Academic Experience

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1967           
B.A. Williams College, 1956

Special Fields

American Literature, African-American Literature, 19th Century

Articles:

            “William Dean Howells: Reverie and the Non-Symbolic Aesthetic,”  Nineteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 25, No. 1 (June 1970), 1-30

            “The Aggregate Man in Jean Toomer’s Cane,” Studies in the Novel, Special Number on American Negro Novelists, Vol. III, No. 2 (Summer 1971), 190-215

            “The Pre-Revolutionary Writings of Imamu Amiri Baraka,” The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XIV, No. 2 (Spring 1973), 259-305.  Reprinted in part as “The Aesthetic of Blues People,” in Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), ed. Kimerly W. Benson, Twentieth Century View (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice Hall, 1978), pp. 64-70

Reviews:

            “A Reality of Impressions: review of Thomas Cottle’s Time’s Children: Impressions of Youth,in Urban Education  Vol. VII, No. 1 (April 1972), 100-102

            Untitled review of Thomas Cottle’s Black Children: White Dreams, in Urban Education, Vol. IX, No. 2 (July 1974), 204-207

Editions:

            W.D. Howells, selected Letters, Vol. V: 1902-1911, editor with assistance from Christoph Lohmann. Boxton: Twayne Publishers, 1983

            Common Difference Dilemmas of Identity, Community, and Pluralistic Society in the United States, co-editor, contracted with Oxford University Press