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CURRICULUM VITAEJohn Rodden

jgrodden@yahoo.com | (512) 876-3320407 W. 18th St #306Austin, TX 78701

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:

Tunghai University (Taiwan), Visiting Professor, 2011-currentUniversity of Texas Extension Division, 1994-2011College of Education, University of Pecs, Hungary, Visiting Professor,

2005-presentDepartment of Communication Studies, UT, 1989-1993Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Virginia

(UVA), Assistant Professor, 1985-89 (tenure offered in 1989)

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC SERVICE:

Courses Taught (at UVA and UT):Graduate:

Contemporary Literary and Cultural TheoryRhetoric and the German TraditionRhetoric, Theory, PraxisCultural Theory/Literary ArtRhetoric and the Popular Arts

Undergraduate:Rhetoric of UtopiaGenre and Popular CultureIntroduction to Cultural TheoryRhetorical Criticism and PracticeStrategies of ArgumentationProfessional/Family Conflict ResolutionBusiness and Professional SpeakingIntro to Public SpeakingPopular Literature into Film

Directed or served as committee member on 21 dissertation committees

EDUCATION: Ph.D., English, UVA, 1987M.A., English, UVA, 1982B.A., English, La Salle University, summa cum laude, 1978

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ACADEMIC/ CURRICULAR DISTINCTIONS:National/ International:

Regional/Local:

Invited Lectures:

National Communication Association (NCA) Book Award, 1990 (for The Politics of Literary Reputation)

National Communication Association (NCA) “Best Dissertation” Award, 1988

Fulbright Scholar Award to University of Frankfurt, Germany, 1988Advisory Editorial Board Member: Modern Age (1994-), Society (1998-),

Human Rights Review (1999-), Journal of Human Rights (2001-).U.K. Debating tours, 1978 and 1981 (sponsored by the English Speaking

Union)First Place, National Forensics Association Championships, 1978

Western Communication Association “Best Article” Award, 1994 (for “Field of Dreams”)

University of Texas, College of Communication, Book Award 1987-89, April 1990

Academica Sinica (National Academy of the Arts and Sciences), Taipei, Taiwan, June 2011.

National University of Singapore, Asian Studies Institute, June 2011.Tunghai University (Taichung), Keynote Speaker, George Orwell In Asia

Symposium, May 2011National Taiwan University, College of Humanities, May 2011.Hong Kong University, English Department, May 2011.Fulbright Scholars of California Lecture Series, Stanford University,

December 2010University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, American Studies Program,

September 2009Loyola Marymount University, Presidential Speakers Program, September

2009University of Toronto, Sociology Department, September 2009.Concordia University (Montreal), Institute for Genocide Studies and Human

Rights, September 2009.Fulbright Scholars of California Lecture Series, University of California at

Berkeley, October 2009Northwestern University, Institute for the Humanities, November 2006

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Editorial/Scholarly Advisor, “Marxism Today,” Film Documentary on East Germany, Phil Collins Productions, 2011

Editorial/Scholarly Advisor, “Doublethinking Troubles,” Film Documentary, Canadian Film Board, 2006 to present

Co-chair, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, “Lionel Trilling Centennial Conference,” November 2005

Co-Producer, “Orwell’s Relevance Today,” Film Documentary, Baranowski Productions, 2003

Co-Chair, Wellesley College, “George Orwell Centenary Conference,” May 2003

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1. Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals, University of Illinois Press, forthcoming.

2. Re-“Orienting” Orwell: New Perspectives on George Orwell in Asia (ed. with Henk Vynkier), submission under consideration at Hong Kong University Press.

3. The Intellectual Species: Post-Gutenberg Prospects, Troubador Press, forthcoming.

4. Between Self and Society: Narration in the British Psychological Novel, University of Texas Press, forthcoming.

5. George Orwell: Critical Insights (ed.), Salem Press, 2012.

6. The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell (with John P. Rossi), 2012.

7. The Unexamined Orwell, University of Texas Press, 2011.

8. Isabel Allende: Critical Insights (ed.), Salem Press, 2010.

9. Lighting a Candle: the Memoirs of Ruth Pfau (submission under consideration at Crossroads Publishers). Translation of Eine Kerze anzünden: Erinnerungen von Ruth Pfau, Herder Verlag.

10. Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe (ed. with Ethan Goffman), Purdue University Press, 2010.

11. Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent: Stories of East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse, Penn State University Press, 2010.

12. The Walls That Remain: Western and Eastern Germans Since Reunification, Paradigm Publishers, 2008.

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13. Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings, University of Texas Press, 2007.

14. The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2007.

15. Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity, Penn State University Press, 2006.

16. Irving Howe and the Critics (ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

17. The Worlds of Irving Howe (ed.), Paradigm Publishers, 2005.

18. George Orwell: Into the Twenty-First Century (ed. with Thomas Cushman), Paradigm Publishers, 2004.

19. Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell, ISI Press, 2003.

20. Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995, Oxford University Press, 2001. German edition under consideration at Shaker Verlag.

21. Performing the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft Their Public Images, University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

22. Lionel Trilling and the Critics (ed.), University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

23. Conversations with Isabel Allende (ed.), University of Texas Press, 1999. German translation: Zorn und Liebe, Herder Verlag, 2000. Second English edition, 2004. Italian edition, 2006. Portuguese edition, forthcoming.

24. Understanding Animal Farm: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (ed.), Greenwood Press, 1999.

25. The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St. George’ Orwell, Oxford University Press, 1989. Second Edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001.

Selected Reviews

1. Society, March-April 2010 (The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell)

2. University Bookman, Spring 2010 (Every Intellectual’s Big Brother)

3. German Studies Review, February 2009 (Textbook Reds)

4. Review of English Studies, Modern Intellectual History, 2008 (comprehensive review essay of Rodden’s Orwell oeuvre to date).

5. New York Review of Books, 2008 (The Walls That Remain)

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6. Review of Politics, Fall 2006 (Every Intellectual’s Big Brother)

7. Review of Politics, Winter 2008 (Every Intellectual’s Big Brother)

8. Journal of Human Rights, July 2007 (Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse [RLRS]) and Textbook Reds

9. Society, January 2005 (Scenes from an Afterlife)

10. Utopian Studies, Spring 2004 (Scenes from an Afterlife)

11. Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2004 (RLRS)

12. Pädagogik, Spring 2004 (RLRS)

13. Atlantic, May 2003 (Scenes from an Afterlife)

14. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 10 April 2002 (RLRS)

15. Atlantic, Lead review, July 2000 (Lionel Trilling and the Critics [LTC])

16. New York Times Book Review (NYTBR), 6 November 1999 (Conversations with Isabel Allende)

17. NYTBR, 11 March 1999 (LTC)

18. New Criterion, Lead Review, Winter 1991 (The Politics of Literary Reputation [PLR] )

19. Village Voice, 5 June 1990 (PLR)

20. In These Times, 20 May 1990 (PLR)

21. National Review, 10 May 1990 (PLR)

22. New Republic, 12 January 1990 (PLR)

23. Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 June 1989 (PLR)

24. NYTBR, 6 April 1989 (PLR)

Articles, Book, and Reviewed Chapters (Peer-Reviewed=PR; Not Peer-Reviewed=NPR)

Forthcoming

1. “Confessions of A Recovering Utopian,” Society (forthcoming). (NPR)

2. “‘Barbed-Wire Sunday’ at 50: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall and It’s Enduring Significance,” Wellesley Studies in Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). (NPR)

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3. “Of Tales and Tellers: Modes of Narration in the Novel,” Society, forthcoming. (NPR)

4. “George Orwell,” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (with John Rossi), forthcoming. (NPR)

5. “When La Salle Was a College: Memories of the 1970s,” La Salle Magazine, forthcoming. (NPR)

2014

1. “Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York Intellectuals,” American Communist History, Spring 2014. (NPR)

2. “The Intellectual as Critic and Conscience: George Orwell and Albert Camus, In Memoriam,” Midwest Quarterly, Fall 2014. (PR)

3. “Homage to Orwell, My Intellectual Big Brother,” Midwest Quarterly, Fall 2014. (PR)

4. “Two Theories of Reputation-Building, or How Orwell Became ‘A Famous Author,’” Midwest Quarterly, Fall 2014. (PR)

2013

1. “More catholic, Less Catholic? American Catholic Higher Education Since Vatican II,” Society, Fall 2013. (NPR)

2. “‘Hitler’s Pope?’ Reflections on Pius XII and the 1933 Reichskonkordat at 70,” American Conservative, July 2013. (NPR)

3. “Pius XII and the German Concordant of 1933,” The Wanderer, September 2013. (NPR)

2012

1. “Performative Styles in the Literary Interview: Notes Toward a New Typology,” Society, Spring 2012. (NPR)

2011

1. “‘A Hanging’ at 80: George Orwell’s Literary Breakthrough,” American Conservative, August 2011. (NPR)

2. “The Cold War on Ice” (cover story), Commonweal, July 2011. (NPR)

3. “What If Eric Blair Had Married Jacintha Buddicom?” Blair/Orwell Forum, January 2011. (NPR)

4. “The Autobiography Orwell Never Wrote,” American Conservative, April 2011. (NPR)

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5. “‘The Obverse Reflections’: History, Race, and the ‘Other Blacks’ in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,” Southern Studies, Spring 2011. (PR)

6. “‘Movements of the Heart’: Narratology and Psychodynamics in Ford’s The Good Soldier,” English Studies, Fall 2011. (PR)

7. “The Faithful Gravedigger: The Role of 'Innocent' Wash Jones and the 'Invisible' White Trash in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" Southern Literary Journal, Spring 2011. (PR)

8. ‘”In Love with Narcissa’: A Psychological Reading of Smollett’s Roderick Random,” Anglistik, Spring 2011. (PR)

9. “Infernal Triangles: Patterns of Conflict in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge,” Journal of Ritual Studies, Fall 2011. (PR)

10. “Portrait of the Failed Artists in Wyndham Lewis’s Tarr,” Wyndham Lewis Annual, Autumn 2011. (PR)

11. “Of ‘Nater’ and God: The Significance of ‘Pagan’ Joan Durbeyfield and Reverend James Clare in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” English Studies, Spring 2011. (PR)

2010

1. “Paul Morel’s Second Home: The Role of the Factory Employees in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers,” Papers in Language and Literature, Winter 2010. (PR)

2. “Report Card from East Germany,” Society, July/August 2010. (NPR)

3. “The Review Orwell Never Wrote,” Blair/Orwell Forum, June 2010. (NPR)

4. “Loose-Fish Hooked on the Bait: A Culture of Tenured Intellectuals?” Salmagundi, April 2010. (NPR)

5. “The Significance of Miss ‘Dawington’ in Women in Love,” South Carolina Review, Spring 2010. (PR)

6. “Big Rock(Sugar)candy Mountain? How George Orwell Tramped Toward Animal Farm,” Papers in Language and Literature, Spring 2010. (PR)

7. “‘If He Had Lived’: A Counterfactual Life of George Orwell,” Prose Studies, Spring 2010. (PR)

8. “The Perversity of Diversity, or Multiculturalism as an Educational Crime,” Society, Winter 2010. (NPR)

9. “Politics and the Intellectual: The Passionate Dissent of Irving Howe,” Common Review, Winter 2010. (NPR)

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10. “Godwin’s Caleb Williams: ‘A Half-Told and Mangled Tale,’” College Literature, Winter 2010. (PR)

2009

1. “‘A question of potatoes, not popes’: Marxism and the Irish Question,” Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2009. (PR)

2. “Orwell’s Moral Significance for Intellectuals Today,” Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2009. (PR)

3. “Stately Designs: On the Architectonics of Utopias,” Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2009. (PR)

4. “Of Politics and Numbers: Marxist-Leninist Ideology in GDR Textbooks,” Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2009. (PR)

5. “Socialist Science? On GDR Biology and Chemistry Schoolbooks,” Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2009. (PR)

6. ““The lever must be applied in Ireland”: Marx, Engels and the Irish Question,” Review of Politics, Spring 2009. (PR)

7. “Honor Thy Fatherland—and Thy Fathers: Socialist Heroes in East German Schoolbooks,” Society, May – March/April 2009. (NPR)

8. “Did Papa Save St. George?” Orwell Forum, May 2009. (NPR)

9. "The Berlin Wall at 20: Lessons from German History," Journal of Human Rights, Fall 2009. (PR)

10. “Down the Memory Hole? The Storied Meeting and Un-Meeting of Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell,” Kenyon Review, Fall 2009. (NPR)

11. “The Dwight Stuff: The FBI vs. Dwight Macdonald,” Modern Age, Fall 2009. (NPR)

12. “Of ‘Nater’ and God: ‘Pagan’ Joan Durbeyfield and Reverend James Clare in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles,” Thomas Hardy Yearbook, (37) 2009. (NPR)

13. “The Lettered Reactionary” (on John Lukacs) (with John Rossi), The American Conservative, 1 December 2009. (NPR)

2008

1. “Heuristics, Hypocrisy, and History without Lessons: Nuremberg, War Crimes, and Shock and Awe,” Journal of Human Rights, Spring 2008. (PR)

2. “Lionel Trilling and the FBI,” Shofar, Spring 2008. (NPR)

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3. “From Iraq to the Internet: Orwell, the Intellectuals, and the Politics of Reputation,” Society, March-April 2008. (NPR)

4. “Innocents Abroad, or What I Didn’t Do on My Summer Vacation,” Human Rights Review, July 2008. (PR)

5. “John Lukacs: Visionary, Critic, Historian” (with John Rossi), Society, July/August 2008. (NPR)

6. “The ‘L-Word,’ or On Turning Fifty,” Society, July/August 2008. (NPR)

7. “Reply to Ian Angus,” Orwell Forum, September 2008. (NPR)

8. “The Night of the Broken Glass, 70 Years Later,” The Daily Texan, 10 November 2008. (NPR)

9. “November 9, Germany’s Friday the 13th: What Should We Remember?” Together: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, online. 27 November 2008. (NPR)

10. “Meanderings of a Loose Fish: Irving Howe in His Interviews,” Society, November/December 2008. (NPR)

11. “Postcommunism Meets McUniversity: An East German’s Ideologiekritik of U.S. Higher Education,” Society, November/December 2008. (NPR)

12. “Portrait of the (New York) Intellectual as a Yale Man,” The New York Intellectuals, ed. Ethan Goffman (Purdue University Press), 2008. (NPR)

2007

1. “Iraq’s Executions and the Delicate Path to Justice,” The Bulletin (Philadelphia), 15 January 2007 (with Michael D. Kerlin). (NPR)

2. “How Do Stories Convince Us? Notes Toward A Rhetoric of Narrative,” College Literature, December 2007. (PR)

3. “Dictatorship of the Professoriat? Academic Unfreedom in East Germany,” Human Rights Review, Fall 2007. (PR)

4. “Textbook Reds: Schoolbooks, Ideology, and East German Identity,” Slavic Review, Summer 2007. (PR)

5. “Textbook Reds? How East Germans Look Back on their Classroom Schoolbooks,” Paradigm, Spring 2007. (PR)

6. “A Young Scholar’s Encounter with Russell Kirk,” Modern Age, July/August 2007. (NPR)

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7. “Memorial for a Revolutionist: Dwight Macdonald at 100,” Society, August 2007. (NPR)

8. “Soviet and Post-Soviet Textbooks: Approaches to Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace,” Paradigm, Fall 2007. (PR)

9. “Kultur Clash at the White House: Dwight Macdonald and the 1965 Festival of the Arts,” Kenyon Review, Fall 2007 (with John Rossi). (NPR)

10. “Pedagogy in the GDR Classroom: Some Personal Reflections,” Paradigm, Fall 2007. (PR)

2006

1. “Dethroning the Lords of Kitsch: The Making of a Journalist” (on Dwight Macdonald), Common Review, Winter 2006 (with John Rossi). (NPR)

2. “Of Pigs and Poison Shelves: How An East German Student Was Persecuted by the Stasi,” Human Rights Review, Winter 2006. (PR)

3. “Renunciation” (poem), Modern Age, Winter 2006. (NPR)

4. “Fellow Contrarians? Christopher Hitchens and George Orwell,” Kenyon Review, January 2006. (NPR)

5. “Dwight or Left,” The American Prospect, March 2006 (with John Rossi). (NPR)

6. “Ideology As Core Curriculum: DDR Textbooks and German Re-education,” Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprachen, March 2006. (NPR)

7. “Rebel with a Cause: Dwight Macdonald, A Centennial Tribute,” Commonweal, March 2006 (with John Rossi). (NPR)

8. "Reputation and Its Vicissitudes," Society, March/April 2006. (NPR)

9. “The Galileo of the GDR: Robert Havemann,” Debatte, April 2006. (PR)

10. “The Trilling Family Romance: Report of a Psychoanalytic Autopsy,” Modern Age, Summer 2006. (NPR)

11. “Recalling the Berlin Olympics,” Common Review, June 2006. (NPR)

12. "American Interventions: An Interview with Christopher Hitchens,” Society, July/August 2006. (NPR)

13. “Of War Crimes and Contrition: The Son of Hitler’s Bodyguard Confronts His Father’s Legacy,” Journal of Human Rights, Fall 2006. (PR)

14. “I Was a Teenage Thought Criminal” (on Baldur Haase), Journal of Human Rights, Fall 2006. (PR)

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15. “Putting Nuremberg in Focus with the Bush Doctrine,” The Daily Texan, 13 October 2006. (NPR)

16. “Sixty Years After Nuremberg, What Have We Learned?” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 October 2006 (with Michael D. Kerlin). (NPR)

17. “Human Rights: Progress, Problems,” Baltimore Sun, 27 December 2006 (with Michael D. Kerlin). Syndicated throughout the U.S. and in the Tribune (Chandigarh, India), Kathmandu Post (Nepal), and the Peninsula (Qatar). (NPR)

18. “George Orwell,” Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, 2006 (with John Rossi). (NPR)

2005

1. “Self-Portrait in Sepia? Isabel Allende’s Technicolored Life,” Society, Winter 2005. (NPR)

2. “The Road Not Yet Taken: Forgiveness, Education, and Public Policy,” Modern Age, Spring 2005. (NPR)

3. “Buchenwald at Sixty: A Somber Anniversary,” Journal of Human Rights, Summer 2005. (PR)

4. “Lessons from Brother Orwell,” Society, July/August 2005. (NPR)

5. “Of Classrooms, Walls and Textbooks: Ideology in GDR Geography Schoolbooks,” Paradigm, Fall 2005. (PR)

6. “Ideology As Core Curriculum: Textbooks and German Re-education in 1945,” Midwest Quarterly, Fall 2005. (PR)

7. “Irving Howe: Triple Thinker,” Salmagundi, Fall 2005. Reprinted in The New York Intellectuals, ed. Ethan Goffman (Purdue UP), forthcoming. (NPR)

2004

1. “The Worlds of Irving Howe,” Kenyon Review, Winter 2004. (NPR)

2. “The ‘Case’ of Lionel Trilling,” Society, January/February 2004. (NPR)

3. “Politics and the German Language,” Debatte, Spring 2004. (PR)

4. “Celebrating Bloomsday without a Literary Twin,” The Daily Texan, 16 June 2004. (NPR)

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4. “Hitler’s Games or Ideal Competition?” The Daily Texan, 6 August 2004. (NPR)

5. “Memories of the Munich Massacre,” The Daily Texan, 13 August 2004. (NPR)

6. “The Ironies of Fame: Lionel Trilling and the Sociological Imagination,” Explorations, Fall 2004. (NPR)

7. “Creating ‘Textbook Reds’: Communist Civics in East German Schoolbooks,” Society, November/December 2004. (NPR)

8. “The Ethics of Admiration—and Detraction,” Midwest Quarterly, Spring 2005. Reprinted in Orwell Into the Twenty-First Century, ed. Thomas Cushman and John Rodden, Paradigm Press, 2004. (PR)

2003

1. “Appreciating Animal Farm in the New Millennium,” Modern Age, Winter 2003. (NPR)

2. “Vergleichende Geschictsschreibung und literarische Rezeption George Orwells (Comparative Historiography and the Literary Reception of George Orwell), Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprachen, October 2003. (NPR)

3. “The Orwell Century?” Society, July/August 2003. (NPR)

4. “What Would George Say Now?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 May 2003. (NPR)

5. “The Critical Reputation of Irving Howe,” Society, January-February 2003. (NPR)

2002

1. “The Mystery of God-given Limits” (on religious belief and political affiliations), Modern Age, Winter 2002. (NPR)

2. “The Uses and Abuses of History: Lessons of Progressivist Pedagogy and Analysis of East German History Textbooks,” Midwest Quarterly, Winter 2002. (PR)

3. “The Teacher as Hero,” La Salle Magazine, Spring 2002. (NPR)

4. “But Professor, What Are the Humanities FOR?” Vital Speeches of the Day, 17 May 2002. Reprint in Humanities: Newsletter of the Texas Council for the Humanities, Spring 2002. Reprinted in CRIT: Journal of the American Institute of Architecture Students (Issue 55, Spring 2003), 36-38. (NPR)

5. “Wanted: Irving Howe, FBI #74737B,” Dissent, Fall 2002. (NPR)

6. “Askese,” “Einfachheit,” “Mut.” Spirituelles Leben (Herder Verlag), 2002. (3 spiritual essays devoted to reflections on the existential implications of the September 11, 2001 bombings.) (NPR)

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7. “‘Not one of Us?’ Orwell and the London Left of the 1930’s and 40s,” Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprachen, #2, 2002. (NPR)

2001

1. “Education for Tolerance, Education for National Identity: Germany and the Useable Past,” Debatte, Winter 2001. (PR)

1. “St. George on Jura” (on George Orwell), Commonweal, 12 January 2001. (NPR)

2. “The German Banana Republic?” Society, January/February 2001. (NPR)

3. “‘It Should Have Been Written Here’: Germany and The Black Book of Communism,” Human Rights Review, January-March 2001. (PR)

4. “Re-educating Reunified Germany,” Society, Spring 2001. (NPR)

5. “Isabel Allende, Fortune’s Daughter,” Hopscotch, Spring 2001. (NPR)

6. “The Joy of St. Philip Neri,” St. Austin Parish Newsletter, April 2001. (NPR)

7. “Performing the Literary Interview,” Borderlands, Spring/Summer 2001. (NPR)

8. “Memories of Barbed-Wire Sunday: The Berlin Wall at 40,” Commonweal, 17 August 2001. (NPR)

9. “The New Orwell Biography,” Society, November/December 2001. (NPR)

10. “Zarathustra as Educator: The Nietzsche Archive in German History,” The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (University of Massachusetts Press), 2001. (NPR)

2000

1. “Lionel Trilling and American Culture,” Society, Spring 2000. (NPR)

2. “Dis-unity Day? Reunited Germany Turns Ten,” Commonweal, 3 October 2000. (NPR)

3. “Pruning My Days: A Professor’s Mid-Life Revisions,” Borderlands, Summer 2000. (NPR)

4. “The Teacher as Hero,” The American Enterprise, August 2000. (NPR)

5. “‘Into the Abyss with Him!’ Nietzsche’s Reception in the GDR,” Midwest Quarterly, Autumn 2000. (PR)

6. “The Berlin Wall Lives,” Commonweal, 22 September 2000. (NPR)

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7. “Lenten Laughter,” St. Austin Parish Newsletter, November 2000. (NPR)

8. “The Pragmatics of Propaganda,” in Festschrift für Wolfgang Strauss (Berlin: Klett, 2000.) (NPR)

1999

1. “Of Sport, State, and Stasi: A Story of East German Athletics,” Midwest Quarterly, Winter 1999. (PR)

2. “Isabel Allende’s New Lust for Life,” Yale Latin American Studies Review, Spring 1999. (PR)

3. “Our Man in Amman” (a profile of William J. Burns, ambassador to Jordan), La Salle Magazine, Spring 1999. (NPR)

4. “The Writer as Exile: Isabel Allende’s Search for a New Home,” Yale Latin American Studies Review, Spring 1999. (PR)

5. “Allen Wheelis and Germany,” Explorations, Summer 1999. (NPR)

6. “The Politics of Lionel Trilling’s Reputation,” Society, July-August 1999. (NPR)

7. “Zarathustra Unbound: To the Nietzsche Archives,” Modern Age, Fall 1999. (NPR)

8. “Team Play: Translator John Nathan on Oe Kenzaburo, the 1994 Nobel Prize Winner,” Borderlands, Fall/Winter 1999. Reprint in Midwest Quarterly, Summer 2002. (PR)

1998

1. “Giving Voice to Vision: An Interview with Marge Piercy,” Text and Performance Quarterly, Spring 1998. (PR)

2. “Scholarly Gypsies: Academic Celebrity in America,” Modern Age, Spring 1998. (NPR)

3. “Reagan and Clinton Identify with Us,” The Daily Texan, April 1998. (NPR)

4. “Of Art and Polemics: An Interview with Marge Piercy,” Kenyon Review, Fall 1998. (NPR)

5. “Zarathustra Unbound? To the Nietzsche Archive,” Midwest Quarterly, Fall 1998. (PR)

6. “No Difficulties with the Truth?” (on GDR philosopher-dissident Wolfgang Harich) Debatte, #1, Fall 1998. (PR)

7. “From the Cinematic Animal to Man the Forgiver? Reflections on Schindler’s List,” Explorations, Vol. VIII, 1998. (NPR)

1997

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1. “Resurrection of the Antichrist? The Return of Nietzsche to Eastern Germany,” Texas Alcalde, Spring 1997. (NPR)

2. “I Am Inventing Myself All the Time: Isabel Allende and the Literary Interview as Public Performance,” Text and Performance Quarterly, Spring 1997. (PR)

3. “Interview with Isabel Allende,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1997. (NPR)

4. “Trilling’s Homage to Orwell,” Explorations, Summer 1997. (NPR)

5. “Translating Oe Kenzaburo’s ‘Translationese,’” Japanophile, Summer 1997. (NPR)

6. “Zarathustra’s Clan,” Modern Age, Summer 1997. (NPR)

7. “Overlooked Birthmarks: James Joyce and His Wee Twin,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall 1997. (NPR)

8. “Sociology and the Intellectual Life: An Interview with Lewis Feuer,” American Sociologist, Fall 1997 (with Thomas Cushman). (PR)

9. “Bridge over Broken Glass: A Visit to Germany’s Sole Jewish High School,” Midwest Quarterly, Fall 1997. (PR)

10. “Man the Forgiver? Reflections on Schindler’s List,” Explorations, Fall 1997. (NPR)

11. “Dimensions of Forgiveness,” Vital Speeches of the Day, 15 September 1997. (NPR)

1996

1. “The Opposing Selves of Lionel Trilling: A Reconsideration,” Modern Age, Winter 1996. (NPR)

2. “The Performing Artist-Intellectual: The Personae and Personality of Camille Paglia,” Text and Performance Quarterly, January 1996. (PR)

3. Review of Klaus P. Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History, Christian Century, 7 February 1996. (NPR)

4. “‘Improv is My Pedagogical Style’: Camille Paglia on Teaching as Performance Art,” Text and Performance Quarterly, April 1996. (PR)

5. “Holy the Wild: An Interview with Rick Bass,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Spring/Summer 1996. (NPR)

6. “Return of the Pink Rabbit? A Visit to a Jewish School in Berlin,” Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Summer 1996. (PR)

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7. Review of Richard F. Hamilton, The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community, The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1996. (NPR)

8. “Ignatz Bubis: An Interview,” Jewish Spectator, Fall 1996. (NPR)

9. “Splendor in the Weeds: An Interview with Gerald Stern,” Text and Performance Quarterly, Fall 1996. (PR)

10. “Ressurrection of a Demon? The Return of Nietzsche to Eastern Germany,” Texas Alcalde, September/October 1996. (NPR)

11. “Am Anfang war der Raum” (On the sacredness of place), Gelassenwerden (Freiburg: Herder Verlag, 1996). (NPR)

12. “Zu Fuss” ( On the role of slower rhythms in life), Gelassenwerden (Freiburg: Herder Verlag, 1996). (NPR)

13. “An Interview with W.S. DiPiero,” Translation Review, 1996. (NPR)

1995

1. “A Revolutionary in Love with the Past: A Grandmother’s Sternstunden,” Modern Age, Winter 1995. (On an eastern German teacher) (NPR)

2. “An Explorer in the Book Trade,” La Salle Magazine, Spring 1995. (NPR)

3. “Going Bananas,” Commonweal, 24 March 1995. (NPR)

4. “Liberation from Lies,” Commonweal, 7 April 1995. (On the 50th anniversary of Buchenwald’s liberation) (NPR)

5. “Buchenwald Not Truly Self-Liberated,” The Daily Texan, 10 April 1995. (NPR)

6. “Memories from Hell,” America, 15 April 1995. (On the history of Buchenwald). (NPR)

7. “Earth-Sent Opportunities: David Brower and Environmental Activism,” America, 22 April 1995. (NPR)

8. “Uses of the Past: O Buchenwald!” Christian Century, 26 April 1995. (NPR)

9. “Howard’s Ends (And Means): An Interview with Richard Howard,” Text and Performance Quarterly, July 1995. (PR)

10. Review of Raymond A. Schroth, The American Journey of Eric Sevareid, America, 9 September 1995. (NPR)

11. “‘The Thing Life of Paint, The Thought Life of Words’: An Interview with W.S. Di Piero,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 1995. (NPR)

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12. “Border-Crossing in the New Berlin: Journey to a German-Jewish High School,” Jewish Spectator, Winter 1995/96. (NPR)

13. “Biography of ex-CBS mogul logs zigzag ‘Journey,’” The Daily Texan, 1995. (NPR)

14. “A Remembrance of Earth Days Past,” The Daily Texan, 1995. (NPR)

1993

1. Review of Tom Buchanan, The Spanish Civil War and the British Labor Movement, Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Winter 1993. (NPR)

2. “East German Education: After the Wall,” Four Quarters, Spring 1993.

3. “Field of Dreams,” Western Journal of Speech Communication, Spring 1993. (PR)

4. “East Side Story, West Side Story: The New Berlin,” America (3 July 1993). (NPR)

5. “Repairing the Red Schoolhouse: Report Card from Eastern Germany,” Four Quarters, Fall 1993. (NPR)

1992

1. “‘Always Fighting Against Something’: George Woodcock and the London Anarchists’ Image of George Orwell,” Queen’s Quarterly, Spring 1988. Reprinted in The Revised Orwell, Spring 1992. (PR)

2. “Ma Bell and Big Brother,” Media Studies Journal (Gannett Center, Columbia), Spring 1992. (NPR)

3. “On the Sociology of Intellectuals: George Orwell and the London Intelligentsia of the 1930s,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, Summer 1990. Reprinted in The Revised Orwell, ed. Jonathan Rose, Ohio University Press, Spring 1992. (PR)

4. “Nie Wieder? Laughter and Forgetting in East Germany,” Modern Age, Fall 1992. (NPR)

5. “Of Laughter and Forgetting: A Look at East German Education,” Modern Age, Fall 1992. (NPR)

6. “Response,” College English, September 1992. (PR)

7. The Rope That Connects Me Directly With You’: John Wain and the Movement Writers’ Orwell,” Albion , Spring 1988. Reprinted in The Revised Orwell, Edited by Jonathan Rose, Michigan State University Press, 1992. (PR)

8. “Teaching Orwell in the Classroom,” Festschrift für Walter Sokel, ed. Steven Taubenack, Duke University Press, 1992. (NPR)

1991

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1. “Vicissitudes of a Public Literary Reputation: Orwell on the Telescreen,” New Orleans Review, Winter 1991. (NPR)

2. “‘The Responsibility to Tell You’: An Interview with Isabel Allende,” Kenyon Review, Winter 1991. (NPR)

3. Review of Kurt and Gladys Engel Lang, Etched in Memory: The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation, Journal of Communication, Summer 1991. (NPR)

4. Review of David Lehman, Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man, Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 June 1991. (NPR)

5. “Cultural Studies and the Culture of Academe,” Border/Lines (Canada), Fall 1991. (NPR)

6. “Canon and the Curriculum: Orwell in the Classroom,” College English, September 1991. (PR)

7. “East Germany: An Apparatchik Remembers,” Commonweal, 27 September 1991. (NPR)

8. “Trabulations: East Germany’s Lurch Toward Educational Reform,” America, 26 October 1991. (NPR)

1990

1. Review of Brian Inglis, Popular Culture and Political Power, Albion, Spring 1990. (NPR)

2. “‘Sexist After All?’ The Feminists’ Orwell,” New Orleans Review, Spring 1990. (NPR)

3. “Varieties of Literary Experience: The Prophetic Visions of 1984,” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (East Germany), Spring 1990. Reprinted in The Utopian Imagination: Essays Presented to Professor Kashi Prasad, ed. Jasbir Jain and Santosh Gupta (Jaipur, India), 1992. (PR)

4. “The Effluence of Literary Influence: George Orwell as Critic and Object of Popular Culture,” New Orleans Review, Summer 1990. (NPR)

5. “George Orwell: Picwickian Radical?” Kenyon Review, Summer 1990. (NPR)

6. “On the Sociology of Intellectuals: George Orwell and the London Intelligentsia of the 1930s,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, Summer 1990. Reprinted in The Revised Orwell, ed. Jonathan Rose, Ohio University Press, Spring 1991. Reprinted in New Casebooks, ed. Graham Holderness, et al. 1998. (PR)

7. “Orwellmania,” Carolina Communication Studies Journal, Summer 1990. (NPR)

8. Review of Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals, Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 June 1990. (NPR)

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9. “Canonization and the Curriculum: George Orwell in the Anglo-American Classroom,” REAL: the Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, Guenter Narr Verlag Tübingen, Vol. VII, 1990. (PR)

1989

1. “‘Enemy of Mankind’: The Soviet Union’s Orwell,” Modern Age, Winter 1989. (NPR)

2. “A Very Partial Reclamation Project: The Case of George Orwell in the U.S.S.R.,” Commonweal, 10 February 1989. (NPR)

3. “George Orwell and British Catholicism,” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Spring 1989. (PR)

4. “Orwell as Quixote: Analogy, Anecdote, Repute,” College Literature, Spring 1989. (PR)

5. “Soviet Literary Policy; 1945-89: The Case of George Orwell,” Modern Age, Spring 1989. (NPR)

6. “My Orwell, Right or Left: The Politics of Literary Grave-Robbing,” Canadian Journal of History, April 1989. (PR)

7. “Personal Behavior, Biographical History, Literary Reputation: The Case of George Orwell,” Biography, Summer 1989. (PR)

8. “Decency and Democracy: George Orwell, the People’s Tribune,” Prose Studies, Fall 1989. (PR)

9. “Perils of Pereststroika,” La Salle Magazine, Fall 1989. (NPR)

10. “1984 in the Soviet Union,” UT News, 27 October 1989. (NPR)

11. “Editorial,” Spectra, 1989. (NPR)

12. “Literary Studies and the Repression of Reputation,” Philosophy and Literature, 1989. (PR)

1988

1. “‘The Rope That Connects Me Directly With You’: John Wain and the Movement Writers’ Orwell,” Albion , Spring 1988. Reprinted in The Revised Orwell, Edited by Jonathan Rose, Michigan State University Press, 1991. (PR)

2. “Soviet Literary Policy: 1945-1989: The Case of George Orwell,” Modern Age, Spring 1988. (NPR)

3. “The Politics of Literary Reputation: George Woodcock and the Anarchists’ Orwell,” Queen’s Quarterly, Summer 1988. (NPR)

4. “Teaching is our Mission,” La Salle Magazine, Summer 1988. (NPR)

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5. “The Separate Worlds of George Orwell,” Four Quarters, Fall 1988. (NPR)

6. “Comrade Orwell?” The Four A.M. Free Press, 7 November 1988. (NPR)

1987

1. “The Spectre of Der Grosse Bruder: George Orwell’s Reputation in West Germany,” German Quarterly, Winter 1987-88. (PR)

1986

1. Essay-review on Terry Eagleton, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Spring 1986. (NPR)

2. “The Ideals of a University: Reputation, Publication, Teaching, Tenure,” The Declaration, 14 April 1986. (NPR)

1985

1. “Ideology, Revisionism and the British Left: Orwell’s Marx and the Marxists’ Orwell,” Papers in Comparative Studies, Spring 1985. (PR)

2. “British University Debating: A Reappraisal,” Communication Education, October 1985. (PR)

3. “Fulbright Scholars,” La Salle Magazine, Winter 1985/6. (NPR)

1984

1. “On the Left: Orwell, Marx and the Marxists,” Four Quarters, Spring 1984. (NPR)

2. “Orthodoxy, Heresy, and the British Left: Orwell’s Marx and the Marxists’ Orwell,” The University Bookman, Autumn 1984. (NPR)

3. “Orwell on Religion: The Catholic and Jewish Questions,” College Literature, Vol. II, 1984. (PR)

1983

1. “Overlooked Joycean Birthmarks,” Thoughtlines, 1983. (NPR)

1981

1. “Will They Ever Give Ireland Back to the Irish?” La Salle Magazine, Summer 1981. (NPR)

1980

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1. “Two Schools of Thought” (on British university debating and comparative education), The Washington Post, 30 December 1980. (NPR)

2. “Pandora’s Box: Is it Really the Source of All Evil?” (On the Cultural Influence of Television), Thoughtlines: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Study, Spring 1980. (NPR)

1978

1. “Bill Burns: A Marshall Plan Fulfilled,” La Salle Magazine, Summer 1978. (NPR)

2. “The Thinking Man’s Game” (on fellowship competition), La Salle Magazine, Winter 1977/78. (NPR)

1977

1. “The Guide Can’t See,” Catholic Digest, July 1977. (NPR)