Joe in his office

Joe Andriano

Professor of English  

Griffin Hall, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette




Updated 23 Jan. 2008
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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 currently holds the Flora Levy/BORSF endowed professorship in English.







Cypress Lake

Cypress Lake, UL Lafayette




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Spring 2008 Courses
(Syllabi available through Moodle)

English 320--Modern Fiction. MWF 9:00 - 9:50. 

English 372--Special Topics in the Literature of Popular Culture. Topic: SCIENCE FICTION. MW 1:00-2:15

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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.


NEW: A hypertext fable called  "Beastly Trumps"


He has a novel in progress, a complete overhauling of Song of Circe (aka Poe' s Lost Cat), which was a finalist in the New Century Writers' Awards Contest (2001), but remains unpublished. The revision's tentative title is The Circe Experiment.


For more information about his writing,  click here.



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Lagniappe

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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