Publications


 
 

 

·        "In the Wake of the Whale:  Melville and The Blithedale Romance."  ESQ:  A Journal of the American Renaissance,

      Volume 46.1 (2000):  51-74.  Published in Jan. 2002.
 

·        "'This Mutual Visionary Company': Nathaniel Hawthorne & Margaret Fuller." In Margaret Fuller's Cultural Critique

      Her Age and Her Legacy. Ed. Fritz Fleischmann. New York: Peter Lang, 2000. 109-120.
   

·         "Rappaccini's Garden and Emerson's Concord: Translating the Voice of Margaret Fuller." In Hawthorne and Women:          Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition. Eds. John Idol and Maria Ponce. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts     Press, 1999. 75-91.

·         "The Two Lives of Love: Robert Browning's 'Love in a Life' and 'Life in a Love.'" Studies in Browning and His Circle 22 (May 1999): 50-58.

·         Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

-- Nominated for the American Studies Association's Thomas Hope Franklin Award for the best book in American Studies in 1998.

      -- Nominated for the Modern Language Association's 1998 First Book Award.
 

·         "Julian Hawthorne and the 'Scandal' of Margaret Fuller." American Literary History

            7 (1995): 210-33.
 

·         "John Keats's 'Outlawry' in 'Robin Hood.'" Studies in English Literature

            34 (1994): 753-69.
 

·         "Dead Men and 'Dead Letters': Narrative Purpose in 'Barleby the Scrivener.'"

            Studies in Short Fiction 27 (1990): 329-38.
 
 


Conference Presentations

  • "In the Whale's Wake: Melville and The Blithedale Romance." The Hawthorne-Melville

Relationship (A Retrospect: 150 Years) Session (other presenters: Robert Milder

and Brenda Wineapple). American Literature Association.

Annual conference in Long Beach, California. May 25-28, 2000.
 

  • Chair of "Fuller and Democracy" Session, sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society.

American Literature Association. Annual conference in Long Beach, California.

May 25-28, 2000.

  • "Hawthorne and the Venus of the Tribune." 19th-Century Americans in Rome: Cultural

Encounters in Rome. An international meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society,

Henry James Society, Melville Society, and Margaret Fuller Society. Rome,

June 2-5, 1998.

  • "Rappaccini's Garden and Emerson's Concord." Nathaniel Hawthorne Society.

Concord and Salem, Mass., June, 1996.

  • "The Hawthorne-Fuller Friendship." Margaret Fuller Society Panel.

Modern Language Association. Chicago, December, 1995.
 

  • "Fuller's Voice, Hawthorne's Translation." American Literature Association.

Baltimore, May, 1995.
 

  • "'This Mutual Visionary Life': Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller."

New England American Studies Association Meeting.

Babson Park, Mass., April, 1995.

  • "Can an Institution Objectively Measure Student Writing Competence?"

Co-presenter with LCC President, Dr. Roger Worsley.

International Conference on Teaching Excellence (NISOD).

Austin, May, 1992.

  • "Access to Success: Reconciling Open Admissions and Mandatory Remediation."

Co-presenter with Laredo Community College President, Dr. Roger Worsley.

International Conference on Teaching Excellence (NISOD).

Austin, May, 1990.

  • "'Love in a Life' and 'Life in a Love': Browning's Neglected Poems."

Conference of College Teachers of English in Texas (CCTE).

Austin, March, 1990.
 

  • "Laredo Junior College: An Innovative Developmental Studies Program."

Co-presenter with LJC President, Dr. Roger Worsley, and LJC Vice President

for Instruction, Dr. Jose Roberto Juarez, Southwest Regional Conference

of English (SRCE). Ft. Worth, October, 1988.

  • "Preparing the Unprepared: Revising Laredo Junior

College's Remedial Program." Southwest Regional

Conference of English (SRCE). Laredo, October,

1987.