9/2009
CURRICULUM VITAE
RICHARD FARR DIETRICH
BORN: 1/16/36 WIFE: Lori
Sandusky, Ohio CHILDREN: Rick, Travis, Lynn Marie
OFFICE English
Department HOME 14429 Wadsworth Drive
ADDRESS: U. of South Florida ADDRESS: Odessa, Florida 33556
Tampa, Florida 33620 (813) 920-2986
Retired (Professor Emeritus)
FAX: (813) 926-9814 E-Mail: dietrich@cas.usf.edu
WEB SITES:
Curriculum Vitae: http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/Vita2008.htm
The University Press of Florida Shaw Series--http://www.upf.com/seriesresult.asp?ser=gbshaw
"SHAW
BIZNESS"---http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/shawbizness.html
"OZYMANDIAS"--- https://rfd2.net/
The International Shaw Society—https://shawsociety.org
The Bernard Shaw
Society---http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/shawsociety.html
British Drama from 1890 to 1950: A Critical History--http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/britishdrama.htm
Rennes-le-Château: A Postmodernist Case--http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/rennes-summary.html
A History and Criticism of “The Apocalypse”-- http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/apocalypse.html
EDUCATION:
High
School---------Port Clinton, Ohio...............1954
A.B. in
Psychology--Miami University (Ohio)..........1958
M.A. in
English-----Bowling Green State University...1960
Ph.D. in
English----Florida State University.........1965
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Teaching
Assistant--Bowling Green State U............1959-60
Teaching
Assistant--Florida State U..................1960-63
Instructor----------U. of
Delaware...................1963-65
Assistant Professor-U. of
Delaware...................1965-68
Assistant Professor-U. of South
Florida..............1968-70
Associate Professor-U. of South
Florida..............1970-76
Professor-----------U. of South
Florida..............1976-2000
Professor Emeritus—-U. of South Florida..............2000-
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Chairman of Freshman English--------U. of
Delaware...1965-68
Chair,
Departmental Research Assignment Com.-USF.....1975&79
Chair,
New York Program Committee------------USF.....1978-83
Chair,
Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee--USF.....1982-83
Chair,
College Evaluation of Teaching
Oversight Committee----------------------USF.....1982-83
Acting
Chair, English Dept.------------------USF....Aug.1983
Director
of Freshman English-----------------USF.....1983-84
Chair,
College Council-----------------------USF.....1984-85
Chair,
Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee--USF.....1985-97
Chair,
Dept. Graduate Placement Committee----USF.....1987-90
Chair,
College Tenure & Promotion Committee--USF.....1989-90
Interim
Editor, USF Press--------------------USF.....1990-92
Interim
Chair, USF Press Editorial Board-----USF.....1990-92
Chair,
Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee--USF.....1991-92
Director,
Office of Scholarly Publications---USF.....1992-93
Chair,
Scholarly Publications Council--------USF.....1992-93
Director, The Publications
Council-----------USF.....1993-95
Chair,
Teaching Incentive Program Awards Com-USF.....1993-94
Chair,
Graduate Admissions Committee---------USF.....1993-94
Chair,
M.A. Exam Committee-------------------USF.....1994-95
Chair,
Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee--USF.....1994-95
Chair,
Ph.D. Exam Committee------------------USF.....1996
Chair,
CAS Tenure & Promotion Committee------USF.....1997-98
President, International Shaw
Society----------------2004-09
SERVICE: DEPARTMENTAL
1964-68 Freshman English Committee, Sophomore
English Committee,
Graduate English Committee, Curriculum
Committee,
Executive
Committee------U. of Delaware
At USF:
1971-73 Ad Hoc Freshman English
Committee
1972-73 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
1971-73 Release Time Committee
1976-78 Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
1978-79 The Writer's Theater
1981-82 Committee to Review Salary, Tenure
& Promotion Committee
Procedures
1981-83 Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
1982
Freshman English Honors Program Ad Hoc Committee
1982-84 Executive Committee
1982-83 Coordinator for Distinguished Teacher
& Scholar Applicants
1983-84 Freshman English Committee
1966-97 M.A. & Ph.D. Exam Committees, 1-4
per year
1966-97 Reader or Director of Theses &
Dissertations, 3 per year
1984 Ad
Hoc Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1984-86 Honors Program Committee
1985-87 Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
1985-87 Executive Committee
1986-87 Coordinator for Distinguished Teacher
and Scholar Applicants
1987
Search Committee for Chairman
1987-90 Graduate Placement Committee
1989-94 Graduate Committee
1988-93 Off-Campus Programs Committee
1989-90 Editor, A Handbook for Graduate
Students in English
1990-92 Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
1992-93 Ad-Hoc Salary, Tenure
& Promotion Committee
1991-92 Executive Committee (Search Committee)
1991-94 Graduate Admissions Committee
1993 Ad
Hoc Salary, Tenure & Promotion Committee
1993-94 Teaching Incentive Program Awards
Committee
1993-94 Ad Hoc Committee to
Respond to Teaching Evaluation Instrument
1994-95 M.A. Exam Committee
1994-96 Salary, Tenure & Promotion
Committee
1994-99 Executive Committee
1994-95 Search Committee (for Contemporary
Drama position)
1994-95 Search Committee (for departmental
Chair)
1995-96 Departmental Governance Document
Committee
1996-97 Ad Hoc Faculty
Evaluation Committee
1996-98 Mentoring Committee
199 1996-98
Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee
1999
Search Committee for Chair
SERVICE: COLLEGE
1970-72 Honors Committee
1976-77 College Council
1982-83 Evaluation of Teaching Oversight
Committee
1982-85 College Council
1983-84 College Council Subcommittee on New
Course Proposals
1983-86 College Computer Committee
1987-90 College Of Arts & Letters
Promotion & Tenure Committee
1990
Coordinator, Softball Teams for Annual Faculty/Staff Picnic
1991-93 College Faculty Development Committee
1992
Subcommittee on Mentoring
1993-94 Ad Hoc Committee on
Teaching Evaluation Instrument
1996-97 CAS Tenure and Promotion
Committee (chaired Humanities
Subcommittee)
1997-98 CAS Tenure and Promotion
Committee--Chair
SERVICE: UNIVERSITY
1973-75 Research Council
1974-76 Festival-on-the-Hill Committee
(S.E.A.C.)
1983
President's Task Force on Capital Improvement Trust Funds
(Wrote "Final Report" in absence of the chair)
1983-87 Instructional Services Council
1984-86 The Faculty Research & Development
Park Advisory Committee
1984-85 The Faculty Softball Picnic Committee
1987-88 Sabbatical Committee
1989-90 Research Council, Subcommittee for
Arts & Letters
1990-92 USF Press Editorial Board
1991-93 Advisor to USF Representative to the
UPF Editorial Board
1992-93 The Scholarly Publications Council
1992-93 Research Council, Subcommittee for
Arts & Sciences
1993-95 The Publications Council
1993-98 USF Representative to UPF Editorial
Board
1995
Introducer of Keynote Speaker Edward Albee at the 23rd Annual
Florida Suncoast Writers' Conference
1998-01 Undergraduate Council
SERVICE: PROFESSIONAL
1969-92 At various times, reviewer and/or Text
Consultant for The
Ronald Press Co., Houghton Mifflin, John
Wiley & Sons, Thomas Y. Crowell,
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, D. C. Heath,
Bobbs-Merrill, Random House,
McGraw-Hill,
Harper Collins, U. of Florida Press, U. of South Florida Press,
SHAW:
The Annual ofBernard Shaw Studies.
1970-71 Regional Judge, N.C.T.E. National
Achievement Awards
1974-84 Drama Reader for Scholia Satyrica.
1981
Chaired section of the 11th Annual Convention of the
Popular Culture Association.
1965-97 At various times, member of The Modern
Language Association,
National Council of Teachers of English, The Ibsen Society
of America, The
American Ibsen Theater, The Shaw Society of
America, The Shaw
Society of England, The Shaw Festival
Theater Association, The
New York Shavians, The Asolo Theater
Association,
The American Film Institute, The Theater
Development Fund, The
Stratford Festival Theatre Association.
1989-98 Editorial Board, The Annual of
Bernard Shaw Studies.
1992
Chaired section on "Medievalism in Drama" at the "Seventh
Annual General Conference on Medievalism," USF, Oct. 1, 1992.
1992
Chaired section on "Shaw Our Contemporary" at Virginia
Tech
conference, "1992: Shaw and the Last Hundred
Years," Nov. 7,
1992, Blacksburg, Virginia.
1994
Chaired Plenary Address, Conference on THE POLITICS AND
PROCESSES OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, USF at St. Petersburg
(March 12-14, 1994)
1994
External Review of Asst. Prof. Michael Vanden Heuvel for
promotion &
tenure at Arizona State U.
1994
Search Committee for the Director of the University Press
of Florida
1996
Search Committee for the Editor in Chief of the University
Press of Florida
1998-
Appointed Series Editor of The Florida Shaw
Series for the
University Press of
Florida.
1999-
Advisory Board, Bernard Shaw Society
1999- Creator and Manager of the Bernard Shaw
Society Web Site
1999- Creator and Manager of the "Shaw
Bizness" Website
2004-09 President, International Shaw Society
SERVICE: COMMUNITY
1980-81 Advisory Board, The Alice People
Theater Co.
1978-84 The Tampa Bay Winter Festival Theater
Committee
1968-90 Departmental ticket liaison for The
Asolo Theater
1981-84 Coach for Temple Terrace Little League
Teams
1986-88 Timer and Field Judge for local J-V
Track Meets
1986-87 Coach for Independent Day School J-V
Softball Team
1988-91 Timer for Local Varsity Swim Meets
INTERVIEWS & APPEARANCES
Interview, Quest, Tampa: WUSF-TV. April, 1970.
Interview, "Florida Accent," The Tampa
Tribune, Aug. 6, 1972.
Interview, "Northside Edition," The
Tampa Tribune, May 24, 1979.
Panel Discussion of Albee's The
Zoo Story, Tampa: WUSF-TV.
Taped Aug. 8, 1973.
Lectures on "Contemporary Drama: Down in the
Dumps," Conference on
Aging & Overcrowding. St. Petersburg, Nov. 8, 1974, and
Clearwater, Nov. 13, 1974.
Panel Discussion of Shaw's Heartbreak House,
The Asolo State Theater,
Sarasota, April 6, 1975.
Lectured on New York and London Off-Campus Programs
to USF Theate
Majors,
Feb. 20, 1981.
Read a paper, "God Is A
Dirty Old Man: A Review of the Falwell
Penthouse
of March, 1981," at the 11th Annual Convention of
the Popular Culture Association in Cincinnati, March 28,
1981.
Read a paper, "T. S. Eliot and Modern
Drama," at the Centenary
Celebration of T. S. ELIOT AND THE MODERNISTS at the
Nelson
Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg on Oct. 28, 1988.
Interview, WMNF-FM, Sept. 15, 1989, with Aubrey
Hampton, regarding
Hampton's play G.B.S.
& Company and Bernard Shaw in general.
Chaired section on "Medievalism in
Drama," at the "Seventh Annual
General
Conference on Medievalism," USF, Oct. 1, 1992.
Chaired section on "Shaw Our
Contemporary," at Virginia Tech
conference, "1992: Shaw and the Last Hundred
Years," Blacksburg,
VA,
Nov. 7, 1992.
Chaired Plenary Address, Conference on THE POLITICS
AND PROCESSES
OF SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING. USF St. Petersburg, March 12-14,
1994.
Interview, On the Teaching Incentive Program,
"On Campus" by James
Harper, St.
Petersburg Times, April 6, 1994.
Interview, "New Publications Council Seeks
Authors," USF Magazine
(Spring 1964), 23.
Interview, "Council Seeks to Subsidize Works
of USF Writers," The
Oracle (Feb. 22, 1994), 7.
Interview, "Christmas Classics Capture
Contract," Inside USF, Aug. 19-
Sept. 1, 1994, 3.
Introduced keynote speaker Edward Albee at the 23rd
Annual Florida
Suncoast
Writers' Conference, Feb. 2, 1995.
Lectured on John Galsworthy's Joy at the
seminar "Shaw and His
Friends"
at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, Aug. 14, 1998.
Delivered Talk, "Bernard Shaw and Tom Robbins:
What It Means to Be a
Shavian
at the Millennium," The Shaw Society, New York, March
12th,
1999.
Introduced
Novelist Tom Robbins at the Suncoast Writers’Conference, U.S.F.
St.
Petersburg, Florida (Feb. 2000).
Talk on “Shaw’s Future in Academe” at the Shaw Conference sponsored
by Marquette University, April 19-21, 2001.
Talk to the Shaw Society of England on “Was Shaw a
Fundamentalist Christian?”
at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, September
30,2005.
Co-arranger and co-chair of the annual Shaw
Symposium at the Shaw Festival
In Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July or August of 2004-5-6-7-8-9.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS & PARTS
OF BOOKS
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG SUPERMAN: A STUDY
OF SHAW'S NOVELS.
Gainesville: U. of Florida Press, 1969. 197pp.
Editor, AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST,
by Bernard Shaw. New York: W. W.
Norton
& Co., 1972. 260pp. With "Introduction."
Contributing Editor,
ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES: G. B.
SHAW, Vol. III (Northern Illinois U. Press,
1986), 1-31.
(Responsible for the published research of
1957)
Contributing Editor,
ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY SERIES: G. B.
SHAW,
Vol. II (Northern Illinois U. Press, 1987), 520-567.
(Responsible for the published research of 1956, Shaw's
Centennial)
BRITISH DRAMA 1890-1950: A CRITICAL HISTORY. (G. K. Hall & Co.,
1989), 308 pp. Vol. 4
of G. K. Hall's 5-volume CRITICAL HISTORY
OF BRITISH DRAMA.
Editor, A HANDBOOK FOR GRADUATE
STUDENTS IN ENGLISH, USF (1989).
"Foreword" to Aubrey Hampton's play,
G.B.S. & COMPANY (Tampa: Organica
Press, 1989), 9-12.
"William Carlos Williams' 'The Use of
Force,'" reprinted in MODELS FOR
CLEAR
WRITING, ed. by Betty R. Murrow, et al., New York: Pren-
tice-Hall, 1989.
"Deconstruction as Devil's Advocacy: A Shavian
Alternative," reprinted
in Elsie B. Adams' CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
(Bos-
ton: G. K. Hall & Co., 1992), 171-197.
BERNARD SHAW'S NOVELS: PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS
MAN AND SUPERMAN.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. 203pp.
Foreword to Jean Reynolds' Pygmalion's Wordplay:
The Postmodern Shaw,"
The Florida Bernard Shaw Series, University
Press of Florida, 1999, ix.
The Final Solution: A Novel for
the End of Days. New York: Writers
Club
Press, 2000.
Foreword to Bernard Dukore’s Shaw’s Theater,
The Florida Bernard Shaw Series,
University
Press of Florida, 2000, ix.
Foreword to Michel Pharand’s Bernard
Shaw and the French, The Florida Bernard Shaw
Series,
University Press of Florida, 2001, xiii-xiv.
Foreword to Dan H. Laurence’s The Matter with Ireland, 2nd ed., The
Florida
Bernard Shaw Series, University Press of Florida, 2001, xi-xiii.
Foreword
to Stuart E. Baker’s Bernard Shaw’s Remarkable Religion, The
Florida Bernard Shaw
Series, University Press of Florida, 2002, ix-x.
Foreword
to Leon Hugo’s Bernard Shaw’s The Black Girl in Search of God: The
Story Behind
the Story, The Florida Bernard Shaw Series, University Press
of Florida, 2003,
xi-xiii.
Earth
Angel: A Novel, 1st
Books, 2003.
Foreword
to Peter Gahan’s Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw,
The Florida Bernard Shaw
Series, University Press of Florida, 2004, xi-xii.
Foreword
to Harold Pagliaro’s Relations Between The Sexes In
the Plays of George
Bernard Shaw (The
Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), pp. ix-xiv.
Alphabetical
Order: A Melofarce in Two Acts, iUniverse, 2005.
Foreword
to What Shaw Really Wrote About the War: Bernard
Shaw, edited by J. L. Wisenthal
and Daniel
O’Leary, The Florida Bernard Shaw Series, University Press of Florida,
2006, ix-x.
Foreword
to Kay Li’s Bernard Shaw and China: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, The
Florida Bernard Shaw
Series, University Press of Florida, 2007, xv-xvi.
Foreword
to James Alexander’s Shaw’s Controversial Socialism, The
Florida Bernard
Shaw Series, University Press of Florida,
2009.
Foreword
to Charles A. Carpenter’s Bernard Shaw as Artist-Fabian, The Florida Bernard
Shaw Series, University Press of Florida, 2009.
PUBLICATIONS: TEXTBOOKS
Co-author, THE ART OF FICTION, 4
editions. New York: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston,1967,1974,1978,1983.
445 pp., 534 pp., 458 pp., 453 pp.
Co-author, INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE ART OF
FICTION, 4 editions.
New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967, 1974, 1978, 1983.
116 pp., 134 pp., 146 pp.,
142 pp.
Co-author, THE ART OF DRAMA, 2
editions. New York: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, 2 editions. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969,
1976.
431 pp., 781 pp.
Co-author, INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE ART OF
DRAMA, 2 editions. New
York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969,
1976. 188 pp., 195 pp.
THE REALITIES OF LITERATURE. Boston:
Xerox College Publishing Co.,
1971. Hardbound, 951 pp. Softbound, 661 pp.
INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE REALITIES OF
LITERATURE. Boston: Xerox
College Publishing Co., 1971. 119 pp.
Critical Essays on Williams' "The Use of
Force," Forster's "The
Celestial Omnibus," Dunsany's "The
Two Bottles of Relish,"
Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums,"
Anderson's "I'm a Fool,"
Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych,"
Conrad's "The Heart of
Darkness," "Samson and Delilah," "Bear Man,"
Brautigan's
"Homage to the San Francisco YMCA,"
Robbe-Grillet's "The
Secret Room," and Bellow's "A
Father-to-Be" in the INSTRUCTOR'S
MANUAL FOR THE ART OF FICTION, 4 editions, as
above.
Critical Essays on Ibsen's The
Wild Duck, Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra,
Chekhov's The
Cherry Orchard, Williams' The Glass Menagerie,
Beckett's Act Without
Words II in the INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR
THE ART OF DRAMA, 2 editions, as above.
Critical Essays on Cummings' "nobody loses all
the time," Robinson's
"Richard Cory," Thomas's "Do
Not Go Gentle into That Good
Night," Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73," Owen's "Greater
Love,"
Auden's
"The Unknown Citizen," Shakespeare's "All the World's a
Stage," Schwartz's "The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me,"
Auden's "O
Where
Are You Going?," Miles's "Government
Injunction
Restraining Harlem Cosmetic Co.," in the INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR
THE REALITIES OF LITERATURE LITERATURE, as above.
Critical Essay on William Carlos Williams's
"The Use of Force,"
published in the
INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL FOR THE REALITIES OF
LITERATURE (as above), reprinted in MODELS FOR
CLEAR WRITING,
ed. by Betty R.
Morrow, et al., New York: Prentice-Hall, 1989.
PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES
"Shaw and the Passionate Mind," THE SHAW
REVIEW (May, 1961), 2-11.
"Connotations of Rape in 'The Use of
Force,'" STUDIES IN SHORT FICTION
(Summer, 1966),
446-450.
"Something There Is That Doesn't Love Free
Verse," VENTURE (Spring,
1968),
26-28.
"The Training of Graduate Assistants,"
DELAWARE ENGLISH JOURNAL
(Spring, 1968), 24-27.
"Beckett's Goad: From Stage to Film,"
LITERATURE/FILM QUARTERLY, IV, 1
(Winter, 1976),
83-89.
"Jesus as Narrator: Albee's Case for Fiction
in The Zoo Story," THE
THEATRE ANNUAL (1977), 57-70.
"The Biological Draft-Dodger in Bellow's 'A
Father-to-Be,'" STUDIES IN
THE HUMANITIES (Dec. 1981), 45-51.
"God, Godot, and Pozzo," NOTES ON
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (September,
1979), 9-10.
"Nora's Change of Dress," THE THEATRE
ANNUAL (December, 1981), 20-39.
"The Secret of Robbe-Grillet's 'The Secret
Room,'" NOTES ON
LITERATURE (March, 1982), 8-9.
"Form and Content in Cummings' 'Space being. .
. Curved,'" NOTES ON
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (March, 1982), 8-9.
"Brautigan's 'Homage to the San Francisco YMCA,'"
NOTES ON
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE (September, 1983), 2-4.
"Shavian Psychology," THE ANNUAL OF
BERNARD SHAW STUDIES (1984),
149-171.
"The Contrary Mr. Frost, of 'West-Running
Brook,'" U. OF DAYTON
REVIEW,
Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sept. 1986), 431-451.
"Deconstruction as Devil's Advocacy: A Shavian
Alternative," MODERN
DRAMA,
Vol. XXIX, No. 3 (Sept. 1986), 431-451.
Reprinted in
Elsie
B. Adams, CRITICAL ESSAYS ON GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (Boston:
G. K.
Hall & Co., 1992), 177-197.
"Shaw and the Uncrucifying of Christ,"
THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW
STUDIES, Vol. 8 (Pennsylvania State U. Press, 1988), 15-18.
"Shaw on Stage," ORGANICA WRITINGS ON
SCIENCE AND THE ARTS, Vol. 8,
No. 28
(Summer, 1989), 24.
"Shaw and the Black Girl," Program Note
for the Saturday's Children
1990
production of Aubrey Hampton's adaptation of Shaw's The
Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God.
"Shaw as Dramatic Icon: A Bibliography of
Impersonations," THE ANNUAL
OF
BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 12 (1992), 133-153.
"Gwym Thomas's The
Ghost of Adelphi Terrace," THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD
SHAW STUDIES, Vol 13 (1993), 139-50.
"Shaw and Yeats: Two Irishmen Divided by a
Common Language," THE
ANNUAL
OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 15 (1995), 59-78.
Program Note for the Gorilla Theatre’s Production
of Shaw’s The Man of
Destiny and “Don Juan in Hell,” September, 2000, Tampa,
Florida.
Program Note for the Gorilla Theatre’s Production
of A Thurber Carnival,
September,
2001, Tampa, Florida.
Program Note for the London National Theatre’s
production of Granville Barker’s
“Was Shaw a
Fundamentalist Christian?” The Shavian, 2006.
Contribution to Nick Grene’s “tribute” article on
Dan Laurence, “Working with Dan Laurence,”
in SHAW 28, pp.
“In Memoriam: Dan. H. Laurence,”
a commemorative article in SHAW 28, pp.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Reviewed Louis Crompton's The
Road to Equality in THE SHAW REVIEW,
Jan. 1972.
Reviewed Paul Hummert's Bernard Shaw's Marxian
Romance in MODERN
DRAMA,
June, 1974.
Reviewed Daniel Dervin's Bernard Shaw: A
Psychological Study in MODERN
DRAMA, September, 1976.
Reviewed L.W. Conolly and Ellen M. Pearson's Bernard
Shaw: On Stage,
Papers
from the 1989 International Shaw Conference (Guelph,
Ontario: Guelph U. Press, 1991).
Published as "An International
View of
Shaw" in THE ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 14
(1994),
296-300.
Reviewed Elaine Showalter's Sexual Anarchy: Gender
and Culture at the
Fin
de Siecle. Published as "Do
Civilization and Syphilization
Go Hand
in Hand?" Organica, Vol 12 No. 44 (Summer 1993), 19.
Reviewed Keith Garebian's George Bernard Shaw
and Christopher Newton:
Explorations
of Shavian Theatre (Oakville, NY, London: Mosaic
Press, 1992).
Published as "The Newtonian Universe" in THE
ANNUAL
OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 15 (1995), 240-247.
Reviewed J. Percy Smith's Selected
Correspondence of Bernard Shaw:
Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells (Toronto:
University of Toronto
Press, 1995).
Published as "The War of the World-Better-
ers" in THE
ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW STUDIES, Vol 17 (1997),
239-246.
Reviewed Stanley Weintraub’s Shaw’s People:
Victoria to Churchill, for
Biography:
An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Vol 20, No. 4 (Fall
1997),
489-492.
Review in SHAW 24 (2004) entitled “From Little
Acorns…” of L. W. Conolly, ed.
Bernard Shaw and Barry Jackson (from the “Selected Correspondence of
Bernard
Shaw” Series, University of Toronto Press, 2002), PP. 253-255.
Review of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession, edited by
L. W.
Conolly (Broadview Press, 2005), in the
University of Toronto Quarterly,
“Letters in Canada 2006,” Volume 77:1 (Winter
2007/2008).
“Revisiting GBS,” review of A. M. Gibbs’ Bernard
Shaw: A Life, in the Irish
Literary
Supplement, Spring 2007, p. 15.
Review of
David Staller’s PROJECT SHAW, in SHAW 28, 2008, PP.
AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
1959-60 Graduate Assistantship, Bowling Green
State U.
1960-63 Graduate Assistantship, Florida State
U.
1966
Summer Faculty Fellowship, U. of Delaware
1969
Released Time Research Grant, USF (1 Quarter Released Time)
1973
Released Time Research Grant, USF (1 Quarter Released Time)
1972-73 Departmental Released Time Awards (3),
USF
1975-84 Departmental Research Assignment
Awards (9), USF
1979-80 Awarded Half-Pay Sabbatical
1980
Selected by F.S.U. to teach at their London Study Centre,
Quarter I
1982 Arts
& Letters Research Grant
1982
Sponsored Research Summer Grant
1985
Sponsored Research Summer Grant
1986-89 Invited to write Vol. IV of G. K.
Hall's CRITICAL HISTORY OF
BRITISH DRAMA
1987 Awarded
Full-Pay Sabbatical
1989
Sponsored Research Summer Grant
1989-97 Appointed to Editorial Board, THE
ANNUAL OF BERNARD SHAW
STUDIES
1989-90 Nominated for University Scholar of
the Year
1989-90 Awarded College of Arts & Letters
Scholar of the Year
1990
Honored at First Annual Author/Artist Reception, USF Library,
4/25
1990 A
conference in 1988 at which I spoke, "T. S. Eliot and the
Modernists: A Centennial Celebration,"
was awarded the
designation of
"Exemplary Program" by the National University
Continuing
Education Association Division of Museum Programs,
May 1, 1990.
1990-92 Appointed Interim Editor, USF Press.
1992-95 Appointed Director, The Publications
Council.
1994-95 Appointed as USF Representative to the
University Press
of Florida Editorial Board.
1994
Appointed to the Search Committee for the Director of the
University Press of Florida.
1995-96 Awarded Sabbatical
1996
Received Teaching Incentive Program Award
1996
Received Professorial Excellence Program Award
199 1997
Askounes-Ashford Distinguished
Scholar Award for 1997
1998
Appointed as Series Editor of The Florida Shaw
Series for
the University
Press of Florida.
1999 Appointed to Advisory Board of the Bernard
Shaw Society
2000 Awarded Emeritus Professor
status at U.S.F.
COURSES & PROGRAMS INITIATED
1975
"The Classic Theatre" (Your Open University--TV)
1976 New
York Program in Drama & Theater (Off-Campus Term Program)
1983 LAE
6389--Problems in College English Instruction: Composition
1984-85 Departmental Honors Program
1990-91 LIT 3000-501 (Audio-print Intro. to Lit.
for Open University)
1994-95 LIT 2931-501 (Audio-print Twentieth Century
Lit. for Open
University)
1995-96 LIT 3155-501 (Audio-print 20th C. Lit. for
Open U. & Liberal
Arts
General Education requirement)
1995-96 LIT 3155-001 (meets Liberal Arts General Education
requirement in Historical Perspectives)
1997-98 LIT 4804-001 Literature as Cultural Study (meets
Liberal
Arts
Exit requirement)
199 1998-99
LIT 3155/2000-501 20th Century Literature for
WebCT.
1999- Created Web Site for the Bernard Shaw
Society
1999- Created Web Site for "Shaw
Bizness"
2000- LIT 3301 "The Apocalypse" in 20t C.
Literature & Film
for WebCT.
COURSES TAUGHT: UNDERGRADUATE
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Fiction
Introduction to Drama
Workshop in Fiction
Current Short Fiction
Drama: Texts & Films
Modern British Literature
Modern American Literature
The Bible as Literature
Contemporary Drama
Contemporary Literature
Modern Drama
Drama & Theater
20th Century Literature
“The Apocalypse” in Modern Literature & Film
20th Century Literature as a Web course
COURSES TAUGHT: GRADUATE
The Professional Seminar
Practical Criticism
Ibsen-Shaw Seminar
Ibsen-Strindberg-Shaw Seminar
Irish Drama
British & American Drama from 1770 to 1970
British Drama from 1660 to 1912
British Drama from 1800 to 1950
Shaw-Beckett-Stoppard Seminar
Problems in Advanced English Instruction of
Composition
Problems in Advanced English Instruction of
Literature
Doctoral Seminar in Shaw
Modern British Drama 1890 to 1910: Origins
Modern British Drama: "The Woman
Question"
Writing for Publication
LISTED IN
DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN SCHOLARS, Vol. II
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
WHO'S WHO IN THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST
DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN EDUCATION