Professor
Research and/or Creative Works
Novels and Story Collections:
American Zombie Beauty: Collected Stories, Wolfson Press, University of Indiana - South Bend, April 2015. | |
The Brothers Boswell, Soho Press, May, 2009. *British Edition, Grove/Atlantic, August, 2010. | |
The X President, Bantam, 2003. | |
The Dream of the White Village, RNM Inc., 1998; Paperback edition, Onion River Press, 1999. | |
The Millennium Shows, Albion Books, 1994. Republished by Kearney Street Books, 2012. |
Novellas:
James and Allison | New England Review, Spring, 1995, Vol. 17, #2, pp. 22-56. |
Short Stories:
“The Celebrated Phish Tanks Of Burlington, Vermont” | collected in The WRUV Reader (Ed. Chris Evans), Burlington, Vermont, 2012 |
“American Zombie Beauty” | collected in The Storyteller Speaks: Rare and Different Fictions of the Grateful Dead (San Francisco: Kearney Street Books, 2010) |
“Nancy & Tonya & The Long Hard Rain” | New England Review, Winter, 1999, Vol. 20, #1, pp. 118-129. |
“Anthony Buys Pornography” | Black Warrior Review, 1996, Vol. 12, #2, pp. 117-136. |
“Soft Creeping, Words on Words” | Rocky Mountain Review, Spring, 1995, Vol. 49, #1, p. 9-26. |
“Deep in Oneida Nation” | New England Review, Fall, 1994, Vol. 16, #4. |
“Fecundity” | Faultline, 1994, Vol. 4, pp. 36-48. |
“The Tour of Helen” | TriQuarterly, Winter, 1992-93, #86, pp. 120-136. |
“Voice of Egypt” | Pennsylvania Review, 1993, vol. 5, #2, 83-93. |
“Peaheart” | Black Warrior Review, Fall, 1993, vol. 20, #1, pp. 65-82. |
“Men and Grace” | Carolina Quarterly, vol. 43, #2, Winter, 1991, pp. 51-56. |
“I Am These Dead” | Denver Quarterly, vol. 25, #1, Summer, 1990, pp. 61-74. |
“Death of a Cable-Whore” | Santa Clara Review, vol. 77, #3, Spring, 1990, pp. 59-62. |
“The Canteen” | The Bellingham Review, vol. 13, #1, Spring, 1990, pp. 23-33. |
“Opie Dog Rules” | Real Fiction, #6, 1990, pp. 42-48. |
“Basket-Boy” | Other Voices, #10, 1989, pp. 186-194. |
Publications
Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes, Hanover: University Press of New England, 2017. | |
Vermont Air: The Best of the Vermont Public Radio Commentary Series, Co-edited with Joseph Citro, Hanover: University Press of New England, 2002. | |
Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma (Editor), Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. |
Awards and Recognition
Elected to the Vermont State Senate, 2010; Majority Leader, 2013-2016; currently Chair of Senate Education Committee
Dean’s Lecture Award, University of Vermont, College of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2010
2009 First-Place Public Radio News Directors Award
2009 Edward R. Murrow Award (Shared)
2002, 2003 Vermont Associated Press Awards
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Restoration and 18th-Century drama, autobiography
Education
- Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, 1993
Contact
Email:
Phone:
- (802) 656-3298
Office Location:
305 Old Mill
Office Hours:
By appointment
Courses Taught
- Critical Approaches to Literature
- British English Novel
- Texts and Contexts
- Advanced Writing: Fiction
- Reading & Writing Autobiography
- Performing Restoration Drama
- Principles of Literary Research
- 18th Century Culture
- Writing: Poetry & Fiction
- 18th Century Revolution
- Genre: Novel
- TAP: Making the Scene
- Short Story in the Workshop
- Evolution of the Novel
- Literature of Vermont
- The Long 18th Century
- Topics in Post-Modernism
- American Postmodernism