Catherine Calloway
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of South Florida--Tampa 1987 English
M.A. Arkansas State University 1978 English
B.A. High Point (College) University 1975 English
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of English Arkansas State University 1997-Present
Associate Professor of English Arkansas State University 1992-1997
Assistant Professor of English Arkansas State University 1987-1992
Instructor in English Arkansas State University 1983-1987
Teaching Assistant University of South Florida 1978-1983
Adjunct Instructor in English Hillsborough Community College 1979-1982
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien. With Alex Vernon. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2016. Ed. David J.
Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Forthcoming 2018.
“War in Literature and Drama.” Revised edition. InOxford Bibliographies in American Literature.
Ed. Dennis Showalter.New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2018.
“E. L. Doctorow.” InOxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2017.
“’It takes a kind of a knack’: Rebellion in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman.” Rebellion.
Critical Insights series. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017. 126-40.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2015. Ed. Gary
Scharnhorst: Duke University Press, 2017. 257-83.
“The Vietnam War in American Literature.” InThe Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.
Ed. PaulaRabinowitz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
“The Vietnam War in Literature and Its Aftermath.” InAmerican Literature II: The 20th and 21st
Centuries in American Literature. Ed. Mary Pat Brady. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2017.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2014. Ed. David J.
Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. 279-307.
“’You get your visions through whatever gate you’re granted’: Gates and Gatekeepers in One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Critical Insights One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ed.
Robert C. Evans. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2015. 157-72.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2013. Ed. Gary
Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015.
“Tim O’Brien.”InOxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson Bryer, Paul Lauter,
and Richard Kopley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
“’Medals!Medals! Everyone’s Got Medals’: Chasing the Elusive Silver Star in the Works of Tim
O’Brien.” Tim O’Brien. Critical Insights series. Ed. Robert C. Evans. Ipswich, MA: Salem
Press,2015. 103-19.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2012. Ed. David J.
Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. 289-314.
“‘The Sea Change’: Clara Dunn, and the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Connection.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 45.2 (2014): 80-86.
“War in Literature and Drama.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Military History. Ed. Dennis Showalter. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2011. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 303-29.
“Women Writing War: Female Voices from the Combat Zone.” Critical Insights: War. Ed. Alex Vernon. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. 125-44.
“Vietnam War Literature.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Eds. Jackson R. Bryer and Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2010. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 321-46.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2009. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 311-38.
“Diving into the Text beneath the Text: Gender and Revenge in Tomcat in Love.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien. Ed. Alex Vernon and Catherine Calloway. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010. 188-95.
“From Short-Story Cycle to Ensemble Novel: Teaching July, July.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien. Ed. Alex Vernon and Catherine Calloway. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010. 141-48.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship, An Annual 2008. Ed. David J. Nordloh. New York: Modern Language Association, 2010. 311-33.
“In Their Own Voices: The Chicano Experience in Vietnam War Literature.” Thirty Years After: Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. Ed. Mark A. Heberle. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 142-55.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2007. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Forthcoming Duke University Press, 2009.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2006. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke UP, 2008. 311-34.
“‘The Delta Has Always Been a Magical Place to Me’: An Interview With Scott Ely.” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 38.3 (2007): 123-37. .
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2005. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. 323-50.
“Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2004.
Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. 335-61.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2003. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. 349-67.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2002. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 309-33.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarhsip: An Annual, 2001. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. 313-35.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2000. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002. 307-31.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1999. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 313-35.
"History Has a Way of Dissolving: A Conversation with Tim O'Brien." Tampa Review 20 (2000): 24-35.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1998. Ed. David Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 287-314.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1980s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1997. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 281-312.
"'He's Not My Son Anymore': The Returning Veteran in Robert Bausch’s On the Way Home.”
War, Literature, and the Arts 10 (Fall/Winter 1998): 179-202.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1996. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. 305-34.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1995. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997. 303-29.
"'To Live in the Past is to Walk in Darkness': Reconciliation in the Return Journey." The United States and Vietnam from War to Peace. Ed. Robert M. Slabey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1996. 123-34.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1994. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. 279-302.
"'How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.”
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36 (Summer 1995): 249-57.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1993. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. 233-54.
"Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s." American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 1992. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
"Tim O'Brien (1946): A Primary and Secondary Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 50 (September 1993): 223-29.
"American Literature of the Vietnam War: Classroom Strategies and Critical Sources." The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Ed. Marc Jason Gilbert. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, l99l. l39-159.
"Honors 49013G: The Literature of the Vietnam War." The Vietnam War: Teaching Approaches and Resources. Ed. Marc Jason Gilbert. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, l99l. 282-287.
"Tim O'Brien: A Checklist." Bulletin of Bibliography 48 (March l99l): 6-ll.
"Pluralities of Vision: Going After Cacciato and Tim O'Brien's Short Fiction." America
Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. Eds. Owen Gilman and Lorrie Smith. New York: Garland, l990. 213-224.
"'Quentin Broke His Watch': The Theme of Time in Phillip H. McMath's Native Ground.”
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 14 (Fall l988): ll-l9.
"Robert Bausch's On the Way Home: Echoes of William Faulkner's Soldier’s Pay.”
Publications of the Arkansas Philological Association 12 (Spring l986): 15-26.
"Vietnam War Literature and Film: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources.”
Bulletin of Bibliography 43 (September l986): 149-158.
ENTRIES AND REVIEWS
Review of A Dark Rose: Love in Eudora Welty’s Stories and Novels, by Sally Wolff. Arkansas
Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 47.3 (December 2016): 199-200.
H-Diplo Article Review 618 on “Which Mirror is ‘Truer’? Portrayal of the Vietnam War in
Apolcalypse Now and Canh Dong Hoang.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 22.1
(2015), 2016.
Review of A Short Ride: Remembering Barry Hannah, by Louis Bourgeois, Adam Young, and J. W. Young. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 44.2 (2013): 121-23.
Review of The Dream of the Red Road,by Scott Ely. American Book Review 30.1 (Nov/Dec
2008): 7.
"Casualties of War (Film)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 371.
Civil Disobedience (Essay)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical
Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 66-67.
"Doctorow, E[dgar] L[awrence]." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum, 1999. 281-83.
“84 Charlie Mopic (Film)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia.
Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 382.
"Erdrich, Louise [Karen]." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum, 1999. 337-38.
"Good Morning, Vietnam (Film) ." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 390-91.
"A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain (Novel)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 391.
"Love and Duty (Autobiography)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 400.
"O'Brien, [William] Tim[othy]." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum, 1999. 836-38.
"Phillips, Jayne Anne." Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven Serafin. New York: Continuum, 1999. 884-86.
Review of James Agee and theLegend of Himself: A Critical Study, by Alan Spiegel.
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 30 (December 1999): 253-54.
Review of The Anti-Depressant Era, by David Healy. Journal of American Culture 22.4 (1999): 104-05.
Review of The Angel of the Garden: Stories, by Scott Ely. Arkansas Review: A Journal of
Delta Studies 31 (April 2000): 63-64.
"The Things They Carried (Fiction)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 416.
"Sticks and Bones (Drama)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 413-14.
"Van Devanter, Lynda (Author-Poet)." War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. M. Paul Holsinger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. 420-21.
ARTICLES REPRINTED
“Catherine Calloway on ‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carry.” Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005. 89-96.
“‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 211. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 187-92.
“‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.” Literature and Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers. 6th ed. Ed. Gloria Mason Henderson and others. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 813-21.
“’How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.” Literature and Ourselves: A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers. 5th ed. Ed. Gloria Mason Henderson, Bill Day, and Sandra Stevenson Waller. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. 1030-1038.
“‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.” Short Story Criticism, Vol. 74. Ed. Joseph Palmisano. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 249-53.
“Pluralities of Vision: Going After Cacciato and Tim O’Brien’s Short Fiction.” Contemporary Literary Criticism. Vol. 103. Ed. Deborah A. Schmitt. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 143-47.
“The Things They Carried is a War Story About Writing War Stories.” War in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. Ed. Gary Wiener. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. 87-98.
PRESENTATIONS TO LEARNED FORUMS
“The Unburial of the Dead: Intertextuality in Kevin Powers’s The Yellow Birds.” Arkansas
Philological Association. Little Rock, AR: 28 October 2017.
“The Art of Telling a War Story: Veterans Hemingway and O’Brien Reconsidered.” XVII Biennial
International Ernest Hemingway Conference. Oak Park, IL: July 2016.
“It is not easy to put in the missing all in fiction and it is all in if you leave it out”: Hemingway,
Faulkner, and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. Hemingway and Faulkner Conference.
Center for Faulkner Studies. Cape Girardeaux, MO: October 2016.
“’Let out those old secrets’: Gatekeeping Theory and Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Arkansas Philological Association. Jonesboro, AR: October 2015.
“Emails, Blogs, and Weblogs: Global Responses to War.” Arkansas Philological Association.
Little Rock, AR: October 2014.
“An Untold Number of Ghosts: Literary Responses to War.” Popular Culture and American
Culture Associations. Chicago, IL: April 2014.
“Reminiscing Into the Future: 40 Years of the Arkansas Philological Association, A Panel Discussion.” Arkansas Philological Association. Little Rock, AR: 25 October 2013.
“Daring to Cross the Wire: Women in the Theatre of War.” Arkansas Philological Association. Little Rock, AR: 25 October 2013.
“‘The war tried to kill us in the spring’: Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds.” Popular Culture and American Cultural Associations. Washington, D.C.: 30 March 2013.
“Women Writing the War: Female Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan.” Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Antonio, TX: 22 April 2011.
“‘every day is like a stroll through a minefield’: War and the Fiction of Scott Ely.” Arkansas Philological Association. Conway, AR: October 2011.
“‘Gazing Beyond Place and Time’: Vision, Sight, and Insight in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy.” Faulkner and Morrison Conference. Center for Faulkner Studies. Cape Girardeaux, MO: 30 October 2010.
“From Short Story Cycle to Ensemble Novel: Tim O’Brien’s July, July.” Tennessee Philological
Association. Memphis, TN: February 2009.
“Blogging and Jogging from Vietnam to Iraq.” Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Francisco, CA: March 2008.
“Schilling Manor and Vietnam.” Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Boston, MA: March 2007.
“From Southeast Asia to the American South: The Imagined Wars of Scott Ely.”
Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Atlanta, GA: April 2006.
"In Their Own Voices: Mexican American Literary Responses to the Vietnam War."
The Vietnam War (1946-1975) in Literature and Film. The University of Hawaii at Manoa. Honolulu, Hawaii: November 2005.
"From the Mekong Delta to the Mississippi Delta: The Vietnams of Scott Ely and Robert Olen Butler." Delta Blues Symposium. Jonesboro, AR: April 2005.
"'waiting for tomorrow's yesterday': Women War Correspondents and Vietnam." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Antonio, TX: April 2004.
"'This sea is a mirror': Postmodernist Storytelling in Alessandro Baricco's Ocean Sea." Arkansas Philological Association. Robinsonville, MS: November 2003.
"'The Acidic Wash of War': Tim O'Brien's July, July." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. New Orleans, LA: April 2003.“
The Slam of the Screen Door: Place in Brian Keith Jackson's The View From Here." Arkansas Philological Association. Hot Springs, AR: October 2001.
"'We Who Make the Streets Sacred': The Chicano/Chicana Experience in Vietnam War Literature." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Philadelphia, PA: April 2001.
"Two Ways of Telling a War Story: Tim O'Brien and Ernest Hemingway." Modern Language Association. Washington, DC: December 2000.
"The Things We Do to Make It Home: Portrayals of Women and the Vietnam Experience." Popular Culture and American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA: April 2000.
"Is V for Valor?: Vietnam and the Theme of Vengeance in Tim O'Brien's Tomcatin Love." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Diego, CA: March 1999.
"'All the Big Words Bumfuzzle Me': Language in the Fiction of Bobbie Ann Mason." Arkansas Philological Association. Hot Springs, AR: October 1998.
"Lao Can's Monkey Bridge: A New Voice in Vietnamese-American Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Orlando, FL: April 1998.
"The Other Side: Vietnamese Voices in Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Antonio, TX: March 1997.
"'Stories Can Save Us': Storytelling as Ritual in Vietnam War Literature." American Folklore Society. Pittsburgh, PA: October 1996.
"Looking Homeward--in Pain: Robert Bausch's On the Way Home." Arkansas Philological Association. Fayetteville, AR: October 1996.
"The Vietnam War's Aftermath: Its Portrayal in Recent Short Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Las Vegas, NV: March 1996.“
In the Lake of Postmodernism: Tim O'Brien's Recent Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Philadelphia, PA: April 1995.
"Forrest Whom? Viet Nam and the 1960s as Subtext in Contemporary American Literature." Sixties Generations: From Montgomery to Viet Nam. Danbury, CT: November 1994.
"Allusion, Irony, and Inversion in the Fiction of Tim O'Brien." Popular Culture and American
Culture Associations. Chicago, IL: April 1994.
"To Live in the Past is to Live in Darkness: Reconciliation in Viet Nam War Literature." The United States and Viet Nam: From War to Peace. University of Notre Dame. South Bend, IN: December 1993.
"Narrative Technique in Recent Vietnam War Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. New Orleans, LA: April 1993.
"'Still Blowing in the Wind': Reinterpreting the 1960s in the 1990s." From Montgomery to Viet Nam: Sixties Generation Conference. Fairfax, VA: March 1993.
"More Than Horror Film: The Significance of the Fantastic in Jacob's Ladder." International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts." Ft. Lauderdale, FL: March 1992.
"Going Beyond the Ghoulish: Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. Louisville, KY: March 1992.
"Is This Reel for Real?: The Film Motif in Meditations in Green." Arkansas Philological Association. Mountain View, AR: November 1991.
"How to Tell a True War Story: Metafiction in The Things They Carried." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. San Antonio, TX: March l99l.
"Image Into Symbol: The Significance of Water in The House of Mirth." Mississippi Philological Association. Starkville, MS: January l990.
"Ways of Telling a War Story: Tim O'Brien's Recent Short Fiction." Arkansas Philological Association. Magnolia, AR: November l989.
"The Only Cure I Know is a Good Ceremony: The Ritual of Return in Selected Vietnam War Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. St. Louis, MO, April l989.
"'Reality Disoriented': The Theme of Madness in T. R. Pearson’s A Short History of a Small Place.” Arkansas Philological Association. Jonesboro, AR: November l988.
"Pluralities of Vision: Going After Cacciato and Tim O'Brien's Short Fiction." Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. New Orleans, LA: March l988.
"Vietnam, Arkansas, and Southern Tradition: Phillip H. McMath's Native Ground." Arkansas Philological Association. Little Rock, AR: November l987.
"'This then is a song. I am singing': Unity and Structural Progression in Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer.” Arkansas Philological Association. Batesville, AR: November 1986.