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I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

A. Name Title Mark Bayless Busby, Professor of English

B. Educational Background (Years, Degrees, Universities, Majors, Thesis/Dissertation) August 1977 Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder Dissertation: “The Merging Adam-Christ Figure in Contemporary American Fiction” Director: James K. Folsom January 1969 M.A. Texas A&M University-Commerce Thesis: “Recent Trends in Marxist Literary Theory” Director: Thomas A. Perry May 1967 B.A. Texas A&M University-Commerce Majors: English and Speech

C. University Experience (Dates, Positions, Universities,) Sept. 1994-Present Professor of English, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 1991-Sept. 1994 Associate Professor of English, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 2002-2012 Director, Southwest Regional Humanities Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 1991-2012 Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX August 1983-July 1991 Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 1977-Aug. 1983 Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX August 1972-May 1977 Instructor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO June-August 1974, 1975 Instructor of English, Black Education Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO September 1970-June 1972 Associate Faculty Instructor of English, Indiana-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN

D. Relevant Professional Experience (Dates, Position, Entity,) September 1970-Dec. 1971 Communicative Arts Instructor, U.S. Army Adjutant General School, Fort Harrison, IN September 1967-May 1969 Teaching Assistant in English, Texas A&M University-Commerce, TX

II. TEACHING

A. Teaching Honors and Awards: 2012 Named Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Texas State University 2008- Named Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, Texas 2012 State University, San Marcos, TX 1988 Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ($2,000) Teacher/Scholar Award, Texas A&M Honors Program ($5,000) 1976 Recipient, George F. Reynolds Fellowship for Teaching, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1975 Instructor Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1971 Meritorious Instructor Award, U.S. Army Adjutant General School, Fort Harrison, IN 2

B. (1) Courses Taught at Texas State: English 5332 Studies in American Prose: Tim O’Brien English 5332 Studies in American Prose: Ernest Hemingway English 5321 Contemporary American Fiction: Larry McMurtry English 5321 Contemporary American Fiction: Cormac McCarthy English 2360 American Literature since 1965 English 3309 The Southwest in Film English 3321 The Short Story English 3335 American Literature 1865-1930 English 3336 American Literature 1930-Present English 3345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region English 3346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region English 5312 Editing the Professional Publication English 5345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region English 5346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region Honors 3321K The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Southwestern Views B. (2) Courses Taught at Texas A&M: English 351 Advanced Film: Film and Literature English 396H The Frontier Experience and the American Dream English 396H (Interdisciplinary with John Lenihan, History Dept.) American Culture Since 1945 English 481 Senior Seminar in Ernest Hemingway English 103 and 104 Composition and Rhetoric1 and 2 English 102 Introduction to Literature English 251 The Language of Film English 350 Twentieth Century American Novel English 336 Life and Literature of the Southwest Honors Special Topic: The Southwest English 403 Public Speaking English 615 The American Novel English 651 Southwestern Literature English 689 Film Narrative C. (1) Graduate Theses/Dissertations Thesis Committee Chair-Texas State Completed: Rebecca Bradshaw Christopher Buerger Jamie Campbell Stephen Davis Joan Heaberlin Susan Lucas Irene Miller Sandra Miller Shannon Mischler Christopher Muse Dayna Patterson Domino Perez Cassie Polasek Ryan Poremski Nancy Romig Krista Thompson Amanda Thompson 3

M.A. and M.F.A Committee Member at Texas State: Served as Member on over thirty Graduate Committees Most Recent Nereida Harris, Fall, 2015 Alex Cortez, nonthesis, Fall 2015 Dena Garcia, Spring, 2014 Danny Peters, Spring, 2014 Dan Szymczak, Spring, 2014 Ross Feeler, Spring, 2013 Amanda Mixon, Spring, 2013 Jana Fonario, Spring, 2013 Earnest Buck, nonthesis, Spring 2013 Rebecca Weigel, nonthesis, Spring 2013 Iza Martinez, Fall 2012 Jason Rocha, Spring 2012 Oliva Dowd, nonthesis, Spring 2012 Ph.D. Outside Committee Member Brandon Shuler, Texas Tech University, Spring, 2014 Cory Lock, University of Texas-Austin, Spring 2004. C. (2) Student Committees at Texas A&M 1977-1991 Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Chair: Roger Jones, Dissertation: "The Victorian Novel's Influence on Larry McMurtry's Fiction," December 1989 Leslie Kennedy, Dissertation: “Postmodernism in Vietnam Fiction,” May 1991 Dissertation Committee Member: Chris Ellery, Dissertation: "Sentimentality and the Grotesque in American Drama," August 1989 Rick Evans. Dissertation: "Toward an Understanding of Literacy as Communicative Competence: Patterns of Literate Language Learning and Use," December 1990 Joanna Barnett Gibson, Dissertation: "Thomas Hardy's Children," August 1989 Mary Ella Phelps, Dissertation: "Ezra Pound and Music: The Convergence of Music and Poetry in The Pisan Cantos," December 1989. Chris Vick, Dissertation: "Cinematic Aspects and Film Adaptations of Selected Works of Thomas Hardy," May 1990 Katherine Presley John Pritchard Patricia Repka Cynthia Schnebly Leslie Sogandares Jerri Sosville Tom Wilmeth Graduate Council Representative on seven Ph.D. committees M.A. Thesis Committee Chair: Troy Headrick, "Ritual Elements in John Irving," 1988 Tanya Long (Co-chair), "Carolyn Osborn's Fiction," 1988 M.A. Nonthesis Committee Chair Christine Bernsen, 1990 4

Joan Cain, 1986 Lea Anne Clarkson, 1990 Jennilyn Sprayberry Crenshaw, 1989 Alison Awbrey Wiggins, 1987 M.A. Thesis Committee Member: Cheryl Clements, “Memento and Other Stories,” 1989 Ava Greene Guy, “Social Sense as It Is Reflected in Selected Poems by Robert Herrick,” 1984 Burton Harbison, History, "French Medical History in the Crimean War,” 1987 Greg Moses, “Queen for an Ice Age: Katje Borgesius as the Form of Ideology in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow," 1988 Mary Lou Taylor, “The Mathematics of Moby Dick,” 1983 M.A. Nonthesis Committee Member: Anita Green, 1983 Patricia Repka, 1984 Keith Waddle, 1986 University Undergraduate Honors Fellows at Texas A&M: Barbara A. Bell, "The Interrelationship of Literature and Film," 1988 Deborah Broussard, "William Styron's Treatment of Women," 1979 Nadine Miller, "Twentieth Century Transformations of Huckleberry Finn," 1987 Sherri Shroeder, "Dorothy Parker: Life, Humor, and Feminism," 1989 Kathy West, "Black Humor and Realism Reconciled," 1984 D. Courses Prepared and Curriculum Development at Texas State: Graduate Courses on Tim O’Brien, Larry McMurtry, Ernest Hemingway, and Cormac McCarthy Undergraduate minor in Southwestern Studies, including two required SW Studies courses, English 3345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region and English 3346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region English 3309 The Southwest in Film English 5312 Editing the Professional Publication Honors 3321K The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Southwestern Views Graduate cognate in Southwestern Studies (English 5345 Southwestern Studies I: Defining the Region and English 5346 Southwestern Studies II: Consequences of Region) E. External Funded Teaching Grants and Contracts at Texas State: 2015-2006 L. D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Writers-in-Residence Endowment, Bequest of land and cash for writers’ program in Smithville, TX, $2.4 million estimated value 2006 Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Funding for Endowment Support for the Southwest Regional Humanities Center, $200,000 2005 Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Funding for Endowment Support for the Southwest Regional Humanities Center, $200,000 2005 Lowman-J. Frank Dobie Collection, Gift of literary materials to the Southwestern Writers Collection/Southwest Regional Humanities Center, appraised value: $45,000 material, $8,000 cash 2004 Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation, Funding for Endowment Support for the Southwest Regional Humanities Center, $200,000 2003 Southwest Regional Humanities Center Web support. Tocker Foundation, $25,000 2002 “Border Crossing: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute.” National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College Teachers, June 3-28, 2000, $153,000. “Southwest Regional Humanities Center. ” NEH, $378,900 2000 “Centering the Southwest: A Regional Humanities Center. ” NEH, $50,000 5

2000 “Endowing the Center for the Study of the Southwest.” (With Mimi Tangum). NEH Challenge Grant, $450,000 2000 “Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Summer Institute.” NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers, June 5-30, 2000, $156,000 1998 “Extending Regional Studies.” Fund for the Improvement of PostSecondary Education (FIPSE) Extending Proven Reforms, $160,000 1995 “Windows to the Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest.” NEH Planning Grant, $50,000 1994 "Regional Studies\National Exchange." FIPSE, $208,000 1993 "Abiding Earth/Restless Sky: The American Indian Southwest," NEH, $67,000 1992 "Crossing Disciplines Through Southwestern Studies," Joint NEH, NSF, FIPSE Competition for Projects in Science and the Humanities, $160,000 F. Submitted, but not Funded, External Teaching Grants and Contracts at Texas State 2008 Chrystal Waggoner Charitable Trust. $26,012 for publication support Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation. $26,012 for publication support 1997 “Windows to the Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's Journey to the Southwest.” NEH Implementation Grant 1995 “Endowing the Writing Center at Southwest Texas State University.” NEH Challenge Grant 1991 “The Mexican American Southwest: From Mythic Origins to Contemporary Realities.” NEH G. Funded Internal Teaching Grants and Contracts at Texas A&M 1990 Program Development Grant, Texas A&M Honors Program $2,500 1989 Recipient, Texas A&M Faculty Development Grant, Fall Semester Program Development Grant, Texas A&M Honors Program $2,500 1987 Program Development Grant, Texas A&M Honors Program $2,000 1986 Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts Expense Grant $1,180 Program Development Grant, Texas A&M Honors Program $1,750 1982 Texas A&M College of Liberal Arts, Summer Research Grant $1,750 III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE A. Works in Print 1. Books a. Scholarly Monographs: Busby, Mark. Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. Busby, Mark. Ralph Ellison. New York: Twayne/Macmillan, 1991. Busby, Mark. Lanford Wilson. Western Writers Series #81. Boise: Boise State University, 1987. Busby, Mark. Preston Jones. Western Writers Series #58. Boise: Boise State University, 1983. b. Textbooks: n/a c. (1) Edited Books: Busby, Mark and Terrell Dixon, editors. John Graves, Writer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Selected as a Finalist for the Writers' League of Texas 2008 Violet Crown Award. Busby, Mark, and Twister Marquiss, compilers and annotators. Sensing Dobie's Shade: The Al Lowman Collection of J. Frank Dobie. Austin: Wind River Press, 2006. Fine printing, limited edition of 100 copies. 6

Marquiss, Twister, and Mark Busby, editors. Will's Book: Selected Works. San Marcos: Southwest Regional Humanities Center, 2005. Limited edition. Busby, Mark. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004. Busby, Mark and Dick Heaberlin, editors. From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2001. Busby, Mark. New Growth/2: Short Stories on Contemporary Texas. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1993. Mogen, David, Mark Busby, and Paul T. Bryant, editors. The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989. c. (2) Contributing Editor: Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook. Gen. Editor, R. C. Reynolds. Dallas: SMU Press, 1989. c. (3) Edited Journals: Busby, Mark and Dick Heaberlin, editors. Southwestern American Literature 18.1 (Fall 1992- Summer 2012). Busby, Mark and Dick Heaberlin, editors. Texas Books in Review 22 (Fall 1996-Summer 2012). d. Chapters/Articles in Books: Busby, Mark. “Preface.” “A Bloody and Barbarous God”:
The Metaphysics Of Cormac McCarthy’s Later Novels, by Petra Mundik (forthcoming U New Mexico P). Busby, Mark. “The Polychotomous Southwest.” Critical Insights: Southwestern Literature. Edited by William Brannon. Armenia, NY: Grey House Publishing/Salem Press, 2015 (forthcoming): 3-19. Busby, Mark. "Rolling the Stone, Sisyphus, and the Epilogue of Blood Meridian.” They Rode On: Blood Meridian and the Tragedy of the American West. Edited by Rick Wallach. Miami: The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2013: 64-75. Busby, Mark. "System Stars and Cinema: Television and the Silver Screen." A Texas State of Mind: The Texas State University System Story Still Going Strong after 100 Years. Edited by Fernando Gomez. Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2011: 176-185. Busby, Mark. “How E.T. Opened the World for Me.” Memories of old E.T. Commerce, TX: Silver Leo Writers Guild, 2010: 111-114. Busby, Mark. "'I Don't Know But I Ain't Lost': Defining the Southwest." Regionalism and the Humanities. Editors, Timothy R. Mahoney and Wendy J. Katz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009: 44-55. Busby, Mark. “Goodbye ol’ Paint, Hello Rapid Transit: Texas Literature in the 20th Century.” Twentieth Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History. Editors, John Storey and Mary Kelly. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2008: 220-244. Busby, Mark. “Preface.” (With Terrell Dixon). John Graves, Writer. Editors, Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007: vii-x. Busby, Mark. “Introduction.” John Graves, Writer. Editors, Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Busby, Mark. "Introduction." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest. Editor, Mark Busby. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004: xvii- xxviii. Busby, Mark. "Film and Theater." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest. Editor, Mark Busby. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004: 175-210. Busby, Mark. "Timeline." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures: The Southwest. Editor, Mark Busby. Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2004: 417-422. 7

Busby, Mark. "Texas and the Southwest." The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. Editor, Peter C. Rollins. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 488-496. Busby, Mark. “Ralph Ellison.” Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Editor, Harold Bloom. New York: New York: Chelsea House, 2003. Busby, Mark. "Texas and the Great Southwest." A Companion to the Regional Literatures of the United States. Editor, Charles Crow. New York: Blackwell, 2003: 432-457 Busby, Mark. “All the Pretty Horses.” Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. Editor, Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2003. Busby, Mark. “ Elmer Kelton.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Western Writers, Third Series, Vol. 256. Editor, Richard H. Cracroft. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2002: 110-120. Busby, Mark. “Larry McMurtry.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century Western Writers, Third Series, Vol. 256. Editor, Richard H. Cracroft. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2002: 184-202. Busby, Mark. “Katherine Anne Porter and the Southwest: Ambivalence as Deep as the Bone.” From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter (with Dick Heaberlin). Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2001: 133-147. Busby, Mark. “Ralph Ellison.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Novelists Since WWII, Sixth Series, Vol. 225. Editor, Wanda Giles. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group, 2000: 128-140. Busby, Mark. "Sam Shepard." Twentieth-Century Western Writers, Second Series. Editor, Richard H. Cracroft. Detroit: Gale, 2000: 259-268. Busby, Mark. “The Wilderness Beyond: Rewriting the Frontier Narrative.” Negotiations of America’s National Identity. Editors, Roland H. Habenbüchle and Joseph Rabb. Vol. 1. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag, 2000: 487-503. Busby, Mark. “Into the Darkening Land, the World to Come: Cormac McCarthy's Border Crossings” in Myth, legend, dust: Critical Responses to Cormac McCarthy. Editor, Rick Wallach. New York: Manchester University Press, 2000: 227-248 Busby, Mark. "Sam Shepard." Updating the Literary West: A Supplement to the Literary History of the American West. Editor, William T. Pilkington. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1997: 512- 519. Busby, Mark. "Ralph Ellison." Updating the Literary West: A Supplement to the Literary History of the American West. Editor, William T. Pilkington. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1997: 520- 526. Busby, Mark. "John Graves." American Nature Writers. Editor, John Elder. New York: Scribners, 1996: 323-336. Busby, Mark. "Preston Jones." The Handbook of Texas. Revised Edition. Austin: Texas State Historical Association Conference, 1996: 990. Busby, Mark. "An East Texas Lynching: The Wilkinson/Greenhaw Feud." Corners of Texas. Publication of the Texas Folklore Society LII. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1993: 147-158. Busby, Mark. "Introduction of John Graves." The Southwestern Writers Collection Dedication. San Marcos: Southwest Texas State University, Albert B. Alkek Library, 1993): 17-18. Busby, Mark. "Journeys through Texas." New Growth\2: Contemporary Short Stories by Texas Writers. Editor, Mark Busby. San Antonio: Corona Press, 1993: vii-xiii. Busby, Mark. "Sam Shepard and Frontier Gothic." Frontier Gothic: Terror and Wonder at the Frontier in American Literature. Editors, David Mogen, Scott P. Sanders, and Joanne B. Karpinsky. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993: 84-93. Busby, Mark. "Larry McMurtry." Bibliography of United States Literature. Editor, Matthew Bruccoli. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark, 1991: 342-343. Busby, Mark. "Larry McMurtry." Twentieth-Century Western Writers, 1st edition. Editor, James Vincent. Detroit: Gale, 1982: 534-36; 2nd edition. Editor, Geoff Sadler. Chicago: St. James, 1991: 459-461. 8

Busby, Mark. "Robert Flynn." Twentieth-Century Western Writers. Editor, James Vincent. Detroit: Gale, 1982: 301-302; 2nd edition. Editor, Geoff Sadler. Chicago: St. James, 1991: 240-241. Busby, Mark. "Texas Literature in the 1990s." Writers' Guide to Texas Markets. 2nd edition. Editor, Georgia Kemp Caraway. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1991: 29-40. Busby, Mark. "William Kennedy." Bibliography of United States Literature. Editor, Matthew Bruccoli. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark, 1991: 273. Busby, Mark. "Paul Barrus, East Texas, and the Persistence of Memory." Essays in Honor of Paul Barrus. Commerce, TX: East Texas State University Press, 1990: 79-90. Busby, Mark. "Introduction: Frontier Writing as a 'Great Tradition' of American Literature" (with David Mogen and Paul Bryant). In The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature [see above]: 3-12. Busby, Mark. "The Significance of the Frontier in Contemporary American Fiction." In The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature [see above]: 95-103. Busby, Mark. "The Trash Trilogy: Leaving Texas." In Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook: 259-269 [see above]. Busby, Mark. "Damn the Saddle on the Wall: Anti-Myth in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By." In Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook. General Editor, R. C. Reynolds: 181- 186 [see above]. Reprinted from New Mexico Humanities Review 3 (Summer 1980): 5-10. Busby, Mark. "Contemporary Western Drama." In The Literary History of the American West. Editor, J. Golden Taylor. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1987: 1222-1234 Busby, Mark. "William Kennedy." Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1985. Editor, Jean Ross. Detroit: Gale, 1986: 387-394. Busby, Mark. "Ken Kesey." In Twentieth-Century Western Writers. Editor, James Vincent. Detroit: Gale, 1982: 452-453. (1) Creative Books: Busby, Mark. Through Our Years: Occasional Poems 1960-2017. Beaumont: Lamar Univ. Press, 2017. Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing: A Novel. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2013. Busby, Mark. Fort Benning Blues: A Novel. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2001. (2) Creative Works in Books: Busby, Mark. “Bring Lyndon Home” (fiction). Texas Soundtrack. Temple: Ink Brush Press, 2011: 54-65. Busby, Mark. "The Sacred Hoop" (fiction). Falling from Grace: A Literary Response to the Demise of Paradise. Editors, Rick Bass and Paul Christensen. San Antonio: Wings Press, 2004: 67-69. Busby, Mark. “The Possum” (fiction). Texas Short Fiction II. Dallas: Browder Springs Press, 2000: 633-639. Busby, Mark. “The Promise” (fiction read). Texas Short Fiction. Dallas: Browder Springs Press, 1997: 109-114. 2. Articles a. (1) Refereed Journal Articles: Busby, Mark. “Remembering John Graves 1920-2013” Southwestern American Literature 39.1 (Fall 2013): 91-92. Busby, Mark. "ASLE: The Beginning." Journal of Ecocritism. 5.1 (January 2013). 12. *Busby, Mark. "Rolling the Stone, Sisyphus, and the Epilogue of Blood Meridian. Southwestern American Literature 36.3 (Summer 2011): 87-95. *(refereed by guest editor Rick Wallach). *Busby, Mark. "West of Everywhere: The Pecos River in Literature and Film." Southwestern American Literature 33.2 (Spring 2008): 73-95. *(refereed by guest editor Jim Kimmel) 9

*Busby, Mark. “J. Frank Dobie: Who Replaced Him?” Southwestern American Literature . 32.1 (Fall 2006): 79-93. *(refereed by guest editor Richard Holland) Busby, Mark. "J. Frank Dobie's A Vaquero of the Brush Country : A Reevaluation." Cross Timbers Review 3.1 (1986): 5-11. Busby, Mark. "E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime and the Dialectics of Change.” The Ball State University Forum 26.3 (1985): 39-44; reprinted in Critical Essays on E. L. Doctorow . Editor, Ben Siegel. New York: Twayne/G.K. Hall, 2000: 177-184. Busby, Mark. "Faulknerian Elements in Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley. " MELUS 15.4 (1984): 103-109. Busby, Mark. "Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato : Finding the End of Vision." Proceedings of the Conference of College Teachers of English of Texas 47 (1982): 20-30. Busby, Mark. "Castaways, Cannibals, and the Function of Art in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift ." The South Central Bulletin 41 (Winter 1981): 91-94. Busby, Mark. "Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Ken Kesey Passed by Here." Western American Literature 15 (Summer 1980): 83-92. Busby, Mark. " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : Many Followed." Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 11 (1980): 28-34. Busby, Mark. "ZZZZZZ." Adjutant General Journal 2 (March 1972): 20-21.

a. (2) Stories, Poems, and Other Creative Works in Refereed Journals: Busby, Mark. “Fort Benning Redux” (fiction). Writing Texas 2016 (forthcoming) . Texas Association of Creative Writng. Busby, Mark.“Can’t Help But Wonder Where We’re Bound” (fiction). The Mayo Review 50 , Spring 2015: 1-10 . Busby, Mark. “Bring Lyndon Home” (fiction). The Mayo Review, The Mayo Review 50 , Spring 2015: 11--22 . Busby, Mark. “The Sacred Hoop” (fiction). New Texas 2000 . Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2000: 247-258. Busby, Mark. "The Cotton Mill" (poem). Welter 1 (Spring 1983): 25. Busby, Mark. "Crossing Over" (one-act play). RE: Artes Liberales 8 (Spring 1982): 45-62. Busby, Mark. "These Are the Days When Words Come Back" (poem). English in Texas 11 (Fall 1979): 11. Busby, Mark. "Oral Exam" (poem). Studies in Poetry 1 (Spring 1976): 10. Busby, Mark. "Slow Pitch" (poem). The Old Red Kimono 5 (Spring 1976), n.p. b. Non-refereed Articles: b. (1) in Southwestern American Literature (most recent): Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: A Sense of an Ending, of a Beginning” Southwestern American Literature 37.2 (Spring 2012): 6 Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: Adiós Twister, ¡Bienvenido David!” Southwestern American Literature 37.1 (Fall 2011): 6. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: A Season of Extremes.” Southwestern American Literature 36.2 (Spring 2011): 7. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: Phases and Stages.” Southwestern American Literature 36.1 (Fall 2010): 5. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: Dark and Deep, but Not Lovely.” Southwestern American Literature 35.2 (Spring 2010): v. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: Stylin’.” Southwestern American Literature 35.1 (Fall 2009): vii. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: Literary Anodynes.” Southwestern American Literature 34.2 (Spring 2009): v. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: Waiting for the Bomb.” Southwestern American Literature 34.1 (Fall 2008): vi. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Page: The Pecos River—Past, Present, and Future.” 10

Southwestern American Literature 33.2 (Spring 2008): v. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Editors' Page." Southwestern American Literature. Thirty- two issues from 17.1 (Fall 1992) to 33.1 (Fall 2007) included untitled editors’ pages. b. (2) in Texas Books in Review: Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Note: Movin' On,” in Texas Books in Review 32.2 (Summer 2012): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Note: Endings and Beginnings,” in Texas Books in Review 31.4 &32.1 (Winter/Spring 2011-12): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Note: Rode Hard, Put Away Wet,” in Texas Books in Review 31.3 (Fall 2011): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Note: Texas is Burning,” in Texas Books in Review 31.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Note: A Long Winter of Discontent,” in Texas Books in Review 30.4 (Winter 2010/2011): 1. Busby, Mark. “Editors’ Note: A Colorful Present, a Varied Future,” in Texas Books in Review 30.2&3 (Summer/Fall 2010): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Editors’ Note: Winning Texas Style,” in Texas Books in Review 30.1 (Spring 2010): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “A Change is Gonna Come,” in Texas Books in Review 29.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2009): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “The Passing Southwest,” in Texas Books in Review 29.2 (Summer 2009): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Texas Warming,” in Texas Books in Review 29.1 (Spring 2009): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “The Cultural Divide,” in Texas Books in Review 28.3&4 (Winter 2008/2009): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words,” in Texas Books in Review 28.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2008): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Cormac Redux,” in Texas Books in Review 27.4 (Winter 2007/2008): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “And the Winners Are…,” in Texas Books in Review 27.2&3 (Summer/Fall 2007): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. “Literary Awards—Texas Style,” in Texas Books in Review 27.1 (Spring 2007): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Winds of Change: Our Ten Years of TBR,” in Texas Books in Review 26.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2006/2007): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Drab and Dazzling," in Texas Books in Review 26.2 (Summer 2006): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Border Crossings: Spring 2006,” in Texas Books in Review 26.1 (Spring 2006): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Nostalgia in These Changing Times,” in Texas Books in Review 25.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2005/2006): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Beyond Katrina,” in Texas Books in Review. 25.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Reviewing Texas Culture,” in Texas Books in Review. 24.4 (Winter 2004/2005): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "From Big Bend to Texas Literary Outlaws and Beyond,” in Texas Books in Review. 24.2&3 (Summer-Fall 2004): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Award Season for Letters," in Texas Books in Review 24.1 (Spring 2004): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Traveling Texas," in Texas Book in Review 23.4&4 (Fall/Winter 2003-04): 1. 11

Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Dog Days, Summer 2003," in Texas Book in Review 23.2 (Summer 2003): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Of Wars, Awards, Ranches, Killer Ds, and Spring," in Texas Books in Review 23.1 (Spring 2003): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Raining on Texas," in Texas Books in Review 22.3/4 (Fall/Winter 2002): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "The Great Flood of 2002,” in Texas Books in Review 22.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2002): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "On Changing Names ,” in Texas Books in Review 21.4 (Winter 2001): 1 Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Nine-One-One ,” in Texas Books in Review 21.2&3 (Summer/Fall 2001): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "From the Familiar to the New ,” in Texas Books in Review 21.1 (Spring 2001): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Of Chad and George, of Cormac and Matt ,” in Texas Books in Review 20.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2000): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Watching the Texas Scene ,” in Texas Books in Review 20.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "An Adiós ,” in Texas Books in Review 19.4 (Winter 1999): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Ironic Conjunto, ” in Texas Books in Review 19.3 (Fall 1999): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Summer’s Passings ,” in Texas Books in Review 19.2 (Summer 1999): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Spring into, in Texas Books,” in Texas Books in Review 19.1 (Spring 1999): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Flicking, in Texas Books ,” in Texas Books in Review 18.3&4 (Fall/Winter 1998): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "More Die in Heat,” in Texas Books in Review 18.2 (Summer 1998): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. " Twists and Turns Along the Texas Literary Trail,” in Texas Books in Review 17.4&18.1 (Winter/Spring 1997/1998): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "From the Editors: Autumnal Texas,” in Texas Books in Review 17.3 (Fall 1997): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Summer Heat,” in Texas Books in Review 17.2 (Summer 1997): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "Different Spring for This Issue,” in Texas Books in Review 17.1 (Spring 1997): 1. Busby, Mark, and Dick Heaberlin. "From the Editors,” in Texas Books in Review 16.3&4 (Fall/Winter 1996): 1.

6. Book Reviews: Busby, Mark. The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 34.2 (Fall 2014). Busby, Mark. Country of the Bad Wolfes: A Novel by James Carlos Blake, in Southwestern American Literature 37.2 (Spring 2012): 90. Busby, Mark. Roll On: A Trucker’s Life on the Road by Fred Afflerbach, in Texas Books in Review 32.2 (Summer 2012): 14. Busby, Mark. Texas Almanac 2012-2013 edited by Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez and Robert Plocheck, in Texas Books in Review 31.4&32.1 (Winter/Spring 2011-12): 16. Busby, Mark. The Road to Roma and Other Stories by Dave Kuhne, in Texas Books in Review 31.3 (Fall 2011): 17. Busby, Mark. Comanche Sundown by Jan Reid, in Texas Books in Review 31.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 11. Busby, Mark. State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents by Don Graham, in Texas Books 12

in Review 30.4 (Winter 2010/2011): 1. Busby, Mark. Day Out of Days: Stories by Sam Shepard, in Texas Books in Review 30.2&3 (Fall/Winter 2010): 16-17. Busby, Mark. Siren Songs from the Heart of Austin by Andrew Geyer, in Texas Books in Review 30.1 (Spring 2010): 19. Busby, Mark. Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald by Harold J. Weiss, Jr ., in Texas Books in Review 30.1 (Spring 2010): 4. Busby, Mark. The West of the Imagination, 2 nd edition by William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann, in Texas Books in Review 35.1 (Fall 2009): 62-63. Busby, Mark. Rhino Ranch by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 29.2 (Summer 2009): 8-9. Busby, Mark. Inspiration Texas Style by Wyman Meinzer, in Texas Books in Review 29.1 (Spring 2009): 3. Busby, Mark. Notes from Texas: On Writing in the Lone Star State edited by W. C. Jameson, in Texas Books in Review 28.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2008/2009): 13. Busby, Mark. Shavetail: A Novel by Thomas Cobb, in Southwestern American Literature 34.1 (Fall 2008): 143-145. Busby, Mark. State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies by Don Graham, in Texas Books in Review 28.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2008): 11. Busby, Mark. Unbridled Cowboy by Joseph B. Fussell, in Texas Books in Review 28.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2008): 12. Busby, Mark. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove by Bill Wittliff , in Texas Books in Review 27.2&3 (Summer/Fall 2007): 12. Busby, Mark. The Courthouses of Texas, 2nd edition by Mavis P. Kelsey Sr. and Donald H. Dyal, in Texas Books in Review 27.1 (Spring 2007): 7. Busby, Mark . The Road by Cormac McCarthy , in Texas Books in Review 27.1 (Spring 2007): 17. Busby, Mark. Chasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man’s Search for the West by W. K. Stratton, in Texas Books in Review 26.1 (Spring 2006): 15. Busby, Mark. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee, in Texas Books in Review 25.3, 4 (Fall/Winter 2005-06): 22. Busby, Mark. One Ranger: A Memoir by H. Joaquin Jackson and David Marion Wilkinson, in Texas Books in Review 25.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 15. Busby, Mark. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, in Texas Books in Review 25.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 27; Southwestern American Literature 31.1 (Fall 2005): 79-82. Busby, Mark. Myself and Strangers: A Memoir of Apprenticeship by John Graves, in Texas Books in Review 34.2&3 (Summer/Fall 2004): 31-32. Busby, Mark. Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 24.1 (Spring 2004): 20-21. Busby, Mark. The Art of Tom Lea: A Memorial Edition compiled by Kathleen G. Hjerter, in Texas Books in Review 23.2 (Summer 2003): 1. Busby, Mark. The Wandering Hill by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 23.2 (Summer 2003): 21. Busby, Mark. Isle of Misfortune by Geoffrey Leavenworth, in Texas Books in Review 23.1 (Spring 2003): 22. Busby, Mark. By Sorrow's River: The Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry, in Southwestern American Literature 29.2 (Spring 2003): 97-98. Busby, Mark. July, July by Tim O'Brien , in Texas Books in Review 22.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2002): 1. Busby, Mark . Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 by Roger A. Hall, in Western American Literature 38.1 (Spring 2003); Southwestern American Literature 28.1 (Fall 2002): 94. 13

Busby, Mark. Wamba by Max Crawford, in Southwestern American Literature 27.1 (Spring 2002): 109. Busby, Mark. Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 22.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2002): 22. Busby, Mark. Quincie Bolliver by Mary King, in Texas Books in Review 21.4 (Winter 2001): 13. Busby, Mark. Reynolds by Donley Watt, in Texas Books in Review 21.4 (Winter 2001): 20. Busby, Mark. Paradise by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 21.1 (Spring 2001): 20; in Austin Chronicle , July 13, 2001. Busby, Mark. Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People by Keith L. Bryant, in Southwestern American Literature 27.1 (Fall 2001): 102 Busby, Mark. Sacagawea’s Nickname: Essays on the American West by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 21.2&3 (Summer/Fall 2001): 22. Busby, Mark. Zuni and the American Imagination by Eliza McFeely, in Southwestern American Literature 26.2 (Spring 2001): 109; in Austin Chronicle , August 24, 2001. Busby, Mark. The Nature of Generosity by William Kittredge , in Austin Chronicle , March 3, 2001. Busby, Mark. Boystown: La Zona De Tolerancia Essays by Dave Hickey, Keith Carter, and Cristina Pacheco, in Texas Books in Review 21.1 (Spring 2001): 10. Busby, Mark. Ezekiel ’s Horse by Keith Carter, in Texas Books in Review 21.1 (Spring 2001): 10. Busby, Mark. Paradise by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 21.1 (Spring 2001): 17. Busby, Mark. Boone’s Lick: A Novel by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 20.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2000): 1; in Austin Chronicle , Dec. 29, 2000 Busby, Mark. Safe Delivery by Jim Sanderson, in Texas Books in Review 20.3&4 (Fall/Winter 2000): Austin Chronicle , Fall/Winter 2000. Busby, Mark. Roads: Driving America’s Great Highways by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 20.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 24, 27; in Austin Chronicle , Aug. 4, 2000. Busby, Mark. Ten Texas Feuds by C. L. Sonnichsen, in Southwestern American Literature 26.1 (Fall 2000): 94; in Austin Chronicle , November 10, 2000. Busby, Mark. The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan, in Austin Chronicle 20.14 (March 24, 2000 ); in Texas Books in Review 19.4 (Winter 1999): 14. Busby, Mark. Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry, in Austin Chronicle 18.42 (June 18-24, 1999) : 14-15. Busby, Mark. Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women’s Writing by Krista Comer, in Southwestern American Literature 25.2 (Spring 2000): 92-93. Busby, Mark. Cesar A. Martinez: A Retrospective edited by Carey Rote, in Texas Books in Review 19.2 (Fall/Winter 1998): 20. Busby, Mark. Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison, in Austin Chronicle 18.36 (June 17, 1999): 33. Busby, Mark. Understanding Women by C.W. Smith, in Texas Books in Review 19.1 (Spring 1999): 18. Busby, Mark. State of Mind: Reflections on Texas Literature and Culture by Tom Pilkington, in Texas Books in Review 19.1 (Spring 1999): 20; in Austin Chronicle 18.30 (May 12, 1999): 39. Busby, Mark. Duane’s Depressed and Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry, in Austin Chronicle 18.25 (Feb. 19, 1999): 40. Busby, Mark. The Smiling Country by Elmer Kelton, in Texas Books in Review 18.3&4 (Fall/Winter 1998): 18. Busby, Mark. Texas Sky by Wyman Meinzer, in Texas Books in Review 18.2 (Fall/Winter 1998): 11. Busby, Mark. Giant Country: Essays on Texas by Don Graham, in Texas Books in Review 18.2 (Summer 1998): 21-22. Busby, Mark. Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy, in Austin American Statesman , May 1998. 14

Busby, Mark. Encounters with the Other: A Personal Journey by John Howard Griffin, in Southwestern American Literature 23.2 (Spring 1998): 87-88. Busby, Mark. Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me by Robert Bonnazzi, in Texas Books in Review 17.4 (Winter/Spring 1997/1998): 21. Busby, Mark. Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 17.3 (Fall 1997): 13. Busby, Mark. Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film by Lee Clark Mitchell, in Pacific Historical Quarterly (Spring 1998): 99. Busby, Mark. A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show by Clay Reynolds, with Marie-Madeleine Schein, in Great Plains Quarterly (Spring 1998). Busby, Mark. Texas Granite: Story of a World War II Hero by Mary Hartman, in Texas Books in Review 17.2 (Summer 1997): 14. Busby, Mark . Cruising Paradise by Sam Shepard, in Southwestern American Literature 22.1 (Spring 1997): 130-131. Busby, Mark. True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure Fiction by Larry L. King, in Texas Books in Review 17.1 (Spring 1997): 22. Busby, Mark. Updating the Literary West , in Southwestern American Literature 22.1 (Fall 1997): 130-131. Busby, Mark. Comanche Moon by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 17.3 (Fall 1997): 20. Busby, Mark. Madonna, Maleva by Ewing Campbell, in Southwestern American Literature 20.1 (Spring 1996): 143-144. Busby, Mark. The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer, in Southwestern American Literature 19.2 (Fall 1995): 141-143. Busby, Mark. Essays on The Changing Images of the Southwest , edited by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett, in Southwestern American Literature 19.2 (Fall 1995): 137-138. Busby, Mark. Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 14.4 (Winter 1994): 3. Busby, Mark. Songs of My Hunter Heart: A Western Kinship and When Coyote Howls: A Lavaland Fable by Robert Franklin Gish, in Southwestern American Literature 20.1 (Fall 1994): 124-125. Busby, Mark. The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, in Southwestern American Literature 19.2 (Spring 1994): 104-105. Busby, Mark. Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry, in Southwestern American Literature 19.1 (Fall 1993): 104-105. Busby, Mark. The Evening Star by Larry McMurtry, in Southwestern American Literature 18.1 (Fall 1992): 89-90. Busby, Mark. Only Sons by Genaro Gonzalez, in Texas Books in Review 12.1 (Spring 1992): 3. Busby, Mark. 1941: Texas Goes to War , in The Dallas Morning News , December 8, 1991: 6-7J. Busby, Mark. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry, in Texas Books in Review 11.3 (Summer 1991). Busby, Mark. Speaking For You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison , edited by Kimberly W. Benston; New Essays on Invisible Man, edited by Robert O'Meally; Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon by Alan Nadel, in South Central Review 7.2 (Summer 1990): 95- 98. Busby, Mark. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Rising to Heroism by M. Gilbert Porter, in Western American Literature 25 (1990): 147-148. Busby, Mark. The Heirs of Franklin Woodstock by Benjamin Capps, in Texas Books in Review 10.1 (Spring 1990): 10. Busby, Mark. The Preacher's Boy by Terry Pringle, in Texas Books in Review 8.3 (Fall 1988): 9. Busby, Mark. Howard Hawks: A Jungian Study by Clark Branson, in Western American Literature 23 (1988): 147-148. Busby, Mark. Southwest Tales , edited by Alurista and Xelina Rojas-Urista, in Western American Literature 22 (1987): 268. 15

Busby, Mark. Texasville by Larry McMurtry, in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , Aug. 15, 1987: 14. Busby, Mark. John Ford: The Man and His Films by Tag Gallagher, in Western American Literature 22 (1987): 186-187; also in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , April 18, 1987: 14. Busby, Mark. Ernest Hemingway: Journalist and Artist by J. F. Kobler, in South Central Review (1987): 118-119; also in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , August 16, 1986: 14. Busby, Mark. Southwestern Fiction 1960-1980: A Classified Bibliography by Mary Lee Morris, in Western American Literature 21 (1987): 382-383. Busby, Mark. The Vigil by Clay Reynolds, in Lamar Journal of the Humanities 12 (Fall 1986): 47-48. Busby, Mark. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut, Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , November 2, 1985: 19; reprinted in Abilene Reporter-News , Nov. 17, 1985: 6E; and in Corsicana Daily Sun , November 17,1985: 4C. Busby, Mark. The Cider House Rules by John Irving, in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , June 8, 1985: 19-20. Busby, Mark. The Vestal Virgin Room by C.W. Smith, in Texas Writers' Newsletter 38, 39 (1984): 8-9. Busby, Mark. Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon, in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , June 23, 1984: 1BB. Busby, Mark. Jacob's Well by Stephen Harrigan, in Texas Humanist 6 (July-August 1984): 43. Busby, Mark. The Texas Literary Tradition , edited by Don Graham, James W. Lee, and William T. Pilkington, in Texas Humanist ; Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , May 16, 1984: 4BB. Busby, Mark. Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright, Book Week, Bryan-College Station Eagle , January 7, 1984: 1BB. Busby, Mark. Hawkflights: Visions of the West by Gerald Haslam and Western Edge by Thomas Zigal, Book Week, Bryan-College Station Eagle , July 16, 1983: 11. (Reprinted in Texas Writers' Newsletter , Spring 1983.) Busby, Mark. The Desert Rose by Larry McMurtry, Book Week, Bryan-College Station Eagle , October 8, 1983: 1BB. Busby, Mark. Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson, Book Week, Bryan-College Station Eagle , August 6, 1983: 10. Busby, Mark. Horace McCoy by Mark Winchell, Will Henry/Clay Fisher by Robert Gale, Jessamyn West by Ann Farmer, The New Wild West by Paul Skenazy, and Mabel Dodge Luhan by Jane Nelson, Book Week, Bryan College Station Eagle , March 19, 1983: 10. (Reprinted in Texas Writers' Newsletter , Spring 1983.) Busby, Mark. This Quiet Dust and Other Writings by William Styron, Book Week, Bryan-College Station Eagle , January 29, 1983: 10. Busby, Mark. The Last Texas Hero by Douglas Terry, Western American Literature 17.4 (1983): 360-361. Busby, Mark. "The Junk Man" (review-essay of Larry McMurtry's Cadillac Jack ), in Texas Books in Review 2 (1983); 20-21; also reviewed in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , Dec. 11, 1982: 10. Busby, Mark. Houston by Louise Horton, in Texas Writer's Newsletter , 1982. Busby, Mark. Twentieth Century Literary Naturalism by Donald Pizer, The South Central Bulletin 12 (Spring-Summer 1982): 27. Busby, Mark. God's Grace by Bernard Malamud, in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , Sept. 11, 1982: 14. Busby, Mark. Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., in Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , Sept. 11, 1982: 14. Busby, Mark. Peckinpah: The Western Films by Paul Seydor, in Western American Literature 15 (1981): 309-310. 16

Busby, Mark. Darlin' Bill by Jerome Charyn, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Feb. 15, 1981: 14. Busby, Mark. How German Is It by Walter Abish, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Apr. 12, 1981: 14. Busby, Mark. Consenting Adults: Or the Duchess Will Be Furious by Peter Devries, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Sept. 21, 1981: 20. Busby, Mark. A Friend in the Police by John Givens, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , July 20, 1980: 17. Busby, Mark. Of Outlaws, Con Men, Whores, Politicians & Other Artists by Larry King, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , May 4, 1980: 39. Busby, Mark. A Game Men Play by Vance Bourjaily, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Mar. 2, 1980: 18. Busby, Mark. The Apathetic Bookie Joint by Daniel Fuchs, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Feb. 17, 1980: 39. Busby, Mark. Horn of Africa by Philip Caputo, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Aug. 27, 1980: 17. Busby, Mark. The Catfish Man by Jerome Charyn, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Apr. 20, 1980: 18. Busby, Mark. A Political Fable by Robert Coover, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Apr. 10, 1980: 22. Busby, Mark. Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner , edited by Joseph Blotner, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Dec. 23, 1979: 18. Busby, Mark. Vision Quest by Terry Davis, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Dec. 23, 1979: 19. Busby, Mark. The Seventh Babe by Jerome Charyn, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Sept. 11, 1979: 12. Busby, Mark. The Bass Saxophone by Josef Skvorecky, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , June 24, 1979: 38. Busby, Mark. The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Apr. 22, 1979: 12. Busby, Mark. Dubin's Lives by Bernard Malamud, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Mar. 11, 1979: 12. Busby, Mark. Recapitulation by Wallace Stegner, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Apr. 1, 1979: 32. Busby, Mark. Apalachee Red by Raymond Andrews, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Feb. 18, 1979: 13. Busby, Mark. Somebody's Darling by Larry McMurtry, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Jan. 14, 1979: 35. Busby, Mark. 1985 by Anthony Burgess, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Dec. 31, 1978: 30. Busby, Mark. The Suicide's Wife by David Madden, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Dec. 3, 1978: 40. Busby, Mark. James Jones: A Friendship by Willie Morris, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Nov. 19, 1978: 14. Busby, Mark. Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Oct. 8, 1978: 13. Busby, Mark. Like Father by David Black, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Oct. 29, 1978: 16. Busby, Mark. Blood Secrets by Craig Jones, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Sept. 24, 1978: 17. Busby, Mark. Bridge to Bonito Island by B. S. Tillinghast, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Sept. 17, 1978: 21. Busby, Mark. A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , 17 Sept. 1978: 21. Busby, Mark. The Changeling by Joy Williams, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Aug. 27, 1978: 17. Busby, Mark. Healing Time by Anthony Owen Colby in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Aug. 27, 1978: 17. Busby, Mark. And Never Said a Word by Heinrich Boll, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Aug. 13, 1978: 22. Busby, Mark. Selena by Ernest Brawley, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , Aug. 5, 1978: 17. 17

Busby, Mark. Five Days in June by Stefan Heym, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , July 30, 1978: 17. Busby, Mark. Shrinking by Alan Lelchuk, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , July 9, 1978: 19. Busby, Mark. The Wars by Timothy Findley, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , June 4, 1978: 20. Busby, Mark. Night Flights by Matt Cohen, in Zest: Houston Chronicle , June 18, 1978: 18.

7. Other a. Note: Busby, Mark . Review of film version of The Road . Director, John Hillcoat. Cast, Viggo Mortenson, Cody Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall. Dimension Films, 111 minutes, in The Cormac McCarthy Journal 7.1 Fall 2009: 45-46. Busby, Mark. "James K. Folsom: 1925-1988" in Western American Literature, Fall 1989. b. Newspaper Articles: Busby, Mark. “Pared Posthumous Publications.” Austin Chronicle 18.42 (June 18-24, 1999): 40. Busby, Mark. "Some Texas Favorites." Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , Sept. 22, 1984: 1BB, 8BB. Busby, Mark. "John Gardner--1933-1982." Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , October 9, 1982: 14. Busby, Mark. "John Cheever--A Reflection." Saturday Magazine, Bryan-College Station Eagle , July 10, 1982: 14-15.

B. Works not in Print

1. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings: Busby, Mark. "My Night with Ken Kesey ." Western Literature Assn. Reno, NV. Oct. 2015.
Busby, Mark. "Leavening Humor in Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plains ." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 2015, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "Back in the Saddle? Larry McMurtry's The Last Kind Words Saloon." Western Literature Assn. Victoria, BC. Nov. 2014.
Busby, Mark. “Defining Elements of Southwestern Literature.” Humanities Texas: Literature of the American Southwest Conference. Texas State University. September 26, 2014. (45 Texas teachers) Busby, Mark. “A Journey through Southwestern Literature.” American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective Conference. Texas State University. June 4, 2014. (30 German graduate students, Center for the Study of the Southwest and Bavarian American Academy) Busby, Mark. "Last Ferry to Puntarenos" (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Sept. 2014, Dallas, TX. Busby, Mark. "Next Thing on My Mind" (fiction reading). Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 2014, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "Old Men Remembering Wars: Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees and McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 9-12, 2013, Berkeley, CA. Busby, Mark. "Jennifer Egan’s Goon Squad Visits the Literary Tradition." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 2013, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "The Old Scotchman, Jack Ruby, Willy, and Boy" (fiction reading). Western American Literature Association Conference. Oct. 2012, Lubbock, TX. Busby, Mark. "ASLE: The Beginning." Western American Literature Association Conference. Oct. 2012, Lubbock, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Clay/Liston Fight” (fiction reading). Conference of College Teachers of English. March 2012, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. "True If It Didn't Happen: 21st Century Southwestern Historical Novels by Thomas Cobb, Jan Reid, James Carlos Blake, and Mark Busby." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 2012, Albuquerque, NM. 18

Busby, Mark. "Sam Shepard’s Day out of Days : Looking Back, Looking Forward." Western Literature Association Conference. October 2010, Prescott, AZ. Busby, Mark. "Rolling the Stone, Sisyphus, and the Epilogue of Blood Meridian ." Cormac McCarthy Society Conference. October 2010, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Late Larry McMurtry: The Sequel.” Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. February 2010, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "The Late Larry McMurtry." Western Literature Association Conference. October 2009, Spearfish, SD. Busby, Mark. "Elements of Cormac McCarthy and Larry McMurtry in Thomas Cobb’s Shavetail ." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. February 2009, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. " Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men and the Amalgamation of Dualities." Western Literature Association Conference. October 2008, Boulder, CO. Busby, Mark. "They Went On...and On...and On: Southwestern Elements in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. February 2008, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. “Teaching John Graves’ Goodbye to a River .” American Studies Association of Texas Conference. Nov. 2007, East Texas Baptist University, Marshall, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Pecos River in Southwestern Literature and Film.” The Pecos River: Past, Present, and Future Conference. March 9, 2007, Texas Rivers Center, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "John Graves, Writer." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. February 2007, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. “John Graves, Writer.” American Studies Association of Texas Conference. November 16-18, 2006, Baylor University, Waco, TX. Busby, Mark. “John Graves, Texas Writer, International Writer." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference. October 12-14, 2006, Tucson, AZ. Busby, Mark. “J. Frank Dobie, Writer.” Dobie Day Symposium. April 8, 2006, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Shadows of Friday Night Lights ." Texas/Southwest Popular, Culture Association. February 2006, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "Texas: South, West, Southwest." Texas State Historical Association Conference. March 2006, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. "Channeling Sergio and Clint: Robert Rodriguez' Southwestern Trilogy." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. February 2005, Albuquerque, NM; Western Literature Association. October 2005, Los Angeles, CA. Busby, Mark. "J. Frank Dobie: Who Replaced Him?" Texas State Historical Association Conference. March 2005, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. “Assessing the Tetralogy: Larry McMurtry’s Berrybender Narratives.” Western Literature Association Conference. Sept. 2004, Bozeman, MT. Busby, Mark. "Old John, Young John: John Graves' Memoir of Apprenticeship." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Oct. 2004, New Orleans, LA. Busby, Mark. “I Don’t Know But I Ain’t Lost: Defining the Southwest.” Regionalism and the Humanities Conference. Nov. 2003, Lincoln, NE. Busby, Mark. “Cormac McCarthy’s Hushabye and ‘All the Pretty [Little] Horses .’” Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 2002, Tucson, AZ. Busby, Mark. John Graves Symposium Leader. Sept. 2002, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, TX. Busby, Mark. African-American Literature Symposium Leader. April 2002, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, TX. Busby, Mark. “Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Texas Book Festival. Nov. 10, 2000, Austin. Busby, Mark. “Filmic/Antifilmic Elements in All the Pretty Horses .” Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting. Nov. 9, 2000, Austin. 19

Busby, Mark. “Elmer Kelton and the Art of the Sequel.” Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 24, 2000, Norman, OK. Busby, Mark. “Texas Writers Month: Cormac McCarthy.” Barnes and Noble, May 24, 2000, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. “Nature and Culture in Cormac McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain.” Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1999, Sacramento, CA. Busby, Mark. “The End of the Line: Duane’s Depressed and the Conclusion of the Archer City Trilogy.” South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 1999, Memphis, TN. Busby, Mark. “Roundtable: Regional Studies.” South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 1999, Memphis, TN. Busby, Mark. “Editor's Panel.” West Texas A&M Writers Conference. June 1999, Canyon, TX. Busby, Mark. “Into the Darkening Land, the World to Come: Cormac McCarthy's Border Crossings.” Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting. October 1998, El Paso, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Twinned View of Nature in the Texas Southwest.” American Literature Association Conference. May 1998, San Diego, CA. Busby, Mark. “Katherine Anne Porter and the Southwest: Ambivalence as Deep as the Bone.” Katherine Anne Porter Symposium. May 1998, Southwest Texas State University. Busby, Mark. “Windows to the Unknown: Cabeza de Vaca's and Estevanico’s Journeys to the Southwest.” Texas State Historical Association Conference. March 1998, Austin. Busby, Mark. “The Use and Abuse of History in Texas Literature.” South Central Modern Language Association. October 1997, Dallas, TX. Busby, Mark. “Larry McMurtry and West Texas.” Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1997, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. “Adventures with Texas Naturalist Roy Bedichek” and “The Southwest: A Symposium on BioRegionalism.” Association of Literature and Environment Biannual Meeting. July, 1997, Missoula, MT. Busby, Mark. "Into the Bloodred Sun: Cormac McCarthy's Border Crossings." South Central Modern Language Association. November 1996, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. “Cormac McCarthy and Frontier Gothic.” Western Literature Association Conference. October 1996, Lincoln, NE. Busby, Mark. Chair, Southwestern American Literature Sessions, Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 1996, Tulsa, OK; Feb. 1997, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. “Into the Darkening Land, the World to Come: Cormac McCarthy’s Border Crossings.” Western Literature Association Conference. October 1995, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Busby, Mark. "The Nihilistic Optimism of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy." South Central Modern Language Association. October 1995, Houston, TX. Busby, Mark. "Myth and Anti-Myth in Lonesome Dove ." Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 8.1995, Stillwater, OK. Busby, Mark. " Buffalo Girls : Larry McMurtry's Double Vision of the West." Western Literature Association Conference. October 1994, Salt Lake City, UT. Busby, Mark. "Larry McMurtry and the Anxiety of J. Frank Dobie's Influence." American Studies of Texas Annual Meeting. Nov. 18, 1994, Southwest Texas State University. Busby, Mark. "The Southwest by Women: A Response." South Central Modern Language Association. November 10, 1994, New Orleans, LA. Busby, Mark. "Blue Duck, Sitting Bull, No Ears, and Famous Shoes: Larry McMurtry's Indians.” South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 15, 1993, Austin. Busby, Mark. "Robert Flynn's Ambivalent Journeys.” Western American Literature Association Conference, Oct. 1992, Reno, NV. Busby, Mark. "Retracing Russell Lee's Steps" (panel discussion), Sept. 1992, Southwest Writers Collection, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "An East Texas Lynching: The Humphries/Greenhaw-Wilkinson Feud." Texas Folklore Society Annual Meeting. April 17, 1992, McKinney, TX. 20

Busby, Mark. "J. California Cooper: A Western Southern Writer?" American Women of Color Conference. May 28, 1992, Ocean City, MD. Busby, Mark. "Katherine Anne Porter: Ambivalence as Deep as the Bone." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Oct. 1991, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. "Oxymoron, Irony, and the End of the Frontier in Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1990, Denton, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Disappearing Arrival: Ralph Ellison's Hickman Stories." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Oct. 25-27, 1990, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. "Ralph Ellison's Southwestern Stories." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1989, Coeur D'Alene, ID. Busby, Mark. "The Frontier Myth and Philip Caputo's Indian Country ." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1988, Eugene, OR. Busby, Mark. "From History to Meditation: Frederick Douglass and William Styron." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Nov. 1987, Houston, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Frontier Denied? Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man ." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1987, Lincoln, NE. Busby, Mark. "Sam Shepard and Frontier Gothic." Western American Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1986, Durango, CO. Busby, Mark. "Visual and Narrative Knowledge in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo ." Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Feb. 1986, Louisville, KY. Busby, Mark. "The Significance of the Frontier in Contemporary American Fiction." Myth and American Experience Conference. Apr. 1986, and English Graduate Student Association Colloquium, Nov. 14, 1985, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "J. Frank Dobie's Ambivalence: A Vaquero of the Brush Country ." South Central Modern Language Association. Nov. 1985, Tulsa, OK. Busby, Mark. "The Western Plays of Lanford Wilson." Western American Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1985, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. "Doubling and Incest in Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night ." Twentieth Century Literature Conference. Feb. 1985, Louisville, KY. Busby, Mark. "The Significance of the Frontier in Contemporary Western Fiction." Western American Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1984, Reno, NV. Busby, Mark. "New World Literature in Old World Categories: Problems with the Traditional American Literature Anthology.” Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1983, St. Paul, MN. Busby, Mark. "Preston Jones and Sam Shepard: From Drag to Point in Western Drama." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1982, Denver, CO. Busby, Mark. "Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato : Finding the End of Vision." College English Association. Apr. 1982, Houston, TX. Busby, Mark. "Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird or Phoenix?" South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 24, 1981, Austin. Busby, Mark. "Preston Jones' New Mexico Plays." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 3, 1981, Boise, ID. Busby, Mark. "E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime and the Dialectics of Change." South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 31, 1981, Memphis, TN. Busby, Mark. "Bust a Gut: Frontier Themes and Stock Southwestern Humor in Preston Jones' A Texas Trilogy ." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 2, 1980, St. Louis, MO. Busby, Mark. "The New Frontier in Preston Jones' A Texas Trilogy ." Southwest Popular Culture Association. Feb. 1, 1980, Stillwater, OK. Busby, Mark. " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : Many Followed.” American Studies Association of Texas. Nov. 17, 1979, Denton, TX. Busby, Mark. "Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Ken Kesey Passed by Here." Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 5, 1979, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "Damn the Saddle on the Wall: Anti-Myth in Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By ." Modern Language Association. Dec. 30, 1978, New York, NY. 21

Busby, Mark. "Defining America: The Merging Adam-Christ Figure in Contemporary American Fiction." American Studies Association of Texas. Nov. 17, 1978, Beaumont, TX. Busby, Mark. "Bellow's Gift : Castaways and Cannibals, or Can Literature Take Us Home Again?" South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 21,1978, Houston, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Merging Adam-Christ Figure in Contemporary American Fiction." Conference on Christianity and Literature. Sept. 20,1978, Searcy, AR.

2. (a) Invited Talks, Lectures, Presentations:

Busby, Mark. Featured Author, launch of 2015 volume The Mayo Review . Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 23, 2105, Commerce, TX. Busby, Mark. Mark Busby. Writing workshop. The Mayo Review launch. Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 23, 2105, Commerce, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Scholar as Novelist, the Novelist as Scholar.” The Mayo Review launch. Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 23, 2105, Commerce, TX. Busby, Mark. Reading from Cedar Crossing . The Mayo Review launch. Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 23, 2105, Commerce, TX. Busby, Mark. “A Journey through Southwestern Literature.” American Studies in a Transatlantic Perspective Conference. Texas State University. June 4, 2014. Busby, Mark. “Defining Elements of Southwestern Literature.” Humanities Texas: Literature of the American Southwest Conference. Texas State University. September 26, 2014Busby, Mark. Moderator, "Dallas 1963 : A Conversation with Steven L. Davis and Bill Minutaglio." Oct. 24, 2013, Wittliff Collections, Texas State University. Busby, Mark. Presenter, "A Sprint through the Major Texas Writers 1542-2012." Texas Philosophical Society. Feb. 2, 2012, Adophus Hotel, Dallas, TX. Busby, Mark. “Regional Studies, Global Understanding.” Texas Council of Teachers of English. March 2009, University of Texas, Austin. Busby, Mark. Introduction, Opening Session, Closing Session, Introduction of Featured Speaker, Don Graham. American Studies Association of Texas Conference. Nov. 2008, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Making of Two Texas Legends: Elmer Kelton, Mark Busby on John Graves.” Moderator and presenter, Texas Book Festival. Nov. 2007, Austin. Busby, Mark. Moderator, Texas Book Festival. Nov. 2006, Austin. Busby, Mark. Moderator, Texas Book Festival. Nov. 2005, Austin. Busby, Mark. Organized and presided over Annual Meeting, Texas Institute of Letters. Apr. 2003, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. Organized and presided over Annual Meeting, Texas Institute of Letters. Apr. 2002, Galveston, TX. Busby, Mark. Moderator, “Vietnam from a Texas POV” (panel discussion). Nov. 2001, Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. “Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth: A Joycean Riff on Race.” ASU Writers Conference: Cultural Diversity in the Southwest. Feb. 22-24, 2001, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX. Busby, Mark. “Regional Studies/National Understanding.” SWT Philosophy Dept. Dialogue Series. Jan. 2001, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "Looking West/Southwest: Revising the Frontier Narrative." Annual English Department Lecture Series. March 28-30, 2000, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. Busby, Mark. "The End of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy." Eclecticos, KUT Radio, and Barnes and Noble. May 21, 1998, Austin. Busby, Mark. “The National Significance of Regional Studies.” ECU Annual Lecture. April 1997, East Central University, Ada, OK. Busby, Mark. “Elmer Kelton and Texas Literature.” Texas Literature Symposium. March 1997, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX. 22

Busby, Mark. “Larry McMurtry and Texas.” Faculty Lunch Bunch. Sept. 1997, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. “Pushing the Frontier Beyond the Limit: From Providence to Progress.” The Unfolding of America's National Identity International Conference. Oct. 1996, University of Eichstatt, Eichstatt, Germany. Busby, Mark. “A Journey through Texas Literature”: No Traveller Remains Untouched NEH Exhibit Openings. February 1997, Lubbock, TX; Oct. 1995, Corpus Christi, TX; June 1996, Amarillo, TX; Sept. 1996, Laredo, TX; Sept 1995, Galveston, TX. Busby, Mark. “‘I Don’t Know, But I Ain’t Lost’: Writing about Place.” West Texas A&M University Literary Festival. June 1995, Canyon, TX. Busby, Mark. Lectures on Contemporary American Fiction, Poetry, Culture, Educational Reform, Western American Literature, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, Ken Kesey and the Western Novel, and Sam Shepard. April 21-May 7, 1995, United States Information Agency, Bratislava and Nitra, Slovakia. Busby, Mark. "J. Frank Dobie and Larry McMurtry: Changing the Literary Landscape." The Making of Modern Texas Lecture Series. March 1, 1995, Texas A&M University at Galveston and the Rosenberg Library, Galveston, TX. Busby, Mark. "Two-Stepping across Texas." No Traveller Remains Untouched Discussion Series. Feb. 22, 1995, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "A Dialogue with Robert Flynn." The Spirit of Place Conference. July 5, 1991, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "Folklore, Fakelore, and Literature: The Creative Process." Writing About Folklore Symposium. Apr. 25, 1991, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. "Publishing Fiction: An Editor's Decisions." University of North Texas Spring Literary Festival. Apr. 13, 1991, Denton, TX. Busby, Mark. "Frogs, Fiction, and the Future: Texas Literature in the 1990s." Centennial Literary Festival. Apr. 20-22, 1990, University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Study of the Southwest." Apr. 10, 1991, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. "Introduction." Reading by Rudolfo Anaya, "(Re)producing Texts/(Re)presenting History." Sept. 28, 1989, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "Viewing Walkabout ." International Film Series. Apr. 1989, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "Teaching at Texas A&M." Presentation to new faculty. Sept. 1989, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "Paul Barrus, ETSU, and the Persistence of Memory." Paul Barrus Annual Lecture. Apr. 25, 1988, East Texas State University, Commerce, TX. Busby, Mark. Discussion Leader. "Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship." Apr. 22, 1988, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "From Naked to Nude: The Right Word." Writing Outreach, English Department. Oct. 1985, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "The History-English Link.” Writing Workshop. Jan. 1984, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "Tradition and Diversity in Contemporary American Fiction.” Brown Bag Seminar, Political Science Dept. Oct. 1983, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. "Galloping Avatars: Contemporary Western Drama.” Graduate Student Association. Apr. 1983, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. . Busby, Mark. "What is Southwestern Literature?" Teacher In-Service. March 3, 1980, Anson Jones School, Bryan, TX.

3. (b) Creative Readings: Busby, Mark. “Night Ferry to Punteranos” (fiction reading). September 2014, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Dallas, Texas.. 23

Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing: A Novel (fiction reading). September 2013, Wittliff Collections, Texas State-San Marcos. Busby, Mark. "I Can't Help but Wonder Where We're Bound" (fiction reading). Sept. 26-28, 2013, Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fort Worth. Busby, Mark. Cedar Crossing: A Novel (fiction reading). July 2013, Book People. Busby, Mark. “Bring Lyndon Home” (fiction reading). American Studies Association of Texas. Nov. 2010, Commerce, TX. Busby, Mark. “Cousin Hugh” (fiction reading), Texas Association of Creative Writers. Sept. 2010, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. “Elihu Garrett” (fiction reading). Langdon Literary Weekend. Sept. 2010, Granbury, TX. Busby, Mark. “John McDonald” (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writers. Sept. 2009, Lubbock, TX. Busby, Mark. “Old Man Wilkinson” (fiction reading). Langdon Literary Weekend. Sept. 2009, Granbury, TX. Busby, Mark. “Aunt Mag” (fiction reading). National American Culture/Popular Culture Association. Sept. 2008, San Angelo, TX. Busby, Mark. “Bill McDonald” (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writers. Sept. 2008, San Angelo, TX. Busby, Mark. John Graves, Writer : Writers League of Texas, Barnes and Noble, April 2007, Austin; Barnes and Noble, July 2007, College Station, TX; Barnes and Noble, May 2007, San Antonio, TX; Barnes and Noble, July 2007, Dallas, TX; Barnes and Noble, Aug, 2007, Houston, TX; Oct. 2007, Common Experience, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX; Oct. 2007, San Marcos Public Library, San Marcos, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Sacred Hoop“ reading and discussion of Falling from Grace in Texas , Writers in Performance Series:
Falling from Grace in Texas:
A Literary Response to the Demise of Paradise . March 2007, Montgomery College, Conroe, TX. Busby, Mark. “Whatever Happened to OC Class 10-70?” Southwest Festival. Oct. 25, 2006, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. Busby, Mark. “Cedar Crossing II,” (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. September 2004, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. “Cedar Crossing I” (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. September 2003, Fredericksburg, TX. Busby, Mark. Fort Benning Blues : Southwestern Writers Collection, April 2001, San Marcos, TX; Houston Baptist University, April 2001, Houston, TX; Barnes and Noble, Austin, April 2001, Barnes and Noble, College Station, TX; Barnes and Noble, May 2001, Corpus Christi, TX; Barnes and Noble, May 2001, Barnes and Noble, San Antonio, May 2003; Barnes and Noble, Houston; Barnes and Noble, June, 2001; Barnes and Noble, Dallas, July 2001, Abilene Book Festival September 2001, Abilene, TX; Texas Book Festival, Nov. 2001, Austin, Texas; Elmer Kelton Festival, Feb. 2002, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX; South Central Modern Language Association. Nov. 2003, Dallas, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Spirit of the Bayonet” (fiction reading). Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 1999, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. “Birthday Boy” (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. February 1999, Ingram, TX. Busby, Mark. “The Promise” (fiction reading). Montgomery County Arts Festival. August 1997, Lake Conroe, TX; Barnes and Noble Books, October 1997, Austin. Busby, Mark. “Tequila Mockingbird” (one of nine writers), Western Literature Association Conference. Oct. 1997, Albuquerque, NM. Busby, Mark. "Driving Rusty.” Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Feb. 1993, Kingsville, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Possum" (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Feb. 1992, Edinburg, TX. 24

Busby, Mark. "Taking Leave" (fiction reading). University of North Texas Literary Festival. Oct. 1992, Fort Worth, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Promise" (fiction reading). Fort Concho Literary Festival. Aug. 2, 1991, San Angelo, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Eighth Week Panel" (fiction reading). Popular Culture Association. April 1991, San Antonio, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Possum" (fiction reading). Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Feb. 1992, Edinburg, TX. Busby, Mark. "The Sacred Hoop" (fiction reading). Fort Concho Literary Festival. Aug. 2, 1991, San Angelo, TX. Busby, Mark. "Learning" (fiction reading). Fort Concho Museum Literary Festival. Aug. 4, 1990, San Angelo, TX. Busby, Mark. "At the End of Our Time" (fiction reading). Fiction Writers Special Session, South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 1989, New Orleans, LA.

2. (c) Performances: Busby, Mark. Participant, Reader's Theater. Western Literature Association Conference. October 2008, Boulder, CO. Busby, Mark. Participant, Reader's Theater. Western Literature Association Conference. October 2001, Omaha, NE. Busby, Mark, with G. W. Bailey. “John Graves’ Goodbye to a River : A Dialogue about Place.” Arts and Letters Live, Dallas Museum of Art. March 1995, Dallas, TX. Busby, Mark. Participant, Reader's Theater. Western Literature Association Conference. October 1990, Denton, TX. Busby, Mark. Participant, Reader's Theater. Western Literature Association Conference. October 1998, Coeur D'Alene, ID. Busby, Mark. Participant, Reader's Theater. Western Literature Association Conference. October 6, 1988, Eugene, OR. Busby, Mark. Played Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew , StageCenter Community Theater. October 1983, Bryan, TX. Busby, Mark. Played Mike Tremaine in The Oldest Living Graduate , StageCenter Community Theater. October 1981, Bryan, TX.

3. Consultancies: Busby, Mark, Consultant. Teaching Regional Studies, NEH. Oct. 2001, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC.

4. Workshops: Busby, Mark . Workshop on "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Southwest" for the Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. Oct. 2006, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX. Four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes for College Teachers on Teaching Regional Studies. June 1996, 2000, 2002, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX.

5. Other Film Reviews: Wrote, edited, and presented on-camera film reviews, College Station, TX, Public Television Station, KAMU-TV 1988 Moonstruck, The Last Emperor, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, Good Morning, Vietnam, Throw Momma from the Train, D.O.A. 1987 25

Broadcast News, Empire of the Sun, Someone to Watch Over Me, The Princess Bride, Wall Street, Less than Zero, Fatal Attraction, No Way Out, Robocop, Full Metal Jacket, Spaceballs, Lethal Weapon 1986 Platoon , Stand by Me, Peggy Sue Got Married, Out of Africa , The Color Purple 1985 Prizzi's Honor, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Killing Fields, Rustlers' Rhapsody, Mask, The Breakfast Club, Desperately Seeking Susan, Lost in America , Ladyhawke , St. Elmo's Fire, Moving Violations, Cocoon, Weird Science, Pale Rider, Back to the Future, Paris, Texas, Crossroads, Fletch, Volunteers, Brewster's Millions, The Cotton Club, 1984, Amadeus, Agnes of God, Witness, The Falcon and the Snowman , The Money Pit 1984 Entre Nous, The Bear , Oh God, You Devil, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Country, Beverly Hills Cop, Turk 182, The Woman in Red, Dreamscape, Irreconcilable Differences, Teachers, The Razor's Edge, Places in the Heart, Tightrope, A Soldier's Story, Fantasia, Revenge of the Nerds

E. Fellowships, Awards, Honors: 2015 Selected as Featured Author, The Mayo Review Launch, Texas A&M-Commerce. 2014 College of Liberal Arts Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity ($2000). Texas State University. 2012 Named Alpha Chi Honor Society Favorite Professor. Texas State University. 2012 Recipient, College of Liberal Arts Outside Funding Award, Texas State University. 2010 College of Liberal Arts Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity ($2000). Texas State University. 2007-2009 President, Vice-President, American Studies Association of Texas. 2002-2004 President, Texas Institute of Letters. 2002 President, South Central Modern Language Association. 2001 Vice-President, Texas Institute of Letters. 2000-2001 Vice-President, South Central Modern Language Association. 2001-2002 Secretary, Texas Institute of Letters. Nov. 2000 2nd place winner, Not-Cormac Contest, Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting, Austin, TX 1996 Co winner, Katherine Anne Porter Literary Festival, Katherine Anne Porter. Foundation, Kyle, Texas Fellow, Institute for Historical Literary Study, Texas A&M. 1988 Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Association of Former Students, Texas A&M ($2,000) Teacher/Scholar Award, Texas A&M Honors Program ($5,000) 1987 Reelected to Texas A&M Faculty Senate 1985 Elected to Executive Council, Western Literature Association Conference 1984 Elected to Texas A&M Faculty Senate 1981 Elected section officer, Contemporary Literature Section, South Central Modern Language Association 1980 Honorable Mention, Southwest Writers Literary Conference, Houston, Tx 1976 Recipient, George F. Reynolds Fellowship for Teaching, University of Colorado, Boulder 1975 Instructor Teaching Excellence Award, University of Colorado, Boulder 1975 Passed with Distinction, Ph.D. Oral Examination, University of Colorado, Boulder 1973 Vice President, Graduate English Association, University of Colorado, Boulder 1971 U.S. Army Commendation Medal, Fort Harrison, IN Meritorious Instructor Award, Adjutant General School, Fort Harrison, IN 1970 Honor Graduate, Adjutant General Officer Basic, Fort Harrison, IN Honor Graduate, Infantry Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, GA

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IV. SERVICE--Texas State University, San Marcos A. University Liberal Arts Representative. Multidisciplinary Internal Research Grant (MIRG) Review Committee, spring 2013. Director, Center for the Study of the Southwest, Aug. 1991-2012 Director, Southwest Regional Humanities Center, Dec. 2001-2012 Coditor, Southwestern American Literature 1992-2012, Texas Books in Review 1996-2012 Served as Liberal Arts representative on SACS QEP selection committee, spring 2008 Liberal Arts Council Search Committee, Multicultural and Gender Studies Director, 2000 Search Committee, Southwestern Writers Collection Curator, 1997 Advisory Committee, Aquarena Center, 1997-2002 Freeman Ranch Planning Team, 1994-2000

Sponsored, Cosponsored, and/or Introduced the following invited lecturers/readers: March 9, 1993 Rudolfo Anaya, Author, Reading from his work. September 2, 1993 Howard Lamar “ Texas Crossings/Crossing Texas: Comanches, Apaches, and New Western Historiography.” September 17, 1993 Thomas Green “Corn is Life and Expressive Pueblo Culture.” Sept. 24, 1993 Evangelina Vigil-Piñon, Author, “ Thirty An’ Seen A lot, Nade Y Nade.” October 7, 1993 N. Scott Momaday “Now and Then Voices: The Continuity of Native American Oral Tradition.” October 9, 1993 Gary Keller, Author, Zapata Rose in 1992&other Tales Chicano Cinema “Real Poetria.” October 22, 1993 Rebecca Bell-Metereau “American Indians and Film.” November 4, 1993 Elizabeth A. H. John “Indian Continuities in the Southwest.” November 5, 1993 Maxine Chernoff, Author, Reading from her work. November 8, 1993 Rolando Hinojosa, Author, Reading from his work. November 18, 1993 Ramona Ford “Contemporary Native American Women Leaders.” December 2, 1993 Barbara Babcock “ Mudwomen and Whitemen.” January 20, 1994 Gary Anderson “What Ethnohistory Can Tell Us About Texas Indians.” February 3, 1994 Dan Flores “Bison, Plains Indians, and Ecology.” February 18, 1994 Francine Carraro “American Indians in Art.” March 3, 1994 Frederick A. Hoxie “Southwestern Indian Leaders and Politicians.” March 25, 1994 Tricia Tingle “Indians and Law.” April 7, 1994 Rayna Green “Freedom Is an American Indian Woman: Indian Women at the Center of the American Universe.” April 22, 1994 Jaime Mejia “Chicanos and Indians: Mutual History/Mutual Culture.” May 5, 1994 Louis Owens “Living to Tell the Tale: American Indian Voices in Southwestern Literature.” October 27, 1994 Tino Villanueva, Author, Reading from his work. November 10, 1994 Richard L. Nostrand, Author, “The Hispano Homeland: A synopsis of his book.” November 28, 1994 Antonio I. Castañeda, Author, “Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites/Rights of Children as Translators of Cultures.” December 1, 1994 Marion Winik, Author, Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and other Flashes of Light. January-December 1995 “No Traveller Remains Untouched” (with Southwestern Writers Collection) discussions in San Marcos, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, and Galveston. February 16, 1995 F. E. Abernethy, Author, “A Folklorist Looks at Texas Journeys.” March 5, 1995 Clay Reynolds, Author/Lecture: The Vigil, Rage, Franklin’s Crossing “Let’s Call the ‘Thang’ Rodeo: The Professional Western Sport.” March 6, 1995 Robert L. Reid, Author, “Picturing Texas: Photographs from the Great Depression and the World War Era.” 27

March 23, 1995 Elmer Kelton, Author, Reading from his works. March 28, 1995 Dagoberto Gilb, Author, Reading from his works. April 7, 1995 Lynna Williams, Author, Reading from her works. September 19, 1995 Robert Flynn, Author, Living with the Hyenas . November 9, 1995 Robert Calvert, Author, “Texas and the New Western History.” November 28, 1995 Robert Gish, Author, First Horses: Stories of the New West. March 8, 1996 Clay Reynolds, Author/Lecturer, “Let’s Call the Thing Rodeo: The Professional Western Sport.” April 4, 1996 H. Jackson Clark, Author/Lecturer: “ Jackson Clark Recalls the Southwest: A Slide Memoir.” April 16, 1996 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Author, Carry Me Like Water. April 18, 1996 Charles Peek, Author/Lecturer, “From the Great Plains to a Whole Other Country: Places for Spaces and Spaces for Places”. July 29-Aug. 16, 1996 “Crossing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute”—twenty- five college teachers in an NEH summer institute. Nov. 8, 1996 Donald Chipman, Author, Spanish Texas, 1691-1692 “Domingo Teran de Los Rios: Texas’s Ungracious First Governor, 1691-1692.” Sept. 18, 1997 Clay Reynolds, Author, Reading from his work, Players. Sept. 22, 1997 Clay Reynolds, Author/Lecture, Players and “The Prophets of Prose .” Oct. 20, 1997 Michelle Boisseau, Author, Reading from her work. Oct. 29, 1997 J. Rhett Rushing Lecture, ” Texas Ghost Stories: Folklore Fieldwork in the Dark.” Mar. 18, 1998 Wendall Mayo Reading from his work. April 2, 1998 Paul Olson Lecture, “Does Cursing the Rain Make Drought?” Silko’s Ceremony and Deserts. April 8, 1998 Larry Woiwode, Author, What I’m Going To Do, I Think (1969)&Beyond the Bedroom Wall (1975). April 17, 1998 Wendell Mayo, Author, Centaur of the North. May 15, 1998 Katherine Anne Porter Symposium, Aquarena Center, San Marcos. Oct. 19, 1998 Leslie Silko, Reading from her forthcoming novel, with Dept. of English . Nov. 20-22, 1998 “Extending Southwestern Studies,” FIPSE Dissemination Conference for Angelo State University, East Central University, Northern Ariz. University, Sam Houston State University, and UTSA. March 30, 1999 Jayne Cortez Reading from her works, with Dept. of English. March 1999, Elderhostel, with Continuing Education, “Southwestern Culture.” October 1999 Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting-Co-sponsor, Menger Hotel, San Antonio, TX. October 1999 William Goetzmann, “Blood Meridian and My Confession as ‘New Western History,’" Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting (taped by C-SPAN). April 2000 Tim O’Brien (co-sponsor) Reading from his work (part of Southwest Regional Humanities Center planning symposium). June 3-29, 2000 “Traversing Borders: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute”—twenty-five college teachers in an NEH summer institute. Nov. 2000 Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting-Co-sponsor, La Quinta Capitol, Austin. Nov. 10, 2000 Stephen Harrigan Writing about Texas History, Cormac McCarthy Society meeting. March 6, 2001 Leslie Silko Reading from her Work (with Dept. of English). March 2001, Elderhostel, with Continuing Education, “Southwestern Culture.” March 20, 2001 Songwriter’s Circle, Songwriters Tish Hinojosa, Ray Benson, Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines speaking about their work (with Center for History of Texas Music). April 26, 2001 Mark Busby, Author, Reading from Fort Benning Blues. June 2-28, 2002 “Border Crossings: A Southwestern Studies Faculty Institute”—twenty-five college teachers in an NEH summer institute. September 7, 8, 2002 The Writer John Graves, Symposium, cosponsored with Southwestern Writers Collection. 28

November 14, 2002 Betty Adcock, Author, reading from her poetry, with Southwestern Writers Collection. March 2003, Elderhostel, with Continuing Education, “Southwestern Culture.” March 27, 2003 Don Graham , The Kings of Texas, with Southwestern Writers Collection. 2004, Introduction, Reading by Tom Miller, Southwestern Writers Collection. 2004, Introduction, Reading by Susan Hanson, Southwestern Writers Collection 2004, Introduction, Reading by Steve Davis, Southwestern Writers Collection. March 2006, Joe Hickerson, Smithsonian, Southwestern Music and Folklore, Southwestern Writers Collection. April 2006, Mark Gimenez, Texas State alumnus, reading April 2006, Ex-officio on the Texas Institute of Letters Council, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Work of Nonfiction Committee. March 2006, Cosponsored talk and classroom presentations by Katherine Anne Porter biographer Darlene Unruh and by novelist Mark Gimenez, author of The Power of Blood . Fall 2006, arranged presentations by Texas writers L.G. and LaVerne Harrell Clark and by Paul Schneider, author of A Brutal Journey: The Epic Story of the First Crossing of North Americ a, which examines the story of Cabeza de Vaca and chaired the panel at the, in Texas Books Festival on which Mr. Schneider appeared. Spring 2007 Presentation on Grant Writing for New Faculty May 2007, Presentation on “Teachers’ Guide to John Graves’ Goodbye to a River ” for Common Experience 2007-2008 instructors November 2007, helped organize and wrote script for “A Evening with G.W. Bailey and Wyman Meinzer,” reading
of selections from John Graves’ works with slide show of Meinzer photography Submitted successful proposal for 2008-09 Common Experience (Civic Responsibility and the Legacy of LBJ with Ted Hindson, Vicki Brittain, and Frank de la Teja)

B. Department Graduate Studies, continuing Advanced Studies, continuing TKL, continuing Member, Film and Media Search Committee 2012 -13 Ph.D. in English Studies Committee, 2002

C. Community [Note: Presentations listed above were advertised for and open to the public.] “How to Read Goodbye to a River .” Oct. 2007, San Marcos Public Library. “On Southwestern Literature.” 2000. Katherine Anne Porter School, Wimberley, TX, “Southwestern Culture.” Aquarena Springs Elderhostel, March 1998, with Texas State Continuing Education, “Southwestern Culture.” Aquarena Springs Elderhostel, March 1995, with Texas State Continuing Education, “On the Center for the Study of the Southwest.” Oct. 1995.San Marcos Morning Lions Club, “Southwestern Culture.”Aquarena Springs Elderhostel, March 1994, with Continuing Education, Library Program, The American Indian Southwest, San Marcos Public Library Reading Series in conjunction with the NEH Lecture series. At noon on Friday after the lecturer's presentations on campus, he or she met informally at the library (Sept. 1993-Aug. 1994): Howard Lamar, Texas Crossings: The Lone Star State and the American Far West ; Elizabeth A.H. John, Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795 , selections; Barbara Babcock, The Pueblo Storyteller: Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition (1986); Pueblo Mothers and Children: Essays ; Gary Anderson, Little Crow, Spokesman for the Sioux ; Dan Flores, Caprock Canyonlands: Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains (1990); Frederick A. Hoxie, A 29

Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 ; Rayna Green That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women and Women in American Indian Society ; Louis Owens, The Sharpest Sight

IV. Service--Texas A&M University-College Station A. University Faculty Senator, 1984-1991 Member, Academic Affairs Committee, 1987-91 Member, Academics And Athletics Subcommittee, 1987-88 Member, Faculty Senate Planning Committee, 1984-87 Co-Chair, University Undergraduate Academic Advising Subcommittee, 1984-86 Senate Representative, Ad-hoc Committee on Automating the Card Catalogue, 1985-86 Chair, Liberal Arts Caucus, 1984-85 Advisor, Aggie Cinema, 1988 Member, Student Publications Board, 1988-91 Advisor, University Undergraduate Fellows Program, 1979, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 Member, Honors Program Council, 1987-89 Member, Online Library Catalog Committee, 1986-87 Member, Fine Arts Coordinating Committee, 1985-86 Advisor, A&M Civil Liberties Union, 1979-85 Member, College Level Teaching Award, Selection Committee, 1989 Member, Planning Project for College Honors Plan, 1988 Representative, Liberal Arts Council, 1980-82

B. Department Member, Graduate Studies Committee, 1987-1991 Teaching Advisor, 1977-1991 Undergraduate Advisor, 1983-1991 Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, 1983-1991 Graduate Advisor, 1986-1991 Member, Program Committee, (Re)producing Texts/(Re)presenting History Conference, 1989 Section Committee, American Literature, Texas A&M Graduate Student Conference 1989 Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Jan-.July 1988 Coordinator, History/ English Link, 1982-88 Member, Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, 1985-86 Chair, Awards and Scholarships Committee, 1984-85 Member, Awards and Scholarships Committee, 1979-84 Chair, Mayo Award Committee, 1979-84 Member, Mayo Award Committee, 1978-79 Member, Freshman English Committee, 1979-81 Chair, Public Speaking Textbook Committee, 1978

In Bryan-College Station, TX Board of Governors, StageCenter, 1980-84 Board, Brazos Civil Liberties Union, 1982-83 Corresponding Secretary, Brazos Valley Arts Council. 1982-83 Board of Directors, Brazos Valley Arts Council, 1981-82 Board of Directors, StageCenter, 1980-83 Coach, Brazos Valley Soccer League, 1978-81 Coach, College Station Little League, 1979-80 Delegate, Brazos County Democratic Convention, 1982, 1984, 1988

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Served on National Endowment for the Humanities Panel for Evaluation of 2014 proposals for Summer Seminars and Institutes for College and University Faculty, Washington, DC, May 2013. Chaired General Literature Session, Texas/Southwest Popular Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, Feb. 15, 2013. Outside Evaluator, Georgia State University, 2012 Outside Evaluator, University of Northern Colorado, 2010 President, American Studies Association of Texas 2009 Vice-President, American Studies Association of Texas 2008 Local Arrangements Chair, American Studies Association of Texas Annual Meeting. Nov. 2008, San Marcos, TX Local Arrangements Chair, Cormac McCarthy Society Annual Meeting. Nov. 2000, Austin, Oct. 1999, San Antonio, TX Chair, Southwestern American Literature Panel, South Central Modern Language Association. Oct. 1999, Memphis, TN Member, Texas Writers Month Advisory Committee, 1999-2004 Member, Texas Book Festival Advisory Committee, Aug. 2000-2008, session moderator-2000- present Reader for South Central Review Western American Literature , American Literary Realism, University of Oklahoma Press, Texas Tech University Press, Texas A&M University Press Chair, Southwestern American Literature Sessions, South Central Modern Language Association; Albuquerque, 1999, 2000; Lubbock, 1998; Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1996; San Antonio, TX, 1997 Member, Paisano Award Committee, Texas Institute of Letters 1997, 2003, 2004 Reader for University of North Texas Press, University of Kentucky Press, University of Texas Press, South Central Review Western American Literature , American Literary Realism, University of Oklahoma Press, Texas Tech University Press, Texas A&M University Press. Judge, Katherine Anne Porter Literary Festival, Dec. 1997

D. Professional—Texas A&M University, College Station Member, Don Walker Prize Essay Nominating Committee. Western Literature Association, 1984-1991 Member, Executive Council. Western Literature Association, 1985-88, 2003-2006 Reader for South Central Review, Western American Literature , Texas A&M University Press, St. Martin's Press, Random House Member, Advisory Committee." Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship” Conference, Texas A&M University April 1988 Chairman, Larry McMurtry Session. Western Literature Association Conference, October 1987, Lincoln, NE Chairman, Western Drama Session. Western Literature Association Conference, October 1985, Fort Worth, TX Chairman, Special Session on Southwestern Literature. South Central Modern Language Association Conference, October 1984, Biloxi, MS

E. Organizations 1. Honorary: Who's Who Among American Teachers & Educators, 11 th Edition, 2007 The Most Prominent Educators of Texas, 1983 Who's Who Among Educators in Texas , 1983 Directory of American Scholars , 1982 Dictionary of International Biography , 1976 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges , 1975-76 31

2. Professional: American Society for Literature and the Environment American Studies Association of Texas Council of College Teachers of English South Central Modern Language Association Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers. Texas/Southwest American/Popular Culture Association Western Literature Association Western History Association

IV. Service--Military: U.S. Army 1970-71 Honorable Discharge, First Lieutenant