 Professor of EnglishOffice: TB1 Room 205 Telephone: 303-492-5387 E-mail: paul.levitt@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Modern drama and fiction; creative writing (fiction, drama); composition; pedagogy
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1966
M.A. (English), University of California at Los Angeles, 1962
M.A. (History), University of Colorado, 1961
B.A., University of Colorado, 1957
Publications
Books
Come with Me to Babylon (novel). University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming
The Saint Makers (novel). CCC Poetry, forthcoming
Dreams Bigger Than the Night (novel). Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming
Raven Finds the Daylight (children's book). Barbed Wire Publishing, forthcoming
Bogus U. Barbed Wire Publishing, 2006 (novel)
Dark Matters. Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2004 (novel)
Ed. and intro., Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2002
Chin Music: A Novel of the Jazz Age. Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 2001
Ed. and intro., Joe Frisco: Comic, Jazz Dancer, and Railbird, by Ed Lowry with Charlie Foy. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1999
With Elissa S. Guralnick, How Raven Found the Daylight and Other American Indian Stories. Univ. Press of Colorado, 2000 (children's book)
With Elissa S. Guralnick, The Stolen Appaloosa and Other Indian Stories. Bookmakers Guild, 1988 (children's book)
With Elissa S. Guralnick and Douglas A. Burger, The Weighty Word Book. Bookmakers Guild, 1985. Rpt. Manuscripts Ltd., 1990. Rev. ed. The Court Wayne Press, 2000 (children's book)
With Elissa S. Guralnick, You Can Make It Back: Coping with Serious Illness. Facts on File, 1985
With Elissa S. Guralnick, 39 Forever; Living Long and Well. Bookmakers Guild, 1985
With Elissa S. Guralnick, The Cancer Reference Book: Direct and Clear Answers to Everyone's Questions. Paddington Press, 1979. Rpt. Delta Books, 1980. Rev. ed. Facts on File, 1983. Rev. ed. Harper and Row, 1984
With Elissa S. Guralnick, The ABC's of Farm Estate Planning. Doane-Western, 1981. 2nd ed. 1982
J.M. Synge: A Bibliography of Published Criticism. Irish Univ. Press, 1974
A Structural Approach to the Analysis of Drama. Mouton, 1971
Essays
“Justice and Salvation in Major Barbara.” The Shavian, forthcoming
“The University as a House of Argument.” Vocabulary Review 8:11 (November, 2006)
With Catherine Kunce, “The Structure of Gatsby: A Vaudeville Show, Featuring Buffalo Bill and a Cast of Dozens.” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 4 (2005): 101-128
"Arms and the Man." The Shavian IX:8 (Winter 2005): 25-26
Ed. and intro., "Dear Audience: The Autobiography of Ed Lowry." Gateway-Heritage 21, 2 (Fall 2000): 4-17
"Well-nigh Wesker." Arnold Wesker: A Casebook. Garland Publishing, 1998, 97-108
"'A' Is for Everyone." Network News & Views 11, 2 (February 1992): 107-08
"Peer Perspectives II: The Professor-Student's View." The Physics Teacher 28, 7 (October 1990): 457-58
"Why Are Students Unprepared for College? That's the Way Our Society Wants Them To Be." The Chronicle of Higher Education 34, 34 (May 4, 1988): B3
With A. Robert Kagan, "Cancer Management Controversy: Honesty Is the Best Policy." American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials 7 (1984): 381-83
"Dick Hugo: Winging Drops and Rises." Rolling Stock 5 (1983): 10
With Bella Metz, "Diaspora." Frontiers 3 (Spring 1978): 68-80
With Allan Franklin, "Information, Entropy, and Death." Colorado Quarterly 26 (Winter 1978): 101-6
With Elissa S. Guralnick, "Allusion and Meaning in A Woman of No Importance." Eire-Ireland 13 (Winter 1978): 45-51
With Elissa S. Guralnick, "Improving Student Writing: A Case History." College English 38 (1977): 506-11
"The Trials of H. Bruce Franklin." Change 9, 8 (August 1977): 21-24
With Elissa S. Guralnick, "Chemist in the Courtroom." The National Journal of Criminal Defense 3 (Fall 1977): 235-75
"Borges in Boulder." Colorado Quarterly 24, 2 (Autumn 1976):135-37
With Allan Franklin, "Borges and Entropy." Review: A Publication of the Center for Inter-American Relations 14 (Spring 1975): 54-56
"Ghelderode and Puppet Theatre." The French Review 48, 6 (May 1975): 973-80
"Hostages to History: Title as Dramatic Metaphor in 'The Hostage'." Die Neureren Sprachen n.s. 5 (1975): 401-6
"Act the Second: The Norwich Incident." The Ohio Review 17, 1 (Fall 1975): 25-40
"The Two-Act Structure of The Playboy of the Western World." The Colby Quarterly 11, 4 (December 1975): 230-34
"Crashaw's 'The Weeper'." The Explicator 32, 7 (March 1974): 56
"An Approach to Bridging Classical and Modern Drama." Journal of English Teaching Techniques 6, 2 (Summer 1973): 16-20
"An Analogue for Faulkner's A Rose for Emily." Papers on Language and Literature 9, 1 (Winter 1973): 91-94
"The Structural Craftsmanship of J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea." Eire-Ireland 4, 1 (Spring 1969): 53-61. Rpt. in John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea. Ed. David R. Clark. Charles E. Merrill, 1970
With Kenneth G. Johnston, "Herbert's 'The Collar': A Nautical Metaphor." Studies in Philology 66, 2 (April 1969): 217-24
With Kenneth G. Johnston, "Herbert's 'The Collar' and the Story of Job." Papers on Language and Literature 4, 3 (Summer 1968): 329-30
"The Well-Made Problem Play: A Selective Bibliography." English Literature in Transition (1968): 190-94
Plays produced
Hocus Pocus: Houdini's Final Act. University of Colorado, Fall 1998
The Anatomy of Love or The Love of Anatomy. University of Colorado, Spring 1997
Rehearsing Violetta. BBC Radio, London, April 13, 1994 and August 19, 1995
The Mistress of Two Masters. University of Colorado, March 1994
Le Brouillon. Radio Erie, Dublin, May 15, 1990
The Rough Draft. BBC Radio, London, October 24, 1989
Ollie's Odyssey. BBC Radio, London, March 1, 1989
The Witch of Beacon Hill: A Play about Harry Houdini and Margery the Medium. BBC Radio, London, September 30 and October 2, 1989
Prisoners: A Play about Elizabeth Fry. BBC Radio, London, February 23 and 28 February, 1987, February 27, 1988.Stage version, University of Colorado, Centennial play, April 1993
In the Days of My Father. Temple University, Fall 1975; BBC Radio, London, January 23 and 25, 1982
A Life in the Day of Salvatore Ciascuno. University of Colorado (reading production), Spring 1975
In the Aviary of My Heart. The Changing Scene, Denver, June 1974; University of Colorado, Spring 1974
The Trial of Benedict Spinoza, Melville Scholar. Denver (reading production), Fall 1974
The Elementary Town. University of Massachusetts, Spring 1972; University of Colorado, Spring 1973
The Norwich Incident. University of Colorado, Fall 1971; BBC Radio, London, August 4 and 10, 1980
Selected honors and awards
Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work, 2007
Thomas Jefferson Award for contributions to the profession and service to the university, CU Boulder,1987
Grants for Summer Institute for high school teachers in Writing about Literature: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987,1989, 1990; Mellon Foundation, 1986, 1987;
Grants to establish a pilot program in Practical Discourse within the University Writing Program: Exxon Foundation, 1986; Ford Foundation, 1987
Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1969, 1976-77
Teacher Recognition Award, 1967
Named by Alpha Lambda Delta as one of the twenty outstanding teachers at CU, 1966
Current projects
Six novels and two children's books
Ed., My Life in Vaudeville, by Ed Lowry
"Fathers and Sons in The Playboy of the Western World" (article)
"Mario and the Magician: Who is Signora Angiolieri?" (article)
“Lucy Mancini: The New Woman” (article)
An article on the meaning of the ending of Ionesco's Rhinoceros
An article on perverted Christianity in Durrenmatt's The Visit
An article on the women's movement and modern drama