James P. Elliott CURRICULUM VITAE

Department of English Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793-7152 e-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION: 1966-71 Indiana University Ph.D. in English Dissertation: “A Critical Edition of W. D. Howells’ The Quality of Mercy”

1962-66 Stanford University B.A. in English

EMPLOYMENT: English Department, Clark University 2009- Chair 2004- Professor of English 1977-2004 Associate Professor of English 1979-80 Adjunct Professor of Film Studies 1971-77 Assistant Professor of English

Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1981-82 Consultant and Adjunct Professor in Literature and Film

Indiana University 1969-71 Research Assistant, A Selected Edition of William Dean Howells

SCHOLARLY APPOINTMENTS: 1971- Member, Editorial Board, The Edition of the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, co-sponsored by Clark University and the American Antiquarian Society 1979- Chief Textual Editor, Cooper Edition 1971-78 Textual Editor, Cooper Edition

PUBLICATIONS EDITIONS PRIMARY EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITY Cooper, James Fenimore. The Spy. Historical Introduction by James P. Elliott. Explanatory Notes by James Pickering. Text Established by James P. Elliott, Lance Schachterle, and Jeffrey Walker. NY: AMS Press, 2002. Rpt. With Lionel Lincoln and The Pilot. NY: Library of America, 2002.

Cooper, James Fenimore. The Prairie. Edited, with Introduction and Explanatory Notes, by James P. Elliott. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1983. Rpt. with The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans. NY: Library of America, 1994. Rpt. Viking-Penguin, 1985. Rpt. Oxford UP, 1996

Howells, W.D. The Quality of Mercy. Introduction and Notes to the Text by James James P. Elliott Curriculum Vitae Page 2 of 4

P. Elliott. Text Established by James P. Elliott and David J. Nordloh. Indiana UP, 1979.

EDITORIAL PARTICIPATION Cooper, James Fenimore. The Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief. Edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils and James P. Elliott. NY: AMS Press, 2012.

Cooper, James Fenimore. Gleanings in Europe: England. Historical Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Donald A Ringe and Kenneth W. Staggs. Text Established by James P. Elliott, Kenneth W. Staggs and R.D. Madison. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1982.

Cooper, James Fenimore. Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland. Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Robert W. Spiller and James F. Beard. Text Established by Kenneth W. Staggs and James P. Elliott. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1980.

Howells, W.D. The Leatherwood God. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Eugene Pattison. Text Established by David J. Nordloh, with James P. Robert D. Schildgen. Indiana UP, 1977.

Howells, W.D. A Hazard of New Fortunes. Introduction by Everett Carter. Notes to the Text and Text Established by David J. Nordloh, Don L Cook, James P. Elliott, David Kleinman and Robert D. Schildgen. Indiana UP, 1976.

Howells, W.D. April Hopes. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Kermit Vanderbilt. Text Established by Don L Cook, James P. Elliott and David J. Nordloh. Indiana UP, 1974.

Contributions of ghost-written material for the Textual Apparatus of numerous published Cooper Volumes, including Gleanings in Europe: Italy (1981), Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1986), The Pilot (1986), and Notions of the Americans (1988).

SCHOLARLY STUDY Beard, James F. and James P. Elliott. The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper: A Statement of Editorial Principles and Procedures. Worcester: Clark UP, 1976; rev. ed. 1977.

ARTICLES "Just Listen." In Moving Beyond Racism. Ed. Heather Powers Albanesi and Carole Ann Camp. White River Press, 2008. P.123-27.

“Doubling: Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs as Artistic Bildungsroman.” Colby Quarterly Vol. XXXIX, No. 2 (June 2003), 175-84.

“Dedication [an appreciation of the late James F. Beard].” Canadian Review of American Studies, 14 (Spring 1989), 2.

“The Evolution of Cooper Editorial Policy.” Canadian Review of American Studies, 14 (Spring 1989), 157-64.

“The Editing of Cooper.” In Papers [of the Oneonta Cooper Seminar]. Oneonta, NY, 1979.

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FICTION/MEMOIR “Aunt Ruth.” In KnitLit: Sweaters and Their Stories. Ed. Linda Roghaar and Molly Wolf. New York: Three Rivers Press/Random House, September 2002.

“In the Zone.” Short Story in Elysian Fields Quarterly. Vol. 20, No. 3 (Fall 2003).

“A Good Fit.” In KnitLit Too: From Sheep to Shawl. Ed. Linda Roghaar and Molly Wolf. New York: Three Rivers Press/Random House, [February 2004].

INTRODUCTION “Introduction.” Diamonds Are Trumps. By Marty Slattery. White River Press, 2008.

PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES:

“The Children of Natty Bumppo.” Paper delivered to the session “Talking about Fenimore Cooper with Undergraduates,” American Literature Association Convention, Boston, 23 May 2009.

“Huck Finn and Faith.” Lecture delivered to ARK [The Episcopal Center of University of Massachusetts, Amherst], 28 April 2007.

“The Textual Editor as Reader.” Paper given at the convention of the Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Clark University, October 1990

Panelist, “Current State of Textual Research,” MLA Convention, December, 1987

Discussant, “Textual Problems in the works of James Fenimore Cooper,” NEMLA Convention, April 1983

Presentations and Pro-seminars given on James Fenimore Cooper, Cooper Seminar, SUNY at Oneonta, July, 1978-80, 1982. Lectures on “The Editing of Cooper” and “The Sources of The Prairie.”

GRANTS AND AWARDS: NEH Summer Stipend, 1977-92; 1993-96 NEH Semester Sabbatical Grant, Spring, 1977. Clark University Summer Research Grant, 1972

UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Departmental: First Reader for fifty-three M.A. theses; two more in progress Second Reader for fifty-two M.A. theses; one more in progress Third Reader for forty M.A. theses Director of thirty-nine Senior Honors Theses Colloquium papers given to the English Department, since Fall, 1991 include presentations on issues of identity involving gender, race, class and the American Dream in Michael Mann’s 1991 film adaptation of Last of the Mohicans, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand, Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs, and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; on “The Narrativity of Blogs”; readings of essays and fiction, including “Sierra Summer” and “Desolation Rescue.” Judge, Departmental Short Story contests and Poetry contests, since their inception. Director, Introduction to Literature Program (now English 20), 1973-82 Acting Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, 2006-2007

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University: Mellon Fellow, 2011-12 Higgins Steering Committee, 2009- Search Committee for Director, Higgins School of Humanities, 2012 Committee on Personnel, Alternate, Spring 2007; Member, Fall 2007-2009 Library Task Force, 2004-2005 Resource and Constituency Building Committee (Trustee Committee). 2001-2008 Internal Review Board (IRB), 2001- Acting Chair, 2008; Chair, 2010- Graduate Board, 1999-2000 Library Committee, 1990-93 Summer School Committee, 1982-83 Faculty Parliamentarian (Steering Committee), 1982-84 Pre-Law Advisory and Evaluation Board, 1980-82; Acting Chair, 1982 FAOPC (now PBR), 1979-80 Search Committee for Dean of Students, 1979

ORGANIZATIONS: TEXT, 1986-1998 Modern Language Association, 1969-94; 2004- Society for Documentary Editing, 1985-93 Board of Advisors, Society for Textual Scholarship, 1980-90 Advisory Board, The University of Mississippi Studies in English, 1985-90 Northeast Modern Language Association, 1980-84 ADE (Association of Departments of English), 2009-

COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to Literature and Composition; First-Year Seminar: The American Dream; First- Year Seminar: The Literature of Baseball; The Short Story; Contemporary Comparative Narratives; Literature of the Sixties; Major American Writers (both semesters); Literature and Film (twice with Tony Hodgkinson); Business Ethics (once with Christina Hoff-Sommers, once alone); Contemporary Literary Theory; American Realism; American Naturalism; Visions of Representation; Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (once on the American Dream, once on Africanism, twice on the American Canon Formation, four times on New American Literary History, and once as a post-sabbatical seminar); Introduction to Graduate Studies; Graduate Colloquium

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities editorial grant proposals Inspector, Committee for Scholarly Editing (three volumes) Series of book readings from KnitLit [the “Aunt Ruth” essay] given at various bookstores and festivals during September 2002 through February 2003 in Worcester, S. Hadley, Acton, Northampton, Amherst, North Dartmouth, Dennis and Holyoke, MA; also in Wethersfield, CT, Keene and N. Conway, NY; Brattleboro, Manchester and Putney, VT, Elizabeth, NJ and Taos and Albuquerque, NM. Readings of “A Good Fit” in KnitLit too from February through April 2004 at various New England and New York venues.