Public School Experience

Dickinson Junior High School
September 1959-June 60

I taught seventh-grade language arts and reading and eight and ninth grade first- year French.

Irving High School
September 1960-June 61

I taught four sections of sophomore English (lots of Julius Caesar and Silas Marner) and one section of first-year French to junior and seniors.

September 1961-June 62

I taught three sections of first-year French to sophomores and one section of second-year French to seniors.

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College Experience

Tarleton State College, Stephenville, Texas

September 1962-September 1966, January 1967-June 1967

I was an Instructor of English and taught five sections of first-year English. I taught twenty-five students in each class and taught six days a week—yes, Saturday, too. Each student wrote eleven five-hundred-word themes. That's when I learned to teach writing.

Texas State University

Instructor 1967-72
Assistant Professor 1972-76
Associate Professor 1976-91
Professor 1991-Present

Theses Directed

Harry Crowe. "A Study of the Lounger." 1972.
Chris McElyea. "Larry McMurtry's Women: Rural, Urban, Human." 1983.
Lisa Urbanczyk. "A Critical Study of Oilfield Fiction." 1984.
Pamela Kett. "Archtype and Stereotype: The Horse in American Western Literature." 1985.
Jane Garner Ivers. "Have You Come a Long Way Baby? Traits of East Texas Women." 1986.
Cynthia Halm. "The Journey Motif in Lonesome Dove." 1988.
David Taylor. "The Work Ethic: A Moral Code in Southwestern Literature." 1988.
Lorraine Streckfus. "The Ideal Texas Hero in Selected Works by Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, and Larry McMurtry." 1988.
Clay Kinsner. “J.Frank Dobie, a Special Oddity.” 1992.
Ronald Cabal. “The Essential Humphrey.” 1992.
Thomas Fuschetto. “The Fact and Fiction of O. Henry.” 1993.
Janis Turk. “Trouble I’ve Seen and Other Stories." 1993.
Jeremy Bailey “The Unreliable Narrator in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Crossing” 2002.
Crystalyn Steubing “The Horse as a Character in Southwestern Novels.” 2004.

Courses Taught at Texas State

5383 Teaching English Composition in Middle and Secondary Schools and Community Colleges
5332 Nature Writing
5325 Reflections of Life in the Lore and Literature of the Southwest.
5318 Effective Communications
5312 Editing the Professional Publication
5310 Studies in English Language and Linguistics
5300 Language Problems in a Multicultural Environment
4325 Literature of the Southwest
4310 Modern English Syntax
3387 English in the Secondary Schools
3342 American Drama on Film
3341 Studies in World Literature
3340 Great Books
3326 Editing
3319 The Development of English
3318 Paralegal Communication
3317 Traditional Grammar
3311 Advanced Writing and Reading
3315 Creative Writing
3310 Composition for Occupational Education Majors
3309 The Southwest in Film
2380 Masterpieces in American Literature
2370 Masterpieces in English Literature
2351 Technical Writing
2340 Survey of World Literature from 1600 to the Present
2330 Survey of World Literature to 1600
2320 Survey of English Literature from the Romantic Period to the Present
2310 Survey of English Literature from Beowulf through the Age of Classicism
1320 Reading and Writing (Part II)
1310 Reading and Writing (Part I)
1310 Reading and Writing Honors (Part I)
1300 Basic Reading and Writing

 

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