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Research & Teaching Interests

• Nineteenth-century American literature
• Mark Twain

Education

• Ph.D., Indiana University, 1970
• M.A., Indiana University, l967
• B.A., Indiana University, 1964

Publications

Books

• Mark Twain & Company: Six Literary Relations. Univ. of Georgia Press, 2003
• Proper Mark Twain. Univ. of Georgia Press, 1999

Essays

• “Plundering the Old Southwest: Twain and Faulkner as Reivers.” Faulkner and Twain. Southwest Missouri State Univ. Press, forthcoming
• “Undoing and Redoing the Western.” Callaloo, special issue on Percival Everett, 28 (2005): 313-27
• “Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing.” A Companion to Mark Twain. Ed. Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd. Blackwell, 2005, 228-42
• “Biographers, 1899-1991,” “Mary Mason Fairbanks,” “Family Life,” and “The Genteel Tradition.” The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Ed. J. R. LeMaster and James D. Wilson. Garland, 1993, 82-86, 281-82, 282-84, and 314-15
• “Mark Twain in Midwestern Eyes.” Exploring the Midwestern Imagination. Ed. Marcia Noe. Whitson Publishing, 1993, 27-41
• “Sherwood Anderson’s Buck Fever; or, Frontier Humor Comes to Town.” Studies in American Humor, n.s. 3 (1984-85): 298-308
• “Mark Twain: A Man For All Regions.” Studies in American Fiction 13 (Autumn 1985): 239-46
• “A ‘Visioned End’: Edgar Lee Masters and William Stafford.” MidAmerica 11 (1984): 91-107; rpt. in Poetry Criticism, forthcoming
• “Mark Twain, Alice Walker, and The Aesthetics of Joy.” Proteus 1 (1984): 9-14
• “Beauty Breaking through the Husks of Life’: Sherwood Anderson and James Wright.” MidAmerica 10 (1983): 124-38
• “The Mysterious Stranger of William Dean Howells.” Ball State University Forum 24 (1983): 30-37
• “Hamlin Garland: Realist of Old Age.” MidAmerica 9 (1982): 23-37
• “Laughter in The Pioneers.” Studies in American Humor, n.s. 1 (1982): 79-89
• “Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor.” American Literature 54 (1982): 368-84. Rpt. in On Mark Twain: The Best from “American Literature.” Ed. Louis J. Budd and Edwin H. Cady. Duke Univ. Press, 1987. Rpt. in The Humor of the Old South. Ed. M. Thomas Inge and Edward J. Piacentino. The University Press of Kentucky, 2001
• “Boy Life on the Prairie: Portrait of the Artist as a Young American” The Markham Review 11 (1982): 25-29
• “Mark Twain Fights Sam Clemens’ Duel.” The Mississippi Quarterly 33 (1980): 141-53. Rpt. in Critical Essays on Mark Twain, 1910-1980. Ed. Louis J. Budd. G.K. Hall, 1983, 225-35
• “The Proper Pilot: A New Look at ‘Old Times on the Mississippi’.” Western Illinois Regional Studies, 2 (1979): 52-69
• “Mark Twain: At Home in the Gilded Age.” The Georgia Review 28 (1974): 105-14
• “Whitman and His Readers: The Comradeship Theme.” Walt Whitman Review 20 (1974): 147-51
• “Heroes and Heroics: Stephen Crane’s Moral Imperative.” South Dakota Review, 11 (1973): 86-93

Selected Honors & Awards

• Proper Mark Twain nominated for P.E.N. Award in non-fiction
• American Fulbright Research Scholar Award-Travel Grant, 1990
• University of Colorado Teaching Recognition Award, 1973

Current Projects

• Dreaming of Home: Studies in the Continuity of Midwestern Poetry (book)