January 4, 2008
Curriculum vitae
Gary Lee Stonum
Contact information
Office: Department of
English, 315 Guilford House, 11112 Bellflower Road, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7117
Telephone:
216-368-3342 (direct) or 216-368-2340 (secretary); Fax: 216-368-4357
Home
Page: http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/engl/faculty/stonum.html;
Electronic
mail: gary.stonum@.case.edu
Education
1976.
Postdoctoral study,
1973.
Ph.D. in English,
1971.
M.A. in English,
1969.
B.A. in literature,
1965-66.
California Institute of Technology
Academic employment
Chair,
English Department, Case Western Reserve University, 1982-1988, 1993-1996,
2000-2003
Oviatt Professor of
English, Case Western Reserve University, 1999- (assistant professor,
1973-1980; associate professor, 1980-90; professor 1990- ; awarded tenure,
1980)
Visiting
assistant professor of criticism and theory,
Academic honors,
awards, and offices
Senior Fellow, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, 2006-2007
Oviatt Professorship, 1999-
Honorable
Mention, John Diekhoff Award for Distinguished
Graduate Teaching, 1999
Editor, The Emily
Dickinson Journal, 1999-2005 ; Editorial Board. 1991-1999; Advisory Board,
2005-
Advisory
board, Dickinson Electronic Archives, 1996-
Advisory
board, Postmodern Culture, 1990-2005
Advisory
board, SCHOLAR, 1992-94
Board of directors,
Emily Dickinson International Society, 1987-2002; Ex officio member of the
board, 2002-2005, [Treasurer, 1995-99]
Executive
director, Society for Critical Exchange, 1989-1994
Founder
and moderator, Electronic College of Theory, 1990-96
Associate
editor, Interpersonal Communication and Technology, 1992-93
Advisory
board,
President, College
English Association of
Finalist,
Carl Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate
Teaching, 1985, 1996
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 1976
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Stipend, 1975
NDEA
Title IV Graduate Fellowship, 1971-73
Woodrow
Wilson Fellow, 1969
Phi
Beta Kappa, 1969
Work in progress
Monograph on the
appeal of impersonality to Anglo-American modernists. 2 of 4 chapters drafted.
“Impersonality,
Journalism, Advertising,” chapter of project above under submission as a
journal article.
“Dickinson: A Post-Modern Idiom?”, solicited contribution
to a festschrift for David Porter.
Publications
Books
The
Dickinson Sublime,
Reviewed in American Literary Scholarship,
1991, Victorian Review [1991: 55-57], Etudes Anglaises
[Spring 1992], American Studies International [October 1990], American
Literature (December 1990], Journal of English and Germanic Philology
[1991: 278-281] and elsewhere.
Faulkner's
Career: An Internal Literary History , Cornell UP, 1979, 207 pages.
Reviewed in American Literary Scholarship,
1979, American Literature [52: 483-485], Arizona Quarterly [37:
173-76], Mississippi Quarterly [1980: 413-415], Modern Fiction
Studies [26: 336-434], Criticism [21: 387-389] and elsewhere.
Longer-range evaluation in Sixteen Modern
American Authors, vol 2: A Survey of Research and
Criticism since 1972, 232-244 and "Faulkner in the Eighties:
Crosscurrents in Criticism," College Literature [16: 3-7].
Articles
and book chapters
1. [with Theodore O.
Mason, Jr.] "Themes, Topics and Criticism," American Literary
Scholarship: An Annual, 2003, Duke UP, 2005, 499-514.
2. [with Theodore O.
Mason, Jr.] "Themes, Topics and Criticism," American Literary
Scholarship: An Annual, 2002, Duke UP, 2004, 425-441
3. “’A Poet Without a
Project? A Poetry Without Scope or Structure?’,” Emily
Dickinson: Critical Assessments. volume IV. Ed. Graham
Clarke. Robertsbridge, E. Sussex: Helm
Information, 2003. [reprint of chapter 1 of The Dickinson Sublime].
4. [with Theodore O.
Mason, Jr.] "Themes, Topics and Criticism," American Literary
Scholarship: An Annual, 2001, Duke UP, 2003, 445-459.
5. [with Theodore O.
Mason, Jr.] "Themes, Topics and Criticism," American Literary
Scholarship: An Annual, 2000, Duke UP, 2002, 435-449.
6. "Themes, Topics
and Criticism," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1999,
Duke UP, 2001, 439-456.
7. "Dickinson's
Literary Background," The Emily Dickinson Handbook, Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbuchle, and
Cristanne Miller, eds. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1998, 44-60.
8. "Themes, Topics
and Criticism," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1995,
Duke UP, 1997, 429-442.
9. "Themes, Topics
and Criticism," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1994,
Duke UP, 1996, 393-406.
10. "Themes, Topics
and Criticism," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1993,
Duke Univ. Press, 1995, 341-354.
11. "A Schoolroom in
Cyberspace," Works and Days, 23/24 (1994), 232-244.
12. "Whitman and
Dickinson," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1992, Duke
Univ. Press, 1994, 65-77.
13. "Whitman and
Dickinson," American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1991, Duke
Univ. Press, 1993, 73-85.
14. "Modernism and
its Discontents: Faulkner Criticism Enters the Nineties," Mississippi
Quarterly, 44 (Summer 1991), 355-364.
15. "Cybernetic
Explanation as a Theory of Reading," New Literary History, 20
(Winter 1989), 397-410.
16. "The Sound and
the Fury: The Search for a Narrative Method," Modern Critical
Interpretations, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Harold Bloom,
ed., (New York: Chelsea House, 1988), 39-56. [reprint of chapter 3, Faulkner's
Career].
17. "Dickinson
Against the Sublime," Dayton Review, 19 (Winter 1987), 31-38.
18. "The Fate of
Design," Modern Critical Interpretations, William Faulkner's Absalom,
Absalom!, Harold Bloom, ed., (New York: Chelsea House, 1987), 35-56.
[reprint of chapter 5, Faulkner's Career].
19. "Emily
Dickinson's Calculated Sublime," The American Sublime, Mary Arensburg, ed., (Albany: SUNY Press, 1986).
20. "Surviving Figures,"
Hermeneutics: Questions and Prospects, Gary Shapiro and Alan Sica, eds., (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1984),
199-212.
21. "Faulkner's Last
Phase," Faulkner (New Perspectives), Richard Brodhead, ed.,
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1982), 195-207. [edited version of part
of chapter 6, Faulkner's Career].
22. "Undoing
American Literary History," Diacritics, 11 (Fall 1981), 2-12.
23. "For a
Cybernetics of Reading," Modern Language Notes, 92 (Winter 1977),
945-968.
24. "A Prophet of
Desire," Diacritics, 7 (Winter 1977), 2-11.
25. "Dilemma in As
I Lay Dying," Renascence, 28 (Winter 1976), 71-81.
26. "The
Hermeneutics of 'Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves,'" Gerard Manley Hopkins
Quarterly, 3 (October 1976), 117-129.
Reviews
and occasional writings
1.
Reports
on “Dickinson in Cultural Context” and Christopher Benfey’s
keynote address, Emily Dickinson Bulletin,
forthcoming
2.
reports
on “Language I” and “Plenary II” panels, Emily Dickinson Bulletin, 16
(Fall 2004), 7 and passim, 18-19
3.
“The
Politics of the Sublime,” [report on conference panel], Emily Dickinson
Bulletin, 13 (Fall 2001), 15.
4.
review
of Garry Leonard's Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce," International
Review of Modernism, 3 (Fall/Winter 1999), 26-28
5.
"Post-Structuralist
Criticism," "The 'Omitted Center,'" and "The Sublime,"
The Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, Jane Eberwein. ed.. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1998, 218-219, 235-237, 273-274.
6.
review
of Lee Rust Brown’s The Emerson Museum and Eduardo Cadavo’s
Emerson and the Climates of History, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 25
(Fall 1998), 123-128.
7.
"The
Immortal Alps in August." Emily Dickinson Bulletin, 7 (Fall 1995)
1-2.
8.
Book
reviews in the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
i. William Gass's Cartesian Sonata, and Other Stories,
September 27, 1998.
ii. Toni Morrison's Paradise,
January 11, 1998.
iii. Don DeLillo's Underworld, September 21, 1997.
iv. Oh My Friends, My
Land: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane, August 3, 1997.
v. Ralph Ellison's Flying
Home and Other Stories, December 8, 1996.
vi. comprehensive edition
of Huckleberry Finn, May 5, 1996.
vii. The Collected Essays
of Ralph Ellison,
February 4, 1996.
viii. Georges Perec's A Void, March 19, 1995.
ix. Harold Bloom's The
Western Canon, September 11, 1994.
x. David Leeming's James Baldwin: A Biography, February 20,
1994.
xi. Stanley Fish's There's
No Such Thing as Free Speech, November 21, 1993.
xii. William Shurr's New Poems of Emily Dickinson, September 5,
1993.
xiii. Allen Bloom's Love
and Friendship, June 27, 1993.
xiv. No Heroics Please:
Uncollected Writings of Raymond Carver, July 12, 1992.
xv. An Intimation of
Things Distant: The Collected Fiction of Nella
Larsen,
April 12, 1992.
xvi. Thinking of Home:
William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, February 16, 1992.
xvii. The Best of Bad
Faulkner
and The Best of Bad Hemingway, II, November 17, 1991.
xviii. William Vollmann's The Ice Shirt, November 5, 1990.
xix. Thomas Pynchon's Vineland,
January 21, 1990.
xx. Joseph McElroy's The
Letter Left to Me, November 3, 1988.
9.
review
of Suzanne Juhasz, Cristanne Miller, and Martha Nell Smith's Comic Power in
Emily Dickinson, American Literature, September 1995, 593-594.
10.
review
of Stephen Barker's Autoaesthetics:
Strategies of the Self after Nietzsche, Modern Fiction Studies, 39
(Summer 1993), 437-438.
11.
review
of Mutlu Konuk Blasing's American Poetry: The Rhetoric of its Forms,
Benjamin Lease's Emily Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred
Soundings, and Judy Jo Small's Positive As Sound: Emily Dickinson's Rhyme,
Emily Dickinson Journal 1 (1992), 95-100.
12.
review
of Robert Casillo's The Genealogy of Demons:
Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound, South Central
Review, 6 (Summer 1989), 112-113.
13.
"Looking
Back at Looking Backward," Cleveland Plain Dealer, February
1988.
14.
review
of Grahame Smith's The Novel and Society, Studies in the Novel,
27 (1985), 441-443.
15.
review
of John Carlos Rowe's The Custom-House of Desire, Henry James Review, 5
(Winter 1984), 152-154.
16.
review
of Susan Lanser's The Narrative Act, Sub-Stance,
36 (1982), 87-88.
17.
review
of Marthe Robert's Origins of the Novel and
Everett Knight's The Novel as Structure and Praxis, Studies in the Novel, 14
(Fall 1981), 136-137.
18.
review
of P.D. Juhl's Interpretation, Sub-Stance,
33/34 (1981), 136-137.
19.
review
of James Swearingen's Reflexivity in Tristram
Shandy, Georgia Review, 32 (Fall 1978),
675-678.
20.
review
of Anthony Wilden's System and Structure,
Modern Language Notes, 91 (October 1976), 1116-1120.
Conference
presentations and public lectures (excluding published texts)
1. “The ‘us” in
USA: Americans ponder national
identity,” invited lecture, Shandong University (Jinan, China), August 2007
2. Moderator, panel on
“Digital Publishing,” Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case, March 2007
3. “Emily
Dickinson: Bolts of Melody,” pre-concert talk to New World Symphony, via
Internet2 from Cleveland to Miami, January 2006.
4. "The Appeal of Impersonality," paper presented to seminar on The Author Business, Modernist Studies Assn. meeting, Chicago, November 2005
5. Panel chair,
“Language I” and “Plenary Session II,” Emily Dickinson International Society
meeting, Hilo, HI, 2004.
6. Panel chair,
“Exception or Rule? Dickinson's Relation to Her Time and Peers,” Modern
Language Association meeting, 2003.
7. ”“The Anti-Politics
of Awe,” Emily Dickinson International Society conference,: Trondheim (Norway)
University of Science and Technology, 2001.
8. “Two Cheers for
Modernism,” American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, 2001
9. Chair, Ph.D.-granting
departments roundtable, Association of Departments of English summer seminar,
Chicago, 2000
10. Moderator, closing
plenary session, "Emily Dickinson at Home," Mt. Holyoke College,
1999.
11. Chair, "Emily
Dickinson and the English," American Literature Assn. meeting, San Diego,
1996.
12. "Whither and
Whence," Emily Dickinson International Society conference, Univ. of
Innsbruck, 1995.
13. "Rhetoric and
the Future of English Studies," SCE study group, CWRU, 1993.
14. "Authors or
Users: Some Consequences of Electronic Writing," workshop on The Law of
Texts, Modern Language Assn. conference, 1992.
15. "Writing to
Learn: Electronic Roundtables," Lilly Foundation conference on
"Active Learning: Engaging Students in the Learning Process," CWRU,
1992.
16. Chair, panels on the
material transmission of the poems and on translating poem #712, Emily
Dickinson International Society conference, Washington, D. C., 1992.
17. Commentator, Society
for Critical Exchange symposium, "Problems of Affirmation in Cultural
Theory," CWRU, 1992.
18. Chair and
commentator, "Beyond Authorship," Society for Critical Exchange
conference, "Intellectual Property and the Construction of
Authorship," CWRU, 1991.
19. "Modernism and
the Forms of Authorship," Boston Univ., 1991.
20. Chair, "Theory
and Theory-Work in an Electronic Age," Midwest Modern Language Assn.
conference, Kansas City, 1990.
21. Moderator, closing
plenary session, Society for Critical Exchange conference on "Theory in
the Undergraduate Classroom: Curriculum Pedagogy Politics." Indiana Univ.
of Pennsylvania, 1990.
22. Chair, Emily
Dickinson panel, American Literature Assn., 1990.
23. "Of Critical
Exchange," College English Assn. of Ohio spring conference, 1990.
24. "Stanley Fish's Doing
What Comes Naturally," CWRU Critical Theory Colloquium, 1990.
25. "Ann Tyler and
John Barth, the Bookends of Baltimore," CWRU continuing education lecture
series.
26. "The Victorian
Origins of Emily Dickinson's Art," American Literature Assn., 1989.
27. Respondent,
"Legal Stories and Social Discourse," International Assn. for
Philosophy and Literature conference, 1989.
28. respondent to Walter
Benn Michaels's "The Souls of White Folks," College English Assn. of
Ohio spring conference, 1988.
29. "Smoldering in
Spring Hill: The MLA Examines Doctoral Programs in English," Modern
Language Assn. conference, 1987.
30. "Resistance to
Paul de Man," CWRU Critical Theory Colloquium, 1987.
31. "The Physics of
Modern Literature," CWRU Alumni College, 1987.
32. "The Discrete
Charm of Incoherence," Assn of Departments of English summer seminar,
1986.
33. Chair, panel on job
placement for English majors, Assn. of Departments of English summer seminar,
1985.
34. "Reading Emily
Dickinson out of the Canon and Vice Versa," CSU-CWRU Faculty Seminars,
1985.
35. "Emily
Dickinson's Scattered Focus," Rowlfant Club,
Cleveland, 1985.
36. "American
Studies and Contemporary Literary Theory," CWRU American Studies
Colloquium, 1983.
37. "Imagining
Power: The View from American Literature," Univ. of Toledo, 1983.
38. "Virginia Woolf
and Feminist Critical Theory," College English Assn of Ohio spring
conference, 1981.
39. "Reading and the
Associative Sign," International Assn. for Philosophy and Literature
conference, 1980.
40. "Melville's
Concept of Mastery, with Constant Reference to Hegel," International Assn
for Philosophy and Literature, 1978.
41. "Ghosts,
Doubles, and Quarks: Virtual Phenomena in Literature and Science," CWRU,
1977.
42. "Between Husserl
and Derrida: Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics," Univ.
of California, Irvine, 1977.
43. "'Subtle
Inter-relatedness' and the Novel: The Example of Wuthering Heights,
CWRU, 1974.
44. "Faulkner and
Supreme Fictions," Haverford College, 1973.
Other
scholarly activities
Co-director, Emily
Dickinson International Society conference,
Society for Critical
Exchange, Executive director, 1989-94; Editor, SCE News and Notices,
1990-94; Founder and Editor/Moderator, Electronic College of Theory, 1990-96.
Occasional consultant
for the following
Institutions: National Endowment for the Humanities, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars;
Presses: Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, Bedford Books, W.W. Norton, Longman's, University Press of Florida, Peter Lang, Univ. of Illinois Press, Univ. of Massachusetts Press (several), Univ. of Michigan Press, Cornell Univ. Press (several), Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Princeton Univ. Press (several), Louisiana State Univ. Press, Univ. of Alabama Press, UP of Mississippi (several), Univ. of Texas Press; University Press of Florida, Harvard University Press; Camden House
Journals: College English, The Faulkner Journal, Mosaic;
Schools or departments: Univ. of Kentucky, Towson State Univ., Cleveland State Univ., Univ. of Oregon, Wright State Univ., Univ. of Illinois, Syracuse Univ., Univ. of Pittsburgh,; Northeastern Univ., Utah State Univ,.
Program committee,
Emily Dickinson International Society conference, Univ. of Innsbruck, Austria,
1995.
Program chair.
College English Association of Ohio spring conference ("The Disciplines of
English"), 1989.
Director, symposium
on Hart Crane and the visual arts, CWRU, 1985
Co-founder and
director,
Editor, Pieces: A
Magazine of Short Fiction, 1978-80.
Teaching
Primary
teaching fields: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, modernism,
literary theory and criticism
Recent and upcoming
undergraduate courses: SAGES first seminar, narrative theory, survey of
American literature, senior seminar in modernism, critical theory, Toni
Morrison; antebellum American literature, Faulkner and Melville, introduction
to literature in English, major Victorians, American Renaissance, Emily
Dickinson, modern American novel, African-American novel, contemporary American
fiction, readings in the novel, survey of American literature, freshman
composition.
Recent and upcoming
graduate courses: Postwar postmodernism, the idea of American literature,
introduction to critical theory, William Faulkner, theory of the novel,
modernism, American romanticism, Emily Dickinson
Dissertation Students and Ph.D.
Dissertations
1. William Francis, The
novels of Vance Bourjaily: A critical study, 1975
2. Julia A. Harding, A
reputation study of the Pre-Raphaelites , 1979
3. Joanne Tilberry, The literary method of Virginia Woolf: A
phenomenological approach, 1982
4. Zita McShane,
Functions of the grotesque in 20th-century American fiction, 1983
5. Reiko Maekawa (American Studies), F.O. Matthiessen:
After American Renaissance, 1985
6. Jacquelyn McLendon, The myth of the mulatto psyche: A study of the
works of Jessie Fauset and Nella
Larsen, 1986
7. Sarah Brown, Amazing
grace: A study of the means and offer of grace in the short fiction of Flannery
O'Connor, 1987
8. Marilyn Mobley, Roots
and wings: the folk esthetic, mythic impulse and cultural function of narrative
in the fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison,
1987
9. Linda Meixner, Faulkner's Horace Benbow:
Dandy-esthete of Yoknapatawpha, 1992
10. Marge Geiger, Ralph
Ellison's Invisible Man: The sounds of identity. 1997
11. David Rutledge, Beyond
the book: Vladimir Nabokov's metaphysics and literary structures, 1997
12. Saad Asswailim,
Myth, ideology and silence in three novels by Vance Bourjaily,
1999
13. Yonjae Jung, "The
most inseparable of companions" : Lacan(-izing) Freud(-ianized) Poe,
2000
14. Brad Ricca,
American Zodiac: Astronomical Signs in Dickinson, Melville, and Poe, 2003.
15. Darcy Brandel, If I Had a Hammer: Reading
Experimental Writing in the Context of Progressive Social Change, 2006
16. Narcisz Fejes, Absorbing East-Central Europe:
Representations of the Region in Modern British Literature, 2006
17. Jennifer Wolkowski, Ideas of Community in
Three Depression-Era Southern Novels: Faulkner's The Hamlet, Dargan's Call
Home the Heart, and Still's River
of Earth, 2008
Current
students and topics
1.
Natalija Grgorinic (with Ognjen Raden): collaborative
authorship
Selected professional
activities
Adviser, Case Reserve
Review, 2004-
Learning Seminar,
University Center for the Improvement of Teaching and Education, spring 2004
President’s advisory
committee on tenure and promotion, 2003
Oversight committee
on technical writing course for engineering students, 2002-2003
Task force on general
education requirements, 2001
Committee restructuring
general education requirements for Arts and Sciences, 2000-2001
Judge, Martin Luther
King, Jr. essay context, 1998-2001
Designer and
Maintainer, CWRU English Department's web pages, 1996-98, 1999-2001, 2007
Designer and
Maintainer, Emily Dickinson International Society web pages, 1999-2006
Host for Association
of Department's of English Midwest summer seminar, 1996.
Consultant on review
of undergraduate programs for Towson State University English Department,
spring 1995.
English Department
honors examiner,
Principal coordinator
and author, two CWRU English Department self-studies, [1995, 56 pp. plus
appendices and 1986, 43 pp plus appendices]
Faculty coordinator,
Electronic Learning Environment grants from Cleveland and Codrington
Foundations, to develop and disseminate computer-mediated teaching methods in
the humanities, 1992-94.
University honorary
degree committee, 1992-93, 1999-2000
Ad hoc committee to
write by-laws for new College of Arts and Sciences, 1991.
Scholars' Workstation
Advisory Committee,
Chair, Nancy Dasher
Prize Committee, College English Assn. of Ohio, 1990.
Principal author of
the English section, proposal to Ohio Board of Regents to establish a certification
program for secondary-school teaching of English, 1988. (Approved 1989).
Director, English
Department computer laboratory, 1986-88, and Project Director, on grant from
Arthur Vining Davis Foundation for use of personal
computers in teaching writing, 1986-87.
CWRU Faculty senate:
Senator representing humanities and arts (1983-87, 1990-91);
Grievance panel (1983-85; 2000-2008);
By-laws committee (2002- 2003).
Chair, ad hoc committee on academic dishonesty (1990);
Executive committee (1985-87);
Personnel committee (1983-85);
Research committee (1979-82);
Director of the
English program, University Circle, Inc., summer scholar program for inner-city
high school students, 1988.
CWRU Freshman
advisor, 1974-76, 1985-86, 1989-90, 1996-98, 1999-2000, 2004-2008.
committees of the
College of Arts and Sciences [and its predecessors]:
Appointments (promotion and tenure), 1991-93, 1995-96, 2003-2006;
chair of the Appointments Committee,
2005-2006
Research, 1986-89;
Budget, 1987-88;
Educational policies,