KENNETH FLOREY English

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

"Huckleberry Finn and Nineteenth-Century Conventions of Black Dialect in Literature." In Mark Twain: Ritual Clown, edited by Mary Fitzgerald Hoyt, Albany, NY, Siena Research Institute, 1990: 74-86.

"Moss Hart." In The Encyclopedia of American Humorists, edited by Steven H. Gale, NY: Garland Press, 1987: 264-273.

BOOK CO-EDITED:

Co-Editor (one of many).  Freshman English at Syracuse.  Los Angeles:  Wadsworth  Publishing Company, 1967.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Black Writers and Black Dialect." Phylon, forthcoming.

"Grendel, Evil, Allegory, and Dramatic Development in 'Beowulf.'" Essays in Arts and Sciences 17 (May 1988): 83-95.

"Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin."  Explicator 45.1 (Fall 1986): 20-21.

"Community and Self in 'The Dream of the Rood.'" Connecticut Review 10 (Summer 1978): 23-30.

"Stability and Chaos as Theme in Anglo-Saxon Poetry." Connecticut Review 9 (Spring 1977): 83-89.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"Woman Suffrage in America:  Postcards From the Center and the Edge."  Suffrage City! Woman's Suffrage and Cultural Representation, University of Wolverhampton, England, November 11, 2000.  Also participant in plenary session.

"Reverse Passing in Langston Hughes’ "Who’s Passing for Who."   NEMLA, Buffalo, New York, April 7-8, 2000.  Also chair of a second  session at this same conference on Reverse Passing in literature.

"Black Dialect and Characterization in William Wells Brown’s Clotel."  CSU Faculty Research Conference, 1995.

"Black Writers and Black Dialect, CSU Faculty Research Conference, 1991.

Panel Chair,  "Women in Irish Literature." NEMLA, April 1, 1989.

"Black Writers and Black Dialect."  International Conference on the Outsider in Literature, West Georgia College, Atlanta, Georgia, October  28-33, 1988.

"Rhetoric, Heroism, and Community in Beowulf."  14th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association,  University of  Richmond, September 29-November 1, 1988.

 "Grendel, Evil, ‘Allegory," and Dramatic Development in Beowulf,"  International Conference on Evil in Literature and the Arts, West Georgia College, Atlanta, Georgia, November 6-8, 1986.

 "Self and Community in The Dream of the Rood," 21st International  Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute of Western  Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8-11, 1986.

 "Huckleberry Finn and Nineteenth-Century Conventions of Black  Dialect in Literature,"  Mark Twain and His America, A Symposium,  Siena College, December 12-13, 1985.
 

GRANTS:

Board of Trustees’ Research Grant, 1990.

Sabbatical Leave, 1989

Board of Trustees’ Research Grant, 1985.

NEH Grant to Study the Use of African-American Dialect in  Literature, Summer, 1979.

Yale Visiting Faculty Grant, 1976

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Stability, Chaos, and Dramatic Design in Beowulf

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

African-American Literature

Anglo-Saxon Literature

Woman Suffrage