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Joseph D. Andriano   Joseph D. Andriano

Professor of English

The Flora Levy/BORSF Professorship in English

Ph. D., Washington State University, 1986

Dissertation: "Our Ladies of Darkness: Jungian Readings of the Female Daimon in Gothic Fiction"
 

 
Short Stories
 
  • "World-Lines."Louisiana Literature 22.1 (Spring 2005): 35-54.
  • "The Pound of Sinsemilla". The Emergency Almanac, Winter 2004.
  • "Strange Attractors."The Chattahoochee Review ( DeKalb Univ.), 16.2 (Winter 1996): 87-100; "AugMental."Argonaut ( Austin, TX), vol. 16 (Summer 1992): 2-15.
 
 
Scholarly Books
 
  • Immortal Monster: The Mythological Evolution of the Fantastic Beast in Modern Fiction and Film. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1999.
  • Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Reprints: part of chapter 3 in Short Story Criticism, vol. 20 (Gale Research, 1995): 38- 41; part of chapter 4 in The Dark Fantastic, ed. C. W. Sullivan III, Greenwood Press, 1997. 49- 57.   A paperback edition is available now from Lethe Press
 
 
Selected Scholarly Articles (most cited)
 
  • "Brother to Dragons: Race and Evolution in Moby-Dick."The Routledge Literary Source Book on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. 2003.
  • "Behemyth Evolving: Whale/Ape/Rocket."Trajectories of the Fantastic. Ed. Michael Morrison. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1997.
  • "The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Gravity's Rainbow."Modes of the Fantastic. Eds. Robert Collins and Rob Latham. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
  • "The Handmaid's Tale as Scrabble Game."Essays on Canadian Writing 48 (Winter 1992- 93): 89- 96.
  • Seven articles for Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. eds. J.R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings. NY: Garland, 1998.
  • Six articles for The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, eds. James D. Wilson and J. R. LeMaster. New York: Garland, 1993.
 
 
Offices, Awards, and Honors
 
  • Invited to give the annual Joseph S. Schick lecture in Language, Literature, and Lexicography at Indiana State University, March 2006. Lecture topic: "Moby-Dick in the 21 st Century: Fossil or Rocket?"
  • Vice-President, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, 1999- 2001
  • Finalist, New Century Writers Awards, 2001.
  • USL Foundation Distinguished Professor Award, 1994
 

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