Thomas
Price Caldwell, Jr.
Professor
of International Communications
Meisei
University
Tokyo,
Japan
042-591-6653
Professional
degrees
1958-1962 Davidson College A.B. 1962 English
1962-1964 Tulane University M.A. 1964 English
1967-1969
Tulane University Ph.D.
1973 English
Professional
Experience
2000-present Meisei University, Professor of English
2002-present Waseda University, adjunct Professor of English
1998-2000 Meisei University, Visiting Professor of English
1977-2000 Mississippi State Univ.--Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty
Summer 1996 University of California at Berkeley--Visiting Researcher
1994-1995 Meisei University, Tokyo--Visiting Professor
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 Univ.--Assistant Professor
1972-1973 Mississippi State Univ.--Instructor
1969-1972 Furman University--Instructor
1968-1969 Tulane University--Teaching Assistant
1964-1967 Wofford College--Instructor
Professional
Interests
Most of my professional work has been in Modern British and American Literature, with research especially on Wallace Stevens, and other Modern poets; Eudora Welty, Richard Ford, and others. I also directed the Creative Writing Program at Mississippi State University for eleven years, and published a fair number of short stories. Most recently, I have been working on language studies, specifically a theory of discourse which I call Molecular Sememics.
Selected
Publications
"American Shootout: Hemingway and Richard Ford." Meisei Review Vol. 16 (2001). 39-55. (pdf file)
ÒThe Coerciveness of Discourse.Ó Meisei Review Vol. 22 (2007), 29-43. (pdf file)
"The Epistemologies of
Linguistic Science: Reassessing Structuralism, Redefining the Sememe." Meisei
Review. Vol. 21 (2006), 27-39. (pdf file)
"Metaphoric Structures in Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.'" Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Vol. 71 (1972), 321-335.
"Molecular Sememics: A Progress Report." Meisei Review. Vol. 4 (1989), 65-86.
"The Molecular Sememe: A Model for Literary Interpretation." Meisei Review . Vol. 15 (2000), 155-162. (pdf file)
"The
Rhetoric of Plain Fact: Stevens' "No Possum, No Sop, No
Taters." Meisei Review.
Vol. 10 (1995), 131-141. (pdf file)
"Sexual Politics in Welty's 'Moon Lake' and 'Petrified Man'," Studies in American Fiction. Vol. 18, no. 2 (Autumn, 1990), 171-181. (pdf file)
"'Sunday Morning': Stevens' Makeshift Romantic Lyric." The Southern Review. Vol. 15, no. 4 (Autumn,1979), 933-952. (pdf file)
"Topic-Comment Effects in English." Meisei Review. Vol. 17 (March 2002), 49-69. (pdf file)
"Whorf,
Orwell, and Mentalese (The Molecular Sememe: some implications for
semantics)." Meisei Review. Vol 19
(March, 2004) 91-106. (pdf
file)
E-mail: price@mail.hinocatv.ne.jp
URL:
http://www.hinocatv.ne.jp/~price/