ACADEMIC VITA
JERROLD E. HOGLE Born
15 May 1948, Los Angeles, California.
Married. Two daughters.
EDUCATION
1970: B.A. in English, summa cum
laude, University of California at Irvine.
1971: M.A.
in English, Harvard University.
1974: Ph.D.
in English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University. Dissertation: "The Theory of the Novel
in England, 1750-1815." Directed
by Jerome H. Buckley and Walter Jackson Bate.
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
English
Romantic Poetry and Prose
Literary
Theory and Criticism
18th-
and 19th-Century British Fiction
The
Gothic
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
1971-74: Teaching Fellow in Humanities, Harvard University.
1973-74: Tutor in English, Harvard University.
1974-80: Assistant Professor of English, University of Arizona (UA)
1980-89: Associate Professor of English with tenure, University of
Arizona.
1987-89: Director of Undergraduate Studies and Head Advisor, Department
of English,
University of Arizona.
1988-89: Special Consultant on General Education to the Coordinating Dean,
College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Arizona.
1989-
: Professor of English with
tenure, University of Arizona.
1990-93: Associate Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Arizona.
1991
: Acting Dean, Faculty of
Humanities, University of Arizona
1993-03: Affiliated Faculty, Program in Comparative Cultural and
Literary
Studies (CCLS), University of
Arizona
1993-94:
Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies and Planning, CCLS, UA
1996- : University Distinguished Professor,
University of Arizona
1997-01:
Chair of the Faculty (elected) and Director, Faculty Center, UA
1999-00:
Chair (elected) of the state-wide Arizona Faculties Council (AFC)
2001-02:
Faculty Ombudsperson at Large, University of Arizona
2001-04:
Chair, Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee (SPBAC), UA
2004- : Vice Provost for
Instruction, University of Arizona
HONORS,
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
1970-4: NDEA Title IV Fellowship to
Harvard University.
1974:
Howard Mumford Jones Thesis Prize, Harvard University.
1980:
College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, University of Arizona.
1983:
University of Arizona Foundation Grant to finance and chair the fourth
meeting of the Arizona Criticism Group.
1983: NEH
Summer Stipend for being an invited participant in the U of A Curriculum
Integration Project on Women's Studies.
1984: Huntington
Library Summer Research Fellowship.
1985: Nominee,
Five-Star Faculty Award and Steinfeld Humanities Teaching Award, University of
Arizona.
1986: Provost's
Teaching Improvement Award for new course development, University of Arizona.
1988: Lily
Endowment Fellowship for the Summer Workshop on the Liberal Arts.
1988: Two
Arizona Humanities Council stipends awarded for lectures connected with the
exhibition "Wordsworth and the Age of Romanticism."
1988: Plaque
of Recognition and Appreciation for Outstanding Volunteer and Professional
Service to the Marana School District, Tucson, Arizona.
1988: Burlington
Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching at the
University of Arizona.
1989-90: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation Fellowship for research.
1990: Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for research at the Huntington Library
(April-August).
1991: International
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, University of Arizona
1992: City
University of New York Academy Fellow, Keats-Shelley Association Bicentenary
Conference on "Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World" (May).
1992: International
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, University of Arizona.
1994: College
of Humanities Distinguished Teachers Series designee.
1994: Wakonse
Teaching Conference appointee, University of Arizona.
1995: Plaque
of Appreciation for Exemplary Service to the Marana School District for
Founding the Marana Foundation for Educational Excellence.
1995: International
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, University of Arizona.
1995: Student-Faculty
Interaction Grant, UA Dean of Students Office.
1995: Elected
President, International Gothic Association (IGA).
1996: Individual
Research Grant, Humanities Research Initiative (HRI), College
of Humanities, University of Arizona (for
research in Paris).
1996: Outstanding
Teaching Award, English Graduate Union, UA.
1996: University
Distinguished Professor designation, UA, for "continuously
outstanding dedication to undergraduate
teaching and scholarship."
1997: International
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, UA.
1997: Elected
Chair of the Faculty at the University of Arizona.
1998: International
Travel Grant, Office of International Programs, UA.
1999: Elected
Chair of the Arizona Faculties Council (AFC).
2001:
Alumni Directors Award, UA Alumni Association.
2001:
Appointed Chair of SPBAC, University of Arizona.
2001:
Honorary Alumnus Award, UA Alumni Association.
2002: Plenary
Speaker, 2002 Conference, North American Society for
the Study of Romanticism (NASSR),
University of Western Ontario.
COURSES
TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SINCE 1974
English 104 (now 102): First Year English
(The Nature of Fiction)* - G
English 104H (now 104): Honors First Year
English (Basic Literary Analysis)* - G
Traditions and Cultures 104: Critical
Cultural Concepts *** - G
Arts and Sciences 195A: First Year
Colloquium (“Why Read Poetry?”)*
English 195B: First Year Colloquium
(“Learning to Do Research”)*
Cultural Studies (CCLS) 125: Critical
Concepts in Western Culture*** - G
Humanities 250a: Introduction to
Humanities (from Greek Civ. to Middle Ages)** - G
Humanities 250b: Introduction to
Humanities (from Renaissance to Romanticism)** - G
English 310:
Studies in a Literary Genre (the Gothic) - G
English 331: Introduction to Shakespeare
- G
English 370b: English Literature,
1700-1930***
English 380: Literary Analysis* - G
English 416: Nature of Literature (my
creation), now Advanced Lit. Analysis* - G
English 495H: English Honors Seminar
(Theoretical Approaches to Literature)*
English 496c-d: Senior Capstone Seminar
(Romantic/Gothic Fiction)*
English 499: Undergraduate Independent
Study (several students per year)*
Cultural Studies (CCLS) 503: Introduction
to Cultural Studies
English 515 (now revised): History of
Criticism (Plato to Arnold)*
English 515a-b: The History of Literary
Theory and Criticism (Plato to the present)*
English 555A: Studies in English and
Continental Romanticism
English 596d: Seminar on
Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Romanticism)
English 596L: Seminar on Theories of
Criticism (Twentieth Century)*
English 599: Graduate Independent Study*
English 920: Dissertation*
G
= satisfies General Education requirements
for undergraduates
*
= taught repeatedly and in different ways, sometimes on different
subjects
**
= taught repeatedly with 50 students or more each time
*** = taught repeatedly with 90 or more
students each time
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
Shelley's Process: Radical Transference
and the Development of his Major Works. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1988.
The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux ‘s
Novel and its Progeny. New York: St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave, 2002.
Evaluating Shelley, co-edited with Timothy Clark. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press, 1996.
Inaugural Issue, Gothic Studies,
guest editor. 1, No. 1 (August
1999). Manchester:
Manchester University Press.
Special Issue: Romanticism and the “New
Gothic,” Gothic Studies, guest editor. 3, No. 1
(April 2001). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Special Issue: Romanticism and the
Physical, European Romantic Review, guest co-editor.
12, No. 2 (Spring 2001). San Francisco: Logos Press.
[Principal author, Introduction]
Editor, The Cambridge Companion to
Gothic Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002): 14 new essays, including my “Introduction: The
Gothic in Western Culture.”
Editor, Frankenstein’s Dream: A
Romantic Circles Praxis Volume (University Park: University of Maryland,
2003).
An
online collection of 5 new essays, headed by my “Frankenstein’s Dream: An
Introduction”
(www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/frankenstein.ns).
PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
"The Texture of the Self in Godwin's
Things as They Are," Boundary 2, 7, No. 2 (Winter 1979),
261-81. An
invited piece for a special set of essays on "Revisions of the
Anglo-American Tradition."
"Metaphor and Metamorphosis in
Shelley's 'The Witch of Atlas,'" Studies in Romanticism, 19 (1980),
327-53.
"Otherness in Frankenstein:
The Confinement/Autonomy of Fabrication," Structuralist Review, 2
(1980), 20-48. Reprinted in the "New Casebooks" volume of the best
critical essays on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, ed. Fred Botting
(London: Macmillan, 1995), 206-34, and in Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The
Pennsylvania Electronic Edition, CD-ROM, ed. Stuart Curran (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).
"Taking and Being Taken," Critical
Exchange, 8 (Fall 1980), 68-82.
This piece, responding to an essay by Barbara Johnson, was requested by
the Society for Critical Exchange for this special issue on
"Deconstructive Criticism: Directions."
"The Restless Labyrinth: Cryptonymy
in the Gothic Novel," Arizona Quarterly, 36 (1980), 330-58. Part of a special issue of essays by members
of the Arizona Faculty Study Group in Literary Theory.
"Shelley's Fiction: The 'Stream of
Fate,'" Keats-Shelley Journal, 30 (1981), 78-99.
"Shelley's Poetics: The Power as
Metaphor," Keats-Shelley Journal, 31 (1982), 159-97.
"'Feminizing' the Literature Course
Means Redefining the Subject" in Curriculum Integration: Revising the
Literary Canon, SIROW working Papers #20 (Tucson: Southwest Institute for
Research on Women, 1985), 24-32.
"The Struggle for a Dichotomy:
Abjection in Jekyll and His Interpreters" in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
after One Hundred Years, ed. William Veeder and Gordon Hirsch (Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988), 161-207.
"Teaching the Politics of Gender in
Literature: Two Proposals for Reform, with a Reading of
Hamlet" in Changing Our Minds: Feminist
Transformations of Knowledge, ed. Susan
Hardy Aiken, Karen Anderson, Myra Dinnerstein, Judy
Nolte Lensink, and Patricia
MacCorquodale (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press,
1988), 98-133.
"The Poetics of Re-vision: Teaching A
Defence of Poetry" in Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Poetry,
ed. Spencer Hall (New York: Modern Language Association, 1989), 114-19.
"The Dialectic of Transference and
Tyranny: A Reply to Michael O'Neill," The Wordsworth Circle, 21
(1990), 156-58.
"Shelley as Revisionist: Power and
Belief in Mont Blanc" in The New Shelley: Later Twentieth
Century Views, ed. G. Kim Blank (London: Macmillan, 1990), 108-27.
"Shelley's Texts and the Premises of
Criticism" in a special Shelley bicentenary issue of the Keats-Shelley
Journal, 42 (1993), 66-79.
"Unchaining Mythography: Prometheus
Unbound" in Longman Critical Readers: Shelley, ed. Michael
O'Neill (London: Longman, 1993), 70-91.
"The Ghost of the Counterfeit in the
Genesis of the Gothic" in Gothick Origins and Innovations,
ed. Allan Lloyd Smith and Victor Sage (Amsterdam and
Atlanta: Rodopi, 1994), 23-33.
"Dracula, Our Cultural
Anxities, and the Desire for Transcendence," The Journal of By Design,
1:3 (March 1995), 1-4.
"Shelley and the Conditions of
Meaning" in Evaluating Shelley, ed. Timothy Clark et al.
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1996), 48-74.
"The Gothic and the Otherings of
Ascendant Culture: The Original Phantom of the
Opera" in Rhetorical and Cultural Dissolution in
Romanticism, ed. Thomas Pfau
and Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, a special issue
of the South Atlantic Quarterly, 95,
No. 3 (Summer 1996), 821-46. Republished in Spectral Readings:
Towards a
Gothic Geography, ed. Glennis Byron and David Punter
(London: Macmillan, 1999),
177-201.
"The Ghost of the Counterfeit -- and
the Closet -- in The Monk," invited for a special
collection of essays on M.G. Lewis' 1796
novel, guest ed. Frederick S. Frank, in
Romanticism on the Net (a refereed Internet journal), 8
(November 1997), n. pag.
Online (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385).
"Frankenstein as Neo-Gothic:
From the Ghost of the Counterfeit to the Monster of Abjection"
in Romanticism, History and the Possibilities of
Genre, ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia
Wright (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press,
1998), 176-212. Also in Mary
Shelley,
Frankenstein: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition, ed. Curran
(forthcoming).
"Percy Bysshe Shelley" in Literature
of the Romantic Period: A Bibliographical Guide,
ed. Michael O'Neill (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1998), 118-42.
"The Gothic Ghost as Counterfeit and
its Haunting of Romanticism: The Case of
'Frost
at Midnight'" in a special issue of European
Romantic Review, 9 (Spring 1998),
283-92.
"Stevenson, Robert Louis" and
"Counterfeit" in The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed.
Marie Mulvey Roberts (London: Macmillan,
1998), 220-23 and 262-63.
"Stoker's Counterfeit Gothic: Dracula
and Theatricality at the Dawn of Simulation" in
Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and
the Gothic, ed. William
Hughes and
Andrew Smith (London: Macmillan, 1998),
205-24.
"Introduction: Gothic Studies Past,
Present and Future," Gothic Studies, 1, No. 1 (August
1999), 1-9.
“The Gothic Ghost of the Counterfeit and
the Progress of Abjection” in A Companion to the
Gothic,
ed. David Punter for the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 293-304.
“Romanticism and the ‘New Gothic’: An
Introduction,” Gothic Studies, 3, No. 1 (April 2001),
1-7.
“The Gothic at our Turn of the Century:
Our Culture of Simulation and the Return of the Body”
in Essays and
Studies 2001: The Gothic, ed. Fred Botting for the English
Association
(Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001), 153-79.
“Introduction: The ‘Gothic’ in Western
Culture” in The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction,
ed.
Jerrold E, Hogle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 1-20.
“Directing Obi in the Year 2000” in Obi, an online collection of texts
and essays on the play
Obi; or
Three-Fingered Jack (1800), ed. Charles Rzepka for the “Romantic Praxis”
series on the Romantic Circles web site (www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/obi/).
“Transference Perverted: The Cenci as
Shelley’s Great Expose” (from Shelley’s
Process)
in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical
Edition, ed. Donald H. Reiman and
Neil Fraistat, Second Edition (New York: Norton, 2002),
684-94, the most important
one-volume edition of definitive texts by -- and the
best essays on – P. B. Shelley.
“The Gothic Crosses the Channel:
Abjection and Revelation in Le Fantome de
l’Opera” in
European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange, 1760-1960,
ed. Avril Horner (Manchester:
Manchester University Press, 2002), 204-29.
“The Gothic-Romantic Relationship:
Underground Histories in ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’,”
European Romantic Review, 14 (June 2003), 205-23.
“Teaching the African American Gothic:
From its Multiple Sources to Linden Hills
and Beloved”
in
Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions,
ed.
Diane
Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller (New York: Modern Language Association of
America,
2003), 215-22.
PUBLICATIONS:
REVIEWS
"Destroyer and Preserver: Shelley's
Poetic Skepticism by Lloyd Abbey," The Wordsworth Circle,
12
(1981), 183-86.
"Shelley's Poetic Thoughts by
Richard Cronin," Keats-Shelley Journal, 31 (1982), 212-14.
"Hermes: Literature, Science,
Philosophy by Michel Serres," Arizona Quarterly, 39 (1983),
174-79.
"Shelley's Style by William
Keach," Keats-Shelley Journal, 35 (1986), 183-88.
"Charlotte Bronte and Sexuality
by John Maynard," Modern Philology, 84 (1987), 331-35.
"The Historicity of Romantic
Discourse by Clifford Siskin," Keats-Shelley Journal, 38
(1989), 162-65.
"Spirits of Fire: English
Romantic Writers and Contemporary Historical Methods, ed. G.A. Rosso and
Daniel P. Watkins," ANQ, New Series, 5 (1992), 161-65.
"The Supplement of Reading:
Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice by Tilottama
Rajan," Keats-Shelley Journal, 41 (1992), 226-29.
"The Walk: Notes on a Romantic
Image and The Current of Romantic Passion by Jeffrey Robinson,"
The Wordsworth Circle, 24 (1993), 244-46.
"Gothic Bodies: The Politics of
Pain in Romantic Fiction by Stephen Bruhm," Keats-
Shelley Journal, 45 (1996), 216-18.
“Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the
Body, and the Law by David Punter,” Gothic Studies,
2, No. 1 (April 2000), 173-76.
WORKS
IN PRESS
“’Gothic’ Romance: Its Origins and
Cultural Functions” in A Companion to Romance, ed.
Corinne Saunders for the Blackwell Companions series
(Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
forthcoming).
“Shelley’s Literary Language: His
Changing Theory and Practice” in The Cambridge Companion
to Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Timothy Morton
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming).
“The Romantics on Film” in Romanticism:
An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, forthcoming).
“Shelley
Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language by Stuart
Peterfreund,” a review for The Wordsworth Circle
(forthcoming).
ACADEMIC
(MAINLY CONFERENCE) PRESENTATIONS
1975: "The Unmeaning of Meaning: A
Response to a Structuralist Reading of Jude the Obscure." Presented
at Seminar 304 during the
National MLA Convention.
1977: "The Romantic Novel: Notes
towards a Poststructuralist Approach." Presented and discussed at Special
Session 102 during the National MLA Convention.
1978: "The
Theoretical Presuppositions of de Man, Jameson, and Riddel." Two evening lectures introducing that year's
Literary Theory Colloquium at the University of Arizona.
1980: "Deconstruction
and Surprise." Passed out and
discussed at the annual meeting of the Society for Critical Exchange held at
the National MLA Convention.
1982: "The
Problem of Narrative's 'Nature' in the Eighteenth-Century Novel." Discussion leader's presentation at the
second meeting of the Arizona Criticism Group held at The University of Arizona
Conference Center in Oracle.
1982: "Shelley
as Revisionist: Reanimating the 'Power' in 'Mont Blanc.'" Selected for and read at the annual meeting
of the English Romanticism Division at the National MLA Convention.
1983: Principal
Organizer and Chairperson, fourth meeting of the Arizona Criticism Group, held
in late February at the Conference Center in Oracle.
1983: "Teaching
Women's Writing: 'The Lady with the Pet Dog.'" Presented at the U of A
during the fourth session of this year's NEH Curriculum Integration Project on
Women's Studies.
1984: "The
Hollow Remnant and the Production of Power in Gothic Fiction." Read at the annual meeting of the South
Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Colorado Springs.
1984: Principal
organizer and co-chair, sixth meeting of the Arizona Criticism Group,
University of Arizona (April).
1984: "'Feminizing'
the Literature Course Means Redefining the Subject." Read at the joint convention in El Paso of
the Western States Project on Women in the Curriculum and the Rocky Mountain
Modern Language Association.
1985: Principal
organizer and co-chair, seventh meeting of the Arizona Criticism Group (March).
1985: "The
Ideology of Woman in the Gothic Novel: Power and Submission in The Mysteries
of Udolpho." Read at the
annual meeting, this time at LSU, of the South Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies.
1987: "Ideology,
Gender, Scapegoating: The Silenced Politics in Hamlet." Presented as the Spring Semester's first
Colloquium on Comparative Literature Theory, UA.
1988: "From Wordsworth to Keats and
Shelley: Aspects of Influence."
Sponsored by the Arizona Humanities Council and presented at the
University of Arizona in connection with the exhibition "Wordsworth and
the Age of Romanticism."
1988: "The
Philosophical and Generic Bases of Wordsworth's Poetry" (2 days). Presented during the symposium
"Wordsworth and the Origins of Modern Thought" sponsored by the
Arizona Humanities Council and held at Northern Arizona University.
1988: "Deconstruction:
A Definition." Delivered at the
fifth Plenary Session of the Lily Endowment Summer Workshop on the Liberal Arts
at Colorado College.
1988: "Comparative
Mythography: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound." Read for the Colloquium
on Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Arizona.
1988: "The
Violence of the West Wind and the Powers of Language." Delivered at the
Keats-Shelley Association meeting at the National MLA Convention (Dec.).
1989: "The
Role of Teaching in a Research I University." Presented to all the new GATs during the Spring and Fall
Orientation programs sponsored by the Graduate College, University of Arizona
(January and August).
1989: "Relating
History to Literary Form." Presented to the Writing and Literature Faculties at their monthly
"Forum," Pima Community College, Tucson (February).
1989: "Teaching
the Social Function of Literature." Presented to Tucson high school
teachers at the annual Spring Conference sponsored by the English Department
and the University Composition Board, University of Arizona (March).
1989: "The
New English Major and AP Policy."
Guest speaker's address in Phoenix at the High School Counselors
Breakfast sponsored by the University of Arizona and the Phoenix Alumni Club
(March).
1989: Chair,
Keats-Shelley Association meeting, National MLA Convention (December). Session title: "The Romantic Feminine:
Voices and Figurations in 'Second Generation' Poetry." Panel chosen by the chair: Geraldine Friedman,
Marlon Ross, and Susan Wolfson.
1990: "Shelley
as Revisionist." Presented at a
meeting sponsored by the Romanticism Study Group at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
1990: "The Ghost of Hamlet in
the Genesis of the Gothic."
Presented for the William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar series at the
California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California.
1990: "The Ironies in the Rise of
the Gothic." Lecture-Seminar
delivered for the English Department at Princeton University (November).
1991: "The
Ghost of the Counterfeit and the Genesis of the Gothic." Delivered at the International Gothic
Conference held July 9-12 at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.
1991: "The
Coinage of the Gothic Sublime: Walpole, Burke, and the Fear of the
Counterfeit." Presented at the
1991 Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies (October).
1991: "The
Ghost of the Counterfeit in the Gothic: Walpole to Freud." Delivered for the English Department at
Rutgers University (December).
1992: "The
Shelleyan Text and the Premises of Criticism." Delivered at the Keats-Shelley Association/CUNY Conference in New
York on "Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World" (May).
1992: "Shelley
and the Conditions of Meaning."
Delivered as one of the plenary lectures at the "Shelley and the
Canon" Conference at the Gregynog Conference Center in Wales (August).
1992: "The
Shelleyan Counterfeit and the Conditions of Meaning." Presented at the 1992 Annual meeting of the
Western Conference on British Studies in Boulder, Colorado (October).
1992: "Percy
Shelley, the Other 'Romantics', and the Conditions of Meaning" and
"The Irreverence -- and Irrelevance -- of Shelley Today." The featured outside speaker's presentations
at "Percy Shelley: A Bicentennial Celebration," presented on October
23-25 by the Division of University Outreach, Department of Liberal Studies,
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
1992: "Shelley
Criticism and his Resistance to It."
Presented at the Keats-Shelley Association meeting at the National MLA
Convention (December).
1993: "The
Gothic Counterfeit." Delivered at
the Inaugural Conference of the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism (NASSR) at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada (August).
1994: "The
Question of 'One Romanticism'" and "The Defence of
Romanticism." Delivered at two Special Sessions, which
I also chaired, at the Second Annual
Conference of the
North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism (NASSR)
at
Duke University (November).
1994: "The
Phantom of the Opera and the 'Otherings' of High Culture."
Presented for the College of Humanities
Distinguished Teacher
Series in Tucson and for the inaugural
session of the College
of Humanities Seminar Series on campus.
1994: "The
Nature of the Gothic Novel."
Presented to the Pima Library Council.
1994: "'Othering'
in the Gothic." Presented for the
UA "Speaking of
Literature: Reading, Writing, and
Researching" series for first-year
students (October).
1995: "Interview
with the Vampire and the Vampire-Aristocrat
Tradition." Presented for the UA "Speaking of
Literature:
Reading, Writing, and Researching"
series for first-year students
(February).
1995: "The
Gothic and the 'Otherings' of High Culture: Revisiting Leroux's
Phantom of the Opera." Delivered as a plenary lecture at the Second
International Gothic Association
Conference at the University of Stirling in
Scotland, where I also chaired two
sessions (June).
1995: "What
the Gothic Cathects." Delivered at
a Special Session
of the Third Annual Conference of the
North American Society for
the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) at the
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, where I also chaired
two sessions (July).
1996: "What
Gothic Fictions Do For Us."
Presented for the University of Arizona
Humanities and Social Sciences
Distinguished Lecture Series, co-
sponsored by the UA President's Club, at
the Arizona Inn (October).
1996:
"The Ghost of the
Counterfeit -- and the Closet -- in The Monk."
Delivered at a special session
commemorating the 200th anniversary
of M.G. Lewis' novel at the annual
Conference of the Mid-Western
American Society for Eighteenth Century
Studies (MWASECS) in Indianapolis,
Indiana, where I also chaired a session
(October).
1996: "The
Evolving Forms of the Romantic Other."
Leader's paper for the
Seminar on "Romanticism and the
'Other'" at the Fourth Annual Conference
of the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism (NASSR) held
in Boston, Massachusetts (November).
1997: "Stoker's
Ghost of the Counterfeit: Dracula
and Theatricality at the Dawn of
Simulation." President's Plenary Lecture at the third
Conference of the
International Gothic Association (IGA) held at
St. Mary's University College,
Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England.
1997: "What
Gothic Novels are Really About."
Guest speaker's presentation at
the Summer 1997 meeting of the United
Kingdom Arizona Alumni Association
held in south London at the home of an
alumna (July).
1997: Panelist,
Forum on The Value of General Education, sponsored by the
University Composition Program (for a
large gathering of first-year students)
1997: Speaker
on the Basic Analysis of Poetry at a "Reading, Writing, and
Research" Colloquium sponsored for
students by the UA Composition Program
1997: "The
Gothic Ghost as Counterfeit and its Haunting of Romanticism."
Delivered at the Fifth Annual Conference
of the North American Society
for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) held
at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada
(October).
1998: "Stoker's
Gothic: The Ghost of the Counterfeit in Dracula." Presented at
the University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada (January).
1998: "The
Fake Gothic Ghost and its Haunting of Romanticism." Invited for the
American Conference on Romanticism (ACR)
Meeting at the University of
Georgia in Athens, Georgia (January).
1998: "The
Counterfeit Gothic in Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone." Presented at the
Claremont Graduate University for its
Department of English (March).
1998: Panelist
for "They Came From Within: The Monstrous Other in Film," a
roundtable in the
"Speaking About Writing" series for English 102 students,
University of Arizona (April)
1998: "Hidden
Ethical Problems in the Original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
Presented
as a Plenary Lecture at the third
"Ethics of Health Care and Healing"
Conference at the Arizona Health Sciences
Center, UA (April)
1998: "The
Real Horrors of The Phantom of the Opera." Presented for the UA