B.A., Abilene Christian University, 1966
M.A., University of Kansas, 1968
Ph.D., Rice University, 1971

Assistant Professor, Indiana University at South Bend, 1971-74
Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Texas A&M University, 1974-
Executive Director, South Central Modern Language Association, 1982-87
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, 1987-94
Arts Development Coordinator, College of Liberal Arts, 1997-2000
Head, Department of English, 2004-

• Celebration: Introduction to Literature. Cambridge, MA: Winthrop Publishers, 1977.
• Richard Crashaw. Twayne's English Authors Series, No. 299. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980.
• Volume Commentary Editor, The Anniversaries and the Epicedes and Obsequies. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Vol. 6. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
• Volume Commentary Editor, The Holy Sonnets. The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Vol. 7, part 1. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
• Author of more than 40 articles and reviews published in scholarly journals and books and of more than 30 scholarly presentations, including lectures in England, Italy, Russia and Mexico
• The John Donne Society Home Page
• The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne

• Modern Language Association Committee on Academic Freedom, 1985-88
• President, Phi Beta Delta: Honor Society for International Scholars, 1994-95
• President, South Central Modern Language Association, 1996-97
• President, John Donne Society, 1997-98
• Member of thirteen scholarly societies, in eight of which I have been an officer

Seventeenth-century poetry and its contexts, with particular attention to John Donne, George Herbert, and Richard Crashaw; Shakespeare; The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne (Chief Editor of the Commentary)