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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Updated Jan. 6, 2012



Cypress Lake

Cypress Lake, UL Lafayette




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Spring 2012 Course 
ENGLISH 549. Seminar in Early American Literature.

Topic: American Romanticism: 1800-1850.

An exploration of the rise and development of Romanticism in American poetry, fiction and nonfiction in the first half of the nineteenth century. The influence of European romanticism, especially British and German, on Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar A. Poe and others will lead us to an inquiry into what (if anything) distinguishes the American romantic from the European. Our range will encompass both the mystical supernal realm of transcendentalism and the mysterious infernal realm of Gothicism.



Fall  2012 Course
ENGLISH 550: Seminar in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Topic: Herman Melville. Description and Texts posted in mid-March

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Carp in Cypress Lake, UL Lafayette campus, near Student Union
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
        Selected Publications



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:

  • "Monsters of the Fantastic: Fusions of the Mythical and the Real." Critical Insights on the Fantastic. Ed. Claire Whitehead. Forthcoming, Salem Press
  • "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
    "Love Not All Neighbors." 2011. Submitted.
    "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.



Lagniappe

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



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