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Joe Glaser, Professor Emeritus, Western Kentucky University

                                                                      Education

· B.A. University of Kansas City, 1965

· Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1970

 

                              Teaching Experience

· Western Kentucky University 1969-Present

· University of Texas 1965-69

        · University of Kansas City 1964-65

 

                                  Publications

 Articles

· "Recent Herrick Criticism" CLA Journal, 20 (Dec. 1976), 292-302.

· "Standard English Reconsidered," Kentucky English Bulletin, 29 (Fall 1978), 28-40. Abstracted, December 1978, in Language and Language Behavior Abstracts.

· "Tragic Foreshadowing in Marlowe's Hero and Leander," WKU Faculty Research Bulletin, 7 (Fall 1980), 74-83.

· "George Herbert's The Temple: Learning to Read the Book of Nature," CLA Journal, 25 (March 1982), 322-30.

· "Marvell's 'Bermudas': A Vital Uncertainty," Kentucky Philological Association Bulletin, 9 (1983), 9-18.

· "Slick as a Dogwood Hoe Handle: Craft in the Stories of James Still," Appalachian Heritage, 11 (Summer 1983), 4-9.

· "Drama and Irony in the Poetry of Sidney and Donne," WKU Faculty Research Bulletin, 8 (Fall 1984), 46-55.

· "Wyatt, Petrarch, and the Uses of Mistranslation," College Literature, 11 (Fall 1984), 214-22.

· "Sir Thomas Wyatt, 1503-1542," in Research Guide to Biography and Criticism, ed. Walton Beacham, 2 vols. (Washington: Research Publishing, 1985), Vol. 2, 1311-14.

· "'Goodfriday, 1613': A Soul's Form," College Literature, 12 (Spring 1986), 168-76.

· "Plautus," Research Guide to Biography and Criticism in Drama, ed. Walton Beacham (Washington: Research Publishing, 1986), 519-22.

· "Georg Buchner," Research Guide to Biography and Criticism in Drama, ed. Walton Beacham (Washington: Research Publishing, 1986), 69-71.

· "Popular Religion and Social Dissent in Seventeenth Century England," WKU Faculty Research Bulletin, 9 (Fall 1987), 44-50.

· "Aeneid V and the Moral Vision of the Aeneid." Kentucky Philological Review, 10 (1996), 11-16.

· "Magical Seeing in Book II of the Aeneid." Kentucky Philological Review, 11 (1997), 33-38.

· “My William Morris.” William Morris Society in the United States Newsletter (Summer 2008), 17-19. Accompanied by a drawing of Morris.

 

Books

· With James Flynn, Writer's Handbook. New York and London: Macmillan, 1984.

· Writer's Workbook. New York: Macmillan, 1984. Reprinted 1995, Harcourt Brace Custom Publishers.

· Understanding Style: Practical Ways To Improve Your Writing. New York: Oxford U.P., 2000.

· Le Morte D’Arthur (a modern English retelling). Tempe AZ: Pegasus Press, 2005.

· The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett, 2005.

· Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse. Cambridge, Mass.: Hackett, 2007.

 

                    Selected University Service

· Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 1980-82; 1984-86, 1994-96.

· Academic Council, 1982-88, 1990-95.

· Graduate Council, 1982-84; 1986-88.

· University SACS Accreditation Self Study, General Editor, 1982-84.

· Composition Director, English Department, 1984-2003.

· Vice Chair, Academic Council, 1986-87.

· Vice-Chair, Faculty Senate, 1990-91.

· Director, University SACS Accreditation Self Study, 1991-94.

· Steering Committee for President's "New Level" Plan, 1995.

· Senior Consultant and Editor, SACS Self Study, 2003-2005.

 

                 Selected Professional Service

· Archivist, Kentucky Philological Association, 1977.

· Vice President, KPA, 1978.

· President, KPA, 1979.

· Executive Committee, KPA, 1980.

· Nominating Committee: Appalachian Studies, SMLA, 1982-83.

· Editorial Board, KPA Bulletin, 1983; 1985, 1996, 1997.

· Section Chair: "Herbert, Herrick, and Crashaw," Citadel Conference on the Renaissance and Middle Ages, 1985.

· Editorial Board, Essays in Literature, 1988.

· Chair Nominating Committee, English II, SAMLA, 1990.

· President, Southern Kentucky English Council, 1990-92.

 

                               Awards

· Alternate, Earl Miner's 1976 NEH Summer Seminar at Princeton.

· Selected for Stanley Fish's 1982 NEH Summer Seminar at Johns Hopkins.

· Potter College Faculty Excellence Award, 1986.

 

                              Grants

· Russell Fraser's 1977 NEH Summer Seminar at Michigan, $2,500.

· Thomas Greene's 1982 NEH Summer Seminar at Yale, $2,500.

· Christine G. Perkell's 1994 NEH Summer Seminar at Emory, $2,500.

 

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