Arnold Curriculum Vitae
Edwin T. Arnold
2008
PERSONAL DATA
Home Address: 1247 Stoneybrook Lane, Boone, NC, 28607
Telephone Number: Home (828) 264-0968 Office (828) 262‑2321
E-mail: arnoldet@appstate.edu
EDUCATION
B.A. 1965-69 University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
M.A. 1970-73 Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA)
Ph.D. 1974-78 University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)
AWARDS AND HONORS
1985,1987, 1996, 1999, 2005 Appalachian State University Research Grant
1986 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant
1990 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant
1992 Named to Editorial Advisory Board of The Southern Quarterly.
1993 Named recipient of 1993-94 Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award, Appalachian State University.
1994-95 Visiting Professor of American Literature, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
1996 Named recipient of 1995-96 Outstanding Scholar Award, College of Arts and Sciences,
Appalachian State University
1996 Named to Editorial Advisory Board of Profils Americains
1996 Named to Editorial Advisory Board of The Faulkner Journal
1997 (Spring semester) Visiting Professor of American Literature, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier,
France
1999 Elected to Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Southern Literature.
2000 (Fall semester) Distinguished Visiting Honors Professor, Honors College and Dept. of English,
University of Central Florida (Orlando)
2003: Named co-editor of The Faulkner Journal
2005: Named recipient of the 2005-06 100 Scholars Award, Appalachian State University
2006: Named to Editorial Board, Studies in American Culture
WORK EXPERIENCE
1977- Assistant, Associate, and Professor of English, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1978-80, 86-88 Associate Editor of Appalachian Journal
1988-94 Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1996 (Fall) Acting Graduate Director, Department of English
2003-present Co-editor of Faulkner Journal
2007-present: Program Director, Appalachian Studies
COURSES TAUGHT
Eng. 1000—Expository Writing; Eng. 1100—Introduction to Literature; Eng. 2310 and 2320—American Literature Surveys; Eng. 2170—Introduction to Film; English 2100—Modern Studies; Eng. 3170—Advanced Studies in Film; Eng. 3510—Junior-Senior Honors Seminar in American Literature; Eng. 3720—Studies in the Short Story; Eng. 4720/5720—Appalachian Literature; Eng. 4730—The Novel; Eng. 4790—20th C. American Literature, 1900-45; Eng. 4795—20th C. American Literature, 1945- Present; Eng. 5640—Cultural Studies; Eng. 5660—Advanced Seminar in Major Authors; Eng. 5790—20th C. American Literature; Eng. 5980—Contemporary Literature.
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
American Association of University Professors (VP of local chapter, 1998-99, President 1999-2000, 2003)
American Literature Association
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Executive Committee, 1999-2001)
The William Faulkner Society
The Eudora Welty Society
The Cormac McCarthy Society--President (1993-98)
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
"Explanatory Notes" to William Gilmore Simms, The Scout (Charleston, SC: The Reprint Company, 1976), vol. 4 of The Revolutionary War Novels of William Gilmore Simms.
The Selected Writings of Benjamin Franklin Perry, edited and annotated by S. E. Meats and Edwin T. Arnold (Charleston: The Reprint Company as part of the South Carolinian Series: Bibliographical and Textual, 1980). 3 vols.
The Films and Career of Robert Aldrich, co-authored with Eugene L. Miller, Jr. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986).
Conversations with Erskine Caldwell, edited by Edwin T. Arnold (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988). Contains personal interview with Caldwell done in 1986 (pp. 265-96).
Annotations to William Faulkner's Mosquitoes, introduction and annotations by Edwin T. Arnold (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1989).
Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered, edited by Edwin T. Arnold (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990). (Hardback publication of SoQ Caldwell issue).
Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, edited by Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce (University Press of Mississippi, 1993). Revised, hardback publication of SoQ McCarthy issue.
Interviewing Appalachia: The Appalachian Journal Interviews, 1978-1992, edited by J. W. Williamson and Edwin T. Arnold (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994). (Reprints five interviews I originally published in AppalJ.)
Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary: Glossary and Commentary, Edwin T. Arnold and Dawn Trouard (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996).
Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Revised Edition, edited by Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998). Contains my new essay “The Last of the Trilogy: First Thoughts on Cities of the Plain,” 221-47.
A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy, edited by Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001).
Robert Aldrich: Interviews, edited by Eugene L. Miller and Edwin T. Arnold (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004).
Special Issues:
Index to Appalachian Journal, vols. 1-7, 1972-80, compiled and edited by J. W. Williamson and Edwin T. Arnold, vol. 7 (Summer issue of Appalachian Journal, 1980).
Special Erskine Caldwell issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited Edwin T. Arnold, XXVII (Spring 1989). Contains personal interview with Virginia Caldwell done in 1988 (pp. 99-110).
Special Cormac McCarthy issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited by Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce, 30 (Summer 1992). Contains our Introduction, pp. 7-9, and my article "Naming, Knowing and Nothingness: McCarthy's Moral Parables," 31-50.
Southern Head Trips: The South and the Sixties Counterculture, special issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited by Edwin T. Arnold and Stephen Flinn Young, 34 (Spring 1996). Contains our introduction and my article “What the Movies Told Us,” 57-65.
Guest Editor, General issue of The Faulkner Journal, XII:2 (Spring 1997 [pub. Spring 1998]).
Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, special issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited by Edwin T.
Arnold and Dianne C. Luce, 38.3 (Spring 2000). Contains our introduction and my article “`Go to sleep’:
Dreams and Visions in the Border Trilogy” 34-58.
Faulkner and Film, special double issue of The Faulkner Journal, edited by Edwin T. Arnold, XVI.1&2 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001). Contains my introduction “Faulkner Writ Large/Faulkner Ritt Small” 3-6, and two previously unpublished Faulkner teleplays, “The Brooch” and “Shall Not Perish,” edited by Edwin T. Arnold, 148-215,
Associate Editor. “A Festschrift . . . In Honor of J. W. Williamson,” special double issue of the Appalachian Journal 29.1-2 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002).
Special Donald Harington issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited by Edwin T. Arnold, 40.2 (Winter 2002). Contains my introduction, 5-8, and “The William Styron-Donald Harington Letters,” ed. by Edwin T. Arnold, 99-141.
Special Cormac McCarthy issue of Profils Amércains, edited by Christine Chollier and Edwin T. Arnold. No. 17 (2004 [2006]).
Suttree issue of The Cormac McCarthy Journal 5.1 (Spring 2005 [published 2007].) Includes “Introduction,” 2-6.
Articles:
"Freedom and Stasis in William Faulkner's Mosquitoes," Mississippi Quarterly, 28 (Summer 1975), 281-97.
"Faulkner and Huxley: A Note on Mosquitoes and Crome Yellow," Mississippi Quarterly, 30 (Summer 1977).
"The Motion Picture as Metaphor in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald," Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual. Gale Research, 1977. 43-60.
"John Foster West's Time Was: A Reconsideration," Appalachian Journal, 5 (Summer 1978), 430-33.
"Women Diarists and Letter Writers of 18th Century South Carolina," in South Carolina Women Writers, ed. James B. Meriwether. Charleston: Southern Studies Program-University of South Carolina, 1979. 127-40.
"Falling Apart and Staying Together: The Modern Family in the Fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason and Leon Driskell," Appalachian Journal, 12 (Winter 1985), 135-41.
"Erskine Caldwell's New England Fiction," Papers From the North East Popular Culture Association Meeting 1986, ed. David K. Vaughn. Orono, Me.: National Poetry Foundation, 1986. 167-74.
Contributing Member of Faulkner Scholarship Survey Committee, survey published annually in summer issues of Mississippi Quarterly, 1978-1989.
"Al, Abner, and Appalachia: The First Years of Al Capp's Li'l Abner," Appalachian Journal, 17 (Spring 1990), 262-75.
"The Last of the Shropshire Lad: David West, Faulkner, and Mosquitoes," Faulkner Studies (Chiba, Japan), vol. 1, no. 1 (1991), 21-41.
"Naming, Knowing and Nothingness: McCarthy's Moral Parables," The Southern Quarterly 30 (Summer 1992), 31-50. Rptd. in Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy, rev. ed., 45-69.
"Blood & Grace: The Fiction of Cormac McCarthy," Commonweal (Nov. 4, 1994), 11-12, 14, 16.
"Cormac McCarthy's The Stonemason: The Unmaking of a Play," Southern Quarterly, 33 (Winter-Spring 1995), 117-29. Rpt. in Myth, Legend, Dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy. Ed. Rick Wallach. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 2000. 141-54.
"The Mosaic of McCarthy's Fiction," Sacred Violence: A Reader's Companion to Cormac McCarthy, ed. Wade Hall and Rick Wallach. El Paso: Texas Western P, 1995. 17-23; Rptd. in Modern Critical Views: Cormac McCarthy, ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House 2002. 45-51.
"`The Worst Feeling There Is': Erskine Caldwell and Loneliness," Chiba Review, 17 (1995), 1-10.
“What the Movies Told Us,” Southern Quarterly, 34 (Spring 1996), 57-65.
“`I’m a fool about God. Whose fool are you?’: Revision and Revival in Erskine Caldwell’s Journeyman,” Profils Americains, no. 7 (1995), 153-69.
Foreword to Erskine Caldwell, Journeyman. Athens and London: U of Georgia P, 1996. vii-xv.
“`Give Me Lief’: Snopes and Fair Play,” Chiba Review (Japan), no. 18 (1996), 1-11.
Introduction to Henry Clay Lewis, Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State UP, 1997. xi-xlviii.
“Facing the Monster: William Gilmore Simms and Henry Clay Lewis,” in William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier, edited by John Caldwell Guilds and Caroline Collins. Athens and
London: The U of Georgia P, 1997. 179-91.
“Abner Unpinned: Al Capp’s Li’l Abner, 1940-1955,” Appalachian Journal, 24.4 (Summer 1997): 420-36.
“The Last of the Trilogy: First Thoughts on Cities of the Plain,” Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy rev. ed. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 221-47.
“The World of The Orchard Keeper,” Proceedings of the First European Conference on Cormac McCarthy. Ed. David Holloway. Published by The Cormac McCarthy Society, 1999, 1-5.
“`Go to sleep’: Dreams and Visions in the Border Trilogy,” Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, special issue of The Southern Quarterly, edited Edwin T. Arnold and Dianne C. Luce, 38.3 (Spring 2000), 34-58. Rptd. in A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy. 37-72.
“Japanese Views of the American South,” South Atlantic Review 65.4 (Fall 2000): 114-31.
“Faulkner Writ Large/Faulkner Ritt Small,” Faulkner Journal XVI.1-2 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001): 3-6. “The Brooch” and “Shall Not Perish” by William Faulkner, ed. Edwin T. Arnold, Faulkner Journal XVI.1-2 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001): 148-215.
“The Good Doctor: O. B. Mayer and `Human Natur’.” The Humor of the Old South. Ed. M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001. 199-211.
“The Bard of Stay More.” The World & I. 17.4 (April 2002): 260-67.
“The William Styron-Donald Harington Letters,” Southern Quarterly, 40.2 (Winter 2002): 99-141.
“The Mosaic of McCarthy’s Fiction, Continued.” Sacred Violence, rev. ed., vol. II Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels, ed. Wade Hall and Rick Wallach. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 2002. 179-87.
“McCarthy and the Sacred: A Reading of The Crossing.” Cormac McCarthy: New Directions. Ed. James D. Lilley. Albuquerque: U New Mexico P, 2002. 215-38
“Cormac McCarthy’s Whales and Men.” Cormac McCarthy: Uncharted Territories/Territoires Inconnus. Ed Christine Chollier. Reims: Presses Universitaires de Reims, 2003. 17-30.
“Unruly Ghost: Erskine Caldwell at 100.” The Southern Review 39.4 (Autumn 2003): 851-68.
Arnold et al, “AppalJ Roundtable Discussion: Cold Mountain, the Film.” Appalachian Journal 31.3-4 (Spring/Summer 2004): 316-53.
“Cormac McCarthy’s Frontier Humor.” The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor. Ed. Ed Piacentino. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State UP, 2006. 190-209.
“Erskine Caldwell and Judge Lynch: Erskine Caldwell’s Role in the Anti-Lynching Campaign of the 1930s.” Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays. Ed. Robert L. McDonald. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Co., 2006. 183-202.
“Disgust in the Early Works of Cormac McCarthy.” Profils Américains. No. 17 (2004 [2006]): 61-87.
“Erskine Caldwell Anticipates the New South.” Poverty and Progress in the U. S. South Since 1920. Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Mark Newman. Amsterdam: VU University P, 2006. 41-47
“In Memoriam: Lou V. Crabtree.” Appalachian Journal 34.2 (Winter 2007): 140-41.
Interviews:
"An Interview with John Foster West," Appalachian Journal, 5 (Summer 1978), 434-43.
"An Interview with Jim Wayne Miller," Appalachian Journal, 6 (Spring 1979), 207-25.
"Hollywood in the Hills: An Interview with Tom Rickman," Appalachian Journal, 10 (Summer 1983), 335-49.
"An Interview with Lee Smith," Appalachian Journal, 11 (Spring 1984), 240-54.
"Lou Crabtree Addresses the Mysteries of Life," Appalachian Journal, 14 (Fall 1986), 56-61.
"Interview with Erskine Caldwell," in Conversations with Erskine Caldwell, ed. Edwin T. Arnold (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1988), 265-96.
"Interview with Virginia Caldwell," in Erskine Caldwell issue of The Southern Quarterly, ed. Edwin T. Arnold, XXVII (Spring 1989), 99-110.
"An Interview with Donald Harington," Appalachian Journal 21 (Summer 1994), 432-45.
“Interview with Robert M. Young.” Robert M. Young: Essays on the Films, ed. Leon Lewis. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Co., 2005. 9-42.
Biographical Studies in Reference Works:
"Eliza Wilkinson," biographical sketch in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Louis Rubin, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979).
"Davis Grubb," a critical/biographical essay in Contemporary American Novelists, vol. 6 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale Research, 1980), 117-22.
Editorial Advisor for "William Faulkner" entry in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series 2 (Gale research,1982), 127-208.
"Madison Jones," Critical Survey of Long Fiction, ed. Frank Magill, vol. 4 (La Canada, CA: Salem Press, 1983), 1485-95.
"William Gilmore Simms,"Critical Survey of Long Fiction, vol. 6, 2404-15.
"Jesse Stuart, "Critical Survey of Long Fiction, vol. 6, 2567-78.
"Sidney Lanier" in Research Guide to Biography and Criticism (Washington, DC: Research
Publishing, 1985), vol. II, 681-84.
"Jack Kirkland" (author of play version of Tobacco Road) in Critical Survey of Drama: English Language Series (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1985), vol. 6,1045-54.
Film Researcher (on 300 films) for Salem Press computer database film reference system (Spring 1986).
"Erskine Caldwell," entry in Popular World Fiction series, edited by Walton Beacham and Suzanne Niemeyer (Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, 1987), pp. 242-51.
"Cormac McCarthy," entry in Popular World Fiction series, 1036-43.
Update to Erskine Caldwell entry in Beacham's Popular Fiction 1991 Update, ed. Walton Beacham et al (Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, Inc., 1991), I, 201-202.
"Erskine Caldwell," Bibliography of American Fiction 1919-1988 (Bruccoli Clark Layman Publishers, 1991), 118-20.
"Davis Grubb,"Bibliography of American Fiction 1919-1988, 224.
"Donald Harington," Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series, ed. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles, vol. 152 (Gale Research Inc.), pp. 82-91.
“Robert Burgess Aldrich,” American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Vol. I, 251-53.
Book Reviews/Essays/Entries:
William Faulkner: The Marionettes, ed. Noel Polk, in The Southern Quarterly, 17 (Spring-Summer 1979), 244-46.
Faulkner's "Intruder in the Dust": Novel into Film, by Regina K. Fadiman, in Notes on Mississippi Writers,12 (Winter 1980), 91‑93.
Grace King, by David Kirby, in American Literary Realism 1870-1910, 14 (Spring 1981), 145-46.
The Phototropic Woman, by Annabel Thomas, in Appalachian Journal, 9 (Summer 1982), 324-26.
"Searching For the Source: David James Duncan's The River Why," Washington Book Review, 3 (Spring-Summer 1983), 26.
"A Lost `Woman's Novel': Dorothy Langley's Swamp Angel," Washington Book Review, 3 (Spring-Summer 1983), 28.
"Talking and Knowing: Lee Smith's Oral History," Washington Book Review, 3 (Fall 1983), 13, 20.
"Nobody's Angel," by Thomas McGuane, Magill's Literary Annual 1983 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1983), 544-48.
"The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South 1919-1945," by Daniel Joseph Singal, Magill's Literary Annual 1983, 873-77.
"Ironweed," by William Kennedy, Magill's Literary Annual 1984, 379-83.
"The Percys of Mississippi: Politics and Literature in the New South," by Lewis Baker, Magill's Literary Annual 1984, 682-85.
"Shakespeare's Dog," by Leon Rooke, Magill's Literary Annual 1984, 784-88.
"William Faulkner: First Encounters," by Cleanth Brooks, Magill's Literary Annual 1984, 950-53.
"The Flight of the Phoenix," directed by Robert Aldrich, in Magill's Cinema Annual 1985, edited Frank Magill (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1985), 549-54.
"Dos Passos: A Life," by Virginia Spencer Carr, Magill's Literary Annual 1985, 194-98.
"James Agee: A Life," by Laurence Bergreen, Magill's Literary Annual 1985, 473-78.
"Jesse: The Biography of an American Writer, Jesse Hilton Stuart," by H. Edward Richardson, Magill's Literary Annual 1985, 489-93.
"Leaving the Land," by Douglas Unger, Magill's Literary Annual 1985, 535-38.
"The Canonization of Jesse Stuart," Appalachian Journal,13 (Fall 1985), 28-33.
"Blood Meridian," by Cormac McCarthy, Appalachian Journal, 13 (Fall 1985),103-04.
"To Live and Die in L. A.," directed by William Friedkin, Magill's Cinema Annual 1986.
Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West," by Cormac McCarthy, Magill's Literary Annual 1986, 67-71.
"Masters of Atlantis," by Charles Portis, Magill's Literary Annual 1986, 579-83.
"God's Little Acre," by Erskine Caldwell, Masterplots II: American Fiction Series (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1986), 639-44.
"Outer Dark," by Cormac McCarthy, Masterplots II, 1227-31.
"Suttree," by Cormac McCarthy, Masterplots II, 1559-63.
"Death in the Woods," by Sherwood Anderson, Masterplots II: Short Stories Series (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1986), 528-31.
"I Want to Know Why," by Sherwood Anderson, Masterplots II: Short Stories, 1095-98.
"Adventure of the German Student," by Washington Irving, Masterplots II: Short Stories, 27-30.
"Caldwell's Reserve Inhibits Autobiography," review of Erskine Caldwell's With All My Might, The Charlotte Observer, 22 March 1987, p. 11F.
"Off For the Sweet Hereafter," by T. R. Pearson in Magill's Literary Annual 1987 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1987), 611-614.
"A Summons to Memphis," by Peter Taylor in Magill's Literary Annual 1987, pp. 832-835.
"Texasville," by Larry McMurtry; "Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen," by William Faulkner, edited by Louis Daniel Brodsky and Robert W. Hamblin; "William Faulkner, The Man and the Artist," by Stephen B. Oates; "A Southern Family," by Gail Godwin; for Dow Jones On-Line Review, 1987.
"Quinn's Book," by William Kennedy, Dow Jones On-Line Review, 1988.
"The Child in Time," by Ian McEwan in Magill's Literary Annual 1988 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1988), 146-49.
"A Southern Family," by Gail Godwin in Magill's Literary Annual 1988, pp. 845-49.
Editor, Appalachian A&S, newsletter of the College of Arts and Sciences, ASU. First issue, Spring, 1989.
"The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy," by Vereen M. Bell, in Appalachian Journal, 16 (Spring 1989), 262-63.
"The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy," by Vereen M. Bell in Magill's Literary Annual 1989 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1989), pp. 1-3.
"Comics as Culture," by M. Thomas Inge in Appalachian Journal, 18 (Winter 1991), 229-231.
Fiction's Inexhaustible Voice: Speech and Writing in Faulkner, by Stephen M. Ross in Mississippi Quarterly, 43 (Summer 1990), 451-52.
The Ink of Melancholy: Faulkner's Novels from "The Sound and the Fury" to "Light in August," by Andre Bleikasten in Magill's Literary Annual 1991 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1991), pp. 452-55.
A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years, by Marianne M. Moates in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, 75 (Summer 1991), 456-57.
Hunting Mister Heartbreak, by Jonathan Raban; Never Die, by Barry Hannah; and Typical, by Padgett Powell for Magill's Book Reviews/Dow Jones News/Retrieval, 1991.
Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life, by Robert Lacey, Very Old Bones, by William Kennedy, Brightness Falls, by Jay McInerney, Molehunt, by David Wise, for Magill's Book Reviews/Dow Jones News/Retrieval, 1992.
Faulkner's Marginal Couple: Invisible, Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities, by John N. Duvall in Mississippi Quarterly, XLIV (Summer 1991), 378-83.
"Faulkner lets his guard down in these letters to his parents," review of Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father 1918-1925, The Charlotte Observer (April 5, 1992), 5-C.
"Cormac McCarthy worth the wait," review of McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, The Charlotte Observer (May 10, 1992), 5-D.
Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America, by Jonathan Raban for Magill's Literary Annual 1992 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1992), 314-18.
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan; Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith, for Magill's Book Reviews/Dow Jones News/Retrieval, 1993.
Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, edited by Russell Duncan, for Magill's Literary Annual 1993 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1993), 91-95.
Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890, by David Alan Johnson, for Magill's Literary Annual 1993, 293-297.
Very Old Bones, by William Kennedy, for Magill's Literary Annual 1993, 846-850.
Arc d’X by Steve Erickson; and The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor in Magill’s Literary Annual 1994 (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1994)
James Agee: Reconsiderations, edited by Michael A. Lofaro, Southern Quarterly, 31 (Spring 1993), 139-40.
The Hard to Catch Mercy, by William Baldwin; White Trash, Red Velvet, by Donald Seacrest, for Magill's Book Reviews/Dow Jones News/Retrieval, 1994.
“The Three Erskine Caldwells,” Mississippi Quarterly, 50.1 (Winter 1996-97): 159-66.
Herman Melville by Hershel Parker in Magill’s Literary Annual 1997. (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 1997) 373-77.
The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction. Ed. Edward L. Ayers and Bradley C. Mittendorf in Appalachian Journal, 25 (Summer 1998): 432-35.
The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell. Ed. Robert L. McDonald, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, 82.2 (Summer 1998): 459-60.
“Western Myth and Cowboy Magic,” a review of Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain, in Cold Mountain Review, 27 (Fall 1998): 66-69.
“Horseman, Ride On” (review/essay on McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and publication of Cities of the Plain). The World & I (October 1998): 259-67.
Blood Feud: A Novel by Annabel Thomas, in Appalachian Journal, 26.2 (Winter 1999): 219-20.
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War, by Tony Horwitz, in Magill’s Literary Annual 1999. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1999), 208-11.
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan, in Cold Mountain Review 28 (Spring 2000): 70-72.
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House, in Appalachian Journal 29.1-2 (Fall 2001-Winter 2002): 235-36.
“The Campaign Trail” (review of Donald Harington’s Thirteen Albatrosses, or Falling Off the Mountain), The World & I 17.4 (April 2002): 254-59.
“A Stonemason Evening,” The Cormac McCarthy Journal. 2.1 (Spring 2002): 7-11.
“Tobacco Road and God’s Little Acre.” The New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-521 2004.
The Forest City Lynching of 1900: Populism, Racism and White Supremacy in Rutherford, County, North Carolina, by J. Timothy Cole. Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine. 21.1 (Spring 2005): 32-33.
“No Country For Old Men” Profils Américains. No. 17 (2004 [2006]): 213-17.
Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics by Ted Atkinson. Studies in American Culture. 29.2 (October 2006):133-35.
Papers Delivered:
"Faulkner and the Culture of the 20's," Popular Culture Association of the South (Nashville, TN), 1978.
"Poker as Paradigm in Go Down, Moses," 20th Century Literature Conference (Louisville, KY),
1979.
"Gurney Norman's Divine Right's Trip: The Journey Towards Home,"20th Century Literature
Conference (Louisville, KY), 1981.
"'The Old Sweet Order of Things': Theme and Structure in Sidney Lanier's Tiger-Lilies," Georgia-South Carolina College English Association Conference (Statesboro, GA), 1981.
"'Hell, Man, There Ain't None of Us Right': Moral Ambiguity in the Films of Robert Aldrich," FSU Conference on Literature and Film (Tallahassee, FL), 1982.
"Tiger-Lilies: Sidney Lanier's War Novel as Example of Regional History," National College English Association Conference (Houston, TX), 1982.
"'I'm Sinful at Rare Times, But I Never Been Wicked': The Faith of Jeeter Lester in Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road," Philological Association of the Carolinas (Charleston, SC), 1983.
Panel Member, "On Teaching Black Literature in a Predominately White University," Popular Culture Association of the South (Jacksonville, FL), 1983.
"The Unfilmed Screenplays of Robert Aldrich," Popular Culture Association in the South (Knoxville, TN), 1984.
Moderator, "The Dream as Revelation in the Modern Novel," FSU Conference on Literature and Film (Tallahassee, FL), 1985.
"'You Can't Discover That Just By Reading the Words': Robert Aldrich on Paper," National Popular Culture Association (Louisville, KY), 1985.
"The Subversion of Genre: Robert Aldrich's Ulzana's Raid, "Popular Culture Association in the South (Charleston, SC), 1985.
"Erskine Caldwell's Revision of God's Little Acre," Philological Association of the Carolinas (Charleston, SC), 1986.
"Erskine Caldwell's New England Fiction," New England Popular Culture Association (Bangor, Maine), 1986.
"Erskine Caldwell's New England Fiction," Philological Association of the Carolinas (Greensboro, NC), 11 March 1987.
"Authorship, Authority, and Final Intention in the Study of Film," Fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference of The Society of Textual Scholarship (City University of New York, NY), 10 April 1987.
Chair, session on Modern Medievalism at SEMA Conference, ASU, 18 September 1987.
"The Adaptation of Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre from Novel to Screen," Florida State University Conference on Literature and Film (Tallahassee, FL), 29 January 1988.
"The Value of Experience in the Writings of Erskine Caldwell," College English Association (New Orleans, LA), 16 April 1988.
Discussion Leader, "A Homecoming for Fred Chappell," sponsored by the Haywood County Public Library, the Haywood County Arts Council, and UNC Asheville (Canton, NC), 30 April 1988.
"Underneath Knoxville: Urban Purgatory in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree," South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Washington, DC), 13 November 1988.
"Observations on Abner: The First Years of Al Capp's Li'l Abner," Popular Culture Association in the South (Jacksonville, FL), 7 October 1989.
"`The Worst Feeling There Is': Caldwell and Loneliness," Modern Language Association (Washington, DC), 28 December 1989.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Popeye: Visions and Revisions in Faulkner's Sanctuary," Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Clemson University), 23 April 1992.
Introduction of Lucille Clifton, The 3rd Converse Conference on Southern Literature (Converse
College, Spartanburg, SC), 25 April 1992.
"The Appalachian Journal Interviews," presented with Jerry Williamson at the Humanities Social
Forum, Appalachian State University, 18 February 1993.
"Facing the Monster: William Gilmore Simms and Henry Clay Lewis," presented at the William
Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier Symposium (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville), 16 April
1993.
"The Mosaic of McCarthy's Fiction," presented at Cormac McCarthy: The First Conference (Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY), 15 Oct. 1993.
Co-chair (with Dianne C. Luce) of Cormac McCarthy session, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Atlanta, GA), 5 Nov. 1993.
"`Definitely an Anomic Type': Cormac McCarthy's Cultural Dissenters," presented at 17th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA), 12 March 1994.
“Erskine Caldwell and William Faulkner: Two Views of the South,” Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan), 19 Nov. 1994.
“The Cultural Background of Southern Literature,” Rissho University (Tokyo, Japan), 3 Dec. 1994.
“Cormac McCarthy as Southern Writer,” Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan), 22 Dec. 1994.
Chair, “Women Representing Women,” Transitions: A Conference on World Literature, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 27 April 1996.
“‘Give Me Lief’: Snopes and Fair Play,” American Literature Association (San Diego, CA), 30 May 1996.
“Save Your Imperial Yen, Boys, the Sun Will Rise Again,” An International Celebration of Southern Literature, 1996 Olympic Arts Festival (Atlanta, GA), 8 June 1996. Also member of international panel discussing “Southern Writing in Asia and Latin America.”
“Witnessing in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian,” Emerging Voices of the Southwest Conference (El Paso, TX), 13 September 1996.
“Cormac McCarthy: Mapping Itineraries,” XXXIIeme Congress de la Societe des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Superieur (Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (16 May 1997).
“Mapping The Orchard Keeper: Place and Character in Cormac McCarthy’s First Novel,” Summer Meeting of the Cormac McCarthy Society (Boone, NC), 19 July 1997.
“`Out of Nazareth,’ Desire and Faulkner’s Early Writings,” delivered at the William Faulkner
Centenary Celebration (Foundation William Faulkner, Rennes Universite 2, Rennes, France), 23 September 1997.
Panelist, “Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying,” A Faulkner Celebration held at Winthrop University (Rock Hill, SC), 26 February 1998).
Chair, Panel on “Mountain Community in Appalachian Literature,” Appalachian Studies Conference (Appalachian State University, Boone, NC), 20 March 1998.
“Cormac McCarthy and the Sense of the Sacred,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Charleston, SC), 18 April 1998.
Chair and Moderator of Roundtable Discussion on the Completion of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, American Literature Association (San Diego, CA), 29 May 1998. (This was the first session of the Cormac McCarthy Society to be held at the ALA.)
Opening Remarks and Paper, “The World of The Orchard Keeper,” delivered at The First Cormac McCarthy Society European Colloquy (Berlin, Germany), 26 June 1998.
“Disgust and the Body in the Southern Works of Cormac McCarthy,” delivered at the Cormac McCarthy: An International Colloquy meeting (University of Texas-El Paso), October 15, 1998. Also served as participant on the “Teaching McCarthy” panel, October 18.
Panelist, “After Faulkner: Writing, Teaching, Remembering,” Valdosta State University Writers Conference (Valdosta, GA), April 9, 1999.
Chair and moderator, Panel on “Cormac McCarthy’s Women Characters,” American Literature Association (Baltimore, MD), May 28, 1999.
Moderator and participant, Panel on “Is Cormac McCarthy a Southern Writer?” The Cormac McCarthy Society Summer Conference on McCarthy and Appalachia (Appalachian State University, Boone, NC) 31 July 1999.
Chair and moderator, Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Conference (San Antonio, TX), 13 November 1999.
Chair and Moderator, Panel on “Stay More and Stay Morons: Donald Harington’s Comic Novels of the Arkansas Ozarks.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference (Orlando, FL), 7 April 2000).
“Bayard Wootten and Shelby Lee Adams: Photography and Appalachian Identity,” delivered at the Conference on Arts and Regional Identity (Université do Perpignan, France), 22 September 2000.
“Creating McCarthy,” delivered at the Cormac McCarthy Conference (Austin , TX), 10 November 2000.
“Collating McCarthy: An Initial Textual Comparison,” delivered at the Cormac McCarthy Conference (Austin, TX), 10 November 2000.
Panelist, “Cormac McCarthy,” Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX), 11 November 2000.
Host and Moderator, Symposium in Honor of Jerry Williamson, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 17-18 November 2000.
“The Body Grotesque: Cormac McCarthy, Shelby Lee Adams, and Corporeal Art,” delivered at Appalachian Studies Association (Snowshoe, WV), 31 March 2001.
“Cormac McCarthy and Race,” American Literature Association (Cambridge, MA), 25 May 2001.
“Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Madison Jones’s Forest of the Night,” Cormac McCarthy Conference (El Paso, TX), 26 October 2001.
“Cormac McCarthy’s Frontier Humor,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Lafayette LA), 15 March 2002.
“Cormac McCarthy’s `Whales and Men’,” The 3rd European Conference on Cormac McCarthy (Reims, France), 20 June 2002.
Moderator, discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree. Western Literature Association (Tucson, AZ), 11 October 2002.
“Apache and Ulzana’s Raid: Robert Aldrich’s Revisionist Westerns.” Film and History League Conference (Kansas City, MO), 7 November 2002.
Panelist, “Words and Music: The Synergy of Story and Song,” Humanities Thematic Series, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 6 November 2003.
Chair and moderator, “Yet Another Disciple of William Faulkner? Cormac McCarthy and the Dixie Limited,” Suttree Come Home: A Conference and Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Publication of Cormac McCarthy’s Classic Novel (Knoxville, TN), 16 October 2004.
“Erskine Caldwell and Judge Lynch,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Roanoke, VA), 12 November 2004.
“Erskine Caldwell Anticipates the New South,” Southern Studies Forum on “Poverty and Pro- gress in the American South” (Middelburg, NL), 16 September 2005.
“No Country for Mickey Rourke: McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and `Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man’.” Cormac McCarthy Society (Houston TX), 29 October 2005.
“An Intra-Textual Reading of McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” SAMLA (Atlanta GA), 5 Nov. 2005.
“Father and Son in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction (San Diego, CA), 30 Sept. 2006.
“’No Hose Will Put This Fire Out’: Racist Humor in 19th Century Newspaper Lynching Accounts.” SAMLA (Charlotte, NC), 11 Nov. 2006).
“Cormac McCarthy as Border Writer,” American Comparative Literature Association (Puebla, Mexico), 21 April 2007/
Moderator. Closing Round Table Discussion on “Oprah, the Pulitzer, and The Road: Where McCarthy and McCarthy Studies Go Now,” “The Road Home” conference sponsored by the English Department of the University of Tennessee and the Cormac McCarthy Society (Knoxville, TN), 27 April 2007.
“The Torture Deaths of Henry Smith and Sam Hose and the Creation of the Modern Lynching Narrative,” Southern Studies Forum Biennial Conference (Olomouc, Czech Republic), Sept. 6, 2007.
Panelist, “The (Un)Changing Face of Cormac McCarthy’s Career” (Roundtable Discussion), American Literature Association (San Francisco, CA), 23 May 2008.
Public Lectures:
"The Evolution of the Family in the Works of William Faulkner," National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture (Boone, NC), 1986.
“Interviewing Erskine Caldwell,” Foreign Language Teachers in Japan Society, International House (Tokyo, Japan), 19 Feb. 1995
“The Chronology of William Faulkner’s Sanctuary,” Kansai District William Faulkner Society, Kansai University (Osaka, Japan), 15 March 1995.
“Faulkner, Caldwell, and the South,” Obirin University (Fuchinobe, Japan), 21 June 1995.
“What is the South?” Kansai University (Osaka, Japan), 23 June 1995.
“Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain and the `Border Trilogy,’ Midlands Technical College (Columbia, SC), 29 January 1999.
“Creating Cormac McCarthy: Literary Fame and the Role of the Novelist,” presented as the Honors Distinguished Fall Lecture at the University of Central Florida (Orlando), 14 November 2000.
“Cormac McCarthy and Appalachian Humor,” presented as part of the “Appalachians Writing About Appalachia” series, Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 25 February 2004.
“Witnessing Writers: The Mystery of Imagination,” keynote address for the English Graduate Students Association Conference, UNC-Charlotte (Charlotte, NC), 21 January 2005.
“Mementos, Trophies, and Spoils: The Legacy of Lynching Relics,” Appalachian State University Humanities Thematic Series (Boone, NC), 28 September 2005.
“Erskine Caldwell, Jack Kirkland, and Tobacco Road.” InSight Series lecture given after performance of the stage play Tobacco Road. Triad Stage Company, Greensboro, NC. 17 June 2007
Guest on NPR program “The State of Things,” hosted by Frank Statio, devoted to the Erskine Caldwell and Tobacco Road, novel and play. 22 June 2007.
“Revenge and Reconciliation: The Spectacle Lynching of Sam Hose and a Community’s Confrontation with Its Past,” talk given as part of Black History Month, University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS), 19 February 2008.
“William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, and the Art of Public Privacy,” Appalachian State / University Humanities Series (Boone, NC), 21 February 2008.
Forthcoming:
- “Doctor’s Son,” personal essay to be published in White Masculinity in the Recent South, ed. Trent A. Watts (LSU P, Spring 2008 publication).
- Introduction to John Sepich’s Notes on Blood Meridian, Revised Edition, scheduled for publication by U of Texas P in Fall 2008.
- What Virtue There Is in Fire: Sam Hose, Southern Justice, and the Making of a Black Martyr, U of Georgia P, 2009.
- Editor of special issue of Faulkner Journal devoted to “Faulkner and Death.” Accepting Submissions.
- Reader for University of Tennessee Press, University of Georgia Press, University Press of Mississippi, University of Kentucky Press, The Southern Quarterly, the Appalachian Journal, South Atlantic Review, Twentieth Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, College Literature, The Cormac McCarthy Journal.
