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Hugh Ruppersburg
Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences
Professor of English
Ph.D., American Literature,
Univ. of South Carolina, 1978
Scholarly Activities
Books:
Reading
Faulkner: Light in August. Jackson: Univ. Press of
Mississippi, 1994. 324 pp.
Robert
Penn Warren and the American Imagination. Athens,
Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1990. 202 pp. + xi.
Voice and Eye in Faulkner's Fiction.
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 189 pp. +
xiv.
Books edited:
The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature. Athens,
Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2007.
After
O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia. Athens,
Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
Georgia
Voices III: Poetry. Athens, Georgia: University of
Georgia Press, 2000.
Critical
Essays on Don DeLillo, edited with Tim Engles. New
York: G. K. Hall, 2000.
Georgia
Voices II: Non-Fiction. Athens, Georgia: University
of Georgia Press, 1994.
Georgia
Voices I: Fiction. Athens, Georgia: University of
Georgia Press, 1992.
Literature Section Editor and writer for the New Georgia
Encyclopedia, a project of the Georgia Humanities Council in
partnership with the Office of the Governor,
the University
of Georgia Press, and the University System
of Georgia/GALILEO. Author
of entries on Edgar Bowers,
Coleman Barks (co-author), James Dickey, Gone with the Wind (film), Gone
with the Wind vs. The Wind Done Gone, Song
of the South (film), Melissa Fay Greene, Arthur
Crew Inman, James Kilgo (co-author), Judson Mitcham, Flannery
O'Connor's Short Fiction, Overview
of Georgia Writing, Wyatt
Prunty, Twelve Great
Georgia Novels, Chattahoochee Review, Townsend Prize.
Essays,
Articles, and Book Chapters:
“William Faulkner’s Short Stories,” in Blackwell Companion to the American Short Story, ed. James Nagel (Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing Company). Forthcoming March 2008. 6373 words.
"Ralph McGill, Jesse Stuart, and the Rise of Byron Herbert Reece," Chattahoochee Review, 27 (Spring-Summer 2007), 46-56.
"Comedy and Satire in The Sure Hand of God," in Reading
Erskine Caldwell: New Essays, ed. Rob McDonald. Jefferson,
NC: McFarland, 2006. Pp. 46-57.
"'Oh, so many startlements
. . .': History, Race, and Myth in O Brother, Where Art Thou?,"
Southern Cultures, 9 (Winter 2003), 5-26.
"Byron
Herbert Reece: Poet of North Georgia," Appalachian Heritage,
31 (Spring 2003), 64-66.
"The
State of Robert Penn Warren: A Review," Southern Review,
38 (Fall 2002), 913-927.
Mewborn,
D. S., Beckmann, S., Davion, V., Desmet, C., Hudson-Ross, S.,
Oliver, J. P., Preissle, J., & Ruppersburg, H. (2002). "Expanding
the ‘great conversation’ to include arts and sciences
faculty," Innovative Higher Education 27 (1), 39-51.
"Atlanta," "Savannah," "Univ.
of Georgia," "Atlanta Constitution, "in A Companion
to Southern Literature, ed.
Joseph Flora and Lucinda Mackethan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
U Press, 2001.
"Burden," 55-56; "Point
of View," 290-92; "Sartoris," 345-47; "Stream of Consciousness," 385-88; "Visual
Arts," 425-27; and "Robert Penn Warren," 430-31, in A William
Faulkner Encyclopedia,
ed. Robert W. Hamblin and Charles A. Peek. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press, 1999.
"James
P. Kilgo" and "James Wilcox," in Contemporary
Southern Writers,
edited by Roger Matuz, with an introduction by Thomas M. Carlson.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1998. Pp. 219-220, 381-83.
"The
Normality of Madness in James Wilcox's Modern Baptists," in The
Fourth Quarter: Contemporary Southern Writers, ed. Jeffrey Folks and James Perkins (Lexington: Univ.
of Kentucky Press, 1997), pp. 32-43.
Preface
to Byron Herbert Reece, The
Hawk and the Sun.
Athens, Georgia: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1994.
Preface
to Byron Herbert Reece, Better a Dinner of Herbs. Athens, Georgia: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1992.
"Literature
in Historical Context: An Essay-Review," Mississippi Quarterly,
43 (Winter 1990), 69-76, invited essay.
"The
South and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces," Studies
in American Humor, 5 NS (Summer and Fall 1986 [1990]), 118-126.
"Robert
Penn Warren and the 'Burden of Our Time': Segregation and Who
Speaks for the Negro?," Mississippi Quarterly, 42 (Spring 1989), 115-128.
"Discovering
America's History: Robert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the
Nez Perce," South Central Review, 5 (Spring 1988),
75-86.
"Robert
Penn Warren," Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon
of Contemporary Authors. Antwerp: Wolters-Noordhoff (December
1988), 15 pp.
"On
the Road and the American Literary Tradition," Postscript:
Publication of the Philological Assoc. of the Carolinas (Winter
1987), pp. 31-37.
"The
Alien Messiah in Recent Science Fiction Films," Journal of
Popular Film & Television, 14 (Winter 1987), 158-66;
rpt. as "The Alien Messiah" in Alien Zone: Cultural
Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, ed. Annette
Kuhn (New York: Verso, 1990), pp. 32-38.
"Subverting
the American Dream: Country, The River, and Places
in the Heart," Journal of American Culture, 7 (Winter
1986), 25-29.
"The
Narrator in Look Homeward, Angel," Southern Humanities
Review, 58 (1984), 1-9. Reprinted in Novels for
Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly
Studied Novels, ed. David Galens. Vol.
18. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003. Pp.
109-113.
"Faulkner
1983: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 37 (1984), 397-426.
"Conrad
Aiken," "Henry Grady," "Carson McCullers," in The Dictionary
of Georgia Biography, eds. Kenneth Coleman and Charles Stephen
Gurr. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1983), pp. 6-7, 360-62,
654-55.
"John
Irving," on The Hotel New Hampshire, in The Dictionary
of Literary Biography: Yearbook 1981. Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1983, pp. 165-69.
"Faulkner
1982: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 36 (1983), 483-505.
"Image
as Structure in Faulkner's Pylon," South Atlantic Review, 47 (January 1982), 74-87.
"George
V. Higgins," in American Novelists Since World War II: The
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1982, pp. 93-98.
"Faulkner
1981: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 35 (1982), 313-336.
"Faulkner
1980: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 34 (1981), 343-366.
"Keith
Laumer," American Science Fiction Writers: The Dictionary
of Literary Biography, 8, part 1, v. 8, (Detroit: Gale Research
Company, 1981), 255-63.
"Michael
Casey," American Poets Since World War II: The Dictionary
of Literary Biography, v. 5, part 1 (Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1980), 121-25.
"Peter
Davison," American Poets Since World War II: The Dictionary
of Literary Biography, v. 5, part 1 (Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1980), 166-74.
"John
Irving," American Novelists Since World War II, second series:
Dictionary of Literary Biography, v. 6 (Detroit: Gale Research
Co., 1980), 153-61.
"Faulkner
1979: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 33 (1980), 390-412.
"Faulkner
1978: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 32 (1979), 497-518.
"A
Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature for 1978" (jointly
authored), The Mississippi Quarterly, 32 (1979), 306-389.
"The
Narrative Structure of Requiem for a Nun," Mississippi Quarterly, 31 (Summer 1978), 387-406.
"Faulkner
1977: A Survey of Research and Criticism" (jointly authored),
in Mississippi Quarterly, 31 (1978), 429-448.
"George
V. Higgins," American Novelists Since World War II: The Dictionary
of Literary Biography, v. 2 (Detroit: Gale Research Co.,
1978), 236-40.
"Byron
Bunch and Percy Grimm: Strange Twins of Light in August," Mississippi Quarterly, 30 (Summer 1977), 441-44.
Bulletins or reports: None
Abstracts: None
Book Reviews:
Fetching the Old Southwest: Humorous Writing from Longstreet to Twain, by James Justus. South Atlantic Review, 72 (Spring 2007), 124-26.
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952. vol. 3. Eds. Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins. Georgia Review, 60 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007), 837-39.
The
Humor of the Old South, eds.
M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino. South Atlantic
Review, 68 (Fall 2003), 118-21.
Conversations
with Willie Morris, ed. Jack Bales, in Southern Quarterly, XXXIX
(Spring 2001), 187-88.
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn
Warren: A Literary Correspondence, ed. James Grimshaw, in The
Georgia Review, 53 (Summer 1999), 389-92.
'Blues Boy': The Life and Music
of B. B. King, by Sebastian Danchin, in The Southern
Quarterly, XXXVIII (Spring-Summer 1999), 293-94.
A History of Southern Drama, by
Charles Watson, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXXII
(Fall 1998), 673-75.
Robert Penn Warren: A Biography, by
Joseph Blotner, in The Georgia Review, LII (Spring 1998),
176-79.
The Fable of the Southern Writer,
by Lewis P. Simpson, in Georgia Historical Quarterly, LXXVIII
(Winter 1994), 884-86.
Southern Literature and Literary
Theory, by Jefferson Humphries, Southern Quarterly, 32
(Winter 1994), 154-56.
The Taciturn Text: The Fiction
of Robert Penn Warren, by Randolph Runyon, American Literature,
66 (June 1994), 396-97.
The American Vision of Robert
Penn Warren, by William Bedford Clark, The Southern Quarterly,
31 (Fall 1992), 166-67.
Critical Essays on William Faulkner:
The McCaslin Family, ed. Arthur F. Kinney, Studies in
American Fiction, 20 (Spring 1992), 119-20.
Talking With Robert Penn Warren,
ed. Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers, Mary Louise Weaks, The
Southern Quarterly, 30 (Fall 1991), 150-51.
The Crossing of the Ways,
by Karl F. Zender, Mississippi Quarterly, 44 (Summer 1991),
373-75.
James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy
of Earth, by Robert Kirschten, South Atlantic Review,
54 (Fall 1989), 151-52.
Robert Penn Warren and American
Idealism, by John Burt, in American Literature, 60
(December 1988), 694-95.
Faulkner and Black-White Relations:
A Psychoanalytic Approach, by Lee Jenkins, in Mississippi
Quarterly, 35 (Summer 1982), 342-47.
Faulkner's Women, by David
Williams, in Mississippi Quarterly, 32 (Summer 1979), 538-45.
The Novels of William Faulkner,
ed. R. G. Collins and Kenneth McRobbie, in Mississippi Quarterly,
30 (Summer 1977), 497-500.
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying,
by André Bleikasten, in Mississippi Quarterly, 27
(Summer 1974), 347-53.
Grants received:
Co-principal investigator, Georgia
Systemic Teacher Education Partnership grant (GSTEP), 5-years,
$6,490,000, U. S. Department of Education. Mike Padilla, College
of Education, principal investigator.
Senior Faculty Research Grant: "History
and Ideology in the Novels of Robert Penn Warren," 1989, awarded
by the Univ. of Georgia Research Foundation.
Instructional Improvement Grant: "Desktop
Publishing as an Instructional Method in College-Level English
Composition Courses," awarded by the Univ. of Georgia Office of
Instructional Development.
Recognition and achievements
Governor's Award in the Humanities, 2007.
Georgia Author of the Year (anthologies/short
stories), Georgia Writers Association, 2004.
Georgia Author of the Year, 1992,
Assoc. of Georgia College Bookstores.
Sandy Beaver Teaching Award, Franklin
College of Arts and Sciences, 1989.
Outstanding Honors Professor Award,
1983, 1987.
Areas of research:
American literature, Modern American
and British literature, Southern literature, film, popular culture,
the modern novel
Supervision of student research:
Hunter Hoskins, M.A., 2006, "Rediscovering Lena Grove in William Faulkner’s Light in August."
Lydia Whitt Rice, Ph. D., 2006, "Ellen Gilchrist and Anne Sexton: Sympathy and Self-Knowledge, Revision and Redemption."
Paul Quick, Ph. D., 2004, “An
Ecocritical Approach to the Southern Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”
Miriam Terry, M.A., 2003, "Hoecakes
and Matzah Balls: A Marriage of Cultures in the Works of Alfred
Uhry"
Michael Crowley, Ph. D., 2002, "Authority
and Authenticity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Mason
and Dixon."
Alona Shepard, Ph. D., 2002, "The
Trail of the Serpent: The Existential Journey of Robert
Penn Warren."
Sam Prestridge, Ph.D., 2002, "The
Caliban Circle: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Evolution of Robert
Penn Warren's Narrative Strategies, 1923-1943."
Tracy Butts, Ph.D., 2001, "Boys
in the Mother 'Hood: Literary Representations of Black Mother-Son
Relationships in the Works of Ernest J. Gaines and Toni Morrison."
Gavin Spence, M.A., 2001, "A Study
of Three Film Noir."
Martin Rogers, M.A., 2001, "One
Thousand Faces: A Selected Bibliography of Star Wars Criticism."
Frank Mixson, Ph.D., 2000, "Look
Who's Watching Now: Paranoia as Obsession and Insight in the Novels
of Thomas Pynchon."
Joseph Yu, Ph.D., 2000, "'Passionate
Uncertainty': Humanistic Concerns in Thomas Pynchon's Fiction."
Darren Felty, Ph.D., 1999, "Casting
Criminals: The Execution Novels of Robert Coover and Norman Mailer."
Mae Miller, Ph.D., 1998, "Finding
a Voice: Eudora Welty's Photography and Fiction."
Tim Engles, Ph.D., 1998, "Invisible
Adjectives: Whiteness and Cultural Identity in the Work of Chang-rae
Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Don DeLillo."
Stephen C. Enniss, Ph.D., 1996, "One
Life is Not Enough: John Dos Passos and the Authorial Self"
Lesa Carnes Corrigan, Ph.D., 1996, "The
Romantic Vision of Robert Penn Warren."
Alexander Yearley Draper, M.A.,
1995, "The Post-Modern Picaresque: A Reading of Cormac McCarthy's Blood
Meridian."
Anthony Craig Murphy, M.A., 1994, "Going
to Disney World: Postmodern Society in the Later Novels of Don
DeLillo."
Robert Wayne Croft, Ph.D., 1994, "Anne
Tyler: An Ordinary Life."
Herbert William Rice, Ph.D., 1993.
Dissertation: "Toni Morrison and the American Tradition: Rhetorical
Strategies in the Novels."
Molly Kellam Thompson, M.A., 1993, "Ideas
of Order in the Novels of John Irving"
Chia-yi Cheng, M.A., 1993, "Thomas
Wolfe's Maturation as a Writer: The Lost Boy and His Other Writings."
David James Peterson, M.A., 1992, "The
Divided Self: A Jungian Interpretation of Joe Christmas' Black
and White Blood."
Jennifer Murphy, M.A., 1991, "Mothers,
Daughters, and Female Initiation in Eudora Welty's The Golden
Apples."
Denise Oaks, M.A., 1986, "The Personal
Apocalypse: Psychic Fragmentation and Regeneration in John Irving's
Early Novels."
Major Professor: Ph.D., Paul
Quick, Lydia Whitt Rice
Dissertation Reading Committees:
Mitch Summerlin (83), Nancy Barrineau (88), Laura Breedlove (88),
David Payne (88), Charles Wilson (88), Sarah Bell (89), Jonathan
Fegley (91), Martyn Miller (91), Delores Belew (94), Cheryl Abrams
(94), Brenda Cox (94), Sandra Henneberger (94), James Meredith
(94), C. Michael Jordan (94), Donald Pharr (94), Nancy Sherrod
(95), Don Latham (95); Sharon Jones (96), Alice Kinman (97), Tami
Carmichael (98), Marisa Pagnattaro (98), Charlotte Rich (98),
Rebecca Sexton (98), Jane Wilson (99), David Peterson (99), Maura
Mandyck (99), Wendy Kurant (01), William Prather (01), Keith O'Neill
(02), Connie Means (02), Patrick McCord (02), Mary Grabar (02), Olivia
Edenfield (02), Mary Carney (02), Sandra Hughes, Patrick Gallagher,
Brad Edwards, Michael Fisher, Robin Warren
Doctoral Comprehensive Examination
Committees: Brenda Cox (89), Jonathan Fegley (89), Delores Belew
(91), Steve Enniss (90), Michael Strickland (91), Don Latham (91),
Connie Means (91), C. Michael Jordan (92), Spencer Edmunds (94),
Maura Mandyck (94), Jane Wilson (94), Nancy Chick (95),Tami Carmichael
(95); David Peterson (98), Lisa Boyd, Olivia Edenfield, Bradley
Edwards, Patrick Gallagher, Mary Grabar, Sandra Hughes, Wendy
Kurant, Maura Mandyck, Patrick McCord, Connie Means, Keith O'Neill,
Lydia Whitt Rice, Rebecca Sexton, Jane Wilson , Shannon Yentzer,
Stephen Miss, Jennifer Kellogg
Thesis Reading Committees: Sarah
Bell (81), Keith Hulett (89), Cheryl Abrams (90), Rand Park (90),
Susan Tyler (91), Chris Hall (91), Tim Kline (91), Greg Angelo
(92), Laurel McHargue (92), Mary Eade (92); Shannon Warren (92),
Stephen Howard (93), John Bednar (94), Stuart Chapman (94), Scott
Mortensen (94), David Owens (94), Traci Ravita (94), Angela Weaver
(94), Stephen Miss (97), Matthew Horton (98), James Parks Hughes
(98), Nathanael Myers (02), Carly Bonar (02), Dan Shaw (02)
Editorship or Editorial board membership:
Editorial Board, University of Georgia
Press, 1993-96, 2002-2005, 2007-2009.
Advisory Board, Langston Hughes
Review, 1995-.
Bibliographical Survey Committee,
Society for the Study of Southern Literature, 1978-1979, proceeds
published annually in spring issue of Mississippi Quarterly.
Faulkner Annual Scholarship Survey
Committee, 1978-84, findings published annually in the summer
issue of the Mississippi Quarterly.
Professional papers:
"Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road on Film," American Literature Assoc., September 30, 2006, San Diego, CA.
"Southern Landscapes in The Night of the Hunter," South Atlantic Modern Language Assoc., Atlanta, GA, November 5, 2005.
"Why Georgia Needed (Why Georgia
Needs) Byron Herbert Reece," Invited address, Byron Herbert
Reece Society, Hiawassee, GA, June 5, 2004.
“The Contemplative ‘I’: James Kilgo’s Journey,” Society for Study of Southern Literature, Chapel Hill, NC, March 26, 2004.
"Perspectives on NCLB for Higher
Education: The Arts and Sciences Viewpoint," Arts
and Sciences/Teacher Education Collaborative. Orlando,
FL, November 14, 2003.
"History and Myth in O Brother,
Where Art Thou?," Society for the Study of Southern Literature,
Lafayette, Louisiana, March 14, 2002.
"Engagement, Withdrawal in 'Altitudes
and Extensions,'" Session for the Robert Penn Warren Circle, South
Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 10, 2001, Atlanta,
GA.
"New Georgia Encyclopedia and Georgia
Voices," Panel on Multi-Ethnic American Literatures in the
New Millennium, October 26, 2001, Contemporary American Literature
Symposium of the American Literature Association, Sante Fe,
New Mexico.
"Expanding the "Great Conversation
to Include Arts and Sciences Faculty" (co-presenter), American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, March 2, 2001,
Dallas, TX.
"The Literary Reputation of Robert
Penn Warren: Today," Invited Keynote Address, the Robert Penn
Warren Circle, Bowling Green, KY. April 25, 1997.
Panel: Graduate Studies in English
Forum, SAMLA, November 1995.
"Decline and Fall: The Western World
and DeLillo's Mao II," American Literature Association,
Baltimore, MD, May 28, 1993.
"Shadows and Context in Robert Penn
Warren's All the King's Men," Robert Penn Warren Circle,
Bowling Green, KY, April 24, 1993.
"Robert Penn Warren and the Future
of Southern Literature," Philological Association of the Carolinas,
March 1990.
"Max Childers' Things Undone and
the Image of the Modern South," Contemporary Literature Conference,
Atlanta Georgia, April 1989.
"Robert Penn Warren and the American
Literary Canon," Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State
Univ., January-February, 1989.
"Madness in Contemporary Southern
Literature: John Kennedy Toole, Gurney Norman, and James Wilcox," Popular
Culture Assoc. National Conference, New Orleans, March 1988.
"Robert Penn Warren's A Place
to Come To: The Academic as Hero of the Western World," Philological
Assoc. of the Carolinas, March 1988.
"Robert Penn Warren's Wilderness and
the American Immigrant Experience," Robert Penn Warren: A Hometown
Symposium. Austin Peay State Univ., Clarksville, TN. October 16,
1987. Portions appear in Robert Penn Warren and the American
Imagination.
"Robert Penn Warren, The Civil War,
and Nuclear War," Conference on Film and Literature, Florida State
Univ., January-February, 1987. Portions appear in Robert Penn
Warren and the American Imagination.
"Discovering America's History:
Robert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce," 20th-Century
Literature Conference, Univ. of Louisville, February 1987. Early
version of fourth chapter in Robert Penn Warren and the American
Imagination.
"Robert Penn Warren and American
Popular Culture," The Popular Culture Assoc. in the South, October
3, 1986, Chattanooga, TN. Portions appear in Robert Penn Warren
and the American Imagination.
"The Alien Messiah in Some Recent
Science Fiction Films," Popular Culture Assoc., April 5, 1986,
Atlanta, GA.
"On the Road and the American
Literary Tradition," Philological Assoc. of the Carolinas, March
14, 1986, Charleston, SC.
"Role Reversal and the American
Dream: Country, The River, Places in the Heart," Film
and Literature Conference, Florida State Univ., January 30, 1986.
"Subverting the American Dream: Country, The
River, and Places in the Heart," Popular Culture
Assoc. in the South, Charleston, SC, September 21, 1985.
"The City in Robert Penn Warren's
Novels," Philological Assoc. of the Carolinas, March 14, 1985,
Winston-Salem, NC.
"Why Look Homeward, Angel is
a Great Novel," Philological Assoc. of the Carolinas, March 2,
1984, Chapel Hill, NC.
"A Confederacy of Dunces and
the 'Southernness' of John Kennedy Toole." March 5, 1982, Philological
Assoc. of the Carolinas, Columbia, SC.
"Image as Structure in Faulkner's Pylon." November
6, 1980, American Literature Section, South Atlantic Modern Language
Assoc., Atlanta, GA. "
'The Stranger Within': The Narrator
in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel." December 30, 1979,
Modern Language Assoc., San Francisco, CA.
Programs Chaired:
"Teaching vs. Research in English
Graduate Education," Graduate Studies in English Forum, SAMLA,
November 1996.
"Effective Use of Departmental Committees," annual
symposium of department heads sponsored by the Association of
Departments of English, Geneva, New York, June 25, 1994.
"The Modern Novel," American Literature
Association, San Diego, California, June 3-5, 1994.
"Georgia Alumni Meet Georgia Writers," February
12, 1994. Georgia Center, University of Georgia.
Popular Culture Section, South Atlantic
Modern Language Association Convention, Tampa, Florida, November
1990.
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
1988 Winter Forum lecture series: "History and Literature," Univ.
of Georgia.
"Reality and the Ideal," Robert
Penn Warren: A Hometown Symposium. Austin Peay State Univ., Clarksville,
TN. October 16, 1987.
Other:
Panel: "Secondary Education
Programs: Partnership with the School of Education," Council
of College of Arts and Sciences, Nov. 12, 2004, San Antonio, Texas.
"PhDs and the Job Market: The Perspective
from the University of Georgia," Academic Committee on English,
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, March 5, 1994.
Reader for:
The South Atlantic Review, The
Mississippi Quarterly, The Southern Quarterly, The
University of Georgia Press, University of Tennessee Press,
University of Illinois Press, Allyn & Bacon Publishers,
and McGraw Hill.
Public, Professional, and University
Service
Public Lectures:
Center for Humanities and Arts Lunch-in-Theory: "Elvis
Presley in Blue Hawaii: The Consummation of American Empire, " September
1, 2004.
Coastal Georgia Historical Society: "Twelve
Great Georgia Writers," July 20, 2004.
Georgia Museum of Art: "American
Darkness: Film Noir," January 28, 2004.
Humanities Center Lunch-in-Theory: "History,
Race, and Myth in O Brother, Where Art Thou?," September
25, 2002.
"Literature in the 21st Century," Phi
Beta Kappa Address, June 6, 1997, Univ. Chapel.
Humanities Center Lunch-in-Theory: "Against
a History of the Modern American Novel," October 2, 1996
Franklin College Outreach Lectures:
Georgia Writers: One Land, Many Voices," February 16, Albany Northwest
Library, Albany, Georgia; Lower Altamaha Historical Society, Darien,
Georgia, May 18, 1995.; GSAMS Presentations: Oct. 29, November
18, 1996.
Presentation Lecture, Georgia State
University, November 1, 1994. "Southern Literature in the 1990s:
Is Regionalism Dead?."
"Eudora Welty," Georgia Museum of
Art, February 3, 1994.
"One Land, Many Voices: Georgia
Writers and Their Tradition," Southern Studies Lecture Series,
Oct. 16, 1991, Univ. Chapel.
"The Agrarian Strain in the Writings
of Robert Penn Warren," keynote address, "Agrarianism in Literature" symposium,
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural Inst., Tifton, Georgia, April 23,
1991.
"The Agrarian Strain in American
Literature," Abraham Baldwin Agricultural Inst., Tifton, Georgia,
April 23, 1991.
"Robert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph
of the Nez Perce: The Burdens of Past and Present," Georgia
Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, May 29, 1990. University of
Georgia/Clarke County Schools Lecture Series.
"The Issue of Blackness in Faulkner's
Fiction," James Earl Carter Library, May 16, 1990. Georgia Southwestern
College, Americus, GA.
"Gone With the Wind: The
Myth and the Reality," Athens-Clarke County Library, January 6,
1990.
"The Identity of Southern Literature," Athens-Clarke
County Library, October 6, 1985.
Service on Professional or Scholarly
Boards and Committees
Executive Committee, South Atlantic
Modern Language Association (1995-98).
Administrative Committee, South
Atlantic Association of Departments of English (1996-).
Board of Governors, Robert Penn
Warren Circle (1992-95).
Administrative services to the
University
Phi Beta Kappa, President,
Alpha Chapter, 2006-08
Phi Beta Kappa, Vice President,
Alpha Chapter, 2003-05
Deans' Forum, 1996-
Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences,
1996-
President's Minority Advisory Committee,
1996-2000
Head, English Department, 1992-1995.
Interim Head, Comparative Literature,
1995-97
Graduate Coordinator, English Department,
1989-92.
President's Faculty Advisory Committee,
1988-1991.
University Council, 1985-95.
Intercollegiate Athletics Committee,
1988.
University Council Curriculum Committee,
1986-87.
Executive Committee, 1991-. Chair
1993-94.
Faculty Affairs Committee, 1992-.
Statutes and Bylaws Committee, Chair,
1994-95
Chair, Faculty Conference, 1990-91.
Board of Directors, Univ. of Georgia
Athletic Assoc., 1989-1993.
Univ. of Georgia Self-Study, Administrative
Processes Committee (secretary), 1989-91.
Graduate Council, 1989-90.
English Department Advisory Committee,
1988-.
University Statutes and Bylaws Revision
Committee, 1987.
Chair, Univ. Council Bylaws Revision
Subcommittee, 1987.
Faculty Senate of Arts and Sciences,
1984-87.
Chair, Professional Concerns Committee,
1986-1987.
Chair, Committee on Committees,
1986-87.
Chairman, Graduate Review Committee
for Comparative Literature, 1985.
Arts and Sciences Honors Faculty,
1980-.
College of Arts and Sciences computer
committee.
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