Curriculum Vita Don Adams

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1 Curriculum Vita Don Adams Department of English College of Arts and Letters Florida Atlantic University (FAU) 2912 College Avenue Davie, FL (954) EMPLOYMENT 1999-present Associate Professor of English, FAU Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Liberal Arts (CLA), Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Responsible for administering partner-campus programs in English, Art, History, and Music Assistant Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities, FAU Assistant Professor of English, FAU Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin EDUCATION Degrees: 1993 PhD, Washington University, St. Louis Major field of concentration: 20 th Century British and American literature 1988 MA, English, University of Missouri-Columbia 1986 BJ (Bachelor of Journalism) with honors, University of Missouri-Columbia Dissertation: Title: Making Destiny His Choice: The Quest to Choose Necessity in James Merrill s The Changing Light at Sandover Director: Naomi Lebowitz, Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor of Humanities Fellowships and Scholarships: Fulbright Lecture Fellowship to Vietnam 1991 Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University

2 Graduate Fellowship in English, University of Missouri 1985 Alumni Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of Missouri School of Journalism Curators Scholarship, University of Missouri REFEREED WORKS Books: 1997 James Merrill s Poetic Quest. Westport, CT: Greenwood, Chapters in Books: 2006 Doris Lessing, forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Eds. David Malcolm and Cheryl Alexander Malcolm. Oxford: Blackwell, predicted publication date James Merrill. The Facts on File Companion to 20 th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Lewiston, NY: Facts on File, James Schuyler, in The Facts on File Companion to 20 th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Lewiston, NY: Facts on File, James Merrill s The Changing Light at Sandover, in The Facts on File Companion to 20 th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Lewiston, NY: Facts on File, Ronald Firbank s Radical Pastorals. Critical Essays on Ronald Firbank. Ed. Gill Davies et al. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, Pleading the Permanence of Ignorance: The Poetry of William Bronk, in The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk. Ed. David Clippinger. Jersey City: Talisman House, Eizabeth Bishop and the Pastoral World, In Worcester, Massachusetts: Essays from the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference. Ed. Laura J. Menides and Angela G. Dorenkamp. New York: Peter Lang, Journal Articles: 2007 James Purdy s Allegories of Love, forthcoming in Texas Studies in Literature and Language James Schuyler s Pastoral Poetics, forthcoming in Genre Jane Bowles and a Spinozistic Realism, published on: Ronald Firbank s Radical Pastorals, Genre XXXV, Spring 2002: Host at Last: James Merrill s Debt to Elizabeth Bishop. Pleiades 17, no. 1 (1997):

3 1996 James Merrill s Prism. The Explicator 54, no. 3 (1996): Heroes Without Name or Origin: James Merrill s Poetry of loss. Notes on Contemporary Literature 26, no. 3 (1996): 2-4. Article Under Review: 2007 Allegorical Realism: The Fiction of Jane Bowles. Conference Papers: 2005 Sons and Lovers, creative non-fiction essay given at the Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia conference in Bangkok, Thailand, chosen on the basis of an abstract Jane Bowles and Nomadology, paper given at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference at Penn State, chosen on the basis of an abstract Jane Bowles and a Spinozistic Realism, paper given at the Borders of Realism Conference outside of Brussels, Belgium, chosen on the basis of an abstract James Purdy s Allegories of Love, paper given at the Assessing James Purdy conference in Amherst, Massachusetts, chosen on the basis of an abstract No One Knows What My Politics Are: Ronald Firbank's Political Pastorals," paper given at the annual Cultural Studies Conference at Kansas State university in Manhattan, Kansas, chosen on the basis of an abstract "An Exotic Refuge in an Exhausted World: The Pastoral Poetry of John Ashbery and James Schuyler," paper given at the Northeast Modern Language Association annual conference in Buffalo, New York, chosen on the basis of an abstract "So Natural and So Hard: James Schuyler's Casual Perfection," paper read for me at the annual National Poetry Foundation conference in Orono, Maine, chosen on the basis of an abstract Pleading the Permanence of Ignorance: The Poetry of William Bronk, paper given at the William Bronk Symposium in Hoboken, New Jersey, chosen on the basis of an abstract and included in a refereed volume of essays chosen from among those presented at the conference (see above Chapters in Books ) Elizabeth Bishop and the Pastoral World, paper given at the Elizabeth Bishop conference, Worcester, Mass., chosen on the basis of an abstract and included in a refereed volume of essays chosen from among those presented at the conference (see above Chapters in Books ) Ronald Firbank s Radical Pastorals, paper given at the Modern Language Association annual conference in Toronto, chosen on the basis of an abstract, and later published in a revised form as an article and included in a critical anthology (see above Journal Articles and Chapters in Books ) James Merrill and the Poet as Quester, paper given at the American Literature Association meeting, San Diego, chosen on the basis of an abstract and included in a revised version in my 1997 monograph on Merrill (see above Books ).

4 1996 The Poetry in the Poem: John Ashbery s Postmodern Poetics, paper given at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, chosen on the basis of the full paper James Merrill s Poetry of Loss, paper given at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, chosen on the basis of the full paper, and included in a revised version in my 1997 monograph on Merrill (see above Books ). COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND AWARDS University Research Grant, FAU 2005 International Travel Grant, FAU 2004 International Travel Grant, FAU 2002 Awarded full-pay Sabbatical leave for fall 2002 (not taken) 2002 Finalist, Four-Way-Books Intro Poetry Prize 1999 Finalist, Salmon Run Press National Poetry Book Award 1998 Nominated by FAU for NEH Summer Stipend 1997 International Travel Grant, FAU NON-REFEREED WORKS Creative Books: 2007 Another World: A Vietnam Traveler s Journal. Under review Prodigal Charms: Poems. Submitted to contests. College Textbook: Compact Disk: Web Link: 2005 America s Changing World: An Anthology of American Literature, History, and Culture. Published by the University of Education in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for use in the English Department s American Literature courses Don Adams, self-titled recording of me reading my poems, CEC/FAU Studios 2002 Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry Poems, Articles, and Reviews: 2007 Sons and Lovers: Gay Saigon, forthcoming in The Harrington Gay Men s Fiction Quarterly.

5 2003 Nights in Paradise and The Rain it Raineth Every Day, poems in Lodestar, e-zine, no. 6, Summer College Admissions Procedures in the U. S., Newsletter of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for International Education Culture Exchange and Research, Spring Elephants and Another God, poems, in The Church-Wellesley Print Annual, Eli, a poem, in Poetry Motel Life is Disgracefully Managed : Ronald Firbank s Complaint, abstract, Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 23 (1998): Review of James Merrill s A Different Person. The New Review 6 (Spring 1994) In a Northern Town, a poetry sequence, in Poetry Digest Repairing the Broken Home: James Merrill s Mirabell. The Opera Prompter 34 (1993): Presentations and Workshops: 2005 The Traffic in Saigon and Other Observations from 2 Years in Vietnam, presentation given in the FAU Ph.D. in Comparative Studies Colloquium Series Current Trends in Literary Theory, invited guest lecture given at the Institution for Educational Research, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2004 Individualism in American Literature and Culture, invited guest lecture given at Vinh University, Vietnam 2004 Utopianism in American Literature and Culture, invited guest lecture given at Hue University, Vietnam 2003 Walt Whitman s Pastoral Prophecies, invited guest lecture given at Can Tho University, Vietnam 2003 The History of American Poetry, invited guest lecture given at An Giang University, Vietnam 2002 Lingering Voices: American Poetry at the Turn of the Millennium, invited lecture given at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam 2000 Key West Writers Workshop with John Ashbery 1996 The Elevated Highway, readings from my poetry for Performance/Art Fusion, Broward Community College Zeno s Pilgrimage, readings from my poetry for Words After Hours, Florida Atlantic University It s Too Ample : The Poetry of John Ashbery, paper given for Main Hall Forum, Lawrence University Homosexual Elitism in James Merrill s Poetry, paper given at Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Conference, Lawrence University.

6 1993 The Man of Two Minds, readings from my poetry for Main Hall Forum, Lawrence University The Nature Of The Quest In James Merrill s Poetry, paper given for Critical Forum, Washington University. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2006 Asked to review the manuscript, Critical Essays on Rebecca West, English Novelist, , edited by Gill Davies, David Malcolm, and John Simons, for the Edwin Mellen Press Asked to review the manuscript Postmodern Magus: Myth and Poetics in the Work of James Merrill, by Evans Lansing Smith, for the University of Iowa Press Asked to serve on the National Fulbright Scholar Peer Review Committee for Southeast Asia for the , , and grant awards Fulbright service in Vietnam, including editing an annotated anthology of American literature and culture, serving on a panel to choose Vietnamese Fulbright scholars, and presenting visiting guest lectures throughout the country Asked to serve as an outside reviewer for PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association of America Asked to judge Broward Country Public Schools annual poetry contest Asked to judge Florida Phi Theta Kappa poetry award contest Invited to lecture on James Merrill s poetry for Critical Forum, Washington University, preceding the James Merrill Conference Asked to judge Beloit College annual poetry contest Invited to lecture on James Merrill s poetry at the University of Wisconsin Madison. TEACHING Teaching Interests Modern and Contemporary British and American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Creative Writing Teaching Experience, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education: American Literature (Undergraduate) Literary Theory and American Literature (Graduate) Teaching Experience, Florida Atlantic University: 20 th Century American Literary Movements 20 th Century British Literature 20 th Century Poetry (Graduate) American Modernism (Graduate)

7 The Autobiographical Mode in 20 th Century Literature (Graduate) British Literature Creative Writing Critical Approaches to Literature Literary Theory Literature and the Environment Major American Writers of the 20 th Century Modern British Novel (Undergraduate/Graduate) Modern Poetry (Undergraduate/Graduate) Poetry Writing I and II Sexuality and Modern Literature (Undergraduate/Graduate) World Literature Teaching Experience, Lawrence University: Modern British Fiction Poetry Writing Survey of British Masterpieces from the 19 th and 20 th Centuries Expository Writing Minority Literature Modern Poetry Freshman Studies (Introduction to the Humanities) Teaching Experience, Washington University: Modern British Literature Practical Criticism Composition Teaching Experience, University of Missouri: Composition Honors Composition Television and Radio Reporting, Editing and Producing MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association American Literature Association American Comparative Literature Association Elizabeth Bishop Society James Purdy Society REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST