Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor. Born– May 4, 1942, Buffalo, N.Y. Education– Boston College, A.B., 1967; Northwestern University, M.A., 1968; University of California in Los Angeles, Ph.D., 1974. Taught English at the University of California in San Diego, 1973-1974, and at the University of Alabama after 1974. Director of undergraduate studies in English. Essays published in several periodicals and anthologies.  Editor of The Iris Murdoch Newsletter, 1991-94.

Source:

Jacket to The Unknown Samuel Johnson; Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publications;

From Home and Abroad:  American and British Writers in Philadelphia, 1800-1910. Lanham, Md.:  University Press of America, 1995.

Joint_Editor:

Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1981.

The Unknown Samuel Johnson. Madison; University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.