Brian
D. Walter
E-mail: bdwalter@artsci.wustl.edu
English Department, Box 1122Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130 (314) 935-5190 |
6016 Washington Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63112-1410
(314) 725-6678 |
Lecturer, English & Film and Media Studies, Washington University, 1998-present
Assistant Professor of English, University of the Ozarks, 1996-98
Teaching Assistant, English Department, Washington University, 1990-5
Ph. D., English and American Literature, Washington
University, 1995
M. A., English and American Literature, Washington
University, 1989
B. A., English, Reed
College, Portland, Oregon, 1988
Dial Grant for Professional Development, University of the Ozarks, Spring 1998
Bagwell Outstanding Teacher Award, University of the Ozarks, 1997
Dial Grant for Professional Development, University of the Ozarks, Spring 1997
Dial Grant for Professional Development, University of the Ozarks, Fall 1996
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Boston University, 1996 (declined)
Postdoctoral Research Associateship, English Dept., Washington University, 1995-6
Hurst Assistantship, English Department, Washington University, 1991
“Life like a String.” Translation of story by Shi Tiesheng. With Manling Luo. (In preparation.)
“Ride and Tie: The Transformations of Ekaterina.” (In preparation.)
“Childhood’s End: War and Innocence in Harington’s When Angels Rest.” Southern Quarterly, Vol. XL, no. 2 (Spring 2002). 51-65.
“Two Organ-Grinders: Duality and Discontent in Bend Sinister.” Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov’s Prose, vol. 7 of Studies in Russian and European Literature, eds. Peter Barta, David Shepherd, and David H. J. Larmour. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. 24-40.
“’A Forgotten Poet’: Nabokov’s Dostoyevskian Row.” In Torpid Smoke: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, ed. Kellman, Steven G. and Irving Malin. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2000. 203-17.
“The Whale and the Nymphet.” Boulevard, Vol. 15, nos. 1 & 2 (Fall 1999). 11-38. Excerpt.
“The Tao of Beavis and Butthead.” Popular Culture Review, Volume 10, no. 1 (February 1999). 167-75.
“Innocents at Home.” Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. September 27, 1998. 1J, 8J.
“[The Library of America’s Nabokov]” (review-essay). American Studies International, June 1997. 92-5.
“Many a Pleasant Tussle: Edmund Wilson and the Nabokovian Aesthetic.” Nabokov Studies, vol. 3 (1996). 77-87.
“The Lolita Riddle.” The Nabokovian‚ no. 36 (Spring 1996). 26-8.
“Romantic Parody and the Ironic Muse in Lolita.” Essays in Literature, vol. 22, no. 1 (Spring 1995). 123-43.
Donald Harington, Thirteen Albatrosses, or Falling off the Mountain (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 14, 2002)
Harold Bloom, How to Read and Why (August 20, 2000)
James Wood, The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief (September 5, 1999)
Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist
and His Quest for the Origins
of Behavior (August 15, 1999)
Horton Foote, Farewell (June 27, 1999)
Milan Kundera‚ Identity (June 28, 1998)
Stephen J. Gould, Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist’s Guide to a Perfectly Arbitrary Countdown (December 7, 1997)
Andrew Delbanco‚ Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now (October 26, 1997)
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
(audiobook version) (August 10, 1997)
Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain
(July 20, 1997)
Charles Baxter, Believers and Burning
Down the House (May 4, 1997)
Erica Kates (editor), On the Couch: Great
Stories about Therapy (March 9, 1997)
James Cowan, A Mapmaker’s Dream
(January 1997)
Stephen J. Gould, Full House
(November 1996)
William F. Gass, Finding a Form (October 1996)
“Ancient Stones.” (Under consideration for Vestal
Review.)
“Hannibal vs. Humbert.” (Under consideration for Conjunctions.)
“A Visit to the Museum.” (Under consideration for Southern Quarterly.)
“In
Memoriam: Lawrence J. Ross.” Eliot
Review, Vol. XIV, no. 1 (Fall
1998). 56-60.
“The Camera Eye in Nabokov’s Pnin.”
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference,
November 2000.
“The Hand that Sets off the Ring: Manual Imagery and the Irony of Civilization in Wharton’s Age of Innocence,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, February 1998.
“At Play in the Primordial Cave: Childhood and Artistic Identity in Speak, Memory,” American Literature Association Convention, May 1997.
“The Rapture of Endless Approximation: Nabokov and the Figure of the Scholar,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 1996.
“Don’t Drink the Water.” Chapel Series, University of the Ozarks, November 1996.
“The Whale and the Nymphet: Anatomy and Narrative Strategy in Moby-Dick and Lolita,” Colloquium Series, Washington University, April 1996.
“Many a Pleasant Tussle: Edmund Wilson and the Nabokovian Aesthetic,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 1995.
“Sweetening the Ordeal: Nabokov’s Discontent in Bend Sinister‚” symposium on “Discourse and Ideology in Nabokov’s Prose,” Texas Tech University, April 1995.
“A Robust but Pliant Philistine: John Ray as Lolita’s Ironic Muse,” Modern Language Association Convention, December 1994.
“Exasperating Learned Readers: Humbert Humbert and the “So-Called ‘Sex’” of the Enchanted Hunters Episode,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, February 1994.
Panelist, “Stay More and Stay Morons: Donald Harington’s Comic Novels of the Arkansas Ozarks,” Society for the Study of Southern Literature, April 2000.
Chair, “Crime, Explanation, and Punishment,” session at American Literature Association Convention, April 1997.
Organizer, “Nabokov and Childhood,” session at American Literature Association Convention, April 1997.
Chair, “Nabokov’s Non-Fiction,” session at Modern Language Association Convention, December 1995.
Raising
the Red Lantern: China’s Fifth Generation Film Directors
Children’s Literature on Film
History of American Cinema
Introduction to Film Studies (Discussion Group
Leader)
Chief English Writers I
(Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton)
Chief American Writers (Irving, Hawthorne,
Douglass, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Frost, Cather, Salinger, and Morrison)
Masterpieces of European Literature II
(Cervantes, Moliere, Rousseau, Pushkin, Flaubert, Dinesen, Rilke, Calvino, and
Woolf)
Practical Criticism
(including Chekhov‚ Wharton, Coleridge‚ Swenson, and Richards)
Between the Lines: The Personality of Fiction (Laclos, Poe, Dostoevsky, Conrad, James, Wharton, Ford, Boyle, Nabokov, Banville, and Woolf)
Topics in 20th-Century American Literature (Frost, Bishop, Cather, Wharton, Faulkner, Nabokov, and Morrison)
The American
Novel (Hawthorne, Melville, James, Twain, Cather, Wharton, Faulkner, Nabokov,
Harington, and Morrison)
Introduction to Literature (Literature and Shuttlecock)
Survey of
American Literature since the Civil War (including Dickinson, James, Cather,
Wharton, Frost, Stevens, Anderson, Hemingway‚ Faulkner)
Survey of American Literature before the Civil War (including Winthrop, Rowlandson, Mather, Edwards, Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman)
Major American Writers
(including Hawthorne‚ Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, Stein, Eliot, Fitzgerald‚
Faulkner‚ and Morrison)
Introduction to Reading and Writing about Literature
(including Frankenstein and Wuthering
Heights)
Interdisciplinary Freshman
Composition (Title: “Childhood, Adolescence, and Society”) (including More, Aries‚ and Freud)
Advanced
Composition (The Language of Argument and
Speak, Memory)
Composition I and Composition II
English Composition, INROADS St. Louis
Advanced Freshman Composition (including Gould, Sacks, Kuhn, Wylie, Nabokov, Welty, Pritchett, Trimble, and Morrison)
Freshman
Composition (including Twain, Welty, O’Connor‚ Leopold, and Baker)
Spanish: good reading, speaking, and writing
ability
French: reading knowledge
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Wayne Fields, Lynne Cooper Harvey Distinguished Chair in English and Director of American Culture Studies, Washington University, (314) 935-5216
William Paul, Professor, Film and Media Studies, Washington University, (314) 935-8485
D. Barton Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Literature and Languages‚ University of California at Santa Barbara
Caroline Whitson, President, Columbia College
William F. Gass, David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, Washington University
Robert Milder, Professor of English, Washington University, (314) 935-4430
Stuart Stelzer, Director‚ Robson Library, University of the Ozarks, (501) 979-1381
Richard Ruland, Professor of English, Washington University, (314) 935-4408
Eric Pankey, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University, (703) 426-2985
Doreen Salli, Director, The Writing Center, Washington University, (314) 935-9817