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Selected Accomplishments

January 2017 Poems: Permutations Among the Nightingales, Shade Seekers Press

Spring 2014 Movies in the Age of Obama, NY: Scarecrow Press, essays

June 2013 The Human: A Journal
A Play: "Aldous Huxley: This Timeless Moment"

June 2013 The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry:
"To The Truly Strong Man (and Woman)"

May 2013 Pomona Valley Review: Poem
“To Mr. Izzo With Love From Wei Ling, 1991”

December 2012 The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry: two poems
“Cycles,” “That Which is Imminent”

November 2012 “The Influence of Tony Kushner on Contemporary Drama,” Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC

“Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul: Songs of Conscience on His Three Albums The Rising, Magic, and Wreckin’ Ball,” Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC

“Isherwood’s Prater Violet: the Novel as a Spiritual Journey through The Bhagavad Gita” Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC

“Orwell—Language as Politics and Action: an Exegesis via Discourse, Middle Management, and Contestation (the Reconciliation of Opposites)” Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, Vol. 1 N. 3

Poems: “Deep Curl,” “Hummingbird: Visitation from a Famous Author,” Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, Vol. 1 N. 3

June 2012 Appointed to Editorial Review Board of publisher Rowman & Littlefield

The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry: Four poems: 'The Vision of Dame Kind: Every Picture Tells a Story', 'Sermons in Cats (for Aldous Huxley)', 'The Art of Seeing' and 'The Well of Silence' (http://www.themuse.webs.com/)

April 2012 Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, “Thornton Wilder and Mysticism: an Exegesis of his Early Plays.” Vol. 1 N. 1

March 2012 “Teaching the Introduction to Literature Course,” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice

January 2012 Review Board: Diesis: Footnotes on Literary Identities.

May 2011 Sylvia Lyons Render Award of the Charles Chesnutt Association for the book Charles Chesnutt Reappraised, presented at The American Literature Association Conference Boston, May 26.

April 2010 Lecture and discussion of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town after a performance at the Raleigh Little Theater, Raleigh NC

March 2010 Christianity and Culture Conference, Pace University, NYC: “A Christian Poet’s Perspective on the Detective Story, W. H. Auden’s Essay ‘The Guilty Vicarage’ (1948).”

Sept. 2009 Glory Days: International Symposium on Bruce Springsteen
Monmouth University, NJ
“Bruce Springsteen Live: Transcendental Celebration”

June 2009 International Virginia Woolf Conference, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, Panel Chair: "Woolf and the City."

May 2009 1. “Mysticism as a Literary Theory”
2. “Reading from Maximus in Catland, a Mystical Novella”
Conference on Consciousness, Literature, and the Performing Arts.
Lincoln University, England

Nov. 2008 A Tribute to Laura Huxley, Los Angeles Philosophical Society.

Oct. 2008 Thornton Wilder in the 21st Century, College of New Jersey, “Wilder’s Cosmology” 10/4/08 (published book on Wilder in 1999).

July 2008 Aldous Huxley International Symposium, Huntington Library,
San Marino CA, “Aldous Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop: A Mastery of Mysticism.”

July 2006 Thomas Paine’s Legacy - Three Centuries of Revolution in Philadelphia: Lecture on activist Scott Nearing, a leading social activist before World War II.

June 2006 Triad Stage (Greensboro, NC). Lectured on Thornton Wilder at the conclusion of the play The Matchmaker.

April 2006 Speaker in the Fiction Writers Series, Barton College, Wilson. NC

December 2005 MLA Annual Conference - presented paper, “Schopenhauer and Iris Murdoch”

May 2005 Recipient of Fayetteville State’s 2004-5 Award for Research and Publication

2004 to 2005 Consultant: curriculum and instruction - Cumberland County Public Schools, NC - workshops for language arts teachers.

October 2004 Gave The Izola Young Memorial Lecture - Fayetteville State: “Ezra Pound as Fictional character in Richard Stern’s novel Stitch.”

2004 Historical novel A Change of Heart nominated for Writers Notes Annual Book Award for General Fiction and Independent Publisher Book Award for Historical Fiction.

2003 to present Reviewer for Choice.

2003 Historical novel, A Change of Heart nominated for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Fiction: Historical

2003 Mellon Fellow in the Humanities - Temple University Graduate English Program

2002 Presidential Fellow - Temple University Graduate English Program

2001 Critical Biography, Christopher Isherwood, His Era, His Gang, and the Legacy of the Truly Strong Man nominated for Phi Beta Kappa and MLA awards in critical biography.

July 1998 Wrote, produced, and performed one-man play, The American World of Stephen Vincent Benet at Foy Hall, Moravian College, for Benet Centenary Celebration in Bethlehem, PA. Later performed in Chapel Hill and Durham, NC.

July 1998 Pennsylvania Public Television Documentary: Stephen Vincent Benet: Out of the American Earth, advisor and on-screen spokesperson.

1988 NYC Board of Education Research Grant. Co-wrote with John Walsh, The Cardozo High School Reading-Writing-Literature Curriculum, an integrated methodology. Since 1990, Mr. Walsh has taught this curriculum to English Teachers at Queens College, CUNY, and St. Johns University.


Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• W. H. Auden Society
• Aldous Huxley Society
• Thornton Wilder Society
• North Carolina Writer’s Network




List of Publications

Fiction, Drama, Poetry


July 2013 The Human
A Play: "Aldous Huxley: This Timeless Moment"

June 2013 The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry:
"To The Truly Strong Man (and Woman)"

May 2013 Pomona Valley Review: Poem
“To Mr. Izzo With Love From Wei Ling, 1991”

December 2012 The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry: two poems
“Cycles,” “That Which is Imminent”


The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry Dec. 2012
: “Cycles,”
“That Which is Imminent”

Poems:
“Deep Curl,”
“Hummingbird: Visitation from a Famous Author,”
Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination Dec. 2012

The Muse-An International Journal of Poetry Four poems: June 2012
'The Vision of Dame Kind: Every Picture Tells a Story',
'Sermons in Cats (for Aldous Huxley)',
'The Art of Seeing'
'The Well of Silence' (http://www.themuse.webs.com/)

“Wrath” a short story, Deadman’s Tome, April 2011

Purring Heights, a novella, Gival Press, 2007.

Maximus in Catland, a novel, Gival Press, 2007.

A Change of Heart: Gival Press, 2003 an historical fiction of British Authors, 1929-1933.

Wrath a short play (http://www.linnaeanstreet.com, fall-winter 2002) performed as one in a series of The Seven Deadly Sins in January 2003 by the New York City theatre company, Einstein’s Bastards.

The American World of Stephen Vincent Benet (Encore Performance Publishing, 1999) a one-man play as Benet, performed by the author.




Non-fiction Books and Essays:

American Subjects

Movies in the Age of Obama. (Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, forthcoming, 2014)

Bruce Springsteen and the American Soul. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2011)

The Influence of Mysticism on Twentieth Century British and American Literature. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2009)

Charles Chesnutt: New Essays, Co-editor (with M. Orban) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009).

Entries: “Conrad Aiken,” “Stephen Vincent Benet,” “Zona Gale,” “Genevieve Taggard,” “Elinor Wylie,” “Sara Teasdale,” “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” “John Brown’s Body,” “Western Star,” Encyclopedia of American Literature (Columbia, S.C: BCL, 2008).

Review of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in
American Literature and Culture, by Mary Balkun, Choice, 2006.

Henry James Against the Aesthetic Movement, Co-editor (D. O’Hara, Temple) and essay contributor (2) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2006).

“Then and Now: W.H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Tony Kushner, and Fascist Creep.” Tony Kushner: Essays, Edited by James Fisher (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2006).

“Conrad Aiken,” Literary Encyclopedia. Online, www.litencyc.com. 2005.

“Review of A Modernist Nation,” by James Soto, Choice, 2005.

“Review of The Imperialist Imaginary,” by John Eperjesi, Choice, 2005.

“Stephen Vincent Benet,” Literary Encyclopedia. Online, www.litencyc.com. 2005.

“Archibald MacLeish: The Dramatist as American Stoic With Themes That Were Formed in the 1920s and 1930s,” Igitur, n. 5 gennaio-dicembre 2004; (year V - nuova serie) Special Issue: L'Inghilterra e la sfida del totalitarismo (1930-1940)" (Edited by Angelo Arciero).

“Review of The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction,” Ed. by Janet Galligani Casey, Choice, November 2004.

American Advocates and Activists, 1919-1941, Editor and essay contributor (4) (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2003).

Stephen Vincent Benet: Essays on his Life and Work. Co-editor (with L. Konkle) and essay contributor (2) (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2003).

“Ezra Pound as Fictional Character in Richard Stern’s Novel Stitch,” Prodigal Father Revisited: John Butler Yeats and His Circle. Edited by Richard and Jan Londraville, (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2002).

The Writings of Richard Stern: The Education of an Intellectual Everyman, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2002).

“Conrad Aiken,” “Stephen Vincent Benet,” “Archibald MacLeish,” “Carl Sandburg,” “Elinor Wylie” Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Poetry. Edited by Eric Haralson (Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2001).

“Stephen Vincent Benet,” Twentieth Century American Dramatists. Edited by Christopher Wheatley (Detroit: Gale Research, 2001).

“Zona Gale,” “Genevieve Taggard,” “Sara Teasdale,” American Women Writers 1900-1945. Edited by Laurie Champion (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000).

“Thornton Wilder and the Perennial Philosophy,” Thornton Wilder: The Planetary Mind II. Edited by Tatania Kabanova (Bishek, Russia: Kyrgyz-Russian University Press, 1999).

Thornton Wilder: New Essays, Co-editor (with M. Blank, CUNY, D. Brunauer, SUNY) and essay contributor (2), (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1999).

“Stephen Vincent Benet: A Tribute,” Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1997, (Detroit: Gale Research, 1998).

“Thornton Wilder: The Writer as Liberal Humanist and Public Activist,” Thornton Wilder: The Planetary Mind, Edited by Tatania Kabanova (Bishek, Russia: Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University Press, 1998).

British Subjects

“Orwell—Language as Politics and Action: an Exegesis via Discourse, Middle Management, and Contestation (the Reconciliation of Opposites)” Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination

“The Great Yearning: Spiritual Mysticism and Aesthetic Morality—Vedanta, The Perennial Philosophy, Schopenhauer, and Iris Murdoch. Morality and the Literary Imagination: Religion & Public Life. Ed. Gabriel Ricci. Vol. 3 17-26, 2010

The Influence of Mysticism on Twentieth Century British and American Literature. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2009).

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: Essays. Co-editor (K. Kirkpatrick) and Introduction (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2008).

Review of Isherwood on Writing, Ed. James Berg, Choice, 2008.

Aldous Huxley’s Time Must Have a Stop: A Casebook. Editor and Introduction, Chicago: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007.

Aldous Huxley’s Point CounterPoint: A Casebook, Co-editor (Edward McShane) and Introduction, (Chicago: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006).

“For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio – W. H. Auden,” Literary Encyclopedia. Online, www.litencyc.com. 2006.

“The Orators – W. H. Auden,” Literary Encyclopedia. Online, www.litencyc.com. 2006.

“Paid on Both Sides – W. H. Auden,” Literary Encyclopedia. Online, www.litencyc.com. 2006.

“Poems – W. H. Auden,” Literary Encyclopedia. Online, www.litencyc.com. 2006.

“Aldous Huxley,” Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. XXV No. 3 (fall 2005).

Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2005).

“Review of February House by Sherrill Tippins,” Choice, 2005

“Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man and Christopher and His Kind: Milestones in the Literature of His Tribe,” Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly, Vol. 6:2, 2004.

“Introduction to Aldous Huxley’s novel Crome Yellow” (New York: Barnes &
Noble Classics, 2004).

W.H. Auden Encyclopedia, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2004).

"AE and the Concealed Fountains," John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from his Library.
Edited by Janis and Richard Londraville (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001).

Christopher Isherwood: His Era, His Gang, and the Legacy of the Truly Strong Man (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001).

“Dear Gerald: Letters to and from Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, and Friends,” The Aldous Huxley Annual. Edited by Bernfried Nugel (Muenster, Germany: Muenster University Press, 2001).

W. H. Auden: A Legacy, Editor and essay contributor (3) (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001).

“Christopher Isherwood in Jail,” The Isherwood Century. Edited by James Berg and Christopher Freeman (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000).

Aldous Huxley and W. H. Auden on Language, (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1998).

“The Student and the Master: A Pupil Recollects W. H. Auden,” The Carolina Quarterly, 48:3 (1996).