Robert Daly
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of English
University at
716 836-5201
Research Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1979-80
Leverhulme Fellowship, 1972-73
Grants
National
Endowment for the Humanities Grants to Direct Summer Seminars, 1996-97,
1993-94, 1991-92, 1989-90, 1988-89
Faculty Grant for Instructional Technology, 1995-96
New
York State/United University Professions "Experienced Faculty Travel
Award," 1987
National
Endowment for the Humanities Grant (with Professors Ruth Meyerowitz and James
Bunn), 1984-86
SUNY Research Development Fund Grant, 1982
International
Communication Agency Travel Grant (to read papers in
American
Comparative Literature Association Travel Grant (part of a block grant from the
American Council of Learned Societies), 1976
Institutional Funds Travel Grant, 1975-76
Awards
Career Services Award, 2005
Generation magazine selection as one of “Our Favorite Professors,” 2001
Panhellenic Council Chi Omega Award for Excellence in Teaching,
1989
Student Association Milton Plesur Memorial Teaching Award, 1988
Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977
Phi Kappa Phi, 1972
Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship (Ford Foundation),
1969-72
National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship, 1969-72
Pixley Award, 1965
Phi Sigma Alpha Scholarship, 1964
Ashton Prize, 1963
Academic Appointments
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor University at
Professor of English University
at
Associate Professor of English University
at
Assistant Professor of English University
at
Instructor in English
Visiting Appointments
Visiting Professor of English
Visiting Associate Professor of English
Visiting Appointment, Faculty of Literature
Leverhulme Visiting Fellow
Affiliated Appointment
Department of Comparative Literature University at
Full Member 1996-
Associate Member
1993-96
Publications
Book
God's
Altar: The World and the Flesh in Puritan Poetry.
Articles, Book Chapters, Reference Entries
Entry
on The Last of the Mohicans (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online Reference Source. 2007.
“From
World to Word and Back Again: Coopers Now and Next.” Reading Cooper,
Teaching Cooper.
Entry
on The Marble Faun (2500 words). The
Literary Encyclopedia. Online
reference source. 2006.
Entry
on The Blithedale Romance (2500 words).
The Literary Encyclopedia.
Online reference source. 2006.
Entry
on The House of the Seven Gables (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2006.
Entry
on The Scarlet Letter (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia.
Online reference source. 2006.
Entry
on John Gardner (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online
reference source. 2005.
Entry
on Nathaniel Hawthorne (2500 words). The Literary Encyclopedia. Online reference source. 2004.
“Mischief,
Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods.” Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical
Perspectives. Ed. Lucinda Damon-Bach and Victoria Clements.
Entry
on The Scarlet Letter. Dictionary
of American History. Ed. Stanley
Kutler. 10 vols.
“A Book
for the Millennial Generation: The Linwoods and Sixty Years Hence in
“Endgame:
How to Finish up, Saddle up, and Get the Hell out of Dodge.” The Graduate Quill (April/May 2002) 5,
13. [Invited, not refereed.]
"Burned
by the Hangman: Puritan Agency and the Road Not Taken." Pynchon Notes 44-45 (1999):
205-213. Published in February, 2002.
“Lexias
and Agency in Anne Bradstreet." Studies
in Puritan American Spirituality 7 (2001): 1-22.
“Publication:
How to Break into Print before You Break out in a Rash.” The Graduate Quill (September 2001):
11-12. [Invited, not refereed.]
“Nostalgia
for the Millennium: The View from 2051.”
“Literary
Competence and the Ruling Classes.” UB
Today (spring/summer, 2000): 48.
[Invited, not refereed.]
"Anne
Bradstreet." One-thousand-word
entry in American National Biography.
24 volumes.
"From
Paradox and Aporia to Cultural Hybridization and Complex Adaptive Systems: New
Theories and the Uses of Cooper at the Present Time." James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His
Art. Ed. Hugh C. MacDougall.
"Teaching
Hope to Postmoderns, with Help from CS and Others." Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
Newsletter 1.1 (1999): 5-7.
"’We
Have Really No Country at All':
"Anne
Bradstreet and the Practice of Weaned Affections." DISCovering Authors (CD-ROM).
"Powers
of Humility and the Presence of Readers in Anne Bradstreet and Phillis
Wheatley." Studies in Puritan
American Spirituality 4 (1993): 1-23.
"Transatlantic
Perspectives: Founding Fictions in British-American Literature." American Literary History 5 (1993):
552-563.
"Engines
of Discourse: God and the Odds in Postmodern Literature."
"Cooper's
Allegories of
"Recognizing
Early American Literature." Early
American Literature 25 (1990): 187-199.
"Liminality
and Fiction in Cooper, Hawthorne, Cather, and Fitzgerald." Victor Turner and the Construction of
Cultural Criticism: Between Literature and Anthropology. Ed. Kathleen M. Ashley.
"How
We Read Literature and Why It Matters."
"The
Danforths: Puritan Poets in the Woods of
"American
Visionary History: The Literary Creation of a Usable Past." The Origins and Originality of American
Culture. Ed. Tibor Frank.
Entries
on Samuel Danforth I, John Danforth, and Samuel Danforth II in the Dictionary
of Literary Biography: American Colonial
Writers 1606-1734. Ed. Emory
Elliott.
"John
Gardner and the Emancipation of Genres."
The Georgia Review 37 (1983): 420-428. Rpt. in The Chelsea House Library of
Literary Criticism: Twentieth-Century American Literature. Ed. Harold Bloom.
"Puritan
Poetics: The World, the Flesh, and God."
Early American Literature 12 (1977): 136-62. Rpt. in Early American Literature: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Michael T. Gilmore.
"Dryden's
Ode to Anne Killigrew and the Communal Work of Poets."
"A
Continuous Renaissance: Contemporary American Poetry." Literatura na swieci (1976): 302-312.
"Fideism
and the Allusive Mode in ‘Rappaccini's Daughter.'" Nineteenth-Century
Fiction 28 (1973): 25-37.
"History
and Chivalric Myth in ‘Roger Malvin's Burial.'" Essex Institute Historical Collections 109
(1973): 99-115. Rpt. in The Critical
Perspective 8. Ed. Harold
Bloom.
"William Bradford's Vision of History." American Literature 44 (1973):
557-569.
Reviews
Liquid
Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by
Harvey L. Gable, Jr. Nathaniel
Hawthorne Review 25.2 (1999): 17-20.
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology, by
Wolfgang Iser.
Comparative Literature Studies 32
(1995): 536-539.
Sinful
Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry, by
Jeffrey A. Hammond. Early American
Literature 29 (1994): 96-98.
The
First Book of the American Chronicles of the Times, 1774-1775, by
John Leacock. Ed. Carla Mulford. American Literature 62 (1990):
503-504.
The
Poems of Michael Wigglesworth.
Ed. Ronald A. Bosco. Early
American Literature 25 (1990): 321-323.
W. B.
Yeats: Man and Poet, by A. Norman Jeffares. Poet
and Critic 4 (1967): 45-46.
Papers
“Why We
Have to Read this Stuff and, Worse Yet, Think about It: New Work on the
Practical Value of Literature and Even Theory.”
Annual Humanities Institute Lecture. University at
“Creole
Coopers: James and Susan, Literature and Ethics in
“Reading
Your Way from Beauty to Ethics: Nathaniel Hawthorne in the Twenty-First
Century.” UB This Summer Cutting Edge Lecture Series. 9 June 2005.
“Metanoia:
Nineteenth-Century Writers in the Network Culture of Twenty-First Century
Readers.” The Resisting Reader, Then and Now: A Symposium in Honor of Judith
Fetterley. University at
“Networks
of
“Leslie
Fiedler’s Coming to
“The
Rise and Fall of Individualism in American Literature.”
“Nations
without Nationalism and Agency without Individualism in Hope Leslie and The
Linwoods.” American Literature
Association Annual Conference.
“Mischief,
Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods; or, ‘Sixty Years Since’ in
"Lexias
and Agency in Anne Bradstreet." Society
of Early Americanists Biannual Convention.
"Subversion
as National Service: Catharine Maria Sedgwick as Canny Navigator on the
"Cooper's
Medicine for the Trauma of History."
"New
Theories for Reading Literature and Life: Or Why We Should Care about Narrative
Therapy, Trauma Theory, Ecocriticism, and Literary Anthropology, as Well as
Louise Rosenblatt and Jean-Luc Nancy."
"Literary
Lessons: What We Learn from
"New
Theories and the Uses of Cooper at the Present Time." The Cooper Seminar. Oneonta and
"`We
Have Really No Country at All':
"Authoring
Subjects." Modern Language
Association.
"Humility
to Die For: The Ironies of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley." Modern Language Association.
"On
the Threshold of
"Culture
and
"Making
Sense of Early American Literature, with a Little Help from Ludwig
Wittgenstein."
"How
We Read Literature and Why It Matters."
"Early
American Literature and Cultural Criticism: From Attempts at Thematic Unity to
Epistemological Connections." Modern
Language Association.
"Rewriting
an American Reader: The Example of James Fenimore Cooper." Modern Language Association.
"Reimagining
the Past: The Romantic in
"How to Survive in
"John
Gardner and the Epistemology of Myth."
Modern Language Association.
"Another
Theory of American Fiction."
"Liminality
and Fiction in Irving, Cooper, Cather, Fitzgerald, and Gardner." Modern Language Association.
"Literature
and Acculturation in Early
"Liminality
and Storytelling in Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Cather."
"Literature as History."
"How Foundlings Become Founders."
"Reading
"American
Visionary History and the Search for an American Literature."
"From
Puritanism to the Present: An Important Continuity in American
Literature."
"Puritan
Influences on Contemporary American Literature."
"`American
Literature' as Epistemological Category: From a Puritan Past to an Ethnic
Present."
"The
Literary Origins of American Culture."
"Colloquium
on American Visionary History."
"American
Visionary History: The Literary Creation of a Usable Past."
"Liminality
and the Continuing Need for American Visionary History." Modern Language Association.
"Anne
Bradstreet and the Poetics of Weaned Affections." Modern Language Association.
"American
Visionary History." Modern
Language Association.
"The
European Origins of American Visionary History." Plenary session. American Comparative Literature
Association.
"American
Literature and an American's Identity."
"Revising
the Classics: The Use of John Seelye's True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Consulting
Advisory Board, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society
Board of Directors, James Fenimore Cooper Society
Editorial Board, Cooper and the Early Republic
National
Endowment for the Humanities Grant-Review Panelist,
Selection
Committee for papers to be given at the annual conference of the American
Literature Association, Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, 2002
Outside Evaluator: Department of English,
Reader:
University of California Press, SUNY Press, University of Tennessee Press, Early
American Literature, PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, Prose
Studies, American Literary History, National Endowment for the
Humanities Media Program
Consultant
on Promotions: New York University, Cornell University, UCLA, George Washington
University, George Mason University, Colorado State University, Kansas State
University, University of Connecticut
Executive Committee, Northeastern Association of Graduate
Schools, 1988-89
Richard Beale Davis Prize Committee, 1991 (Chair), 1987
Executive
Committee, Division on American Literature to 1800, Modern Language
Association, 1983-87 (Chair, 1986)
Editorial Board, Early American Literature, 1980-83