FULL TIME ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
1968-1974 Assistant Professor University of California, Berkeley
1975-1977 Associate Professor University of Illinois, Chicago
1984-1985 Professor University of Maryland
1978-2003 Professor Middlebury College
(Abernethy Professor of American Literature)
2004- College Professor Middlebury College
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
Political Justice In A Republic: James Fenimore Cooper's America University of California Press, 1972 ed., with George Dekker, James Fenimore Cooper: The Critical Heritage Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973 with Maxwell Bloomfield and Carl Smith, Law and American Literature, Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 Hawthorne , Melville and the American Character: A Looking-Glass Business, Cambridge University Press, 1984 (Spanish translation 1987) The American Epic: Transforming A Genre, Cambridge University Press, 1989 ed., James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, Oxford University Press, 1990. Second edition, revised & expanded 1994
The Last of the Mohicans: Civil Savagery and Savage Civility, Twayne-Macmillan, 1994
New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory, Cambridge University Press, 2004
SELECTED ARTICLES :
"Great Expectations: The Beacon, The Gibbet and the Ship," Dickens Studies Annual, 1972.
"'Drum Taps and Battle-Pieces'" AQ, 25 (l973), l8l-201.
"The Faces of Ethan Allen," NEQ, 49 (l976), 257-282.
"Fictions of Merry Mount," AQ, 29 (l977), 3-30.
"Progress Without Politics: A Tale of Two Cities," Clio, 7 (l977), 19-31
"Writing Literary History: The Limits of Nationalism," RALS, l3 (l983), 127-134.
"Poetry in the Early Republic," Columbia Literary History of the United States, Columbia University Press, l989, pp. 156-167.
"The Rationale for the American Romance," Boundary II, 17 (1990), 71-82.
"Lexington, Concord and the 'Hinge of the Future,'" ALH, 6 (Spring, 1993), 1-29.
"The Epic in the Nineteenth Century," Columbia History of American Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 33-63.
"Indian John and the Northern Tawnies," New England Quarterly, 69 (1996), 580-604, Reprinted in New England Encounters, ed. Alden T. Vaughan (Northeastern University Press, 1999.
“Puritanism: The Sense of an Unending,” Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. Parini, Oxford University Press, 2004, III, 434-445.
“Doubling the Last Survivor: Tracks and American Narratives of Lost Wilderness” in
Approaches to the Teaching of Louise Erdrich, (New York: Modern Language Association, 2004), pp. 158-169
BOOK REVIEWS: AL, EAL (3), JAH, JEGP, MP, NCF, NCL (4), NEQ, RALS, SAF
PAPERS DELIVERED: ASA, MLA (5), ALA (4), MMM, NEMLA,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Hawthorne Society, Melville Society, The Cooper Conference (2)
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1962-1963
University of California Humanities Fellowship, 1971-1972
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
in 1983-1984, 1988-1989, 1993-1994.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle:
Associate Head, Department of English, 1976-1977
Middlebury College: (dates vary)
Chair: Department of American Literature
Chair: Program in American Civilization Chair: Faculty Council
Chair: Division of Humanities
Committee on Reappointment and Tenure
Council on Senior Faculty Reviews
Appeals Council
Teaching Resources Committee
Vice President For Academic Affairs, 1995-1997
Educational Affairs Committee
Committee on Teaching Evaluation
EDITORIAL AND GOVERNING BOARDS:
Vermont Council on the Humanities 1993-1995
Board of Governors, University Press of New England 1995-7
Editorial Board, Nineteenth Century Literature, 1990--2004
Editorial Board, Early American Literature, 1997—2000
Committee on Teaching Evaluation
ADDRESSES:
Axinn Center 328
Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
802-443-5316