Curriculum Vitae
Lloyd Moore Daigrepont
P.O. Box 10023
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX 77710
(409) 880-8581
PERSONAL
Date of birth: March 5, 1948
Married: May 22, 1976
EDUCATION
1979: Ph.D., English, Louisiana State University,
Area of Specialization: American Literature to 1900
1972: M.A., English, Louisiana State University
1970: B.A., English, Louisiana State University
DISSERTATION
Hawthorne's Conception of History: A Study of the Author's Response to
Alienation from God and Man
Dissertation Director: Lewis P. Simpson
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
1981-Present: Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
1980-81: Louisiana College, Pineville
1977-80: Louisiana State University
1972-77: (Teaching Assistant) Louisiana State University
PROMOTIONS
Assistant Professor
Tenure
Associate Professor
Full Professor
1984
1987
1989
1996
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COURSES
TAUGHT
English 137/0371
English 1301
English 1302
English 1374
English 1360
English 2322
English 2326
English 2331
English 2360
English 3322
English 3324
English 3326
English 3360
English 3390
English 4326
English 4327
English 4328
English 4333
English 4334/5334
English 4110
History 2680H
English 5315
English 5326
English 5328
English 5385
English 5385
English 5385
English 5385
Developmental Freshman Composition
Freshman Composition
Composition/Introduction to Literature
Composition/Introduction to Media
Freshman Honors
Masterpieces of British Literature
Masterpieces of American Literature
Masterpieces of World Literature
Sophomore Honors
American Literature to 1865
American Literature since 1865
Advanced Exposition and Research
Short Story
American Novel
American Renaissance
American Realism and Naturalism
Early American Literature
Readings in an American Author (Hawthorne)
Literary Excellence: American Women Authors
Capstone/American Literature to 1865
Honors/American Culture/Team-Taught
Graduate Seminar: American Women Authors
Graduate Seminar: American Renaissance
Graduate Seminar: Early American
Graduate Seminar: Mark Twain
Graduate Seminar: Hawthorne
Graduate Seminar: Faulkner
Graduate Seminar: Poe
LSU/Louisiana College
1976-1981
Composition/Introduction to Rhetoric
Sophomore Genre Course: Poetry and Drama
Sophomore Genre Course: Fiction
Upper Division American Survey: Colonial to Civil War
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SCHOLARSHIP
Articles/Peer Reviewed and Refereed Journals
“Ignatius Reilly and the Confederacy of Dunces.” New Orleans Review 9.3 (Winter 1982): 74-80.
“Self-Estrangement and the Idea of Society in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.” The
Markham Review 13 (Fall-Winter 1983-84): 1-7.
“Ichabod Crane: Inglorious Man of Letters.” Early American Literature 19 (1984): 68-81.
“Ichabod Crane: Inglorious Man of Letters.” Rpt. The Critical Perspective. Ed. Harold Bloom.
10 vols. New York: Chelsea House, 1985-88. 7: 4257-62.
“‘Rip Van Winkle’ and the Gnostic Vision of History.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History,
and the Philosophy of History 15.1 (1985): 47-59.
“Edna Pontellier and the Myth of Passion.” New Orleans Review 18.3 (Fall 1991): 5-13.
“Resistance to Slavery in Jim’s Story: Racism versus Authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 9. 2-3
(Summer/Fall 1998): 109-21.
“Mark Twain and the Descent into Consciousness: The Chronicle of Young Satan.” CEA Critic
63.3 (Summer 2001): 39-45.
“The Cult of Passion in The Age of Innocence.” American Literary Realism 40.1 (Fall 2007): 1-15.
“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in True Grit: The Lovelorn Character of Mattie
Ross.” Western American Literature 50.2 (2015): 105-17.
Articles/Regional Journals
“Passion and Gnosticism in Irving's ‘Adventure of the German Student.’” Lamar Journal of the
Humanities 13.1 (1987): 19-26.
“Passion, Romance, and Agape in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove.” Lamar Journal of the
Humanities 30.2 (Fall 2005): 43-61.
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Papers Presented at Professional Meetings
“Faith and Rhetoric in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale,” South Central Conference on Christianity
and Literature, Oct. 4-6, 1984 (New Orleans, Louisiana)
“The Concept of Regionalism in Donald Davidson's Essays,” Conference of American Studies
Association of Texas, Nov. 15-17, 1984 (Huntsville, Texas)
“The Influence of Don Quixote in American Literature,” Colloquium of the Department of English
and Foreign Languages, Lamar University, Nov. 20, 1984
“Roderick Usher: Poe's Alienated Artist of the Beautiful,” Conference of the American Studies
Association of Texas, Nov. 17-19, 1987 (Marshall, Texas)
“Two Early Tales by Hawthorne: The Philosophical Basis of the Truth of the Human Heart.”
Conference of College Teachers of English, March 1-3, 1990 (College Station, Texas)
“Samuel L. Clemens and the Descent into Consciousness: The Chronicle of Young Satan.”
Conference of College Teachers of English, April 2-4, 1998 (San Antonio, Texas)
“Discrepancies and Contradictions: Faulkner’s Changing Attitude toward the Snopeses.”
Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 19-21, 1998 (Wichita Falls,
Texas)
“Return to Order: Faith and Community in Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins.” South Central
Conference on Christianity and Literature, Feb. 4-6, 1999 (Beaumont, Texas)
“Love’s Epiphany: Romance, Passion, and Agape in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.”
Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 18-20, 1999 (Abilene, Texas)
“Resistance to Slavery in Jim's Story: Racism versus Authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn.” Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 16-18, 2000 (Waco,
Texas)
“Romanticism and the Nostalgic Vision of America in the Writings of Washington Irving.”
Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2002 (Kerrville,
Texas)
“Capitalism and Communism, Fact and Coincidence in the Assassination of President John F.
Kennedy.” Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 6-8, 2003 (San
Antonio, Texas)
“The Cult of Passion in The Age of Innocence.” Conference of College Teachers of English, March
4-6, 2004 (Beaumont, Texas)
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“Samuel Chamberlain in the Blood Meridian.” Conference of American Studies Association of
Texas, Nov. 15-17, 2007 (Marshall, Texas)
“Blood Meridian and the Critics.” Conference of College Teachers of English, March 4-6, 2010
(Beaumont, Texas)
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: An Analysis of Glanton’s
Gang.” Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 10-12, 2011 (Kerrville,
Texas)
“Sincerity and Authenticity in James’s Portrait of a Lady.” Conference of College Teachers of
English, March 1-3, 2012 (Fort Worth, Texas)
“The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in True Grit: The Lovelorn Character of Mattie
Ross.” Conference of American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 14-16, 2013
(Waco, Texas)
“Cajun and Creole Culture in the Writings of Kate Chopin.” Conference of American Studies
Association of Texas, Nov. 13-15, 2014 (Huntsville, Texas)
“The Cult of Passion in ‘Woman Hollering Creek.’” Conference of American Studies Association
of Texas, Nov. 12-14, 2015 (Huntsville, Texas)
“The Logic of Compulsion in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” Conference of
American Studies Association of Texas, Nov. 10-12, 2016 (Huntsville, Texas)
Book Reviews
“Mark Twain and Emerson's Man-God: A Review.” Lamar Journal the Humanities 9.2 (Fall
1983): 55-57.
“A Review of The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales.” Lamar Journal
of the Humanities 11.2 (Fall 1985): 55-58.
“Maxwell, Robert S. Whistle in the Piney Woods: Paul Bremond and the Houston, East and West
Texas Railroads: A Review.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
30 (October 1999): 50-51.
“Tis All One: ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ as Belated Copious Discourse. By Mary
Murphy Schmelzer. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.” Lamar Journal of the Humanities 25.1
(Spring 2000): 69-71.
“Black, White and Huckleberry Finn: Re-imagining the American Dream. By Elaine Mensh and
Harry Mensh. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000.” Lamar Journal of the
Humanities 25.2 (Fall 2000): 71-73.
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Book Reviews cont.
“Franklin, John Hope, and Loren Schweninger. Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation.”
Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. 31 (October 2000): 86-87.
“From Slave to Vaquero: Black Cowboys of Texas. Ed.Sara R. Massey. College Station: Texas
A&M University Press, 2000.” Review of Texas Books. 16.1 (Winter 2001):. 2.
“Francaviglia, Richard V. The Cast Iron Forest: A Natural and Cultural History of the North
American Cross Timbers.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 32
(October 2001):79-80.
“Natchitoches to Nacogdoches: Pavie in the Borderlands: The Journey of Theodore Pavie to
Louisiana and Texas, 1829, Including Portions of His Souvenirs atlantiques. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.” Review of Texas Books 16.4 (Fall 2001): 4.
“Fighting Man on the Rio Grande: Captain L. H. McNelly—Texas Ranger: The Life and Times of a
Fighting Man. Austin: State House Press, 2001.” Review of Texas Books. 17.3
(Summer 2002): 4-5.
“Law and Order in the 1890s: Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2001.” Review of Texas Books. 17.4 ((Fall 2002): 2.
“Texas Treasure Sites: Texas Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures. Plano: Republic of Texas
Press, 2002.” Review of Texas Books 18.3 (Summer 2003): 4.
“Stevens, J. David. The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction.” Journal
of the American Studies Association of Texas 34 (October 2003): 97-98.
“God and Bullets in the Fading West: Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger. Denton: University
of North Texas Press, 2003.” Review of Texas Books 18.4 (Fall 2003): 5.
“The Called and the Chosen in Frontier Texas: The Callings. By Henry Chappell. Lubbock: Texas
Tech University Press, 2002.” Review of Texas Books. 19.3 (Summer 2004): 4-5.
“Grossman, Jay. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of
Representation.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 35 (November
2004): 113-15.
“The Day of the Dead for Children and Parents: The Festival of Bones/El Festival de las Calaveras:
The Little Bitty Book for the Day of the Dead.” By Luis San Vicente. El Paso: Cinco Puntos
Press, 2002. Review of Texas Books 20.1 (Winter 2005): 4-5.
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Book Reviews cont.
“Webb and the Second Coming of Corporateness: The Great Frontier. 1952. By Walter Prescott
Webb. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2003.” Review of Texas Books
20.4 (Fall 2005): 3.
“Ober, K. Patrick. Mark Twain and Medicine: ‘Any Mummery Will Cure.’” Journal of the
American Studies Association of Texas 36 (December 2005): 97-98.
“African American Cowboy and Civic Leader: Bones Hooks: Pioneer Negro Cowboy. By Bruce
G. Todd. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 2005.” Review of Texas Books 21.3
(Summer 2006), pp.2-3.
“Mayhem and Death on the Range: Saddling Up Anyway: The Dangerous Lives of Old-Time
Cowboys. By Patrick Dearen. Lanham: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006.” Review of Texas
Books. 22.2 (Spring 2007): 2.
“McCarthy’s The Road: Voices Puny Yet Inexhaustible.” Review of Texas Books. 22.3 (Summer
2007): 2-3.
“Early Texas History: Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean in Mexican Texas. By Jack Jackson. College
Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2005.” Review of Texas Books 23.1 (Winter 2008):
5-6.
“The Ranger in Modern Texas: Law on the Last Frontier: Texas Ranger Arthur Hill. BySharon E.
Spinks. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2007.” Review of Texas Books 23.3
(Summer 2008): 2-3.
“Notes on a Cabala in Western Guise: Notes on Blood Meridian. By John Sepich. Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2008.” Review of Texas Books 24.1-2 (Winter and Spring 2009):
2-3.
“Hawthorne’s Politics of Quiet Imagination: Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne’s
Damned Politics. By Larry J. Reynolds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008.”
Review of Texas Books 24.3 (Summer 2009): 2-3.
“The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Feud in Texas. By. Chuck Parsons. Denton: University of
North Texas Press, 2009.” Review of Texas Books 24.3 (Summer 2009): 10-11.
“Spiritual Reintegration in Afro-Caribbean Art: Afro-Caribbean Poetry and Ritual. By Paul A.
Griffith. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010.” Review of Texas Books 25.2
(Spring/Summer 2010): 2-3.
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Book Reviews cont.
“Ranger Captain Bill McDonald: Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Ranger Captain Bill
McDonald. By Harold J. Weis, Jr. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2009.” Review
of Texas Books 25.2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 3-4.
“To What End Beauty?’: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Grotesque: The Subjective Turn in
Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present. Ed. Michael J. Mathis. Newcastle Upon
Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.” Review of Texas Books
25.3-4 (Winter 2010): 2-3.
“Sul Ross and the Second Capture of Cynthia Parker: Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease
River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, by Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum.” Review of
Texas Books 26.3 (Summer 2011): 2-3.
“People of the Horse: S. C. Gwynn, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise
and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History.”
Review of Texas Books 26.3 (Summer 2011): 4-5.
“Murder in the Kindergarten: Stokes, David R. The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and
the Murder Trial That Captivated America.” Review of Texas Books 26.4 (Fall 2011):
2-3.
“The Political Shootout at the O.K. Corral: Guinn, Jeff. The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the
Shootout at the O.K. Corral—And How it Changed the American West.” Review of Texas
Books 27.1-2 (2012): 5-6.
“JASON DID IT: Dear, William C. O. J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It.” Review of Texas Books
27.3-4 (2012): 2-3.
“The Gangster Era in Texas: Baker, T. Lindsay. Gangster Tour of Texas.” Review of Texas Books
28 (2013) [forthcoming].
“Fagin, Stephen. Assassination and Commemoration: JFK, Dallas, and the Sixth Floor
Museum at Dealey Plaza.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 45
(2014): 68.
“Where Seldom is Heard: McMurtry, Larry. Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel.” Review of Texas
Books 29 (2014) [forthcoming].
“Ostman, Heather and Kate O’Donoghue, eds. Kate Chopin in Contest: New Approaches.”
Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 46 (2015): [forthcoming]
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Abstracts
68 articles from South Carolina Review, 1983-91 (Abstracts of English Studies)
GRADUATE SERVICE
Graduate Faculty 1985-Present
Thesis Direction
McIntire, Shannon. “Sense and Subjugation: Melville's ‘Benito Cereno’ as a Critique of
Proslavery Thought," 1994.
Hall, Mercedes. “Dysfunctionality and Nathaniel Hawthorne,” 1995.
Vines, Tina. “Silver Outshines Gold: Anne Bradstreet, The Great Chain of Being, and
Women,” 2005.
Addison, Mary Messer. “Hawthorne and Women,” 2009.
Ivy, Ashlynn. “Shadows of the South: Vision, Grace, and Mystery in the Short Fiction of
Flannery O’Connor,” 2011
Manes, Ann. “The Portrait in a Mirror: How and Why Henry James Re-Wrote Far from the
Madding Crowd as The Portrait of a Lady” 2014
Non-Thesis Committee Head
Other
Georgia Devillier
Larissa Newport
Jesse Burkle
Angela Sedlar
Dana LaRue
Juliet Gentry
Lara Jagneaux
Jennifer Gonzalez
Caitlin James
Leslie Sherwood
Eric Ray
Liz Charles
Verity Ockenden
1987-88
1995-96
1996-97
2001-02
2001-02
2009-10
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
2011-12
2014-15
2015-16
2015-16
Served as reader or non-thesis committee member on numerous committees
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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Co-Editor, Lamar Journal of the Humanities, 1988-Present
Supervising Editor, Review of Texas Books, 1996-Present
Committee Service
University:
Long Range Planning Committee—2 years
Promotion Review Committee—2 years
Core Curriculum Governance Committee—Fall 2011 to 2015
College of Arts & Sciences:
Arts & Sciences Council—4 years, 1986-90
Excellence in Research/Creative Scholarship Award—3 years
Committee for Teaching Excellence Award—3 years
Regents’ Merit Award Committee—2 years
Tenure and Promotion Committees—numerous years
Curriculum Committee—1 year
Department of English & Modern Languages:
Sophomore Committee—17years, Head 12 years
Freshman Committee—4 years
English 1374 (Media) Subcommittee—9 years, Head 3 years
English 0371 (Developmental) Subcommittee—2 years
Advanced Course Committee—8 years
Policy Committee—10 years
Promotion Committee—5 years
Tenure Committee—3 years
Courtesy Committee—4 years, Head 4 years
Committee for Review of Undergraduate Curriculum—1 year
Employment Committee—1 year
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Service as Academic Advisor
Other
Undecided Majors—1984-1990
English Majors—1990-2009
Local Arrangements Chairman, Texas Joint Council of
Teachers of English, District V—4 years
Judge, Pulse (student literary magazine)—10 issues
Judge, District 24AA High School Ready Writing
Tournament sponsored by University
Interscholastic League—1986
Appeals Judge, U. S. Academic Decathlon, Thomas
Jefferson High School—1992
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association of Texas
Conference of College Teachers of English
Texas Association of College Teachers
session chair CCTE 2012 (Fort Worth, Texas)
HONORS AND AWARDS Teaching Bonus Awards—3 years (1995, 1997, 1999)—peerreviewed $200 award
Faculty Merit Incentive Awards—1983-87
(discontinued by university in 1988)
Released Time—Fall 1990
CREDENTIALS
Complete dossier available from the English
Department, Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana 70803