Publications:

BOOK:

The Satiric Art of Dr. John Arbuthnot, Doctoral Dissertation, accepted by Mouton Publishers, but not published because of discontinuation of series, 1972.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES: LITERATURE

"Macbeth: Sympathy for the Villain-Hero," Notre Dame English Journal, 2 No. 2 (1963), p. 33-39. (Regional journal; editorial panel review.)
"Gay to Swift on Political Satires," American Notes and Queries, III (1965) p. 87. (National; editor's review.)
"Legal Satire in Gulliver from John Bull," AN&Q, IV (1967), pp. 99-100. (National; editor's review.)
"Entente in Chaucer's Friar's Tale," Chaucer Review, II (1968), p. 165-71. (Refereed national journal.)
"Goldsmith's Vicar: Another Look," Modern Language Studies, Fall, 1973. (Refereed national journal; based on a refereed presentation at a regional MLA meeting.)
"Twain and 18th Century Satire: The Ingenu Narrator in Huckleberry Finn," Mark Twain Journal, Fa11 1983, pp.33-36. (Refereed national journal.)

OTHER SCHOLARLY PROJECTS:

"A Critical Edition of Arbuthnot's History of John Bull," project partially completed, preempted by the edition of the same work done by Professor Erickson, published by Cambridge University Press.
"An Annotated Bibliography of John Arbuthnot," project completed in 1973; some negotiations with journals for publication; not published.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:

"The Preparation of the College Teacher of English," Annual Meeting of the PA Council of Teachers of English, October, 1969. (Refereed by Council panel preparing agenda.)
"Goldsmith and Satire," Annual Meeting of Northeast Modern Language Association, April, 1970. (Refereed by 18th. C. section panel for meeting.)
Presentation on "Creighton's Freshman Seminar Program," February, 1976
"The Role of Departmental Chairpersons in Faculty Development," Pennsylvania Conference of Academic Deans, Wilkes College, November, 1990. (Invited by chair of conference.)

Areas Of Interest:

My doctoral dissertation was a study of the satires of Dr. John Arburthnot, a friend of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift and fellow member of the satirical Scriblerus Club.  I argued in the dissertation that the major satirists of the early eighteenth-century were public figures, and that this fact affected their rhetorical stance as satirists.  I also advanced some ideas about the influence of Arbuthnot on his famous colleagues, especially Swift.

A version of the dissertation was edited for publication as part of an “English Authors” series for Mouton Publishers.  I finished  the text for my editor, but was notified that the series was cancelled at the last minute.  I plan now to develop several articles from sections of the book.

I began an edition of Arbuthnot’s History of John Bull, but this was prempted by John Erickson’s excellent Yale dissertation, later published by Cambridge University Press.

Other shorter pieces I have written focus on satiric structures and techniques in the works of other eighteenth-century writers, principally Oliver Goldsmith.  I also advanced the idea that Goldsmith’s use of the “ingenu narrator” device in Citizen of the World influenced a satirical pattern in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn.   I plan to look at the use of the “ingenu narrator” in several other satires.

I am developing a course for the Business Leadership Program at the University of Scranton, which is based on the notion that literary figures provide good (and bad) models of leadership.  This combines my literary background with my experiences in educational leadership in three universities, and is a probable area for future research.