Rich at the Alamo, August 3, 2007

Rich atop Wyler Aerial Tramway, El Paso, Texas, May 16, 2005

Rich at Daytona Beach, June 7, 2005, during an Advanced Placement English Literature reading.. Picture taken by Lucien Fournier.

Michael and Becky (Rich and Roz's children) at Yellowstone National Park, July 24, 2005

Elk (Cervus elaphus), Yellowstone National Park, July 23, 2005

Elk (Cervus elaphus), Yellowstone National Park, July 23, 2005

Rich at the lighthouse at Ponce Inlet, June 8, 2006, during an Advanced Placement English Literature reading. Photograph taken by Lucien Fournier.

Lucien Fournier on the Ohio River, AP English Literature Reading, June 2007

Please also visit Rich's professional Web at http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/tuerk/

Here are Roz and Rich's four dogs photographed in April 2008 :

Winslow

Foster

 

Emmy Lou

 

Hamilton

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Here are some pictures taken in April 2008 of some of Rich's EarthKind Roses (right) and of his Dublin's Bay rose (left), which is part of the EarthKind Brigade:

Roz's birthday 2008 :

Here are some of my publications:

Emerson's Darker Vision: 'Hamatreya' and 'Days.'" Characteristics of Emerson, Transcendental Poet: A Symposium. Ed. Carl F. Strauch. Hartford: Transcendental, 1975; also in American Transcendental Quarterly 25 (Winter 1975): 28-33.

Central Still: Circle and Sphere in Thoreau's Prose. De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Practica 98. The Hague: Mouton, 1975.

Appearance and Reality in Mark Twain's 'Which Was the Dream?' 'The Great Dark,' and 'Which Was It?'" Illinois Quarterly 40.3 (Spring 1978): 23-34. Reprinted without notes in Short Story Criticism. Vol. 6. Ed. Thomas C. Votteler. Detroit: Gale, 1990. 330-34.

"Jacob Riis and the Jews." New-York Historical Society Quarterly 63 (1979): 179-201.

"Letter to Henry" (poem).  Thoreau Journal Quarterly 11.3-4 (July and Oct. 1979): 41.

"Mythic Patterns of Reconciliation in Emerson's 'Threnody.'" ESQ 27 (1981): 181-88.

"Emerson's 'Berrying.'" American Notes and Queries 20 (1982): 104-07.

"Jewish-American Literature." Ethnic Perspectives in American Literature: Selected Essays on the European Contribution. Ed. Robert J. DiPietro and Edward Ifkovic. New York: MLA, 1983. 133-62. Reprinted without notes in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 62 (1996):14-24.

"Jews Without Money as a Work of Art." Studies in American Jewish Literature 7 (1988): 67-79.

"Emerson and the Wasting of Beauty: 'The Rhodora.'" ATQ ns 4.1 (Mar. 1990): 5-11.

"The American Spectator Controversy: Was Dreiser Anti-Semitic?" Prospects (1991): 367-89.

"At Home in the Land of Columbus: Americanization in European-American Immigrant Autobiography." Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives. Ed. James Robert Payne. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1992. 114-38.

"Emerson's 'Woodnotes' Poems." ATQ ns 6.4 (Dec. 1992): 295-305.

"What Side Was He On? Mike Gold During the Period of the Hitler-Stalin Pact." Modern Jewish Studies 9 (1994) (Yiddish 9.3-4 [1994]) : 86-117.

"Michael Gold's Hoboken Blues: An Experiment that Failed." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 20.4 (winter 1995): 3-15.

"Dorothy's Adventures Underground." Baum Bugle 40.3 (winter 1996): 12-19.

"Teaching Composition Via Distance Education." The Fourth Annual National Distance Education Conference 1997 Conference Proceedings, January 29-31, 1997, Corpus Christi, Texas. College Station: Center for Distance Learning, 1997. 189-97.

"Teaching Composition via Videoconferencing Using a Multi-Ethnic American Literature Reader." Engines of Change: A Practical Guide for Using Technology to Teach American Culture. [Ed.] Randy Bass. [Washington]: American Studies Assn., 1997. 2-109-114.
 
 "Good Witches in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." The Round Table N.S. 11 (spring 1999): 1-5.

"Upper-Middle-Class Madness: H. G. Wells' Time Traveller Journeys to Wonderland." Extrapolation 46.4 (Winter 2005): 517-26.

“The Great Explorer's True Discovery in The Miami Giant.” JASAT 36 (Dec. 2005): 57-68.

Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. This book has been named a finalist in the 2008 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies. To see a complete list of finalists, click here.

Over the last decade or so, I've contributed articles to a number of reference volumes; some selected examples follow:

"The Rhodora." Masterplots II: Poetry Series. Rev. ed. Ed. Philip K. Jason. Pasadena: Salem, 2002. 3232-34.

"Bellow, Saul." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 25-27.

"Mila 18: Novel by Leon Uris." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 509-10.

"Mr. Sammler's Planet: Novel by Saul Bellow." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 511-12.

"Uris, Leon." Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature. Ed. Stephen Meyer. Detroit: St. James, 2002. 325-26.

"Bellow, Saul." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 77-79.

"Sendak, Maurice." Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Sorrel Kerbel. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003. 511-13.

“James Herriot.” Magill's Survey of World Literature. Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Rev. ed. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2009. 1185-89.

“Roth, Philip. The Nineties in America. Ed. Milton Berman. Pasadena: Salem, 2009. 729-30.

"Sit-down Strike of 1936-1937." Historical Encyclopedia of American Business. Ed. Richard L. Wilson. Pasadena: Salem, 2009. 762-64.

"Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire." Historical Encyclopedia of American Business. Ed. Richard L. Wilson. Pasadena: Salem, 2009. 871-72.

In addition to his personal Website, Rich maintains one other Website: American Studies Association of Texas

This personal Website was constructed on October 3, 2003. Last revised on November 3, 2009.