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Paul Lauter
Permanent Address:
500 East 77th Street H: 212-570-0997 (phone & fax)
New York, NY 10162, USA O: 860-297-2303 (fax: 297-5258)
e-mail: paul.lauter@trincoll.edu Mobile: 646-824-8538
Education:
Ph.D. Yale University, 1958 (Dissertation: "Emerson's Rhetoric")
M.A. Indiana University, School of Letters, 1955 (Literary Criticism; Thesis: "Walt Whitman,
Comrade and Lover")
B.A. New York University, 1953
Professional Positions:
1988-present Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College
(Hartford, CT 06106)
2004 Visiting Fulbright Professor, American Studies, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
2003 Adjunct Professor, American Studies, Columbia University
1971-1988 Professor of Humanities (American Studies), State University of New York/
College at Old Westbury
1985-86 Visiting Distinguished Professor, San Jose State University
1985 Visiting Professor, University of California/ SantaCruz
1982-1991 Director, Project on Reconstructing American Literature
1978 Visiting Professor, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin
1971-72 Executive Director, United States Servicemen's Fund
1969-71 Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1967-68 Associate Professor, Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education
1965-67 Peace Education Secretary, Chicago Region, American Friends Service
Committee
1966 Teacher, Upward Bound program, Roosevelt University
1964-65 Assistant Professor of English, Smith College
1963-64 Director of Peace Studies, American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia
1960-63 Assistant Professor of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
1959-60 Instructor in English, University of Massachusetts
1957-59 Instructor in English, Dartmouth College
Fellowships and Grants:
2004 Fulbright Senior Specialist award for teaching in Austria
2003 Fulbright award for teaching in Russia
2000-2006 Henry A. Luce and Ford Foundations, grants for project to create an American
literature anthology for students in Asia
2000 (spring) Trinity College Research Leave
1994-95 Trinity College Research Leave
1992 (spring) Trinity College Research Leave
1989 Trinity College Faculty Research Grant
1987-88 National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship
1986 N.E.H. Grant for Travel to Archives
1981-1986 Reconstructing American Literature Project; grants from Fund for the Improvement
of Post-Secondary Education; Lilly Endowment; Rockefeller Foundation
1979-80 National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship
1975 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend
1962-63 College Center of the Finger Lakes, grant-in-aid to research
1960 American Philosophical Society, grant-in-aid to research

1956-57 Junior Sterling Fellowship, Yale University
Other Honors:
Bode-Pearson Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Studies, American Studies
Association, 2006.
Jay Hubbell Award for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Study, American Literature
Section, Modern Language Association, 2001.
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Ethnic Studies, MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
United States), 1990.
Bibliography of Paul Lauter
I. BOOKS and MONOGRAPHS
A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Edited with Introduction. Oxford and Malden:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Culture, Activism, American Studies. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2001.
Literature, Class, and Culture: An Anthology, edited with an introduction (with Ann Fitzgerald). New
York: Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2001.
H.D. Thoreau. Walden and “Civil Disobedience,” with related texts, edited with an Introduction. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Instructor’s Manual to Literature, Class and Culture (with Ann Fitzgerald). New York: Addison, Wesley,
Longman, 2000.
Canons and Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 2 vols. General editor. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath,
1990; Second edition, 1994; Third edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998; Fourth edition, 2002;
Concise edition, 2004; Fifth edition, 5 vols. 2006; Sixth edition, Boston: Cengage, 2010.
Reconstructing American Literature: Courses, Syllabi, Issues. Edited with Introduction. Old Westbury:
The Feminist Press, 1983.
The Impact of Women's Studies on the Campus and the Disciplines (with F. Howe). Washington: National
Institute of Education, 1980.
Faculties and Title IX. Washington: Title IX Equity Workshops, 1978.
The Politics of Literature: An Anti-Text in Criticism (with Louis Kampf). New York: Pantheon, 1972; New
York: Vintage, 1973.
The Conspiracy of the Young (with F. Howe). New York: World, 1970.
Teaching About Peace Issues. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1965.
Theories of Comedy. Edited with Introduction. New York: Anchor, 1964.
e.e. cummings--Index to First Lines and Bibliography of Works By and About the Poet. Denver: Alan
Swallow, 1955; Folcroft: Folcroft Library Editions, 1974; Norwood: Norwood Editions, 1976;
Philadelphia: R. West, 1977.
In Process:
Book: “The Sixties Now” (on the social and political movements of the 1960s and 1970s and their impact
on American thought and culture).
Book: “Literary Losers” (on the fall and rise of literary reputations, including Lydia Sigourney, Alice Cary,
Jack London, Amy Lowell, and others)
General editor, Anthology of American literature for students and faculty in Asia (forthcoming, Cam-
bridge University Press, Hyderabad).
II. ARTICLES:
On Literature and Culture:
“Transcendental Politics,” A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Paul Lauter, ed. Oxford
and Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 237-249.
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“Teaching Lydia Sigourney.” Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, eds. Paula Bennett, Karen
Kilcup, and Philipp Schweighauser. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007, pp.
109-124.
“Teaching Protest Literature,” Radical Teacher #79 (2007): 8-12..
“Music in Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues’–A Teaching Strategy,” Heath Anthology Newsletter 31 (Fall 2006): 1-5.
“Searching for Lefty” (Review of Alan Wald, Exiles From a Future Time), American Literary History 17
(2005): 360-368.
"Under Construction: Working-Class Writing," New Working Class Studies, John Russo and Sherry
Linkon, eds. Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 2005, pp. 63-77.
“Introduction” (with Sandra Zagarell) to Literature section of The Encyclopedia of New England Culture,
Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
“Taking Anthologies Seriously,” MELUS, 29 #3-4 (Fall/ Winter 2004): 19-39.
“Teaching With Anthologies,” Pedagogy, 3 (Fall 2003): 329-339; (a differing version) Crossing Oceans:
Reconfiguring American Literary Studies in the Pacific Rim, Noelle Brada-Williams and Karen
Chow, eds. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004, pp. 53-65.
“Introduction” to Rob Kroes, “Americanization: What Are We Talking About?” American Literary
Studies: A Methodological Reader, Michael A. Elliott and Claudia Stokes, eds.. New York: NYU
Press, 2003, pp. 318-320.
“Aesthetics Again: The Pleasures and the Dangers,” Aesthetics and Difference: Cultural Diversity,
Literature and the Arts, ed. Emory Elliott. New York: Oxford, 2001.
“The Question of the Literary Canon,” Tip Cân ng ai Văn Hoá M; Contemporary Approaches to
American Culture, Nguyen Lien and Jonathan Auerbach, eds., H Nô: Nh Xuât Bn Văn Hóa
- Thông Tin, 2001, pp. 47-64.
"American Studies at the Borders: Identity and Discipline,” Negotiations of America's National Identity,
Roland Hagenbuechle and Josef Raab, eds., Tuebingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000, Vol. 2, pp.
387-404.
“The Heath Top 100,” Heath Anthology Newsletter, #19 (Spring 1999): 1-2.
“Tomorrow the World,” paper for 1996 American Literature Section, MLA, Heath Anthology Newsletter,
#18 (Fall 1998): 1-3.
"Amy Lowell and Cultural Borders." Speaking the Other Self: New Essays on American Literature, Jeanne
Campbell Reesman, ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997, pp.288-296.
“Behind the Scenes at the Canon Melodrama,” Heath Anthology Newsletter, #16 (Fall 1997): 1, 10-11.
"Culture and Conformity in Wartime America: My Junior High School Songbook." The Japanese Journal
of American Studies, #7 (1996): 49-66.
"Mr. Eliot Meet Miss Lowell and, ah, Mr. Brown." Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature, James
Slevin and Art Young, eds. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996, pp. 258-269.
"Little White Sheep, or, How I Learned to Dress Blue." Yale Journal of Criticism 8 (Fall, 1995): 103-129.
"Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies." American Quarterly 47 (June 1995): 185-203.
"About What Shall We Argue?" Heath Anthology Newsletter 13 (Spring, 1995): 1-3.
Review of two books by Nina Baym. Legacy 11 (1994): 183-185.
"Afterword: Classroom Issues in Teaching a New Canon." Instructor's Guide for the Heath Anthology of
American Literature, John Alberti, ed., Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1994, pp. 917-938.
"Afterword" to The Canon in the Classroom. John Alberti, ed. New York: Garland Press, 1994, pp.
311-325.
"The Heath Anthology and Cultural Boundaries." English Studies/ Culture Studies: Institutionalizing
Change, Isaiah Smithson and Nancy Ruff, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994, pp.
180-190.
"Melville Climbs the Canon." American Literature 66 (March 1994): 1-24; special issue on Melville.
"Reevaluating Anthologies." Heath Anthology Newsletter 11 (Spring, 1994): 1-2.
"On Revising The Heath Anthology of American Literature." American Literature 65 (June 1993): 327-330
(part of a Forum: "What do we need to teach?").
"Written in Black and White" (review of To Wake the Nations by Eric Sundquist). Boston Globe Books,
Feb. 21, 1993, pp. B42-43.
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"Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers." The (Other) American Traditions:
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, Joyce W. Warren, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1993, pp. 280-301.
"On the Implications of the Heath Anthology: Response to Ruland." American Literary History 4 (Summer,
1992): 329-333.
"The Making of the Heath Anthology." Editors' Notes 11 (Spring, 1992): 34-39.
"Multiculturalism and Political Narratives." Heath Anthology Newsletter 7 (Spring, 1992): 1-4.
"American Proletarianism." Columbia History of the American Novel, Emory Elliott, ed. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1991, pp. 331-356.
"The Literatures of America: A Comparative Discipline." Redefining American Literary History, A.
LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr., eds. New York: Modern Language Association,
1991, pp. 9-34. (Initially prepared as overview for Soviet-American conference on minority literatures
in the United States, University of Pennsylvania, 1985.)
"Notes on Teaching a Reconstructed American Literature." Heath Anthology Newsletter IV (Fall,1990):
1-6.
Review of The Modern American Novel, 1919-1945 by Linda Wagner-Martin. American Literature (Dec.
1990): 724-726.
"Canon Theory and Emergent Practice." Left Politics and the Literary Profession, Lennard J. Davis and
M. Bella Mirabella, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, pp. 127-146.
"The Two Criticisms: Structure, Lingo and Power in the Discourse of Academic Humanists." Literature,
Language, and Politics, Betty Jean Craige, ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988, pp.
1-19. (Originally delivered as keynote address to 1986 CEA convention.)
"Is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Good Enough to Teach?" Legacy 5 (Spring, 1988): 27-34.
"Class, Caste, and Canon," A Gift of Tongues. Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero, eds. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1987, pp. 57-82; reprinted in Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary
Theory and Criticism, Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press, 1991, 1997, pp. 227-248.
"History and the Canon." Social Text #12 (Fall, 1985): 94-101.
"Society and the Profession, 1958-1983." Publications of the Modern Language Association (Centennial
issue) 99 (May, 1984), 414-426.
"Reconstructing American Literature: A Strategy for Change." MELUS 11 (Spring, 1984): 33-43.
Reprinted, revised, in Towards a Balanced Curriculum, Bonnie Spanier, ed. Cambridge:
Schenkman, 1984, pp. 142-154.
"Introduction" (with Alice Kessler) to series of works by women writers of the 1930's. Old Westbury: The
Feminist Press, 1983-84, four volumes.
"Caste and Race in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties."
Feminist Studies 9 (Fall, 1983): 435-463. Reprinted in Feminist Criticism and Social Change,
Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt, eds. London and New York: Methuen, 1985, pp. 19-44;
reprinted in The Harlem Renaissance (Garland, 1997).
"Courses on Working-Class Culture--Four Syllabi." Radical Teacher #25 (November, 1983): 34-36.
"Working-Class Women's Literature--An Introduction to Study." Women in Print, I, J. Hartman and E.
Messer-Davidow, eds. New York: Modern Language Association, 1982. Reprinted in Politics
of Education: Essays from Radical Teacher. Albany: SUNY Press, 1990, pp. 110-139; reprinted
in Feminisms: An Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price
Herndl, eds. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991, pp. 837-856.
"A Small Survey of Introductory Courses in American Literature," Women's Studies Quarterly 9 (Winter,
1981): 12.
"Afterword" to Daughter of Earth by Agnes Smedley. Old Westbury: The Feminist Press, 1973.
"Plato's Stepchildren: Gatsby and Cohn." Modern Fiction Studies 60 (Winter, 1964): 338-346.
"Thoreau's Prophetic Testimony." The Massachusetts Review 4 (Autumn, 1962): 111-123. Reprinted in

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Thoreau in Our Season, John Hicks, ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1966.
"The Parodos of Oedipus tyrannus." Classical Journal 57 (April, 1962): 317.
"Emerson Through Tillich." Emerson Society Quarterly 31 (1962): 49-55.
"In the Hands of the Enemy" (on Pollini's Night). The New Republic 143 (Sept. 11, 1961): 15-16
"Poetry Demanding and Detached" (on books by Levertov, Snyder, Nemerov, and Merwin). The New
Leader 44 (May 15, 1961): 22-23.
"Emerson's Revisions of Essays (First Series)." American Literature 33 (May, 1961): 143-158.
"Beyond the Doric Mode" (on Emily Dickinson). The New Leader 43 (Dec. 12, 1960): 18-19.
"E.E. Cummings in Scholarland." The New Leader 43 (Oct. 3, 1960): 23-24.
"Candida and Pygmalion: Shaw's Subversion of Stereotypes." Shaw Review 3 (September, 1960): 14-19.
Reprinted in A Casebook on Candida, ed. S.S. Stanton. New York, 1962.
"A Stranger and Afraid." The Massachusetts Review 1 (Summer, 1960): 777-782.
"Truth and Nature: Emerson's Use of Two Complex Words." ELH: A Journal of English Literary History
27 (March, 1960): 66-85.
"New Light on Thoreau." The New Leader 42 (June 15, 1959): 16-17.
"The Hero of Nothing" (on Rochefort's Warrior's Rest). The Nation 189 (Oct. 10, 1959): 216-217.
"Walt Whitman: Lover and Comrade." The American Imago 16 (Winter, 1959): 407435. Reprinted in
The Literary Imagination, ed. H.M. Ruitenboek. Chicago, 1965.
"Belinda's Date." College English 20 (January, 1959): 164-166.
"The Lyric Verse of E.E. Cummings." The New Leader 41 (Dec. 8, 1958): 24-25.
"The Jewish Hero: Two Views." The New Republic 139 (Nov. 24, 1958): 18-19.
"The Nymphet's Tale" (on Nabokov's Lolita). The New Leader 41 (Sept. 8, 1958): 22-23.
"The Narrator of 'The Blessed Damozel.'" Modern Language Notes 73 (May, 1958): 344-348.
"Milton's 'Siloa's Brook.'" Notes and Queries, n.s. 5 (May, 1958): 204-205.
B. On Education:
"Contexts for Canons," Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition,
and Culture, X:1 (2009): 107-116.
“Is American Studies Anti-American?” (Anti-)Americanisms, Astrid Fellner, Klaus Rieser, Hanna Wallinger,
eds. Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2004, pp.18-31; another version: Over (T)here: Transatlantic Essays
in Honor of Rob Kroes, Kate Delaney and Ruud Janssens, eds. Amsterdam: VU University
Press, 2005, pp. 136-147.
“From Adelphi to Enron–and Back,” Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the
Managed University, Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascandola, eds. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2004, pp. 72-80.
“Content, Culture, Character,” Works and Days 21, # 41-42 (2003): 51-56.
“American Studies and Peace Studies,” American Studies and Peace, Dorothea Steiner and Thomas Hartl,
eds., Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001: 287-292.
"Reconfiguring Academic Disciplines: The Emergence of American Studies.” Through the Cultural
Looking Glass: American Studies in Transcultural Perspective, Hans Krabbendam and Jaap
Verheul, eds., European Contributions to American Studies XXXX, Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij,
1999: 229-243.
“Teaching History Through Immigration Stories,” Magazine of History 13, #2 (Winter, 1999): 10-13.
“Thinking About Thinking About the New Media,” Works and Days 16, #1 & 2 (1998): 411-416.
"Teach/ Discipline." English as a Discipline: Or, Is There a Plot in This Play? James C. Raymond, ed.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996, pp. 29-43, 182-186.
"Multiculturalism and Core Curricula" (with Ann Fitzgerald). Handbook of Research on Multicultural
Education, James Banks and Cherry A. Banks, eds. New York: Macmillan, 1995, pp. 729-759; revised
second edition (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004): 906-930.

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"A Call for (At Least a Little) American Studies Chauvinism." American Studies Association Newsletter,
18, #2 (June, 1995): 1-3.
"American Studies: Change and Strategy." American Studies Association Newsletter, 17, #3 (September,
1994): 1-2.
"Multiculturalism and the Canonical Tradition." Transformations 5 (Fall, 1994): 1-17; reprinted as
“Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Canonical Tradition,” with an Afterword, Transformations
11 (Fall 2000): 69-88.
"Introduction" to Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1964, issue (with Dan Perlstein). Radical Teacher 40 (Fall,
1991): 2-5.
"The Politics of Curriculum Transformation." Radical Teacher #37 (Fall, 1989): 2-3.
"Ideology, Prophecy, and the Book of Bloom." Ideology and the Academy: Art, Knowledge and the
Curriculum, W. Miller Brown, ed. Hartford: Trinity College, 1989, pp. 75-83.
"The 1988 Cultural Election." A Trinity College pamphlet, 1988.
"Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth." San Jose Studies 12 (Winter, 1986): 6-19.
"Reforming Higher Education." Thought and Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal 2 (1986): 5-22.
"Beyond Consciousness Raising: Changing Sexist Institutions." Face to Face: Fathers, Mothers, Masters,
Monsters, Margaret Murray, ed. Westport: Greenwood, 1983, pp. 181-190.
"A Scandalous Misuse of Faculty: 'Adjuncts.'" Universitas #2 (December, 1978). Reprinted in The
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 14, 1979, p. 72; in Reach, United Faculty of Florida, 1979;
in the Bulletin of the Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges, 1980.
"Education and Liberal Rhetoric." The Chronicle of Higher Education 12 (March 22, 1976): 13.
"Retrenchment--What the Managers Are Doing." Radical Teacher 1 (December, 1975): 27-35.
"Sidney Hook, General Education and the 'New Vocationalism.'" The Chronicle of Higher Education 7
(Feb. 19, 1974): 9-10.
"The New Professor." The New Professionals, R. Gross and P. Osterman, eds. New York, 1972, pp. 51-77.
"What Happened to the 'Free University'" (with F. Howe). Saturday Review 53 (June 20, 1970): 80-82,
93-94.
"How the School System is Rigged for Failure" (with F. Howe). New York Review of Books 14 (June 18,
1970): 14-21. Reprinted in The Capitalist System, Edwards, Reich, Weisskopf, eds. New York,
1971; and in Freedom, Society and Education, G.H. Male, ed. New York, 1972.
"Teacher Power--Agent of Change?" (with F. Howe). Changing Education 4 (Fall, 1969): 287-303.
"ACE: Defender of the Academic Faith" (with S. Bookshester). Antioch Review 29 (Fall, 1969): 287-303.
"The Imperial Scholar." College English 30 (March 1969), 504-507.
"The Short Happy Life of the Adams-Morgan Community School Project." Harvard Educational Review
38 (Spring, 1968) 235-262. Reprinted in Community and the Schools. Cambridge: Harvard Educational
Review, 1969, pp. 83-110.
"Urban Schools: The School Mess in Washington" (with F. Howe). New York Review of Books 10 (Feb. 1,
1968): 16-21. Reprinted in The Politics of Education, M. Gittell and A. Heves, eds. New York,
1969.
"Obscurantism on the Campus." The Reconstructionist 28 (Dec. 14, 1962): 23-26.
"The Gripes of Academe." The Nation 193 (Nov. 4, 1961): 356-357.
"Memo from a College Teacher." The New Leader 42 (Nov. 16, 1959): 22-23.
C. On Political and Social Issues
“Is There a Future to the Study of America?” American Studies/ Shifting Gears, eds..Christ, Kloeckner,
Schäfer-Wünsche. Butter, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2010, pp. 365-385.
"From Multiculturalism to Immigration Shock." Journal of Transnational American Studies 1:1 (2009),
http://repositories.cdlib.org/acgcc/jtas/vol1/iss1/art10; also in Miradas transatlánticas: Intercambios
culturales entre Estados Unidos y Europa; Transatlantic Vistas: Cultural Exchanges between

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the USA and Europe, ed. Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico, Carmen Méndez García, Jaime de Salas
Ortueta. Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 2011, pp. 85-102.
“Will Prostate Advice Kill Coverage,” Hartford Courant, August 13, 2008.
“Culture, Ethnicity, Immigration, Democracy?” Research and Scholarship in Integration Processes--Poland-USA-EU,
ed. Elzbieta H. Oleksy and Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lódź: Lódź
University Press, 2003), pp. 17-33.
“From Adelphi to Enron,” Academe 88 (November-December 2002): 28-32.
“Tomorrow the World,” The Journal of Graduate Liberal Arts,” 7 (Spring 2000): 105-116.
"The Race for Class," in Race And Racism in Theory And Practice, Beryl Lang, ed., Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 243-252.
“Unionizing Against Cutbacks,” Workplace 1:1 (February 1998), http://www.workplace-gsc.com/workplace1/workplace.html
“American Studies, American Politics, And the Reinvention of Class,” given at Dartmouth College
conference on The Futures of American Studies, August, 1997; reprinted in The Futures of American
Studies.
“The ‘Politics of Literature’--Then and Now,” Radical Teacher #53 (1998): 22-25.
"Of Chodors and Capital." Keynote address to Dartmouth conference, "Americas Abroad," May, 1996;
Annals of Scholarship 12, #3 & 4 (1998): 9-18.
"'Political Correctness' and the Attack on American Colleges." Higher Education Under Fire, Michael
Bérubé and Cary Nelson, eds. New York and London: Routledge, 1995, pp. 73-90; Radical
Teacher, #44 (1994): 34-40; another version in After Political Correctness, Christopher Newfield
and Ron Strickland, eds. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, pp. 212-225.
Cluster co-editor, "Working-Class Studies." Radical Teacher #46, spring, 1995.
"Strange Identities and Jewish Politics." Reconfiguring Jewish-American Identity: Literary and Cultural
Essays in an Autobiographical Mode, Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky, eds.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, pp. 37-46.
Cluster editor, "Overcoming Campus Racism." Radical Teacher #34 (December, 1987).
"The Women's Movement: Impact on the Campus and Curriculum" (with F. Howe). National Conference
Series, American Association for Higher Education, 1978.
"From Service to Solidarity--New Forms of Work" (with F. Howe) Liberation 15 (June, 1970): 24-36.
"The More Things Change . . ." The Saturday Review 52 (April 19, 1969): 71-72.
"Reflections on a Political Trial" (with N. Chomsky and F. Howe). New York Review of Books 11 (August
22, 1968): 23-30. Reprinted in Trials of the Resistance. New York: Vintage, 1970, pp. 74-105.
"Rising Opposition to the Draft" (with F. Howe). New York Review of Books 10 (June 20, 1968): 25-31.
"The Draft: Dodging the Issues" (with R. Flacks and F. Howe). New York Review of Books 5 (April 6,
1967): 3-5. Reprinted in The Triple Revolution, R. Perrucci and M. Pilisuk, eds. Boston: Little,
Brown, 1968, pp. 111-120.
"Draft Reform and Draft Resistance" (with R. Flacks and F. Howe). Liberation 11 (January, 1967): 34-39.
"The American Draft and Its Opponents." La democracie nouvelle (Spring, 1967), 116-120.
"Guide to Conscientious Objection." Chicago: SDS, 1966.
"Reflections of a Jewish Activist." Conservative Judaism 19 (Summer, 1965): 12-21.
"Kissinger and Cousins: No Guarantees Exist." The Massachusetts Review 2 (Winter, 1961): 362-368.
Other Selected Professional and Editorial Activities:
Teaching and Education:
Mississippi Freedom Schools, Summer 1964.
NDEA Institute for Inner-City Teachers, Goucher College, 1965.

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Project Director, Adams-Morgan Community School, 1967.
Consultant, Resource Center on Sex-Roles in Education, 1975-77.
Consultant, Faculty Development Program, Wellesley Center for Research on Women, 1982-90.
Task-Force on Curriculum Integration, National Women's Studies Association, 1982-83.
Resource Person, HERS/ Bryn Mawr summer institute, 1983-85, 1993.
Pennsylvania State University Institute on Multicultural Literature, June, 1993.
Institute on Diversifying the Curriculum, Washington Center for Undergraduate Education, August,
1993.
Salzburg Seminar: Literature of Ethnicity of the U.S., 1995.
USIA Winter Institute, University of Delaware, 1997, 1998.
Fulbright Summer School, faculty, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia, 2003.
Editorial Boards, Publishing
Co-founder, Treasurer, Board of Directors, Editor, The Feminist Press, 1971-1984.
Editorial Board, Radical Teacher magazine, 1975-present
Editorial Board, Signs, a Journal of Women in Society, 1975-80.
Advisory Board, National Association of Ethnic Studies, 1985-6, General Editorial Board, Explorations
Editorial Board, Voices of Resistance series, Monthly Review Press.
Editorial Board, Women Writers--Texts and Contexts. Rutgers University Press.
Editor of American literature texts, New Riverside Series, Houghton Mifflin.
Editorial Board, Pedagogy, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Explorations, 2007-present
Modern Language Association
Commission on Academic Freedom, 1969-71.
Delegate Assembly, 1971-72.
Evaluator, Teaching Women's Literature from a Regional Perspective, 1977-78.
Committee to Review Delegate Assembly, 1985-87.
Committee on Academic Freedom, Professional Rights and Responsibilities, 1988-91.
American Literature Section, Nominating Committee, 1990-1993; Section chair, 1999-2000.
Elections Committee, 1997-99.
Executive Committee, Association of Departments of English, 2006-2008.
Chair, ADE Subcommittee to examine Master's programs, 2008-11.
American Studies Association
Executive Council, 1992-93.
President-Elect, 1993-94; President, 1994-95; Immediate Past-President, 1995-96.
Chair, Committee on Electronic Programs and Publishing, 1995-97;
Member, Task Force on International Issues, 1996-98.
New York Metropolitan American Studies Association, Treasurer, 1996-2000.
Chair, International Committee, 2006-2009.
Union Activities
Delegate Assembly, United University Professions, AFT, 1973-84.
Representative Assembly, New York State United Teachers, 1973-84.
Delegate, National Convention, American Federation of Teachers, 1973-83.
Executive Board, United University Professions, 1976-82.

Chair, Affirmative Action Committee, United University Professions, 1977-80.
College and University Task Force, New York State United Teachers, 1978-80.
Vice-President for Academics, United University Professions, 1980-82.
Committee on Part-Time Concerns, United University Professions, 1980-82.
Director, New York State United Teachers, 1982-84.
Selection Committees
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship program, 1994, 1995, 2009.
Panelist, American Council of Learned Societies fellowship program, 1995, 1996, 1997.
Panelist, Ford Foundation Minority fellowship program, 1998.
Fulbright selection committee for Vietnam, 2001-03.
Fulbright Selection Committee for Senior Specialists Program, 2006-099.
Fulbright Selection consultant, Russia, 2006-2011.
Other Professional Activities
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Working Class Studies Association, organizing committee; chair, constitution committee,
2003-05.
Co-organizer, Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature, American Literature Association,
2002-present.
Advisory Board, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2005-2008.
Trinity College
Earlier committees: Women's Studies, American Studies, International Programs, Curriculum,
Faculty Development, Faculty Research, Women's Center Advisory Board, Ad Hoc
Committee on Gay and Lesbian Issues, General Education Council;
Acting Director, American Studies, 1993-94;
Recent: Chair, English Department, 2004-05, 2008-10; Director, American Studies Master's program,
1993-present; Educational Policy Committee, 2008-2010.
Consultant/ speaker, primarily on curriculum integration, American Studies and
American literature on many campuses and other sites, including:
California State Universities at Sacramento, Stanislaus, Fullerton, Chico, San Bernardino,
Hayward, Long Beach; University of California/ Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Riverside, Irvine; University of
Texas, Tulane University, California English Council, University of Vermont, Central Connecticut State
University, SUNY at Brockport, Connecticut College, University of Tulsa, University of Southern
California (2 x), University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University (2x), Assumption College, Yale
University, University of Washington, University of Delaware, New York University, East Carolina
University (2x), University of New Hampshire, Lehigh University, College of William and Mary, Rutgers/
Camden, Kennesaw State University, Binghamton University, Indiana University; Fairfield University,
University of Kansas;
Seoul National University and Taegu University, Korea; Diponegoro University, Semarang,
Central Java; University of Indonesia, Jakarta; University of the 14th of March, Solo; Gorki Institute for
World Literatures, Moscow; Tomsk State University and Tomsk Teachers' College, Tomsk, Siberia,
Russia; Lisbon Classical University and University of Coimbra, Portugal; University of Amsterdam;
Catholic University of Nijmegen; University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Odense University, Denmark;

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Hokkaido University, Sapporo; University of Okinawa; Ho Chi Minh Open University; Center for North
America Studies, HaNoi, Vietnam; Universite Ibnou Zohr, Agadir, Morocco; Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Alcalá University, Spain; Academia Sinica,
Taiwan; Taiwan National University; Sun Yat-Sen National University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Catholic
University in Lublin, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University; American Studies Center and Department of
English, University of Warsaw, Poland; Universität Innsbruck, Universität Salzburg,
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria; Hong Kong University; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Frankfurt;
University of Western Ontario; Beijing Normal University; University of Bonn; Osmania University,
Hyderabad; Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India; Johann Wolfgang
Goethe University, Frankfurt/ Main; John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin; Universidad de
Salamanca; Universidad de Sevilla.
various secondary schools in the Hartford and New York regions, in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina,
New Jersey, Georgia, and California.
Panelist/ speaker
Modern Language Association, 1969-1983, 1985-1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004-2008.
American Studies Association, U.S.A., 1990-2000, 2003, 2005, 2006.
American Studies Association of Korea, Cheju-do, 1993.
European Association for American Studies, Luxembourg, 1994; Warsaw, 1996; Lisbon, 1998; Graz,
2000; Bordeaux, 2002; Prague, 2004; Nicosia, 2006;
Russian Association for American Studies, Moscow; Siberian Association for American Studies, Tomsk,
1995.
Japanese Association for American Studies, Sendai, 1995.
25th Anniversary Meeting of TEFLIN, Yogjakarta, Indonesia, 1995;
Collegium for African-American Research, Tenerife, 1995; Liverpool, 1997; Münster, 1999; Cagliari,
2001; Winchester, 2003; Tours, 2005.
Brazilian Association for American Studies, 1996.
Northeast Modern Language Association, 1997, 2004.
Netherlands Association for American Studies, 1997, 2006.
New York Metropolitan American Studies Association, 1998, 2002.
New England American Studies Association, 1998.
American Literature Association, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009.
Working-Class Studies conference, Youngstown, 1999, 2001.
Austrian Association for American Studies, 2000, 2002.
Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2006, 2009.
German Association for American Studies, Jena, 2009.
Spanish Association for American Studies, Alcalá, 2011.