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John E. Loftis Professor of English Education: Ph.D.,
English, Emory University, 1971 B.A.,
English, University of the South (Sewanee), 1966 Areas of Interest: Restoration
and Eighteenth-Century English Literature The
Novel Satire Recent Professional Activity
(1990-present): Publications : Loftis, John E. "Trials and the Shaping of Identity
in Tom Jones." Studies
in the Novel 34.1 (Spring 2002): 1-20. Forthcoming. ---.
"Congreve's Way of the World and Popular Criminal
Literature." Studies in
English Literature 1500-1900 36 (Summer 1996): 561-78. Reviews: Loftis, John E. Review of The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and
Defense of Higher Education by John James Axtell. Rocky Mountain Review 54 (Spring 2000), 144-147. ---. Review of The Conversational Circle:
Rereading the English Novel, 1740-1775 by Betty Schellenberg 1996. Rocky Mountain Review 52 (Spring
1998), 81-82.. ---.
Review of Swift's Political Satire by Ronald Knowles. New York: Twayne, 1996. Twayne's Masterwork Studies. Scriblerian, 30 (Spring 1998):
49-51. ---.
Review of "I'd Rather Be Reading Jane Austen: The Appeal of the
Augustans" by Alan
Downie, An Inaugural Lecture,
Goldsmiths College, University of London (8 November 1994), 1-20. Scriblerian, 29 (Autumn 1996):
50. ---.
Review of The Business of Common Life: Novels and Classical Economics
between Revolution and Reform by David Kaufmann. Johns Hopkins U P, 1995. Rocky Mountain Review. 50 (Fall 1996): 78-80. ---.
Review of Strong Representations: Narrative and Circumstantial
Evidence in England by Alexander Welsh. Johns Hopkins U P, 1992. Rocky Mountain Review. 47.1, 2: 1993. Presentations: Session Chair, "Special Topics, Special Goals,"
RMMLA, Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 11-13, 2001. "Teaching Literary Special Topics: An Instance of
the Trip-to-England Course," RMMLA, Vancouver, B.C., Oct. 11-13, 2001. "Honey I'm Home: Gulliver, Marlow, and the
Twentieth-Century Reader,"RMMLA, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 14-16, 1999 With Janie Hinds: "Redrawing the Past:
Anachronism, Direction, and What Might Have Happened in Mason & Dixon,"
MLA, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27-30, 1998. "Concordia Discors and Chaos in Pope's 'Windsor
Forest,'" South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, San
Antonio, TX, Feb 19-21, 1998. "Law and Lament: Varieties of Discourse in
Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent." Southeastern American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Birmingham, AL, March 4-6, 1993. "The Failure of Legal Discourse in Fielding's Tom
Jones." Modern Language
Association, December 27-30, 1992, New York, NY. "Congreve's Way of the World and Popular
Criminal Literature." Paper presented at the South Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies
annual meeting, Lubbock, TX. 13-15 February 1992. Recent courses: Syllabi
and materials for the following courses are available on the English department
web page: ENG 131, Introduction to Literature ENG 213, Survey of British Literature I ENG 626, Satire and Sensibility |