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CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DATA: Name: Address:

Darlene Harbour Unrue 3431 Iberia Street Las Vegas, NV 89146

Phone:

(702) 895-3035 W

Email:

[email protected]

UNLV office:

FDH 635

EDUCATION: Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University, 1971 Dissertation: Henry James and Gothic Romance M.A., English, Marshall University, 1964 Thesis: Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd B.A., Psychology, Marshall University, 1960 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, 2014 Distinguished Professor of English, 1996 Professor of English, 1985-1996 Associate Professor of English, 1976-1985 Assistant Professor of English, 1972-1976 The Ohio State University Teaching/Research Assistant/Associate, English Department, 1966-1970 Instructor, English Department, 1965-1966

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AWARDS: The Liz Carpenter Award by the Texas State Historical Association for the Best Scholarly Book about a Texas Woman, 2006 For Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist The Eudora Welty Prize for Excellence in Modern Letters, 2005 For Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist Named one of 300 world-wide International Educators of the Year by the Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England, 2005 The Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award, 1995 UNLV Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award, 1992 The Southern Nevada Teachers of English Award for Excellence, 1988 The Rita Abbey Teacher of the Year Award, 1987 The William Morris Award for Excellence in Research, 1986 PUBLICATIONS: Books Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicles of a Modern Woman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012. Katherine Anne Porter Remembered. Tuscaloosa, AL: University Press of Alabama, 2010. Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories and Other Writings New York: The Library of America, 2008. Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter. New York: Simon & Schuster/G. K. Hall, 1997. Katherine Anne Porter’s Poetry. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.

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“This Strange, Old World” and Other Book Reviews By Katherine Anne Porter. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. Paperback reprint with new Preface. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. Understanding Katherine Anne Porter. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter’s Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Paperback reprint with new Preface. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009. Reprintings of chapters: “Katherine Anne Porter: Systems and Patterns.” Chapter Two (“Systems and Patterns,” 60-105) in Short Story Criticism (Detroit: Gale Research, 2000), pp. 234-252. “Katherine Anne Porter: Ideals,” Chapter Three, (“Ideals,” pp. 106-43), EBSCO database (2009). Articles: “Katherine Anne Porter.” Bibliography of American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. “Katherine Anne Porter.” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Brian W. Shaffer, Patrick O’Donnell, David W. Madden, Justus Nieland, and John Clement Ball. Hoboken, NJ and Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. “Katherine Anne Porter: The Miranda Cycle.” Research Guide to American Literature, Vol. V (1915-1945), 7, 79, 84, 204, 233. Ed. George Parker Anderson. New York: Facts on File/Bruccoli/Clark/Laymon, 2010. “A Newly Discovered Children’s Story by Katherine Anne Porter: Foretelling the Mature Canon.” The Mississippi Quarterly, 62.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2009): 181-194.

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“Indian Creek in Myth and Reality.” Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society 14 (Summer 2008): 3-5. Fifteen 1,000-word entries for the Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters: Clara Wieland, Theodore Wieland, Francis Carwin (C.B. Brown’s Wieland); Georgiana Carpenter (Willa Cather’s “A Wagner Matinee”); The Gray Champion (Hawthorne’s “The Gray Champion”); Verena Tarrant (H. James’s The Bostonians); John Marcher (H. James’s “The Beast in the Jungle”); Maisie Farange (H. James’s What Maisie Knew); The Literary Historian (H. James’s The Aspern Papers); Miranda Gay (K. A. Porter’s The Old Order, Old Mortality, and Pale Horse, Pale Rider); Laura (K.A. Porter’s “Flowering Judas”); Ellen Weatherall (K. A. Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”); Maria Concepcion (K. A. Porter’s “Maria Concepcion”); Willie Stark (R. P. Warren’s All the King’s Men); Jack Burden (R. P Warren’s All the King’s Men). 4 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2008. Four entries in the four-volume Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2nd edition. Volume III: Into the Modern 1896-1945. “Flowering Judas,” “Porter, Katherine Anne”, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” “Studying Katherine Anne Porter.” New York: Facts on File, 2008. “Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter.” Facts on File Companion to the American Novel. Abby H. P. Werlock, ed. New York: Facts on File, 2006. “Another Dimension of Meaning in the title [of Katherine Anne Porter’s]‘Flowering Judas.’” Newsletter of The Katherine Anne Porter Society 13 (2006): 2-3. “Antonieta Rivas Mercado: Katherine Anne Porter’s Horror and Inspiration.” Journal of the Southwest 47. 4 (Winter 2005): 615-635. “Bermuda: Katherine Anne Porter’s Lost Paradise.” Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society 12 (2005): 1, 3-4. “Katherine Anne Porter’s The Old Order.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Edited by Robert Clark (England) and Emory Elliott (USA). www.LitEncyc.com (2005). “Katherine Anne Porter’s Old Mortality.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Edited by Robert Clark (England) and Emory Elliott (USA).

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www.LitEncyc.com (2005). “Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Edited by Robert Clark (England) and Emory Elliott (USA). www.LitEncyc.com (2005). “Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Edited by Robert Clark (England) and Emory Elliott (USA). www.LitEncyc.com (2004). “The Good Ship Werra [model for the Vera in Ship of Fools’].” Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society 11 (October 2004): 1-2. “Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Magic’: Levels of Meaning in a Neglected Masterpiece.” The Southern Quarterly 42.3 (Spring 2004): 55-63. “Katherine Anne Porter.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Edited by Robert Clark (England) and Emory Elliott (USA). www.LitEncyc.com (2003). “The Katherine Anne Porter Society.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 2001, pp. 453-455. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and George Garrett. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2002. “Katherine Anne Porter.” Companion to the America Short Story, pp. 349-351. Abby P. Werlock, ed. New York: Facts on File, 2000. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Birthdays.” Southwestern American Literature 24.1(Fall 1998): 23-32. Reprinted in From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter, pp. 38-53. Ed. Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2001. “[Eudora Welty’s] Losing Battles and Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools: Homeric Analogue and Modernist Vision.” In The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, pp. 94-104. Ed. Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heintz Westarp. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. “Katherine Anne Porter and Sigmund Freud.” In Critical Essays on Katherine Anne Porter, ed. Darlene Harbour Unrue, pp. 80-90. Critical Essays on American Literature Series. Ed. James Nagel. New York: G. K. Hall, 1997.

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“The Game-Players: Katherine Anne Porter and William Goyen.” The Mississippi Quarterly 59 (Winter 1995-96): 119-126. Review Essay. “Katherine Anne Porter: Journalism in the Evolution of Art.” In The Eye of the Reporter, pp. 81-92. Ed. Bill Knight and Deckle McLean. Macomb, IL: Western Illinois University Press, 1996. “Edgar Allan Poe: The Romantic as Classicist.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 1.4 (Spring 1995): 112-119. “Katherine Anne Porter.” Modern Women Writers, pp. 44-49. Essential Bibliography of American Fiction. New York: Facts on File, 1994. “Katherine Anne Porter, Politics, and Another Reading of ‘Theft.’” Studies in Short Fiction 30 (1993): 119-126. “Katherine Anne Porter and Henry James: A Study in Influence.” Southern Quarterly 31.3 (Spring 1993): 17-28. “Revolution and the Female Principle in ‘Flowering Judas,’” [A Casebook on] Katherine Anne Porter’s “Flowering Judas,” pp. 137-152. Edited by Virginia Spencer Carr. New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1993. Includes excerpts from Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter’s Fiction (1985) and Understanding Katherine Anne Porter (1988) in addition to new material. ”Katherine Anne Porter and The Southern Review.” In “To Love So Well the World”: Essays on Robert Penn Warren, pp. 73-83. A Festschrift in honor of A. J. Montesi. Ed. Dennis Weeks. New York: Peter Lang, 1992. ”Katherine Anne Porter.” Bibliography of United States Literature, III, pp. 406-408. New York: Facts on File, 1991. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Sources and Influence.” In Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship, pp. 102-112. Ed. Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1990. “Brackenridge’s Modern Chivalry: A Reassessment.” In History and Humanities, pp. 271-283. Ed. Francis X. Hartigan. Reno: University of Nevada, Press, 1989.

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“Katherine Anne Porter and Flannery O’Connor.” Halcyon 11 (1989): 175-185. “The Gothic Matrix of Look Homeward, Angel.” In Critical Essays on Thomas Wolfe, pp. 48-56. Ed. John S. Phillipson. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985. “Diego Rivera and Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘The Martyr.’” American Literature 56.3 (October 1984): 411-416. “Saint Augustine and the Easter Sunday Sermon in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.” Wascana Review 19.2 (Fall 1984): 3-16. “The Complex Americanism of Henry James and William Faulkner.” In The Origins and Originality of American Culture, pp. 247-253. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1984. “Henry James in Our Time.” Chromium 16 (1983): 16-20. “Hungary’s Search for America Through Literature.” Halcyon 1982, pp. 73-82. “The Symbolism of Names in [D. H. Lawrence’s] Sons and Lovers.” Names, Spring 1981, pp. 73-82. “The Occult Metaphor as Technique in The Portrait of a Lady.” The Henry James Review 2.3 (Spring 1981): 199-204. Identified in A Year’s Work in English Studies as one of the best essays on Henry James in 1981. “Henry James and the Grotesque.” Arizona Quarterly 32 (Winter 1976): 292-300. “Poe and the Subjective Reality.” Aerial 7 (July 1976): 68-76. “Thoreau and John Smith: A-Fishin’ in the Same Stream.” Thoreau Journal Quarterly, Summer 1976, pp. 3-9. “Lawrence’s Vision of Evil: The Power-Spirit in The Rainbow and Women in Love.” The Dalhousie Review, Spring 1976, pp. 643-654. “Henry James’s Extraordinary Use of Portraits.” Re: Artes Liberales 1 (Spring 1975): 47-53.

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Selected Reviews: American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman, by Thomas Carl Austenfeld (University Press of Virginia, 2001). The Southern Quarterly 40.2 (Winter 2002): 176-177. Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston, by Will Brantley; Katherine Anne Porter’s Artistic Development: Primitivism, Traditionalism, and Totalitarianism, by Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. American Literature, Spring 1994, pp. 401-402. Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor, by John Gatta; Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate, by Allen C. Guelzo; and The Last American Puritan: The Life of Increase Mather, by Michael G. Hall. Religion and Literature 23.1 (Spring 1991): 87-90. The Ogre, by Michel Tournier; translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Western Review, Spring 1973, p. 65. Other Publications: “Katherine Anne Porter.” Porter’s stories “He,” “Flowering Judas,” and “The Grave” selected and annotated (with biographical headnote and bibliography) for the Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vol. D. 6th edition. Boston and Detroit: Cengage/Heath/Houghton-Mifflin, 2009. “Teaching Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘He,’ ‘Flowering Judas,’ and “The Grave.’” Instructor’s Guide to the Heath Anthology of American Literature. 6th edition. Boston and Detroit: Cengage/Heath/Houghton-Mifflin, 2009. “Teaching Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Old Mortality.’” Instructor’s Guide to the Heath Anthology of American Literature. 5th edition. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005. 110-116. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS, ADDRESSES, READINGS, AND TALKS: “Pitfalls, Perseverance, and Serendipity: What I Learned by Writing a

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Biography.” University Forum lecture, Barrick Auditorium, UNLV, November 29, 2012. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Commitment to Art.” The celebration following the induction of Katherine Anne Porter into the Poet’s Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, November 4-5, 2012. “[Katherine Anne Porter’s] Ship of Fools: Failed Novel, Classic Satire, or Private Joke?” “Narrenschiff / Ship of Fools: A Transatlantic Encounter” (a conference on Sebastian Brant’s medieval allegory and Katherine Anne Porter’s twentieth-century novel), University of Fribourg, Fribourg Switzerland, 11-12 May 2012. “Pitfalls, Roadblocks, and Serendipity: What I Learned by Writing a Biography.” Phi Kappa Phi Member Showcase Lecture, February 29, 2012, Barrick Auditorium, UNLV. “Writing Literary Biography: Snares, Snags, Perseverance, and Serendipity.” Saint Andrews University, Laurinburg, North Carolina, October 13, 2011. “Marriage and Motherhood at the Core of Katherine Anne Porter’s Art.” American Book Review Reading Series, University of Houston-Victoria, Victoria, Texas, February 18, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFQsS0pHhq8 “Katherine Anne Porter in Victoria, Texas: The Half-Year that Charted Her Future.” The Brontë Club, Victoria Texas, February 17, 2010. “Katherine Anne Porter and the Honest Biography.” Hornbake Library, the University of Maryland, College Park, March 30, 2006. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Hays County Childhood,” The Katherine Anne Porter House and Literary Center, Kyle, Texas, Texas State University, San Marcos, Writers Series, February 7, 2006. Informal Talk on Katherine Anne Porter’s Self-Education, with Question and Answer Period. The Katherine Anne Porter School, Wimberley, Texas, February 6, 2006. “Katherine Anne Porter and Eudora Welty” (Reading and Talk), The Eudora Welty Symposium, Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi, October 13-16, 2005. “Katherine Anne Porter and the Ordeal of Maternity.” Convention of the

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American Literature Association, Boston, May 26-30, 2005. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Birthdays.” Katherine Anne Porter Symposium, Southwestern Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, May 15, 1998. “The High Modernism of [Eudora Welty’s] Losing Battles and Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools.” International Conference on Eudora Welty as Novelist, sponsored by the Center for American Studies at Odense University. Jutland, Denmark, June 25-28, 1995. “Dr. Freud and Miss Katherine Anne Porter.” American Literature Association Symposium on American Women Writers. San Antonio, September 30October 3, 1993. “Edgar Allan Poe: The Romantic as Classicist.” Conference of The International Society for the Classical Tradition, Tübingen Universität, Tübingen, Germany. August 12-16, 1992. “The Composition of Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools.” Convention of the American Literature Association, San Diego, May 27June 1, 1992. “Katherine Anne Porter and Henry James: A Study in Influence.” A Symposium on American Fiction, sponsored by The American Literature Association, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, November 7-10, 1991. “Katherine Anne Porter and Politics.” Katherine Anne Porter Centennial Conference, University of Maryland at College Park, May 9-11, 1991. “Elements of Greek Drama in Fiction of the American South.” Society for the Classical Tradition. Boston University, March 22-24, 1991. “Katherine Anne Porter’s Feminism: Toward a Definition.” The Twentieth Century Literature Conference. The University of Louisville, February 21-23, 1991. Keynote address: “The Education of Katherine Anne Porter.” The Katherine Anne Porter Centennial Celebration. Georgia State University, Atlanta, November 9-11, 1990. “The Different Voices of Katherine Anne Porter.” The Northeast Modern Language Association. Toronto, April 6-8, 1990. “Modern Chivalry: From Calvinism to Realism.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Idaho State University, October 22-24, 1981.

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“The Complex Americanism of William Faulkner and Henry James.” Conference on the Origins and Originality of American Culture. L. Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, April 8-13, 1980. “‘The Grave’ and the Pursuit of Truth.” Katherine Anne Porter Symposium. Howard Payne University, Brownwood , Texas, May 10-11, 1976. “Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Holiday’: An American Literary Quest.” Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA). San Francisco, December 27-30, 1975. “Poe and the Subjective Reality.” The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. University of Texas, El Paso, October 17-19, 1974.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY: Panelist, “The Truth That Finally Overtakes You: Katherine Anne Porter,” sponsored by the American Women Writers National Museum, The National Press Club, Washington, D.C., 22 May 2014. Panelist, “[Katherine Anne Porter’s] Ship of Fools’ 50th Anniversary.” American Literature Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, May 24-27, 2012. “The Evolution of Katherine Anne Porter’s Child Characters.” Paper contributed to a round-table discussion of “Children in Katherine Anne Porter’s Fiction.” American Literature Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, May 28, 2010. Panelist, “Passenger on the Ship of Fools and Katherine Anne Porter.” The Vortex Theater, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 8, 2009. Chair, Katherine Anne Porter Sessions, American Literature Association Annual Conventions, 2009 (Boston); 2004 (Cambridge, MA); 1999 (Baltimore); 1996 (San Diego); 1993 (Baltimore). Acquisitions ed., Student’s Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. 4 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2008. Panelist, “Literary Biography,” Oxford Conference for the Book, Oxford, Mississippi, April 1, 2006. Panelist, “Literary Biography,” Texas Book Festival, Austin, October 27-30,

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2005. Panelist, “A Salute to Katherine Anne Porter,” Hornbake Library, The University of Maryland, College Park, April 11-13, 2003. Moderator, “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Other Modern Writers,” International Fitzgerald Conference, Université de Nice, Nice, France, June 26 - July 2, 2000. Anchor/Respondent for the Katherine Anne Porter Session at the Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, May 25-28, 2000. Panelist, “Celebration of Literary Biography.” The University of South Carolina, November 12-15, 1998.

SERVICE: Professional Member, Executive Committee, The Katherine Anne Porter Society, 1994— President, The Katherine Anne Porter Society, 1994-97 Editor, The Newsletter of the Katherine Anne Porter Society, 1994-96. Member, Editorial Board, University of Nevada Press, 1986-1996 Editorial consultant, Houghton-Mifflin; Holt, Rinehart, Winston; Harper & Row; Macmillan; University of Texas Press; American N&Q; Studies in Short Fiction; The Southern Quarterly; The Henry James Review; The Mississippi Quarterly; Longman; Prentice-Hall; the University of Georgia Press; Papers on Language and Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature University of Nevada, Las Vegas Selection Committee for the Distinguished Professorship, 1996— Graduate College Program Revision and New Program Committee, 2011-2014 Barrick Awards Selection Committee, 1996-2002 Steering Committee, Master of Liberal Studies, 1987-96 Scholarship and Fellowship Committee, 1988-95

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Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women, 1991-92 Graduate Faculty and Student Issues, 1987-88 Salary and Benefits, 1985-86 Evaluation of Graduate Programs (Ad Hoc), 1980-81 (Chair) Presidential Search, 1978-79 (Chair) Ethics, 1975-77 College of Liberal Arts (Arts and Letters) Nominating Committee, 1992-99 Morris Award Selection Committee for Research and Creative Activity, 1986-92; 1994-97 Community Advisory Board, 1984-85 Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1974-78 English Department Director, Graduate Studies, 2011-2013 Undergraduate Coordinator, 2010-11 Advisory Committee, 1986-95, 2010— By Laws Committee, 1984-85, 1994-95, 2006-10 Graduate Studies Committee, 1972-2006, (Chair) 1987-88 Undergraduate curriculum Committee, 1976-78, 1986-89 Composition Committee, 1982-87; 1989-92 (Chair, 1976-79, 1985-86) Travel, 1980-82 Search committees for faculty positions Community (selected) State Committee to Select Nevada Literary Prize, 1991-1994 UNLV Alumni Association, Book Review/discussion (1991) Introductory lecture, Eugene O’Neill in Film and Performance, New West Stage Company (1988) Lecturer, University Medical Center Humanities Forum for Resident Physicians (1987-1988) Humanist Advisor, KNPR, public radio (1982-1983) Panelist, Forum on The Holocaust: “What It Means to Modern America,” sponsored by the Jewish Federation (1981) Panelist, Community Forum on Space in Art, sponsored by the Clark County Library District (1979) Advisor to the film Dennis: A Day in the Life of a Nevada Retarded Citizen (1978) Director of Exhibit: “Tinkering with Life: Has Science Gone Too Far?” Symposium on Genetic Research (1977)

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Assistant Project Director, Forum on Disposable Kids, sponsored by FOCUS Youth Services (1976) Advisor, Forum on Small Claims Court (1975) Panelist, Forum on Tenants Rights (1974)

HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society Psi Chi, National Psychology Honorary Charter Member of The Katherine Anne Porter Society The Scott Fitzgerald Society Charter Member of The Henry James Society GRANTS University Grant for Summer Travel, 1995 The University Research Council Grant, 1981 The Barrick Grant for Faculty Development, 1980 LISTED IN THE FOLLOWING: Who’s Who of American Women The World Who’s Who of Women The Dictionary of International Biography Contemporary Authors The Writers Directory International Who’s Who of Authors and Writers Who’s Who of America’s Teachers Who’s Who in American Education