Publications
Selected Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa
Distinguished Faculty Award, Salisbury University
Individual Artist Award in Fiction, Maryland State Arts Council
Alumni Appreciation Award, Salisbury University
Member: Editorial Board, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies
Phi Beta Kappa
Distinguished Faculty Award, Salisbury University
Individual Artist Award in Fiction, Maryland State Arts Council
Alumni Appreciation Award, Salisbury University
Member: Editorial Board, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies
Selected Publications
Books
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J. D. Salinger: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.
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?Melville's Muse: Literary Creation and the Forms of Philosophical Fiction. Kent, OH and London, England: Kent State UP, 1995. “Ahab and ‘the larger, darker, deeper part’” from Chapter Six. Rpt. in Moby Dick, or The Whale. Ed. Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker. New York: Norton, 2001. Excerpts from “Excursive Ponderings in Pierre” from Chapter Seven. Rpt. In Herman Melville: Major Novelist. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2003; Narrative Self-Fashioning and the Play of Possibility,” Chapter Two. Rpt. In Herman Melville: New Edition: Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2008.
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The Critical List: Stories. Raleigh, NC: Regal House Publishing 2020.
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Books-in-Progress:
American Proteus: Providence, Self-Fashioning and the Creation of Charles Brockden Brown.
Foul Balls (a novel)
Creative Non-Fiction
“Surviving Tele-Trocities.” The Baltimore Evening Sun. 14 July 1994: 17A
“Scars.” North Dakota Quarterly 69, 2 (Spring 2002): 121-30. Named a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2003. Ed. Robert Atwan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
“Retro-Spectacles.” North Dakota Quarterly 71. 3 (Summer 2004): 58-66.
“The Place That is Hell.” The South Carolina Review 39.1 (Fall 2006): 165-72.
“Tribal Bloods.” The Gettysburg Review 22, 4 (Winter 2009): 651-59.
“The Salinger Effect: How the Reclusive, Skilled Writer Won the World Over.” 29 January 2010. www.Forbes.com. Web.
“The Divine Inert.” 1 February 2010. www.Connotationpress.com. Web.
“Joanne Kathleen: the Anti-Proust.” North Dakota Quarterly 78.1 (Winter 2011): 90-101.
“Public Figures.” The Montreal Review August 2014. Web.
“The Brides of Christ.” Communion Literary Magazine. No. 6. December 2016. Web.
“Visual Euphemisms.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. March 2019. Web.
“Author Bio,” Regal House Publishing, November 2019. Web.
Scholarly Essays and Chapters
“Shakespeare and Melville: Two Moments of Truth.” Melville Society Extracts 36 (1978): 7.
“Charity: The Measure of Morality in ‘Wandering Rocks.’” Eire-Ireland 15.1 (1980): 100-13.
"Fictions and Fiction-Makers: The Moral Aesthetic of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler." Renascence 34.1 (1980): 17-33.
“Sergeant X, Esme, and the Meaning of Words.” Studies in Short Fiction 18.3 (1981): 251-59. Rpt. in J. D. Salinger. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 135-44.
“Melville’s Mardi: Philosophy and the Exhaustion of the Self.” Melville Society Extracts 45 (1980): 3.
“Gelett Burgess.” American Humorists, 1800-1950. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. Vol. 11 of
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 69-76.
“Melville's Typee: A Tale of Two Worlds.” Critical Essays on Melville’s Typee. Ed. Milton R. Stern. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982. 250-59.
“Melville's Masquerade and the Aesthetics of Self-Possession.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. 28.4 (1982): 233-42.
“No ‘I’ in Charlemont: A Cryptogrammic Name in The Confidence-Man.” Essays in Literature 9.2 (1980): 269-76.
“Melville's Mardi and the Isles of Man.” American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (Winter 1982): 24-41.
“‘Ontological Heroics’: Melville's Philosophical Art.” A Companion to Melville Studies. Ed. John Bryant. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 567-601.
“Sut Lovingood's Yarns and the Politics of Performance.” Studies in American Fiction 15.2 (1987): 199-210.
“Melville's Mardi: Narrative Self-Fashioning and the Play of Possibility.”Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31.3 (Fall 1989): 406-25.
“Melville.”American Literary Scholarship 1990: An Annual. Ed. Louis Owens Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1992. 55-71.
“Moby-Dick and the Impress of Melville's Learning.” Critical Essays on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Ed. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker. New York: G. K. Hall, 1992. 507-22.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1991 An Annual. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993. 55-71.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1992: An Annual. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994. 47-63.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1993: An Annual. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1995. 49-64.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1994: An Annual. Ed. David J. Nordloh.
Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1996. 49-62.
“Complicating Vere: Melville’s Practice of Revision in Billy Budd” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 1 (1999): 83-88.
“Herman Melville.” In Antebellum Writers of New York and the South, second series. Ed. Kent Ljundquist. Vol. 250 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 235-69.
“Melville’s Indirection: Billy Budd, The Genetic Text, and ‘the deadly space between'.” New Essays on Melville’s Billy Budd. Ed. Donald Yannella. New York: Cambridge UP. 2002. 114-44.
“J. D. Salinger.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark. Oxford, United Kingdom. 5 September 2005. www.litencyc.com.
“John Barth: The Story Must Go On.” The (Delmarva) Daily Times. 18 September 2005: E 1 and E 8.
“Melville’s Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms.” A Companion to Melville. Ed. Wyn Kelley. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 497-512.
“Foreword.” Herman Melville’s Two Billy Budds, by Stanton Garner. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. i-v.
“Towards Milton R. Stern (1928-2011).” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 14, 2 (2012): 69-72.
“The Many Masks of Melville’s God.” Critical Insights: Herman Melville. Ed. Eric Carl Link. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. 142-62.
“Problem Points of Passage: ‘Boggy Ground’ in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd.” Critical Insights: Melville’s Billy Budd.” Ed. Brian Yothers. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017. 75-92.
“Autobiography and Romance in Hawthorne’s ‘The Custom-House’: Literary Creation and the Second Story.” Critical Insights: The Scarlet Letter. Ed. Brian Yothers. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2018. 86-102.
"Meeting Melville in the Compositional Present: Some Foundations for Biographical Criticism.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 32, 4 (2019): 231-34.
“Imposture and Subversion: Charles Brockden Brown’s Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist.” Early American Literature, 55, 1 (2020): 85-110.
American Proteus: Providence, Self-Fashioning and the Creation of Charles Brockden Brown.
Foul Balls (a novel)
Creative Non-Fiction
“Surviving Tele-Trocities.” The Baltimore Evening Sun. 14 July 1994: 17A
“Scars.” North Dakota Quarterly 69, 2 (Spring 2002): 121-30. Named a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2003. Ed. Robert Atwan. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
“Retro-Spectacles.” North Dakota Quarterly 71. 3 (Summer 2004): 58-66.
“The Place That is Hell.” The South Carolina Review 39.1 (Fall 2006): 165-72.
“Tribal Bloods.” The Gettysburg Review 22, 4 (Winter 2009): 651-59.
“The Salinger Effect: How the Reclusive, Skilled Writer Won the World Over.” 29 January 2010. www.Forbes.com. Web.
“The Divine Inert.” 1 February 2010. www.Connotationpress.com. Web.
“Joanne Kathleen: the Anti-Proust.” North Dakota Quarterly 78.1 (Winter 2011): 90-101.
“Public Figures.” The Montreal Review August 2014. Web.
“The Brides of Christ.” Communion Literary Magazine. No. 6. December 2016. Web.
“Visual Euphemisms.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. March 2019. Web.
“Author Bio,” Regal House Publishing, November 2019. Web.
Scholarly Essays and Chapters
“Shakespeare and Melville: Two Moments of Truth.” Melville Society Extracts 36 (1978): 7.
“Charity: The Measure of Morality in ‘Wandering Rocks.’” Eire-Ireland 15.1 (1980): 100-13.
"Fictions and Fiction-Makers: The Moral Aesthetic of Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveler." Renascence 34.1 (1980): 17-33.
“Sergeant X, Esme, and the Meaning of Words.” Studies in Short Fiction 18.3 (1981): 251-59. Rpt. in J. D. Salinger. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 135-44.
“Melville’s Mardi: Philosophy and the Exhaustion of the Self.” Melville Society Extracts 45 (1980): 3.
“Gelett Burgess.” American Humorists, 1800-1950. Ed. Stanley Trachtenberg. Vol. 11 of
Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1982. 69-76.
“Melville's Typee: A Tale of Two Worlds.” Critical Essays on Melville’s Typee. Ed. Milton R. Stern. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982. 250-59.
“Melville's Masquerade and the Aesthetics of Self-Possession.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. 28.4 (1982): 233-42.
“No ‘I’ in Charlemont: A Cryptogrammic Name in The Confidence-Man.” Essays in Literature 9.2 (1980): 269-76.
“Melville's Mardi and the Isles of Man.” American Transcendental Quarterly 53 (Winter 1982): 24-41.
“‘Ontological Heroics’: Melville's Philosophical Art.” A Companion to Melville Studies. Ed. John Bryant. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 567-601.
“Sut Lovingood's Yarns and the Politics of Performance.” Studies in American Fiction 15.2 (1987): 199-210.
“Melville's Mardi: Narrative Self-Fashioning and the Play of Possibility.”Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31.3 (Fall 1989): 406-25.
“Melville.”American Literary Scholarship 1990: An Annual. Ed. Louis Owens Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1992. 55-71.
“Moby-Dick and the Impress of Melville's Learning.” Critical Essays on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Ed. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker. New York: G. K. Hall, 1992. 507-22.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1991 An Annual. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993. 55-71.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1992: An Annual. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1994. 47-63.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1993: An Annual. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1995. 49-64.
“Melville.” American Literary Scholarship 1994: An Annual. Ed. David J. Nordloh.
Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1996. 49-62.
“Complicating Vere: Melville’s Practice of Revision in Billy Budd” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 1 (1999): 83-88.
“Herman Melville.” In Antebellum Writers of New York and the South, second series. Ed. Kent Ljundquist. Vol. 250 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 235-69.
“Melville’s Indirection: Billy Budd, The Genetic Text, and ‘the deadly space between'.” New Essays on Melville’s Billy Budd. Ed. Donald Yannella. New York: Cambridge UP. 2002. 114-44.
“J. D. Salinger.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Clark. Oxford, United Kingdom. 5 September 2005. www.litencyc.com.
“John Barth: The Story Must Go On.” The (Delmarva) Daily Times. 18 September 2005: E 1 and E 8.
“Melville’s Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms.” A Companion to Melville. Ed. Wyn Kelley. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. 497-512.
“Foreword.” Herman Melville’s Two Billy Budds, by Stanton Garner. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. i-v.
“Towards Milton R. Stern (1928-2011).” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 14, 2 (2012): 69-72.
“The Many Masks of Melville’s God.” Critical Insights: Herman Melville. Ed. Eric Carl Link. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. 142-62.
“Problem Points of Passage: ‘Boggy Ground’ in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd.” Critical Insights: Melville’s Billy Budd.” Ed. Brian Yothers. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017. 75-92.
“Autobiography and Romance in Hawthorne’s ‘The Custom-House’: Literary Creation and the Second Story.” Critical Insights: The Scarlet Letter. Ed. Brian Yothers. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2018. 86-102.
"Meeting Melville in the Compositional Present: Some Foundations for Biographical Criticism.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 32, 4 (2019): 231-34.
“Imposture and Subversion: Charles Brockden Brown’s Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist.” Early American Literature, 55, 1 (2020): 85-110.