Most of the papers here have not previously been published and were written in response to assignments in various classes. These papers should not be reproduced in any fashion except with the express written permission of the author. They are provided here as example papers for students and as representative of my writing.
Experiments in Genre: Fantasy and Mimesis in Stephen R. Donaldson
Master's thesis; University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; 1991
My short story "Driftwood," Spring 2020 in Fragmented Voices.
My creative non-fiction essay "Not from Around Here," Fall 2021, Being Home, Madville Publishing (originally published in The National Gallery of Writing, TYCA. 2009)
Published poems:
- "On Writing," 1993, in Bridging English. Milner and Milner, MacMillan Press, 1993.
- "Redeeming Time," Poem published in the 75th anniversary edition of Science News (1 Mar. 1997: S24).
- "Small Town Barber," 2010, Four and Twenty
- "Summer Peaches," 2010, Four and Twenty
- "Sestina for My Father," 2011, Compass Rose
- "The Tao te Doughnut," 2016, Switched-on Gutenberg
- "Indian Summer," TYCA-Southeast Journal 48.2(Fall 2015): 34.
- "Cenotaph," 2020, Necro Magazine
- "After the California Wildfire," 2020, Necro Magazine
- ""Icarus, My Son" and "Missing Heaven," April 2020, Verse-Virtual
- "Quarantine" and "COVID-19," 2020, Verse-Virtual, Pandemic Edition
- "On Preparing to Teach the Poems of Jericho Brown," June 2020, The Misfit Quill
- "The Year After My Father Dies," Fall 2020, Muddy River Poetry Review #23
- "Drowning," Issue 1, 2020, Last Leaves
- "Awakening," Issue 1, 2020, Last Leaves
- "Insomnia," Fall 2020, Written Tales (Vol. 2), (originally published in Phoenix, Chattanooga State Literary Journal, Vol. 9., 1994-5)
- "His Hour Come Round," Fall 2021, Poeming Pigeon: From Pandemic to Protest
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: Heinlein and Manners
Assignment for ENGL500: Methodology and Bibliography, Dr. Thomas Ware, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Fall 1986.
Anachronies and Their Effects: Nostromo and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Assignment for ENGL431: MODERN BRITISH NOVEL, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 7 Oct. 1987.
Power and Passivity: A Feminist Look at Nostromo and The Mayor of Casterbridge
Assignment for ENGL431: MODERN BRITISH NOVEL, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 7 Oct. 1987.
Narration and Focalization: The Quiet American, A Severed Head, and The French Lieutenant's Woman
Assignment for ENGL431: MODERN BRITISH NOVEL, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 7 Dec. 1987.
Fernando Pessoa's "The Tobacco Shop"
Assignment for ENGL433: Modern Poetry, Dr. Richard Jackson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 9 Nov. 1987.
Angel Gonzalez: Nostalgia and Inevitability
Final assignment for ENGL433: Modern Poetry, Dr. Richard Jackson, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 3 Dec. 1987.
Gender Oppositions: The Oedipus Complex in Women in Love and To the Lighthouse
Final assignment for ENGL431: MODERN BRITISH NOVEL, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 7 Dec. 1987.
The American Dream: The Individual and Society, The House of Mirth and The Great Gatsby
Assignment for ENGL 501R: Modern American Novel, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 9 Feb. 1988.
Romance vs. Novel: Narrative Effects, The Sun Also Rises and The Great Gatsby
Assignment for ENGL 501R: Modern American Novel, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 9 Feb. 1988.
First Person Interior Monologues: Narrative Distance and Chronology,
The Nation Thief and The Sound and the Fury
Assignment for ENGL 501R: Modern American Novel, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 24 April 1988.
Cognitive Estrangement: The Dispossessed and Invisible Man
Assignment for ENGL 501R: Modern American Novel, Dr. Craig Barrow, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 26 April 1988.
Counterpoint: Tone and Point of View in Mark Helprin's "North Light"
Assignment written for ENGL576: Fiction Writing, Ken Smith, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Spring 1988.
Oppositions in E.L. Doctorow's "The Hunter"
Assignment for ENGL571: Workshop: Writing, Jane Bradley, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Spring 1989.
Editorials for the Academic Exchange Quarterly: Beginning with the second issue, I served as copy editor for the AEQ through May of 2001, when the editorial duties became more than I could manage with my regular school duties. Since that time, the AEQ has gone on to become an established educational journal, and I am proud to have had a part in its inception.
- "Helping Students Get On Course." Academic Exchange Quarterly 5.2 (2001).
- "Tinted Glasses: The Defining Power of Assessment." Academic Exchange Quarterly 5.1 (2001): 37.
- "For God and Country." Academic Exchange Quarterly 4.4 (2000): 14.
- "Expanding Universe." Academic Exchange Quarterly 4.3 (2000): 20.
- "The Community College Challenge." Academic Exchange Quarterly 4.2 (2000): 129.
- "Growing Pains: The Evolution of a Journal." Academic Exchange Quarterly 3.4 (1999).
- "Tools of the Online Trade for the Economically Challenged Educator." Academic Exchange Quarterly 3.3 (1999): 4-5.
- "Heralding the Dawn of the Information Age." Academic Exchange Quarterly 3.2 (1999): 4-5.
- "On the Origins of Scientific Curiosity." Academic Exchange Quarterly 3.1 (1999): 4-5.
- "Education in the New Millennium." Academic Exchange Quarterly 2.4 (1998): 4-5.
- "Toward a Model of Education." Academic Exchange Quarterly 2.3 (1998): 4.
- "The True Teaching Tradition." Academic Exchange Quarterly. 2.2 (1998).