JOHN BIGUENET
 
 

Department of English
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
(504) 865-2474
 

EMPLOYMENT:

Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, Loyola University, 1998-  .

Director, Institutional Self-Study Program (for reaffirmation of accreditation), Loyola University, 1993-95.

Professor of English, Loyola University, 1987-  .

Director, Institutional Self-Study Program (for reaffirmation of accreditation), Loyola University, 1983-85.

Associate Professor of English, Loyola University, 1981-87.

Director, Basic Skills Program, Loyola University, 1980-84.

Visiting Professor of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature and Aesthetic Studies (seminars taught included Poetry and Poetics, Translation, and Creative Writing), The University of Texas at Dallas, 1980.

Director, Basic Skills Program, Loyola University, 1979-80; Writing Specialist of Basic Skills Program and Assistant Professor of English, Loyola University (New Orleans), 1977-79.

Full-time writer/editor, 1976-77.

Poet-in-Residence, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 1974-76.

State Director and Master Poet (see PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS), Arkansas Poetry in the Schools Program, 1973-74.

Graduate Assistant (taught Creative Writing, Introduction to Literature, Remedial Composition, and Developmental Reading), Department of English, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), 1971-74.

EDUCATION:

M.F.A. (60-hour terminal degree) Creative Writing, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), 1975.

B.A. English (Magna Cum Laude), Loyola University (New Orleans), 1971.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

Served on the Loyola Marketing Advisory Board and as a consultant to the board’s steering committee, 2000-    .

Served on the University Committee on Grants and Leaves, 2000-   .

Served on Instructional Effectiveness Work Group of the Task Force for Student Success and Retention, 2000-    .

Revised Office of Admissions letter to prospective students, 2000.

Speaker, Loyola University Benefactors Tribute, November 16, 2000.

Served on the Science Advisory Subcommittee for the Common Curriculum, College of Arts and Sciences, 2000-.

Served as an English department student advisor, ongoing.

At the request of the department, designed and taught Introduction to Critical Theory (ENGL-A497-001) for exempted freshman English majors and have been asked to propose the class for permanent status, 2000.

Served as English department liaison to Office of Admissions, 1999-2000.

Participated in three freshman orientation programs that provided every incoming Arts and Sciences freshman with a copy of my story “The Vulgar Soul” and brought the students together for discussions of it and a related essay by Carl Sagan, 1999, 2000.

Served as a member of the English department’s Literature Curriculum Committee, 1999-   .

Served on the Endowed Professors Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 1998-   .

Served on the Committee on Programming of the Boggs Literacy Center Board, 1998-  .

Served on the Loyola Web Page Coordinating Group (which created the Loyola Web site and oversees its continued development), 1996-    .

Served as a member of the organizing committee of the academic convocation on Southern culture and history to be held in conjunction with the dedication of the new Monroe Library, 1998-1999.

Elected alternate to the Arts and Sciences College Rank and Tenure Committee, 1997-1998.

Served on the Loyola University Enrollment Verification Committee, 1998.

Served as English department representative at the President’s Open House for recruitment of new freshmen, 1998, 1999.

Served on the President’s Architectural Selection Advisory Committee for the Student Housing Renovation/Construction Project, 1997.

Served on the Loyola United Way Steering Committee, 1996-1998.

Served on the Search Committee for the Assistant Provost for Information Technology, 1996.

Director, Institutional Self-Study Program (for reaffirmation of accreditation), 1993-1995.

Served on the Standing Council for Academic Planning, 1993-1994.

Served as faculty advisor of ReVisions, Loyola's student literary journal, 1993.

Served on Steering Committee of Institutional Self-Study Program for Reaffirmation of Accreditation, 1993-95.

Chairman, Committee on Institutional Purpose (Self-Study Program), 1993-95.

Served on English Department Administrative Committee, 1992-1993.

Served on host committee for Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Loyola University, 1992-93.

Served on English Department Composition Committee, 1992.

Served on Arts & Sciences Planning Committee, 1991-97.

Served on English Department Protocol Revision Committee, 1991-92.

Served on University Planning Team Steering Committee, 1991-97.

Assisted in preparations for 17th Annual African Literature Association Conference, Loyola University, 1991.

Served on Loyola University Non-Instructional Expenditure Task Force, 1990-92.

Served as Acting Chair of Instructional Development Advisory Commmittee, 1990.

Co-Director of Loyola University High School Creative Writing Competition, 1989-91.

Served as English Department faculty advisor, 1989-94.

Served on English Department Writing Awards Committee, 1990-93.

Served as Arts & Sciences Representative on the SCAP Task Force on General Education and Outcomes Assessment, 1989-90.

Served on University Rank and Tenure Committee, 1989.

Appointed University Accreditation Liaison Officer (with Dr. Norman Roussell), 1989-1992.

Served on University Planning Team, 1988-97.

Chairman, English Department General Education Review Committee, 1988.

Served on Instructional Development Advisory Committee, 1988-92.

Served on Classical Studies Planning Committee, 1988-89.

Served on Arts & Sciences General Education Review Committee, 1988-89.

Chairman, English Department Recruitment and Retention Committee, 1988-93.

General Studies Advisor, 1987-93; the general studies advising program was cited at the nation's "Outstanding Institutional Advising Program for 1989" by ACT/NACADA and received the 1990 Retention Excellence Award from the Noel/Levitz National Center for Student Retention.

Chairman, Task Force on Writing Across the Curriculum, 1985.

Arts & Sciences Representative, Standing Council for Academic Planning, 1984-88.

Director, Institutional Self-Study Program (for reaffirmation of accreditation), 1983-1985.

Served on Academic and Faculty Affairs Committee (1981-1982), University Senate (1980-1982), and Board of Communications (1979-1981).

Designed and taught all verbal skills sessions of GMAT, LSAT, GRE, and SAT/ACT Preparation Seminars at Loyola University, 1979-87; all verbal skills sessions of GRE and SAT/ACT, 1987-94.

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS:

External Evaluator for the University of California, Los Angeles on a promotion to the university’s third and highest tier (Professor, Step VI) in its regular Professorial series (reserved for "scholars and teachers of great distinction"), 2000.

My story “Rose,” which originally appeared in Esquire (131:1, January 1999, p.144), received an O. Henry Award, the most distinguished award for short fiction written by American or Canadian authors, and was reprinted in Prize Stories 2000:  The O. Henry Awards  (Anchor/Doubleday, 2000).

Appointed by Mayor Morial to the New Orleans Millennium Celebration Commission, under the auspices of the White House Millennium Council, 2000-   .

Inaugurated as president of the American Literary Translators Association, an organization of academic and professional translators of literature in the United States and abroad, 1999-    .  (Having served as ALTA’s president from 1984-1986, I am the first individual in the history of the organization to be elected president twice.)

Served as co-chair of the Diversity Task Force of Metairie Park Country Day School, 1999-    .

Served as a member of the President’s Council of the Arts Council of New Orleans, 1998-  .

Served as a member of the Louisiana Literature/Literacy Task Force of the Office of Cultural Development of the State of Louisiana, 1998-  .

Served on the Strategic Planning Steering Committee for Metairie Park Country Day School, 1996-    .

Served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Artists Guild, 1995-    .

My story “And Never Come Up,” which appeared originally in Granta (#61, Spring 1998, pp. 257-270), was selected for inclusion in the annual list of 100 distinguished stories chosen by the editors of The Best American Short Stories 1999.

Chair, Nominating Committee, the American Literary Translators Association.

Served as chair of the National Translation Award and as host of the awards ceremony, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association, New York, 1999.

My story “And Never Come Up,” which appeared originally in Granta, was presented in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway in New York, 1999.

Chair, Nominating Committee, the American Literary Translators Association, 1998, 1999.

Served as a judge of the National Translation Award, awarded by the American Literary Translators Association, 1998.

My story “The Vulgar Soul,” which appeared originally in Granta (#58, Summer 1997, pp. 229-254), was selected for inclusion in the annual list of 100 distinguished stories chosen by the editors of The Best American Short Stories 1998.

Served as the judge of the writing competition sponsored by Short Story Journal in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English, 1998.

Served as the judge of the graduate and undergraduate Creative Writing Competition of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, 1998.

Received Loyola University’s Dux Academicus Award for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and service, 1998.

Elected Vice President (1997-1999) / President-Elect (1999-2001) of the American Literary Translators Association, 1997.

Cited in The Best American Short Stories 1997 for “Lunch with My Daughter” (The Southern Review, XXXII:2, 1996).

Received 1995 Pushcart citation for outstanding writing (national competition for excellence in literary writing) for the short story "The Torturer’s Apprentice" (Witness, VII:1, 1993).

Served as a member of the Loyola Music Industry Advisory Council, 1995-    .

Served as judge of the poetry division of the American Literary Translators Association's 1993 National Translation Awards.

Invited to spend a month in residence as a fellow of the Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium (College of European Translators) in Straelen, Germany, 1993.

Appeared as a featured writer at the Deep South Writers Conference, speaking on a panel on literary translation and giving a reading of my fiction, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1993.

Awarded a Loyola faculty research grant for work on films set in New Orleans, 1993.

Served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Entergy Arts Business Center, 1992-97.  (The Entergy Art Business Center was awarded the 1994 Innovation in the Arts National Award of the Business Committee for the Arts by FORBES Magazine and was honored with a 1996 Client of the Year Award by the National Business Incubation Association.)

Served as judge of the poetry division of the American Literary Translators Association's 1992 National Translation Awards.

Selected for participation in the Metropolitan Leadership Forum of the Metropolitan Area Committee in recognition of outstanding community service, 1992.

Received Loyola University Student Alumni Association Citation, 1992.

Served as judge of new play competition of the Tennessee Williams Festival, New Orleans, 1992.

Served on the Personnel Policies Committee, 1997; served on the Executive Committee, 1997; elected President  of the Arts Council of New Orleans, 1995, 1996; elected Vice President, 1987-94;  Chair, Executive Committee, 1995-96; Member, Executive Committee, 1987-1994; Chair, Physical Facilities Committee, 1996; Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 1996-97; Chair, Personnel Policies Committee, 1995-96; Member, Louisiana Artists' Guild Committee, 1995-  ; Member, Community Arts Grants Appeals Panel, 1995; Chair, Committee on Multiculturalism, 1992-95; Member, Vision Committee, 1994; Member, Grants Guidelines Committee, 1992; Member, Grants Appeals Committee, 1992, 1993, 1996; Member, Metropolitan Arts Fund Grants Review Committee, 1992; Chairman, Policy and Planning Committee, 1990-94; Chairman, Long-Range Planning Committee, 1990-94; Chairman, Planning Committee for the Municipal Arts Fund, 1989; Chairman, Grants Review Panel for the Municipal Arts Fund and Expansion Arts Program, 1989; Liaison, Loyola University-Arts Council joint projects for Management Services Program for arts organizations and for Arts Economic Impact Study, 1989-90; Member, Municipal Endowment Grants and Awards Appeals and Evaluation Committee, 1989; Chairman, Planning Committee, 1987, 1988; Member of City Arts Awards Committee, 1988; Member of Management Services Review Committee, 1988; Chairman, Partnership in the Arts Committee, 1987.  Reappointed to the Board of Directors of the Arts Council of New Orleans, 1983-85, 1985-87; Chairman, Planning Committee, 1985, 1986; Chairman, Municipal Endowment Grants and Awards Evaluation Committee, 1985; Municipal Endowment Grants and Awards Appeals Committee, 1984; Chairman, Municipal Endowment Grants and Awards Committee (advisory to the City Council), 1983. Appointed by the Mayor to the Board of Directors of the Arts Council of New Orleans; served on the Executive Committee, the Municipal Allocations Committee (advisory to the Mayor and the City Council), and the Art in Public Places Review Committee, 1981-83.  (The Arts Council of New Orleans received the Governor’s Arts Award as the outstanding arts organization in Louisiana in 1996.)

Appointed chair of the Nominating Committee of the American Literary Translators Association, 1991.

Served on Translation Prizes Task Force of the American Literary Translators Association, 1990-92.

Appointed chairman of cultural planning for City Council authorized master plan for New Orleans, 1990-92.

Received citation as teacher of winner of Loyola University Women's Studies Essay Award, 1990.

Finalist judge for the Richard Wilbur Translation Prize in Poetry and Verse Drama, sponsored by the University of Missouri Press in cooperation with the American Literary Translators Association, 1990.

Appointed a member of guest faculty and offered seminars at the Third National Endowment for the Humanities Literary Translation Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989.

Appointed chair of the Nominating Committee of the American Literary Translators Association, 1989.

Listed in Men of Achievement, 1989-  .

Appointed a member of guest faculty and offered seminars at the Second National Endowment for the Humanities Literary Translation Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1988.

Appointed a member of guest faculty and offered seminars at the National Endowment for the Humanities Literary Translation Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987.

Chaired jury for the Richard Wilbur Translation Prize in Poetry and Verse Drama, sponsored by the University of Missouri Press in cooperation with the American Literary Translators Association, 1987.

Appointed to visiting faculty and offered series of lectures on the theory and practice of literary translation, Translation Institute of the University of California, 1986.

Listed in Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets, 1986-  .

Listed in International Authors & Writers Who's Who, 1986-  .

Served ex officio as immediate past president on the Executive Board of the American Literary Translators Association, 1985-1987.

Nominated by Loyola University for Professor of the Year Award of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (Washington, D.C.), 1985 and 1986.

Received citation from the Board of Trustees of Loyola University for work as director of the Institutional Self-Study Program (for reaffirmation of accreditation), 1985.

Elected President of the American Literary Translators Association, 1983-85.

Appointed to five terms on the Literature Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983-1988.

Served as Chairman and Program Director of the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, 1983.

Appointed to the Mayor's Arts Award Selection Panel, 1981.

Elected Vice President of the American Literary Translators Association, 1981-83.

Listed in International Who's Who in Poetry, 1981-  .

Received Loyola University Academic Grant for research on the poetry of Ezra Pound, 1981.

Served as Project Director for a Louisiana Committee for the Humanities grant to Loyola University, 1980-81.

Served as Project Director for a Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines grant to the New Orleans Review, 1980-81.

Served as co-director/consultant for the Poetry in the Schools Program for Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, 1980-87.

Received Pushcart citation for outstanding writing (national competition for excellence in literary writing) for the essay "Frank Stanford:  After the Fact" (New Orleans Review, VI:4), 1980.

Elected to the Executive Board of the American Literary Translators Association, 1980-81.

Chaired Steering Committee of the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, 1980.

Served as a judge in the creative writing competition of the Overture Arts Scholarship Program, 1980-94, 1996-1998.

Appointed to the Steering Committee of the Mayor's Committee for the Arts and Cultural Development, 1979-81.

Received Citation of Appreciation from the City of New Orleans for work on the Task Force on Arts Policy for City Government, 1979.

Listed in Translation and Translators:  An International Directory, 1979-  .

Appointed chairman of the Nominating Committee of the American Literary Translators Association, 1979.

Appointed to the Task Force on Arts Policy for the City of New Orleans, 1979.

Served as Grants Evaluator in Literature for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978-80, 1989, 1992.

Appointed to the Literature Panel of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism and of the State Arts Council, 1978-80.

Listed in The Directory of American Poets, 1975-  .

Received Master Poet Grant (to train other writers in classroom techniques and presentations), U.S. Department of Labor/National Endowment for the Arts, 1974.

Received Poetry in the Schools Grants, National Endowment for the Arts in cooperation with the Office of Arkansas State Arts and Humanities, 1974-76.

Awarded Graduate Award in Criticism (for "Recent Dialogues:  Language and Contemporary Drama"), University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), 1974.

Awarded House of Books Award for Literary Achievement, 1974.

Awarded Felix C. McKean Award in Poetry, 1972, 1973, 1974.

Awarded Harper's Magazine Writing Award (Grand Prize in Art Criticism for film review), 1970.

Awarded Scholarship, Breadloaf Writers Conference, 1969.

BOOKS:

The Torturer’s Apprentice, a collection of stories, The Ecco Press, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

Oyster, a novel, The Ecco Press, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (under contract; forthcoming).

Named editor-in-chief of The Encyclopedia of Translation, a major reference work to be published by Academic Press, a division of Harcourt Brace (forthcoming).

Theories of Translation, coedited by Rainer Schulte and John Biguenet and originally published by The University of Chicago Press (1992), will be translated and published in a Japanese-language edition by Babel, Inc. (forthcoming).

Theories of Translation:  An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida (co-editor with Rainer Schulte), University of Chicago Press, 1992.

The Craft of Translation (co-editor with Rainer Schulte), University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Foreign Fictions (edited this collection of international short fiction in translation and translated two of the pieces), Random House/Vintage (New York), 1978.

COMPUTER SOFTWARE:

Test of Standard Written English (wrote all screen displays; programmed by John F. Christman and John B. Christman), Krell Software Corporation, 1982; program awarded a Silver Cup by Creative Computing and a Certificate of Merit by the National Education Association.

ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING WORK:

Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Louisiana Poets, an anthology of contemporary poetry edited by Ann Dobie, Louisiana State University Press (1998).

From a Bend in the River (ed. Kalamu ya Salaam), Runagate Press, 1998.

Maple Leaf Rag II (ed. John Travis), Portals Press, 1994.

A Century of Vision / Un Siècle de Vision (ed. Herman Mhire), University Art Museum Press, 1986.

Contemporary Writing from the Continents (ed. Rainer Schulte), Ohio University Press, 1981.

Life As We Know It (ed. George Garrett), Doubleday, 1975.

Intro 5 (ed. Walton Beauchamp), Virginia Commonwealth University Press, 1974.

Eating the Menu:  Contemporary American Poetry (ed. Bruce E. Taylor), Kendall/Hunt, 1974.

Contemporary Poetry in America (ed. Miller Williams), Random House, 1973.

ARTICLES:

“The Story Comes First: A Conversation with John Sayles,” an article and interview, published in DoubleTake (#19, 6:1, Winter 2000, pp. 106-112).

Interview of Jorge Luis Borges, conducted with Tom Whalen and originally published in the New Orleans Review, was reprinted in Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, an anthology of interviews with the Argentine writer edited by Richard Burgin, University Press of Mississippi (1998), pp. 199-212.

"Double Takes: The Role of Allusion in Cinema," Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes (ed. Andrew Horton and Stuart McDougal), University of California Press (1998), pp. 131-143.

"Dawn at the Beach," Desire (#2, Summer 1998, unpaged).

 “Interview with Jack Gilbert,” New Orleans Review, co-conducted and co-written with Ralph Adamo (XXII:3/4, Fall/Winter 1996).

 “Arts Important to Economic Vitality, Quality of Life,” The Times-Picayune, March 15, 1996.

"Translation," Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia (Grolier’s CD-ROM, 1995).

"Valerie Martin," American Women Writers, Continuum, 1994.

"The Translator's Lessons:  Translation in Undergraduate Education," Council on National Literatures World Report (forthcoming).

"Sylvia Plath's 'Edge'" (essay co-authored with Geri Johnson, my student in Honors Thesis), Masterplots: Poetry, Salem Press, 1992.

"Walking Wounded:  The Morality of Robert Walser," The Review of Contemporary Fiction (XII:1, 1992).

"The Grammar of Vision," Mississippi Review (XIX:3, 1991).

"Film and the First Amendment," Lumiere (I:6, 1990).

"Working Without a Net:  Jose Maria Cundin," The New Orleans Art Review (VIII:3, 1990).

"Translation:  The Art of Reading," Mid-American Review (IX:2, 1989).

"Lee Miller:  Inflated Claims," The New Orleans Art Review (VIII:1, 1989).

"A Brief History of Student Protests," The Times-Picayune, June 9, 1989.

"Reflections on the Recent Bicentennial in France," The Times-Picayune, July 21, 1989.

"The Mystery of the Moment:  The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson," The New Orleans Art Review, November/December, 1987.

"A Mannerist of the Inauthentic:  Georges Rouault's Miserere," The New Orleans Art Review, September/October, 1987.

"Minimalism in Literature:  Notes of a Disaffected Reader," Mississippi Review, 40/41 (Special Issue), 1985; reprinted in Spanish translation as "Un Estilo sin Estilo," Quimera, 70/71.

"What Is a Photograph?" A Century of Vision / Un Siecle de Vision (ed. Herman Mhire), University Art Museum Press, 1986; printed also in French translation as "Qu'est-ce qu'une Photographie?"

"The Fourth R:  Art in Education," ArtSpectrum, June-September, 1986.

"An Interview with Marc Brasz," Arts Quarterly, V:2.

"An Interview with Jorge Luis Borges" (co-authored with Tom Whalen), New Orleans Review, IX:2, 1982; reprinted in Spanish translation as "Solo Seré Borges," Escandalar, VII:1.

"Max Martinez:  Critical Discourse and Chicano Literature," Associated Writing Programs Newsletter, IX:3, 1980.

"Frank Stanford:  After the Fact," New Orleans Review, VI:4, 1979; this article received a Pushcart Citation for Outstanding Writing in 1980.

"Reading and Editing," Associated Writing Programs Newsletter, VIII:7.

"Sound Poetry," New Orleans Review, VI:3.

"Ernesto Cardenal," New Orleans Review, VI:2.

PAPERS PRESENTED:

“A Heart of Gold: Prostitution and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination” (co-authored), Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, 1998.

"Double Takes: The Role of Allusion in Cinema," Conference on Cinema Studies, Loyola University, 1992.

"Southern Poetry in Southern Journals:  Does the South Still Have Its Own Literature?" Meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 1986.

"To See Beyond the Seen:  Metaphor and Niels Bohr," Philosophy, Language, and Atomic Physics:  A Symposium Celebrating the Hundredth Birthday of Niels Bohr, Loyola University, 1985.

"The Southerner and the Stranger" and chaired panel on "Southern Voices in Literature," Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines National Meeting, New Orleans, 1980.

"Taking Nothing for Granted:  Phenomenological Impediments," Louisiana Association for Post-Secondary Language Arts Conference, New Orleans, 1978.

"Motivating the Composition Student" and "The Basic Skills Program:  A Model" (co-authored), Louisiana College Conference on Freshman Composition, University of Southwestern Louisiana (Lafayette), 1977.

"Poetry as Self-Defense" and "Basic Communication Skills:  Requirements and Practical Applications for Teaching" (co-authored), Mayor's Conference on Education, New Orleans, 1977.

REVIEWS:

“Don’t Think, Smile: Notes on a Decade of Denial by Ellen Willis, Beacon Press (1999),” published in World (XIII:5, Sept/Oct 1999, pp. 67-68).

 “Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas by Lawrence Weschler, University of Chicago Press (1998),” published in World (XII:6, Nov/Dec 1998, pp. 56-57).

"On Thomas Hurlimann's The Couple" and "On J.F. Federspiel's Laura's Skin," Translation Review, #40.

"On Douglas Day's The Prison Notebooks of Ricardo Flores Magon," America, 167:10.

"On Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum," America, 162:9.

"On Paul Auster's The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry," Translation Review, #13.

"On Lee Fahnestock Leggett's The Making of the Pré," Translation Review, #7.

"On David Cloutier's Translation of White Road by Claude Esteban," Translation Review, #6.

"Peter Cooley's The Company of Strangers," New Orleans Review, V:4.

"Stones Are to Silence as Darkness Is to Light," "Yates the Obscure," and "A Writer Worth His Salt," West Coast Review, XI:2.

POETRY AND FICTION PUBLICATIONS:

 “It Is Raining in Bejucal,” a story commissioned by Francis Ford Coppola for publication in Zoetrope: All-Story (forthcoming).

“I Am Not a Jew,” a story, to be published in Book Magazine (forthcoming).

“I Am Not a Jew,” a story, to be presented in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway in New York, February 7, 2001.

“Rnsom,” a story, accepted for publication in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (forthcoming).

“Rose” (short story).  Reprinted in Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards.  Ed. Lary Dark.  New York: Anchor Books/Random House, 2000, 272-274.

“Rose” (short story).  Reprinted in The Double Dealer Redux (Fall 2000) 5.

“The Magician,” Confrontation (forthcoming).

“And Never Come Up,” a short story, originally presented in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway in New York, February 24, 1999, was broadcast on 125 National Public Radio local affiliates around the United States, December 2-8, 2000.

“Rose” (short story).  Reprinted in Random House’s online magazine, BoldType, as one of three featured O. Henry Award winners. http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0900/biguenet.1.html (September, 2000).

Audio recording of author reading “Rose” (short story) on Esquire.com, Esquire’s online magazine, as part of a feature on some of the magazine’s award-winning writers.  http://www.esquire.com/needtoknow/books/audio/rose.ram and http://www.esquire.com/needtoknow/books/000401_wbo_readings.html (April, 2000)

“Mama’s Boy,” a short story, published in the Denver Quarterly (34:3, Fall, 1999 {published in January 2000}, pp. 67-68).

An excerpt of “The Vulgar Soul,” which originally appeared in Granta, was reprinted in Imprint, Gambit Magazine’s quarterly literary review (3/21/00, p. 60).

“Pants on Fire,” Speak ( Fall, 1999, p. 128-129).

“Rose,” Esquire (131:1, January 1999, p.144).

“And Never Come Up,” Granta (#61, Spring 1998, pp. 257-270).

“The Woman Taken in Adultery,” which originally appeared in The Greensboro Review, was reprinted in World Wide Writers, a British journal of prize-winning stories (#1,1998, pp. 127-137).

“A Battlefield in Moonlight,” which originally appeared in Witness, was reprinted in revised form in The Double Dealer Redux (Fall 1998, p. 49).

“A Song” (poem).  Reprinted in Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Louisiana Poets.  Edited by Ann Dobie.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998, 13.

“A Short History of Barbed Wire” (poem).  Reprinted in Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Louisiana Poets.  Edited by Ann Dobie.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998, 13-14.

“Sestina” (poem).  Reprinted in Uncommonplace: An Anthology of Louisiana Poets.  Edited by Ann Dobie.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998, 14-15.

“Moonlight” (poem).  Reprinted in From a Bend in the River.  Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam.  New Orleans: Runagate Press, 1998, 18.

“The Vulgar Soul,” reprinted in The Sun (#261).

 “My Slave,” Story (45:3).

 “The Vulgar Soul,” Granta (#58).

 “Gregory’s Fate,” The Denver Quarterly (XXXI:2).

“Lunch with My Daughter,” The Southern Review (XXXII:2); cited in The Best American Short Stories 1997.

“Paper Dolls,” The Mississippi Review (Web Edition) (II:4).

“The Woman Taken in Adultery,” The Greensboro Review (#59); reprinted in World Wide Writers, a British journal of prize-wining stories.

“The Dog,” Exquisite Corpse (#57).

“A Battlefield in Moonlight,” Witness (IX:1).

"Theme and Variations," Thema (V:2).

"The Torturer's Apprentice," Witness (VII:1).

"On His Unemployment," The Threepenny Review, #51 (XIII:3).

"Nine Nudes," Boulevard, #19 (VII:1).

"An Alligator on the Path," New Orleans Review, XIX:2.

"Moonlight," Ploughshares, IX:2/3

"Scrimshaw," The North American Review, CCLXVII:3.

"A Song" and "Aspects of the Knife," Mundus Artium, XII/XIII:1.

"The Wall Behind the Mirror," Rhetoric Review, I:1.

"It," The Lowlands Review, #10.

"A Short History of Barbed Wire," The Georgia Review, XXXV:2.

"On a Mutual Acquaintance," Poetry Now, VI:5.

"The Great Theater," "Underwater," "The National Humiliation," and "Night" (translations from the poetry of André Pieyre de Mandiargues), Contemporary Literature in Translation, #30/31.

"Wartime," "The Friend of Trees," and "The Hearth" (translations from the poetry of André Pieyre de Mandiargues), New Orleans Review, VI:2.

"The Phenomenon," Lowlands Review, #4.

"A Song," "Epitaph of a Young Protestor," "Suicide," "The Insufficiency of Parking Lots," and "Aspects of the Knife," Mundus Artium, IX:2.

"Snake's Riddle," New Orleans Review, VI:4.

"After the Shipwreck" and "The Wall Behind the Mirror," New Orleans Review, V:3.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“The Future of ALTA” (welcoming address as organization president).  Presented at the 23rd National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).  San Francisco, October 18-22, 2000.

“Master Class on Short Fiction” (panel moderator) and “Spirituality in Poetry” (panel moderator).  Presented at Words & Music 2000: A Writers’ Conference of the Faulkner Society.  New Orleans, September 21-25, 2000.

Chaired a panel on “Literary Translation: Problems and Approaches” at the Annual Conference of the Associated Writing Programs in Kansas City, 4/1/00.

Invited by Esquire Magazine to read his fiction at the Union Square Theater in New York along with other award-winning Esquire writers and featured on the Esquire website, 3/27/00.

Chaired panel on “The Short Story: ‘The Part That Doesn’t Show’” at the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, 3/25/00.

Gave the keynote address on “Preserving Cultural Identity in an Age of Globalization”  at the Fulbright Program Enrichment Seminar, sponsored by the Institute of International Education on behalf of the U.S. State Department.  The seminar is a national convocation of international Fulbright students currently enrolled in colleges and universities throughout the United States, 3/16/00.

Led a research symposium sponsored by the Center for Translation Studies and the American Literary Translators Association at The University of Texas at Dallas, 2/19-2/20/00.

Served as the host of the National Translation Award ceremonies, New York, 10/21/99.

Gave opening address at and chaired annual business meeting of the American Literary Translators Association, New York, 10/21/99

Chaired panel and spoke on "The Dissemination of Information about Translation " at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, New York, 10/21/99.

Lectured at the master class on poetry (“That Fickle Muse: When Inspiration Becomes Perspiration”), 9/22/99, and chaired a panel on “Soul Writing: Spirituality in Contemporary Literature,” 9/25/99, at Words & Music ‘99: A Writers’ Conference of the Faulkner Society, New Orleans.

Participated in the Statutory Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) in Mons, Belgium; spoke on “Translation and the Education of a Writer” at FIT’s Congrès Mondial at the Université de Mons-Hainaut, 1999.

Spoke on panel on “Menace in the Short Story” at the Tennessee Williams/ New Orleans Literary Festival, 1999.

Chaired panel and spoke on "The Electronic Future of Translation " at the annual conference of the American Literary Translators Association, held in conjunction with the Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1998.

Read my fiction and spoke at awards banquet at the Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English, 1998.

Read my fiction and appeared on panels (“Heart & Soul: Spirituality in Contemporary Literature” and “The Landscape & Mindscape of the Author”) at Perfect Words: A Writers’ Conference of the Faulkner Society, 1998.

With Dr. Daniel Sheridan and Dr. Justin Levitov, served as an invited participant on “Self-Study Roundtable” at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, New Orleans, 1997.

Chaired panel on “Translation and Creative Writing” and spoke on "Key Issues in Translation Studies" at the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association at The University of Texas at Dallas, 1997.

Participated in a meeting of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs, Dallas, 1997.

With Dr. David Danahar and Dr. Justin Levitov, spoke on “Computerization of Institutional Effectiveness: Integrating Mission, Planning, Assessment, and Budgeting” at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Nashville, 1996.

Spoke on "The Future of Translation" at the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association at Indiana University, 1996.

Invited to speak (with Dr. David Danahar and Dr. Justin Levitov) on panel on “Computerization of Institutional Effectiveness: Integrating Mission, Planning, Assessment and Budgeting” at the Annual Meeting of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Atlanta, 1995.

Spoke on "Teaching the Translation of Langston Hughes’ ‘Moonlight in Valencia: Civil War’" at the “Pedagogy Workshop: Teaching Translation at the College Level” of the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association at the University of Texas, 1995.

Served on panel on “Reasons and Resources: Essential Strategies for Arts Education,” Video TeleLearning National Conference, downlink at Loyola University, 1995.

Spoke on "Theory in the Doing: Problem-Solving as a Path to Translation Theory" at the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association at the University of New Mexico, 1994.

(Due to lack of college travel funds, declined invitations to the 1994 International Conference on Narrative Literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and to the 1994 Europäische Übersetzerkonferenz of the Literarisches Colloquium of Berlin.)
 
Spoke on "Translation and Creative Writing" at the annual meeting of the Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers at the University of South Alabama, 1994.

Spoke on "Translation and Invisibility" at the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association at Georgia State University, 1993.

Chaired panel on "Journal Publication of Translations" and served on panel on "Translation Theory," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, University of Pittsburgh, 1992.

Served on three panels on "Centuries of Thinking about Translation," "Translating Gender(s)," and "Funding Translation," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, University of Florida, 1991.

Served on panel on "Mapping Translation in the 1990's," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, San Diego State University, 1990.

Chaired panel on "The Arts in America" with John Frohnmayer, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Loyola University, 1990.

Served on panel and presented paper, "Outcomes Assessment and Its Implications for Teachers," Loyola Day, Loyola University, 1989.

Served on panels on "The Teaching of Translation" and "Funding Translation," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, The University of Iowa, 1989.

Served on panel on "Humanistic Translator Training," Modern Language Association National Convention, New Orleans, 1988.
 
Served on panel on "Translating Poetry," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1988.

Served on panel on "The Perils of Publishing:  Creative Writing," Philological Association of Louisiana, New Orleans, 1988.

Chaired panel on "Government and Foundation Support of Translation" and served on panels on "Translation and the Future of Education" and "The Publication of Translations," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, University of Texas at Dallas, 1987.

Served on panel on "Southern Literature," South Central Modern Language Association Meeting, New Orleans, 1986.

Served on panel on "Translation as Interpretation and Criticism," Joint International Conference of the American Literary Translators Association and Association des Traducteurs Littéraires, Montréal, 1986.

Chaired seminar on "Poetry in the Classroom" and spoke on "Arts in Education" and "The Future of the Artists-in-the-Schools Program," Louisiana Arts in Education Conference, Baton Rouge, 1986.

Chaired panel on "South American Literature," Conference on Popular Culture in Latin America, Tulane University, 1986.

Presided at the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, delivered Presidential Address, and spoke on "The Publication of Translations in the United States:  An Update," University of Arkansas, 1985.

Gave opening address and spoke on "The Impermanence of Translation" and "Translation as an Influence on My Writing" at the Symposium on Literary Translation, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1985.

Served as Featured Speaker at the Conference of Editors and Publishers, University of Arkansas, 1985.

Served as Visiting Writer, Graduate Program in Translation and Creative Writing, University of Arkansas, 1985.

Presided at the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, delivered Presidential Address, and spoke on "Government Funding of Translation," Boston University, 1984.

Chaired panel on "T.S. Eliot," South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Loyola University (New Orleans), 1984.

Served as Featured Writer at the Arkansas Writers Conference and conducted sessions on "The Publishing of Poetry and Fiction," "Writing Poetry," and "The Art of Poetry," Little Rock, 1984.

Hosted the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Loyola University, New Orleans, 1983.

Chaired panel on "Modern Poetry," South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature, Loyola University (New Orleans), 1983.

Attended as Vice President the National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Stanford University, 1982.

Chaired panel on "The Translator's Craft," International Culture and Civilization Conference, Loyola University, 1982.

Chaired panel on "The Literary Marketplace" and appeared on panel on "Contemporary Poetry" as well as served as Director of the College Writing Competition, Southern Literary Festival, University of Southern Mississippi, 1981.

Chaired panel on "Political Repression and the Translator's Moral Responsibility," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Indiana University, 1981.

Served as participating consultant, Research Conference on Translation (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities), The University of Texas at Dallas, 1980.

Served as participating consultant, Translation Center Seminar (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities), The University of Texas at Dallas, 1980.

Served as respondent for session on "Multi-cultural Literatures in America," National Conference of Associated Writing Programs, San Antonio, 1980.

Served on panels on "Translation, Interpretation, and Interdisciplinary Studies" and "The Reading of the Literary and the Non-Literary Text," Symposium on Translation in the Humanities, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1980.

Chaired panel on "The Publication of Translations in the United States," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, University of Texas (Austin), 1979.

Lectured and served on panel on "Arts, Education, and the Gifted Child" at a conference of the Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, 1979; an essay "Poetry as Self-Defense" was reprinted for the conference.

Served on panel on "Journals of Translation," National Conference of the American Literary Translators Association, The University of Texas at Dallas, 1978.

GUEST LECTURES:

Gave a reading of my fiction at KGB, a New York literary forum, 1999.

Read poetry at the New Orleans Museum of Art celebration of the publication of From a Bend in the River, 1998.

Spoke on “Poetry Versus Fiction” at The Algonquin Afternoon Series of The Writers Garret, Dallas, 1997.

Spoke at the Louisiana Artists Guild Symposium: A Conference of National Leaders, 1996.

Gave the keynote address at the annual awards ceremony of the Overture Arts Scholarship Program, 1996.

Offered a series of lectures on academic ethics at Metairie Park Country Day School, 1996, 1997.

Served as a panelist on higher education at the annual Career Forum held at Metairie Park Country Day School, 1996.

Served as moderator of the forum on writing as part of the Entergy Arts Business Center’s continuing series on “Artists/Entrepreneurs,” 1995.

Lectured on translation theory and practice to the translation seminar of Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany, 1993.

Lectured on and read my own poetry and fiction, "Readings by Writers" Series, The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, 1989.

Lectured on "The Death of Poetry" and various other literary topics, Sigma Tau Delta Symposia, Loyola University, 1989-  .

Lectured on "Metaphor and History," Alpha Sigma Nu National Honor Fraternity Induction Ceremony, New Orleans, 1988.

Lectured on "Writing Poetry," Young Writers Program, New Orleans Public Library, 1988.

Lectured on "Banned Films:  Il Miracolo and the First Amendment," Censorship and Libraries Exhibit, New Orleans Public Library, 1987.

Lectured on "Effective Legal Writing," New Orleans Association of Legal Administrators, 1987.

Served as Featured Speaker, National Writers Club, 1986.

Served as Guest Writer, Shreveport Public Schools Arts Festival, 1986.

Lectured on poetry and read own work, Contemporary Writers Series, Tulane University, 1985.

Lectured on contemporary literature and read own work, Contemporary Southern Writers Series, Tulane University, 1984.

Lectured on "Poetry in the Language Arts Curriculum" for the Louisiana State Board of Education Professional Improvement Program in "Teaching Writing in the Elementary and Secondary School," 1982.

Lectured on "The Poetry of Constantine Cavafy," Hellenic Arts Society, Tulane University, 1981.

Lectured on "Poetry in the Classroom" for the Greater New Orleans Writing Project (under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities), University of New Orleans, 1981.

Lectured on "The Romantic and the Modern," University of New Orleans, 1980.

Lectured on "Metaphor and Translation," The University of Texas at Dallas, 1979.

Lectured on "Charles Baudelaire and 'la modernité'" and on "The Surrealist Text and Image," University of New Orleans, 1979.

Lectured and conducted a series of seminars in creative writing at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (New Orleans Public Schools), 1978-1999.

Lectured on "The Aesthetics and Art Criticism of Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Frank O'Hara," University of New Orleans, 1978.

Lectured on "Contemporary Poetry," Women's Center, Tulane University, 1977.

Lectured on "Modernist Aesthetics," University of New Orleans, 1977.

POETRY AND FICTION READINGS:

Esquire Writers at the Union Square Theater (New York), New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans), KGB (New York), The Writers Garret (Dallas), Barnes & Noble Book Store (New Orleans), The University of Southwestern Louisiana (Lafayette), The University of Texas at Dallas; Poetry Theater (New Orleans); Freeman-Anacker Gallery (New Orleans); Tulane University (New Orleans); Loyola University (New Orleans); University of Arkansas (Fayetteville); Gallier Hall (New Orleans); University of Arkansas at Little Rock; New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts; Breadloaf Writers Conference, Middlebury College (Vermont); Hollins College Film & Writers Conference, Hollins College (Virginia); University of New Orleans; Newcomb College (New Orleans); Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans).  Over 500 readings and lectures for the Poetry in the Schools Project, under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1973-1976.  Pilot readings for the New Orleans Public Schools Poetry Program, 1971.

DRAMA:

Collaborated with Sanford Hinderlie, Associate Professor of Music, in the creation of Southern Fever, A New Orleans Show, a production featuring New Orleans musicians in fourteen performances in cities throughout the Netherlands (including Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Haarlem, Delft, Arnheim, and several others) in September and October 2000.

Broadcast of The Vulgar Soul (Wundmale) on April 6, 1996, by Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian national radio and television network.

Production and broadcast of The Vulgar Soul (Wundmale) on September 17, 1994, by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's largest radio station.

Production of Monologue for Two Voices by The Still Creek Theatre (Vancouver), 1975, and of Self-Portraits by The Barracks Experimental Theater (New Orleans), 1971.

Publication of Cartoon in De Humanities (Summer, 1976) and Monologue for Two Voices in Preview (Autumn, 1973).

EDITING EXPERIENCE:

Advisory/Contributing Editor, New Orleans Review, 1994-    .

International Editorial Board Member, Translation Review, 1980- .

Consultant, University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Consultant, Stanford University Press, 1996.

Consultant, University of Missouri Press, 1990.

Consultant, University of California Press, 1988, 1989.

Consultant, University of Arkansas Press, 1985.

Editor, New Orleans Review, 1979-1994.

Associate Editor, New Orleans Review, 1977-1979.

Consultant, Bobbs-Merrill Company (College Division), 1982.

Consultant, University of Missouri Press, 1980.

Founder and editor, Black & White, an international review of the arts, 1975-1977 (merged with New Orleans Review).

MEDIA EXPERIENCE:

Week-long interactive interview on Salon.com’s “Table Talk,” a program on contemporary writers.  http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?13@@.eeaeee1 (November 13-20, 2000).

Interview on “Inside the Arts” on WWNO-FM and featured in a column by Chris Rose in The Times-Picayune about Selected Shorts performance of my story “And Never Come Up,” 1999.

The film rights to my story “The Vulgar Soul,” which appeared in Granta , optioned by State, Ltd., a British film production company, 1998; named as screenwriter, 1999.

Interview on Deutschlandfunk, Germany's equivalent of NPR, 1993.
 
Wrote over 550 radio, television and print advertisements for WWL-AM (New Orleans) and other clients, 1985-93; winner of gold and bronze Addies, 1986; winner of silver Addy, 1987; winner of three gold Addies, 1988; winner of Addy certificate, 1989; winner of gold Addy and two Addy citations, 1991.

Interviews on Arts Report, WWNO-FM (New Orleans), 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982.

Interview and reading on tape for the Oral History Collection, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Library, 1975.
Interview and reading featured on KLED-FM (Little Rock), 1975.

Film Workshop, University of Arkansas at Little Rock/Little Rock Public Schools, 1974, 1975.

Produced, directed, and hosted for KUAF-FM (Fayetteville) Between Massacres, a weekly series of readings by and conversations with writers, 1973-1974.

Film Board Member, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), 1971-1974.
 

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