English Department Hino-shi
Ishida 1-12-6
Meisei University Twin
Column Tama B-201
2-1-1 Hodokubo Tokyo
191-0021, Japan
Tokyo 191-8506, Japan 042-589-3615
042-591-6653 price@mail.hinocatv.ne.jp
Thomas Price Caldwell, Jr., Professor of English
Curriculum Vitae
I. Education
1958-1962 Davidson
College A.B. 1962 English
1962-1964 Tulane
University M.A. 1964 English
1967-1969 Tulane
University Ph.D 1973 English
II. Teaching
& Research Positions Held
A. Colleges
and Universities:
2002-present Waseda
University, adjunct Professor of English
2000-present Meisei
University, Professor of English
1998-2000 Meisei
University, Visiting Professor of English
Summer
1996 University
of California at Berkeley--Visiting Researcher
1994-1995
Meisei
University, Tokyo--Visiting Professor
1977-2000
Mississippi
State--Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty
1988-1989 Meisei
University, Tokyo--Visiting Professor
Summer
1984 Princeton
University, Visiting Researcher
1977-1978 Boston
University--Research Associate, Graduate Faculty
1973-1977 Mississippi
State--Assistant Professor
1972-1973 Mississippi
State--Instructor
1969-1972 Furman
University--Instructor
1968-1969 Tulane
University--Teaching Assistant
1964-1967 Wofford
College--Instructor
B. Courses
Taught:
Graduate
Seminars in American Literature:
Wallace Stevens, William Carlos
Williams,
Robert Lowell.
Form
& Theory of Poetry (Graduate)
Form
& Theory of Fiction (Graduate)
Contemporary
Poetry (Graduate)
Writing
for Engineers
Creative
Writing/Fiction (Graduate and undergraduate levels)
Creative
Writing/Poetry
Descriptive
English Grammar
The
Short Story
American
Literature Survey, II
British
Literature Survey 1798 to Present
Introduction
to Literature
Freshman
Composition (Regular, Remedial, and for Superior Students)
ESL: English Conversation I, II, III, IV for
Japanese Students
English
Forum for Japanese students
III. Administrative
Positions held
1989-1999, Director,
Creative Writing Program, Mississippi State University.
1984-1985,
Vice
President, Southern Literary Festival Organization
1985-1986,
President,
Southern Literary Festival Organization
1995-1996,
Vice
President, Southern Literary Festival Organization
1996-1997,
President,
Southern Literary Festival Organization
IV. Honors
and Prizes:
1994
"Gordon at Church," Second Prize, national fiction contest sponsored
by
the
Milton Center, Kansas Newman College, Wichita, Kansas.
1977
"Tarzan Meets the Department Head" selected for reprint in Best
American
Short
Stories, 1977, edited by Martha Foley. Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
1972
"A Sense of Place" listed as an "Honor Role" story in Best
American Short
Stories,
1972, edited by Martha Foley. (Houghton Mifflin), 1973.
1962 ÒThe
Wildcatters,Ó First Place, Vereen
Bell Prize for Literature, Davidson
College
V. Research
A. Master's
Thesis: Aspects of Ritual in the
Novels of John Steinbeck (Tulane
University,1964).
Doctoral
Dissertation: Concepts of Reality and the
Imagination in the Poetry of
Wallace
Stevens (Tulane University, 1973).
B. Novels
Saturday
Night in the Sunshine. (Unpublished, 1965)
Baby
Bluefin. (Unpublished, 1985)
C. Monograph:
"Mississippi: Images
of Change in Its Literature.Ó
Mississippi
Mindscape,
1986. Mississippi Committee for
the Humanities.
D. Short
Stories
"Generosity." Mississippi Review. Vol.
3, no. 3 (1974), 10-17.
"Gordon
in Hell," Part V, Chapter 4,
Baby Bluefin, Publications of
the Mississippi
Philological
Society. 1991.
"Icecream
Mountain," Part II, Chapter 6, Baby Bluefin, Publications of the
Mississippi
Philological
Society. 1992.
"John
Deere." The Delta Review.
(November, 1968), 65-67, 71.
Ò51
Ford.Ó Meisei Review. Vol. 14 (1999),
"Report
from the Interior." New Orleans Review. Vol. 7, no. 2 (Summer1977), 155-162.
"A
Sense of Family," New
Orleans Review. Vol 1, No. 4 (Summer 1969), 353-356.
"A
Sense of Place." The
Georgia Review. Vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 1971), Listed in
Best
American Short Stories 1972, Martha Foley, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1972.
-------------------- Reprinted in Mississipi Writers:
Reflections of Childhood and Youth,
Dorothy
Renshaw Abbott, ed. (The
University Press of Mississippi, 1985), I, 84-92.
"Saying
Yes," Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion.
No. 13 (Spring,1996), 5-26.
"Tarzan
Meets the Department Head." The
Carleton Miscellany. Vol.15, no. 2
(1976),
6-15.
-------------------- Reprinted in Best American Short
Stories, 1977, Martha Foley, ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977, pp. 15-23.
E. Articles
and Essays
ÒAmerican
Shootout: Hemingway and Richard Ford.Ó
Meisei Review (Tokyo,
Japan)
Vol.
16 (2001). 39-55.
ÒThe
Coerciveness of Discourse.Ó Meisei
Review, Vol. 22 (2007). 17-31.
"English
Literature as Revolutionary Propaganda," ELT News & Views. Vol. 3, No.
3
(September
1996), 57-58.
"The
Epistemologies of Linguistic Science: Reassessing Structuralism, Redefining
the
Sememe." Meisei Review. Vol.
21 (2006), 27-39.
"I
was a 100-hour Test Pilot for NASA."
Private Pilot. Vol. 16, no. 5 (June, 1981),
18-21.
"Manhunt,"
Balcones Review, Vol 2, No. 1
(Spring-Summer 1988), 11-15.
"Metaphoric
Structures in Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a
Blackbird.'Ó Journal of English and Germanic
Philology. Vol. 71 (1972), 321-335.
"Molecular
Sememics: A Progress Report," Meisei Reivew (Tokyo,
Japan). Vol. 4
(1989), 65-86.
ÒThe
Molecular Sememe: A Model for Literary Interpretation.Ó Meisei Review . Vol.
15
(2000), 155-162.
"The
Rhetoric of Plain Fact: Stevens'
"No Possum, No Sop, No Taters." Meisei
Review (Tokyo,
Japan).Vol. 10 (1995), 131-141.
"Sexual
Politics in Welty's 'Moon Lake' and 'Petrified Man'," Studies in
American
Fiction. Vol.
18, no. 2 (Autumn, 1990), 171-181.
"'Sunday
Morning': Stevens' Makeshift
Romantic Lyric." The
Southern Review. Vol.
15,
no 4 (Autumn,1979),
933-952.
ÒTopic-Comment
Effects in English.Ó Meisei
Review (Tokyo, Japan) Vol.17 (March
2002),
49-69.
ÒWhorf,
Orwell, and Mentalese (The Molecular Sememe: some implications for
semantics).Ó Meisei Review (Tokyo, Japan) Vol 19 (March, 2004) 91-106.
F. Poems
"For
Phyllis," New Orleans
Review. Vol. 2, No. 4 (1972), p. 375.
"Rendezvous
in the University Center," South
Carolina Review. Vol. 3, No. 1
(November,
1970), p. 40.
G. Plays:
Satan's
Hiss: An Illustrated Lecture on the Logocentrism of Western Culture by
Professor
P. Yaeger, One of the Descendents of Eve. Performed October 18, 1991 for
the
English Symposium, and May 5, 1992 for the Starkville Community Theater.
H. Editorials
"Probe
Report: Is MSU Guilty of 'Administrative Bloat'?" AAUP Advocate, March
1992.
"The
Voice of Reason Interviews a Paranoiac," AAUP Advocate, No. 20,
October
1993. Reprinted in the Starkville
Daily News, Sept. 30, 1993.
VI. Readings,
Papers and Lectures:
Poetry
Readings: Columbus Poetry Society,
March 2, 1980; Mississippi
Council
of Teachers of English, Gulf Shores, Mississippi, 1987; Southern
Literary
Festival, Jackson State University, 1990.
Various
pieces of Baby Bluefin:
Mississippi
Philological Society, Starkville, MS
January, 1990.
Mississippi
Philological Society, Starkville, MS
January 1991.
"Mississippi
Writers Day" Festivities, Old Capital, Jackson, MS, April 27, 1985.
Wesleyan
University (Conn.), June 1983.
President's
Commission on the Status of Women, March 25, 1983, Mississippi State
Univ.
English
Faculty Symposium, Mississippi State University, November
1983
and May 1980.
"Generosity,"
Mississippi Council of Teachers of English, Gulf Shores, MS, 1986.
"The
Language of Poetry," Wofford
College Faculty Lecture Series,
May 1965.
"Controlling
Hidden Messages," presented to the Third Annual Faculty Conference,
Mississippi
State University, August 21, 1982,
and published in its Proceedings
(MSU
1982), p. 45.
"Japanese
Culture," presented to the University Honors Forum, MSU, Nov. 21, 1989.
"Mississippi
Vs. New York City: A Literary Relationship," Opening address,
Southern
Literary Festival, Mississippi State University, April 3, 1986.
"Molecular
Sememics: Game Theory and Literary
Interpretation," Southern Central
Modern
Language Association, Fort Worth,
Texas, November 1991.
"Molecular
Sememics: Toward a Semiotic
Description of an Ordinary Language."
Southeastern
Semiotic Ciorcle, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.
February15,
1992.
"Our
Time, Our Place: The Writer as Witness." Opening address, Southern
Literary
Festival, Mississippi State University, April 3,
1997.
"Satan's
Hiss: An Essay on
Linguistics," English Faculty Symposium, MSU,
September
1985; Mississippi Council of Teachers of English, March 1990.
"Report
from the Interior," Tau Sigma Delta (Architecture honorary) Friday Forum,
Mississippi
StateUniversity School of Architecture, October 22, 1993.
"A
Sense of Family," Gainesville College, Gainesville, Georgia, Nov. 2, 1993.
"A
Sense of Place," Eleventh
Architecture Chautauqua in Mississippi, Mississippi
State
University School of Architecture, October 1990; Mississippi Science and Math
School,
Columbus, Mississippi, April 1991; Mississippi Writers Program, East
Webster
High School, April 1991, Eupora Public Library, October 1997.
"Sexual
Politics in Eudora Welty's 'Moon Lake'," Mississippi Univ. for Women,
October1989.
"A
Tan and Sandy Silence: John D.
McDonald's Myth of the Good Life," lecture for
the
Mississippi Library Association, Macon (February 1985) and Starkville (April
1984).
"Tarzan
Meets the Department Head," Boston University, 1977; Wesleyan Univ.
(Connecticut)
1983.
"Uses
of the Computer in Teaching Composition," Fourteenth Annual Junior/Senior
College
English Workshop. Northeast Mississippi Junior
College, February 1984.
"Wallace
Stevens' Theories of Poetry,"
Faculty lecture series.
Furman University,
1970.
"Welty's
'Death of a Travelling Salesman'--A Pilgrim's Progress." Lecture for the
Mississippi
Mindscape series at the Pontotoc Public Library, November, 1987.
"Writing
Fiction," Mississippi Junior College Creative Writing Association, Holmes
Junior
College, Goodman, Mississippi, March 6, 1984.
"Liberals
and Conservatives: American Cultural History and the Mid-Term Elections,"
lecture
for the Tokyo English Forum, International House, Tokyo, Japan, December
17,1994.
ÒMolecular
Sememics: A Model of Meaning in Ordinary Language.Ó Paper for the
Berkeley
Summer Research Seminar, University of California at Berkeley, June 1996.
VII. Post-Doctoral
Fellowships
1976 National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: "Problems in the
Interpretation
of Lyric Poetry." Boston
University, Professor Helen Vendler.
1977-78 National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship in Residence: "Lyric
Poetry," Boston University, Professor Helen
Vendler.
1984 National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: "Semiotics and its
Application
in Linguistics and the Verbal Arts."
Princeton University, Professor
Michael
Shapiro.
1996 Berkeley
Summer Research Seminar: ÒMind,
Body, Brain: seminars in
Cognitive
Linguistics (Professor George Lakoff) and Philosophy of Mind (Professor
John
Searle.) University of California,
Berkeley.
VIII. Dissertations and Theses supervised
(incomplete)
Robert
Harold Zachary, Rupert Brooke and the Metaphysical Mode, M.A.
1976.
Major
Professor.
Betty
Oakes, _________________. Major Professor.
Eleanor
Dudley, Edwin O'Connor at Work: a Textual Study of "One Spring
Morning."
M.A.
983. Minor professor.
Richard
Douglas Benton Jr., Walking (a
novelette). M.A. Thesis, 1986. Major
Professor.
Bliss
Green, Faith in Ordinary Times
(Fiction). M.A. 1991. Major professor.
Todd
Bunnell, Mister Blue
(Fiction). M.A. 1992. Minor professor.
Edwina
Hogue, Nothingness is the Sound of What I Do (Poetry). M.A. 1993. Minor
professor.
Judy
A. Hale, Lifelong Reading: Children's Perceptions of a Good Story and How
Authors
of Children's Stories may Incorporate those Perceptions. Ph.D.
Thesis,
School
of Education. 1994. Minor
Professor.
Lisa
Lishman, The World Smells More Like Catfish than Cypress (Fiction).
M.A. Thesis,
1997.
Minor professor.
Dean
Karpowicz, Leasters (Fiction).
M.A. Thesis, 1997. Major Professor.
Ryan
Davis, Anything is Better than Nothing (Fiction). M.A. Thesis,
1997. Major professor.
IX. Grants
and Contracts
Project
Director of grant from Mississippi Committee for the Humanities for a
program
by Edward Albee, 1981. $1000.
Project
Director for grant from Mississippi Committee for the Humanities for
"Mississippi
vs. New York: a Literary Relationship," a three-day literary symposium
sponsored
by the Southern Literary Festival.
1986.
Project
Director for grant from the John Herrin Foundation for "Mississippi vs.
New
York:
a Literary Relationship," 1986.
$1000.
Humanities
Research Grant, ÒMarkedness in Discourse,Ó Mississippi State University,
1996.
$2000.
Project
Director for a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council for "Our
Time,
Our
Place: The Writer as Witness," a three-day literary symposium sponsored by
the
Southern
Literary Festival, April 1997.
$4200.
X. Consulting
and Public Service
1973 Panelist,
Fiction workshop, Southern Literary Festival, Mississippi State
University.
1974-83 Paid and Unpaid Consultant for the
Mississippi Committee for the
Humanities or for granted communities: grant director, workshop leader or
panel
speaker
at town meetings in Jackson (three times), Amory (twice), Aberdeen,
Cleveland,
Carthage, Columbus, Durant, Fulton, Greenwood, Rolling Fork, Starkville
(several
times), Yazoo City, and Newton, Mississippi.
1975-1999 Judge,
short story contests at Gainesville College, Gainesville, Georgia;
Jackson
Preparatory School; College Writers Society of Louisiana; Mississippi
School
for Math and Science.
1978 Outside
Examiner and Reader: Bachelor of
Arts Thesis and Examinations,
Marlboro
College (Vermont).
1980 Conducted
14-week adult Sunday School class at Trinity Presbyterian Church
entitled
"Secular Parables: Christian themes and issues as raised by philosophers,
poets
and fictions writers."
1981 Panelist
and discussion leader, Albee's "Zoo Story." MSU, November
14.
1982 Panelist,
Governor's Conference on Education, sponsored by the Mississippi
Library
Commission, Jackson, Mississippi.
1982 Instructor,
OFFICE COMMUNICATION SEMINARS: Eight-hour seminar
conducted
for Gulf States Manufacturers, Starkville, Mississippi. Ten-hour course,
"Self-Editing,"
for eight individuals.
1985 Panelist,
Fiction Workshop, Southern Literary Festival, Thibodaux, Louisiana.
1986 Host,
Southern Literary Festival, Mississippi State University. Organized a
three-day
literary festival with more than 20 speakers and visiting artists.
1990 Lecture,
"Writing about Short Stories" for the Teaching Assistants' Program,
MSU,
April 4.
1988-93 Instructor for the ESL
portion of the Meisei University Program sponsored
by
the Asian Studies Center, MSU Continuing Education Division, August/September
1989,
1990, February 1992, August 1992, and September 1993.
1990 Instructor
for ESL classes for Honda technical personnel, Brian Field,
Starkville,
Mississippi, 13 weeks.
1991 Conducted
two writing workshops on Writing Short Stories at East Webster
High
School, April 23. Sessions
followed by an interview with WCBI TV, Columbus.
1992 Played
the role of "Mr. Saunders" in Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a_Tenor,
performed
by the Starkville Community Theater, December 10-14, 1992.
1992 Conducted
a fiction workshop for the Young Writers' Conference, sponsored
by
Young Southern Writers, Aberdeen, Mississipi, April 11, 1992.
1992 Served
as faculty consultant for a grant project written by Bill Miles, West
Point
High School, entitled "Poetic Vision as a Complement to the Scientific: A
Study
of
Contemporary Poets Who Employ the Language and Concepts of Science."
1993 Panel
discussion leader, Southern Literary Festival, Hinds Community
College.Panel
included Barry Hannah, Jules Pfeiffer, Patrick Smith, and Aleda
Shirley.
1993 Conducted
fiction workshop, Gainesville College, Gainesville, Ga. Nov. 2.
1993 Lectured
on the semiotic theories of Charles Sanders Peirce for Wallace
Murphree's
American Philosophy seminar, September 15, 1993.
1994 As a
consultant for the Japan National Tourist Organization, I served as chief
examiner
for some 35 candidates for certification as tour guides.
1995 Played
the role of "David" in the Starkville Community Theater production of
"Morning's
at Seven," by John Osborn, September 14-17.
1997 Moderated
a panel of writers in a Fiction Workshop: John Grisham, Padgett
Powell,
Brad Watson, Thomas Hal Phillips, Ashley Warlick.
2000 Reading
& lecture, ÒÔ51 FordÕ and ÔA
Sense of PlaceÕ,Ó Fukushi Shien
Center, Hino City, Tokyo, January
30.
XII. Professional
Affiliations
Semiotic
Society of America
Modern
Language Association
Associate
Writing Programs
Wallace
Stevens Society
Southern
Literary Festival Association (Vice President 1984-85, 1995-96; President
1985-86
and 1996-97).