T. Walter Herbert University Scholar Brown Professor of English PhD, Princeton University MDiv, Union Theological Seminary BA, Harvard University Location: MBH Phone: 512-863-1496 English Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Beckman Visiting Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1990. Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1969-75   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS NEH Younger Humanist Fellow, 1973-74 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Books, 1978 Finch Distinguished Professor, 1980-81 Guggenheim Fellow, 1981-82 Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1998   RESEARCH AREAS Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Nineteenth-Century American Literature Gender and Family History Religion and Literature   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS Moby-Dick and Calvinism: A World Dismantled, Rutgers UP, 1977. Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization, Harvard UP, 1980. Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family, U. of California P, 1993. "Willie Nelson and Herman Melville on Manhood," Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 1993. Sexual Violence and American Manhood, Harvard UP, 2002.   MORE INFORMATION Curriculum Vita (Adobe PDF) Remarks delivered at retirement party, 4/27/06 (Adobe PDF)