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Phillip
Marcus Professor
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Department of English
Florida International University
University Park -- DM 469A
Miami, Florida 33199
Curriculum Vitae:
Phillip L. MaRCUS
Education: B.A., University of Kansas City, 1963
M.A., Harvard, 1964
Ph.D., Harvard, January, 1968
Grants and Awards: Woodrow Wilson, 1963-64
Harvard Graduate School, 1964-65
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation, 1966-67
Clark Fund, 1968
Cornell Faculty, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978
ACLS Grant-in-Aid, 1971
Department of English, 1972,
1973, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982,
1983, 1984, 1985
ACLS Fellowship, 1974-75
American Philosophical Society Grant, 1975, 1980
Kellogg Foundation (Agriculture and Liberal Arts), 1986
NEH grants totaling $312,000 (principal investigator
Stephen Parrish), 1990-1998 [I drew no funds from these grants]
Grant of $420,000 from the Atlantic Philanthropies
Foundation, for the Cornell Yeats (principal investigator
Stephen Parrish), 1999-2002 [I drew no funds from this grant]
FIU Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004
Areas of specialization: Modern Literature; American Literature; Victorian
Literature; Composition; Irish Literature and Culture;
Psychological Approaches to Literature
Teaching experience: Teaching Assistant, Harvard University, summer, 1967
Assistant Professor of English, Cornell University, 1967-72
Associate Professor of English, Cornell University, 1972-78
Professor of English, Cornell University, 1978-95
Current position: Professor of English, Florida International
University and Professor Emeritus of English, Cornell University
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970; 2nd printing, 1979; 2nd ed., with a new introductory chapter, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987. Chapter IV, pp. 223-75, reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, ed. Laurie DiMauro (Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992); Chapter V, pp. 276-283, reprinted in Modern Irish Drama, Norton Critical Edition, ed. John Harrington (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991).
Standish O'Grady, Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1970.
The Secret Rose, Stories by W. B. Yeats: A Variorum Edition, ed. with Warwick Gould and Michael Sidnell, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. 2nd ed., London: Macmillan, 1991.
The Death of Cuchulain: Manuscript Materials, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration, ed. with Peter Balbert, Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1985; 2nd printing, 1986.
Yeats and Artistic Power, London: Macmillan; NY, New York University Press, 1992. 2nd ed., with a new introductory chapter, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001.
Essays, Chapters in Books, Notes
"Addendum on Joyce and O'Casey," JJQ, 3 (1965), 62-63.
"Atherton and Glasheen--Corrections and Additions," Wake Newslitter 2 (1965), 15-16.
"The Wake and Piers Plowman," WN 3 (1966), 36-37.
"A Possible Anachronism in 'Scylla and Charybdis,'" JJQ 3 (1966), 294-295.
"Theme and Suspense in the Plot of Great Expectations," DS 2 (1966), 57-73.
"In Defense of Mr. Deasy," JJQ 4 (1966), 49.
"Conchubar Mac Nessa and Finnegans Wake," WN 4 (1967), 36-37.
"Possible Sources of Yeats's 'Dhoya,'" NQ, October, 1967, 383-384.
"Irish Warriors Once Again," WN 4 (1967), 101-102.
"T.S. Eliot and Shakespeare," Criticism 9 (1967), 63-79.
"George Moore's Dublin 'Epiphanies' and Joyce," JJQ 5 (1968), 157-161.
"Three Irish Allusions in Ulysses," JJQ 6 (1969), 299-305.
"Old Irish Myth and Modern Irish Literature," Irish University Review 1 (1970), 67-85.
"Myth and Meaning in The Death of Cuchulain," Irish University Review 2 (1972), 133-148.
"Notes on Irish Elements in 'Scylla and Charybdis,'" JJQ 10 (1973), 312-320.
"Yeats and the Image of the Severed Head," Eire-Ireland 9 (1974), 86-93.
"Yeats Manuscripts in the Olin Library, Cornell University," in Yeats and the Theatre (Toronto: Macmillan, 1975), pp. 282-284.
"'I make the truth': Vision and Revision in Yeats's The Death of Cuchulain," CLQ 12 (1976), 57-64.
"'Remembered tragedies': The Evolution of the Lyric in Yeats's The Death of Cuchulain," Irish University Review 6 (1976), 190-202.
"The Celtic Revival," in The Irish World, ed. Brian de Breffny (London: Thames and Hudson, 1977), 213-226; rpt. N.Y.: Harrison House and Harry N. Abrams, 1986.
"'I declare my faith': Eliot's Gerontion and Yeats's 'The Tower,'" PLL 14 (1978), 74-82.
"Artificers of the Great Moment: An Essay on Yeats and National Literature," CLQ 15 (1979), 71-92.
"Incarnation in Middle Yeats," in Yeats Annual, no. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1982), pp. 68-81.
"Literature from 1820 to 1920," and individual entries on Joyce, Synge, Lady Gregory, Carleton, Lover, Lever, Boucicault, George Moore, Stephens, Martyn, Somerville and Ross, Robinson, Fitzmaurice, Colum, Dunsany, O'Grady, Shaw, Wilde, and Yeats, in Ireland: A Cultural Encyclopaedia, ed. Brian de Breffny (London: Thames and Hudson, 1983).
"Yeats's 'Last Poems': A Reconsideration," Yeats Annual, no. 5 (London: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 1-14.
"Yeats in his Letters," Yeats Annual, no. 6 (London: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 1-14; to be reprinted in W. B. Yeats: Critical Assessments, ed. David Pierce (East Sussex: Helm Information Ltd., 1999), pp. 593-602.
"The Authors Were in Eternity--or Oxford: George Yeats, George Harper, and the Making of A Vision," Yeats: An Annual, vol. 6 (Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1988), pp. 249-57.
"'A healed whole man': Frazer and Lawrence," Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination, ed. Robert Fraser (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 232-52.
“‘I used to Pray to recover you’: Yeats and Sylvia Plath,” CQ, 34 (1998), 315-327.
“(Re)constructing ‘Lost’ Manuscript Versions of Yeats’s Poems—Exploring the Limits,” in John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from His Library, ed. Janis Londraville (W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001), 395-415.
“W. B. Yeats, J. B. Yeats, and ‘Art without Imitation,’” in Prodigal Father Revisited, ed. Janis Londraville (W. Cornwall, Ct.: Locust Hill Press, 2003), 101-114.
“The Unquiet Ghost: The New Mythologies and the Editing of Yeats’s Texts in the Twenty—First century,” Yeats Annual No. 17 (2006), pp. 369-82.
“W. B. Yeats and the Creative process: The Example of ‘Her Triumph,’ forthcoming in Yeats Annual No. 19 (2008).
“Yeats and Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry,” forthcoming in W. B. Yeats in Context, ed. Ben Levitas and David Holdeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Plus miscellaneous reviews, encyclopedia articles, etc.
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The Cornell Yeats Series, of which I am Co-General Editor, is an ongoing series of volumes devoted to publication of the manuscripts of W. B. Yeats. It has been called “one of the most important scholarly projects of our time” by A. Walton Litz, Princeton University. Twenty-seven volumes have appeared so far:
The Early Poetry, Volume I, ed. George Bornstein
The Early Poetry, Volume II, ed. George Bornstein
The Countess Cathleen, ed. Michael J. Sidnell and Wayne K. Chapman
The Land of Heart’s Desire, ed. Jared Curtis
The Wind Among the Reeds, ed. Carolyn Holdsworth
The Hour-Glass, ed. Catherine Philips
In the Seven Woods / The Green Helmet, ed. David Holdeman
Responsibilities, ed. William H. O’Donnell
The Wild Swans at Coole, ed. Stephen Parrish
The Dreaming of the Bones & Calvary, ed. Wayne Chapman
Michael Robartes and the Dancer, ed. Thomas Parkinson
The Winding Stair (1929), ed. David R. Clark
Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems, ed. David R. Clark
The Words upon the Window Pane, ed. Mary Fitzgerald
Parnell’s Funeral, ed. David Clark
The Herne's Egg, ed. Alison Armstrong
Purgatory, ed. Sandra F. Siegel
The Death of Cuchulain, ed. Phillip L. Marcus
New Poems, ed. J. C. C. Mays and Stephen Parrish
Last Poems, ed. James Pethica
Deirdre, ed. Virginia Bartholome Rowan
The King’s Threshold, ed. Declan Kiely
Diarmuid and Grania, ed. J. C. C. Mays
Cathleen ni Houlihan & The Pot of Broth, ed. James Pethica
The Only Jealousy of Emer, ed. Steven Winnett
The Tower, ed. Richard Finneran
The King of the Great Clock Tower & A Full Moon in March, ed. Richard Cave
In addition to these titles, the Series will eventually include approximately
four more volumes.
The Series has been generously supported by the Hull Fund, Cornell University, and by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities ($312,000) and the Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation ($420,000).
Service
Service at Cornell: Director of Graduate Studies, 1971-74
Epoch staff, 1967-68, 1968-69
Summer school, 1969, 1970,
1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977,
1978, 1979, 1980, 1981,
1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987,
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991,
1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998
Wintersession, 1989, 1990, 1991
New York State Electric
and Gas Corporation Report
Writing Seminar, 1969, 1970, 1977, 1979, 1980
Arts College Admissions
Committee, 1969, 1970, 1971,
1972, 1973, 1974
Arts College Admissions Policy Committee, 1970-72
Arts College Admissions staff, summer, 1969, 1970
Placement Officer, 1971-72, 1972-73
General Committee of the Graduate School, 1976-79
Anderson Chair Search Committee, Chairman, 1976-77
Presidential Search Committee, 1976-77
Fulbright Selection Committee, 1976-77
Acting Director, Summer
Writing Program, 1982, 1985;
Director, 1985-86,
1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90,
1990-91
Summer Chairman, English Department, 1982, 1983
Varsity Lacrosse Team, faculty advisor, 1985-95
Faculty Fellow, 1985-86
Faculty Advisory Committee on
Athletics and Physical
Education, 1987-91
Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Law Club, 1990
Service at FIU: Director of M. A. in Literature Program, 1997—1999
Ph.D. Committee, 1999-present
Graduate Committee, 1999-present
Personnel Committee, 2000-2003
Salary Committee, 2003-present
African-American Search Committee, 2002-2003
Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004
Other professional activities:
"Finnegans
Wake: the Fenian Material in Perspective," a paper presented to the
American Committee Irish for Studies at MLA, December, 1968
"'I declare my faith': Eliot's Gerontion and 'The Tower,'" a paper presented at MLA, December, 1976
"Editing Yeats," ACIS, Syracuse, NY, April, 1989 Faculty of the School of Irish Studies, Dublin, summer, 1971
Reader for Cornell, Bucknell, Ohio State, Syracuse,
Harvard, and Princeton University Press
General Editorial Committee, Yeats Editorial Board, and
Co-General Editor of the Cornell Yeats Series, 1978-present
Advisory Board, Yeats: An Annual, 1983-85
Advisory Board, Yeats Annual, 1985-present
Dave Friedlieb Award ("given to
the fan or friend of
Cornell lacrosse who most exemplifies the spirit,
enthusiasm, interest and concern for the well-being of the student-athlete"),
1987
Seminar in Professional Writing for the Family Life
Development Center, Cornell University, 1992
Instructor, St. Leo College, Key West Naval Air Station, 1992-95
Board of Directors, Key West Literary Seminar, 1993-95
Seminar on "Key West Writers" for the Smithsonian
Institution, Key West, Florida, 1993, 1994, 1995
Director, Writers' Workshop, Key West Literary Seminar,
January, 1994 (topic: "Biography and Autobiography")
Moderator, "Designed
Women: Queens, Captives, Sisters,"
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Miami Beach, Florida, April, 1996
Phillip L. Marcus
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