Who I am. I am a professor of Literature and Language at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and the NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. My office is in Karpen Hall, Room 239, To see if I am working in my Karpen office click here.
My teaching interests are varied. I regularly teach classes in The Art of the Novel and American Literature in the Literature Department, and Humanities (usually Hum 124 and 214) in our interdisciplinary general education program. My dissertation was on Dickens and if I had a real specialty, it would be Victorian fiction.
In my writing, I concentrate more on recent fiction. I have published books on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Julian Barnes and Michael Frayn. The last three are from the University of South Carolina Press and available through reputable bookstores. I have edited the revised Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on British Novelists Since 1960, four of which (DLB 194, DLB 207, DLB 231, and 271) are now in print (ordering information) as well as a fifth DLB volume, Booker Prize Winners, published in 2006. My most recent publication, in 2007, was The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays, from Chester Academic Press. In addition I review contemporary fiction regularly.
My family is very important to me. My wife, Madeline, and I have four daughters: Eleanor Trollinger (31), Mary (28), Claire Bailey (24), and Elizabeth (21). Our granddaughter Caroline is six, our grandson Charlie is four, and we have a one year old granddaughter, Julia, born in July 2008. Eleanor graduated from UNCA in May, 2000; Mary in 2003 from UNC Greensboro. Claire from North Carolina State University in 2006, and Elizabeth from UNCA in 2009. We travel as much as we can and have spent two years living in Britain. We lived in Chester and I was a visiting lecturer at the University of Chester.
We all like reading, writing,
and music.
In Fall, 2009, I am teaching
My Fall office hours are MTWR 9-10, T 3-4, and other times by arrangement.
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