Brennan 1 Matthew C. Brennan 1013 Maple Ave. Terre Haute, IN 47804-2936 (812) 237-3277--Office [email protected] [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D., English, Univ. of Minnesota, June 1984. M.A., English, Univ. of Minnesota, June 1980. B.A., Grinnell College, May 1977. TEACHING POSITIONS Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1992-present, and Director of Graduate Studies, Jan. 1994-May 1996, Aug. 1998-May 1999, Aug. 2007-Dec. 2011. Associate Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1988-1992. Acting Associate Director of University Honors and Assistant Professor, English, Feb. 1988-May 1988. Assistant Professor, English, Indiana State Univ., 1985-1988. Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Univ. of Minnesota, 1984-85. Teaching Associate, English and Composition, Univ. of Minnesota, Sept. 1979-Dec. 1982. Teaching Assistant, English, Univ. of Minnesota, 1978-79. PUBLICATIONS Books One Life (poems). Beaumont: Lamar University Literary Press, 2016. [Reviewed in Tipton Poetry Journal, Green Hills Literary Lantern] Dana Gioia: A Critical Introduction. West Chester, PA: Story Line Press, 2012. [Reviewed in South Carolina Review] The Light of Common Day (chapbook of poems). Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2011. [Reviewed in Green Hills Literary Lantern] The Poet’s Holy Craft: William Gilmore Simms and Romantic Verse Tradition. Columbia: U of South Carolina Press, 2010. [Reviewed in American Literary Scholarship, Charleston Mercury, Choice, American Literature, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Chronicle of Higher Education (weekly book list), Reference and Research Book News, Simms Review] The House with the Mansard Roof (poems). Omaha: The Backwaters Press, 2009. [Finalist, Best Books of Indiana; The Writer’s Almanac, 12/12/2009: http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2009/12/12. [Reviewed in www.throughthe3rdeye.com, Concho River Review, Southern Indiana Review] Brennan 2 The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan (A Version in Verse of the Navigatio Sancti Brendani). Delhi, NY: Birch Brook Press, 2008. [Reviewed in The Iconoclast, South Carolina Review] American Scenes: Poems on WPA Artworks (chapbook). West Plains, MO: Bliss-Station Publishing, 2001. The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in 19th-Century English Literature. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. [Reviewed in London Times Literary Supplement, Choice, Year’s Work in English Studies, Journal of Mind and Behavior, Science Fiction Studies, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Modern Language Review, Victorian Studies, Gothic Studies, Nineteenth Century Literature] The Music of Exile (poems). Bristol, IN: Cloverdale Books, 1994. [Reviewed in Arts Indiana, Nov. 1995.] Seeing in the Dark: Poems. Terre Haute, IN: Hawkhead Press, 1993. [Reviewed in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1994, Arts Indiana, Sept. 1993.] Wordsworth, Turner, and Romantic Landscape: A Study of the Traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1987. [Reviewed in Choice, Wordsworth Circle, Nineteenth Century Literature, Humanities Education Abstracts and Reviews, cited in Perkins' Introduction to English Romantic Writers.] Exhibition Catalog Is Poetry a Visual Art? Catalog for Exhibit at Indiana State U. Co-editor. Terre Haute, IN: Turman Gallery, 1993. Edited Collection “The World in William Gilmore Simms.” Editor of Special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination 42.1 (Spring 2009). Contributed the introduction and selected and edited eight essays. Articles, Essays, and Notes "Ted Kooser." 21st-Century American Poets. Ed. John Cusatis. Vol. 380 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia: Broccoli, Clark, Layman, 2017. “Introduction” to Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative by William Gilmore Simms. 2 vols. 1853. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2013. xxiii-xxxii. Rpt. in Reading Simms: Essays of Introduction to the Author's Canon. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, forthcoming. "An American Case: Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher.'" Short Story Criticism. Ed. Robert C. Brennan 3 Evans. Columbia: Layman Poupard-Cengage Learning. [rpt. of ch. 6 from Gothic Psyche] "'Cartooning with Words': The Comic Verse of William Gilmore Simms." Lamar Journal of the Humanities 40.1 (2015): 23-34. "Mary Shelley's Cinematic Progeny: The Fidelity of Young Frankenstein." South Carolina Review 48.1 (2015): 195-202. “Wordsworth’s Characters.” The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth. Ed. Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson. Oxford: Oxford U P, 2015. 254-67. "Bryant, Simms, and the Emersonian Worship of Nature." Simms Review 21 (2013): 5-14. [received 6/14] “Simms, the Civil War, and the Poetry of Trauma.” William Gilmore Simms’s Civil War: The Consequences for a Southern Man of Letters. Ed. David Moltke-Hansen. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2013. 129-148. “Anti-Romanticism in Mark Strand’s Dark Harbor XXXIV.” The Explicator 70.3 (2012): 209- 12. “Simms’s Gothic Revival in ‘The Idyll of the Dream: A Psychological Tale.’” Simms Review 18.1&2 (2010): 45-55. “Keats, Turner, and Claudian Landscape: Re-visioning Lorrain’s The Enchanted Castle.” The CEA Critic 73.1 (2010): 64-73. “Introduction” to “The World in William Gilmore Simms.” Special Issue. Studies in the Literary Imagination 42.1 (2009): v-ix. “A Note on Simms and Neoclassicism.” Simms Review 17.1&2 (2009): 23-25. “The Nature of Simms’s Southern Ecology.” South Carolina Review 39.2 (2007): 52-60. “Simms, Hawthorne, and the ‘Inutile Pursuit’ of ‘The Artist of the Beautiful.’” Simms Review 14.2 (2006): 14-21. “Simms and the Sonnet.” Mississippi Quarterly 59.1 (2005-6): 17-30. “William Gilmore Simms.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray. Vol. 5. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 1474-1476. “The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Frankenstein. Ed. Harold Bloom. Major Literary Characters. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. 117-27. Rpt. From Studies in the Humanities (1988). “The Landscape of Grief in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” Bloom’s Guides: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Ed. and Intro. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism Infobase Pub., 2007. 114-20. Rpt. From Studies in the Humanities (1988). “Mick Cochrane’s Sport and the Mythic Symbol of Fathers Playing Catch with Sons.” Baseball/Literature/Culture: Selected Essays, 2002-03. Ed. Peter Carino. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. 39-48. Brennan 4 “Simms, Wordsworth, and ‘The Mysterious Teachings of the Natural World.’” Southern Quarterly 41.2 (2003): 37-47. “Dana Gioia: The Poet as Public Intellectual.” South Carolina Review 35.2 (2003): 167-76. “Writing as Readers: Communicating through Poetry.” Indiana English 24.2 (2002): 12-15. “Coleridge, Friedrich, and the ‘Hymn’ to Mountain Glory.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities 26.2 (2001): 21-38. “A Book of Ruth: Stone’s Topography and Other Poems.” Paintbrush 27 (2000/2001): 97-100. "The 'Flow' of the Game: Andre Dubus's 'The Pitcher.'" NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 8.2 (2000): 114-122. Introduction to Strange Seas of Thought: Studies in Wordsworth's Philosophy of Man and Nature by Newton Stallknecht, edited by Don Jennermann et al. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2000. 1-6. "Mary Shelley's Cautionary Narrative: Frankenstein as Therapy." Lamar Journal of the Humanities 24.2 (1999): 5-11. "Wordsworth's 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.'" The Explicator 57.3 (1999): 140-143. "Wordsworth's 'Lines Suggested by a Portrait From the Pencil of F. Stone': 'Visible Quest of Immortality'?" ELN (English Language Notes) 35.2 (1997): 35-46. “The Transparent Baseball: 'Making Contact' as Visionary Experience." NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Social Policy Perspectives 6.1 (1997): 93-100. "The Novel as Nightmare: Decentering of the Self in Bram Stoker's Dracula." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 7.4 (1996): 48-59. “Critical Extracts” [James Emanuel]. Modern American Black Poets and Dramatists. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1995. 101-102. Rpt. from “Memory Affection Knows.” [Cf. “Reviews” below.] "Michael Dennis Browne" and "David Wojahn." Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry. Ed. Ian Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. 73, 587. Rev. ed. Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. Ed. Ian Hamilton and Jeremy Noel-Tod. 2013. 77-78, 662. "Is Poetry a Visual Art? 20th Century Poetry." Is Poetry a Visual Art? Ed. C. McDaniel et al. Catalog for exhibit at Indiana State U. Terre Haute, IN: Turman Gallery, 1993. 17-19. "Point of View and Plotting in Chekhov's and Oates' 'Lady with the Pet Dog.'" The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 3rd ed. Boston: St. Martin's, 1993. 176- 78; 4th ed. 1996, 184-86; 5th ed. 1999, 213-14; 9th, 2011, 250-53; 10th ed. 2013, 251-54. Compact 5th ed. 2000, 191-92. 6th ed.2002, 214-15. 7th ed. 2004, 240-242. Brennan 5 Also Story and Structure. Ed. Thomas Arp. 10th ed. San Diego: Harcourt, 2002. 574-76. The Story and Its Writer. Ed. Ann Charters. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2007. 1655-57; 9th ed., 2014. 1400-02. Literature and Its Writers. Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. 661-63; 5th ed., 2010, 664-666. Short Story Criticism, vol. 102, ed. Jelena Krstovic, Thomson-Gale, 2007. [All the above rpt. from NMAL (1985).] "Repression, Knowledge, and Saving Souls: The Role of the 'New Woman' in Stoker's Dracula and Murnau's Nosferatu." Studies in the Humanities 19.1 (1992): 1-10. "Melville's Bartleby as an Archetypal Shadow." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 13.3 & 4 (1992): 318-21. "Romantic Re-membering of the Self: David Wojahn and the Memory-Narrative." New Mexico Humanities Review 35 (1991): 85-90. "Turnerian Topography: The Paintings of Roderick Usher." Studies in Short Fiction 27.4 (1991): 605-8. "Ted Kooser." American Poets Since World War II. Second Series. Ed. R.S. Gwynn. Vol. 105 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 1991. 143-50. "Wordsworth and 'Art's Bold Privilege': His Iconic Poems as 'Spots of Time.'" Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts 2 (1990): 487-99.