Columbus State University

DANIEL W. ROSS

PERSONAL INFORMATION:  Daniel W. Ross, Professor of English  6860 Ranch Forest Drive, Columbus, GA 31904  email: [email protected]

EDUCATION: Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984 (English) Major Area of Concentration: Nineteenth-Century (Romantic and Victorian) Literature Secondary Areas of Concentration: Sixteenth-Century Literature: Modern British Literature

Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Tragic Literature" Director: Professor Jacob H. Adler

M.A., University of Georgia, 1977 (English)

B.A., University of Georgia, 1974 (Journalism)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND OTHER SIGNIFICANT WORK EXPERIENCE: Columbus State University, 1990-present Currently Professor of English

Allentown College, 1985-1990, Assistant Professor of English

Purdue University, 1978-1985, Graduate student and instructor of English.

Brewton-Parker College, 1977-1978, Director of Continuing Education and Instructor of English.

FIELD(S) OR AREA(S) OF SPECIAL INTEREST WITHIN DISCIPLINE OR PROFESSION: Irish Literature, Victorian Literature, Modern British Literature

MEMBERSHIP: American Conference on Irish Studies (2001-present) American Association of University Professors (2004-present) College English Association (2003-present)

STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE

Site Director, CSU Study Abroad in Kiryu, Japan, 2001. Site Director, CSU Spencer House, 2003-04. Site Director, European Council Study Abroad Program Director in London, 2005. Site Director, CSU Spencer House, Fall, 2008. Co-Program Director, Euopean Council Study Abroad Program in London, 2006-11.

SPECIAL AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER HONORS: "Cultures of Authority in Asian Practice." Asian Studies Development Program, Nashville, April, 2002.

"Authoring Community and State: Political Culture in Asian Contexts, St. Petersburg, FL, October, 2002. 2

NEH Summer Research Institute: "Anglo-Irish Identities, 1600-1800." Notre Dame, Summer, 2001.

Japan Studies Institute, San Diego, California, Summer, 1999.

MAJOR COMMITTEES: Chair, College of Letters and Sciences, Dean’s Search Committee, 2009-10. CSU Faculty Senate, 1994-97, 2006-09, 2010-11. President, CSU Chapter of AAUP, 2005-09. Chair, College of Arts and Letters Personnel Committee, 2004. Faculty Advisor and founder, Sigma Tau Delta, Columbus State University, 2002-present. Chair, Faculty Development Committee, Columbus State University, 2001-02. International Education Committee, Columbus State University, 1999-present. Chair, Capital Campaign Task Force on Fine Arts, Columbus State University, 2000.

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT: Chair, Department of Language and Literature, 1995-2000 Co-Editor, ANQ, 2009--present Chair, Assembly of Department Chairs, Columbus State University, 1998-2000. President, CSU Chapter of American Association of University Professors, 2005-09

The Critical Response to William Styron. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995. 285pp.

ARTICLES:

“Murmuring Name Upon Name: The Yeatsian Imperative in Heaney’s Political Poetry.” ANQ 29 Winter, 2016: 189-93.

“William Styron, James Baldwin, and The Confessions of Nat Turner: The Dream of a Common History.” CEA Critic 74, Spring-Summer, 2012 88-99.

“An Uncanny Home: Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness and the 1994 Ceasefire.” Ireland at War and Peace. Ed. John Strachan and Alison O’Malley-Younger. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011.

“Tradition and Modernity in R.K. Narayan’s The Painter of Signs. A Talent for the Particular: Essays on R.K. Narayan, ed. Raymond-Jean Frontain and Basudeb Chakraborti. Delhi: Worldview Press, 2011, pp. 232-47.

“Building a House of His Own: Yeats, Domesticity, and `Meditations in Time of Civil War.’” ANQ,22 Winter, 2009: (35-42).

“Rossetti’s ‘Jenny’ and the Fantasy of Rescue.” Literature and Criticism: The Journalof the Literary Society of India. 7 (2008-10): 11-18.

“William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner.” Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File, 2008.

“William Styron’s The Long March.” Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 3

“The Parabolic Structure of William Trevor’s The Story of Lucy Gault. Essays on Modern Irish Literature. Ed. John Strachan and Alison O’Malley-Younger. Sunderland: Univ. of Sunderland Press, 2007. 39-48.

“Oedipus in Derry: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark.” New Hibernia Review, 11 (2007): 25-41.

“William Styron: The Dream of a Common History.” Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. November 27, 2007. Editorial Page.

“The ‘Upward Waft’: The Influence of Frost and Eliot on Heaney’s Later Phase.” Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator. Ed. Jason David Hall and Ashby Bland Crowder. London: Palgrave, 2007.

“In Search of ‘Enabling Light’: Heaney, Wordsworth, and the Poetry of Trauma.” Nordic Irish Studies, 5 (2006): 109-21.

"Bush and the Poets.” Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. May, 23, 2004. Editorial Page.

"Patrick Kavanagh." The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. Eds. Steven Sarafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer. New York: Continuum, 2003. 543-44.

"Tom Paulin." The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. Eds. Steven Sarafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer. New York: Continuum, 2003. 749-50.

"A Fairy-Tale Life: The Making of Celie in Alice Walker's The Color Purple." Teaching Ethnic American Literature. Eds. David Peck and John Maitino. University of New Mexico Press, 1995. pp. 149-64.

"Styron at Work." Papers on Language and Literature 30 (1994): 101-06.

"The Text You Read (and Write) May Be Your Own: The Family Romance in Danilo Kis's Garden, Ashes." Review of Contemporary Fiction, 14 (1994): 136-43.

"'Things I Don't Want to Find Out About': The Primal Scene in The Confessions of Nat Turner." Twentieth-Century Literature, 39 (1993): 79-98.

"Seeking a Way Home: The Uncanny in Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode.'" SEL, 32 (1992): 625-43. Rpt. in Donald Keesey, ed. Contexts for Criticism, 3rd ed. Mountain View: Mayfield, 1998: 53-64.

"Barry Lopez's Artic Dreams: A Look into a New Heart of Darkness." CEA Critic, 54 (1991): 78-86.

"Inaction in Othello and Hamlet" (coauthored). The Upstart Crow, 11 (1991): 52-61.

"A Family Romance: Dreams and the Unified Narrative of Sophie's Choice." Mississippi Quarterly, 42 (1989): 129-45.

"Revising a Map Misread: Hamlet, Romantic Self-Consciousness, and the Roots of Modern Tragedy." Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context, ed. Ronald Dotterer. Selingsgrove: Susquehanna UP, 1989: 107-23.

"Celie in the Looking-Glass: The Desire for Selfhood in The Color Purple." Modern Fiction Studies, 34 (1988): 69-84.

"Lord Jim and the Saving Illusion." Conradiana, 20 (1988): 45-69. 4

"'What a Number of Men Eats Timon': Consumption in Timon of Athens." Iowa State Journal of Research, 59 (1985): 273-84.