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TAYLOR STOEHR, Professor Taylor Stoehr writes on literary and cultural history, and has edited many volumes of the works of Paul Goodman (Sixties social philosopher) and George Dennison (Sixties free-school author), for whom he serves as literary executor. He has been awarded research fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. He has received the Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Scholarship. He also translates poetry, primarily from the T’ang Dynasty of classical China. He teaches graduate courses on Life Writing, The Black Presence in American Literature, and other topics; his recent undergraduate courses include American Romanticism, Modern Drama, and Art of Poetry. He also teaches in an alternative sentencing program for probationers from the Dorchester District Court, "Changing Lives Through Literature," which he helped found in 1994. Selected Publications: Books: Dickens: The Dreamer's Stance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1965), Hawthorne's Mad Scientists (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1978), Nay-Saying in Concord: Emerson, Alcott, and Thoreau (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1979), Free Love in America: A Documentary History (New York: AMS Press, 1979), Words and Deeds: Essays on the Realistic Imagination (New York: AMS Press, 1986), Here Now Next: Paul Goodman and the Origins of Gestalt Therapy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994). Recent edited books : George Dennison, A Better Existing World: Notes on The Bread and Puppet Theater (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2000) [with Geoffrey Gardner], Paul Goodman, The Empire City (novel) (Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2001), and others. Office: Wheatley-6-057 |