Faculty Teaching and Research

Listed below are members of the English faculty, their areas of specialization, and representative publications and postdoctoral awards.

LARS ENGLE, Associate Professor, Chair, A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Cambridge University; Ph.D., Yale University. Early Modern British Literature, South African Literature, Critical Theory. Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time (Chicago, 1993); coeditor, English Renaissance Drama, A Norton Anthology (New York, 2002). Articles in PMLA, Modern Philology, SEL, YJC, English Studies in Africa, Pretexts, Shakespeare Quarterly, Exemplaria, Shakespearean International Yearbook, 3pR. Essays or chapters in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Critical Essays, Thresholds of Western Culture, Shakespeare and Modernity, Blackwell Companion to the Sonnets, The Later Fiction of Nadine Gordimer, Reconsidering the Renaissance, Shakespearean Criticism. Advisory Boards: Pretexts, English Studies in Africa, Shakespeare. Trustee, Oklahoma Humanities Council; Trustee, Shakespeare Association of America; MLA Shakespeare Division Executive Committee; Kendall Fellow 1996; Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000; University of Tulsa Outstanding Teacher Award, 2001. Mellon Fellow, U. Va. Center for Advanced Study; Samuel Heyman Prize for Outstanding Work in Humanities.
HERMIONE DE ALMEIDA, Pauline Walter Professor of English and Comparative Literature. A.B., Vassar College; Ph.D., Columbia University. British and European Romanticism, 19^th Century Literature, Modern British Literature, History of Science and Medicine, Art and Visual Culture. Author, Byron and Joyce through Homer: "Don Juan" and "Ulysses" (Columbia, 1981);

Ed., Critical Essays on John Keats (G.K. Hall, 1990); Author, Romantic Medicine and John Keats (Oxford, 1991); Co-editor, Patricia Avis, Playing the Harlot: or, Mostly Coffee (Virago/Little, Brown, 1996); Guest editor, Romanticism and the Sciences of Life (Studies in Romanticism, 2004); Co-author, Indian Renissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India (Ashgate/Lund Humphries,2006); essays on Keats, Byron, Joyce, and the history of science. Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies; Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities; Fellow, National Humanities Center; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Publication Grant, Paul Mellon Foundation; Distinguished Scholar Award for Life-time Achievement, Keats-Shelley Association of America. Winner of the 2007 Book Prize of the Historians of British Art, of the College Art Association, for Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India.

GEORGE H. GILPIN, Professor and McFarlin Library Scholar-in-Residence. A.B., Princeton University; Ph.D., Rice University. Contemporary British Literature, British Romanticism and 19^th Century Literature, Art and Visual Culture. Author, The Strategy of Joy: An Essay on the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Salzburg, 1972); Ed., Critical Essays on William Wordsworth (G.K. Hall, 1990); Author, The Art of Contemporary English Culture (Macmillan, St. Martin's, 1991);
Co-editor, Patricia Avis, Playing the Harlot: or, Mostly Coffee (Virago/Little, Brown, 1996); Co-author, Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India (Ashgate/Lund Humphries, 2006); essays on British Romanticism (Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake) and 20^th Century poetry (Hardy, Auden,Larkin); Publication Grant, Paul Mellon Foundation. Winner of the 2007 Book Prize of the Historians of British Art, of the College Art Association, for Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India.

GRANT JENKINS, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, teaches 19^th and 20^th Century Literature from both sides of the Atlantic, but has begun to focus recently on African American Literature. Author of Poetics of Obligation: Tracing Ethics from the ‘Objectivists’ to Language Poetry (forthcoming from University of Iowa Press), he is currently working on a book-length study of experimental black poetry written after 1970. Essays in Callaloo, Writing Instructor, TSWL, Journal of American Studies, Sagetrieb, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, Analecta, Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Jewish Writers of the 20^th Century.
JOSEPH A. KESTNER, McFarlin Professor of English. B.A., University of New York (Albany); M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Columbia University. Nineteenth-century British Literature and Art, Classical Languages, Gender Studies, Film Studies. The Spatiality of the Novel (Wayne State, 1978); Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women (Wisconsin, 1985); Mythology and Misogyny: The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical-Subject Painting (Wisconsin, 1989); Masculinities in Victorian Painting (Scolar/Leicester, 1995); Sherlock's Men: Masculinity, Conan Doyle, and Cultural History (Scolar, 1997); The Edwardian Detective, 1901-1915 (Ashgate, 2000)Sherlock’s Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 (Ashgate, 2003); Advisory Boards: Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite and Aesthetic Studies; 1993 Oklahoma Professor of the Year; Fellow, Brown University Library.

HOLLY LAIRD, Professor and Executive Editor, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. A.B., Bryn Mawr College (summa cum laude); Ph.D., Princeton University. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British Literature, Women's Literature, Critical Theory. Self and Sequence: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence_ (Virginia, 1988; _Choice_ Award for Outstanding Academic Book), _Women Coauthors_ (Illinois, 2000). Articles on Fin de Siècle poetry, modern co authorship, editing scholarly journals, E.B. Browning's _Aurora Leigh_, Matthew Arnold, Michael Field, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and other topics in Victorian and modern literature and culture. Advisory Boards: Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society at Swansea University; Princeton University's Program in the Study of Women and Gender; _Journal of Modern Literature_; _The D. H. Lawrence Review_. Council of Editors of Learned Journals "Distinguished Editor" Award for 2007; University of Tulsa Outstanding Teacher Award for 2003; Summer Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities; Sesquicentennial Associate, University of Virginia; Whiting Fellow, Princeton University.

CLAUDIA BARBOSA NOGUEIRA, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Arizona State University; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park. Film Studies, Latin American Cinema, Road Movies, Comparative Literature, Literature of the Americas, Space/Place Constructions, National Constructions, Creative Writing, Short Fiction, Short Short Fiction. Short stories have appeared in Nimrod, Colorado Review, and Berkeley Fiction Review, and has been anthologized in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001). Scholarly work has appeared in symploke and The Southern Quarterly.

SEAN LATHAM, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Editor, James Joyce Quarterly; Director, Modernist Journals Project. B.A. Swarthmore College, A.M.,Ph.D., Brown University. Modernism, Joyce, Cultural Theory, Periodical Studies, Media Studies, Film. Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel (Cornell, 2003). Joyce’s Modernism (National Library of Ireland, 2005); Editor, James Joyce: Visions and Revisions (Irish Academic Press, forthcoming); Editor, Dubliners: Longman Cultural Edition (Longman, 2008); The Art of Scandal: The Open Secrets and Illicit Pleasures of the Modern Novel (in progress). Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities. President-Elect, Modernist Studies Association; Trustee, International James Joyce Foundation; MLA Task Force on the Evaluation of Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion. 2005 University of Tulsa Outstanding Teacher Award.

LAURA STEVENS, Associate Professor and Editor, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. B.A. Villanova University; Ph.D. University of Michigan. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Colonial American Literature, Early Modern Transatlantic Culture, Women's Studies. The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (Pennsylvania, 2004; paperback ed. 2006). Current research: a book on early modern interpretations of women in the Bible. Fellowships from the Huntington Library, American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, Oklahoma Humanities Council, and John Carter Brown Library. President, South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006-07.

GORDON O. TAYLOR , Chapman Professor of English; A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. American Literature and Cultural History (19th-20th-c./contemporary), autobiography in America, African American writers, Asian American writers, the Vietnam War and American Culture. The Passages of Thought: Psychological Representation in the American Novel, 1870-1900 (Oxford, 1969); Chapters of Experience: Studies in Modern American Autobiography (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1983, 1986); Guest-editor, The Vietnam War and Postmodern Memory (Genre , Winter 1988); recent articles on literary legacies of Japanese-American internment during WWII, Joan Didion. Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation; Fellow, Humanities Research Center, University of California, Berkeley; Charter Member, Kendall Society of Teaching Fellows, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Tulsa.

JAMES G. WATSON, Frances W. O'Hornett Professor of Literature. B.A., Bowdoin College; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. American Literature, Faulkner. The Snopes Dilemma: Faulkner's Trilogy (Miami, 1970); William Faulkner, Letters and Fictions (Texas, 1987); Ed. Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925 (Norton, 1992); William Faulkner, Self-Presentation and Performance, (Texas, 2000). 1982 Outstanding University Professor; 2002 A&S Excellence in Teaching Award; Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities; Fellow, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO, Henry Kendall Distinguished Professor of Languages and Literature. Hon. Ph.D., Queens College, CUNY. Russian Poetry, European Cinema. Zima-Junction (poems); Wild Berries (novel); Ed., 20th-Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel (poems); Collected Poems: 1952-1990 (poems); Stalin's Funeral (film); Don't Die Before Your Death (novel). Hon. Member, American Academy of Arts; Chubb Fellow, Yale University; Hon. Member, European Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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