Kent State University - Institute for Bibliography and Editing

Paul L. Gaston

Provost, Kent State University
P.O. Box 5190, Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
Phone 330.672.2220
Internet pgaston@kent.edu

EDUCATION

POSITIONS

1999- Provost and Professor of English Kent State University

1993-1999 Provost and Executive Vice President and Professor of English Northern Kentucky University

1988-93 Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of English The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

1983-88 Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Professor of English Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

1981-88 Professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
1975-81 Associate Professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
1970-75 Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
1969-70 Instructor in English, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

1965 News Editor, Hammond (La.) Daily Star
1963-64 Reporter, Photographer, Hammond (La.) Daily Star
1961-63 Legal Assistant, Passman & Jones (Dallas)
1961 Copy Writer, Dallas Morning News

CURRENT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL APPOINTMENTS

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND INSTITUTES

1993 Institute for Leadership Effectiveness in Higher Education
1991 Tennessee Executive Development Program
1986 Symposium on the Freshman Experience
1982 Summer Research Award, Southern Illinois University
1979-80 Research Scholar Award, Southern Illinois University
1979 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Yale University
1977-78 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship-in-Residence, Boston University
1975 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Princeton University
1973 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
1968-69 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (University of Virginia)
1968 English-Speaking Union Scholarship for Summer Study (Oxford University)
1967-68 DuPont Fellowship (University of Virginia)
1966-67 Woodrow Wilson/University of Virginia Fellowship
1965-66 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (University of Virginia)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND APPOINTMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Higher Education: Changing Our Fictions, Assessment and Accountability Forum, 9.4 (Winter 1999), 14-15, 22.

The Dean as Odysseus: Sailing the Academic Seas in an Age of Accountability. Humanities in the South, 78 (Summer 1994), 1-3.

Measuring the Marigolds: Literary Studies and the Opportunity of Outcomes Assessment. The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 24.2 (Fall 1991), 11-20.

"Putting Yourself in Your Place, or, The Decline of Local Beers, Metropolitan Newspapers, and Passenger Trains, and the Resurgence of Minor League Baseball," in Cooperstown 1989: A Symposium on Baseball and the American Culture. Ed. Alvin Hall. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991. Pp. 153-164.

"'Steps to the Temple': The Excluded Poems [of George Herbert]." In Like Season'd Timber: New Essays on George Herbert. Ed. Edmund Miller and Robert DiYanni. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1988.

"Text and Textbook: The Bible as Literature." Papers on Language and Literature, 23.1 (Winter 1987), 104-111.

"The Egoist." In British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age. Ed. Alvin Sullivan. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. 143-146.

"Britten's Donne and the Promise of Twentieth-Century Settings." In The Eagle and the Dove: Reassessing John Donne. Ed. Claude Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, pp. 201-213.

"Spenser's Order, Spenser's Ireland: Competing Fantasies." In Forms of the Fantastic. Ed. Jan Hokenson and Howard Pearce. New York:Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 121-127.

"'This Question of Discipline': An Interview with Anthony Powell." The Virginia Quarterly Review, 61.4 (Autumn 1985), 638-654.

"'The Heart of the Matter': Managerial Considerations in the Redefinition of a Summer Session." Proceedings [The Twenty-First Annual Conference of the North American Association of Summer Sessions], 21 (1985), 68-73.

"Liquid Marble" [Ben Jonson's Poetry of Praise]. Papers on Language and Literature, 18.4 (Winter 1982), 454-458.

A Concordance to The Arrow of Gold, by Joseph Conrad. With Todd Bender. New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1981.

"Marvell's Tercentenary." Papers on Language and Literature, 15.3 (Summer 1979), 333-335.

W. D. Snodgrass. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

"W. D. Snodgrass and The Fhrer Bunker: An Interview." Papers on Language and Literature, 13.3, 4 (Summer, Fall 1977), 295-311, 401-412. [In two parts.]

"Comparing Comparisons: An Approach to the Study of Interart Analogies." Centerpoint, (Fall 1976), pp. 33-38

Review of The Message in the Bottle, by Walker Percy. Journal of Modern Literature, 5.4 (1977), 611-613.

"The Gospel of Work According to Joseph Conrad." The Polish Review, 20.2-3 (1975), 203-210. Rpt. Joseph Conrad: Commemorative Essays, ed. Adam Gillon and Ludwig Krzyzanowski (New York: Astra Books, 1975), pp. 202-209.

Review of The Sovereign Wayfarer: Walker Percy and the Malaise, by Martin Luschei. The Georgia Review. 28.3 (Fall 1974), 540-543.

"Commendation and Approbation: A Review of Recent Ben Jonson Scholarship." Papers on Language and Literature, 9.4 (Fall 1973), 432-449.

"The Revelation of Walker Percy." The Colorado Quarterly, 20.4 (Spring 1972).

PRESENTATIONS

Moderated program, Accreditation: Present Policies and Promising Prospects, at annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, San Francisco, January 1999.

Delivered presentation, Brave New, Old World: Technology in the Classroom, at annual winter meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Savannah, February 1997.

Organized and chaired session, Institutional Integrity and the Integration of Secondary and Collegiate Curricula: How Far in a Good Cause?, at annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Atlanta, January 1997.

Delivered presentation, The Council of Partners in Education, at annual meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Nashville, December 1996.

Delivered presentation, The K-16 Seamless Web: What Does It Mean for Universities?, at annual summer meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Monterey, July 1996.

Delivered presentation, Are Vice Presidents From Mars?, at annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Albuquerque, November 1995.

Delivered paper and moderated session, The Student-Centered University: Jargon, Myth, or Emerging Reality?, at annual summer meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Keystone, Colorado, July 1995.

Delivered paper, Quality Planning for Strategic Management, at annual winter meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Clearwater, Florida, January 1995.

Delivered paper, New Criteria in Old Wineskins?: Performance-Based Institutional Assessment, at annual winter meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Tucson, January 1994.

Delivered paper, Tennessee Performance Funding and the Future of Assessment, at annual meeting of the National Conference of Academic Deans, Stillwater, Oklahoma, July 1993.

Delivered commencement address, Publick Happiness: The Legacy of State-Assisted Higher Education, at December 1992 exercises of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Delivered paper, The Dean as Odysseus: Sailing the Academic Seas in an Age of Accountability, at annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Tampa, November 1992.

Delivered paper, Measuring the Marigolds: The Liberal Arts and the Opportunity of Outcomes Assessment, as principal address in the Presidents Forum at annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, November 1990.

Delivered paper, Tuned and Under Tension: The Selected Poems of W. D. Snodgrass, at annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 1989.

Delivered paper, Deaning on the Margins: The Scholar-Teacher-Dean, at the annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Boston, November 1989.

Delivered paper "'Books Do Furnish a Novel': Barbara Pym and Other British Women Writers," at annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 1989.

Delivered paper, "Local Beers, City Newspapers, Passenger Trains, and Minor League Baseball," at 50th Anniversary Conference, Baseball Hall of Fame and the State University of New York, Cooperstown, NY, June, 1989.

Delivered paper, "Investing in Innovation," at American Association of State Colleges and Universities National Conference, Kansas City, October, 1988.

Delivered paper, "Outcomes Assessment: Implications for Summer Session Management," at annual meeting of the North American Association of Summer Sessions, Toronto, October 1987.

Delivered paper , "Developing the Self-Study Plan in a Liberal Arts or Graduate Institution," at annual meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Chicago, April 1987.

Chaired session, "'Respect or Natural Love': Reception and Reputation of Joseph Conrad's Novels," at annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, New York, December 1986.

Delivered paper, "Strategic Planning in the University," at annual meeting of the North American Association of Summer Sessions, St. Louis, November 1986.

Delivered paper, "'Light and Love': Vaughan's Delicate Balance," at Central Renaissance Conference, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, March 1985.

Delivered paper, "'The Heart of the Matter': Managerial Considerations in the Redefinition of a Summer Session," at annual meeting of the North American Association of Summer Sessions, San Diego, November 1984.

Delivered paper, "'Today's Poets, Yesterday's War': An Analysis of Three Contemporary World War II Poets," at annual meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, March 1984.

Delivered paper, "Issues of Relativity: Autobiography and the Extended Fiction," at annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of California at Santa Barbara, November 1983.

Delivered paper, "Poet's Progress: The Excluded Poems of George Herbert," at Central Renaissance Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, April 1983.

Chaired session, "Autobiography: 20th Century Visions and Revisions," at annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, University of Oregon, Eugene, November 1982.

Delivered paper, "'Setting and Singing': Donne and His Composers," at Fifth Biennial Renaissance Conference, The University of Michigan-Dearborn, October 1982.

Delivered paper, "'True Delight' for Aristocrats: Jonson's Bartholmew Fayre," at Central Renaissance Conference, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, March 1982.

Delivered paper, "Spenser's Order, Spenser's Ireland," at Third International Conference on the Fantastic, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, March 1982.

Delivered paper, "Art of the Libretto," in Humanities Lecture Series, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, November 1981.

Delivered paper, "Personal, Confessional, Autobiographical: Lyric Poetry and Autobiography," at annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, November 1981.

Delivered paper, "Serving Two Masters: The Librettist's Art," at annual meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Quebec City, Canada, April 1981.

Delivered paper, "Dramatic Mode, Lyric Lode: A Librettist Looks at Jonson," at Fourth Biennial Renaissance Conference, The University of Michigan-Dearborn, October 1980.

Delivered paper, "Herbert and the Eucharist: The Voyage through Poetry to Vision," at annual meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Southeastern Massachusetts University, North Dartmouth, March 1980.

Chaired session, "Teaching the Metaphysical Poets to Undergraduates," at annual convention of the Modern Language Association, San Francisco, December 1979.

Delivered paper, "A Response to 'Patterns of Irony in Spenser's Faerie Queene,'" at annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 1979.

Delivered paper, "Ben Jonson's Bartholmew Fayre," at annual convention of the Modern Language Association, New York, December 1978.

Delivered paper, "Non-parochial Herbert: Experience and Expression in Poetry of the Eucharist," to National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar-in-Residence, Boston University, March 1978.

Chaired session, "Teaching Spenser to Undergraduates," at annual convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1978.

Chaired session, "Teaching Milton to Undergraduates," at annual convention of the Modern Language Association, New York, December 1977.

Delivered paper, "Analogies Between Art Forms in the Sixteenth Century," at Central Renaissance Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, March 1976.

Delivered paper, "The Gospel of Work According to Joseph Conrad," at 50th Anniversary International Conference of Conrad Scholars, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, August 1974