Academic Specialty:
Colonial and Federal American literature
Education:
- Ph.D., English - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1971
- M.A., English - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1968
- B.A., English (History minor) - The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1966
Selected Publications:
1. Articles and Chapters
“Watson of Deep Gap: A Retrospective.” Appalachian Journal 2.2 (Winter 1975): 102-10.
“Law and Order in Melville’s ‘The Bell-Tower.’” Melville Society Extracts No. 22 (1975): 4-5.
“St. George Tucker’s Hansford.” Tennessee Studies in Literature 21 (1976): 28-34.
“Mrs. Behn’s The Widow Ranter: Historical Sources.” South Atlantic Bulletin 41.4 (November 1976): 94-98.
“To Caesar Friend or Foe? The Burwell Papers and Bacon’s Rebellion.” Essays in Early Virginia Literature Honoring Richard Beale Davis. Ed. J. A. Leo Lemay. New York: Burt Franklin & Co., 1977. 73-90.
“The Rush to Find an Appalachian Literature.” Appalachian Journal 5.3 (Spring 1978): 330-34. Reprinted. in Appalachia Inside Out. Ed. Higgs, Robert J., Ambrose Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller. Vol. 2. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1995. 623-28.
“The Literary Unity of Ray Hicks’s ‘Jack Tales.’” North Carolina Folklore Journal 26.2 (September 1978): 127-33.
“J. D. Crowe, Back-Forty Fugitive.” Appalachian Journal 8.2 (Winter 1981): 155-59.
“Nathaniel Bacon,” “Thomas Bacon,” “John Cotton,” “Thomas Mathew,” and “James Sterling.” American Writers Before 1800. Ed. James A. Levernier and Douglas Wilmes. 3 vols. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. 87-90, 394-95, 986-87, 1379-81.
“Doc Watson: Gains and Losses.” The [NC] Arts Journal 11 (January 1986): 11.
“Eddy Merle Watson” (obituary essay). Newsletter of the North Carolina Folklore Society 1 June 1986: n.p.
“The ‘True Narrative’ of Bacon’s Rebellion.” No Fairer Land: Studies in Southern Literature Before 1900. Ed. J. Lasley Dameron and James W. Mathews. Troy NY: Whitston Publishing Co., 1986. 21-31.
“Emerson Bennett” and “George Tucker.” Facts on File Bibliography of American Fiction Through 1865. Ed. Kent P. Ljungquist and Judith S. Baughman. New York: Facts on File, 1994. 54-55, 260-61.
2. Review Essays
(AJ=Appalachian Journal)
“Mountain Songs Chronicle Both Holy and Profane.” AJ 1.3 (Autumn 1973): 213-15.
“Rough Grace in Folkways Album.” AJ 1.4 (Spring 1974): 306-07.
“”Recent Recordings.” AJ 2.3 (Spring 1975): 235-37.
“Jack and Ray.” AJ 3.1 (Autumn 1975): 93-95.
“Promises and Memories.” AJ 3.2 (Winter 1976): 182-84.
“Folkways Harvest.” AJ 3.3 (Spring 1976): 274-76.
“The Golden Age.” AJ 4.1 (Autumn 1976): 89-91.
“Encyclopedia for the Folk.” AJ 4.2 (Winter 1977): 185-86.
“Fishing.” AJ 4.2 (Winter 1977): 186-87.
“Music from South Turkey Creek: A Review.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 25.1 (May 1977): 26-27.
“Samplers.” AJ 4.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1977): 283-84.
“Mules, Grazz, and Other Hybrids.” AJ 5.3 (Spring 1978): 365-68.
“The Ramblers at the Bama.” AJ 6.1 (Autumn 1978): 70-74.
“And Sometimes It Doesn’t.” AJ 6.3 (Spring 1979): 245-48.
“The Endless Era.” AJ 7.3 (Spring 1980): 245-48.
“Your Friends and Theirs.” AJ 8.1 (Autumn 1980): 79-80.
“Stars of Country Music.” Mid-America Folklore 9.3 (Winter 1981): 26-27.
“The Andy Griffith Show.” AJ 10.2 (Winter 1983): 211-13.
“Stories from Tennessee.” AJ 11.3 (Spring 1984): 274-75.
“Joy in the Coming Home.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 35.2 (Summer-Fall 1988): 109-13.
