Scholarship

Publications

  • "Covenantal Hermeneutics and the Redemption of Theory." Christianity and Literature 46, 3-4 (Spring-Summer, 1997), 357-397.
  • "Thomas Mann's Tristan: Erotic Aestheticism, Seduction, and the Scene of Reading in the Western Literary Tradition." Kentucky Philological Review. Forthcoming.
  • "Prenatal Life and the Idea of Loss in Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode': Toward Remembrance." The Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. Forthcoming.
  • "A Portrait of the Teacher as Motivated by the Desire to Learn." Article. The Teaching Spirit 5, 4: March/April, 1995. (Newsletter for The Center for Teaching and Learning, Western Kentucky University)

Papers read at Conferences

  • "Manfred and the Mutuality of the Human." Accepted for The Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, UC Santa Barbar, Oct. 16-18, 1998.
  • "Hating God/Hating the Jew: Andrè Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just and the Death of God." The Western Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Santa Clara University, May 2-3, 1998.
  • "Lyric Poetry and the Analogy of Love in the Song of Songs." The Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Northern Kentucky Univ, March 6-7, 1998.
  • "Standing at Mont Blanc: Coleridge and Midrash." The Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, Jan. 23-25, 1998.
  • "Covenantal Hermeneutics and the Redemption of Theory: Notes Toward a Biblical Theory of Literature." The Western Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, May 2-3, 1997.
  • "Thomas Mann's Tristan: Erotic Aestheticism, Seduction, and the Scene of Reading in the Western Literary Tradition." The Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Eastern Kentucky Univ, March 1-2, 1997.
  • "Manfred on the Jungfrau: Byron and the Redemption of Desire." The International Conference on Despair and Desire in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1996.
  • "Contemporary Covenantal Theory and Romantic Hebraism in Hamann and Coleridge." The Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, Brigham Young Univ., Park City, Utah, October 3-5, 1996.
  • "Prenatal Life and the Idea of Loss in Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode': Toward a Poetics of Remembrance." The Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Morehead State University, March 1-2, 1996.
  • "Native Language or Foreign Rhetoric? Friedericka Brun and Coleridge in the Vale of Chamouni." The Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, September 21-24. 1995.
  • "Lord Byron and the Pursuit of Virtue: The Quest for Ethics in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." The Annual Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), Virtual Incorporations and Textual Spaces. Villanova University, Philadelphia, May 10-13, 1995.
  • "Genetic or Generic Criticism? 'Kubla Khan,' 'The Squire's Tale,' and the Case for Intertextuality." The Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Philological Association, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, March 3-4, 1995.
  • "Re-writing the Faerie Queene: Semblaunts and Disguise in Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." The Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, 9-11 December, 1993.
  • "Textuality, Religious Commitment, and Theory: A Dutch-Canadian Perspective." The Midwest Canadian Studies Association Conference, Southwestern Missouri State Univ., Oct. 8-10, 1992.
  • "Commitment and Critique: Literary Theory and its Discourses." The Midwestern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, Concordia Univ. of Wisconsin, Sept. 28-30, 1989.
  • "On Reading Nature: Coleridge and Shelley at Mont Blanc." The Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, Raleigh, Feb. 25, 1989.

Other

  • Moderator, "The Wordsworthian Child." The Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Romanticism, Athens, Georgia, January, 1998.
  • Moderator, "Realism in Several Modes," Kentucky Philological Association, March 7-8, 1997.
  • Moderator, "Gender Psychology in Literature," Kentucky Philological Association, March 1-2, 1996.
  • Moderator, "Poetry," Women's Studies conference, Western Kentucky University, Sept. 26-28, 1990.


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