Dr. Charles Pollard

Curriculum Vitae

PUBLICATIONS

Book and Scholarly Articles

New World Modernisms: T.S. Eliot, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott (under contract with the University of Virginia Press, forthcoming in 2004).

“‘Between me and thee is a great gulph fixed:’ Teaching Contemporary Responses to Robinson Crusoe in a World Literature Survey” in MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Eds. Maximillian E. Novak and Carl H. Fisher (forthcoming in 2004).

“Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott’s Discrepant Cosmopolitan Modernism” Twentieth Century Literature 47.2 (Summer 2001): 197-216.

Reviews and Shorter Articles

Review of Denis Donoghue’s Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot in Christianity and Literature 52.4 (Summer 2003): 584-5.

“This is not Disneyland. We are not on a track.” Calvin Spark 48.3 (Fall 2002): 52-3.

Review of Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures. Eds. Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley in Christianity and Literature 51.3 (Spring 2002): 505-506.

Review of Laurence Breiner’s An Introduction to West Indian Poetry in Interventions 3.1 (2001): 143-4.

Review of A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 3. Cross-Cultural Studies. Ed. A. James Arnold in Interventions 2.3 (2000): 466-67.

Review of Michael North’s Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern in Christianity and Literature 49.4 (2000): 548-550.

“‘Betwixt and Between’: A Life in Law and Literature” Linacre News 20 (Autumn 2000): 7.

Review of Silvio Torres-Saillant’s Caribbean Poetics: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature in Interventions 1.3 (1999): 475-6.

“T.S. Eliot: Journey of the Magi” in Perspectives: A Guide to Teaching Shadow & Light. Eds. Darryl Tippens and Stephen Weathers. Abilene: ACU Press, 1999: 178-180.

PRESENTATIONS

“The Passion of the Christ.” Adult Education, Plymouth Heights CRC, Spring 2004

“Rest.” Oak Hill Chapel Sermon, Oak Hill College, Spring 2003.

“The Shifting Personae of World Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association, University of Wisconsin, Fall 2002.

“Nouwen’s Prodigal Son.” Adult Education, First CRC of Grand Haven, Spring 2002.

Seminar Leader. “Contemporary Revisions of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association, Rice University, Fall 2001.

“‘Learning from Eliot:’ Seamus Heaney and the Auditory Imagination.” Modernist Studies Association, Rice University, Fall 2001.

“Images, Media, and Technology in Teaching Literature,” Council for Christian Colleges & Universities Disciplinary Workshop in English, Seattle Pacific University, Summer 2001.

Chair, “Postnational Perspectives on Modern Poetry in English,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., Winter 2000.

“Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott’s Discrepant Cosmopolitan Modernism,” Modernist Studies Association, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2000.

Chair, “Modern Poetry and Postnationalism,” Modernism Studies Association, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2000.

“‘Listening to Eliot’”: Poetic Language and the Migration of Modernism in T.S. Eliot, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott,” Modernist Studies Association, Penn State University, Fall 1999.

“Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax Video-Style: Decolonizing Typography/Representing Nation Language,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Winter 1999.

“Tradition and Caribbean Talent: Cosmopolitan Modernism in T.S. Eliot, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott,” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Fall 1998.

Respondent to Shannon McRae’s presentation, “He Do the Gods in Different Voices,” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, Fall 1998.

“‘I blest myself in his voice’: Joyce, Walcott and the Influence of Cosmopolitan Modernism,” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Winter 1998.

“HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME Again for a Poetic Revolution: Dialect and the Renewal of Poetry in Eliot’s The Waste Land and Brathwaite’s Rights of Passage,” T.S. Eliot Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Fall 1997 (abstract of presentation published in T.S. Eliot Society Newsletter, Fall 1997).

“‘To Give Those Feet a Voice’: A Postcolonial Representation of the Other in Derek Walcott’s Omeros,” The Virginia Humanities Conference, Mary Washington College, Spring 1997 (paper published in Conference Proceedings, Summer 1997).

“‘Our Age’s Omeros’: Transposing Joyce in Derek Walcott’s Omeros,” Miami J’yce Birthday Conference, University of Miami, Winter 1997.

“Tradition and the Colonial Talents: Borrowing Culture to Confront History in Eliot, Brathwaite and Walcott,” Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University, Spring 1996.