About

Teaching Philosophy:

• "Cor ad cor loquitur."  --Newman

Offices Held:

• Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
• Chair, Department of English
• Editorial Board, Hopkins Quarterly

Degrees

• BA, University of Rochester (1964)
• MA, Northwestern University (1965)
• PhD, Northwestern University (1968)

Program Areas

• Victorian Literature
• Rhetoric and Composition
• Pedagogy

Selected Publications

Articles:

• "The Year's Work in Hopkins Studies."  Victorian Poetry, vol. 50, no. 3, 2012, pp. 369-378. [Also 2008-2009-2010-2011.]
• "The Triumph of Diversity: Hopkins's 'Pied Beauty.'"  In God, Science, Sex, Gender, edited by Aana Vigen and Patricia Jung (U of Illinois P, 2010).
• "Appropriating Hopkins." Renascence, vol. 57, Summer 2005, pp. 323-332.
• "Hopkins and the Pre-Raphaelites." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 90, 2002, pp. 309-320.
• "Musical Responses to Hopkins." Hopkins Quarterly, vol. 28, 2001, pp.3-54.  

Books:

• The Collegiate English Handbook. 5th edition. Collegiate, 2002.
• Rereading Hopkins: Selected New Essays. U of Victoria P, 1996.
• The Fine Delight: Centenary Essays on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Loyola UP, 1989.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland, 1982.
• The Rossetti-Leyland Letters: The Correspondence of an Artist and His Patron. Ohio UP, 1978.

Work-in-Progress:

• Book on Hopkins's poetry