RANDOLPH CHILTON

Department of English
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox St.
Joliet, Illinois 60435
(815) 740-3454
e-mail: rchilton@stfrancis.edu

Degrees:

1981	Ph.D. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Specialty: 20th Century British and American literature Adjacent area: American literature, 1850-1914
1974	M.A. in English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1969	A.B., Stanford University Major: English

Positions held:

1991- 1985-88	Chair, Department of English
1995-	Professor, College/University of St. Francis
1987-95	Associate Professor, College of St. Francis
1981-87	Assistant Professor, College of St. Francis

Publications:

"Al Que Quiere!" Entry for Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Eric L. Haralson, ed. (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001), 767-69.

"Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, and the Objectivist Poets," headnote (pp. 1890-93) and annotated selections (pp. 1894-1916) for an entry in The Heath Anthology of American Literature, vol. 2, 3rd ed., Paul Lauter, ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998). Rev. as "Charles Reznikoff and Objectivist Poetry" for the 4^th ed. (2002).

"Pound's 'Metro' Hokku: the Evolution of an Image," Twentieth Century Literature 36 (1990), 225-36. (Co-author: Prof. Carol Gilbertson, Luther College.)

"Charles Reznikoff: Objectivist Witness," in Charles Reznikoff: Man and Poet, ed. Milton Hindus (Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1984).

"The Place of Being in the Poetry of George Oppen," in George Oppen: Man and Poet, ed. Burton Hatlen (Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1981).

Papers:

"Hybrid Strains in The God of Small Things," Conference on Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, University of Louisville (2005), Louisville, Kentucky

"The Postcolonial Classroom: Teaching in the ‘In-between,’" ACCA Symposium on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Teaching Undergraduates in the Arts and Sciences (October 2004), University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois

"'I think myself is what I've seen/And not myself': Environment and the Limits of the Self in the Poetry of George Oppen," Second Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, University of Montana at Missoula (July, 1997)

"Toward an Ethics of Reference: Lying in the Work of Mark Twain," College Theology Society Convention, University of San Diego (May, 1997)

"Counterfeit Lives: Story and Value in Tobias Wolff's 'The Liar' and This Boy's Life," International Short Story Conference, University of Iowa (June, 1996)

"Reading the Lie in The Scarlet Letter: Duplicity and Complicity in the First Scaffold Scene," 1995 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (July, 1995)

"Toward a Rhetoric of Lying: Speaking Lies to Power in This Boy's Life and Huckleberry Finn," 1994 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition (July, 1994)

"Speaking Lies to Power in Tobias Wolfe's This Boy's Life: Toward a Rhetoric of Lying," 1993 LeMoyne Forum on Religion and Literature and the 1993 Wyoming Conference on English, University of Wyoming (June/October, 1993)

"The Machine in the Classroom: On Teaching Writing with Computers," the Wyoming Conference on English, University of Wyoming (June, 1990)

"Zukofsky, Williams, and Modernist Reform," the University of Tulsa Comparative Literature Symposium on "Modernism and Its Inheritors" (March, 1988)

"Limit Language in Three Modern Poets," American Academy of Religion Midwest Region Meeting, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (April, 1983)

Dissertation:

"The Object Beyond the Image: A Study of Four Objectivist Poets" (1981) (Director: L. S. Dembo)

Courses taught:

Seminars: The Road, the Prairie, and the American West; The Twenties; Pound and Williams; Contemporary American Short Story; Critical Approaches to Conrad, James, and Faulkner; Yeats, Pound, Stevens; Poetry and Revelation in America; the Novel (genre); Poetry (genre)

Twentieth Century Literatures in English
Critical Theory
Twentieth Century British Literature
American lit. surveys, beginning to the present
Introduction to Literature
College Writing I
Writing Center tutorials and modules

Honors:

Sears Award for Excellence in Teaching and Campus Leadership (1991)

Participant, NEH Summer Seminar: "Modern American Poetry: New Perspectives," Princeton University (Director: A. Walton Litz) (Summer, 1987)