Samuel Schuman
 Professor

Education:

PhD Northwestern University, 1969

Dissertation:  "The Theater of Fine Devices:  Emblems and the Emblematic

        in the Plays of John Webster." Advisors: Jean Hagstrum and Samuel Schoenbaum

MA San Francisco State University, 1966 "With Honors"

BA Grinnell College, 1964 "With Distinction"

        Recent teaching:
Garrey Carruthers Distinguished Visiting Professor Chair in Honors, The University of New Mexico

Contact information:
Office:  214 Karpen Hall
Office Phone:  (828)250-2351
Samuel Schuman

Publications:

CyrilCyril Tourneur, Twayne (1977).

Vladimir Nabokov:  A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall (1979).

"Theatre of Fine Devices:"  Emblems and the Emblematic in the Plays of John Webster, University of Salzburg Press (1982).

John Webster:  A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall (1985).

Beginning in Honors, NCHC, 1989 (pamphlet).  Fourth Edition, 2006.

Honors Programs in Smaller Colleges, NCHC, 1988 (pamphlet).  Second Edition, 1999.

Old Main:  Small Colleges in Twenty-First Century America,  Johns Hopkins University Press (2005)

Seeing the Light:  Religious Colleges in Twenty-First Century America , Johns Hopkins

            University Press (forthcoming)

Branches:  Leading the Branch Campus, (editor) American Council on Education (forthcoming)

Selected Articles (in chronological order)

"Emblems and the English Renaissance Drama:  a Checklist," Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 12  (1969), pp. 43–56.

"Two Notes on Emblems and the English Renaissance Drama,"  Notes and Queries, ns 18 (1971), pp. 28–29.

"The Ring and the Jewel in Webster's Tragedies,"  Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 14 (1972), pp. 253–268.

"'Occasion's Bald Behind':  an Emblem in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta," Modern Philology, 70 (1973), pp. 234–235.

"Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and Robert Heinlein's They," Twentieth Century Literature, 19 (1973), pp. 99–106.

"Out of the Fryeing Pan and Into the Pyre:  Comic Mythos and The Wizard of Oz," Journal of Popular Culture, 7 (1973), pp. 302–304.

"The Wheel of Nature:  Circular Imagery in Chaucer's `Troilus and Criseyde',"  Chaucer Review, 10 (1975), pp. 99–112.

"Nabokov's Lolita and Shakespeare's The Tempest," Mosaic, 10 (1976), pp. 1–5.

"The Widow's Garden – The Nun's Priest's Tale and the Great Chain of Being," Studies in the Humanities,  6 (1978), pp. 12–14.

"Minor Characters and Marlowe's Tamburlaine II,"  Modern Language Studies, 7, no.2 (1978), pp. 27–33.

"Lolita – Novel and Screenplay,"  College Literature, 5, no. 2 (1978), pp. 195–204.

"Criticism of Vladimir Nabokov:  A Selected Checklist,"  Modern Fiction Studies, 25, no. 3 (1979), pp. 527–554.

"Coordinating Honors Programs at Two and Four Year Institutions," with C. Carlson, Forum for Honors, 10, no. 2 (1979), pp. 21–22.

"Man, Magician, Poet, God:  An Image in Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern Literature,"  Cithara, 19, no. 2 (1980), pp. 40–54.

"'Theatre of Fine Devices' – The Visual Imagery of Webster's Tragedies,"  Renaissance and Reformation, ns 4, no. 1 (1980), pp. 87–94.

"Running Around," a regular column in Maine Running magazine, 1980–81.

"Another Nova Zembla,"  Vladimir Nabokov Research Newsletter, 6 (1981), pp. 30–31.

"Money for Maine," NCHC Newsletter, (September 1981), p. 16.

"'Despair and Die':  a Note on Nabokov and Shakespeare's Tragedies,"  Notes on Contemporary Literature, 12, no. 2 (1982), pp. 11–12.

"Forests, Trees, Free Cheese, and Reaganomics:  An Inflammatory Meditation,"  NCHC Newsletter, 9 (1982), pp. 17–18.

"Footnotes in Fiction," "Forum" section of PMLA, 78, no. 5 (1983), p. 901.

"Notes Towards a Methodological Definition of the Humanities," pp. 24–29 in The Humanities:  The Contemporary Scene, Southern Humanities Conference (1983), pp. 24–29.

"New Honors Programs – Some Prior Questions,"  Forum for Honors, 14, no. 1 (Fall, 1983), pp. 9–12, 37.

"John Webster On Stage:  A Selected Annotated Bibliography," Jacobean Drama Studies 95:  Jacobean Miscellany, 4 (1984), pp. 99–128.

"Honors Scholarship and Forum for Honors,"  Forum for Honors, 16, no. 1 (Fall, 1985), pp. 3–7.

"Jogging the Scholarly Mind," Educational Record, Vol. 66, no. 3 (Summer, 1985), pp. 53–54; reprinted as a chapter in Jogging, ed., David Corbin.  Glenview, Ill.  Scott, Foresman & Co., 1988, pp. 148–151.

"The Link Mechanism in the Canterbury Tales," Chaucer Review, 20, no. 3 (1986), pp. 200–206.

"Enchanting Metamorphoses:  Nabokov's Canons,"  Spectrum, 3, no. 1 (Spring/Summer, 1988), pp. 20–29.

"Two Notes on Nabokov,"  Notes on Contemporary Literature, 18, no. 3 (May, 1988), pp. 7–10.

"Laughter in the Dark and Othello,"  The Nabokovian, no. 20 (Spring, 1988), pp. 17–18.

"'Something Rotten in the State':  Bend Sinister and Hamlet," Russian Literature Triquarterly no. 24 (1991) pp. 197–212.

"Acadia or Arcadia:  Reflections on the Maine Coast Honors Semester,"  Forum for Honors, 20, no. 3 (Winter/Spring 1991), pp. 9–13.

"Inventing Nabokov," Notes on Contemporary Literature, Vol. 22, no. 3 (May 1992), pp. 7–9.

"Honors in a Dishonorable Age," National Honors Report, Vol. 13, no 4 (Winter 1993), pp. 1-2.  Reprinted in National Honors Report, Vol. 22, no 4 (Winter 2001),  "Classics II," pp. 7-8.

"A Life in the Liberal Arts; or, Look What Happened to Prospero," Liberal Education, 79, no. 2 (Spring 1993), pp. 32–37.

"Four Poems," The National Honors Report, 14, no. 2 (Summer 1993), p. 31.

"Gladly Teaching," AAHE Bulletin, 46, no. 8 (April, 1994), pp. 3–6.  Reprinted in The Department Chair, 5, no. 2 (Fall, 1994), pp. 6–8.

Review essay on Tony Sharpe, Vladimir Nabokov.  In Nabokov Studies, 1 (Fall, 1994),

       pp. 216–219.

"Note on a Shakespearean simile in Nabokov's Speak Memory."  The Nabokovian, 32 (Spring, 1994), pp. 51-53.

"Small is . . . Different," in The Academic's Handbook, Second Edition, eds., DeNeef and Goodwin.  Durham, NC,  Duke University Press (1995), pp. 17-28.

"Nabokov and Shakespeare:  The Russian Works,"  The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, ed., Vladimir E. Alexandrov.  New York: Garland (1995), pp. 512–517.

"'Good Night, Sweet Prince:' Saying Goodbye to the Dead in Shakespeare's Plays," Death Studies (1996), 20, No. 2, pp. 185-192..  Reprinted in Annual Editions: Dying, Death, and Bereavement, Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Guilford, CT, (1998), pp. 36–39.

"On The Road to Canterbury, Lilliput and Elphinstone - The Rough Guide:  Satiric Travel Narratives in Chaucer, Swift and Nabokov," (electronic refereed publication) Zembla, the Nabokov Home Page. Pennsylvania State University, (1996).

"Looking Over the Edge: Futures of American Colleges and Universities, or Life in the Fast

Lane...As Seen By a Tortoise," National Honors Report, 17, no. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 6-9.

"The Teaching of Literature," PMLA "Forum," (May 1997), 112, No. 3, pp. 440-441.

"Holding out Hope: Futures of American Colleges and Universities: the Sequel," National Honors Report, 19, no. 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 37-39.

"Myth, Symbol, and Tenure," College Teaching, 46, no. 2 (Spring 1998), p. 42.

"Curious Conjunctions in Nabokov's Collected Stories," The Nabokovian, No. 40 (Spring 1998), pp. 15-16.

"'Comment dit-on "mourir" en anglais?' Translating Shakespeare in Nabokov's Pale Fire," English Literature and The "Other" Languages, eds., Ton Hoenselaars and Marius Buning, (Amsterdam), (1999), pp. 167-174.

"'I may turn up yet, on another campus:' Vladimir Nabokov and the Academy," The Academic Novel: New and Classic Essays.  Edited by Merritt Moseley.  Chester, GB:  The University of Chester Press, 2007,  pp. 167-183.

"Sprites," ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews,  Vol. 14, no. 1

 (Winter 2001), pp. 44-46.

"Beautiful Gate: Vladimir Nabokov and Orthodox Iconography," Religion and Literature 32..1 (Spring, 2000), pp. 46-66.

"Labors of Love," JNCHC, 1, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2000), pp. 85-90.

"Cultivating:  Some Thoughts on NCHC's Future," JNCHC 2, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2001), pp.69-72.  [A "Special Forum on Honors Education" consisting of this paper and 5

responses.]

"Hyperlinks, Chiasmus, Vermeer and St. Augustine:  Models of Reading Ada,"  Nabokov Studies, 6 (2000-01), pp. 125-128.

Review of Jullian Connolly, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov in Nabokov Studies (Vol. 9, 2005), pp. 216-222.

“Teaching Honors,” JNCHC  6, 2 (fall/winter 2005), pp. 31-34.

“Chaucer, Mountain Hiking, and Honors Program Leadership,”  JNCHC 7, 2 (fall/winter 2006),pp. 25-27.

Review of C. Grey Austin, Wholly Spirit in Honors in Practice (2008).

“Only Words to Play With:  Teaching Lolita in Introductory Reading and Writing Courses” in Zoran Kuzmanovich and Gayla Diment, Approaches to Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita. 

                                                            New York, MLA (2008), pp. 30-34.

Statement:

After a stint or two as an academic administrator, I am delighted to return to my first passion and profession:  teaching literature at the undergraduate level.  And where better to make that return than UNCA:  one of our nations top public liberal arts colleges, and a school I’ve known well for over a third of a century.  I hope to be able to teach a wide range of courses here in the Language and Literature Department, from earlier British literature to contemporary fiction.