Courses
"Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, Painting," "Modernism as Drama," "Modern Fiction,"
"Techno-Lit: Science and Fiction," "Theories of Modernism," "Early Postmodernism," "The Meaning
of Music," British Literature survey, "Faust in Literature and Music," "Shakespeare and Opera"

Research Interests
Theories and strategies of comparative arts; Shakespeare and music; Surrealism and British literature;
Synoptic Modernism

Books
Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Beckett and Aesthetics. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Berlioz's Semi-Operas: Roméo et Juliette and La damnation de Faust. University of Rochester Press, 2001.
Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Editor, W. B. Yeats: The Poems .  J. M. Dent and Sons, 1990. Revised third printing, 1994.
Editor and Translator (with Heinz Vienken), Amerikanische Lyrik: Texte und Deutungen. Peter Lang Verlag, 1989.
Stravinsky: The Music-Box and the Nightingale. Gordon and Breach, 1989
Editor, Poetries of America: Essays in the Relation of Character to Style, by Irvin Ehrenpreis.  University Press of
Virginia, 1988.
Tennyson: The Muses' Tug-of-War. University Press of Virginia, 1986.
Lyricality in English Literature. University of Nebraska Press, 1985.
Representation and the Imagination: Beckett, Kafka, Nabokov, and Schoenberg. University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Personality and Impersonality: Lawrence, Woolf, Mann. University of Chicago Press, 1978.
The Myth against Myth: A Study of Yeats's Imagination in Old Age. Oxford University Press, 1972.

General Editor: Border Crossings: Modernism in Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts , a series
of volumes of new essays in comparative arts, published by Garland Publishing.

Selected Articles, 1994-2004
Synoptic essay for the Ransom Center exhibition of Modernism, University of Texas. Fall 2003.
“Pound, Picabia, and Surrealism,” Pound and Referentiality, ed. Hélne Aji. Paris : Presses Universitaires de
Paris Sorbonne, 2003.
“Postmodern Interpretations of Satie's Parade,” Canadian University Music Review #22/1(2001).
Foreword to Symphonic Program Music by Lawrence Casler. Lewiston : Edwin Meller, 2001.
“Chiliasm in the Twentieth Century,” Critica del Novecent, ed. Massimo Bacigalupo. Genoa: Tilgher, 2001.
“Yeats's Waves,” The Norton Critical Edition: Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose, ed. James Pethica. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2000.
“Kurt Weill as Ironist,” Modernism / Modernity, April 2000.
“Beckett as Marsyas,” Samuel Beckett and the Arts, ed. Lois Oppenheim, Garland Publishing, 1999.
“Ineffability,” Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly. Oxford University Press, 1998.
"An Opera with No Acts: Four Saints in Three Acts,” Southern Review, Summer 1997.
"Beckett at the Bowling Alley,” Contemporary Literature, Summer 1997.
"Yeats and Science Fiction,” Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal , Winter/Spring 1996.
“Literary and Psychological Models of the Self,” in The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the
Self-Narrative, ed. Ulric Neisser and Robyn Fivush. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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