Scholarly Publications
Dissertation
"John Donne's Poetic Uses of the Bible." Dissertation Abstracts International 44, 12 (June 1984): 3693A-3694A. Director: Dr. Clayton D. Lein
Books
The David Myth in Western Literature, coedited with an introduction (Purdue UP, 1980; second printing 1981)
Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature, coedited with an introduction (Fairleigh Dickinson UP and Associated U Presses, 1984)
Old Testament Women in Western Literature, coedited with an introduction (UCA P, 1991)
John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross, coedited with an introduction (UCA P, 1995)
Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, edited with an introduction (Haworth P, 1997: paperback edition, 1999); published simultaneously as a special double issue of the J of Homosexuality 33, 3-4 (1997)
Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, second ed., edited with an introduction (Haworth P, 2003)
Articles
"Donne's Biblical Figures: The Integrity of 'To Mr. George Herbert,'" Modern Philology 81 (Feb. 1984): 285-89
"Donne's Erotic Spirituality: Ovidian Sexuality and the Language of Christian Revelation in Elegy XIX," Ball State U Forum 25 (Autumn 1984): 41-54
"The Curious Frame of Chapman's Ovids Banquet of Sence," Cahiers Elisabethains 31 (Apr. 1987): 37-43
"Redemption Typology in John Donne's 'Batter my heart,'" J of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Assoc. 8 (1987): 163-76. Rpt. in A. L. Clements, ed., John Donne's Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition, rev. ed. (Norton, 1992), pp. 338-49
"Teaching Psalm 23," in Approaches to Teaching the Hebrew Bible as Literature in Translation, ed. Barry N. Olshen and Yael S. Feldman (Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1989), pp. 120-23
"'Ruddy and goodly to look at withal': Drayton, Cowley, and the Biblical Model for Renaissance Hom[m]osexuality," Cahiers Elisabethains 36 (Oct. 1989): 11-24
Madame, Spare that Mole!': Comic Responses to Psychosexual Threats in Sterne's Tristram Shandy," Publications of the Arkansas Philological Assoc. 16 (Spring 1990): 15-30
"The Trickster Tricked: Strategies of Deception and Survival in the David Narrative," in Mappings of the Biblical Terrain: The Bible as Text, ed. Vincent L. Tollers and John Maier (Bucknell UP, 1990), pp. 170-92
"Donne's Imperfect Resurrection," Papers on Language and Literature 26 (Fall 1990): 539-45
"Perfect Foolishness: Rabelais' Christian Wisdom," Publications of the Arkansas Philological Assoc. 17 (Spring 1991): 23-44
"Dinah and the Comedy of Castration in Sterne's Tristram Shandy," in Old Testament Women, pp. 174-203
"Scatology in the Sophomore Survey; or, Teaching Swift as a Christian Satirist," in Critical Approaches to Teaching Swift, ed. Peter J. Schakel (AMS P, 1992), pp. 297-305
"David" (coauthored), in A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, ed. David L. Jeffrey (W. B. Eerdmans, 1992), pp. 180-85
"Umberto Eco's Praise of Folly," Publications of the Arkansas Philological Assoc. 18 (Spring 1992): 9-27
"Richard Wilbur, 'Advice to a Prophet,'" The Explicator 51 (Fall 1992): 55-59
"'With Holy Importunity, with a Pious Impudency': John Donne's Attempts to Provoke Election," J of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Assoc. 13 (1992): 85-103
"Moses, Dante, and the Visio Dei of Donne's Elegy 19," ANQ: American Notes & Queries n.s. 6 (Jan. 1993): 13-17
"Teaching Johnson in the Sophomore Survey," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Samuel Johnson, ed. Gwin Kolb and David Anderson (Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1993), pp. 56-63
"Donne's Emblematic Imagination: Vision and Reformation of the Self in 'The Crosse,'" Publications of the Arkansas Philological Assoc. 20 (Spring 1994): 27-51
"'Add Faith unto your force and be not faint': Teaching Book I in the Sophomore Survey," in Approaches to Teaching Spenser's "Faerie Queene", ed. David Lee Miller and Alexander Dunlop (Modern Language Assoc. of America, 1994), pp. 49-57
"Bible," "Gilgamesh," "Gerard Manley Hopkins," "Petronius," and "Theocritus," in Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, ed. Claude J. Summers (Holt, 1995), pp. 92-100, 330, 367-68, 544, and 699-700, respectively
"James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and the Biblical Myth of David," CEA Critic 57, 2 (Winter 1995): 41-58
"Carew's A Rapture, the Renaissance Erotic Pastoral, and the Biblical Song of Solomon," Publications of the Arkansas Philological Assoc. 21 (Spring 1995): 39-67
"'Make all this All': The Religious Operations of John Donne's Imagination," in John Donne's Religious Imagination, pp. 1-27
"Thomas Coryate," in Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers (Fourth Series), Dictionary of Literary Biography 172, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit: Gale, 1996), pp. 48-52
"Translating Heavenwards: 'Upon the translation of the Psalmes' and John Donne's Poetics of Praise," Explorations in Renaissance Culture 22 (1996): 103-25
"Bakhtinian Grotesque Realism and the Subversion of Biblical Authority in Rochester's Sodom," J of Homosexuality 33, 3-4 (1997): 71-95
"'The Name of Shee': The Biblical Logocentrism of Donne's Anniversaries," Publications of the Missouri Philological Assoc. 22 (1997): 28-39
"Typological Identity and Syntactic Suspension in Milton's Sonnet 10," ANQ: American Notes & Queries n.s. 11, 2 (Spring 1998): 14-22
"Baldwin's 'The Outing' and the Sacral Nature of Male Love," J of the Short Story in English 30 (Spring 1998): 21-31
"'Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass': Allen Ginsberg and the Open Male Body of the Beat Revolution," CEA Critic, 61, 3-4 (Winter/Summer 1999): 83-98
"Law, Song, and Memory: The Mosaic Voice of Donne's First Anniversarie," Literature and Belief [Special Issue on Metaphysical Poetry and Belief], 19, 1 (1999): 154-74
"A Professional Queer Remembers: Bibliography, Narrative, and the Saving Power of Memory," in A Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Culture, A Festschrift for John DeCecco, ed. Sonya Jones (Haworth P, 2000), pp. 217-38
"Bible," "David and Jonathan," "Elegiac Poetry," "Epic of Gilgamesh," and "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester," in Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, Vol 2: Gay Histories and Cultures, ed. George E. Haggerty (Garland P, 2000), pp.118-20, 243-45, 272-74, 402-3, and 748-49, respectively
"Anatomizing Boccaccio's Sexual Festivity," in Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's "Decameron", ed. James H. S. McGregor (Modern Language Assoc. of America, 2000), pp. 95-102
"Reaching for the Light: Donnean Self-Fashioning in Margaret Edson's W;t, " Publications of the Missouri Philological Assoc. 25 (2000): 1-15
"Black and 'sicke for love': Homoerotic Appropriation of The Song of Solomon in Barnfield's Affectionate Shepheard," in The Affectionate Shepheard: Celebrating Richard Barnfield, ed. Ken Borris and George Klawitter (Susquehannah UP, 2001), pp. 99-114
"'Man-for-man love': David: A Play, the Bible, and Gender Construction," in Approaches to Teaching the Works of D. H. Lawrence, ed. Elizabeth M. Sargent and Garry Watson (Modern Language Assoc. of America, 2001), pp. 230-32
"Thomas Coryate and the Epistemology of Travel," CEA Critic [Special Issue on Travel Literature] 64, 1 (Fall 2001): 59-69
"Comedy of Manners" and "Terrence McNally," in Claude J. Summers, ed., Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, second ed. (Routledge, 2002), pp. 161-63 and 438-39, respectively
"'Dauid in his most hevynes': Bale's King Johan and the Politicization of the Penitential David Tradition" Cahiers Elisabethains, 62 (Octobre 2002): 1-10
"Bible," "Caravaggio," "Comedy of Manners," "David and Jonathan in Art," "John Kander and Fred Ebb," "Gilgamesh," "Lorenz Hart," "Jerry Herman," "Gerald Manley Hopkins," "Randall Kenan," "Arthur Laurents," "Terrence McNally," "Petronius," "Cole Porter," "Stephen Sondheim," "Theocritus," and "John Kennedy Toole," in Claude J. Summers, ed., GLBTQ: An Online Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, http://www.glbtq.com
"'All men are divine': Religious Mystery and Homosexual Identity in Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi," in Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture, second ed. (Haworth P, 2003), pp. 231-57
"Lancelot Andrewes," "Thomas Carew," "Abraham Cowley," "Thomas Fuller," "Joseph Hall," "Thomas Nashe," "Peter Shaffer," "George Wither," and "Sir Thomas Wyatt," in Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. Steven R. Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myer (Continuum, 2003), pp. 21-22, 160-61, 225-26, 379-80, 438-39, 706-7, 890-91, 1060-61, and 1072-73, respectively
"Donne's Protestant Paradiso: The Johannine Vision of the Second Anniversary," in Donne and the Protestant Reformation, ed. Mary Arshagouni Papazian (Wayne State UP, 2003), pp. 113-42
"'I don't believe this whole night': Transgressive Festivity in Terrence McNally's The Ritz," Philological Review 29, 2 (Fall 2003): 79-126
"'ardor with a silent h': Submitting to the Ache of Love in Edmund White's 'Skinned Alive,'" in Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story: Forms and Issues, ed. Mary H. Rohrberger et al (Praeger/Greenwood P, 2003), pp. 144-60
"'the man which have affliction seene': Donne, Jeremiah, and the Fashioning of Lamentation," in Centered on the Word: Literature, Scripture, and the Tudor-Stuart Middle Way, ed. Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins (U of Delaware P, 2004), pp. 127-47
"Donne, Coryate, and the Sesqui-superlative" Explorations in Renaissance Culture 29, 2 (Winter 2003): 211-24
"'There is someone out there': The Failed Struggle against Immolation in Terrence McNally's And Things That Go Bump," Literature and Criticism: Journal of the Literary Society of India 4 (2004): 11-31
"Caravaggio" and "Subjects of the Visual Arts: David and Jonathan," in The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts, ed. Claude J. Summers (Cleis P, 2004), pp 70-73 and 294-96, respectively
Forthcoming
"John Kander and Fred Ebb," "Lorenz Hart," Jerry Herman," "Cole Porter," and "Stephen Sondheim," in The Queer Encyclopedia of Musical Composers and Performers, ed. Claude J. Summers (Cleis P, expected November 2004)
"Tuning the World: Traherne, Psalms, and Praise," in Re-Reading Thomas Traherne: A Collection of New Critical Essays, ed. Jacob Blevins (under consideration)
"Travel, Transgression, and the Danger of Festive Self-Presentation in Coryats Crudities" (in circulation)
updated 10/20/04