PAUL R. PETRIE   English

BOOKS:

"Conscience and Purpose":  Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather. University of Alabama Press, Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism series. 2005.

CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:

"'To Make Them Acquainted with One Another': Jewett, Howells, and the Dual Aesthetic of Deephaven."  Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon, Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards, eds., University Press of Florida (1999):  99-120.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"'There Must be Something Wonderful Coming': Social Purpose and Romantic Idealism in Willa Cather's 'Behind the Singer Tower.'" American Literary Realism 33 (2001): 110-122.

"Charles W. Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman, and the Racial Limits of Literary Mediation."  Studies in American Fiction 27 (1999):  183-204.

"The Politics of Inspiration in Ayi Kwei Armah's The Healers."  Critique:  Studies in Contemporary Fiction 38 (1997):  279-288.

"'Skulking Escapist' Versus 'Radical Editor':  Willa Cather, the Left Critics, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl."  Southern Quarterly 34.2 (1996):  27-37.

"Hawthorne in Time of Schism:  'The Gentle Boy' and the Second Great Awakening."  Studies in Puritan American Spirituality 5 (1995):  149-178.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Rev. of Pebbles, Monochromes, and Other Modern Poems, 1891-1916, by W.D. Howells, ed. Edwin H. Cady, and The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells, by John W. Crowley. American Literary Realism 34 (2002): 186-188.

"Henry Ward Beecher," "John Brown," "James Family," "My Contraband (1863)," "Realism."  Forthcoming in The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia, Gregory Eiselein and Anne K. Phillips, eds., Greenwood Press.

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

“‘Fantastic Effigy’: Satirizing the Masculine Construction of Womanhood in Edith Wharton’s ‘The Other Two.’” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Baltimore, MD, March 2007.

Respondent, “Howells and Masculinity” panel. American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA, May 2005.

"Racial Duties:  W.D. Howells' An Imperative Duty."  American Literature Association Conference. Cambridge, MA, April 2003.

“Response to Norris Haynes’ ‘Education and the Community’: Pedagogical Responsibilities in Higher Education.” “On Responsibility: An Interdisciplinary, University-wide Conference.” Southern Connecticut State University, September 2000.

"W.D. Howells as Cultural Icon, 1886-1999; or Why the Howells Revival Never Arrives."  Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Buffalo, NY, April 2000.

"W.D. Howells and the Example of Stowe." Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Baltimore, MD, April 1998.

"W.D. Howells's Literary Antitheory:  The Use-Value of Literature in The Editor's Study."  Central New York Conference on Language and Literature.  SUNY Cortland, October 1997.

"Charles W. Chesnutt, The Colonel's Dream, and the Possible Impossibility of Racial Reform."  American Literature Association Conference. Baltimore, MD, May 1997.

"Discourse Communities, Discursive Conventions:  Interrogating Academic Discourse(s)."  Writing Across . . . Disciplines, Genres, Cultures Conference.  University of New Hampshire, October 1996.

"Jewett, Howells, and the Dual Aesthetic of Deephaven." Sarah Orne Jewett Centennial Conference. Westbrook College, June 1996.

"American Women's Fiction in the Wake of Howells:  Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather in Dialogue with Realism."  New England Women's Studies Association Conference. University of Connecticut, April 1995.

"Reading the Underclass:  Problems of Reader Response to the Fiction of Carolyn Chute." Central New York Conference on Language and Literature.  SUNY Cortland, October 1994.

"The Dialogic Construction of the Social Self in W.D. Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes." Intercollegiate Graduate Student Conference. Simmons College, April 1994.

"A Proposal, A Problem, and A Plea:  Pedagogy Versus Institutional Structures."  Central New York Conference on Language and Literature.  SUNY Cortland, October 1993.

"'Skulking Escapist' Versus 'Radical Editor':  Willa Cather, the Left Critics, and Sapphira and the Slave Girl."  Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville, February 1993.

WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:

Conference Organizer / Discussion Leader, Connecticut High School Cooperative Composition Program, University of Connecticut, April 1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

19th and 20th Century American Literature; Anglophone Post-colonization Literatures

DISSERTATION TITLE:

"Conscience and Purpose":  The Legacy of Howellsian Social Commitment in American Fiction

INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:

University of Connecticut