A.B., University of Chicago 1966
A.M., University of Chicago 1967
Ph.D., S. U. of N.Y. at Buffalo 1974
On the PSU faculty since 1985

COURSES: American Fiction, The American Short Story, Contemporary American Short Story, Contemporary American Novel; Fiction Writing (undergraduate and graduate), Reading for Writers, Research for Writers.

FIELDS: American Literature 19th & 20th-centuries, Creative Writing: Fiction, Technique in Fiction.

SPECIAL INTERESTS/ AUTHORS: Emerson, Moby Dick, Jack Kerouac, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Anne Tyler.

BOOKS
Watchman Tell Us of the Night: a novel, (Viking, 1985)

IN PROGRESS
BigFootMoon: formerly the American Quarterly Review.

ARTICLES
“Emerson and Aphasia,” Language and Style, 14 (Summer, 1981)
“The Great Gatsby: Oral Aggression and Splitting,” American Imago, (Fall, 1978)

SHORT FICTION
“The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality,” reprinted in Extreme Fiction: Fabulists and Formalists,    ed. Hemley & Martone (Pearson-Longman, 2004)
“University Life,” Georgia Review, (Winter, 1997)
“Agents of Insurance,” Portland Review, 35 (1989)
“College Life,” reprinted in “College Life,” Georgia Review, 40 (Spring, 1986) & Necessary Fictions,    ed, Lindberg & Cory (Athens, Georgia: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1986)
“Olaf's Calling,” Georgia Review, 38 (Winter, 1984)
“The Portable Door,” New England Review, 2 (Spring, 1980)
“College Life,” Georgia Review, 32 (Summer, 1978)
“Among Among Among School Children,” Ohio Review, 18 (Spring, 1977)
“2”, reprinted in Experimentelle Amerikanishe Prosa (Stuttgart, 1977)
“The Wolf, the Goat, and the Cabbages,” Buffalo NY Spree, 10 (Spring, 1976)
“The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality,” Triquarterly, 29 (Winter, 1974)
“2”, Triquarterly, 26 (Winter, 1973)