Joe in the Blue Ridge Mts

Joe Andriano

Professor of English  

Born and raised in Albany, NY, Joseph Andriano received his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University in 1986, his M. A. from Binghamton University in 1972, and his B.A. from Stony Brook University in 1970. He has been teaching at UL Lafayette since 1979. He is currently the Assistant Department Head in English.
Griffin Hall, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette




Updated June 13, 2008
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Cypress Lake, UL Lafayette




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Fall 2008 Course
(Syllabus available through Moodle in mid August)

English 496: Major Literary Figures. Hawthorne and Poe. Tues & Thurs 2:00-3:15.
        In 1842, Edgar A. Poe wrote a review of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales that has become famous not only for its appreciation of a fellow writer but for its assertion of a new aesthetic for the short story. We will use this intersection of the two writers as our starting point, focusing first on their short fiction, which we will study in context with the social and cultural forces of the 1830s & 40s. We’ll also compare the authors’ revitalization of Gothic and other literary conventions in their tales. Then we will read Poe’s only novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, followed by Hawthorne’s major romances: The House of the Seven Gables, The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun.


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Carp in Cypress Lake, UL Lafayette campus, near Student Union
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        Selected Publications
(for complete CV in pdf, click here)



Andriano has written two scholarly books:
  • Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. Rpt. in paperback 2005. Chapter Reprints: part of chapter 3 in Short Story Criticism, vol. 20 (Gale Research, 1995): 38–41; part of chapter 4 in The Dark Fantastic, ed. C. W. Sullivan III, Greenwood Press, 1997. 49–57. 
Reviews of Immortal Monster
    Dirk Remley, Extrapolation 40.3 (Fall 1999): 261–64
    Gary Wolfe, Science Fiction Studies 27.2 (July 2000): 315–18.

Reviews of Our Ladies of Darkness:
    J. Mullan, Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 24, 1993: 7.
   H. Meyers, Studies in Short Fiction 31.3 (1994):527–28.
   S. Keen, College English 56.2 (1994): 209–16.
   D.L. Hoeveler, Journal of the History of Sexuality 4 (Apr. 1994): 638–40



Here's a selection of some articles he's written:

  • "Moby-Dick in the 21st Century: From Fossil to Rocket." Indiana English (Spring 2007):19-39.
  •  "Behemyth Evolving: Whale/Ape/Rocket." Trajectories of the Fantastic. Ed. Michael Morrison.  Westport, CT & London:  Greenwood Press, 1997.
  •  "Brother to Dragons: Race and Evolution in Moby-Dick." ATQ: 19th Century American Literature & Culture 10.2 (June 1996): 141–53.  (Univ. of Rhode Island). A large portion of this article has been reprinted in The Routledge Literary Source Book on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. (2003)
  •  "The Masks of Gödel: Math and Myth in Gravity's Rainbow." Modes of the Fantastic. Eds. Robert Collins  and Rob   Latham.  Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 1995.
  • "The Handmaid's Tale as Scrabble Game." Essays on Canadian Writing 48 (Winter 1992–93): 89–96.
  • Seven articles for Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. eds. J.R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings. NY: Garland, 1998.
    •    Here's a sample: his article on "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
       Here's another , on Whitman's Notebooks.

  • Six articles for The Mark Twain Encyclopedia, eds. James D. Wilson and J. R. LeMaster.  New York: Garland, 1993.


His most recent short stories are
     "The Gris-Gris Cat." In the Eye. Thunder Rain Press, 2007.
    "World-Lines", Louisiana Literature 22.1 (Spring 2005): 35-54.
    "The Pound of Sinsemilla". The Emergency Almanac, Winter 2004
    "Strange Attractors." The Chattahoochee Review (DeKalb Univ.), 16.2 (Winter 1996): 87–100;
    "AugMental."  Argonaut (Austin, TX), vol. 16 (Summer 1992): 2–15.


Something odd: A hypertext fable called  "Beastly Trumps"


He has written one novel, a complete overhauling of Poe' s Lost Cat, which as a manuscript was a finalist in the New Century Writers' Awards Contest (2001). The novel is now called The Circe Experiment, and he is still hoping to publish it!





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Pictures of an extremely rare hummingbird that paid us a visit a few years ago


Poems
 
For starlovers only

 For Marslovers only: A Martian Meditation
For Earthlovers only: My Version of the Pledge

For Peacelovers:     A Villanelle 

Just for fun: Three Quantum Poems


<>Disclaimer: The sentiments expressed in the above links do not represent those of UCS or the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. They are only mine.

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