Don Adams CV

DON ADAMS

Department of English Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Florida Atlantic University (FAU) 3200 College Avenue Davie, FL 33314

+1 954-557-6231 (USA) +84 09378 19945 (VIETNAM) radams@fau.edu, zenoadams@

EMPLOYMENT

2011-

Professor, Department of English, FAU

2017-18

Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar, Christ University, Bangalore, India

2002-04

Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar, Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam

1999-2011 Associate Professor, Department of English, FAU

1999-2002

Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, Florida Atlantic University --Responsible for administering partner-campus programs in English, Art, History, and Music.

1999

Assistant Chair, Division of Arts and Humanities, FAU

1994-99

Assistant Professor of English, FAU

1993-94

Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

EDUCATION

Degrees

1993 PhD, Washington University in St. Louis Major field of concentration: 20th Century British and American literature

1988 MA, English, University of Missouri-Columbia

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1986 BJ (Bachelor of Journalism) with honors, University of MissouriColumbia

Dissertation

Title: "Making Destiny His Choice: The Quest to Choose Necessity in James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover"

Director: Naomi Lebowitz, Lewin Distinguished Professor Emerita

Fellowships and Scholarships

2017-18

Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to India

2002-04

Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to Vietnam

1991-92

Dissertation Fellowship, Washington University

1986-88

Graduate Fellowship in English, University of Missouri

1985-86

Alumni Scholarship for Academic Excellence, University of Missouri School of Journalism

1982-86

Curators' Scholarship, University of Missouri

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2009 Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

1997 James Merrill's Poetic Quest. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Chapters in Books

2016 "Down the Rabbit Hole: Snippets of a Saigon Sojourn." On the Back of a Motorbike: Stories and Poems about Southeast Asia. Ed. Kris Williamson. Bakersfield, CA: Literary Concepts, 2016. 58-74.

2004 "Ronald Firbank's Radical Pastorals." Critical Essays on Ronald Firbank. Ed. Gill Davies et al. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004. 1-31.

2001 "Pleading the Permanence of Ignorance: The Poetry of William Bronk," in The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk. Ed. David Clippinger. Jersey City: Talisman House, 2001. 133-36.

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1999 "Eizabeth Bishop and the Pastoral World." In Worcester, Massachusetts: Essays from the 1997 Elizabeth Bishop Conference. Ed. Laura J. Menides and Angela G. Dorenkamp. New York: Peter Lang, 1999. 157-166.

Articles in Scholarly Reference Works

2016 "Pleading the Permanence of Ignorance: The Poetry of William Bronk." Poetry Criticism. Volume 178. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2016. 33-35.

2008 "Doris Lessing." The Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Eds. David Malcolm and Cheryl Alexander Malcolm. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 440-447.

2005 "James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover." The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Lewiston, NY: Facts on File, 2005. 89-90.

2005 "James Merrill." The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Lewiston, NY: Facts on File, 2005. 31415.

2005 "James Schuyler." The Facts on File Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Lewiston, NY: Facts on File, 2005. 446-47.

Print and Print-Online Journal Publications

2018 "Self and Other in Levinas and Spinoza," submitted to the Journal of Dharma.

2018 "Radical Evil and the Infinite Other in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me," forthcoming in the Journal of Dharma.

2018 "Morality as a Matter of Taste: The Fiction of Ronald Firbank." The Cambridge Quarterly, 47, no 1, March 2018: 18-35.

2016 2016

"Spinozan Realism: The Prophetic Fiction of Jane Bowles." Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology and the Arts 15, no 2, June 2016: 85-112. "`What Then Is Right Action?' Somerset Maugham's Ethical Parables." Soundings: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Humanities 99, no 2, February 2016: 105-135. DOI: 10.1353/sij.2016.0004

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2016 "Somerset Maugham's Ethically Earnest Fiction." The Cambridge Quarterly 45, no 1. March 2016: 42-67.

2015 "The Enlightenment of Fu Manchu: Buddhism and Western Detective Fiction." Contemporary Buddhism 16, no. 2, November 2015: 245-266. DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2015.1020734

2015 "John." Embodied Effigies. Spring 2015: 7.

2011 "Ronald Firbank, Forgotten Apostate." Gay and Lesbian Review 18, no. 3, May-June 2011: 29-31.

2008 "James Purdy's Allegories of Love." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 50, no. 1, Spring 2008: 1-33.

2006 "James Schuyler's Pastoral Poetics." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture XXXIX, Summer 2006: 229-247.

2006 "Sons and Lovers." Harrington Gay Men's Literary Quarterly 8, no. 3, (2006): 135-146.

2002 "Ronald Firbank's Radical Pastorals." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture XXXV, Spring 2002: 121-142.

1998 "`Life is Disgracefully Managed': Ronald Firbank's Complaint." Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 23 (1998): 22-23.

1997 "Host at Last: James Merrill's Debt to Elizabeth Bishop." Pleiades 17, no. 1 (1997): 69?80.

1996 "Heroes Without Name or Origin: James Merrill's Poetry of loss." Notes on Contemporary Literature 26, no. 3 (1996): 2-4.

1996 "James Merrill's A Different Person." The New Review 6 (Spring 1994): 9-10.

1996 "James Merrill's `Prism'." The Explicator 54, no. 3 (1996): 185-7.

1993 "Repairing the Broken Home: James Merrill's Mirabell." The Opera Prompter 34 (1993): 19-21.

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Textbook

2016 Introduction to American Literature. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City University of Education Press, 2016. Ed. Don Adams, et al. [Note: This is a revised and enlarged print edition of the below.]

2008

America's Changing World An Anthology of American Literature, History, and Culture. Ed. Don Adams, et al. Published as an Electronic Sourcebook by the University of Education in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Online Only Publications

2017 "At Happy Hour." Connotation Press. Vol. IX, 1. September 2017.

2017 "Saving Face: Learning Vietnamese (or not) in Vietnam." Anak Sastra. 28 July 2017.

2017 "To Begin With." Subprimal Poetry Art. 9 August 2017.

2016 "Down The Rabbit Hole: Snippets of a Saigon Sojourn." Anak Sastra. 25 October 2016.

2014 "Chicken Soup for Breakfast: Eating Out in Vietnam." Anak Sastra. 17 October 2014.

2013 "The Traffic in Saigon." Crunchable. 7 October 2013.

2013 "Living Realism." Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy Politics, Vol. 1, Number 3 (September 2013): 538-59.

2012 "Four Prose Poems." Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination. 1, no. 2, August 2012:

2012

"Five Prose Poems as Psychological and Therapeutic Objects." The Qouch. August 2012.

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