My Reading & Writing Life
Spoiler Alert: School Boards and School Administrators The following is excerpted from my forthcoming book, tentatively titled Aspects of Expressive Writing: The International Lectures, and specifically from the new commentary I am writing for each of the eight lectures. This excerpt is from Lecture 4, “Psychoanalytic Criticism and the Creative Writer,” delivered remotely as the […]
In March 2024 Amazon removed my book A Concise Summary and Analysis of The Mueller Report, which had been published via KDP in 2019, because it was deemed “a companion guide.” Of late, I’ve been contacted by people who would like to read my book, which is perhaps of interest again because of Donald Trump […]
I was invited to deliver this paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Feb. 2025, but unfortunately a bout of influenza prevented my attending. I had written the paper ahead of time, so I post it here, as an undelivered address. I did not finely tune as I normally would (given my weakened […]
(The following lecture was presented remotely to students and faculty at the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan, on February 12, 2025. It was at the invitation of and organized by Ms. Ambrina Qayyum, Dr. Amina Ghazanfar, and Ms. Farihatulaen Rizvi; with student organizers Moazzam Ali and Minha Iman.) I begin with a quotation: […]
The following is the primary text of a presentation for academics in Kabul and Tehran, arranged by Dr. Nasir Arian, Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at Penn State University. It was conducted via Zoom December 5, 2024. This text is excerpted and updated from a much longer article published by Eclectica […]
This text—“Digital Resources that Facilitate the Study of English Through Its Various Stages: Old, Middle and Modern”—was a keynote address at the 7th International Conference on Language, Society and Culture in Asian Contexts, organized by The Institute of Cultural Anthropology, held in Hue, Vietnam, November 22-24, 2024. It was delivered remotely concurrently with a translation […]
The following is the principal lecture of a seminar on psychoanalytic criticism delivered remotely to students at the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. It was hosted by the Department of English and arranged by Dr. Amina Ghazanfar. The seminar was held November 19, 2024. My plan is to speak to you about psychoanalytic […]
Introduction to the translation-in-progress I’ve been fascinated by the Old English poem Beowulf since I was a teenager. Even though my primary focus was American postmodernism and the work of William H. Gass, my doctoral dissertation (2010) included chapters concerned with Beowulf. For my dissertation, however, I relied on modern-English translations of the poem. In […]
This paper was presented at the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 2024, as part of the “William H. Gass at 100” panel. Other papers were “Surveying The Tunnel“ by Joel Minor (Washington University in St. Louis) and “Literary Theory Teaching: Founded on William Gass” by Ali Chetwynd (American University of Iraq, Sulaimani). The […]
This paper was presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, held Feb. 22-24, 2024, at the University of Louisville. Another paper in the “Novel Focus” panel were “Emma Donoghue’s Hunger Aesthetic” by Carey Mickalites (University of Memphis). The panel was chaired by Marie Pruitt (University of Louisville). • • • Where to begin? […]