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Matthew C. Brennan
1013 Maple Ave.
Terre Haute, IN 47804-2936
(812) 234-9737--Home
(812) 237-3277--Office
matthew.brennan@indstate.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English, Univ. of Minnesota, June 1984.
M.A., English, Univ. of Minnesota, June 1980.
B.A., Grinnell College, May 1977. Honors in English.
TEACHING POSITIONS
Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1992-present, and Director
of Graduate Studies, Jan. 1994-May 1996, Aug. 1998-May 1999, Aug. 2007-.
Associate Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1988-1992.
Acting Associate Director of University Honors and Assistant Professor,
English, Feb. 1988-May 1988.
Assistant Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1985-1988.
Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Univ. of Minnesota, 1984-85.
Teaching Associate, English and Composition, Univ. of Minnesota, Sept.
1979-Dec. 1982.
Teaching Assistant, English, Univ. of Minnesota, 1978-79.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Light of Common Day (chapbook of poems). Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press
(forthcoming 2011).
The Poet’s Holy Craft: William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Traditions. Columbia:
U of South Carolina Press, 2010.
[Reviewed in Charleston Mercury, Choice, American Literature, Chronicles: A
Magazine of American Culture, Chronicle of Education (weekly book list), Reference
and Research Book News, Simms Review]
The House with the Mansard Roof (poems). Omaha: The Backwaters
Press, 2009. [Finalist, Best Books of Indiana; The Writer’s Almanac, 12/12/2009:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/12/12. [Reviewed in
www.throughthe3rdeye.com, Concho River Review, Southern Indiana Review]
The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan (A Version in Verse of the
Navigatio Sancti Brendani). Delhi, NY: Birch Brook Press, 2008. [Reviewed in The
Iconoclast, South Carolina Review]
American Scenes: Poems on WPA Artworks (chapbook). West Plains, MO:
Bliss-Station Publishing, 2001.

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The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in 19th-Century
English Literature. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997.
[Reviewed in London Times Literary Supplement, Choice, Year’s
Work in English Studies, Journal of Mind and Behavior, Science
Fiction Studies, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, San Francisco
Jung Institute Library Journal, Modern Language Review, Victorian
Studies, Gothic Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature]
The Music of Exile (poems). Bristol, IN: Cloverdale Books, 1994.
[Reviewed in Arts Indiana, Nov. 1995.]
Seeing in the Dark: Poems. Terre Haute, IN: Hawkhead Press, 1993.
[Reviewed in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994, Arts
Indiana, Sept. 1993]
Wordsworth, Turner, and Romantic Landscape: A Study of the
Traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime. Columbia, SC:
Camden House, 1987. [Reviewed in Choice, Wordsworth Circle, Nineteenth Century
Literature, Humanities Education Abstracts and Reviews, cited in Perkins' Introduction to
English Romantic Writers.]
Exhibition Catalog
Is Poetry a Visual Art? Catalog for Exhibit at Indiana State U. Co-editor.
Terre Haute, IN: Turman Gallery, 1993.
Edited Collection
“The World in William Gilmore Simms.” Special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination
42.1 (spring 2009). Contributed the introduction and selected and edited eight essays.
.
Articles, Essays, and Notes
“Simms, the Civil War, and the Poetry of Trauma.” The Transformation of War in the Writings of
William Gilmore Simms. Ed. David Moltke-Hansen. Columbia: U of South Carolina P,
2012 (forthcoming).
“Simms’s Gothic Revival in ‘The Idyll of the Dream: A Psychological Tale.’” Simms Review
18.1&2 (2010): 45-55. [received 5/11]
“Keats, Turner, and Claudian Landscape: Re-visioning Lorrain’s The Enchanted Castle.” The
CEA Critic 73.1 (2010): 64-73. [received 5/11]
“Introduction” to “The World in William Gilmore Simms.” Studies in the Literary
Imagination 42.1 (2009): v-ix.
“A Note on Simms and Neoclassicism.” Simms Review 17.1&2 (2009): 23-25.
“The Nature of Simms’s Southern Ecology.” South Carolina Review
39.2 (2007): 52-60.
“Simms, Hawthorne, and the ‘Inutile Pursuit’ of ‘The Artist of the
Beautiful.’” Simms Review 14.2 (2006): 14-21.

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“Simms and the Sonnet.” Mississippi Quarterly 59.1 (2005-6): 17-30.
“William Gilmore Simms.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets
and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray. Vol. 5. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
2006. 1474-1476.
“The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Frankenstein. Ed.
Harold Bloom. Major Literary Characters. Philadelphia: Chelsea
House, 2004. 117-27. Bloom’s Guides: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Ed. and Intro. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism
Infobase Pub., 2007. 114-20. Rpt. From Studies in the Humanities (1988).
“Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch
With Sons.” Baseball/Literature/Culture: Selected Essays, 2002-03.
Ed. Peter Carino. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. 39-48.
“Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural
World.’” Southern Quarterly 41.2 (2003): 37-47.
“Dana Gioia: The Poet as Public Intellectual.” South Carolina Review
35.2 (2003): 167-76.
“Writing as Readers: Communicating Through Poetry.” Indiana English
24.2 (2002): 12-15.
“Coleridge, Friedrich, and the ‘Hymn’ to Mountain Glory.” Lamar
Journal of the Humanities 26.2 (2001): 21-38.
“A Book of Ruth: Stone’s Topography and Other Poems.” Paintbrush 27
(2000/2001): 97-100.
"The 'Flow' of the Game: Andre Dubus's 'The Pitcher.'" NINE: A Journal
of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 8.2 (2000): 114-122.
Introduction to Strange Seas of Thought: Studies in Wordsworth's Philosophy of Man and
Nature by Newton Stallknecht, edited by Don Jennermann et al Lewiston, NY: Mellen,
2000. 1-6.
"Mary Shelley's Cautionary Narrative: Frankenstein as Therapy." Lamar Journal of the
Humanities 24.2 (1999): 5-11.
"Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.'" The Explicator 57.3 (1999): 140-143.
"Wordsworth's 'Lines Suggested by a Portrait From the Pencil of F. Stone': 'Visible Quest of
Immortality'?" ELN (English Language Notes) 35.2 (1997): 35-46.
“The Transparent Baseball: 'Making Contact' as Visionary Experience." NINE: A Journal of
Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 6.1 (1997): 93-100.
"The Novel as Nightmare: Decentering of the Self in Bram Stoker's Dracula." Journal of the
Fantastic in the Arts 7.4 (1996): 48-59.
"Michael Dennis Browne" and "David Wojahn." Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry.
Ed. Ian Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 73, 587.

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"Is Poetry a Visual Art? 20th Century Poetry." Is Poetry a Visual Art? Ed. C. McDaniel et al.
Catalog for exhibit at Indiana State U. Terre Haute, IN: Turman Gallery, 1993. 17-19.
"Point of View and Plotting in Chekhov's and Oates' 'Lady with the Pet
Dog.'" The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 3rd ed. Boston: St.
Martin's, 1993. 176-78; 4th ed. 1996, 184-86; 5th ed. 1999, 213-14, 9th, 2011, 250-53;
Compact 5th ed. 2000, 191-92. 6 th ed.2002, 214-15. 7 th ed. 2004, 240-242. Also Story
and Structure. Ed. Thomas Arp. 10 th ed. San Diego: Harcourt, 2002. 574-76. The Story
and Its Writer. Ed. Ann Charters. 7 th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2007. 1655-57.
Literature and Its Writers. Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. 4 th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. 661-63; 5 th ed., 2010, 664-666. Short Story Criticism, vol.
102, ed. Jelena Krstovic, Thomson-Gale, 2007. Rpt. from NMAL (1985).
"Repression, Knowledge, and Saving Souls: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Stoker's Dracula
and Murnau's Nosferatu." Studies in the Humanities 19.1 (1992): 1-10.
"Melville's Bartleby as an Archetypal Shadow." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 13.3 & 4
(1992): 318-21.
"Romantic Re-membering of the Self: David Wojahn and the Memory- Narrative." New Mexico
Humanities Review 35 (1991): 85-90.
"Turnerian Topography: The Paintings of Roderick Usher." Studies in Short Fiction 27.4 (1991):
605-08.
"Ted Kooser." American Poets Since World War II, Second Series, Vol. 105
of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. R.S. Gwynn. Columbia, SC:
Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 1991. 143-50.
"Wordsworth and 'Art's Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" Yearbook of
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 2 (1990): 487-99.
"Nabokov's Cubist Narrative: Picasso's Portraits and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." Lamar
Journal of the Humanities 16 (1990): 41-54.
"Poe's Gothic Sublimity: Prose Style, Painting, and Mental Boundaries in 'The Fall of the House
of Usher.'" Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 11.3&4 (1990): 353-60.
"Monstrous Research: Using Gothic Novels and Horror Films to Teach the Documented Essay."
Kansas English 76.1 (1990): 4-9. Rpt. in Bridging Learning Communities. Ed. Bennett
Rafoth and Lea Masiello. Pro. of the 12th Annual East Central Writing Centers Assoc.
Conference. 20-21 April 1990. Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State U., 1991. 79-85.
"Can Writing Be Taught?" Mississippi Review 19.1&2 (1990): 295-96.
"Keats's 'Cold Pastoral' of Art: The Desire for Ideal Escape and the Duty to See the Real."
Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 1 (1989): 85-103.
"Context and Form in Robert Bly." U. of South Florida Language Quarterly 26.3 (1988): 25-26.
"The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Studies in the Humanities 15.1 (1988):
33-44.
"The 'Ghastly Figure Moving at My Side': The Discharged Soldier as Wordsworth's Shadow."
Wordsworth Circle 19.1 (1987): 19-23.
"Shelley's 'Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills." The Explicator 45.2 (1987): 23-26.

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"The Wordsworth of Landscape: Constable, or Turner?" South Atlantic Quarterly 85.3 (1986):
252-60.
"The Iconography of Angels in Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting." Notes on
Contemporary Literature 16.1 (1986): 6. Co-author.
"Plotting Against Chekhov: Joyce Carol Oates and 'The Lady With the Dog.'" NMAL: Notes on
Modern American Literature 9.3 (1985): item 13.
"Wordsworth's 'A Night-Piece.'" The Explicator 42.4 (1984): 17-18.
"The Light of Wordsworth's Desire for Darkness in The Prelude." Romanticism Past & Present
7.2 (1983): 27-40.
"Yeats's Revisions of 'Leda and the Swan.'" Notes on Contemporary Literature 13.3 (1983): 5-7.
"Mark Strand's 'For Her.'" Notes on Contemporary Literature 13.1 (1983): 11-12.
"The Culmination of a Career: James Wright's This Journey." Mid-American Review 2.2 (1982):
173-78.
Poems
“The Plaza after Rain.” Blue Unicorn (forthcoming).
“April Sunset in Indiana.” Blue Unicorn (forthcoming).
“19 York Street.” South Carolina Review (forthcoming).
“The Sublime.” Monkscript 2 (forthcoming).
“The Lake Petworth, Sunrise.” Monkscript 2 (forthcoming).
“Dry Farming.” Poem 105 (May 2011): 53.
“January Sunset, Five P.M.” Tipton Poetry Journal 20 (2011): 4.
“Summer of Love.” Concho River Review 24.2 (2010): 92.
“At Sonka’s Irish Pub.” Blue Unicorn 34.1 (2010): 6.
“Oblivion.” Tipton Poetry Journal 18 (2010): 5.
"Reclamation." Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 2 (2010): 110.
"Madwoman in the Attic." Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 2 (2010): 108.
"The Broken World." Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 2 (2010): 109.
“Cruising.” South Carolina Review 42.2 (2010): 175.
“La Cuisine des Beaux Arts.” Blue Unicorn 33.1 (2009): 11.
“Remembering the River.” Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 1 (2009): 66.
“Biking in the Ozarks.” Elder Mountain: The Journal of Ozark Studies 1 (2009): 65.

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“Insomnia at 3 A.M.” Heartland Review 9.2 (2009): 53.
“First Kiss.” Westview 28.1 (2008): 9.
“The Past.” Westview 28.1 (2008): 16.
“The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan” [excerpt] Westview 28.1 (2008): 10-15.
“September 22, in Indiana.” Terre Haute Living Nov.-Dec. 2007: 45.
“Girl in Dressing Gown.” Westview 26.2 (2007): 21.
“Independence Day.” Southern Indiana Review 14.1 (2007): 14.
“Regarding the Old Poets, After the Reading.” Blue Unicorn 30.2 (2007): 12.
“Thaw, New Year’s Eve.” Heartland Review 7.2 (2007): 34.
“Canoeing with My Brothers, 1973.” Heartland Review 7.2 (2007): 35.
“On the Beara Peninsula.” Westview 25.2 (2006): 44.
“Night Piece in Cork at the Ambassador Hotel.” Westview 25.2 (2006): 45.
“Reprise.” Poet Lore 101.3&4 (2006): 43. Rpt. Blue Unicorn 30.3 (2007): 33.
“Downtown at Dusk.” Shared Spaces / Shared Voices. Arts Council of
Indianapolis, 2006.
“The House with the Mansard Roof.” South Dakota Review 44.1 (2006): 58.
“Fair Oaks Apartments Revisited.” Iambs & Trochees 5.1 (2006): 72.
“July in Indiana.” Iambs & Trochees 5.1 (2006): 73.
“Twilight, May.” Iambs & Trochees 5.1 (2006): 74.
“Watching the Sun Set from the Mount St. Francis Cemetery.” Blue
Unicorn 29.2 (2006): 18.
“After Delivering My Son to the Ex.” Concho River Review 19.2
(2005): 94.
“Noticing Snow in Early November.” Birmingham Poetry Review 31 (Fall
2005): 5.
“Summer of ’36.” Paterson Literary Review 34 (2005): 140-41.
“December Sunset in Terre Haute.” Lake Effect 9 (2005): 112.
“Fete Champetre.” Concho River Review 18.2 (2004): 73.
“Highway 40, Stilesville.” Heartland Review 5.1 (2004): 5.
“After the Sack of South Carolina.” The Sewanee Review 112.1 (2004):
56.

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“Henry James Shaves at 57.” Pivot 57 (2004): n.p.
“Merton in Love.” Pivot 57 (2004): n.p.
“Lake Petworth, Sunrise.” The MacGuffin 21.1&2 (spring 2004): 125.
“Adagio for Middle Age While Sitting Outside in Late October.” Light
44-45 (2004): 56.
“Before Taking Your Picture I Think Of.” Blue Unicorn 27.2 (2004): 20.
“Irish Channels.” Heartland Review 4.1 (2003): 55.
“The Washington Avenue Bridge, Minneapolis.” Poet Lore 98.3&4
(2003): 19.
“Eads Bridge, St. Louis, 1935.” South Dakota Review 41.1&2 (2003): 202.
Paintbrush 29 (2002-3): 24.
“The Gargoyle in Our Backyard.” South Dakota Review 41.1&2 (2003):
234.
“Clairvoyance.” The Sycamore Review 15 (winter/spring 2003): 119-20.
“Leaving San Francisco Early.” The Sycamore Review 15 (winter/spring
2003): 121.
“Memorial Field, 1973.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 14 (2003): 190.
“Winter Landscape.” Blue Unicorn 26.2 (2003): 28.
“Fall Classic.” Lyric 82.2 (2002): 82.
“Regret.” Poem 88 (2002): 62.
“Turning Point in the European Theater.” Poem 88 (2002): 61.
“Fall Plowing.” Notre Dame Review 13 (2002): 58.
“Illuminations.” Paterson Literary Review 31 (2002): 87.
“After My Father’s Funeral.” California Quarterly 27.4 (2001): 37-38.
“Mercouri’s Restaurant.” The Mid-America Poetry Review 2.3 (2001-02):
178.
“Looking for Lake Nyanza.” Heartland Review (Spring 2001): 38.
“Waiting for Green.” Green Hills Literary Lantern 12 (2001): 26-27.
“Summer Storm.” Firefly Magazine 29 (2001): 11.
“Tir na n’Og (Land of Youth).” Paintbrush 27 (2000/2001): 165-66.
“Last Days at Marick Drive.” Paintbrush 27 (2000/2001): 164.
“Farm Houses.” Poem 84 (2000): 13.

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“Drought: A Farm Wife’s Diary.” Poem 84 (2000): 12.
“Father Louis’ Nose-Job.” National Catholic Reporter Oct. 13, 2000: 17.
“The Morning After.” The Flying Island 8.2 (2000): 20.
"Sunday in the Lake District." The Heartland Review (Spr. 2000): 58.
"Communion: Pueblo." The Heartland Review (Spr. 2000): 4.
"Signs of Life," "Seeing in the Dark," "Pre-heating," "The Three-Bagger," "Prohibition," and
"Shiftwork, in February, at Terre Haute Coke and Carbon." Rpt. in Good Company:
Poets From Grinnell. Ed. James Kissane. Grinnell, IA: Grinnell College, 2000. 341-49.
"Thomas Hart Benton Rebuts the Museum Director." Number One 28
(2000): 6.
"Winter Sonata." Blue Unicorn 23.2 (2000): 12-13.
"Christmas Eve, 1996." Blue Unicorn 23.1 (1999): 20.
"The Sublime." The Merton Seasonal 24.2 (1999): 27.
"Bad Breaks." Southern Indiana Review 6 (1999): 19.
"Rufino Tamayo's Waiting Woman." Blue Unicorn 22.2 (1999): 24.
"Mickey Mantle's Nightmare." NINE 7.2 (1999): 128.
"Ty Cobb's Shadow." NINE 7.2 (1999): 129-30.
"Depression Dreams." Light 26 (Autumn 1999): 27.
"Joseph Stella's Smokestacks." Light 26 (Autumn 1999): 27.
"Prohibition." South Dakota Review 36.3 (1998): 17.
"Termites." Poetry Ireland Review 58 (1998): 45.
"Derby Day." Poetry Ireland Review 58 (1998): 91.
"Weekend Retreat in Brown County." Descant 37.2/38.1 (1998): 114.
"Signs of Life." Descant 37.2/38.1 (1998): 115-16.
"From Below." Flying Island 6.1 (1998): 7.
"The June Bug." Flying Island 6.1 (1998): 6.
"Guitar Strings." Frogpond 20.1 (1997): 21.
"The View Through My Mother's Living Room Window." Flying Island 5.1 (1997): 5.
"Ariadne's Thread." Classical Outlook 73.3 (1996): 90.
"Air." Poem 74 (1995): 12.

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"Preheating." Poem 74 (1995): 11.
"Heat Loss." Carleton Arts Review [1995]: 29.
"Epiphanies." Yalobusha Review 1.1 (1995): 18.
"Change of Season." Yalobusha Review 1.1 (1995): 17.
"On Deck." Elysian Fields Quarterly 14.1 (1995): 78.
"Capture the Flag." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 24-25 (1995): 17.
"A Divorcee's Revenge." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 24-25 (1995): 17.
"Nightshift in Central Florida." Grinnell Review 13 (1994): 56. Rpt. in Grinnell Magazine 26.4
(1994): 11.
"Extra Innings." Elysian Fields Quarterly 13.3 (1994): 12.
"Memorial Days." Poetry Ireland Review 38 (1993): 41-42.
"Sunset, Kensington Gardens, During the Drought." Flying Island 1.2 (1993): 4.
"The Vasectomy." CQ: California State Poetry Quarterly 20.2 (1993): 11.
"Driving Home for Christmas." Cloverdale Review of Criticism and Poetry (1992-93): 145.
"The Beauty of Illness." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 23 (1993): 117.
"Prelude to Dawn Light." Footwork: Paterson Literary Review 23 (1993): 117.
"Granary Days." CQ: California State Poetry Quarterly 20.1 (1993): 13.
"Looking for Signs." New Mexico Humanities Review 37 (1993): 110.
"Hunters in the Snow." In the West of Ireland. Ed. Martin Enright. Kerry, Ireland: Enright
House, 1992. 55.
"The Alcoholic Stepfather." Toad Highway 5 (1992): 1.
"Reading the News: May 6, 1991." Welter (1992): 62.
"Hope." Journal of Kentucky Studies 9 (1992): 39.
"Shiftwork, in February, at Terre Haute Coke and Carbon." Journal of Kentucky Studies (1992):
40.
"John Huston's The Dead." Cape Rock 27.1 (1992): 13.
"Forward." Louisville Review 30 (1991): 10.
"White." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 97.
"November Dusk." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 95
"Homesick." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 96.

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"A Ghost." Mildred 4.2/5.1 (1991): 95.
"Dirty." Tar River Poetry 30.2 (1991): 22.
"Easter Week, 1988." Welter 1 (1991): 27.
"Driving Home, Alone, on Highway 41, at Dusk." Tampa Bay Review 3.1 (1991): 27. Rpt. in
Arts Indiana Supplement 1991. Ed. A. Jester. Indianapolis: Arts Indiana, 1991. 18.
"White Mist." Tampa Bay Review 3.1 (1991): 23.
"Resurrection." New Mexico Humanities Review 34 (1991): 94.
"Clear Winter Nights." Context South 2.1 (1991): n.p.
"The Jogger." Toad Highway 4 (1991): 4.
"Skylights." Mildred 4.1 (1990): 109.
"Remains." Writing from the Center: Indiannual 5. Ed. Jim Powell. Indianapolis: Indianapolis
Writers Center, 1990. 6.
"Gravity of Love." Kansas Quarterly 21.3 (1989): 129.
"Autumn Landscape." Kansas Quarterly 21.3 (1989): 130.
"Spring Fever." Cape Rock 24.1 (1989): 44.
"Two Hawks." Parnassus Literary Review 13.2 (1989): 16.
"The Music of Exile." Passages North 10.1 (1989): 17.
"The White Seeds." Riley in Memoriam. Ed. J. Morgan. Bristol, IN:
1989. 21.
Wyndham Hall Press,
"When You Don't Come Home." Wind 19 (1989): 35.
"Lines Written From a Few Blocks From the Painesdale, Mich., Copper Mines." Contemporary
Education 60.3 (1989): 164.
"In the Midnight Darkness." Poet Lore 83.3 (1988): 38.
"A Late-Night, Long-Distance Connection." Indiannual IV. Ed. Jim Powell. Indianapolis:
Indianapolis Writers' Center, 1988. 16.
"The Last Goodbye." Mildred 2.2 (1988): 44.
"The Wolf." Mississippi Valley Review 16.2 (1987): 21.
"First Cold Night of Snow." Ball State University Forum 27.4 (1986): 45.
"Snowblind." Ball State University Forum 27.4 (1986): 26.
"Two March Mornings." Kentucky Poetry Review 22.2 (1986): 15.
"A Splinter and a Flame." Kentucky Poetry Review 22.2 (1986): 15.
"To My Son, Dan, on His First Reading to Us Before Bed." Indiana English

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10.2 (1986): 14.
"August Morning in Bloom's Bay." Wind 16 (1986): 26.
"Sunday Morning in January." New Mexico Humanities Review 8.2 (1985): 36.
"Absence of Light." Bellingham Review 8.2 (1985): 14.
"A Siren." Bellingham Review 8.2 (1985): 14.
"Jealousy." Cape Rock 20.2 (1985): 31. Rpt. in 1986-88 Anthology of Magazine Verse. Ed.
Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1988. 61.
"Winter Scene, Past Midnight." Cape Rock 20.2 (1985): 10.
"A Woman Fishing." Phoebe 14.3&4 (1985): 101.
"Nights Our House Comes to Life." Passages North 6.1 (1984-85): 10. Rpt. in 1985 Anthology
of Magazine Verse. Ed. Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1988. 44-45. Rpt. in
Passages North Anthology. Ed. Elinor Benedict. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1990.
294.
"St. Louis." Northern Lit Quarterly 86 (1984): 15.
"Fete Champetre: The Engagement." Northern Lit Quarterly 86 (1984): 15.
"In the Luxemburg Gardens at Twilight." Phoebe 14.1&2 (1984): 80.
"The Three-Bagger." Phoebe 14.1&2 (1984): 79.
"To the Lighthouse." Davidson Miscellany 19.2 (1984): 31.
"Waters Have Held Us." Webster Review 9.2 (1984): 34.
"Stone Mountain." Kansas Quarterly 16.1 (1984): 109.
"Moon Walk." Minneapolis Muse. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Poetry Society, 1983. 19-20.
"The Skaters." Cape Rock 19.1 (1983): 1. Rpt. in 1985 Anthology of Magazine Verse. Ed.
Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1985. 45.
"Waiting at a Truck Stop in Iowa at Midnight." Cape Rock 18.2 (1983): 25.
"Climax." Cape Rock 18.2 (1983): 24.
"Easter 1980: In My Grandfather's Backyard." Fall Out (1983): 10. Rpt. in Davidson Miscellany
19.1 (1983): 75.
"End of Autumn: Lake of the Isles." Sou'Wester 10.2 (1982-83): 40.
"Souvenir of St. Louis." Poet Lore 77.2 (1982): 97. Rpt. in Minneapolis Muse. Minneapolis:
Minneapolis Poetry Society, 1983. 20.
"Driving to Duluth." New Mexico Humanities Review 5.2 (1982): 37.
"The Adoration and the Nativity of My First Child." New Mexico Humanities Review 5.2
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"Jogging at Midnight." Mississippi Valley Review 11.1 (1981-82): 60.
"Anecdote for Fathers." Webster Review 6.1 (1981): 79.
"In Memory of My Grandfather." Webster Review 6.1 (1981): 78. Rpt. in 1984 Anthology of
Magazine Verse. Ed. Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1984. 53.
"Seeing in the Dark." Kansas Quarterly 12.3 (1980): 141. Rpt. in 1981 Anthology of Magazine
Verse. Ed. Alan F. Pater. Bevelry Hills, CA: Monitor, 1981. 47-48.
"Noon Glare." Poet Lore 74.2 (1979): 71. Rpt. in 1980 Anthology of Magazine Verse. Ed.
Alan F. Pater. Beverly Hills, CA: Monitor, 1980. 41.
"Dover in December." Mississippi Valley Review 8.2 (1979): 46-47.
"The First Anniversary." Wind 9 (1979): 5.
"To Grandfather: 18 February 1978." Lacuna 1 (1978): 22-23.
"In the Woods." North Country Anvil 28 (1978): 32.
"Baseball's Structure." Journal of Popular Culture 12.2 (1978): 375.
"Winter Light." Ululatus 1.1 (1978): 15-16.
Book Reviews
Review of Miriam Wallace, ed., Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment:
British Novels from 1750-1832. The Eighteenth-Century Novel (forthcoming).
Review of Backwoods Tales by W.G. Simms, introduction by Keen Butterworth. Southern
Quarterly 48.2 (2011): 125-128.
Review of Selected Poems of William Gilmore Simms, edited by James Everett Kibler.
South Carolina Review 43.2 (2011): 179-81.
Review of Jerry Bradley’s The Importance of Elsewhere. American Book Review Jan./Feb. 2010:
29.
Review of Randall Ivey’s The Shape of a Man: A Novella and Five Stories.
South Carolina Review 36.2 (2004): 178-79.
Review of Robert McPhillips’ The New Formalism: A Critical Introduction. Sewanee Review
111.3 (2003): lxx-lxxiv.
Review of Tom Noyes’s Behold Faith. South Carolina Review 36.1 (2003): 173-74.
Review of Rodney Torreson’s A Breathable Light. American Book Review Sept.-Oct. 2003: 22,
24.
Review of Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles’s Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems.
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 12.1 (2003): 162-64.
Review of Dana Gioia’s Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto. Sewanee Review 111.3 (2003): lxxxviiilc.

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Review of Peter Rutkoff’s Shadowball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago. NINE: A Journal of
Baseball History and Culture 10.2 (2002): 142-43.
Review of Dana Gioia’s Interrogations at Noon. American Book Review March/April 2002: 17.
Review of J. Robert Barth’s Coleridge and the Symbolic Imagination. America 15 Oct. 2001:
36-38.
Review of Ted Wright’s Aimless Life: Poems 1961-95. Poet Lore 96.2 (2001): 59-61.
Review of Tim Peeler's Touching All the Bases: Poems From Baseball. NINE: A Journal of
Baseball History and Culture 9.1&2 (2000-01): 123-24.
Review of John A. Lauricella's Home Games: Essays on Baseball Fiction. NINE: A Journal of
Baseball History and Culture 9.1&2 (2000-01): 107-8.
Review of Rodney Torreson's The Ripening of Pinstripes (poems). NINE: A Journal of Baseball
History and Social Policy Perspectives 7.1 (1998): 121-24.
Review of Christine Gallant's Tabooed Jung: Marginality as Power. Journal of Evolutionary
Psychology 19.1&2 (1998): 58-60.
Review of Ted Kooser's Weather Central. Paterson Literary Review 27 (1998): 393-94.
Review of Donald Hall's The Old Life. Poet Lore 92.3 (1997): 67-69
Review of Lenard Moore's Forever Home and Desert Storm: A Brief History. African American
Review 30.1 (1996): 145-47.
Review of Richard Flynn's The Age of Reason. The Chattahoochee Review 15.2 (1995): 107-9.
Review of Lenard Moore's Poetry Reading (videotape). African American Review 28.4 (1994):
681-82.
Review of Mark Strand's Dark Harbor. Poet Lore 89.2 (1994): 61-63.
Review of David Vancil's The Art School Baby. New Mexico Humanities Review 37 (1993): 159-
61.
Review of James Emanuel's Whole Grain: Collected Poems, 1958-89. African American Review
26.2 (1992): 358-60.
Review of Timothy Steele's Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter.
Verse 7.3 (1990): 74-76.
Review of Eugenia DeLamotte's Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of 19th-Century Gothic.
Journal of Mind and Behavior 11.2 (1990): 239-41.
Review of David Wojahn's Glassworks. New Mexico Humanities Review 32 (1989): 148-50.
Review of Peter O'Connor's Dreams and the Search for Meaning. Journal of Mind and Behavior
10.1 (1989): 123-25.
Review of Michael Cohen's Engaging English Art. Southern Humanities Review 23.3 (1989):
288-89.
Review of Spencer Hall and Jonathan Ramsey's Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth's Poetry.

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Indiana English 12.2 (1988): 29-30.
Review of Robert Bly's Selected Poems. New Mexico Humanities Review 10.2 (1987): 89-91.
Review of Barbara Unger's Inside the Wind. Wind Magazine 17 (1987): 113-14.
Review of Nancy Parsifal-Charles' The Dream: 4,000 Years of Theory and Practice. Journal of
Mind and Behavior 8.2 (1987): 357-58.
Review of James Twitchell's Dreadful Pleasures. Studies in the Humanities 14.1 (1987): 62-63.
Review of David Bengston's The Man From Coal Lake. New Mexico Humanities Review 9.1
(1986): 95.
Review of Liam Hudson's Night Life: The Interpretation of Dreams. Journal of Mind and
Behavior 7.4 (1986): 599-600.
Review of Galway Kinnell's The Past. New Mexico Humanities Review 9.2 (1986): 90-91.
Review of James Heffernan's The Re-Creation of Landscape. Georgia Review 39.3 (1985): 672-
73.
Review of Ernest Hartmann's The Nightmare. Journal of Mind and Behavior 6.3 (1985): 443-46.
Review of James Twitchell's Romantic Horizons. Romanticism Past & Present 8.2 (1984): 45-
49.
Review of Galway Kinnell's Selected Poems. Great River Review 5.2 (1984): 260-63.
Review of Annabel Thomas' The Phototropic Woman and Diane Benedict's Shiny Objects. Great
River Review 4.2 (1983): 266-70.
Review of Mark Strand's Selected Poems. Mid-American Review 1.2 (1981): 193-96.
17 other reviews (e.g., of Doctorow, Sontag, Strand, Wright, Tanenhaus and Tobin, Auchincloss,
Milosz, Sabato, Bromell, Simmons, Moss, Gibson, Smith, Spender) in Minneapolis
Tribune and Minnesota Daily, 1978-82.
PAPERS DELIVERED
“Simms and the Poetry of Trauma: Mourning and the Healing Powers of Memory.” Simms
Society Conference, Columbia, SC, U. of South Carolina, Sept. 24, 2010.
“Simms and Neoclassicism.” Simms Society Symposium, Athens, GA, Sept. 12, 2008.
“Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ and His Supernatural ‘Ideal’ of Psychic Collapse.”
Midwest British Studies Conference. Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Oct. 29, 2006.
“Simms, Hawthorne, and ‘The Inutile Pursuit’ of ‘The Artist of the
Beautiful.’” Geographies of Americanism: Simms and Forrest, A
Bicentiennial Conference, Historical Society of Philadelphia, April 2006.
“Simms and the Sonnet.” William Gilmore Simms Society Conference, Furman U., April 2004.
“Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch

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With Sons.” NINE Conference on Baseball History and Culture,
Tuscon, AZ, Martch 2004.
“Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch
With Sons.” ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and
Culture. Terre Haute, April 2003.
“Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.” Simms Biannual
Conference, U. of So. Carolina, April 2002.
"Coleridge, Friedrich, and the 'Hymn' to Mountain Glory." American Conference on
Romanticism, Indiana U., Nov. 1999.
"The Psychology of Success in Andre Dubus's Baseball Fiction." ISU Conference on Baseball in
Literature and Culture, Terre Haute, April 1999.
"The 'Flow' of the Game: Andre Dubus' 'The Pitcher.'" NINE Spring Training Conference,
Arizona State U., March 1998.
"Mary Shelley's Cautionary Narrative: Frankenstein as Therapy." American Conference on
Romanticism, Athens, GA, Jan. 1998.
"Wordsworth and Portraiture: 'Visible Quest of Immortality'?" American Conference on
Romanticism, Milwaukee, Sept. 1995.
"The Transparent Baseball: 'Making Contact' as Metaphor for Visionary Experience." Conference
on Baseball in Literature and Culture, Terre Haute, IN, April 1995.
"Dr. Jekyll's Gothic Psyche." ICEA, Muncie, IN, Oct. 1994.
"Victor Frankenstein's Gothic Psyche." Popular Culture Assoc., Louisville, March 1992.
"Repression, Knowledge, and Saving Souls: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Stoker's Dracula
and Murnau's Nosferatu." Popular Culture Assoc., Winchester, England, July 1991.
"Wordsworth and 'Art's Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" International
Interdisciplinary Conference on the Fine Arts of the 19th Century, Laurinburg, NC, Oct.
1990.
"Monstrous Research: Using Gothic Novels and Horror Films to Teach the Documented Essay."
East Central Writing Centers Assoc.Conference, Terre Haute, IN, April 1990.
"Nabokov's Cubist Narrative: Picasso's Portraits and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight." 20th-
Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 1990.
"Poe's Gothic Sublimity: Prose Style, Painting, and Mental Boundaries in 'The Fall of the House
of Usher.'" American Culture Assoc., St. Louis, April 1989.
"Using Art to Explain John Keats's Poems." Ind. College Engl. Assoc, Indianapolis, Oct.1987.
"Teaching Literature Through Art: Poe, Painting, and 'The Fall of the
Council of Teachers of English, Terre Haute, IN, Oct. 1986.
House of Usher.'" Indiana
"The Psychology of Landscape in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." Indiana College English Assoc.,
Terre Haute, IN, Oct. 1986.
"The Sublime in Romantic Poetry and Painting." Amer. Soc. for Aesthetics, Louisville, Oct.

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1985.
POETRY READINGS (featured)
Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, IN, April 15, 2010.
Vincennes U. and Knox County Public Library, Vincennes, IN, April 14, 2010.
Poetry on Brick Street, G. Simone’s Café, Zionsville, IN, Mar. 4, 2010.
Poetry reading, Honors Students Assn., ISU, Feb. 2010.
Woman’s Dept. Club, Terre Haute, IN, Jan. 2010.
Indiana College English Assoc., Huntington College, IN, Oct. 2009.
Landini Lecture Series, English Dept., ISU, Sept. 2009
Missouri State U. at West Plains, West Plains, MO, July 2009.
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Nov. 2008.
Southwestern Oklahoma State U., Weatherford, OK, March 2008.
Reading from Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan, Landini Lecture Series, ISU, Feb. 2008.
Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana St. U., Dec. 2007.
Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana St. U.,Feb. 2005.
Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, Nov. 2004.
Poets and Writers Literary Forum, Springfield, IL, March 2004.
Elizabethtown Community College, KY, April 2003.
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, April 2003.
Featured Reader at South High School poetry reading, Coffee Grounds, Terre Haute, May 2003.
Conference on Baseball in American Literature and Culture, ISU, March 2002.
Southwest Missouri State U.-West Plains, April 2002.
Indiana College English Assoc., Marian College, Indianapolis, Oct. 2001.
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, June 2000.
Bellarmine College, Thomas Merton Center, Louisville, KY, May 1999.
Always on Friday, Indiana State U., Nov. 1998.
Swope Art Museum, Crosstown ArtsFest, Terre Haute, April 1998.
Indiana College English Assoc., Hanover College, Oct. 1997.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, June 1997.
Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, Aug. 1996.
BookNation/Coffee Grounds, Terre Haute, June 1995.
Popular Culture Association Conference, Chicago, April 1994.
Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, April 1994.
BookNation/Coffee Grounds, Terre Haute, Feb. 1994.
Indianapolis Writers' Center, Terre Haute, June 1993.
Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Feb. 1993.
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Terre Haute, April 1992.
Ottawa University, Ottawa, KS, Nov. 1991.
Spalding University, Louisville, April 1991.
Dept. of Humanities, Indiana State U., Terre Haute, IN, April 1990.
Indiana College English Assoc., Indianapolis, Oct. 1989.
Upward Bound Program, Indiana State U., June 1989.
Friends of Cunningham Memorial Library, Indiana State U., April 1989.
Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Feb. 1986, Oct. 1988.
Dept. of English, U. of Minnesota, Nov. 1982.
Adult Study Group, Good Samaritan Church, Edina, MN, March 1980.
Third Century Poetry and Prose Series, U. of Minnesota, May 1979.
OTHER ACTIVITIES/PRESENTATIONS
External Tenure Review for Indiana U. East, Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2011.
B.A thesis committee for Jeffrey Everhart, Longwood U., Apr. 2011.
“Poe’s Gothic Psyche.” NEA Big Read Program, Cunningham Library, ISU,

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April 5, 2011.
Selection Committee for Fiction Submissions; intro. to “Terminal,” Spectrum, Arts Illiana, 2010.
Selection Committee for State Poet Laureate, Indiana Arts Commission, 2010-11.
Sunday Talk on Frankenstein, play by R.N. Sandberg, at Crossroads Repertory, Terre Haute, IN,
July 11, 2010.
External Tenure/Promotion Review for U. of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Hum. Div., Oct. 2009.
President, William Gilmore Simms Society, 2008-10.
Member, editorial board, Simms Review, 2008-2012.
Poetry workshop on revision, Craft of Poetry Class, Grinnell College, Nov. 2008.
Judge, Westview Literary Festival student contest, Southwestern Oklahoma State U., March 2008.
Poetry Workshop, Southwestern Oklahoma State U., March 2008.
Lecture, “The Picturesque in ‘Tintern Abbey.’” Southwestern Oklahoma State U., Mar. 2008.
“From Classic to Romantic in the Sister Arts.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Terre Haute,
IN, Sept. 12, 13, 19, 20, 2007.
Panelist, ISU Human Rights Day, session on Nothing But the Truth, April 18, 2007.
Panelist, “Reading The Great Gatsby: Romanticism in the Novel.” NEA Big Read Program.
Always on Friday, ISU, at the Clabber Girl Bake Shop, Mar. 23, 2007.
Judge, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology county-wide Poetry of Science
contest, Dec. 2005.
Introduction of Russell Banks, “Living in the Sweet hereafter.” First Year
Progams, Nov. 2005.
“Favorite Poem Project.” Dewey Institute for Lifelong Learning, Oct. 18 &
25, 2005.
“The Nature of Simms’s Southern Ecology.” Always on Friday, ISU, Oct. 21, 2005.
“The Voyage of St. Brendan: A Version in Verse.” Always on Friday, ISU, March 2005.
National Endowment for the Arts, literature panel for grants to journals and presses, July 2004.
Judge, Joy Bale Boone Poetry Contest, Heartland Review, April 2003.
Reviewed poetry writing text, Nine Forms, for Pearson/Longman, Dec. 2002.
Judge, Hines-Sandison Halls Poetry Slam, Sam’s Club, ISU, Nov. 2002 and Mar. 2003.
Judge, English Dept. Renaissance Festival poetry contest, April 2003.
“Dana Gioia: The Poet as Public Intellectual.” Always on Friday, Indiana State U., Oct. 2002.
“Keats’s Craftsmanship.” Mountain View, MO Poets Society, April 2002.
“Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.” Always on
Friday, ISU, February 2002.
Participant (invited) in critical seminar on Richard Wilbur, West Chester U. Poetry Conference,
West Chester, PA., June 2001.
Session Chair, Baseball Personal Narratives, ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and
Culture, March 2001.
Session Chair, Creative Writing, ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, April
2000 and March 2002.
Judge, Student Alumni Assoc. Outstanding Junior Award, 2001.
“Invisible Landscapes and Inner Light in Romantic Poetry and Painting.” Swope Art Museum,
Terre Haute, Feb. 2001 and Always on Friday, ISU, March 2001.
Reviewed article ms. For Papers in Language and Literature, Sept. 2000.
“Coleridge, Friedrich, and the “Hymn’ to Mountain Glory.” Always on Friday, ISU, Feb. 2000.
Judge, ISU Undergraduate/Graduate Research Showcase, April 2000.
Poetry Workshop for students from Eastern High School of Bloomfield, IN, at ISU, April 2000.
Reviewed book ms. for Susquehanna University Press, Nov. 1999.
Poetry Workshop, Terre Haute South High, Oct. 1999.
Reviewed text for Addison Wesley Longman: Anthology of British Literature, Compact Edition,
July 1999.
Attended NEH workshop, Washington, D.C., April 1998.
Poetry Workshop, Terre Haute South High, Nov. 19, 1997.
Poetry Workshops at Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute, Oct. 1, 1997.
"Victor Frankenstein's Cautionary Tale." Always on Friday Program, I S U., Feb. 1997.
"Keats, Art, and Desire for the Ideal." Always on Friday Program, I S U., Oct. 1995.
Judge, Indiana College Creative Writing Day Contest, St. Mary of the Woods, Feb. 1995.
"Dr. Jekyll's Gothic Psyche." Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Feb. 1995.

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"The Novel as Nightmare: Bram Stoker's Dracula." Always on Friday Program, ISU, Mar. 1994.
Judge, Vigo County Library Contest for Elementary and Middle School Students, April 1993.
Judge, Indianapolis Writers' Center College Poetry Read-off, Indianapolis, April 1993.
"The Role of Women in the Vampire Myth." Honors Students Assoc.,ISU., Sept. 1992.
"Sex, Fiction, and Videotape: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Two Versions of the Vampire
Myth." Always on Friday Program, ISU, Sept. 1992.
Lecture-discussion on Blake and Wordsworth, West Vigo Jr. High, West Terre Haute, IN, Nov.
1991.
Poetry Workshop, Ottawa U., Ottawa, KS, Nov. 1991.
Read poems by Lorca at "Day of the Language," Dept. of Foreign Languages, ISU, April 1991.
Poetry Workshop and Reading, Gibault School for Boys, Terre Haute, IN, April 1991.
"Wordsworth and 'Arts Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" Always on
Friday Program, ISU, Sept. 1990.
"Nabokov's Cubist Narrative: Picasso's Portraits and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight."
Always on Friday Program, Indiana State U., Sept. 1989.
"Romanticism and the Sister Arts: Wordsworth, Constable, and Turner." Arts and Sciences
Seminar, ISU., Feb. 1988.
Autumn Writes, Creative Writing Workshops in Poetry for High School Students, ISU, 1986-88.
"Mariane Moore and Ford Correspond: Have You Driven a Metaphor Lately?" Always on Friday
Program, ISU, Oct. 1987. Co-presenter.
"Poetry, Painting, and the 'Picture of the Mind.'" Always on Friday Program, ISU, March 1987.
EDITING
Acting Editor of Theses and Dissertations, School of Graduate Studies, ISU, spring 1986, fall
1992.
Contributor, A Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Modern Humanities Research
Assoc., 1986-87.
Senior Editor, Golle and Holmes Financial Learning, Minneapolis, Dec. 1982-Aug. 1984.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Finalist, Best Books of Indiana, poetry (House with the Mansard Roof), 2010. Indiana State
Library Center for the Book, Indianapolis.
William Gilmore Simms Visiting Research Professorship, South Caroliniana Library, U. of South
Carolina, summer 2007.
Inducted as distinguished honorary member of National Society of
Collegiate Scholars, Oct. 2005.
Included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 8 th ed., 2004, 9 th ed.,
2005. Nominated by students.
Anam Cara Artist's and Writer's Retreat, Eyeries, Beara Peninsula, Ireland, Oct. 2004.
Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research and Creativity Award, ISU, 2002.
Included in Directory of American Scholars (Gale, 2000).
Thomas Merton Center Poetry Prize for "The Sublime," first place, judge Wendell Berry, 1999.
Included in Contemporary Authors (Gale, 1998, vol. 165, 30-31) and
Contemporary Authors New Revisions (Gale, vol. 117).
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, resident fellow, Feb. 1998.
Arts Endowment Grant, Indiana State U., 2010, 2004, 2001, 1998, 1993.
University Research Grant, Indiana State U., 2007, 1996, 1991.
Included in Who's Who in America, 52nd ed., 1998, 60 th ed., 2005, 61 th ed., 2007.
Included in Who's Who in the World, 13th ed., 1996, 15th ed., 1998, 16th ed., 1999, 17th ed.,
2000.
Included in Who's Who in the Midwest, 24th ed., 1994, 25th ed., 1996, 26th ed., 1998-99,
Millenial ed., 2001.

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Included in Who's Who in American Education, 5th ed., 1995, 6 th ed., 2004, 7th ed., 2005, 8 th
ed. 2007-8.
Indiana Arts Commission Individual Artist Master Fellowship, 1994-95.
Included in Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, & Poets, 2002.
Included in The International Who's Who in Poetry, 7th ed., 1993, 8th
ed., 1997, 9th ed., 1999, 10 th ed., 2004.
Included in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21 st Century, 2003.
Morse Poetry Prize, Northeastern Univ. Press, semifinalist, 1992.
Brittingham Poetry Prize, U. of Wisconsin, semifinalist, 1991.
Included in The Directory of American Poets and Writers, 1991-present.
Indianapolis Writers' Center Poetry Chapbook Competition, honorable mention, 1991.
Loft-McKnight Foundation Writers' Awards, finalist in poetry, 1984.
Academy of American Poets, honorable mention, 1979, 1980, 1984.
Phi Kappa Phi, U. of Minnesota, 1981.
Phi Beta Kappa, Grinnell College, 1977.
Selden Whitcomb Poetry Prize, honorable mention, Grinnell College, 1977.
Mortar Board, Grinnell College, 1976.
Indiana State U.
COURSES TAUGHT
English 104: Freshman Writing I
English 105: Freshman Writing II
English 107: Writing and Rhetoric
English 108: Writing About Literature and Culture
English 130: Introduction to Literature
English 221: Introduction to Poetry Writing
English 219: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 231: Introduction to Short Fiction
English 235: Major World Authors
English 237: World Literature and Culture II
English 239: Literature and Life: Family Relations
English 239: Literature and Nature
English 250: Major English Authors
English 305: Advanced Expository Writing
English 325W: Poetry Writing
English 325T: Techniques of Poetry
English 4/524: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (Fiction)
English 4/524: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop (Poetry)
English 4/533, Humanities 4/580: Literature and Culture of the 19th Century
English 4/553: English Romantic Literature
English 4/563F: Seminar in English Literature since 1800: Landscape in
Romantic Poetry and Fiction
English 4/563G: Seminar in English Literature since 1800: The Gothic Novel
English 669I: Studies in English Literature since 1800: Wordsworth and Coleridge
English 669K: Studies in English Literature since 1800: John Keats
Honors 221: Literature and the Visual Arts
Honors 201K/301K: The Young Romantics
U. of Minnesota
Humanities 1-002: The Modern World II
English 1-009: Intro to the Study of Literature
English 1-018: Intro to Modern Fiction

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English 1-671: The Short Story
English 3-118: The Romantic Age
English 3-241: Shakespeare--Early and Middle Plays
English 3-243: Shakespeare--Later Plays
Composition 1-001: Introductory Composition
Composition 1-002: Introductory Composition
Composition 1-003: Writing Practice
Composition 1-008: Intro to Literature, Composition
Composition 1-027: Intermediate Composition
Composition 3-032: Professional Writing for Business
Cooperative Center for Study Abroad, London Program at King’s College
Romantic Landscape in Literature and Art (summer 2008)
MASTER’S COMMITTEES
English Dept.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Greg Mundth, 2011.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Michelle Reed
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Jeanette Youngblood-Robles, 2010.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Michael Miller, 2010.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Elaina Milner, 2010.
M.A. paper committee for Heather Goetz, 2009.
M.A. creative project, Chair, for Catherine Ippolito, 2009.
M.A. paper committee for Stephanie Alexander, 2008.
M.A. thesis committee for Jessica Schmidt, 2008.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Matt Burkett, 2008.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Tami Nicholson, 2008.
M.A. creative project committee for Steve Lively, 2007.
M.A. creative project committee for Amy Rightsell, 2007.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Gina Minar, 2006.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Sarah Strecker, 2006.
M.A. creative project committee, Chair, for Samantha Myers, 2006.
M.A. paper committee for Christina Forsyth, 2006.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Maryann Hon, 2006.
M.A. creative project committee for Justin Bauserman, 2006.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Darla Beasley, 2005.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Nelson Bogren, 2005.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Lance Farrell, 2005.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Rachel Fairbanks, 2004.
M.A. thesis committee for Carol Schnitzer, 2004.
M.A. paper committee for Kenny Coleman, 2004.
M.A. thesis committee for Uma Doraiswami, 2003.
. M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Legatha Hayes, 2002.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Roberta Feuquay, 2002.
M.A. thesis committee for Michael Marx, 2001.
M.A. thesis committee for Maggie Landess, 2001.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Trina Barrett, 2001.
M.A. paper committee for Il Sun Kang, 2001.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for John Sherman, 2000.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Don Marshall, 2000.
M.A. paper committee for Ann Cockerham, 2000.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Scott Stalcup, 1999.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Andra Pavuls, 1999.
M.A. paper commitee for Paula Borman, 1999.
M.A. orals committee, Chair, for Kathrina Lehleiter, 1998.

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M.A. paper committee for Robin Bradford, 1998.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Mark Peters, 1997.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Mary Stepp, 1997.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Christy Williams, 1997.
M.A. paper committee for Bob Van Est, 1997.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Ed Karshner, 1997.
M.A. thesis committee for Allen Glover, 1996. [defended, never finished]
M.A. thesis committee for Tracy Clark, 1996.
M.A. thesis committee for Mary Ann Chasko, 1996.
M.A. paper committee for Carey Spears, 1996.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Heather Foote, 1996.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Jennifer Condon, 1996.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Tom Tobin, 1995.
M.A. paper committee, for Suzanne Whitaker, 1995.
M.A. thesis committee for Scott Cockrum, 1995.
M.A. thesis committee for Kevin Canney, 1995.
M.A. thesis committee for Maria Wilcox, 1995.
M.A. paper committee for Katie McConnell, 1995.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Ken Pell, 1994.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Dave Malone, 1994.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Gail Hartel, 1994.
M.A. thesis committee for Michael Harrold, 1994.
M.A. orals committee for Lisa Rivedal, 1994.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Betty Wachtel, 1993.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for David Thompson, 1993.
M.A. paper committee, for Patricia Robillard, 1992.
M.A. thesis committee, for Scott Dineen, 1992.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for John Colvin, 1991.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Mary Ramey, 1991.
M.A. paper committee, Chair, for Pinki Chakrabarti, 1991.
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Tony Hofer, 1991.
M.A. orals committee, for Mari White, 1990.
M.A. orals committee for Charna Todd, 1989.
M.A. orals committee for Stephanie Hendricks, 1989.
M.A. thesis committee, for Dawn Leamon, 1988.
M.A. thesis committee, for Bob Flott, 1987.
M.A. orals committee, for Susan Latta, 1986.
Other Departments
M.A. thesis committee, Chair, for Maggie Wheeler, Dept. of Humanities, 1994.
M.A. thesis committee for David Wedaman, Dept. of Humanities, 1993.
M.F.A. defense for Paul Bauer, Art Dept., 1990.
M.F.A. defense for Laurence Campbell, Art Dept., 1989.
University
SERVICE
Graduate Council Committee on Fellowships and Assistantships, 1986-87, 2009-10.
Interviewer for Presidential Scholarships, Jan. 2009.
Ad Hoc Committee on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Grad. School, fall 2008.
Faculty Advisor, Chapter of National Society of Collegiate Scholars, 2003-04.
Promotions Committee, 1999, 2001.
Ad hoc committee on faculty salary compression, Dec. 2000-May 2001.
Arts Endowment Committee, 1989-91, 1998-2000, 2001-02, 2008-9; vice chair, 1999-2000.

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Student Affairs Committee, 2003-04.
Board, University Club, 1998-2002, 2007-08; secretary, 1999-2002.
University Speakers Series, Subcommittee for Robert Pinsky visit, introduced, fall 1999.
Faculty Senate, 1998-2000, 2000-02, 2003-05 (on leave fall ’04); 2007-09.
Coordinated the ISU Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture, 1997, assisted ‘99, ‘03.
University Research Committee, Aug. 1996-Dec. 1997.
General Education Task Force, Chair, Literary and Artistic Studies, 1996-97.
Theodore Dreiser Research and Creativity Award Selection Committee, 1995, 1997, 2009, 2011.
Judge, National Science Foundation Summer High School Program Poetry Contest, 1993.
Faculty Sponsor, Arion: Student Creative Writing Club, 1990-91.
Judge, American Education Week Writing Contest, University School, 1989.
Ad Hoc Committee of Faculty Senate on Creativity and Performance Grants, 1987-88.
College
Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005.
Program Review Committee for Communication and Theater, 1992.
Student Affairs Committee of Faculty Council, 1988-90, chair, 1989-90.
Program Review Committee for Art and Theater, 1989.
Dept. Representative, Faculty Council, 1987-88.
Ad Hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Study, 1986-87.
Department
Creative Writing Committee, 1985-present; chair, 1990-91, 1992-94,
2000-03, 2005-07.
Schick Lecture Committee, 2003-2009; Chair, 2003-4.
Pfennig Scholarship Committee, 2009-.
Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference, co-organizer, 1997, 1999, 2003.
Search Committees, Chair, 1999 (2), 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008; member, 1987, 2005.
Personnel Committee, 1992-94; 1995-97, 1998-2000, 2001-05, 2006-08, 2009-11;
chair, 1996-97, 1998-2000, spring 2002, 2006-07.
Graduate Committee, 1987-89, 1992-96, fall 1997, 1998-99, 2004-; chair,
1994-96, 1998-99, 2007-.
Smock Award Committee, 1994-95; chair, 1995.
Graduate Awards Committee, chair, fall 1995-97, member 2001.
Creative Writing Awards Committee, 1989-96, 1999-present; chair, 1993-95, 2000-03.
Ad Hoc Committee on student assessment, fall 1992.
Audio-Visual Committee, 1987, 1989-90, fall 1992.
Honors Committee, 1988-89.
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 1985-87, 1992, spr. 2005, 2006-07.
Planning Committee for Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, 1985-86.
Scholarships and Awards Committee, 1986-89, 1999-2003.
Graduate Faculty, 1985-present.
Mentor to teaching assistants, 1988, 1990-91, 1993-97, 1999-2001, 2001-2, 2002-3.
Advisor to graduate students, 1994-96, 1998-99, 2007-.
Advisor to undergraduate majors/minors in creative writing, 1986-93.
MEMBERSHIPS
Wordsworth-Coleridge Assoc., William Gilmore Simms Society.
MORE INFO
http://www.indstate.edu/english/content/profiles/matthew_brennan.asp?rM=0
Interviews: Westview 28.1 (2008): 4-8. By Kevin Collins.

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Indiana Libraries l 26.1 (2006): 4-5. By David Vancil.
https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/1526
Contemporary Authors, Gale Research
www.throughthe3rdeye.com, interview and article by Andrew DeHaan
http://www.throughthe3rdeye.com/
http://tribstar.com/entertainment/x1687703140/ISU-prof-to-read-from-book-at-poetry-event
Judges’ comments from Best Books of Indiana competition:
http://www.in.gov/library/4051.htm
June 2011