of the American Adam." University of Salamanca, Spain. March 12, 1999.
• "Loneliness (Plenitude)." Conference: "Sense of Place: Re-Evaluating Regionalism in Canadian and American Writing." Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. October 13, 1995.
• "Night for a Lullaby, Day For a Lay.'" MLA. San Diego. December 29, 1994.
• "Written on Wire: A Season on the College Hockey Discussion List." Sport Literature Association. Chapel Hill. May 21, 1994.
• "American Lonesomeness and American Religion." SCAR. Columbia. February 15, 1992.
• "Norman Mailer's Trance Apocalypse." SE/AAR. Charlotte. March 18, 1990.
• "The Bible Re-Envisioned and Re-Written in William Blake." Conference on Inter-textuality in British and American Literature. Poznan, Poland. May 6, 1989.
• "Basil Bunting, `Briggflatts', and Quaker Poetics." Fourth British National Conference on Literature and Religion. Durham, England. September 21, 1988.
• "To Prevent the Coming Wrath: A South Carolina Clergyman's Cautionary Tale of a Lynching at Christmas (1900)." SE/AAR. Macon, GA. March 18, 1988.
• "Quartet for the End of Time," SCAR. Lander College, Greenwood. February 28, 1987.
• "American Muggletonians." SE/AAR. Athens, GA. March 1985.
• "The Effect of Sceptical Self-Consciousness Upon Autobiographical Impulse and The Use of Irony in Autobiograhical Form." SE/AAR. Atlanta. March 18, 1983.
• "`Mother, I Will Be An Angel': Songs/Hymns of Death in America, 1853-1870." SE/AAR. Gainesville. March 19, 1982.
• "Apocalypse Among the History Painters," slide lecture, Modern Language Association (MLA). New York. December 28, 198l.
• "Martha Graham's Joan of Arc: 'Seraphic Dialogue' on Film." SCAR. Lutheran Seminary, Columbia. February 26, 1977.
• "The Ecstatic Moment in the Poetry of James Dickey." SCAR. Newberry College. February 25, 1978.
• "James Dickey: Nature and Grace," AAR. San Francisco. December 30, 1977.
• "Susan Sontag's 'The Pornographic Imagination'." SE/AAR. Atlanta. March 19, 1977.
• "The Courtly Lover Death in the Poetries of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton." AAR. Chicago, October 30, 1975.
• "Hocus Pocus in New Year Letter," American Academy of Religion (AAR), Washington, DC. October 27, l974.

MANUSCRIPTS REVIEWED

Ten essays, four book-length MSS (1987-2000), FIPSE grant proposals (1992)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES

Active in

• Sport Literature Society (Board, H-Arete listserv)
• American Studies Association (chaired session, 1997)
• Nineteenth Century Studies Assoc. (Board)
• American Academy of Religion (presentations to consultations, invited session respondent, (1974-99)
• Southeastern Section of the AAR (working group on autobiography, chaired sessions, student prize essay committee, panel presentation, 1976-94)
• South Carolina Academy of Religion (President, 1983-4)
• Southern Humanities Council (Board, 1988-91)

TEACHING (omitting undergraduate and MA course offerings and theses guided)

Outside/External member of committees for completed degrees at USC in:

Comp Lit PhD (1) Education PhD (1) English PhD (35) Geography PhD (1) Government/International Studies PhD (2)	History PhD (6) Nursing PhD (1) Philosophy PhD (2) Social Work PhD (2)
Art Studio MFA (1) English MFA (7)	Journalism MA (1)

PUBLIC LECTURES:

University of Toronto, Harvard, University of Durham, Oxford, Converse College, Clemson University, Cambridge, Wake Forest, Wesleyan College, Luther College, University of Glasgow, Augusta State University (1979-2000)

In Poland (Fulbright: 1988-89):

• "The World of the Muggletonians," Palace of Culture, Krakow, December 10, 1988.
• "American Apocalypses," presented at:
  • American Consulate, Krakow, December 5, 1988
  • University of Bamberg (Fakultat Sprach und Literatur-wissenschaften), West Germany, January 26, 1989
  • Higher Pedagogical School, Opole, Poland, February 16, 1989.
  • Language and Communication Institute, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, March 8, 1989.
  • University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, May 11,1989
• "Cultural Apocalypses," Theological Institute of the Order of St. Vincent DePaul, Krakow, February 25, 1989.
• "Religious Trends in Contemporary American Poetry," Dept. of English, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, March 8, 1989.
• "William Blake and the Bible," Institute of English Philology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, March 16, 1989.
• "Loneliness and Landscape in American Poetry," House of Culture, Krosno, Poland, April 28, 1989.

In Gaza (Fulbright: Fall 1998):

• Two public lectures, El Azhar University:
• "Cultural Contexts of American Literature," October 24, 26.
• "Outline of American Literary History," December 7.
• Two presentations at the British Council:
  • "Villanelles by Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop," October 9.
  • "Sources of American Bluegrass," video ("High Lonesome") and discussion, November 13.
• Lecture, "American Lonesomeness Across the Arts," Women's English Club, Islamic University of Gaza, November 25.

GOVERNANCE AND SERVICE (selected) -- USC and beyond

University of South Carolina

Faculty Senator, Freshman Advisor, Chair of two University committees (Student Affairs, Women's Studies), membership on several others: Rhodes Scholarship (1994- ), Maymester Task Force (1995), Provost's Commission on Women, National Carolina Scholars Selection (1998). Several Student Affairs committees, Provost's Accreditation Task Force on Learning and Teaching (2000). Women's (1974-1998). Institutional Review Board. Solomon-Tenenbaum Lectureship (ongoing). McNair Scholars Selection (2003). Libraries Committee.

College of Liberal Arts:

Strategic Planning Committee (1991-92). Dean Search Committee (1997-98). Chair, Student Academic Responsibility Committee (1992-93). Chair, search committees for a new Director of the Linguistics program (1991, 1994, 1998). CLASS awards selection committee (2000). Curriculum Committee (2000-03). Folger Institute Committee.

Religious Studies Department:

Undergraduate Director (several terms). Graduate Director (2001-). Fund-raiser for and Director, Elizabeth Dodge Clarke Prize (annual, for a graduating Senior in the Department). Post-Tenure review committees. Editor, first twelve issues of Dept. of Religious Studies Newsletter (1987-2003).

Manchester College, Oxford, England

Assistant Director, Pilot USC System Summer Session (and offered one course), July 13?30, 1987. (Repeated, July 15?August 15, 1988).

Trevelyan College, Durham, UK

• Organizer, interdisciplinary dining and paper-discussion group, once a term, for colleagues from several Departments and several Colleges, 1985-86.
• Founder, organizer of "Trevelyan University," to bring the Junior and Senior Common Rooms together for a series of weekly afternoon presentations in the SCR by members of the College, Epiphany Term, 1986.

English Institute, Krakow, Poland

Organizer-Host, dinner and paper discussion evening for English Institute colleagues of rank, Wierzynek Restaurant, Krakow, May 17, 1989.