Dr. JOhn Gerlach
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Dr. John Gerlach Professor Emeritus 19th century American Literature; Emily Dickinson; fiction writing Office: RT 1814 Phone: (216) 687-6870 Email: j.gerlach@csuohio.edu |
Courses Recently Taught:
Emily Dickinson, American Literature Survey (ENG 342) , Fiction Writing (ENG 305/602) , Reading Texts (ENG 510).
Educational Background:
B.A. 1963, Kenyon College (English)
M.F.A. 1965, Columbia University (Film and Drama)
Ph.D. 1969, Arizona State University (English)
Doctoral Dissertation: "The Kingdom of God in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction" (directed by Marvin Fisher).
Administrative Posts:
1969-71 Director of Freshman English
1979-86 Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
1988-90 Director of Graduate Study
1990-94 Chairman, Department of English
1997-99 Director of Graduate Study
Awards:
Best article published in Arizona Quarterly , 1972 [Melville].
Fiction/Ohio Best Fiction Award, 1980. William Gass, judge. ["Sermon"].
Second Prize at Kent State University Writers' Conference, Fall 1983 ["Family Pictures"].
Listed for one of 100 distinguished stories of the year in Best American Short Stories , 1983 ["Night Tale"].
First prize, Cleveland Magazine Short Story contest, 1985 ["The Man Who Favored Large Women"].
First prize, annual Ambergris fiction contest, 1988 ["Visitation"].
Second prize, Ohio Writer , creative non-fiction, 1995 ["Bear"].
Publications:
Books:The Critical Index: A Bibliography of Articles on Film in English, 1946-73, Arranged by Names and Topics . New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1974.
Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story . University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1985.
Short Stories:
"Grouse Hill." The Prairie Schooner , 52 (Summer 1978), 176-187.
"Dixie." The Ohio Review , 20 (Winter 1979). 85-97.
"Heaven's Door Ajar." Ascent , 5 (1979), 17-22.
"Sermon." Akros . No. 3 (Fall 1980), 50-53.
"Simpson Among Angels." North American Review , 265 (June 1980), 54. Reprinted in Four Minute Fictions: Fifty Short-short Stories from the North American Review . Ed. Robley Wilson, Jr. Flagstaff, Arizona: Word Beat Press, 1987.
"The Woman Who Ran Behind Bicycles." The Gamut , No. 3.
"Night Tale." Ascent , 7 (May 1982), 58-62. Translated into Rumanian by Stefan Avadanei, "Poveste de noapte." Convorbiri literare . Iasi-Romania. No. 9 (September 85), 16.
"The Spirit That Moves Us." The Red Cedar Review , 15 (1982), 24-35.
"Grandfather Tree." Aldebaran , 13 (April 1983), 12-16.
"Family Pictures." The Cuyahoga Review , 2 (Fall 85/Winter 86), 113-124.
"The Man Who Favored Large Women." Cleveland Magazine , v. 14 no. 12 (December 1985), 154-156+.
"Jugglers." The Gamut , 23 (Spring 1988), 66-74.
"Visitation." Ambergris, no. 3 (Autumn 1988), 9-17.
"Lover." Ambergris , no. 5 (Autumn 1989), 63-71.
"Lifters." Creative and Critical Approaches to the Short Story . Ed. Noel Harold Kaylor. Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1997. 97-121.
"To Whom the Future." Barbaric Yawp . Vol. 1 no. 3 (December 1997), 47-53.
Articles about Literature:
"Messianic Nationalism in the Early Works of Herman Melville: Against Perry Miller." Arizona Quarterly , 27 (Spring 1972), 5-26. Delivered at the Northeast Ohio English Association, October 1970.
"James Fenimore Cooper and the Kingdom of God." Illinois Quarterly , 35 (April 1973), 32-50.
"Larry McMurtry," in American Novelists Since World War II , ed. Jeffrey Helterman, et al. Vol 2. of Dictionary of Literary Biography . Detroit: Gale Research Comany, 1978, pp. 328-331.
"Through 'The Octascope': A View of Ann Beattie." Studies in Short Fiction , 17 (Fall 1980), 489-494.
"J. G. Ballard." In Critical Survey of Short Fiction . Ed. Frank Magill. Vol. 3. California: Salem Press, 1981, pp. 1383-1386.
"Jesse Hill Ford." In Critical Survey of Short Fiction . Vol. 4, pp. 1383-1386.
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez." In Critical Survey of Short Fiction . Vol. 4, pp. 1452-1457.
"The Logic of Wings: Garcia Marquez, Todorov, and the Endless Resources of Fantasy," in Bridges to Fantasy . Ed. George E. Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982, pp. 121-129. Delivered at the First International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film, Florida Atlantic University, March 1980, and for the Eaton Conference on Fantasy, University of California at Riverside, February, 1980. Reprinted in Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Modern Critical Views , ed. Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House: 1989, pp. 81-89.
"Closure in Modern Short Fiction: Cheever's 'Enormous Radio' and 'Artemis, the Honest Well Digger.'" Modern Fiction Studies , 28 (Spring 1982), 145-152.
"Closure and the Short Story: Henry James." The Journal of Narrative Technique , 14 (Winter 1984), 60-67.
"The Decameron : Closure, Cruelty, and Recreation-Medieval and Modern." Canadian Journal of Italian Studies , 11 (1988), no. 37, 113-127.
"The Margins of Narrative: Short Story, Prose Poem, and Lyric." Short Story Theory at a Crossroads . Ed. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989, 74-84.
"Laboratory for Narrative: The one-sentence fictions of Richard Kostelanetz." Short Story , 1 (Spring 1990), 51-59.
"Climax in the Short Story: Eudora Welty's "Curtain of Green." Short Story , 1.2 (1991), 60-70.
"Faulkner's Unvanquished and Welty's Golden Apples : Boundaries of Story, Cycle, and Novel." Short Story , 2.2 (1992), 51-62.
"Updike's 'Ace in the Hole'" in Robert M. Luscher, ed., John Updike: A Study of the Short Fiction . New York: Twayne, 1993, pp. 191-194. Reprint of section from Toward the End .
"Larry McMurtry," American Novelists Since World War II , v.143 of Dictionary of Literary Biography. Third Series . ed. James and Wanda Giles. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.
"Reading Dickinson: Bolts, Hounds, the Variorum, and Fascicle 39," The Emily Dickinson Journal , 3.2 (1994), 78-99.
"R.K. Narayan," Reference Guide to Short Fiction . Ed. Noelle Watson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1994. p. 384.
"Strategies of Wonder: Language in Science Fiction." Foreign Language Education . 18.3 (1997), 23-31.
Creative Non-Fiction:
"Reminiscence," Sports Illustrated , April 7, 1986, unpaged supplement for subscribers. Article about attending a Cleveland Indians game with my father and my eight-year-old daughter.
"Bear Above," Ohio Writer , vol. 10, Jan/Feb 1996, 6-8. Personal essay.
Poem:
"Daddy-Longlegs," Voices of Cleveland . Cleveland: CSU Poetry Center, 1996. p. 59.
Personal Interests:
Baseball, metroparks, church chorale, keyboard playing.
Cleveland State University
Department of English
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