December 2015
JEANNE CAMPBELL REESMAN
Department of English
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
ph. (210) 458-5133; fax (210) 458-5366
http://colfa.utsa.edu/English/reesman.html
7731 Broadway, #C-314
San Antonio, TX 78209
(210) 826-8613 (h)
(210) 867-9718 (c)
[email protected]
Administrative Positions
Graduate Advisor of Record, Ph.D. Program in English
University of Texas at San Antonio, 2010-2014
Interim Dean of Graduate Studies
University of Texas at San Antonio, 1998-2001
Director, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, and Communication
University of Texas at San Antonio, 1994-1998
Teaching and Research Positions
Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Fellow in American Literature, 2011Fulbright Senior Specialist, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, March 2010
Fulbright Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Fall 2006
Ashbel Smith Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2001-2006
Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995-present
Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1992-95
Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1986-92
Assistant Professor of English, University of Hawai’i, 1984-86
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1985-86
Concentrations
Late 19th- and early 20th-century American fiction, the novel, Naturalism, the New Woman, intellectual
history, criticism & theory, feminism, race and gender studies, cross-cultural/trans-national studies,
photography and literature, Oceanic literatures, Mark Twain, Jack London
Publications
Refereed Books
Mark Twain Versus God: The Story of a Relationship. Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Athens: University of
Georgia Press. Under contract. Forthcoming 2017.
Jeanne C. Reesman, ed. London in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from
Recollections, Interviews, & Memoirs by Family, Friends & Associates. “Writers in Their Own Time”
Series. Gen. Ed. Joel Myerson. University of Iowa Press, under contract, forthcoming 2017.
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Refereed Books, con’t:
Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Approaches to Teaching Jack London. MLA
Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series. Gen. Ed. Joseph Gibaldi. New York: MLA,
2015.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Jack London’s Racial Lives (2009). Athens: University of Georgia Press:
paperback reissue, 2011.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Sara S. Hodson, and Philip Adam. Jack London, Photographer. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2010. Rpt. Trans. Noël Mauberret, Jack London, photographe. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2013.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, ed. Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1997. Afterward by Linda Wagner-Martin. Second edition,
paperback, 2011.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Critical Companion to Jack London: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work.
New York: Facts on File, 2011.
Wilfred Guerin, Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne Campbell Reesman. A Handbook of Critical
Approaches to Literature, 6th Edition. 4th-6th Editions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992,
2006, 2011. With accompanying web site authored by Reesman:
http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195394726/?view=usa .
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Sara S. Hodson, and Philip Adam. Jack London, Photographer. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2010.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Jack London’s Racial Lives. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Sara S. Hodson and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer.
San Marino: Huntington Library Press: 2002.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, ed. Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 2001.
Dale Walker and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. No Mentor but Myself: Jack London on Writing and
Writers. Introduction Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Macmillan
(Twayne Studies in Short Fiction Series) 1999.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman, ed. Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers. Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1997. Afterword by Linda Wagner-Martin.
Leonard Cassuto and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Rereading Jack London. Stanford: Stanford
University Press,1996. Afterword by Earle Labor.
Earle Labor and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Jack London, Revised Edition. New York: Macmillan
(Twayne U.S. Authors Series), 1994.
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
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Invited Books
John Barleycorn by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Préface de
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. François Postif and Noël Mauberret. Paris: Éditions Phébus,
2000. Rpt. Paris: Libretto, 2014.
Volume Co-Editor, The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 8th Edition. 5 Vols. Vol. C., Literature
1865-1914. General Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007, 2012.
La Fille de la nuit (The Night-Born) suivi de Courage À Hollandaise (Dutch Courage) by Jack London. Ed.
Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Préface
de Gérard Oberlé. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2011.
La Croisiére du “Dazzler” (The Cruise of the “Dazzler”) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Préface de Jean-Paul Brighelli. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2010.
Face de Lune (Moon-Face) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans.
Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Préface de Gérard Oberlé. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2010.
Les Tortues de Tasmanie (The Turtles of Tasman). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Préface de David Fauquemberg.
Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2010.
La Force des forts (The Strength of the Strong). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Trans. Louis Postif et Frédéric Klein. Préface de Michel Le Bris. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2009.
Jerry, chien des îles (Jerry of the Islands). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Trans. Claude Gilbert. Préface de Pierre Maranda. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2009.
Le Dieu de ses pères (The God of His Fathers). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Trans. Louis Postif, S. Jourbert, and Frédéric Klein. Préface de Jennifer Lesieur. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2009.
Révolution suivi de Guerre des classes (Revolution and War of the Classes). By Jack London. Ed. Noël
Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. Jacques Parsons, Louis Postif, and Jean-Louis
Postif. Préface de Jack Lang. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2008.
L' Aventureuse (Adventure). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Trans. Louis Postif and Paul Gruyer. Preface de Gilles LaPouge. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2008.
L' Amour et rien d'autre: Correspondance Kempton-Wace (The Kempton-Wace Letters). By Jack London. Ed.
Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. Frédéric Klein and Charles-Noël Martin.
Préface de Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2008.
Histoires des îles (The House of Pride and On the Makaloa Mat). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. Frédéric Klein and Louis Postif. Préface de Claude PujadeRenaud. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2007.
Construire un feu (To Build a Fire). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Trans Louis Postif and Paul Gruyer. Preface de Kenneth White. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2007.
Une fille des neiges (A Daughter of the Snows) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2007.
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Invited Books, con’t.
The House of Pride / On the Makaloa Mat by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Préface de Noël Mauberret. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2007.
Co-Editor. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 7th Shorter Edition, 2 Vols. General Ed. Nina
Baym. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007.
Belliou la fumée (Smoke Bellew) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Préface de Bernard Rapp. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2006.
La croisière du Snark (The Cruise of the Snark) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Préface de Jacques Gamblin. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2006.
La peste écarlate (The Scarlet Plague) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Préface de Noël Mauberret. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2006.
Quand Dieu ricane. (When God Laughs) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de and Frédéric Klein. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2005.
Fils du soleil (A Son of the Sun) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Preface de Michel Tournier. Trans. Louis Postif and Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions Phébus,
2005.
Radieuse Aurore (Burning Daylight) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de Max Gallo. Trans. Robert Sctrick. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2005.
Michaël chien de cirque (Michael Brother of Jerry) by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Preface de Jean-Pierre Digard. Trans. Louis Postif and Paul Gruyer. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2004.
Les Mutinés de l’”Elseneur” (The Mutiny of the Elsinore). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Preface de Jean-François Deniau. Trans. Charles- Noël Martin. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2004.
La Petite Dame dans la Grande Maison (The Little Lady of the Big House). By Jack London. Ed. Noël
Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Preface de Linda Lé. Trans. Louis Postif. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2004.
Parole d’homme: Histoires du pays d l’or (The Faith of Men). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Preface de Jean-Louis Étienne. Trans. Louis Postif. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2003.
L’Appel sauvage (The Call of the Wild). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de Michel Le Bris. Trans. Frédéric Klein. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2003.
Le Talon de fer (The Iron Heel). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Preface de Jean-Louis Étienne. Avec une lettre de Léon Trotski. Trans. Raymond Postif. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2003.
Sur le ring (The Game and The Abysmal Brute). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Preface de Christian Montaignac. Trans. Noël Mauberret. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2002.
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Invited Books, con't.
Loup de mer (The Sea-Wolf). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Preface de Noël Mauberret. Trans. François and Louis Postif. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2002.
Avant Adam (Before Adam). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Preface de Yves Coppens. Trans. François and Louis Postif. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2002.
Vallée de la Lune (The Valley of the Moon). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Preface de Noël Mauberret. Trans. François and Louis Postif. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2001.
Le Dieu rouge (The Red One). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Preface de Noël Mauberret. Trans. François and Louis Postif. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2001.
Martin Eden. By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Preface de Linda Lé.
Trans. Francis Kerline. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2001.
Contes des mers du Sud (South Sea Tales). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de Yann Queffélec. Trans. Louis Postif and Paul Gruyer. Paris: Éditions
Phébus, 2001.
La Route: Les Vagabonds du rail (The Road). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de Jean-François Duval. Trans. Louis Postif. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2001.
Le fils du loup (The Son of the Wolf). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. François Postif and Noël Mauberret.
Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2000.
Le Vagabond des étoiles (The Star Rover). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Preface de Francis Lacassin. Trans. François Postif and Noël Mauberret. Paris:
Éditions Phébus, 2000.
John Barleycorn by Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Preface de
Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. François Postif and Noël Mauberret. Paris: Éditions Phébus,
2000.
Patrouille de pêche: Les pirates de San Francisco et autres nouvelles (Tales of the Fish Patrol). By Jack
London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Preface de Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. Trans. François Postif and Noël Mauberret. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 2000.
Le Peuple d'en bas (The People of the Abyss). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Preface de Noël Mauberret. Trans. François Postif and Noël Mauberret.
Paris: Éditions Phébus, 1999.
Les enfants du froid (The Children of the Frost). By Jack London. Ed. Noël Mauberret and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman. Preface de Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Trans. François Postif and Noël
Mauberret. Paris: Éditions Phébus, 1999.
Essays and Book Chapters, Refereed
“Teaching Jack London, “‘Koolau the Leper’ in a Doctoral Seminar. In Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne
Campbell Reesman, MLA Approaches to Teaching Jack London,” New York: MLA, 20,5, 172-76,
2015.
“Rough Justice in Jack London’s ‘Mauki.’” Studies in American Naturalism, 1.1-2 (Summer 2006): 42-69.
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Essays and Book Chapters, Refereed, con’t.
“Re-Visiting Adventure: Jack London in the Solomon Islands.” Excavatio 17:1-2 (2002): 209-37.
“Socialism and Racism in the Works of Jack London.” Excavatio 13 (2000): 264-75.
“Prospects for the Study of Jack London.” Resources for American Literary Study 25(2): 1999, 133-158.
Rpt. in Prospects for the Study of American Literature II, ed. Richard Kopley and Barbara Cantulpo.
New York: AMS Press, 2009.
“Marching With ‘the Censor’: Jack London, the Japanese Army, and Cultural Production.”
Jack London Journal 6 (1999): 135-174.
"'The Deepest Depths of the Artificial': Attacking Reality in The Aspern Papers." Henry James Review
19 (1998): 148-65. Rpt. in The Finer Thread, the Tighter Weave. Ed. Brooke Horvath and Joseph
Dewey. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2000.
"'Never Travel Alone': Naturalism, Jack London, and the White Silence." American Literary Realism 29,2
(Winter 1997): 33-49.
"Women, Language, and the Grotesque in Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty." In Flannery
O'Connor: New Approaches, ed. Sura Rath and Mary Neff Shaw. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1996, pp. 38-56.
"Irony and Feminism in The Little Lady of the Big House." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor, 12 (1,2)
(1992): 33-46.
"'That Savage Path': Nightwood and The Divine Comedy." Renascence, 44 (Winter 1992): 137-58.
"Riddle Game: Stephen King's Metafictive Dialogues." In Descent into Darkness: Essays Defining
Stephen King's Horrorscape, ed. Tony Magistrale. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1992, 157-70.
"Introduction" to special issue, "A Symposium on Jack London," and "Jack London's New Woman in a
New World: Saxon Brown Roberts's Journey into the Valley of the Moon." American Literary
Realism, 24,2 (Winter 1992), 3-4, 40-54. Rpt. in The Critical Response to Jack London, ed. Susan
Nuernberg, Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 181-93; translated into Chinese in Foreign Literatures
(Beijing) by Shuyan Li, Peking University, 1997.
"Dark Knowledge in The Handmaid's Tale." The CEA Critic 53 (Spring-Summer 1991): 6-22.
"Stephen King and the Tradition of American Naturalism in The Shining." In The Shining Reader: A
Collection of Essays. Seattle, WA: Starmont House Press, 1991, pp. 121-38.
"The Problem of Knowledge in 'The Water Baby.'" Western American Literature: 23 (1988), 201-15.
"Creatures of 'Charm': A New T. S. Eliot Poem." Co-authored with John Reesman. The Kenyon Review,
NS 6 (Summer 1984): 25-33.
Essays and Book Chapters, Invited
“Realism and Naturalism.” Companion to the American Novel. Ed. Alfred Bendixen. New York: Blackwell,
2012: 42-59.
“The Literary Careers of Mark Twain and Jack London.” In Critical Insights: Jack London. Ed.
Lawrence I. Berkove. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2011.
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Invited Articles and Book Chapters, con’t.
“Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the “Great White Hope.” Chapter of Jack London’s Racial Lives
(Georgia 2009) reprinted in Critical Insights: Jack London. Ed. Lawrence I. Berkove. Pasadena,
Calif.: Salem Press, 2011.
“Bad Fathering in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” In The Turn Around Religion: Literature, Culture,
and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch. Ed. Nan Goodman and Michael Kramer. New Brunswick, NJ:
Transactions Press at Rutgers University Press, 2011. 157-82.
“’To Go To Sea!’ Jack London and the Oceans of Opportunity.” A Voyage Through American Literature
and Culture via Turkey. Festschrift in Honor of Sam S. Baskett’s 90th Birthday. Ed. Nur Gölkalp
Akkerman, Belma Ötüș Baskett, and Oya Bașak. Istanbul, Turkey: Boģazçi Üniversitesi Yayinevi,
2011. 111-24.
“Naturalism and Race in the Works of Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London.” in The Oxford
Handbook to Literary Naturalism. Ed. Keith Newlin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
274-90.
“The Call of Jack London: Earle Labor on Jack London Studies.” Studies in American Naturalism
Special Issue: Naturalism's Histories. Guest Editor: Gary Totten. 5, 1 (Summer 2010): 21-36.
“Frank Norris and Jack London.” Companion to the American Short Story. Ed. James Nagel. London and
New York: Blackwell, 2010, 171-86.
“’I had not thought death had undone so many’: Writers of World War I.” In The Winds and Words of
War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Foundation.
Ed. Allison Hays Lane. Seattle, WA: Marquand Books, 2008.
“Prospects for the Study of Jack London.” 1999. Rev. and rpt. in Prospects for the Study of American
Literature II, ed. Richard Kopley. New York: AMS Press, 2009, 151-89.
“Crossing Cultures New and Old: Teaching Naturalism as a Fulbright Professor in Greece.” American
Literary Naturalism, 2 (1): 2007.
“The-Sea Wolf.” 1870-1920. In American History through Literature, 1870-1920. Ed. Tom Quirk and
Gary Scharnhorst. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006, 1026-1031.
“Interview with Sue Hodson, Jeanne Reesman, and Waring Jones,” Milo Shepard: The Jack London
Story and the Beauty Ranch, ed. Caroline C. Crawford. Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft
Library. Berkeley: Regents of the University of California, 2001. 155-72.
"Fiction 1900-1930." American Literary Scholarship, 1999. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
"Fiction 1900-1930." American Literary Scholarship, 1998. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
"De la frontiere americaine aux confins du sacre." Trans. Pascale Voilley. Europe 77.844-45
(August/September 1999): 40-46.
“Fiction 1900-1930,” American Literary Scholarship, 1997. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
"Jack London's Popular and Political Masks." Jack London Newsletter 20 (1987): 63-71.
"Knowledge and Identity in London's Pacific Fiction." Jack London Newsletter 19 (September-December
1986): 91-95.
"'Falling Stars': Myth in "The Red One.'" Jack London Newsletter 11 (1978): 86-96.
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Encyclopedia Entries
"The Jack London Society." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. D.W. Thomas. New York:
Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2000.
"Jack London." "To Build a Fire." Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story. Ed. Abby
H.P. Werlock. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
"Spiritualism." The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Eds. Cathy N. Davidson
and Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
"Colonel Sherburn," "'What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us,'" "Alice H. Day," "Molly Clemens,"
"Jackson Island," and "Walter Scott," The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. New York: Garland,
1993.
Reviews
Reviews of Jack London: An American Life, by Earle Labor. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.
True West, November 2013; The Wolf, Jack London Foundation, spring 2014.
Review of The Cambridge History of the American Novel. Ed. Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby, and
Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. American Literary
Realism 46.3 (2014): 271-73.
Review of Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor, Elizabeth Young (New York:
New York University Press, 2008) and Machine and Metaphor: The Ethics of Language in American
Realism. Jennifer Carol Cook. New York: Routledge, 2007. Stephen Crane Studies. 20.2 (2011): 2426.
Review of Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Jackson J. Benson. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2009. Resources in American Literary Study. 35 (2012): .
Review of Wolf: The Lives of Jack London, James Haley. New York: Basic Books, 2010. San Antonio
Express News, August 29, 2010.
Review of Transcultural Localisms: Responding to Ethnicity in a Globalized World, Yiorgos Kalogeras,
Eleftheria Arapoglou, and Linda Manney, eds. American Studies Monograph Series, Vol. 136.
Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag. European Journal of American Studies, Summer 2007.
http://www.eaas.eu/reviews/kalogersarapogloumanneyhtm.
Review of Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives From the Mexican War to the Present by
Rosemary A. King (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004) and South of Our Selves: Mexico
in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden by Glenn Sheldon
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004). American Literature 77.3 (September 2005): 644-46.
Review of Jack London’s Women by Clarice Stasz. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
American Literature 75.2 (June 2003): 436-37.
Review of Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier by Susan Kollin. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pacific Historical Review 72 (February 2003): 147-49.
Review of Turning South Again by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.
American Literary Realism 24.3 (Spring 2002): 281-83.
Review of Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural
Frontier by Carlton Smith. American Literature 73:2 (June 2001): 441-42.
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Reviews, con’t.
Review of Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, by Shelley Fisher
Fishkin. American Literature 70 (March 1998): 191-92.
Review of Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915, by Donna
Campbell. American Literary Realism 30, 3 (Spring 1998): 85-86.
Review of Mark Twain: Culture and Gender, Envisioning American Through Europe, by J.D. Stahl. American
Literature 67 (June 1995): 391-92.
Review of Meaning in Henry James, by Millicent Bell. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92 (April
1993): 256-58.
Review of Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction, ed. Doreen Fowler and Ann J. Abadie; Faulkner's Apocrypha by
Joseph R. Urgo; and Faulkner's Country Matters by Daniel Hoffman. South Central Review
9.1 (Spring 1992): 112-14.
Review of Jack London and His Daughters by Joan London. Western American Literature 26 (1991): 90-91.
Review of Jack London: Adventures, Ideas, Fiction by James Lundquist. Western American Literature 23
(1988): 149-50.
"An American King." Review of Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic by Tony
Magistrale. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Newsletter 1 (1988): 24-25.
"Jack London--Kama'aina." Review of Stories of Hawaii by Jack London. Jack London Newsletter
18 (September-December 1985), 71-76.
"The Myth Called Jack London." Review of Jack London: American Myth, by John Perry. The
Philadelphia Bulletin, 10 January 1982.
Electronic Publications
“Jack London.” Oxford Bibliographies Online: American Literature. 2012.
http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com. Definitive bibliography of London’s life and career.
Excerpt from Chapter 4, “The Cruise of the Snark.” Jack London, Photographer, by Jeanne Campbell
Reesman, Sara H. Hodson, and Philip Adam. Journal of Transnational American Studies 3, 1 (2011).
http://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas.
Conference Papers and Invited Lectures
Conference Papers
“Fleeing the City for Authorial Self-Construction in Jack London’s The Road (1907), Jack Kerouac’s On the
Road (1957), and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” Paper Presented to the American Literature
Association Symposium on The City. September 10-12, 2015. New Orleans, LA.
“Jack London, Photographer,” Panel 12: “Naturalism, Archives, and Photography,” AIZEN (International
Conference on Émile Zola and Naturalism), University of New Orleans, March 6-8, 2014.
“Mark Twain Vs. God: The Story of a Relationship.” 7th International Conference on the State of Mark
Twain Studies. Mark Twain Circle. Elmira College, Elmira, NY, August 1-3, 2013.
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Conference Papers, con’t.
“Picturing the Tropical Body: Melville’s Typee and London’s The Cruise of the Snark,” American Literature
Association Annual Conference, May 23-26, 2013, Boston, Mass.
“My Favorite Jack London Essay: ‘The Other Animals.” Jack London 11th Biennial Symposium, Utah
State University, Logan, Utah, October 3-6, 2012.
Participant: "Working-Class Study’s Uneasy Place at the 'The Diversity Banquet’—A Roundtable.”
Organized by: The Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature. Moderator: Paul Lauter.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, Mass., May 2009.
Participant: “Teaching Stephen Crane’s ‘The Monster’: A Roundtable Discussion” with Patrick K.
Dooley, Bert Bender, Donna Campbell, John Dudley, James Nagel, and Jeanne Campbell
Reesman. American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2008.
Participant, Women and Naturalism: A Round-Table Discussion, American Literature Association
Symposium on Naturalism, Newport Beach, California, October 5-6, 2007.
“The Call of the Wild as a Slave Narrative.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Conference, San Antonio, April 2004.
“Human Documents: The Photography of Jack London.” Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States
(MELUS) Conference, San Antonio, March 2004.
’The Wreckage of Races’: Melville, London, and the Death of Typee.” Melville and the Pacific
International Conference, Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i, June 2003.
“How Not to Read a Paper.” American Literature Association Conference panel on “Not For Graduate
Students Only,” Emily Toth, Jeanne Reesman, Paul Lauter, and James Nagel. Long Beach, May
28-June 2, 2002.
“Jack London’s Troubled Adventure.” American Literature Association Conference, Long Beach, May
28-June 2, 2002.
“"Re-Visiting Adventure: Jack London in the Solomon Islands.” AIZEN Conference, Jaen, Spain, June
2002.
“’Mouth-Fighters’: Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Great White Hope.” Modern Language
Association Convention, New Orleans, December 2001.
“Jack London’s Race Lives.” American Literature Association Symposium on Biography, Puerto
Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, December 2001.
"Socialism and Race in the Fiction of Jack London." American Literature Association Symposium on
Realism and Naturalism, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, December 2000.
"At SeaWith Jack London: The Cruises of the Snark." International Hemingway Conference, Bimini,
Bahamas, January 2000.
“Is Jack London Funny?” American Humor Conference, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, December
1998.
“Jack London’s Experimentalism.” American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, May
1998.
"Jack London's Yellow Peril." American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, May 1997.
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Conference Papers, con’t.
"'Marching with the Censor': Jack London, the Japanese Army, and Cultural Production." Multi-Ethnic
Literatures in the United States Conference (MELUS), Honolulu, April 1997.
"The Literary Careers of Mark Twain and Jack London." American Literature Association
Conference, San Diego, May 1996.
"'Never Travel Alone': Writing Against the White Silence." American Literature Association
Conference, San Diego, June 1994.
"Irony and Feminism in The Little Lady of the Big House." Modern Language Association
Convention, New York, December 1992.
"Language and the Grotesque in Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty." International Gothic
Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, July 1991.
"Sexuality, Gender, and Feminism in the Late Works of Jack London." American Literature
Association Conference, Washington, June 1991.
"The Forrest Ranch as California Doll's House." College English Association Conference, San Antonio,
April 1991.
"Jack London's New Woman: Saxon Brown Roberts' Pilgrimage from the City of Dreadful Night
into The Valley of the Moon." Western Literature Association, Coeur d'Alene, October 1989.
"Dialogue and Narrative in Jack London's Stories." California State University Symposium on American
Literature, San Diego, June 1989.
"The Voices of Women in Jack London's Stories of Hawaii." Popular Culture Association
Conference, St. Louis, April 1989.
"Dark Knowledge in The Handmaid's Tale." Ninth Annual International Conference on the Fantastic in
the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, March 1988.
"James's 'Dialogic' Fiction." Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, Dec.1987.
"Knowledge and Identity in London's Pacific Fiction." College English Association Convention,
Philadelphia, April 1986.
"Socialism as Discourse in the Work of Jack London." Modern Language Association Convention,
Chicago, December 1985.
"Collaborative Learning and American Literature: Theoretical Connections." College English
Association Conference Clearwater, April 1984.
"Knowledge as Design in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses." NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 1984.
"The Problem of Knowledge in the Works of Jack London." Modern Language Association
Convention, New York, December 1983.
"Jack London & the Mask of Socialism." Philological Assn. of the Carolinas, Columbia, SC, 1982.
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Conferences Directed
American Literature Association Symposium on God and the American Writer, Sheraton Gunter Hotel,
San Antonio, TX, February 26-28, 2015.
Jack London Society Twelfth Biennial Symposium. Berkeley City Club Hotel, Berkeley, Calif., October
29-November 1, 2014.
Jack London Society Eleventh Biennial Symposium, Utah State University, Logan, October 3-6, 2012.
Jack London Society Tenth Biennial Symposium, Santa Rosa, November 4-6, 2010.
Jack London Society Ninth Biennial Symposium, Huntington Library, October 9-12, 2008.
American Literature Association Symposium on Naturalism, Newport Beach, Calif., October 5-6, 2007.
Jack London Society Eighth Biennial Symposium, Seattle-Alaska-Seattle, June 30-July 7, 2006.
Jack London Society Seventh Biennial Symposium, Santa Rosa, California, May 22-25, 2004.
Jack London Society Sixth Biennial Symposium, Lihue, Kauai, Hawai’i, October 10-12, 2002.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, May 28-June 2, 2002.
Jack London Society Fifth Biennial Symposium, Santa Rosa, California, October 12-14, 2000.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, Long Beach, California, May 25-28, 2000.
Jack London Society Fourth Biennial Symposium, Huntington Library, October 8-12, 1998.
American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, May 28-30, 1998.
American Literature Association Symposium: The Trickster, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 9-11, 1997.
Jack London Society Third Biennial Symposium, Santa Rosa, California, October 2-5, 1996.
Jack London Society Second Biennial Symposium, Huntington Library, San Marino, California,
September 28-October 1, 1994.
American Literature Association Symposium: Women Writers, San Antonio, Sept. 30-Oct. 3, 1993.
Jack London Society Summer Symposium, Sonoma, California, August 2-4, 1992.
Invited Talks
“Mark Twain Vs. God: The Story of a Relationship.” Lecture in “The Trouble Begins at Eight” series
sponsored by the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College, Elmira, NY, September 30,
2015. The Lectures are held at Quarry Farm, where Twain did most of his writing.
“Tramps Abroad: Adventure and Anguish in the Travels of Mark Twain and Jack London.” Keynote
Speaker at the
annual conference of L'Association française d'Etudes Américaine. La Rochelle, France, May 2330, 2015.
Interview by Joe Lawrence in the Jack London Foundation Newsletter 27. 2: April 2015, 12-15.
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Invited Talks, con’t.
“Jack London, Photographer,” and “Teaching The Call of the Wild,” Paramount Theater, Ashland, KY,
and Ohio Southern University, February 24-26, 2013. NEA Big Read Program.
“Picturing the Tropical Body: Melville’s Typee and London’s The Cruise of the Snark,” Vanderbilt
University, February 4-6, 2013.
“Speaking from the Borderlands: New Challenges to Traditional Gender and Race in American
Literary Studies”; “The American New Woman and the Construction of Gender”; and “The Call
of the Wild as a Slave Narrative”; “Readers’ Theater: Twain’s ‘The Golden Arm.’” Residency at
Nanjing University of Science and Technology, November 18-27, 2012.
“The American New Woman and the Construction of Gender,” Nanjing University, November 24, 2012.
“Jack London, Photographer.” University of South Carolina-Aiken Ethrredge Center, October 28,
2011. Aiken’s “Wild Read” NEA Program.
“The Call of the Wild as Slave Narrative.” University of South Carolina-Aiken, Department of English,
October 28, 2011. Aiken’s “Wild Read” NEA Program.
“’To Build a Fire’ as Realism and Romance.” Midland Valley High School English Department. Aiken,
SC, October 28, 2011. Aiken’s “Wild Read” NEA Program.
“On the American New Woman and the Diary.” March 22, 2011, LERMA Université de Provence,
Aix-en-Provence.
“Jack London, Photographer,” with Noël Mauberret. March 21, 2011. LERMA Université de
Provence, Aix-en-Provence.
“Publishing Jack London in the 21st Century: Seminar on Editions and Translations,” with Noël
Mauberret. March 18, 2011. IUT d’Arles, Arles.
“Looking Back: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” March 14, 2011, LERMA Université de Provence,
Aix-en-Provence; March 15, Université de Provence, Marseilles.
“Jack London, Photographer: The Book.” University of Georgia Eidson Lecture. November 17, 2010.
“Jack London, Photographer: The Making of the Book.” Huntington Library Lecture, November 8, 2010.
“Jack London, Photographer: The Book.” Lecture at Jack London State Historic Park, Glen Ellen,
Calif., November 7, 2010.
“Jack London, Photographer.” Lecture for California Historical Society, San Francisco,
November 3, 2010.
“The Photography of Jack London.” National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” Lecture. Irving,
Texas, October 25, 2010.
“The Call of the Wild as a Slave Narrative. National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” Lecture.
Irving, Texas, October 26, 2010.
“Jack London, Photographer.” Texas Book Festival panelist, “The Lives of Jack London.” October 18,
2010, Austin, Texas.
“Jack London, Photographer.” 2009 Buckner Lecture, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
October 19, 2009.
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Invited Talks, con’t.
“Jack London’s ‘Mauki.’” College Preparatory Program, John Jay High School, San Antonio. May 27,
2009.
“Jack London, Photographer.” Presentation to Bexar Kiwanis Club, San Antonio. May 26, 2009.
“Jack London, Photographer.” Presentation to University of Georgia Press Advisory Board. Athens,
GA, May 11, 2009.
“Getting Into College, Starting Now.” Workshop for at-risk Hudson middle and high school students.
Hudson, NY, Opera House, October 25, 2008.
“The Call of the Wild as a Slave Narrative.” National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” Program.
Hudson, NY, Opera House, October 24, 2008.
“’The Muse in Arms’: Writers of World War I.” Lecture for San Antonio Public Library Foundation,
October 20, 2008.
“The Call of the Wild as a Slave Narrative.” National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” Program.
The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, October 8, 2008.
“The Call of the Wild as a Slave Narrative.” National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” Program.
Massillon, Ohio, Central Library, April 19, 2008.
“Tramps Abroad: The Literary Careers of Mark Twain and Jack London.” Address to UTSA College
of Liberal and Fine Arts Advisory Board, Magnolia Gardens, San Antonio, April 12, 2007.
“American Travel Writing.” Great Conversations (Fundraiser for UTSA Honors Program), Feb. 2006
“The Making of A Handbook of Critical Approaches.” With Wilfred Guerin, Earle Labor, and Lee
Morgan. Centenary College of Louisiana, February 3, 2006.
“Jack London as Photojournalist.” Eidson Distinguished Professor Lecture. February 24, 2005.
University of Georgia.
“What Makes the Great American Novel Great?” Great Conversations (Fundraiser for UTSA Honors
Program), February 2005.
“Grants for Graduate Students: A How-To Workshop for Students and Faculty.” October 22 and
November 19, 2004, April 13, 2005, UT-San Antonio.
“Jack London et la photographie.” Keynote Address, with Sara S. Hodson. “Jack London: L’Aventure et
L’Écriture” Exposition on Jack London’s Photography, Nevers, France, September 26, 2004.
“How to Attend an Academic Conference.” Lecture, UTSA Ph.D. Students Orientation, August 2004
“Mark Twain Versus God.” Lecture, UTSA English, Classics, and Philosophy Day, April 6, 2004.
“Answering the Call: Life After Centenary.” President’s Convocation Address, Centenary College,
Shreveport, Louisiana, August 26, 2003.
“Human Documents: The Photography of Jack London.” Meadows Museum of Art Lecture Series,
Shreveport, Louisiana, August 23, 2003.
“Racing Wilderness: The Call of the Wild as ‘Slave Narrative.’” Jack London Lecture Series, Sonoma
State University, Rohnert Park, California, July 2003.
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Invited Talks, con’t.
Interview of Jeanne Reesman by Caroline Crawford, Univ. of Calif. Oral History Project, Bancroft
Library, April 2001. Published in Shepard, Milo. The Jack London Story and the Beauty Ranch.
Introd. Earle Labor. Interviews Conducted by Caroline C. Crawford. Regional Oral History
Office, Bancroft Library. Berkeley: Regents of the University of California, 2001.
"The Sea-Wolf," National Book Foundation, San Antonio Public Library, November 2000.
Panelist, "Jack London: Sa vie, son oeuvre, son rayonnement." Festival Étonnants Voyageurs, SaintMalo, France, May 6-8, 2000.
"The Cruise of the Snark," Woman's Department Club, Shreveport, Louisiana, February 2000.
"Socialism and Racism in the Works of Jack London." Plenary Address, AIZEN Annual Conference,
San Francisco, October 1999.
"Diversity in Graduate Education." President’s Convocation Panel, University of Texas at San
Antonio, October 1999.
"Jack London's Northland Odyssey." Plenary Address, L’Association des amis de Jack London,
Nevers, France, March 1998.
Plenary Session Panelist, South Central Association of Departments of English, SCMLA Conference,
New Orleans, November 1998.
“Mark Twain and Jack London.” Magale Library, Centenary College of Louisiana, March 1998.
"Mark Twain and Jack London." Merrill Library, Utah State University, August 1998.
"Tramps Abroad: The Literary Careers of Mark Twain and Jack London," UTSA Lecture Series,
September 1997.
Panelist, President’s Symposium on "Women and Work." Centenary College of Louisiana, Mar. 1996.
Panelist, "Tennessee Williams as Film Writer," Tennessee Williams Symposium, UTSA, April 1993.
"'The Magnificence of the Failure': Faulkner's South." UTSA Lecture Series, September 1993.
"Moral Dilemmas of Modern Life: A View From Literature," Lecture/Performance, University
Honors Program Conference on Ethical Issues in Modern Life, UTSA, February 1990.
"Questioning the Hierarchies: Or, What is 'the Canon' and Why is Everyone Talking About It?"
University Honors Program Lecture, UTSA, October 1988.
"Story-telling in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" University of Hawaii Colloquium Series, March 1985.
"Reading and Writing in a Community of Knowledge." Writing in the Humanities Conference,
Philadelphia, June 1983.
Selected Sessions Chaired
Planning Committee, Jack London Park Partners and the Sibbett Group for 2016’s many events
commemorating his life and death in 1916 at Jack London State Historic Park, Glen Ellen, CA,
including exhibit re-design.
“Protest and Reform in the City.” American Literature Association Symposium on The City, New
Orleans, LA, September 10-12, 2015
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Poetry Reading by Enedina Casarez Vasquez and Wendy Barker, Moderator, Jeanne Reesman. American
Literature Association Symposium on The City, New Orleans, LA, September 10-12, 2015.
“True Louisiana (Nic Pizzalatto, George Washington Cable, and Andre Dubus) panel, chaired by Jeanne
Reesman. American Literature Association Symposium on The City, New Orleans, LA,
September 10-12, 2015
“American Naturalist Women Writers,” AIZEN Annual Conference, University of New Orleans, March
6-8, 2014.
"Jack London" Panel Chair/Organizer. American Literature Association, Cabo San Lucas, 1991; San
Diego, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998; Baltimore, 1995, 1997, 1999; Long Beach 2000, 2002;
Cambridge 2001, 2003; Boston 2005, 2007, 2009, 2013; San Francisco 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010;
Washington, DC 2014. Panel Chair/Organizer: Jack London Society Biennial Symposia, 1990present.
“Literary Darwinism.” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2006.
“The Ideas Behind the Mask.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 2005.
“Exploring Feminist Realism.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 2005.
“The Native American in Early American Literature.” American Literature Association Conference,
San Francisco, May 2004.
“Jack London.” AIZEN Conference, San Antonio, October 10-13, 2003.
“Reimagining Possibilities: Contemporary Native American Women Writers,” Society for the Study of
American Women Writers First International Conference, San Antonio, February 2001.
"Jack London's Life and Works." Popular Culture Association Conference, San Antonio, March 1997.
"Gender, Realism, and Region," Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century American Literature Division
Panel, Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December 1993.
Exhibits and Other Media:
Videotaped by Gerard Bustos for AIS 1203 (freshman course Academic Inquiry and Scholarship). Profile
of Faculty Research, 2015.
Filmed Interview with Ben Goldstein (The Jack London Project), Film: “Jack London: An American
Original,” Filmus, Inc., October 31, 2014, Berkeley, CA, New York, NY,
www.jacklondonproject.com
Filmed Interview with Steven Fischler (Jack London: Literary Voyager), Pacific Street Films, for PBS
American Masters Series. (Humanities Advisor for NEH Grant Submission, 2014), October 31,
2014, Berkeley. www.psfp.com
Interviewed by Tom Vitale for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” “Jack London Believed
'Function Of Man Is To Live, Not To Exist,’” October 14, 2013, 4:34 p.m.
Essay in catalogue/book with exhibit of World War I posters,“ The Winds and Words of
War: World War I Posters and Prints from the San Antonio Public Library Foundation. Curated by
Allison Hays Lane. On tour across the U.S. 2013 and closing in March 2014 at its original venue,
the San Antonio Public Library.
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Exhibits and Other Media:
Consultation with Eric Kantor, PBS, on choosing a Jack London film to show, December 2015.
Exhibits based upon Jack London, Photographer, co-authored by Reesman, Hodson, and Adam (U of
Georgia P 2010), a collection of 200 of the author’s photographs from his career as a
photojournalist and war correspondent, have been held at the San Diego Maritime Museum (The
Star of India) (January-December 2012), the Los Angeles Maritime Museum (February-June
2013), Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (July-December 2014), La Jolla Riford Library
(February-December 2015).
Filmed interview with A Million Productions of San Francisco, CA, for PBS documentary on Jack
London, July 5, 2006; October 10, 2008. Advisory Board and Interview Subject. Jack London:
Twentieth-Century Man. Feature-length documentary film produced by A Million Productions,
San Francisco, CA. http://www.jacklondonfilm.com.
“Jack London: L’Aventure et L’Ecriture.” November 1-30, 2006, Bibliothèque Municipale
Internationale, Grenoble, France. Exhibit of photos based on book-in-progress Jack London,
Photographer, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Sara S. Hodson, and Philip Adam. Sponsored by
L’Association des Amis de Jack London and Madame Angie Bryan, Consul des USA à Lyon.
Live Interview on The Cruise of the Snark. “The Lounge” with Dick Sutro, KTBS-Radio, San Diego,
July 19, 2004.
Interview with Jane Romyn, The Outdoor Channel, on “Jack London as a Sportsman.” April 5, 2004.
“Jack London: L’Aventure et L’Ecriture.” September 24-October 30, 2004, Palais Ducal, Nevers,
France. Exhibit of photos, rare books and periodicals, and film based on book-in-progress
Photography by Jack London, Jeanne Campbell Reesman and Sara S. Hodson. Sponsored by
L’Association des Amis de Jack London; Monsieur Didier Boulard, Sénateur-Maire de Nevers;
Lycée Alain Colas; Madame Angie Bryan, Consul des USA à Lyon.
Filmed Interview with Selina Lin for A & E Network television show, “Biography.” 2002.
"Jack London: images d'une vie, 1876-1916" (selection, captioning, and display of 70 photographs)
Étonnants Voyageurs 2000, St. Malo, France.
Interview on "California Writers" with Sally Placksin for the Modern Language Association radio
program "What's The Word," October 2000.
Taped interview with Sander Vanocur on The History Channel, New York, June 20, 1996, for
program "Movies in Time": commentary on the film Jack London (1943, United Artists).
Professional Board Memberships and Offices
Executive Board, American Literature Association
Advisory Board, Jack London Foundation
Executive Coordinator, Jack London Society
Editorial Board, Resources in American Literary Studies, eds., Jackson Bryer and Richard Kopley
Editorial Board, American Literary Realism, ed. Gary Scharnhorst
Editorial Board, American Literary Naturalism, ed. Eric Carl Link
Editorial Board, Studies in American Naturalism, ed. Keith Newlin and Stephen Brennan
Editorial Board, Series in American Literature, University of Alabama Pr., gen. ed., Gary Scharnhorst
Forester Prize Committee, American Literature Section, Modern Language Association, 2002
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Honors, Awards, Grants
Inducted as Charter Member, Provost’s UTSA Academy of Distinguished Researchers, April 28, 2015.
Jack and Laura Richmond Faculty Fellowship ($100,000 endowment), 2011-present
President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Creative Production, $1000, Spring 2012
Principal Investigator, Excelencia in Education Award—UTSA Ph.D. in English Program named
Finalist, September 2011 and October 2012
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, March 2010, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
($6,000)
$1000 grant from Jack London Foundation for Jack London, Photographer, July 2009.
$6800 grant from several private donors for Jack London, Photographer, August 2009.
$10,000 grant from California Historical Society for Jack London, Photographer, October 2008.
$10,000 grant from private donor for Jack London, Photographer, March 2008.
$10,000 grant from private donor for Jack London, Photographer, January 2008.
Participant in the National Endowment for the Arts Program “The Big Read” 2008-present
Fulbright Professorship, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2006-Jan. 2007 (€ 19,500)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Summers 2005-2006 ($24,000). NEH grant
featured by Caroline Kim-Brown, “Through the Lens of Jack London,” Humanities Magazine, 27.2
(March-April 2006).
UTSA Faculty Development Leaves, Fall 2014, Fall 2010, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2001, Spring 1997
Fletcher Jones Fellow, The Huntington Library, Summer 2002 ($2,000)
Faculty Research Awards, UTSA, 2002, 1989, 1987 ($15,000)
Ashbel Smith Endowed Chair, UTSA, 2001-2006 ($25,000)
National Endowment for the Humanities “Extending the Reach” Fellowship, Sept. 2001 ($24,000)
National Science Foundation, UTSA Student Research Conference, April 2001 ($11,600)
American Philosophical Society Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Summer 2001, ($2000)
Jeanne Campbell Reesman Freshman Teaching Award established in ECPC, Fall 1999
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, The Huntington Library, Summer 1999 ($2,000)
UTSA Office of Research Development Grant, UTSA, Summer 1999 ($1,500)
Dictionary of American Scholars, 1999-present
Honorary Member, Golden Key Honor Society, UTSA, 1997-present
Jack London “Woman of the Year,” the Jack London Foundation, Glen Ellen, California, 1995
President's Distinguished Service Award for Research, UTSA, 1992 ($1,000)
Robert A. Miller Award, College English Association, 1991
Sigma Tau Delta Award, Mabel Campbell Award, Centenary College, 1977
Editorships
Norton Anthology of American Literature. 5 Vols. Volume C, American Literature 1865-1914; Norton
Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition. 2 Vols. 7th edition-8th edition. General Editor,
Nina Baym.
Sea Letter Magazine, Celebrating Jack London Issue, Guest Editor. San Francisco Maritime National
Park and Association, No. 66 (Fall 2004).
American Literary Realism, Special Issue, Guest Editor. "A Symposium on Jack London,” 24,2 (Winter
1992).
The Call: Magazine of the Jack London Society. Editor, two issues per year 1990-2006.
Editorial Boards: American Literary Realism, 1865-1914, Resources in American Literary Studies, American
Literary Naturalism, Studies in American Naturalism, Journal of Research on Women and Gender, University of
Alabama Press Series in American Realism and Naturalism.
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Selected Courses Taught
Selected Undergraduate Courses:
Major American Writers I and II
American Literature to 1870
American Literature 1870-1945
American Literature, 1945-present
The American Novel
Introduction to Literature (non-majors)
Literary Criticism and Analysis (majors)
Literary Modes & Genres: Modern Fiction
Literary Modes & Genres: Naturalism
Studies in Individual Authors:
African-American Women Writers
Jack London
Twain and London
William Faulkner
Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty
Realism and Naturalism in American Literature
Women and Literature
Senior Seminars:
Hawthorne and James
James and Faulkner
William Faulkner
Twain and London
Jack London
American Women Writers
Realism and Naturalism
Mark Twain vs. God
Southern Literature
Frankenstein
The American New Woman & the Construction of Gender
Darwin and American Literature
Realism and Naturalism
Freshman Seminars: The Narrator, The Hero, The Novel, Short Fiction, The Southern Novel
Internship in English
Freshman Composition
Selected Graduate Courses Taught:
Intoduction to Graduate Studies (M.A.)
Twentieth-Century British and American Literature
Twentieth Century American Literature
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Topics in Literary Genres: The American Novel
Topics in Literary Genres: The Short Story
Topics in the Study of Literature: Feminism
Topics in American Literature: Naturalism
Seminar: Texts and Contexts: Literatures of the Postcolonial South Pacific
Seminar: Twain and London
Seminar: James and Faulkner
Seminar: Faulkner
Seminar: Jack London
Seminar: Mark Twain vs. God
Seminar: Frankenstein
Seminar: The Naturalist Novel
Seminar: Realism and Naturalism
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M. A. Examination and Thesis Committees, and Ph.D. Qualifying Examination, and Dissertation
Committees and Committee Chairs: University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Texas at
Austin, University of Kansas, University of Incarnate Word, SUNY Albany.
Dissertations:
2015, Chair, Debra Peña, “Interrupting the Silences in Twentieth Century Southern Women’s
Literature: Recovering and Re-Visioning the Life and Literary Work of Caroline Pafford Miller.”
2013, Chair, Melissa Marks, “German Colonialisms: German Hybrid Idenity and Formations Overseas.
2009, Chair, Jeff Turpin, “Some Implications of Evolutionary Psychology for Literary Studies.”
2014, Member, Andrew Hoag, “Translation as Collaboration: Jorge Luis Borges’s Unfaithful Relationship
with Literature from the United States.”
2013, Member, Lawrence Schwegler, “Spycy Shores Invite the Eyes: Towards a Multidisciplinary Visual
Theory of Food””
2009, Member, Terri Patuso. “Reading Silence Actively: Rceovering the Maternal Narrative in
Contemporary Women’s Novels”
Selected Service
Professional:
Evaluator for American Literature, Studies in the Novel, Papers in Language and Literature, Excavatio, Clio: A
Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, Biography, Journal of Research on Women and
Gender, The South Central Review, Mosaic, The Jack London Journal, American Literary Realism, Resources in
American Literary Studies, American Quarterly, Studies in American Naturalism, Western American Literature,
Trickster’s Way, Highlights for Children, True West, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press,
University of Georgia Press, Palgrave/Macmillan, University of Iowa Press, University of Oklahoma
Press, Ohio University Press, University of Tennessee Press, University of New Mexico Press,
University of North Carolina Press, University of South Carolina Press, University of Alabama Press,
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, University of Western Michigan, Gonzaga University, Virginia
Polytechnic University, University of Tennessee, Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Babson
College, Fellowships Division, Collaborative Research Division, Extending the Reach Program,
Routledge University Press, and Younger Scholars Program of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Administrative:
Ph.D. in English Program Graduate Adviser of Record
Began Spring 2011. Performs all duties of position including admission, advising, program-building,
degree-checking, and other normal activities of the graduate program. The roles and responsibilities of
the Graduate Advisor of Record (GAR) for the Ph.D. in English program, in accordance with the
University GAR Handbook, support the mission of the university and reflect standards for leadership of
graduate education as defined by the Council of Graduate Schools. The Council of Graduate Schools
states that coordinators of graduate programs are responsible for a number of activities, such as academic
advising of graduate students, admissions decisions, recommendations for allocations of fellowships and
assistantships, and the appointment of faculty members to graduate student committees. The GAR
communicates university-wide policies on graduate programs to the departmental faculty and
communicates department decisions and recommendations to the Graduate School, through the College
of Liberal and Fine Arts. In particular I instituted work that led to the awarding of two Excelencia in
Education Awards (2011 and 2012); increased recruiting efforts; led to teaching observations; and that
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began the annual reports submitted by doctoral students. The GAR is also in charge of several annual
assessment reports. Since I took over as GAR the program has graduated an average of 3-5 students per
year. We have instituted the position of Placement Officer. In 2012-13 we graduated six students and
admitted six. In fall 2014 we admitted five.
Director, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy, & Communication, 1994-98
As Division Director for four years in a Division with five disciplines, 70 faculty, and 600 majors, I made
significant new faculty hires especially for the proposed Ph.D. in English with emphasis in cross-cultural
studies, carried out promotions and reviews; managed the budget; engaged in strategic planning, program
development, and program review; instituted enrollment management and assessment procedures; did
course scheduling; produced numerous special events including theatre residencies and distinguished
professorships; worked in fundraising, including ten new scholarships and an endowment of $250,000 for
the Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities; I personally arranged for five
of the Brackenridge lecturers’ residence at UTSA. I was co-founder of the UTSA Friends of Shakespeare
and dramatically expanded donor support for the UTSA Reading Series. I led the development of two
new degree plans, the Ph.D. in English with emphasis in U.S. Latina/o Studies, and the B.A. in Classics. I
carried out new programs to enhance faculty resources for research and innovative teaching.
Interim Dean of Graduate Studies, 1998-2001
As Interim Dean of Graduate Studies at a then-emerging doctoral institution then with 34 Master’s
degrees and 3 doctorates, I worked at all levels, students, faculty, Provost, President, UT System Board
of Regents, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. I oversaw new program development
and approval, program review, recruiting, admissions, retention, Graduate Council, fellowship awards,
scholarship development, policy-making, catalog preparation, SACS accreditation, and other duties. In
1999-2000 I oversaw the implementation of the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, the M.S. in Justice
Policy, and the MBA Online. I also led the Colleges on the following degree proposals: the Ph.D. in
Culture, Literacy and Language (approved October 26, 2000, by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board); the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. in Business Administration
(Approved January 15, 2002, by the Coordinating Board); the Ph.D. in English Selected (approved April
18, 2002, by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board); the Ph.D. in Bioengineering; the Ph.D. in
Biology with Emphasis in Cellular and Molecular Biology; the Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and
Environmental Engineering (all approved in 2002), the Ph.D. in Music Psychology; and the M.A. in
Communication (approved Spring 2005). I chaired the committee that outlined a preliminary plan for the
Life Sciences Institute between UTSA and the UTHSC. I significantly increased recruiting, including
expanded fairs and visits; publications and mailings. I revised University guidelines on graduate student
employment to enhance student support and developed an unprecedented level of graduate incremental
tuition. I held two University-wide conferences on graduate studies, one the Graduate Student Research
Conference and Competition and one the Graduate Council's Colloquium on Doctoral Studies. I doubled
the OGS staff and increased the overall mission and responsibilities of the office.
Selected General Department, College, and University Service:
Freshman Orientation Faculty Academic Preview Lecturer, 2005-2016
Was invited and attended “We Are UTSA: A Top-Tier Campaign Donor Appreciation Gala” to
Represent COLFA, October 13, 2015, Tobin Center.
Chair, President’s Committee on Distinguished Achievement Awards in Creative or Other Scholarly
Achievement, 2013-2015
PPE Committee, Department of English, 2015-16
Led Table Presentation for Donors at COLFA Spring Social, The Verandah, April 2, 2015: “Mark Twain”
Sponsored visiting professor Dr. Xialin Ding, Nanjing Agricultural and Technical University, February
2014-May 2015
Member-at-Large, University Faculty Review Committee, 2012-14
Chair, Department Merit Review Committee, 2012-14
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Selected General Department, College, and University Service, con’t.
Faculty Sponsor, Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorships (week-long residencies with classes
and public lectures): Houston A. Baker, Jr., Vanderbilt University; Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard
University; John Fisher, University of Tennessee; Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University;
R. W. B. Lewis, Yale University; Donald Pizer, Tulane University; Linda Wagner-Martin,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Chair, Department of English Search Committee in American Literature, 2013-14
Department of English Search Committees in 18th-Century British Literature and in Medieval Studies,
2012-13
College of Business Faculty Review Advisory Committee, 2012-13
Graduate Council, 2012-2013
COLFA Research Committee, 2010-present
Department Faculty Merit Review Committee, 2010-present
COLFA representative, University Faculty Review Committee, 2008-2010
English Ph.D. Program Committee, 2004-present (Chair and GAR 2011-present)
Department of Communication Search Committees (2) Affirmative Action Advocate, 2008-2009
English Department Faculty Review Committee Chair, 2007-08
English Ph.D. Student Orientation, 2007- present
University Graduate Student Orientation, 2007-present
Assistant Graduate Advisor of Record, Ph.D. in English, 2005-07
B. A. in English Program Assessment Committee, 2005-07 (Chair 2005-06)
Graduate Council 2005-2006
UTSA Great Conversations Speaker, Honors Program, 2005-06
Doctoral Student Teaching Observation Committee, 2005-06
Department Ad Hoc Grants Writing Committee, 2004-05
Academic Preview Freshman Orientation, 2003Department Merit Review Advisory Committee, 2003-05
M.A. Graduate Program Committee, 1987-1994, 2002-04
College of Fine Arts and Humanities Periodic Performance Evaluation Committee, 2003-04
College Faculty Review and Advisory Committee, 2003-04
University Faculty Review and Advisory Committee, 2002-03
Department Periodic Performance Review Committee, 2002-03
Department Academic Planning & Curriculum Committee, 1987-89, 2002-03
President’s Administrative Planning Council, 1998-2001
Deans’ Council, 1998-2001
Provost’s Academic/Administrative Planning Council, 1998-2001
Ex-Officio member, Faculty Senate and Graduate Council, 1998-2001
Downtown Academic Advisory Committee, 1999-2000
Non-Faculty Salary Compression Task Force, 2000
State Employee Charitable Campaign/United Way Coordinator, Fall 1999
Ashbel Smith Endowed Professorship Selection Committee, 1998, 2002
Presidential Search Committee, University of Texas Board of Regents, 1998
Enrollment Management Task Force--Financial Aid, 1997-99
Search Committee for Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1997
Provost's Task Force on Faculty Development Leave Awards, 1995
Search Committee for Director of Development, 1995
Provost's Task Force on Merit Review, 1995
College of Fine Arts and Humanities Strategic Planning Committee, 1995-98
Provost's Committee on Faculty Workload Policy, 1995-96
Faculty Advisor, The University of Texas at San Antonio Rainbow NOW Chapter, 1993-94
Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta honorary English society, 1990-92
President's Strategic Planning Committee, 1990-91
Teaching Effectiveness and Development Committee, 1989-91
Steering Committee member, UTSA Friends of Shakespeare, 1988-91
Faculty Member, UTSA Honors Program for Young Scholars, Summer 1989
Director, Internship Program, Division of English, Classics and Philosophy, 1988-1993
Women's History Week Committee, 1987-89, 1991
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Education
Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania, August 1984
Thesis: "'Interest' and 'Design': Narrative Epistemology in the Late Novels of Henry James and
William Faulkner" (Director: Peter Conn)
M.A., English, Baylor University, August 1979
Thesis: "'The Present Time: Ourselves': Between the Acts as an Architectonic Novel"
(Director: Robert G. Collmer)
B.A., English, Centenary College of Louisiana, May 1977, magna cum laude
Professional Memberships
American Literature Association (Board)
Mark Twain Circle
Jack London Society (Advisory Board)
Stephen Crane Society
Jack London Foundation (Advisory Board) Jack London Park Partners and VMNHA
International Association of University
Professors of English
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