Teaching, administrative, and research appointments
State University of New York—Potsdam
2008ff Professor, English and Communication
2002-2008 Associate Professor, English and Communication
1997-2002 Assistant Professor, English and Communication
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2006-2009 Chair, English and Communication
1997-2004; 2005-2006 Director of Graduate Studies, English and Communication
1998-2004 Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Minor in Language and Linguistics
Metropolitan State University
1997 Community Faculty, Writing
University of Minnesota
1996-97 Lecturer, English and Composition
1992-93 CEE Senior Fellowship in English and American Literature
1986-92 Instructor, Composition and English
1989-91 Research Assistant, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing
Bowling Green State University
1983-86 Instructor, Composition
1981-83 Graduate Assistant, Composition and Creative Writing
Education
Ph.D., English, 1994; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
M.A., English Language and Literature, 1990; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
M.F.A., Creative Writing, 1983; Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
B.A., English, 1979; St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Selected Publications
Books
Chant. A Romance. Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX[Books], 2008.
Lucy's Eggs: Short Stories & A Novella. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2006. Winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing's Best Fiction of 2006 Award
Sidewalk Portrait. A fragmentary novel. Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX[Books], 2006.
Books—Edited
Editorial
Founding and Executive Editor, Potsdam College Press. 2006-09
Editor, Blueline, SUNY—Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 1998-2009
Editor, Unbound, SUNY—Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 2001-06
Editorial board, Blueline, SUNY—Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, 1997-98
Editorial board, Mid-American Review, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, 1981-83
Articles & Essays
"Fences."
Why We're Here: New York Essayists on Living Upstate. Ed. Bob Cowser,
Jr. Hamilton, NY: Colgate UP, 2010. 170-81.
"The Case
of 'Donna Quixotic: The Mirror of Uldolpho'(Episode 18)." Teleparody:
Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of the Future. Eds. Angela Hague
and David Lavery. London: Wallflower Press, 2002. 91-97.
"Identity
Crises / Cries for Identity: Claiming the Canadian Prairie in the Novels of
Robert Kroestch." World Literature Today 73.2 (1999): 288-94.
With Deborah
Rossen-Knill. "The Princess Bride and The Parodic Impulse: The Seduction
of 'Cinderella.'" Humor: International Journal of Humor Research
11.1 (1998): 43-63.
With Deborah
Rossen-Knill. "The Pragmatics of Verbal Parody." Journal of Pragmatics
27 (1997): 719-52.
"Charles
Williams and the Aesthetic Ideal of Friedrich von Schiller." Extrapolation
35 (1994): 271-80.
"Théorie du chaos et psychohistoire: Une Dynamique non linéaire."
Trans. Épiphrène Kheuray. Solaris: Science fiction et fantastique
(Montréal) 101 (1992): 72-74.
Fiction
"Toads." Vermont Literary Review (2011): 26-31.
"Pound." the delinquent 15 (2011): 106.
"Penicillin," "Joyce," "Influenza," "J. Edgar," and "McCarthy's Wheeling." the 2nd hand (2010).
"Posh (1923)." the delinquent 11 (2010): 85.
"Les Hommes" and "Hunger." Clackamas Literary Review 13 (2009): 4-7.
"Neighbors" (Postcards from Kittle: 44). The Bathroom 5 (2009).
Excerpt from Privies. Stone Canoe 2 (2008): 297-303.
"Postcards: #36." Lake Effect 10 (2006): 118-19.
"Postcards: #42, #39, #23." Offcourse, A Literary Journal 26 (2006).
"The Telephone Girl." The Connecticut Review 27.2 (2005): 71-88.
"Postcards: #6, #15, #47." Salt River Review (2005).
"Postcards: #3, #5, #25." (excerpts) PulpBits Anthology 2005. Burlington, VT: PulpBits, 2005. 41-45.
"Postcards: #20, #30, #41." RipRap (2005), 11, 43, 118.
"She
draws as she talks." Excerpt from Sidewalk Portrait. seems
35 (2002): 25.
"By the River of Sacred Cows." The Pikeville Review (2001):
70-79.
"Muttering something about raising Cain." Vermont Literary Review
7.1 (2000): 4-9.
"Blacque Jacques Le Muet." Prairie Winds (2000): 50-62.
"Wigglies." the Acorn 15 (1996): 18-24.
"Having Airs." Short Story 4.2 (Fall, 1996): 40-46.
"The Kid Who Knew Too Much." Happy 4 (1995): 34.
"Another Story about Hippos." Air Fish: An Anthology
of Speculative Fiction. Ed. Joy Oestreicher and Richard Singer. Cupertino,
CA: Catseye Books, 1993. 63-66.
"#19a." Excerpt from Sidewalk Portrait. Mark 10 (1993):
48.
"#18" (as "Waterlines"). Excerpt from Sidewalk Portrait.
Mind in Motion 30 (1993): 35-36.
"#28b." Excerpt from Sidewalk Portrait. Asylum 8 (1993):
111.
"#30b." Excerpt from Sidewalk Portrait. West Magazine
7 (1992): 32.
"The Crocodile Documents." Between C and D 5.1 (1989): 13-20.
"Subject: Petri Ganton." Between C and D: New Writing from
the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine. Ed. Joel Rose and Catherine Texier.
New York: Penguin, 1988. 10-20.
"Subject: Petri Ganton." Between C and D 3.1 (1986-87): 3-8.
"How My Father Won The West And Became A Mormon In The Same Day."
Salthouse 14-17 (1986): 47-58.
"Phenomena." Gambit 18 (1985): 93-97.
"A Day In Waiting." Sou'wester 12.2 (1985): 46-55.
"Buckets of Sand." Pacific Review 2 (1983): 1-3.
Reference Articles
"Alonzo Delano." In American National
Biography, ed. John A. Garraty. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. Vol. 6, pp. 375-76.
"Melville de Lancey Landon." In American National Biography,
ed. John A. Garraty. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. Vol. 13, pp. 112-13.
"Donald Barthelme's 'Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning.'" In Short
Stories for Students, Vol. 3, ed. Kathy Wilson. Detroit: Gale Research,
1998. Pp. 276-80.
"John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath." In Exploring Novels
1.0, eds. Kevin Hile and Diane Telgen. CD-ROM. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998.
Reviews (language, discourse, linguistics)
Literature As Communication: The Foundations
of Mediating Criticism (Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series 78), by Roger
D. Sell. Discourse and Society 5.1 (2003): 131-32.
Negation, Text Worlds and Discourse: The Pragmatics of Fiction, by Laura
Hidalgo Downing. Discourse Studies 4.1 (2002): 129-30.
The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception, by R.W. Shuy. Discourse and Society 10.2 (1999): 252-53.
Intrapersonal Communication: Different Voices, Different Minds, ed. by Donna R. Vocate. Discourse Studies 1.1 (1999): 147-49.
Deceit, Delusion and Detection, by W. Peter Robinson. Language 74.4 (1998): 869.
Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction: Toward a Theory of Conversational Competence, by Michael Geis. Discourse and Society 9.1 (1998): 104-05.
Thought Styles: Critical Essays on Good Taste, by Mary Douglas. Discourse and Society 8.3 (1997): 431-32.
What Else Can I Tell You?: A Pragmatic Study of English Rhetorical Questions as Discursive and Argumentative Acts, by Cornelia Ilie. Discourse and Society 8.1 (1997): 145.
Language and Learning for Robots, by Colleen Crangle and Patrick Suppes. Language 72.4 (1996): 864-65.
Trial Language: Differential Discourse Processing and Discursive Formation, by Gail Stygall. Discourse and Society 7.3 (1996): 442-43.
Pretending to Communicate, ed. by Herman Parret. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (1996): 730-35.
Linguistic Theories of Humor, by Salvatore Attardo. Discourse and Society 7.1 (1996): 151-53.
Reviews (literary criticism; literary theory)
Iris Murdoch: A Life, by Peter J. Conradi.
World Literature Today77.1 (2003): 108-9.
Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot, by Harry E. Shaw. Studies
in the Novel 34.4 (2003): 578-80.
Iris and Her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire, by John Bayley.
World Literature Today 74.3 (2000): 603-4.
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch, by John Bayley. World Literature Today
73.4 (1999): 748-49. (U.S. title: Elegy for Iris.)
Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature, by Philip Marchand.
World Literature Today 73.2 (1999): 340-41.
Mythologizing Canada: Essays on the Canadian Literary Imagination, by
Northrup Frye. World Literature Today 72.3 (1998): 629.
Metafiction, ed. by Mark Currie. World Literature Today 70.4 (1996):
1039.
Navigations, by Ted Kerasote. Minnesota Daily 9 Jan. 1991: 11.
Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism, by Thomas
Mallon. Minnesota Daily 31 Jan. 1990: 10-11.
Reviews (fiction and poetry)
The Pen Friend, by Ciaran Carson. World
Literature Today 85.5 (2010): 56-57.
The Optimists, by Andrew Miller. World Literature Today 80.3 (2006):
69-70.
The Hornbooks of Rita K., by Robert Kroetsch. World Literature Today
76.2 (2002): 158.
Completed Field Notes, by Robert Kroetsch. World Literature Today
75.3/4 (2001): 153-54.
The Way It Is, by William Stafford. Blueline 22 (2001): 177-78.
We Who Live Apart, by Joan Connor. Blueline 22 (2001): 177.
The Foundation Pit, by Andrey Platonov. Rain Taxi 3.1 (1998):
47.
An Irish Eye, by John Hawkes. Rain Taxi 2.4 (1997): 16.
Selected Poems 1954-1992, by George Mackay Brown. World Literature
Today 71.3 (1997): 593.
Flickering Shadows, by Kwadwo Agymah Kamau. The Review of Contemporary
Fiction 17.2 (1997): 293-94.
The Woman Who Walked into Doors, by Roddy Doyle. The Review of Contemporary
Fiction 17.2 (1997): 282-83.
Pack of Lies, by Gilbert Sorrentino. Rain Taxi 2.3 (1997): 44.
Hallucinating Foucault, by Patricia Duncker. Rain Taxi 2.2 (1997):
45.
TriQuarterly New Writers, ed. by Reginald Gibbons and Susan Hahn. The
Review of Contemporary Fiction 17.1 (1997): 194-95.
Admiring Silence, by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Rain Taxi 2.1 (1997):
6.
The Film Explainer, by Gert Hofmann. Rain Taxi 1.4 (1996): 7.
Jackson's Dilemma, by Iris Murdoch. World Literature Today 70.3
(1996): 692-93.
Lines of Fate, by Mark Kharitonov. Rain Taxi 1.3 (1996): 7.
...and dreams are dreams, by Vassilis Vassilikos. The Review of Contemporary
Fiction 16.2 (1996): 161-62.
Deep River, by Shusaku Endo. The Review of Contemporary Fiction
16.2 (1996): 182-83.
A Little Hungarian Pornography, by Péter Esterházy. Rain
Taxi 1.2 (1996): 7.
Bullseye: Stories and Poems by Outstanding High School Writers, ed. Pawlak
and Lourie. Small Press Review 28.4 (1996): 4.
Tobacco Sticks: A Novel, by William Elliott Hazelgrove. Small Press
Review 28.3 (1996): 6.
By the Bias of Sound, by Gustaf Sobin. Small Press Review 28.3
(1996): 4.
Beside the Ocean of Time, by George Mackay Brown. World Literature
Today 69.4 (1995): 790-91.
Seagull Beach, by Gary Metras. Small Press Review 27.12 (1995):
8.
A Breeze that Lingers, by John Cooper. Small Press Review 27.11
(1995): 10.
Paradise, by Abdulrazak Gurnah. Northwest Review 33.2 (1995):
119-21.
Learning to Dance and Other Stories, by Sharon Oard Warner. The Review
of Contemporary Fiction 14.1 (1994): 230-31.
Killer Swan, by John Wheatcroft. Another Chicago Magazine 26 (1993):
217-19.
Redshift Rendezvous, by John Stith. Minnesota Daily 27 Feb. 1991:
12-13.
The Commitments, by Roddy Doyle. Minnesota Daily 31 Oct. 1990:
12.
The Three-Week Trance Diet, by Jane Piirto. Mid-American Review
7.1 (1986): 204-05.
Living With Snakes, by Daniel Curley. Mid-American Review 6.1
(1985): 132-35.
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