Bonnie Lyons
Professor
Department of English
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249-0643
(210) 458-5350
fax (210) 458-5366
[email protected]
December 2011
Education:
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1973
M.A., Tulane University, 1971
B.A., Newcomb College, 1965
Academic Honors:
2006
2005
2002
1998
1996
1993
1992
1992
1991
1991
1988
1985
1984-85
1980-81
April 1981
April 1981
1980
1972-73
1969-72
1972
1965
UTSA Faculty Research/Creative Leave (Fall 2006)
Honorary member – Golden Key International Honor Society
UTSA Faculty Research/Creative Leave (awarded for Fall 2002)
President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence
UTSA Faculty Research Leave
UTSA Faculty Research Award
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Barcelona, Spain
Fulbright Visiting Professor in Italy—Lecture on Henry Roth
UTSA Faculty Research Award
President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence
University Nominee for the Piper Teaching Award
Amoco Teaching Award; University Nominee for the Piper Teaching
Award; UTSA London Semester
Fulbright Nomination to Greece for 1985-1986, declined;
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Greece;
Fulbright Visiting Professor in Italy; lectures and seminars at the Institute
for American Studies in Rome;
Fulbright Visiting Professor in Israel; lectures and seminars at the
University of Haifa and University of Tel Aviv;
University Nominee for the Piper Teaching Award; Divisional Nominee
for the Amoco Teaching Award
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Year Fellow;
NDEA Fellow
Graduate Student Support Fund Grant;
President of English Graduate Students Organization, Tulane University;
Tulane Studies in English Essay Prize;
Phi Beta Kappa; Graduated Magna cum Laude and with Distinction;
Mortar Board.
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Experience:
1992
Fulbright Visiting Professor, Central University and Autonoma
University, Barcelona, Spain
1988-Present Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
1978-88
Associate Professor, UTSA
1980-1981
Fulbright Visiting Professor, Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece
1976-1980
Assistant Professor, UTSA;
1973-1976
Assistant Professor, Boston University;
1975-1976
Teaching Assistant, Newcomb College
1969
Social Worker, Oakland, California;
1968
Teacher of English as a Second Language, Israel
1965-1967
Juvenile Probation Officer, Stockton, California
1965
Editorial Assistant, Bantam Books, NYC.
Teaching Interest:
19th and 20th Century American literature, 20th century British and Continental literature,
modern drama, American Jewish literature, drama as a genre, poetry as a genre.
Publications:
1. Books
Bedrock , Pecan Grove Press, 2011..
Meanwhile, Finishing Line Press, 2005
In Other Words. Pecan Grove Press, 2004
Hineni. Finishing Line Press, 2003
Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers, (co-author Bill
Oliver), Univ. of Illinois Press, 1998.
Henry Roth: The Man and His Work, Cooper Square Publishers, 1977.
2. Poetry
“Big Tex and the Battenkill Maiden,” Concho River Review Vol. XXV No.1
Spring 2011.
“David Dances,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual. Vol 8, 2011.
“Don’t Touch at the McNay,” Barbaric Yawp “ Nov 2011 Vol 15 No. 3.
“Playing God,” Shofar Vol.27, No.3 Spring 2009
“Revision,” Ascent, Vol. 312, No.3.
“Bon Voyage,” Art at Our Doorstep, Trinity University Press, 2008.
“Hebrew Lesson,” Poetica, Nov. 2008.
“People-Watching at Ruby Tuesday,” Westview Fall/Winter 2008.
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“Rahab’s Scarlet Cord,” “Walking Out,” “Lilith Whispers,” and “Judith
Mourns,” reprinted in Risk, Courage and Women (Univ. of North Texas
Press, 2007).
Zipporah Returns,” and “Deliverance: Pu’ah Explains,” reprinted in
Torah: A Women’s Commentary, URJ Press 2008.
“The American Dream,” Words of Wisdom Vol. 25, No. 3 (July 2007.
“At the McNay Museum,” Westview Vol. 26 No. 1 (Spring/Summer
2007).
“Vermont Nirvana,” Timber Creek Review Vol. 13 No.1 (Spring 2007).
“Brooklyn to Miami Beach, 1949,” So to Speak (Summer/Fall 2006).
.“Cypresses,” Flyway (Vol. 10 Issue 2).
“At Kennedy Airport,” descant (Summer 2006.)
“Oaxaca,” Plainsongs, 2005
“Her Father,” Timber Creek Review, Vol. 11, No.2
“Laura Sue Kaplan and Henry David Thoreau Meet in my Head,” Barbaric
Yawp (May 2005)
“Bon Voyage,” Texas Poetry Journal, Fall 2005.
“Red, White and Blue at the McNay,” Texas Poetry Journal Vol. 1, Spring
2005.
“Sylvia and Irving Play,” Texas Poetry Journal Vol. 1, Spring 2005.
“Caryatids,” Texas Poetry Journal, Fall 2005.
“Prom Chaperone,” Pegasus, 2005
“Costumes,” Concho River Review Vol. XIX No. 1, Spring 2005
“Choices,” Zillah, Vol. 4, 2004
“Meanwhile,” descant, Vol. 43, 2004
“Eating the Day,” California Quarterly, Vol. 29 No. 3
“Plague,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. V, 2003.
“Esther’s Way,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. V, 2003.
“Low Soul (1968),” Zillah, Vol. 3 No. 1, March 2003
“Hester Speaks to Her Author,” Zillah, Vol. 3 No. 1, March 2003.
“Rachel’s Triumph,” Shofar, Vol. 2 No. 1 (Fall 2002)
“Ruth Wonders,” Shofar, Vol. 2 No.1 (Fall 2002)
“Lie Down,” Barbaric Yawp, Vol. 6 No. 1 (March 2002)
“Four Bowers,” Ascent, Vol. 26 (Winter 2002)
“Huldah’s Dream,” Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature Vol. 5
2000.
“Dog Training,” Barbaric Yawp Vol. 5, No. 3 September 2001
“Present/Absent,” Concho River Review, Vol. XV, No. 2 (Fall 2001)
“Miriam Talks Back,” Xavier Review, (Vol. 19, No. 2).
“Walking Out,” Bridges, (Spring 2000.) Rpt. Aries 2000.
“Deborah’s War Song,” Bridges, (Spring 2000.)
“Sarah Laughs,” Midstream, (January 2000.)
“Leah Tells a Story,” New Letters. Vol. 66 No. 412000.
“Jael Chooses,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. 4 (2000-2001)
“Ribbons,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. 4 (2000-2001)
“River,” Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, Vol. 4 (2000-2001)
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“Judith Mourns,” Confrontation, No. 72/73 Fall 2000/Winter 2001.
“Looking Back,” 13th Moon, Vol. XVII (No. 1 and 2).
“The River Speaks,” 13th Moon, Vol. XVII (No.1 and 2).
“Hineni,” Lilith, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Summer 2002).
“The Golden Tapeworm,” The Jewish Spectator, Spring 1998.
Articles, Notes, and Memoir:
“Cross-Bracing: An Interview with Ethan Canin,” New Letters Vol. 76.
“Marge Piercy, Jewish Poet,” Studies in American Jewish Literature Vol.
27, (2008).
“Everything & Its Opposite,” (interview with Nathan Englander) New
Letters Vol. 74 No.3/2008.
“Nathan Englander and Jewish Fiction From and on the Edge,” Studies in
American Jewish Literature,Vol. 26
“An Interview with Marge Piercy,” Contemporary Literature Vol. 48 No.
3 (Fall 2007)
“Kripalu at Fifty,” Tapestries (2005).
“En-Countering Pastorals in The Counterlife,” Philip Roth: New
Perspectives on an American Author, ed. Derek Parker Royal (Praeger,
2005.)
“Philip Roth’s American Tragedies,” Turning Up the Flame: Philip Roth’s
Later Novels eds. Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel (Delaware Univ. Press,
2005).
“Playing Dollhouse on a Huge Scale: An Interview with Beth Henley,”
The Muse Upon My Shoulder, (Farleigh Dickinson Press, 2004).
“Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Jewish American Literature at the
Millennium,” Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representation
in the Postmodern World (SUNY, 2004).
“Interview with Edwidge Danticat,” Contemporary Literature, Vol. 44 No.
2 (Summer 2003).
“Lies, Secrets, Truthtelling and Imagination in Philip Roth’s The Human
Stain,” Studies in American Jewish Literature, 20.
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T. Coraghessan Boyle entry, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 278
(American Novelists Since World War II).
“Boxing with Married Communist,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature (Vol. 19, 2000).
“Singing the Black Blues: An Interview with August Wilson,”
Contemporary Literature (Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 1999). Portions reprinted
in The Paris Review (Vol. 153).
“The Female Characters in Bernard Malamud’s Short Stories,” Studies in
American Jewish Literature (Vol. 17, 1998).
“Making His Muscles Work for Himself: An Interview with David Henry
Hwang,” The Literary Review, (Vol. 42, No. 2). Rpt. In The Muse Upon
My Shoulder and in Drama Criticism Vol. 23.
“Faith and Puttermesser: The Contrasting Visions of Two Jewish
Feminists,” in Talking Back, Univ. of New England Press, 1997.
“An Interview with Richard Ford,” The Paris Review, (Vol. 140, Fall
1996).
“Time and Memory in Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s Disturbances in the Field
and Leaving Brooklyn,” Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 14,
1995).
“Places and Visions: An Interview with Christopher Tilghman,” (Coauthor
Bill Oliver) The Literary Review (Vol. 38, No. 2).
“The Contrasting Visions of Bernard Malamud and Flannery O’Conner,”
Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 12 1993).
“The Mystery of Language: An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips,”
(Coauthor Bill Oliver) New Letters (Vol. 61, No.1).
“Don’t I Know You?:An Interview with Gina Berriault,” (coauthor Bill
Oliver) The Literary Review (Vol. 37, No. 4). Rpt. The Tea Ceremony:
the Uncollected Writings of Gina Berriault (Shoemaker and Hoard) 2004.
“Out of Boundaries: An Interview with Rick Bass,” (Co-author Bill
Oliver) New Letters (Vol. 59, No. 3)
“An Interview with Leonard Michaels,” (Co-author Bill Oliver) New
England Review (Vol. 15, No. 4, Fall 1993).
“Andre Dubus: An Interview,” (Co-author Bill Oliver) Crazyhorse (No.
44, Spring 1993).
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“An Interview with Bobbie Ann Mason,” (Co-author Bill Oliver)
Contemporary Literature (Vol. 32, Winter 1991).
Entry on Call It Sleep, Jewish – American History and Culture: An
Encyclopedia, Garland 1991.
“An Interview with Tobias Wolff,” (Co-author Bill Oliver), Contemporary
Literature (Vol. 31, Spring 1990).
“Jew on the Brain’ in Wrathful Philippics,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature, (Vol. 8, Fall 1989).
“Grace Paley’s Jewish Miniatures,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature, (Vol. 8, Spring 1989).
Biographical entry on Isaac Rosenfeld, The Blackwell Companion to
Jewish Culture, 1989.
“American-Jewish Fiction Since 1945,” in Handbook of American-Jewish
Literature, Greenwood Press, 1988.
“An Interview with Margaret Atwood,” Shenandoah (Vol. 37, No. 2,
1987). Reprinted in a collection of Atwood interviews published by
Ontario Press, 1989.
“Cynthia Ozick as a Jewish Writer,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature (Vol. 6, Fall 1987)
“Seeing and Suffering in The Pawnbroker and Mr. Sammler’s Planet,”
Modem Jewish Studies Annual, 1986.
“Tillie Olsen: The Writer as a Jewish Woman,” Studies in American
Jewish Literature, (Vol. 5, 1986). Reprinted in The Critical Response to
Tillie Olsen, ed. Kay Hoyle Nelson and Nancy Huse, Greenwood Press,
1994.
Biographical essay on Isaac Rosenfeld, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
(Vol. 19, 1983).
Biographical essay on Henry Roth, Dictionary of Literary Biography,
(Vol. 19, 1983).
“Lillian Hellman: The First Jewish Nun on Prytania Street,” in From
Hester Street to Hollywood, Indiana University Press, 1983.
“Sexuality in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening,” Negative Capability (Vol.
2, Fall 1982).
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“Sexual Love in LB. Singer’s Work,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature (Spring 1979).
“An Interview with Henry Roth – March 1977, “Studies in American
Jewish Literature (Spring 1979).
“Bellowmalamud Roth and the American Jewish Genre-Alive and Well,”
Modern Jewish Studies Annual 3 (1979)
“David Levinsky: Modern Man as Orphan,” Tulane Studies in English
special hardbound issue entitled Essays in American Literature of Memory
of Richard P. Adams (Vol. 2, 1978)
“From Dangling Man to ‘Colonies of the Spirit’ in Saul Bellow’s Fiction,”
Modern Jewish Studies Annual (Vol. 2, 1978).
“Neither Victim nor Executioner’ in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction,” World
Literature Written in English (Spring 1978)
“ Introductory Note” to Henry Roth’s “The Wrong Place,” New Orleans
Review, Vol. 5, No. 4.
“Delmore Schwartz and the Whole Truth,” Studies in Short Fiction
(Summer 1977)
“Isaac Rosenfeld’s Fiction: A Reappraisal,” Studies in American Jewish
Literature (Spring 1975).
“Henry Roth’s Call Sleep,” The Explicator (October 1974).
“After Call Sleep,” American Literature (January 1974)
“An Interview with Henry Roth,” Shenandoah (Fall 1973).
“Broker’: An Overlooked Story by Henry Roth,” Studies in Short Fiction
(Winter 1973).
“The Symbolic Structure of Henry Roth’s Call Sleep,” Contemporary
Literature (Spring 1972).
3. Book Reviews
Debra Shostak’s Philip Roth Countertexts, Counterlives, Shofar (Vol. 24,
No. 3, Spring 2006).
Derek Parker Royal’s Philip Roth’s America: The Later Novels. Special
Issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature: Melus (Vol. 30, No. 2,
Summer 2005)
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Derek Rubin’s Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish
American Writer Philip Roth Studies (Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 2005)
Andrew Furman’s Contemporary Jewish American Writers and
Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled, Shofar (Vol. 22, No. 3,
Spring 2004)
Joel Shatsky and Michael Taub’s Contemporary Jewish American
Novelists, Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 17, 1998).
Victoria Aarons’s A Measure of Memory, Storytelling and Identity in
American Jewish Fiction, Modern Fiction Studies (Vol. 43, No. 2,
Summer 1997).
Wallace Markfield’s Radical Surgery, The Review of Contemporary
Fiction (Vol. 12, Summer 1992).
Esther Fuch’s Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction, Modern Fiction
Studies (Vol. 34, Winter 1988)
Philip Roth’s The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 25, Fall 1988)
Joel Salzberg’s Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 25, Summer 1988)
Margaret Atwood’s Bluebeard’s and Other Stories, Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 24, Summer 1987)
Harold Brodkey’s Women and Angels, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 23,
Fall 1986)
Grace Paley’s Later the Same Day, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 22, Fall
1985)
E.L. Doctorow’s Lives of the Poets, Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 22,
Summer 1985)
Susan Koppelman, Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S.
Women Writers. Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 21, Fall 1984).
Ira Bruce Nadel’s Jewish Writers of North America: A Guide to
Information Sources. Religious Studies Review (Vol. 10, Jan. 1984)
Judith Thurman’s Isak Dinesen: The Life of Storyteller. Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 20, Winter 1983).
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Elizabeth Abel, ed. Writing and Sexual Difference. Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 20, Fall 1983)
Maxine Kumin’s Why Can’t We Live Together Like Civilized Human
Beings? Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 19, Fall 1982)
Mary Robinson’s Days. Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 19, Spring 1982)
Ella Leffland’s Last Courtesies and Other Stories. Studies in Short Fiction
(Vol. 19, Winter 1982)
Nadine Gordimer’s A Soldier’s Embrace. Studies in Short Fiction (Vol.
18, Summer 1981)
Paul Kresh’s Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Magician of West 86th Street.
American Jewish History (Vol. 70, Sept. 1980)
Bernard Malamud’s Dubin’s Lives. Notre Dame English Journal (Vol. 11,
April 1979)
Rebecca Kavaler’s The Further Adventures of Brunhild. Studies in Short
Fiction (Vol. 16, Summer 1979)
Bette Howland’s Blue in Chicago. Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 16,
Spring 1979)
Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle. New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 3)
Patricia Meyer Spach’s The Female Imagination and Ellen Moer’s
Literary Women: Great Writers. New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 3)
Irving Howe and Eliezer Greenberg’s Ashes Out of Hope: Fiction by
Soviet Jewish Writers. Congress Monthly (November 1977)
Elizabeth Koltun’s The Jewish Woman: New Perspecives, Congress
Monthly (December 1976)
Norman N. Holland’s Poems in Persons: An Introduction to the
Psychoanalysis of Literature and Robert Penn Warren’s Democracy and
Poetry. New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 2)
Joseph Cohen’s Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenbert,
1890-1918. New Orleans Review (Vol. 5 No. 2)
Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers. Congress Monthly (March 1976)
Josephine Z. Knopp’s Trial of Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Wriring.
Congress Monthly (January 1976)
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Robert Scheer’s American After Nixon: The Age of the Multinationals.
Congress Montly (January 1975)
Yosef Criden and Saadia Gelb’s The Kubbutz Experience. Congress
Monthly (May 1975)
Ann Oakley’s Woman’s Work and Susan and Martin Tolchin’s Clout:
Womanpower and Politics. Congress Monthly (March 1975)
Papers, Panels and Readings:
“Nathan Englander and Jewish Fiction from and on the Edge, “ALA May
2006.
“En-Countering Pastoral and Fictive Propositions in The Counterlife,
ALA May 2004.
“Philip Roth’s American Tragedies”, ALA June 2002
“Lies, Silences, Truthtelling and Imagination in The Human Stain”, ALA
Jewish American Literature Conference November 2000
Panel on Gina Berriault, ALA Jewish American Literature Conference
November 2000
Poetry Reading – National American Literature Association meeting May
2000
Elizabeth Kiltun’s The Jewish Woman: New Perspectives. Confress
Monthly (December 1976)
Norman N. Holland’s Poems in Persons: An Introduction to the
Psychoanalysis of Literature and Robert Penn Warren’s Democracy and
Poetry, New Orleans Review (Vol. 5 No. 2)
Joseph Cohen’s Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg
1890-1918. New Orleans Review (Vol. 5, No. 2)
Irving Howe’s World of Our Fathers. Congress Monthly (March 1976)
Josephine Z. Knopp’s Trial of Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Writing,
Congress Monthly (January 1976)
Robert Scheer’s America After Nixon: The Age of the Multinationals.
Congress Monthly (October 1975)
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Yosef Criden and Saadia Gelb’s The Kibbutz Experience. Congress
Monthly (May 1975)
Ann Oakley’s Woman’s Work andSusan and Martin Tolchin’s Clout:
Womanpower and Politics. Congress Monthly (March 1975
Papers, Panels, and Readings:
“Marge Piercy: Jewish Poet,” Western Jewish Association” March 2007.
“Nathan Englander and Jewish Fiction from and on the Edge”, ALA May
2006
“En-Countering Pastoral and Fictive Propositions in The Counterlife,
ALA May 2004
“Philip Roth’s American Tragedies”, ALA June 2002
“Lies, Silences, Truthtelling and Imagination in The Human Stain”, ALA
Jewish American Literature Conference November 2000
Panel on Gina Berriault, ALA Jewish American Literature Conference
November 2000
Poetry Reading – National American Literature Association meeting May
2000
Poetry Reading – Jewish American Literature ALA Conference October
1999
“Panel on Literary Interviews, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary
Festival”, April 1999
Moderator for Panel about marketing Literary Fiction, Tennessee
Williams, New Orleans Literary Festival, April 1999
“Boxing wit Philip Roth’s Married a Communist”, American Literature
Association, October 1998
“Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Jewish-American Literature in the
Millennium”, American Literature Association, October 1997.
“The Female Characters in Bernard Malamud’s Short Stories”, Bernard
Malamud Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, 1996
“Time and Memory in Lynne Sharon Schwartz”, American Literature
Association, May 1994
“Grace Paley: Jewish Feminist Storyteller”, Tulane University, April 1993
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“Cynthia Ozick and Grace Paley: The Contrasting Visions of Two Jewish
Feminists”, Brandeis Conference on Developing Images: Representations
of Jewish Women in American Culture, March 1993
“The Contrasting Visions of Bernard Malamud and Flannery O’Connor”,
American Literature Association, May, 1990
“Jew on the Brain in Wrathful Philippics”, MLA, December 1988.
“Jewish Miniatrues: Grace Paley’s Short Fiction”, MLA, December 1987.
Chair and Response Paper: “The Influence of European Jewish Writers on
American Jewish Literature”, MLA, December 1987
“Cynthia Ozick as a Jewish Writer”, MLA December 1984
“Seeing and Suffering in The Pawnbroker and Mr. Sammler’s Planet”,
MLA, December 1983
“Radical Female: The Body and the Mother/Child Relationship in Tillie
Olsen’s Work”, MLA December 1982
“Teaching Holocaust Literature”, MLA, December 1981
Lectures on Lillian Hellman, Henry Roth, I.B. Singer, and American
Jewish Literature Today at the University of Haifa and University of Tel
Aviv, April 1981
“Lillian Hellman as a Moral Playwright”, MLA December 1978
“Bellowmalamudroth”, MLA, December 1978
“The Image of the Jew in American Literature”, Regional American
Studies Convention at Purdue University, October, 1977
“From Dangling Man to ‘Colonies of the Spirit’ in saul Bellow’s Fiction”,
MLA, December 1977
“Sexuality in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening”, MLA, December 1977
“Delmore Schwartz and the Whole Truth”, NEMLA, April 1977
“Neither Victim Nor Executioner in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction”, MLA,
December 1976
“The Student as Evaluator”, AGLS, October 1976
“Folklore in Henry Roth’s Call Sleep”, Yale University American Studies
Seminar, April 1976
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“Team Teaching and Freshman Rhetoric”, AGLS, October 1975
Lecturer and discussion leader on “women and Literature” and “Women
and Judaism” in program sponsored by NEH, New Orleans, March 1973
In addition, numerous poetry readings and lectures before general
audiences in Boston, Austin, Miami, and San Antonio area, 1976 to
present.
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