Office: 515 Clemens
Office Hours:  Thursdays, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m
Phone: 645-2575 ext. 1054
E-mail: doyno@acsu.buffalo.edu

    My first teaching experience occurred at Miami of Ohio back in 1958, when a favorite teacher, John Weigel, invited me to teach Molly Bloom's soliloquy to some startled, alarmed, Eisenhower-era students.  I've enjoyed teaching ever since.  My education/work has included an alternation of public and private schools (Miami, Harvard, Indiana, Rutgers, Princeton, SUNY at Buffalo).

    Often I teach Writing 101, 201, Major British Writers I, Major American Writers II, Criticism, Chaucer, Mark Twain, Genetic Criticism, and Supervised Teaching 599.  Some tutorial and independent work.

   My interests include manuscript-genetic criticism, Twain, F. S. Fitzgerald, some fiction from the American South.  We are doing a new CD-ROM of the Huck Finn manuscript, first edition, scholarship, and criticism.

   My wife and I have found Buffalo to be a good place to live (Fine music, good theatre, somewhat inexpensive housing, good medical care).  Summers and Fall are glorious, but in Winter you will have to shovel snow.   The libraries and technologies at school are pretty good; you will have a very hard time parking at school, and the elevators often do not work.  But the English Department faculty, graduate students, and verbal friends combine to create a good academic community of intense conversations with open-minded, articulate, helpful, smart colleagues.

   Picture:  Doyno has the confused look.

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