Joe Andriano, Professor of English 

Griffin Hall, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette

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.
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Cypress Lake

Cypress Lake, UL Lafayette




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Fall '09 Course

ENGL 435-001. American Realism & Naturalism.  MWF 11:00–11:50

 An exploration of American realist and naturalist fiction in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  After a glance at the rise of realist aesthetics in mid-nineteenth century magazines, we will focus on the 1890s and 1900s, when social and psychological realism reached something of a crescendo. Literary naturalism will be placed in context with the impact of Charles Darwin’s theory (and Herbert Spencer’s) on nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture. 

TEXTS: Novels will include Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson; Kate Chopin’s The Awakening; Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie; Frank Norris’s McTeague; and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth. We will also read short stories by these and other writers, including William Dean Howells, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Charles W. Chesnutt.  REQUIREMENTS: 1 short paper (undergraduates; graduate students will do an oral report instead of the short paper); midterm exam; research paper; final exam.


Spring 2010 Course 

ENGLISH 320: Modern Fiction. Section 3: TR 2–3:15
    This section will explore the social, psychological, and cultural significance of ghosts, doppelgangers (doubles), and assorted daemons in modern fiction. We will read a variety of fantastic and uncanny tales and novels in which supernatural entities and events are clearly symbolic of psychological states, social relations, and cultural concerns. Requirements: Many short response essays, a research paper, a final essay exam, and class participation. Texts:  In addition to two ghost-story anthologies, we will read collections of ghost stories by Henry James and Edith Wharton, Robt. Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House, and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.
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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  "Beast of 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
 

To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock

For starlovers only:

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

For Peacelovers:

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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