Mailing
address
Department of English:
P.O. Box 311307
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203-1307
Phone: (940) 369-8950
Fax: (940) 565-4355
E-mail:
scotts@unt.edu
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Professional
Experience
Publications
Papers Presented:
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Oct., 1996 - Present Lecturer,
Cyber Semiotic Institute
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Aug., 1995 - Present Associate
Professor, UNT
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Aug., 1989 - Aug., 1995 Assistant
Professor, UNT
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Aug., 1986 - July, 1989 Assistant
Professor, South Dakota State University
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May, 1983 - Aug., 1983 Adjunct, Tulsa
Junior College
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Aug., 1982 - July, 1986 Adjunct/Teaching
Fellow-Assistant, UT
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
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English Romantic literature, semiotics,
literary theory, modernism, composition
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Additional Responsibilities and Related
Professional Activities:
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Fall 2000 - Present Co-Editor,
Semiotics 2000: Sebeok's Century (Legas Press)
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Fall, 1999 - Present Co-Editor,
Semiotics 1999 (Peter Lang Pub.s)
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Fall,
1998 Manuscript Referee,
University of Wisconsin Press
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Aug., 1997 - Present Referee for
the European Romantic Review
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April, 1997 - Present Referee
for Studies in the Literary Imagination
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Jan., 1997 - Present Associate
Editor (Literary Semiotics), The Semiotic Review of Books
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May, 1996 - Present Advisory
Editor, Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul Schellinger. 2 vols.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997
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May, 1996 - Present Lecturer, "Critical
Semiotics," an 8-lecture Distance Learning course on the World Wide
Web sponsored by the Cyber Semiotic Institute -
WWW site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/srb
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Jan., 1996 - Jan., 1997 Section
Editor (Literary Semiotics), The Semiotic Review of Books
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Sept., 1995 - Present
Referee for CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of
History
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Nov., 1993 - Present Editor,
Studies in the Novel
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July, 1993 - Present Referee
for Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
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Aug., 1991 - Present Member of
UNT Faculty of Environmental Ethics
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July, 1991 - Present Referee
for American Journal of Semiotics
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Aug., 1989 - Nov., 1993
Associate Editor, Studies in the Novel
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Jan., 1989 - May, 1989 Community
Outreach - taught Introduction to Literature in Sioux Falls, SD to
nontraditional students through SDSU
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Aug., 1988 - May, 1989 "Between The
Covers" Lecture/Discussion Series, SDSU - creator and coordinator
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Jan., 1988 - May, 1988 Community
Outreach - Advanced Composition
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Jan., 1987 - May, 1987 Community
Outreach - Technical Communications
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Aug., 1986 - May, 1989 English Club,
SDSU - faculty adviser
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May, 1986 - Aug., 1986 Research
Assistant - "James Joyce" entry by Thomas F. Staley in Anglo-Irish
Literature: A Review of Research (MLA) and An Annotated Critical
Bibliography of James Joyce (HarvesterWheatsheaf) by Thomas F. Staley
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Nov., 1984 Scholar-Leadership
Enrichment Program Seminar: Jonathan Culler, "Signs and Authenticity,"
University of Oklahoma
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May, 1984 - Dec., 1984 Editorial
Assistant - Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit, Mich.: Gale
Research Co. (1985). Vol. 36: British Novelists, 1890-1929:
Modernists (1985) and Vol. 34: British Novelists, 1890-1929:
Traditionalists
HONORS:
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Kirby Award for distinguished article ("The
Book of Thel and the Romantic Lament") in the South Central Review for
1988.
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Conference of College Teachers of English
Award for best British literature paper ("Wordsworth's Pre-Texts: The
Fenwick Notes") presented at the 1990 CCTE conference.
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Professing Women Award - presented by the UNT
Women's Studies Roundtable - Nov., 1995 and 1996.
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS:
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Aug., 1988 - May, 1989 European Studies
Committee, SDSU - member and secretary
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Spring, 1991 - American
Film and Video Association jury, UNT - member
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Spring, 1994 - Fall, 2000 Faculty Senate
Ad Hoc Oversight Committee on the Core Curriculum, UNT - member
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Fall 2000 - Present
College of Arts and Science Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, UNT -
member
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Fall 2000 - Present University
Tenure Committee, UNT - member
DEPARTMENT COMMITTEES AND COUNCILS:
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May, 1995 - Aug., 1998 English Department
Literature Division, UNT - chair
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May, 1995 - Aug., 1998 English Department
Executive Committee, UNT - member
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Aug., 1993 - May, 1995 English Department
Graduate Committee, UNT - member
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Aug., 1990 - Aug., 1993 English
Department Area II (British Literature 1780-Present) Committee, UNT -
chair
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Aug., 1989 - Aug., 1990 English
Department Area II Committee, UNT - member
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Aug., 1986 - May, 1989 Composition
Committee, SDSU - member
- Aug., 1984 - May,
1986 Composition Textbook Review Committee, UT - member
GRANTS:
Research for study entitled "Literary
Semiotics: An Attempt to Forestall 'Unlimited Semiosis'?" - funded
by SDSU ($650), summer, 1987.
Research for study entitled The Romantic
Antibook - funded by UNT ($3,500), summer, 1990.
Research for study entitled Signs on the
Margin: The Romantic Paratext - funded by UNT ($2,500), summer,
1991.
Research for study entitled The Romantic
Stigma - funded by UNT ($1,800), summer, 1993.
Research for study entitled The Romantic
Antibook - funded by UNT ($2,500), summer, 1994.
Research for study entitled The Romantic
Antibook - funded by the SCMLA for research at the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin
($1,500), summer, 1994.
Research for study entitled The Romantic
Antibook - funded by UNT ($600) - summer, 1995.
Funded by UNT ($2,500) - 1996.
Research for study entitled Romantic
Masculinities - funded by UNT ($1,800) - summer, 1997.
Researcher for distance learning course
entitled "Critical Semiotics" - funded by UNT ($750) - summer, 1997.
Research for distance learning course
entitled "Critical Semiotics" - funded by UNT - fall, 1997.
Researcher for distance learning course
entitled "Critical Semiotics" - funded by UNT ($750) - summer, 1998.
Research for study entitled Romantic
Masculinities - funded by UNT ($1,800) - summer, 1999.
Research for study entitled Romantic
Masculinities - funded by UNT ($1,800) - summer, 2000.
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Publications
Scholarly Book (refereed):
Editions:
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Guest Editor for special issue on the Romantic
novel. Studies in the Novel (Spring, 1994).
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Semiotics 1999, ed. Scott Simpkins, C. W.
Spinks, and John Deely. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
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Semiotics 2000: "Sebeok's Century", ed. Scott
Simpkins and John Deely. Ottawa, Canada: Legas Press, (forthcoming
October) 2001.
Chapters:
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"W. Somerset Maugham"
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Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 36
(1985), 159-169. Reprinted in Concise Dictionary of British Literary
Biography: Modern Writers 1914-1945. New York: Bruccoli Clark Layman,
Inc., 1991. 159-168.
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"The Infidelity of the Romantic Fragment:
Byron's The Giaour"
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Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry. Ed.
Frederick Shilstone. New York: Modern Language Association, 1991.
89-93.
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"M. H. Abrams: Defender of the Faith"
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The New Criticism and Contemporary Literary
Theory: Connections and Contiguities. Eds. William J. Spurlin and
Michael Fischer. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. Under Garland
Series on "Critical Theory, Literary History, and Cultural Studies."
Series Editor William E. Cain. 185-210.
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"Sources of Magical Realism/Supplements to
Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature"
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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community.
Ed.s Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1995. 145-162. Reprint of "Magical Strategies: The Supplement
of Realism," Twentieth Century Literature, 34.2 (Summer 1988):
140-154.
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"Teaching Alien Aesthetics: The Difficulty of
Difference in the Classroom"
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Approaches to Teaching Women Romantic Poets.
Eds. Stephen Behrendt and Harriet Linkin. New York: Modern Language
Association, 1997, 51-57.
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"Teaching the Male Gothic: Beckford, Lewis,
Stevenson," Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction, Diane Long Hoeveler
and Tamar Heller, ed.s. New York: Modern Language Association, 2002,
forthcoming.
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"'A Story Fram'd in Sport: Narrative Tricks and
Wordsworth's 'Ruined Cottage' Complex," Trickster and Ambivalence: The
Dance of Differentiation, ed. C. W. Spinks. Madison, WI: Atwood
Publishing, 2001, forthcoming.
Essays (refereed):
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"The Book of Thel and the Romantic Lament"
South Central Review, 5.1 (Spring 1988): 25-39.
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"Surrealism and Breton's Textes Soluble: An
Index to Modernism" Comparative Literature Studies, 25.3 (1988):
242-250.
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"Magical Strategies: The Supplement of Realism"
Twentieth Century Literature, 34.2 (Summer 1988): 140-154.
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"'The Infinite Game': Cort zar's Hopscotch"
The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 23.1 (Spring,
1990): 61-74.
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"The Reader and the Romantic Preface" The Rocky
Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Spring, 1990): 17-34.
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"The Agency of the Title: Finnegans Wake" James
Joyce Quarterly (Summer, 1990): 735-743.
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"Keats, Polysemy, and Romanticism" South
Central Review (Summer, 1990): 15-30.
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"Reeling in the Signs: Unlimited Semiosis and
the Agenda of Literary Semiotics" Versus: Quaderni
di studi semiotici 55/56.2 (Gennaio-Agosto 1990): 153-173.
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"Telling the Reader What to Do: Wordsworth and
the Fenwick Notes" Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism,
and Pedagogy 26 (Fall, 1991): 39-64.
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"The Fabrication of the Sign: On Carlyle's
Sartor Resartus" Semiotica 91.1/2 (1992): 15-30.
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"The Remix Aesthetic" European Romantic Review
3.2 (Winter 1993): 193-214.
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"In the 'Thick' of It: Semiotics, Linguistics
and Literary Criticism" Language and Literature 17 (1992): 39-58.
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"They Do the Men in Different Voices: Narrative
Cross-Dressing in Sand and Shelley" Style, 26.3 (Fall 1992): 400-418.
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"Tricksterism in the Gothic Novel" The
American Journal of Semiotics 14, 1/4 (1997 [1998]): 11-23.
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"'Crises of Address': Speech-Shifting and
Negative Solidarity in Byron's Lara." Interdisciplinary Journal
for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 4, 1 (Spring 1999):
19-35.
Essays (invited):
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"The Two Frankensteins" The Round Table of the
South Central College English Association, 27.3 (Fall, 1987): 1-3.
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"George Sand and the Role of Semiotic Cues"
Semiotics 1986. Ed. John Deely and Jonathan Evans. Lanham: UP of
America, 1987, 61-67.
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"Naming Names: Plato's Cratylus and the Ground
of the Sign" Semiotics 1987. Ed. Deely and Evans. Lanham: UP of
America, 1988, 473-478.
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"The Economy of the Gesture: Artaud and
Barthes" Semiotics 1987, 297-306.
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"The Fear of the Arbitrary Sign" Semiotics
1988. Ed. Deely. Lanham: UP of America, 1989, 196-200.
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"Negative Capabilities: Shifting Signs in
Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale'" Semiotics 1988, 374-379.
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"Narrative Deception: The Case of Poe and
Gilman" Semiotics 1989. Ed. Deely. Lanham: UP of America, 1990, 77-83.
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"Infinite Regress-Or Progress?: Perspectives on
Endless Referentiality" Semiotics 1989, 147-154.
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"Wordsworth's Pre-Texts: The Fenwick Notes"
CCTE Studies 55 (September, 1990): 16-22.
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"The Center Cannot Hold: Semiotics and the
Anxiety-Joy of Relativism" Semiotics 1990. Ed. Karen Haworth et al.
Lanham: UP of America, 1993, 250-255.
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"Textual Supplements" Encyclopedia of
Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s. Ed. Laura Dabundo. New
York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993, 566-569.
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"The Outer Limits: Eco's Prescriptivist
Semiotics" Semiotics 1991. Ed. Karen Haworth et al. Lanham: UP of
America, 1993, 135-139.
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"Aeolian Composition: The Semiotics of the
Unwritten Text" Semiotics 1993. Ed. Karen Haworth et al. Lanham: UP of
America, 1994, 337-43.
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"Decoders And/As Encoders in the Construction
of the Self" Semiotics 1993. Ed. Karen Haworth et al. Lanham: UP of
America, 1994, 295-301.
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"The Semiotics of Discredit Modalities"
Semiotics 1994. Ed. Karen Haworth et al. Lanham: UP of America, 1995,
107-17.
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"Coleridge's 'Conversation Poems' as Speech
Genre." Semiotics 1995. Ed.s C. W. Spinks and John Deely. New York:
Peter Lang, 1996, 242-249.
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"Women Should Be Seen But Not Heard: Narrative
Suppression in Wordsworth, Shelley and Coleridge" The Seventh
Cause: A Journal of Modern Literature (1995).
(WWW site: http://www.unt.edu/~grg0001)
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"'Role Stress' and Conflicted Masculinities in
Byron's The Corsair" Semiotics 1996. Ed.s William Spinks and
John Deely. New York: Peter Lang, 1997, 280-289.
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"Jean-Fran‡ois Lyotard" Encyclopedia of
Semiotics, Ed. Paul Bouissac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998,
377-379.
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"Erving Goffman" Encyclopedia of
Semiotics, Ed. Paul Bouissac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998,
257-260.
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"Play" Encyclopedia of Semiotics, Ed. Paul
Bouissac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 493-495.
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"Postsemiotics" Encyclopedia of Semiotics, Ed.
Paul Bouissac. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, 509-512.
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"The Agon for the Male Signifier: Austen's Lady
Susan" Semiotics 1997. Ed.s William Spinks and John Deely. New York:
Peter Lang, 1998.
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"White Semiotics: Austen's The Watsons and the
Performance of Caucasianality" Semiotics 1998, William Spinks
and John Deely, ed.s. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
Essay-Reviews:
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"Romanticism and Rhetoric" Essay-Review
of The Rhetoric of Romanticism, by Paul de Man. The Literary Review (Spring,
1986): 392-395.
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"Pedagogy and Power, Sex and Ideology: On the
Discourse of Romanticism" Essay-Review of Albert Cook, Thresholds:
Studies in the Romantic Experience; Spencer Hall and Jonathan Ramsey,
eds., Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry; Jeffrey C. Robinson,
Radical Literary Education: A Classroom Experiment with Wordsworth's
"Ode"; Cynthia Chase, Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the
Romantic Tradition; Charles J. Rzepka, The Self as Mind: Vision and
Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats; Jean H. Hagstrum, The
Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake.
College English (November, 1988): 812-818.
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"Reading the Social Text" Essay-Review of
Social Semiotics, by Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress. The American
Journal of Semiotics 7.1-2 (1990): 145-151.
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Essay-Review of Romantic Potency: The Paradox
of Desire, by Laura Claridge. European Romantic Review (Winter 1994)
4,2: 216-221.
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"Vertiginous Semiotics" Essay-review of
Libidinal Economy, by Jean-Fran‡ois Lyotard. The Semiotic Review of
Books 6.1 (January 1995): 2-4.
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"Mary Shelley Revisited" Essay-Review of Audrey
Fish, Anne Mellor, and Esther Schor, ed.s, The Other Mary Shelley:
Beyond Frankenstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) and Jane
Blumberg, Mary Shelley's Early Novels: "This Child of Imagination and
Misery" (Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1993). Novel: A Forum on
Fiction 28.3 (Spring 1995): 358-362.
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Essay-Review of The Business of Common Life:
Novels and Classical Economics between Revolution and Reform, by David
Kaufmann and Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in
the Marketplace, 1670-1820, by Catherine Gallagher. The Wordsworth
Circle (Autumn 1995) 26,4.
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"The Semiotics of Post-Semiotics" Essay-Review
of Language As Articulate Contact: Toward A Post-Semiotic Philosophy
of Communication, by John Stewart, The Semiotic Review of Books 7,1 (January,
1996), 8-10.
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"The Semiotics of Humiliation"
Essay-review of Humiliation and Other Essays on Honor, Social
Discomfort, and Violence, by William Miller. The American Journal of
Semiotics 11, 3-4 (1994 [1997]): 361-68.
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"Alternative Semiotics?" An essay-review
of Beyond the Symbol Model: Reflections on the Representational Nature
of Language, Ed. John Stewart, The Semiotic Review of Books 9,3 (September,
1998), 4-9.
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Essay-Review of Patricia McKee, Public and
Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel and Gillian Skinner,
Sensibility and Economics in the Novel, 1740-1800: The Price of A Tear.
The Wordsworth Circle (Winter 1999).
Reviews:
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One Hundred and
Fifty Years of Continuing Vitality, eds. Goebel and Zylva. South
Central Review (Spring, 1985): 80-83.
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Romanticism and Language, ed. Arden Reed. Style
(Spring, 1985).
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Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History,
Ideology, by Leslie W. Rabine. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (Fall,
1986): 318-319.
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The Poem and the Book: Interpreting Collections
of Romantic Poetry, by Neil Fraistat. Studies in Romanticism (Summer,
1987): 303-307.
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Romantic Imprisonment, by Nina Auerbach. The
Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Fall, 1987):
42-46.
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Mary Shelley & Frankenstein: The Fate of
Androgyny, by William Veeder. Studies in the Novel (Winter, 1987):
505-507.
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The Responsibility of Forms: Essays on Music,
Art, and Representation, by Roland Barthes. The American Journal of
Semiotics 5.1 (1987): 167-171.
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The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the
Mirror of Romanticism, by Robert Pattison. The Journal of Popular
Culture 21.2 (Fall, 1987): 152-153.
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The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice in Fiction
from Joyce to Pynchon, by Brian Stonehill. James Joyce Quarterly (February,
1989): 295-299.
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The Barthes Effect: The Essay as Reflexive Text,
by Reda Bensma‹a. SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism
(Spring, 1990): 112-115.
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A Disimprisoned Epic: Form and Vision in
Carlyle's French Revolution, by Mark Cumming. South Central Review (Spring,
1990): 84-85.
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Towards A Literature of Knowledge, by Jerome J.
McGann. European Romantic Review (Spring, 1990): 113-17.
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Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley, Bront‰,
Kleist, by Carol Jacobs. Rocky Mountain Review (Spring, 1990):
260-62.
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Writing Joyce: A Semiotics of the Joyce System,
by Lorraine Weir. James Joyce Quarterly (Spring, 1990): 307-9.
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Sara Coleridge, A Victorian Daughter: Her Life
and Essays, by Bradford Keyes Mudge. Tulsa Studies in Women's
Literature (Winter, 1990): 153-55.
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Between Blake and Nietzsche: The Reality of
Culture, by Harvey Birenbaum. The Eighteenth Century: A Current
Bibliography (1993).
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Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend by James
Soderholm. The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature (Spring
1997): 104-6.
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Papers
Presented:
South Central MLA conference - October, 1984, Biloxi,
MS
SCMLA conference - October, 1985, Tulsa
SCMLA conference - October, 1986, New Orleans
Semiotic Society of America conference - October,
1986, Pensacola, FL
MLA conference - December, 1986, New York City
MLA conference - December, 1986
The University of Tulsa Comparative Literature
Symposium - March, 1987
International Conference on Narrative Literature -
April, 1987, Ann Arbor
Joyce in Milwaukee conference - June, 1987
SCMLA conference - October, 1987, Houston
SSA conference - October, 1987, Columbus, OH
SSA conference - October, 1987
Midwest Modern Language Association conference -
November, 1987, Minneapolis
The University of Tulsa Comparative Literature
Symposium - March, 1988
SCMLA conference - October, 1988, New Orleans
SSA conference - October, 1988, San Francisco
SSA conference - October, 1988
The University of Tulsa Comparative Literature
Symposium - March, 1989
International Conference on Narrative Literature -
April, 1989, Ann Arbor
SSA conference - July, 1989, Indianapolis
SSA conference - July, 1989
International Summer Institute of Semiotic and
Structural Studies - July, 1989, Indianapolis
(Re)producing Texts/(Re)presenting History conference
- September, 1989, College Station, TX
SCMLA conference - October, 1989, New Orleans
M/MLA conference - November, 1989, Minneapolis
M/MLA conference - November, 1989
MLA conference - December, 1989, Washington, DC
Conference of College Teachers of English - March,
1990, Ft. Worth
SSA conference - October, 1990, Norman, OK
American Studies Association of Texas conference -
November, 1990, Corpus Christi, TX
Critical Symposia in Language and Literature -
November, 1990, UNT
CCTE - April, 1991, College Station, TX
International Conference on Narrative Literature -
June, 1991, Nice, France
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference
- October, 1991, Tempe, AZ
SSA conference - October, 1991, New Orleans
SCMLA conference - October, 1991, Ft. Worth
M/MLA conference - November, 1991, Chicago
ASAT conference - November, 1991, Lubbock
Southeastern Semiotic Circle conference - March,
1992, Pensacola
SCMLA conference - October, 1992, Memphis
M/MLA conference - November, 1992, St. Louis
M/MLA conference - November, 1992
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
conference - March, 1993, Baton Rouge.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
conference - April, 1993, Providence, RI
International Association for Philosophy and
Literature conference - May, 1993, Pittsburgh
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference -
October, 1993, Norman, OK
SSA conference - October, 1993, St. Louis
SSA conference - October, 1993
SCSECS conference - February, 1994, Houston
SCSECS conference - February, 1994
SSA conference - October, 1994, Philadelphia
SSA conference - October, 1994
Society for Textual Scholarship conference - April,
1995, New York City
International Conference of the British Association
for Romantic Studies - July, 1995, University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, UK
GEMCS conference - October, 1995, Dallas
SSA conference - October, 1995, San Antonio
American Conference on Romanticism - October, 1996,
Park City, Utah
SSA conference - October, 1996, Santa Barbara, CA
SSA conference - October, 1996, Santa Barbara, CA
Speech Communication Association conference -
November, 1996, San Diego, CA
California Semiotic Circle conference - January,
1997, Berkeley, CA
International Association for Semiotic Studies
conferences - July, 1997, Guadalajara, Mexico
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
conference -
Hamilton, Ontario, October, 1997
SSA conference - October, 1997, Louisville
SSA conference - October, 1997, Louisville
American Conference on Romanticism - January, 1998,
Athens, GA
Scenes of Writing conference - July, 1998, Newtown,
Wales, UK
SSA conference - October, 1998, Toronto
SSA conference - October, 1998, Toronto
Semiotic Circle of California conference - January,
1999, Berkeley, CA
SSA conference - October, 1999, Pittsburgh
Exploring the Romantic-era Novel conference -
November, 1999, Groningen, The Netherlands
Semiotic Circle of California conference - January,
2000, Berkeley, CA
SSA conference - October, 2000, Purdue University
American Conference on Romanticism - October, 2000,
Park City, UT
SSA conference - October, 2001, University of Toronto
American Conference on Romanticism - November, 2001,
Miami University in Oxford, OH
Related Academic Conference Activity:
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Discussant for "'Crime': A Floating Signifier in
Sartre's The Flies" by Charles Minahen - M/MLA conference, 1987
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Secretary for English II - English Literature
1800-1900: The Teller and the Tale: Narrative Voice in Poetry and Prose
session - M/MLA conference, 1990
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Chair, Special Session on "Semiotic Approaches to
Literature" - M/MLA conference, 1990
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Discussant for "Stuffing the Verdant Goose: Art and the
Artist in Byron's Don Juan" by Carol Shiner Wilson - M/MLA conference, 1990
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Chair, Session on "Interrogating Exoticism" - The
University of Tulsa Comparative Literature Symposium, April, 1991
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Chair, Special Session on "Semiotic Approaches to
Literature" - SCMLA conference, 1991
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Chair, English II - English Literature 1800-1900:
Recovered Writers/Recovered Texts session - M/MLA conference, 1991
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Advisory Board, English II - English Literature
1800-1900 Session - M/MLA conference, 1992
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Discussant for "Cultural Constructions" panel - SSA
conference, October, 1993
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Chair, "Semiotic Mythscapes" panel - SSA conference,
October, 1993
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Chair, Literary Theory and Criticism session - SCMLA,
1993, Austin
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Chair, Special Session on "Narrating Authenticity" -
MLA conference, December, 1993, Toronto
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Chair, Special Session on "Textual Strategies in
Eighteenth-Century Literature" - SCSECS conference, February, 1994, Houston
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Chair, Session on "On Subjects and Objects" - SSA
conference, October, 1994, Philadelphia
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Chair, Nineteenth-Century British Literature session -
SCMLA conference, November, 1994, New Orleans
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Chair, Session on "Romanticism and the History of
Sexuality" - American Conference on Romanticism, October, 1996, Park City,
Utah
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Respondent, to lecture by Susan Griffin, "Private and
Public Lives: Connecting Parallel Universes," Conversations on Coherence
conference - April 3, 1997, UNT
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Lectures:
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"Literary Semiotics: An Attempt to Forestall 'Unlimited
Semiosis'?"
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Presented at the International Summer Institute of
Semiotic and Structural Studies - June, 1987 at Victoria University, Toronto
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"James Joyce: The Modernist as Pervert - The Perversion
of Modernism"
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Presented in the "Between The Covers" lecture series -
December, 1988 at SDSU
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"The Semiotic Dilemma of English Romantic Literature"
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Presented at the International Summer Institute of
Semiotic and Structural Studies - June, 1990 at Victoria University, Toronto
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"The Stigma of Romanticism"
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Presented at the University of West Florida, Pensacola
- April, 1994
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"The Lingua Franca of Semioticians"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," an 8-lecture
Distance Learning course on the World Wide Web sponsored by the Cyber Semiotic
Institute - October, 1996
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"Two Extensive Critiques of Semiotics"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - November, 1996
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"The Implications of Codes"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - January, 1997
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"The 'Problem' of Controlling the Decoder
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - March, 1997
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"The Limits of 'System' and the Authority of the
Encoder"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - May, 1997
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"Finite Infinite Semiosis"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - August, 1997
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"Semiotics Based on Radical Polysemy, Structuration,
and Play"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - January, 1998
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"A Semiotic Reading of James Thurber's 'The Catbird
Seat'"
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Published in "Critical Semiotics," Cyber Semiotic
Institute - April, 1998
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