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Announcement: Cambridge Scholars Press has just published my latest book : Beatniks and Coaboys: Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West (Summer 2020). Dorn and Olson, of course were key figures in early American postmodern/avant garde poetics. Dorn's Gunslinger is arguably the most important epic poem to come out of the Beat Movement in the West. This is my third book with Cambridge Scholars.

I was born in West Texas. After completing my undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Christian University in 1973, I attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1973 to 1981 where, along with my wife, Jeanine, I completed my MA and my PhD in English; Jeanine and I received our PhDs the same day.

Over the years I taught at Rochester Col Announcement: Cambridge Scholars Press has just published my latest book : Beatniks and Coaboys: Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West (Summer 2020). Dorn and Olson, of course were key figures in early American postmodern/avant garde poetics. Dorn's Gunslinger is arguably the most important epic poem to come out of the Beat Movement in the West. This is my third book with Cambridge Scholars.

I was born in West Texas. After completing my undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Christian University in 1973, I attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1973 to 1981 where, along with my wife, Jeanine, I completed my MA and my PhD in English; Jeanine and I received our PhDs the same day.

Over the years I taught at Rochester College, Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma Christian University, and for a number of years served as the Scholar-in-Residence for the English Department at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. Since my primary duties as Scholar-in-Residence involved research, writing, and teaching in areas of my research, I managed to write a number of books and to be active in organizations like the Western Literature Association and the Southwest and Texas Popular Culture Association.

Jeanine and I have two adult children—Bart, a musician, and Tess, a philosopher. Most of my books have been about popular Westerns--novels and movies. But I have also published widely on 18th-century English literature, current American poets, literature of the Beat Generation, and the Romantic Movement.

My books on Westerns are:
New Wests and Post-Wests: The American West in Literature and Film (Cambridge Scholars Press 2013)
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
Sooner Cinema, contributor (Forty-sixth State Press, 2009)
Historical Dictionary of Westerns in Cinema (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) ; Also issued in paperback as Westerns A-Z.
Westerns: Movies from Hollywood and Paperback Novels (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008)

Other books include:
Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014)
Historical Dictionary of Literature of the Beat Movement (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)

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