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EDUCATION Ph.D. (English) Cornell University 1968 M.A. (English) Cornell University 1962 B.A. (English) Carleton College 1961
EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor of English SUNY at Buffalo 1972- Assistant Professor of English SUNY at Buffalo 1968-72 Assistant Professor of English Washington University 1967-68 Instructor of English Washington University 1965-67
SELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Letters 1986-89 Chair, Department of English 1985-86 Master, Rachel Carson College 1982-85 Chair, Department of American Studies 1976-78
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 1999-2000 is my last year of teaching at UB and it will be devoted entirely to courses on literature and the environment: English 342, Studies in American Literature: Ecotexts, and English 211, Books of the Environmental Movement. My work over the 31 years I have been here has evolved from an initial interest in Wordsworth and the spirit of place to sustained work with the British nineteenth century at large and a set of issues associated with the industrial revolution, to my present interest in literature and environment. This last is both a new interest and a culmination of all my old ones. COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate: English 101 and 201 (Composition), English 101 (Freshman Seminar, English 221-222 (World Masterpieces), English 231-232 (Survey of British Literature), English 270 (Critical Reading), English 309-310 (Shakespeare), English 321 (Romantic Movement), English 322 (Victorian Age), English 325 (Nineteenth Century English Novel), English 342 (Studies in American Literature: Ecotexts), English 357 (Contemporary Literature), English 383 (Literature and Society), English 401 (Honors Seminar: Darwin and Hardy), English 412 (Major Authors: Dickens), English and Rachel Carson College 211 (Books of the Environmental Movement), Rachel Carson College 202 (Environmental Journalism), Tolstoy College 213 (Political Lives: Tolstoy; Political Lives: Paul Goodman), Undergraduate College 211 (American Pluralism). Graduate: English 525-526 (Romantic Movement), English 527-528 (Victorian Literature), English 529-530 (Nineteenth Century Studies), English 575-576 (Literature and Society), English 599 (Supervised Teaching), Humanities 507 (English Novels of the Nineteenth Century), History 540 (European Intellectual History [with Iggers et al.]). PUBLICATIONS BOOK The Mind in its Place: Wordsworth, "Michael," and the Poetry of 1800 (University of Salzburg, 1973) CONTRIBUTION TO BOOK Foreword to Hye-Joon Yoon, The Physiognomy of Capital in Dickens: A Dialectical Study (International Scholars Publications, 1998) ARTICLES "Marx, Nature, and History: A Reply to Jay Andrews," Research and Society, VII (Spring 1994), 80-83 "Bostetter on Wordsworth," Paunch, 38 (March 1974), 32-39
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