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• 20th Century, Stevens, Joyce, Modernism, and Literary Criticism

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, DUS, Fall of 2006

  Departmental Committees/Service

• Executive Committee (Literature), Member, August - December of 2006
  Invited to begin attending meetings in the Fall of 2006 since serving as Interim DUS in Spring 2007
• Literature Program Lecture Committee, Member, 2006-2007
• John MacKay Review Committee, Member, June, 2006
• Visiting Lecturer's Committee

  Service to the Professional Community

• The Wisconsin Project on American Writing, General Editor, 1984 - present
  approximately 40 volumes
• The Wellek Library Lectures (University of Chicago Press), General Editor
  Books by Frank Kermode, Perry Anderson, Harold Bloom
• SAQ (The South Atlantic Quarterly), Editor, 1984-1991

Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

• Readings from The Book of Ruth, Utica College, September, 2006
• Readings from The Book of Ruth, Duke University, February, 2006
• “Crimes of Art and Terror”, Temple University, March 2004
• “Crimes of Art and Terror”, Dartmouth College, July 2004
• Fiction Reading, Middlebury College, March 2002
• Fiction Reading, University of Pennsylvania, November 2002
• "Grounderzeroland", Lafayette College, October 2002
• "On Robert Frost", Dartmouth College, April 1993
• "My Kinsman, T.S. Eliot", Dartmouth College, April 1993
• "Lefthanded", Colgate University, April 1992
• "Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders", Hamilton College, April 1992
• "Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders", University of Louisville, February 1991
• "Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders", University of North Carolina, Greensboro, March 1991
• "Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders", Dartmouth College, March 1991
• "Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders", Princeton University, April 1991
• "The Resentments of Robert Frost", Harvard University, March 1990
• "The Resentments of Robert Frost", University of North Carolina, March 1990
• "Don DeLillo -- Paranoia, Politics, and Other Pleasures", University of Virginia, March 1989
• "Pound, Frost, and the Culture of Capitalism", University of Colorado, April 1988
• "Lyric and the Culture of Capitalism", Georgetown University, June 1988
• "Don DeLillo -- Paranoia, Politics, and Other Pleasures", University of Pennsylvania, November 1988
• "Don DeLillo -- Paranoia, Politics, and Other Pleasures", Temple University, November 1988
• "Don DeLillo -- Paranoia, Politics, and Other Pleasures", University of Maryland, November 1988
• "Anatomy of a Jar", Hobart and William Smith College, April 1987
• "Anatomy of a Jar", LeMoyne College, April 1987
• "Positively Lady-Like'--'Sunday Morning' in the Young Manhood of Wallace Stevens", Harvard University, February 1986
• "Positively Lady-Like'--'Sunday Morning' in the Young Manhood of Wallace Stevens", University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 1986
• "The Long Goodbye of Theory--On the Return of William James", University of California, Davis, May 1986
• "Positively Lady-Like'--'Sunday Morning' in the Young Manhood of Wallace Stevens", University of California, Davis, May 1986
• "Gender, Class, and Literary History--A Reading of Wallace Stevens", University of Wyoming, June 1986
• "Patriarchy Against Itself--The Young Manhood of Wallace Stevens", Dartmouth, September 1986
• "Gender, Economics, and Modernism--The Example of Wallace Stevens", Westchester University, October 1986
• "Foucault's Legacy--A New Historicism?", Graduate Center of CUNY, December 1986
• "The Return of Williams James", Syracuse University, February 1985
• "Wallace Stevens and Vietnam", Elon College, April 1985
• "Toward A History of Modern American Poetry", School of Criticism and Theory, Northwestern University, July 1985
• "Criticism and Social Change", University of Miami, April 1984
• "Critical Practice--A Personal Statement", Lewis and Clark, May 1984
• "Wallace Stevens and Vietnam", University of Houston, May 1984
• "On the Ideologies of Poetic Modernism", Duke University, October 1984
• "On the Ideologies of Poetic Modernism", Dartmouth, November 1984
• "On the Ideologies of Poetic Modernism", North Carolina State University, December 1984
• "Kenneth Burke and the American Writers' Congress", Carleton College, March 1983
• "Burke and de Man", Consortium of Philosophers in the Philadelphia Area, Temple University, March 1983
• "Burke and de Man", Columbia University, April 1983
• "Literary Form, History, and Power", Duke University, October 1983
• "Provocations", Appalachian State University, October 1983
• "On the Politics of Literary Theory", Claremont College, Spring 1982
• "Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Action, History", English Institute, Harvard University, August 1982
• "Criticism and Social Change", University of Vermont, September 1982
• "Criticism and Social Change", Emory University, Fall 1982
• "Reading History with Kenneth Burke", University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring 1981
• "On the Politics of Literary Theory", Cal Tech, Fall 1981
• "Derrida and the American Scene", University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1980
• "Derrida and the American Scene", Northwestern University, Spring 1979
• "Derrida and the American Scene", Rice University, Spring 1979
• "On Marin Heidegger", Williams College, Fall 1979
• "On Martin Heidegger", Skidmore College, Fall 1979
• "The Rationalism of E.D. Hirsch", University of Rochester, Fall 1978

• "My Kinsman, T.S. Eliot", Duke University [Conference of Italianists], April 1992
• "The long Goodbye of Theory--On the Return of William James", SAMLA, October 1985
• "After Strange Texts", Conference, University of Alabama, Fall 1982
• "Foucault's Theater of Punishment", Conference on the Work of Michel Foucault, Knowledge and Power, University of South California, Fall 1981

• "A Conversation with Frank Lentricchia", Spring 1994
• "An Interview with Frank Lentricchia", Summer 1994
• "Who Doesn't Know Frank Lentricchia?"
• "Critical Texts", 1988
• "Criticism in Society", 1987

Publications

   Books

1. F. Lentricchia. The Italian Actress.  Guernica Editions, 2008.
2. F. Lentricchia with Jody McAuliffe. Crimes of Art and Terror.  University of Chicago Press, 2003.
3.  Close Reading: The Reader.  edited by Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois Duke University Press, 2003.
4. F. Lentricchia. "Tales of the Electronic Tribe".  Philadelphia, 2003.
5. F. Lentricchia. Johnny Critelli.  edited by Bill Tonelli William Morrow, 2003. (Fiction)
6. F. Lentricchia. Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel.  edited by Regina Barreca New York, 2002. (Fiction)
7. F. Lentricchia. Lucchesi and The Whale.  Duke University Press, 2001. (Fiction)
8. F. Lentricchia. The Music of the Inferno.  SUNY Press, 1999.
9. F. Lentricchia. Johnny Critelli.  Scribner, 1996. (Fiction)
10. F. Lentricchia. The Knifemen.  Scribner, 1996. (Fiction)
11. F. Lentricchia. Modernist Quartet.  Cambridge University Press, 1994.
12. F. Lentricchia. The Edge of Night.  Random House, 1994. (Autobiography)
13. F. Lentricchia. Introducing Don DeLillo.  Duke University Press, 1991.
14. F. Lentricchia. New Essays on White Noise.  Cambridge University Press, 1991.
15. F. Lentricchia. Critical Terms for Literary Study.  University of Chicago Press, 1990. Translated into Japanese and Korean
16. F. Lentricchia. Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens.  University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
17. F. Lentricchia. Criticism and Social Change.  University of Chicago Press, 1983.
18. F. Lentricchia. After the New Criticism.  University of Chicago Press, 1980. Translated into Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
19. F. Lentricchia. Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913-1974.  Scarecrow Press, 1976.
20. F. Lentricchia. Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self.  Duke University Press, 1975.
21. F. Lentricchia. The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens.  University of California Press, 1968.

   Book in Progress

1. F. Lentricchia. No official title at this time.  Guernica Editions, 2007

   Special Issues

1. F. Lentricchia, Issue Editor, South Atlantic Quarterly: Special Issue.   (Winter 2004). (including poetry, fiction, criticism, and photo essays)
2. F. Lentricchia, "Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after 9/11". South Atlantic Quarterly  (September 2002). (Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly)

   Articles in a Journal

1. F. Lentricchia. "DeLillo and/or Aristotle." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Summer/Fall 2000).
2. F. Lentricchia. "DeLillo and/or Aristotle." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Summer/Fall 2000).
3. F. Lentricchia. "Islas Malvinas." London Review of Books  (1 April 1999).
4. F. Lentricchia. "Lucchesi: His Life in Art." London Review of Books  (12 November 1998).
5. F. Lentricchia. "No More Whining." London Review of Books  (April 3, 1997).
6. F. Lentricchia. "From 'Last Will and Testament'." Scribner Magazine  (Fall 1996).
7. F. Lentricchia. "From 'Johnny Critelli'." Scribner Magazine  (Winter 1996).
8. F. Lentricchia. "Last Will and Testament of an Ex-Literary Critic." Lingua Franca  (Sept-Oct 1996). Reprinted in Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard (Ohio University Press, 1998); in Nieuw Wereldtifdschrift (Netherlands: March-April 1997); and in Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca (New York, 2002).
9. F. Lentricchia. "Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Spring 1993).
10. F. Lentricchia. "Christmas 1987." Harper's  (December 1993).
11. F. Lentricchia. "Making It to Mepkin Abbey." Harper's  (January 1992). Reprinted in Catholic Lives, Contemporary America, ed. Thomas J. Ferraro (Duke University Press, 1997).
12. F. Lentricchia. "My Kinsman, T.S. Eliot." Raritan  (Summer 1992).
13. F. Lentricchia. "Philosophers of Modernism at Harvard, ca. 1900." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Fall 1990).
14. F. Lentricchia. "The Resentments of Robert Frost." American Literature  (June 1990). Reprinted in Out of Bounds, eds. Laura Claridge and Elizabeth Langland (University of Massachusetts Press, 1991).
15. F. Lentricchia. "Don DeLillo." Raritan  (Spring 1989). Reprinted in different form in South Atlantic Quarterly, Spring 1990.
16. F. Lentricchia. "Lyric in the Culture of Capitalism." American Literary History  (Spring 1989).
17. F. Lentricchia. "Andiamo." Critical Inquiry  (Winter 1988).
18. F. Lentricchia. "Patriarchy Against Itself--The Young Manhood of Wallace Stevens." Critical Inquiry  (Summer 1987).
19. F. Lentricchia. "Anatomy of a Jar." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Fall 1987).
20. F. Lentricchia. "Reflections on the Return of William James." Cultural Critique  (Fall 1986).
21. F. Lentricchia. "On Behalf of Theory." TriQuarterly  (Fall 1985).
22. F. Lentricchia. "Rorty's Cultural Conversation." Raritan  (August 1983).
23. F. Lentricchia. "Reading Foucault (Punishment, Labor, Resistance): Part I." Raritan  (January 1982).
24. F. Lentricchia. "Reading Foucault (Punishment, Labor, Resistance): Part II." Raritan  (April 1982).
25. F. Lentricchia. "Derrida, History, and Intellectuals." Salmagundi  (Fall 1980/Winter 1981).
26. F. Lentricchia. "The Historicity of Frye's Anatomy." Salmagundi  (Winter 1978).
27. F. Lentricchia. "Luigi Ventura and the Origins of Italian-American Fiction." Italian-Americana  (Spring 1975).
28. F. Lentricchia. "The Romanticism of William James." Salmagundi  (Winter 1974).
29. F. Lentricchia. "Robert Frost: The Aesthetics of Voice and the Theory of Poetry." Criticism  (Winter 1973).
30. F. Lentricchia. "Coleridge and Emerson: Prophets of Silence, Prophets of Language." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism  (1973).
31. F. Lentricchia. "Experience as Meaning: Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall'." CEA Critic  (Spring 1972).
32. F. Lentricchia. "The Place of Cleanth Brooks." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism  (Winter 1970).
33. F. Lentricchia. "Four Types of Nineteenth-Century Poetic." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism  (Spring 1968).
34. F. Lentricchia. "Wallace Stevens: The Ironic Eye." The Yale Review  (Spring 1967). Reprinted in Wallace Stevens, ed. I. Ehrenpreis (Penguin, 1972).
35. F. Lentricchia. "Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Byron Whirlwind." Bulletin of the New York Public Library  (April 1966).
36. F. Lentricchia. "Byron in Boston." Emerson Society Quarterly  (1964).

   Articles in a Collection

1. F. Lentricchia. "Johnny Critelli." The Italian American Reader Ed. Bill Tonelli. William Morrow, 2003.
2. F. Lentricchia. "Modern American Lyric in the Culture of Capital." . Cambridge, 2003. (Book-length contribution to Cambridge History of American Literature)
3. F. Lentricchia. "Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel."  Ed. Regina Barreca. New York, 2002.
4. F. Lentricchia. "Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes." White Noise: Text and Criticism Ed. Mark Osteen. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
5. F. Lentricchia. "Analysis of Burke's Speech." The Legacy of Kenneth Burke Ed. Herbert W. Simons and Trevor Melia. University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Reprint of pp. 21-38 of Criticism and Social Change
6. F. Lentricchia. "The Redemptive Imagination." Modern Critical Views: Robert Frost Ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House, 1989. Reprint of pp. 101-119, Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self
7. F. Lentricchia. "Foucault's Legacy: A New Historicism?." The New Historicism Ed. H. Aram Veeser. Routledge, 1989.
8. F. Lentricchia. "The 'Life' of a Humanist Intellectual." The Academic's Handbook. Duke University Press, 1988.
9. F. Lentricchia. "The Return of William James." The Current in Criticism. Purdue University Press, 1987.
10. F. Lentricchia. "On the Ideologies of Poetic Modernism, 1890-1913: The Example of William James." Reconstructing American Literary History Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986.
11. F. Lentricchia. "Reading History with Kenneth Burke." Representing Kenneth Burke: Selected Papers from the English Institute Ed. Hayden White. 1983.
12. F. Lentricchia. "Robert Frost and Modern Literary Theory." Frost: Centennial Essays. University and College Press of Mississippi, 1974.

   Book Reviews

1. F. Lentricchia, Ezra Pound's American Book of Wonders. South Atlantic Quarterly  (Spring, 1993).
2. F. Lentricchia, Reivew of Karl Keller's The Only Kangaroo Among the Beauty. South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter, 1981).
3. F. Lentricchia, Review of Richard Poirer's Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing. South Atlantic Quarterly  (Winter, 1979).
4. F. Lentricchia, Review of Harold Bloom's Poetry and Repression. Modern Language Quarterly  (March, 1977).
5. F. Lentricchia, Wallace Stevens: The Critic's Redemption. Modern Language Quarterly  (March, 1975).
6. F. Lentricchia, Robert Frost: Latest Assessments. CEA Critic  (January, 1975).
7. F. Lentricchia, The Poetry of John J. Soldo. Italian-Americana  (Fall, 1974).
8. F. Lentricchia, Yeats and Stevens. Contemporary Literature  (Spring, 1973).
9. F. Lentricchia, Mailer: Occult Gossip. Riverside Press-Enterprise  (September 22, 1973).
10. F. Lentricchia, Attitudes Toward Literature. Poetry  (May, 1967).
11. F. Lentricchia, Wallace Stevens: Emergence of the Poet. Poetry  (December, 1966).
12. F. Lentricchia, Some Coordinates of Modern Literature. Poetry  (1966).

   Other

1. F. Lentricchia. ""Dissent from the Homeland"."  Duke University Press, 2003. (Expanded South Atlantic Quarterly issue, co-edited with Stanley Hauerwas)