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CURRICULUM VITAE
RICHARD FARR DIETRICH
BORN: 1/16/36 WIFE: Lori
OFFICE English
Department HOME 14429
ADDRESS:
(813) 974-2421/4025
FAX: (813) 974-2270 E-Mail:
Dietrich@chuma.cas.usf.edu
WEB SITES:
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"OZYMANDIAS"---http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/
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EDUCATION:
High School---------Port
A.B. in Psychology--
M.A. in English-----
Ph.D. in English----
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Teaching Assistant--
Teaching Assistant--
Instructor----------U. of
Assistant Professor-U. of
Assistant Professor-U. of
Associate Professor-U. of
Professor-----------U. of
Professor Emeritus—-U. of South
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Chairman of Freshman English--------U. of
Chair, Departmental Research Assignment
Com.-USF.....1975&79
Chair,
Chair, Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee--USF.....1982-83
Chair, College Evaluation of Teaching
Oversight
Committee----------------------USF.....1982-83
Acting Chair, English
Dept.------------------USF....Aug.1983
Director of Freshman
English-----------------USF.....1983-84
Chair, College
Council-----------------------USF.....1984-85
Chair, Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee--USF.....1985-97
Chair, Dept. Graduate Placement
Committee----USF.....1987-90
Chair, College Tenure & Promotion
Committee--USF.....1989-90
Interim Editor, USF
Press--------------------USF.....1990-92
Interim Chair, USF Press Editorial
Board-----USF.....1990-92
Chair, Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee--USF.....1991-92
Director, Office of Scholarly
Publications---USF.....1992-93
Chair, Scholarly Publications
Council--------USF.....1992-93
Director, The Publications
Council-----------USF.....1993-95
Chair, Teaching Incentive Program Awards
Com-USF.....1993-94
Chair, Graduate Admissions
Committee---------USF.....1993-94
Chair, M.A. Exam
Committee-------------------USF.....1994-95
Chair, Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee--USF.....1994-95
Chair, Ph.D. Exam
Committee------------------USF.....1996
Chair, CAS Tenure & Promotion
Committee------USF.....1997-98
SERVICE: DEPARTMENTAL
1964-68 Freshman English Committee, Sophomore English
Committee,
Graduate English Committee, Curriculum Committee,
Executive Committee------U. of
Delaware
At USF:
1971-73 Ad Hoc Freshman English Committee
1972-73 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
1971-73 Release Time Committee
1976-78 Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1978-79 The Writer's Theater
1981-82 Committee to Review Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
Procedures
1981-83 Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1982 Freshman English Honors Program Ad Hoc
Committee
1982-84 Executive Committee
1982-83 Coordinator for Distinguished Teacher &
Scholar Applicants
1983-84 Freshman English Committee
1966-97 M.A. & Ph.D. Exam Committees, 1-4 per
year
1966-97 Reader or Director of Theses &
Dissertations, 3 per year
1984 Ad Hoc Salary, Tenure &
Promotion Committee
1984-86 Honors Program Committee
1985-87 Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1985-87 Executive Committee
1986-87 Coordinator for Distinguished Teacher and
Scholar Applicants
1987 Search Committee for Chairman
1987-90 Graduate Placement Committee
1989-94 Graduate Committee
1988-93 Off-Campus Programs Committee
1989-90 Editor, A Handbook for Graduate Students
in English
1990-92 Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1992-93 Ad-Hoc Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
1991-92 Executive Committee (Search Committee)
1991-94 Graduate Admissions Committee
1993 Ad Hoc Salary, Tenure &
Promotion Committee
1993-94 Teaching Incentive Program Awards Committee
1993-94 Ad Hoc Committee to Respond to
Teaching Evaluation Instrument
1994-95 M.A. Exam Committee
1994-96 Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1994-99 Executive Committee
1994-95 Search Committee (for Contemporary Drama
position)
1994-95 Search Committee (for departmental Chair)
1995-96 Departmental Governance Document Committee
1996-97 Ad Hoc Faculty Evaluation Committee
1996-98 Mentoring Committee
1996-98
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
1999 Search Committee for Chair
SERVICE: COLLEGE
1970-72 Honors Committee
1976-77 College Council
1982-83 Evaluation of Teaching Oversight Committee
1982-85 College Council
1983-84 College Council Subcommittee on New Course
Proposals
1983-86 College Computer Committee
1987-90 College Of Arts & Letters Promotion &
Tenure Committee
1990 Coordinator, Softball Teams for Annual
Faculty/Staff Picnic
1991-93 College Faculty Development Committee
1992 Subcommittee on Mentoring
1993-94 Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching
Evaluation Instrument
1996-97 CAS Tenure and Promotion Committee (chaired Humanities
Subcommittee)
1997-98 CAS Tenure and Promotion Committee--Chair
SERVICE: UNIVERSITY
1973-75 Research Council
1974-76 Festival-on-the-Hill Committee (S.E.A.C.)
1983 President's Task Force on Capital
Improvement Trust Funds
(Wrote "Final Report" in
absence of the chair)
1983-87 Instructional Services Council
1984-86 The Faculty Research & Development Park
Advisory Committee
1984-85 The Faculty Softball Picnic Committee
1987-88 Sabbatical Committee
1989-90 Research Council, Subcommittee for Arts &
Letters
1990-92 USF Press Editorial Board
1991-93 Advisor to USF Representative to the UPF
Editorial Board
1992-93 The Scholarly Publications Council
1992-93 Research Council, Subcommittee for Arts &
Sciences
1993-95 The Publications Council
1993-98 USF Representative to UPF Editorial Board
1995 Introducer of Keynote Speaker Edward Albee
at the 23rd Annual
Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference
1998-01 Undergraduate Council
SERVICE: PROFESSIONAL
1969-92 At various times, reviewer and/or Text
Consultant for The
Ronald Press Co., Houghton Mifflin, John Wiley & Sons, Thomas Y.
Crowell, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, D. C. Heath, Bobbs-
Merrill, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Harper Collins, U. of
Florida Press, U. of South Florida Press, The Annual of
Bernard
Shaw Studies.
1970-71 Regional Judge, N.C.T.E. National Achievement
Awards
1974-84 Drama Reader for Scholia Satyrica.
1981 Chaired section of the 11th Annual
Convention of the
Popular Culture Association.
1965-97 At various times, member of The Modern
Language Association,
National Council of Teachers of English, The Ibsen Society
of America, The American Ibsen Theater, The Shaw Society of
America, The Shaw Society of England, The Shaw Festival
Theater Association, The New York Shavians, The Asolo Theater Association, The American Film Institute, The
Theater
Development Fund, The Stratford Festival Theatre Association.
1989-98 Editorial Board, The Annual of Bernard
Shaw Studies.
1992 Chaired section on "Medievalism in
Drama" at the "Seventh
Annual General Conference on
Medievalism," USF, Oct. 1, 1992.
1992 Chaired section on "Shaw Our
Contemporary" at Virginia Tech
conference, "1992: Shaw and the
Last Hundred Years," Nov. 7,
1992, Blacksburg, Virginia.
1994 Chaired Plenary Address, Conference on THE
POLITICS AND
PROCESSES OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, USF
at St. Petersburg
(March 12-14, 1994)
1994 External Review of Asst. Prof. Michael
Vanden Heuvel for
promotion & tenure at Arizona State U.
1994 Search Committee for the Director of the
University Press
of Florida
1996 Search Committee for the Editor in Chief
of the University
Press of Florida
1998- Appointed Series Editor of The Florida Shaw
Series for the
University Press
of Florida.
1999- Advisory Board, Bernard Shaw Society
1999- Creator and Manager of the Bernard Shaw
Society Web Site 1999- Creator and
Manager of the "Shaw Bizness" Web Site
SERVICE: COMMUNITY
1980-81 Advisory Board, The Alice People Theater Co.
1978-84 The Tampa Bay Winter Festival Theater
Committee
1968-90 Departmental ticket liaison for The Asolo
Theater
1981-84 Coach for Temple Terrace Little League Teams
1986-88 Timer and Field Judge for local J-V Track
Meets
1986-87 Coach for Independent Day School J-V Softball
Team
1988-91 Timer for Local Varsity Swim Meets
INTERVIEWS & APPEARANCES
Interview,
Quest, Tampa: WUSF-TV. April,
1970.
Interview,
"Florida Accent," The Tampa Tribune, Aug. 6, 1972.
Interview,
"Northside Edition," The Tampa Tribune, May 24, 1979.
Panel
Discussion of Albee's The Zoo Story, Tampa: WUSF-TV.
Taped Aug. 8, 1973.
Lectures
on "Contemporary Drama: Down in the Dumps," Conference on
Aging & Overcrowding. St. Petersburg, Nov. 8, 1974, and
Clearwater, Nov. 13, 1974.
Panel
Discussion of Shaw's Heartbreak House, The Asolo State Theater,
Sarasota, April 6, 1975.
Lectured
on New York and London Off-Campus Programs to USF Theate
Majors, Feb. 20, 1981.
Read
a paper, "God Is A Dirty Old Man: A Review of the Falwell
Penthouse of March, 1981," at
the 11th Annual Convention of
the Popular Culture Association in
Cincinnati, March 28, 1981.
Read
a paper, "T. S. Eliot and Modern Drama," at the Centenary
Celebration of T. S. ELIOT AND THE
MODERNISTS at the
Nelson Poynter Institute in St.
Petersburg on Oct. 28, 1988.
Interview,
WMNF-FM, Sept. 15, 1989, with Aubrey Hampton, regarding
Hampton's play G.B.S. & Company and
Bernard Shaw in general.
Chaired
section on "Medievalism in Drama," at the "Seventh Annual
General Conference on Medievalism,"
USF, Oct. 1, 1992.
Chaired
section on "Shaw Our Contemporary," at Virginia Tech
conference, "1992: Shaw and the Last
Hundred Years," Blacksburg,
VA, Nov. 7, 1992.
Chaired
Plenary Address, Conference on THE POLITICS AND PROCESSES
OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING. USF St.
Petersburg, March 12-14, 1994.
Interview,
On the Teaching Incentive Program, "On Campus" by James
Harper, St. Petersburg Times, April
6, 1994.
Interview,
"New Publications Council Seeks Authors," USF Magazine
(Spring 1964), 23.
Interview,
"Council Seeks to Subsidize Works of USF Writers," The
Oracle (Feb. 22, 1994), 7.
Interview,
"Christmas Classics Capture Contract," Inside USF, Aug. 19-
Sept. 1, 1994, 3.
Introduced
keynote speaker Edward Albee at the 23rd Annual Florida
Suncoast Writers' Conference, Feb. 2,
1995.
Lectured
on John Galsworthy's Joy at the seminar "Shaw and His
Friends" at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, Aug. 14,
1998.
Delivered
Talk, "Bernard Shaw and Tom Robbins: What It Means to Be a
Shavian at the Millennium," The Shaw Society, New
York, March
12th, 1999.
Introduced
Tom Robbins at the Suncoast Writers’Conference, U.S.F. St. Petersburg, Florida (Feb. 2000).
Talk on “Shaw’s Future in Academe” at the Shaw Conference sponsored by Marquette University, April 19-21, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS & PARTS OF BOOKS
PORTRAIT
OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG SUPERMAN: A STUDY OF SHAW'S NOVELS.
Gainesville: U. of Florida Press, 1969. 197pp.
Editor,
AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST, by Bernard Shaw.
New York: W. W.
Norton & Co., 1972. 260pp. With
"Introduction."
Contributing
Editor, ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES: G. B.
SHAW, Vol. III (Northern Illinois U. Press,
1986), 1-31.
(Responsible for the published research of
1957)
Contributing
Editor, ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES: G. B.
SHAW, Vol. II (Northern Illinois U.
Press, 1987), 520-567.
(Responsible for the published research
of 1956, Shaw's
Centennial)
BRITISH
DRAMA 1890-1950: A CRITICAL HISTORY. (G.
K. Hall & Co.,
1989), 308 pp. Vol. 4 of G. K. Hall's 5-volume CRITICAL
HISTORY
OF BRITISH DRAMA.
Editor,
A HANDBOOK FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS IN ENGLISH, USF (1989).
"Foreword"
to Aubrey Hampton's play, G.B.S. & COMPANY (Tampa: Organica
Press, 1989), 9-12.
"William
Carlos Williams' 'The Use of Force,'" reprinted in MODELS FOR
CLEAR WRITING, ed. by Betty R. Murrow, et
al., New York: Pren-
tice-Hall, 1989.
"Deconstruction
as Devil's Advocacy: A Shavian Alternative," reprinted
in Elsie B. Adams' CRITICAL ESSAYS ON
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (Bos-
ton: G. K. Hall & Co., 1992),
171-197.
BERNARD
SHAW'S NOVELS: PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS MAN AND SUPERMAN.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida,
1996. 203pp.
Foreword
to Jean Reynolds' Pygmalion's Wordplay: The Postmodern Shaw,"
University Press of
Florida, 1999.
The Final Solution: A Novel for the End of Days. New York: Writers
Club Press, 2000.
Foreword
to Bernard Dukore’s Shaw’s Theater, University Press of
Florida, 2000.
Foreword
to Michel Pharand’s Shaw and the French, University
Press
of Florida, 2001.
Foreword
to Dan H. Laurence’s The Matter with Ireland, 2nd ed.,
University
Press of Florida, 2001.
PUBLICATIONS: TEXTBOOKS
Co-author,
THE ART OF FICTION, 4 editions. New York:
Holt, Rinehart & Winston,1967,1974,1978,1983. 445 pp., 534 pp.,
458 pp., 453 pp.
Co-author,
INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE ART OF FICTION, 4 editions.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
1967, 1974, 1978, 1983.
116
pp., 134 pp., 146 pp., 142 pp.
Co-author,
THE ART OF DRAMA, 2 editions. New York:
Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, 2 editions. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969,
1976.
431 pp., 781 pp.
Co-author,
INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE ART OF DRAMA, 2 editions. New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969,
1976. 188 pp., 195 pp.
THE
REALITIES OF LITERATURE. Boston: Xerox
College Publishing Co.,
1971.
Hardbound, 951 pp. Softbound, 661
pp.
INSTRUCTOR'S
MANUAL FOR THE REALITIES OF LITERATURE.
Boston: Xerox
College
Publishing Co., 1971. 119 pp.
Critical
Essays on Williams' "The Use of Force," Forster's "The
Celestial Omnibus," Dunsany's "The
Two Bottles of Relish,"
Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums,"
Anderson's "I'm a Fool,"
Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych,"
Conrad's "The Heart of
Darkness," "Samson and
Delilah," "Bear Man," Brautigan's
"Homage to the San Francisco YMCA,"
Robbe-Grillet's "The
Secret Room," and Bellow's "A
Father-to-Be" in the INSTRUCTOR'S
MANUAL FOR THE ART OF FICTION, 4 editions, as
above.
Critical
Essays on Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra,
Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Williams'
The Glass Menagerie,
Beckett's Act Without Words II in the
INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR
THE ART OF DRAMA, 2 editions, as above.
Critical
Essays on Cummings' "nobody loses all the time," Robinson's
"Richard Cory," Thomas's "Do
Not Go Gentle into That Good
Night," Shakespeare's "Sonnet
73," Owen's "Greater Love,"
Auden's "The Unknown Citizen,"
Shakespeare's "All the World's a
Stage," Schwartz's "The Heavy
Bear Who Goes With Me," Auden's "O
Where Are You Going?," Miles's
"Government Injunction
Restraining Harlem Cosmetic Co.," in
the INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR
THE REALITIES OF LITERATURE LITERATURE,
as above.
Critical
Essay on William Carlos Williams's "The Use of Force,"
published in the INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE
REALITIES OF
LITERATURE (as above), reprinted in MODELS FOR
CLEAR WRITING,
ed.
by Betty R. Morrow, et al., New York: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
"Shaw
and the Passionate Mind," THE SHAW REVIEW (May, 1961), 2-11.
"Connotations
of Rape in 'The Use of Force,'" STUDIES IN SHORT FICTION
(Summer, 1966), 446-450.
"Something
There Is That Doesn't Love Free Verse," VENTURE (Spring,
1968), 26-28.
"The
Training of Graduate Assistants," DELAWARE ENGLISH JOURNAL
(Spring, 1968), 24-27.
"Beckett's
Goad: From Stage to Film," LITERATURE/FILM QUARTERLY, IV, 1
(Winter, 1976), 83-89.
"Jesus
as Narrator: Albee's Case for Fiction in The Zoo Story," THE
THEATRE ANNUAL (1977), 57-70.
"The
Biological Draft-Dodger in Bellow's 'A Father-to-Be,'" STUDIES IN
THE
HUMANITIES (Dec. 1981), 45-51.
"God,
Godot, and Pozzo," NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (September, 1979),
9-10.
"Nora's
Change of Dress," THE THEATRE ANNUAL (December, 1981), 20-39.
"The
Secret of Robbe-Grillet's 'The Secret Room,'" NOTES ON
LITERATURE (March, 1982), 8-9.
"Form
and Content in Cummings' 'Space being. . . Curved,'" NOTES ON
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (March, 1982), 8-9.
"Brautigan's
'Homage to the San Francisco YMCA,'" NOTES ON
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (September,
1983), 2-4.
"Shavian
Psychology," THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES (1984),
149-171.
"The
Contrary Mr. Frost, of 'West-Running Brook,'" U. OF DAYTON
REVIEW, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sept. 1986),
431-451.
"Deconstruction
as Devil's Advocacy: A Shavian Alternative," MODERN
DRAMA, Vol. XXIX, No. 3 (Sept. 1986),
431-451. Reprinted in
Elsie B. Adams, CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GEORGE
BERNARD SHAW (Boston:
G. K. Hall & Co., 1992), 177-197.
"Shaw
and the Uncrucifying of Christ," THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW
STUDIES, Vol. 8 (Pennsylvania State U. Press,
1988), 15-18.
"Shaw
on Stage," ORGANICA WRITINGS ON SCIENCE AND THE ARTS, Vol. 8,
No. 28 (Summer, 1989), 24.
"Shaw
and the Black Girl," Program Note for the Saturday's Children
1990 production of Aubrey Hampton's
adaptation of Shaw's The
Adventures of the Black Girl in Her
Search for God.
"Shaw
as Dramatic Icon: A Bibliography of Impersonations," THE ANNUAL
OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 12 (1992),
133-153.
"Gwym
Thomas's The Ghost of Adelphi Terrace," THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD
SHAW STUDIES, Vol 13 (1993), 139-50.
"Shaw
and Yeats: Two Irishmen Divided by a Common Language," THE
ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 15
(1995), 59-78.
Program
Note for the Gorilla Theatre’s Production of Shaw’s The Man of
Destiny and “Don Juan in Hell,”
September, 2000, Tampa, Florida.
Program
Note for the Gorilla Theatre’s Production of A Thurber Carnival,
September, 2001, Tampa, Florida.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Reviewed
Louis Crompton's The Road to Equality in THE SHAW REVIEW,
Jan.
1972.
Reviewed
Paul Hummert's Bernard Shaw's Marxian Romance in MODERN
DRAMA, June, 1974.
Reviewed
Daniel Dervin's Bernard Shaw: A Psychological Study in MODERN
DRAMA, September, 1976.
Reviewed
L.W. Conolly and Ellen M. Pearson's Bernard Shaw: On Stage,
Papers from the 1989 International
Shaw Conference (Guelph,
Ontario: Guelph U. Press, 1991). Published as "An International
View of Shaw" in THE ANNUAL OF
BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 14
(1994), 296-300.
Reviewed
Elaine Showalter's Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the
Fin de Siecle. Published as "Do Civilization and
Syphilization
Go Hand in Hand?" Organica, Vol 12 No. 44 (Summer 1993), 19.
Reviewed
Keith Garebian's George Bernard Shaw and Christopher Newton:
Explorations of Shavian Theatre
(Oakville, NY, London: Mosaic
Press, 1992). Published as "The Newtonian
Universe" in THE
ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 15
(1995), 240-247.
Reviewed
J. Percy Smith's Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw:
Bernard
Shaw and H. G. Wells (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1995). Published as "The War of
the World-Better-
ers" in THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW
STUDIES, Vol 17 (1997),
239-246.
Reviewed
Stanley Weintraub’s Shaw’s People: Victoria to Churchill, for
Biography: An Interdisciplinary
Quarterly, Vol 20, No. 4 (Fall
1997), 489-492.
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
1959-60 Graduate Assistantship, Bowling Green State
U.
1960-63 Graduate Assistantship, Florida State U.
1966 Summer Faculty Fellowship, U. of Delaware
1969 Released Time Research Grant, USF (1
Quarter Released Time)
1973 Released Time Research Grant, USF (1
Quarter Released Time)
1972-73 Departmental Released Time Awards (3), USF
1975-84 Departmental Research Assignment Awards (9),
USF
1979-80 Awarded Half-Pay Sabbatical
1980 Selected by F.S.U. to teach at their
London Study Centre,
Quarter I
1982 Arts & Letters Research Grant
1982 Sponsored Research Summer Grant
1985 Sponsored Research Summer Grant
1986-89 Invited to write Vol. IV of G. K. Hall's
CRITICAL HISTORY OF
BRITISH DRAMA
1987 Awarded Full-Pay Sabbatical
1989 Sponsored Research Summer Grant
1989-97 Appointed to Editorial Board, THE ANNUAL OF
BERNARD SHAW
STUDIES
1989-90 Nominated for University Scholar of the Year
1989-90 Awarded College of Arts & Letters Scholar
of the Year
1990 Honored at First Annual Author/Artist
Reception, USF Library,
4/25
1990 A conference in 1988 at which I spoke,
"T. S. Eliot and the
Modernists: A Centennial Celebration," was awarded the
designation of "Exemplary Program" by the National University Continuing Education Association Division
of Museum Programs,
May 1, 1990.
1990-92 Appointed Interim Editor, USF Press.
1992-95 Appointed Director, The Publications Council.
1994-95 Appointed as USF Representative to the
University Press
of Florida Editorial Board.
1994 Appointed to the Search Committee for the
Director of the
University Press of Florida.
1995-96 Awarded Sabbatical
1996 Received Teaching Incentive Program Award
1996 Received Professorial Excellence Program
Award
1997
Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award for
1997
1998 Appointed as Series Editor of The Florida
Shaw Series for
the University Press of Florida.
1999 Appointed to Advisory Board of the Bernard
Shaw Society
2000
Awarded Emeritus Professor status at U.S.F.
COURSES & PROGRAMS INITIATED
1975 "The Classic Theatre" (Your Open
University--TV)
1976 New York Program in Drama & Theater (Off-Campus
Term Program)
1983 LAE 6389--Problems in College English
Instruction: Composition
1984-85
Departmental Honors Program
1990-91
LIT 3000-501 (Audio-print Intro. to Lit. for Open University)
1994-95
LIT 2931-501 (Audio-print Twentieth Century Lit. for Open
University)
1995-96
LIT 3155-501 (Audio-print 20th C. Lit. for Open U. & Liberal
Arts General Education requirement)
1995-96
LIT 3155-001 (meets Liberal Arts General Education
requirement in Historical Perspectives)
1997-98
LIT 4804-001 Literature as Cultural
Study (meets Liberal
Arts Exit requirement)
1998-99
LIT 3155/2000-501
20th Century Literature for WebCT.
1999- Created Web Site for the Bernard Shaw
Society
1999- Created Web Site for "Shaw Bizness"
2000- LIT 3301
"The Apocalypse" in 20t C. Literature & Film
for WebCT.
COURSES TAUGHT: UNDERGRADUATE
Introduction
to Literature
Introduction
to Fiction
Introduction
to Drama
Workshop
in Fiction
Current
Short Fiction
Drama:
Texts & Films
Modern
British Literature
Modern
American Literature
The
Bible as Literature
Contemporary
Drama
Contemporary
Literature
Modern
Drama
Drama
& Theater
20th
Century Literature
“The
Apocalypse” in Modern Literature & Film
20th
Century Literature as a Web course
COURSES
TAUGHT: GRADUATE
The
Professional Seminar
Practical
Criticism
Ibsen-Shaw
Seminar
Ibsen-Strindberg-Shaw
Seminar
Irish
Drama
British
& American Drama from 1770 to 1970
British
Drama from 1660 to 1912
British
Drama from 1800 to 1950
Shaw-Beckett-Stoppard
Seminar
Problems
in Advanced English Instruction of Composition
Problems
in Advanced English Instruction of Literature
Doctoral
Seminar in Shaw
Modern
British Drama 1890 to 1910: Origins
Modern
British Drama: "The Woman Question"
Writing
for Publication
LISTED
IN
DIRECTORY
OF AMERICAN SCHOLARS, Vol. II
CONTEMPORARY
AUTHORS
WHO'S
WHO IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST
DICTIONARY
OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
WHO'S
WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION