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October 18, 1998

Edward (Mike) Jayne
Department of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Born: March 7, 1934, in Stamford, CT

Education Ph.D., S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo 1970
M.A., U.C. at Berkeley 1962
B.A., U.C. at Berkeley 1957

Dissertation: Affective Criticism: Theories of Emotion and Synaesthesis in the Experience of Literature. DA 31:6612-13A (1970) S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo.

Dissertation committee: Lionel Abel (director), Leslie Fiedler, and Marcus Klein.

Teaching: Retired, 1999: Professor Emeritus at Western Michigan University.

Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Amerika-Institut of the University of Munich 1987-88
Professor, Western Michigan Univ. 1980-99
Professor Visitante, Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina in Brazil 1978-79
Visiting Asst. Prof., U. of Minnesota 1977-78
Exchange Prof. U. of Freiburg 1973-74
Asst. Prof., Univ. of Massachusetts 1970-77
Instructor, Humboldt State Univ. 1965-68
Instructor, Oakland City College 1963-65

plus one-semester terms at Colby, Westfield and Hayward State Colleges, and Modesto and San Mateo Community Colleges.

Publications:

"An Accidental Conspiracy: The Early History of Judicial Review from the Constitutional Convention to the 1789 Judiciary Act and Marbury v. Madison," in The American Constitution at the End of the Twentieth Century, ed. by Ralph Chandler and William Ritchie (New Issues Press: Kalamazoo, MI, 1996), pp. 159-251. [in web site]

"Metaphoric Hypersignification; Metonymic Designification." The Centennial Review (XXXVIII, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 9-32. [in web site]

NEGATIVE POETIC (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992), 331 pp.--hereafter cited as NP.

"Academic Jeremiad: The Neoconservative View of American Higher Education." Change 23, n. 3 (May/June, 1991). pp. 30- 41. [in web site]

"Psychostylistics: The Possibilities of a Behavioral Science." Style, 18, n. 1 (Winter, 1984), pp. 83-97. [in web site]

"Pray Tarry with Me Young Goodman Brown." Literature and Psychology 29 (1979), pp. 100-13. [rev. as chap. 6 in NP]

"The Dialectics of Paranoid Form," Genre, 11 (spring, 1978), pp. 131-51. [rev. as chap 5 in NP]

"Oliver Ellsworth: Architect of the Constitution," the Daughters of the American Revolution magazine (August-September, 1977), pp. 703-5. [in web site]

"Zero-Degree Form: The Anti-Dialectics of Roland Barthes." The Minnesota Review (fall, 1977), pp. 51-70. Updated and repr. in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 24 (1983), pp. 39-42. [rev. and expanded as chap. 8 in NP]

"From I.A. Richards to Northrop Frye: A Brief Dialectic History of Anglo-American New Criticism." Amerika-Studium Amst 10\1 (1975), pp. 281-305.

"Me, Steinbeck, and Rose of Sharon's Baby." Amerika-Studium 37, n. 1 (1975), pp. 281-305.

"Defense of the Homophobic Imagination." College English, 37, n. 1 (Sept., 1975), pp. 61-67. [included in web site]

"Up against the "Mending Wall" The Psychoanalysis of a Poem by Frost." College English, 34, n. 7 (April, 1973), pp. 934-51. [rev. as chap. 4 in NP]

My Current Project: A comprehensive history of freethought since ancient Greece.