James Ashbrook Perkins
For President of Cornell University, see James Alfred Perkins.
James Ashbrook Perkins has been a Professor of English, at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania since 1973. For 2000-2005 he was chairman of that department. He is known both for his creative writing, and for his literary scholarship.
Education
Perkins received a BA, from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1963, a MA, from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1965, and a PhD, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1972.
Career
After receiving his doctorate, he was appointed Assistant professor at University Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1971. He was a Visiting Fulbright professor, Korea, 1998; He was a National Endowment of the Humanities fellow four times, for 1978, 1981, 1987, 1989.
Academic works
- (with Randy Hendricks) David Madden: A Writer for All Genres, Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2006
- (editor): The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2005
- (coed. with James A Grimshaw) Robert Penn Warren's All the king's men : three stage versions[ Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2000,
- (coed. with Randy Hendricks) For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader, Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2001,
- (coedited with William Bedford Clark and Randy Hendricks) Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren vol. 3: Triumph and Transition 1943-1952, ; vol. 4: New Beginnings and New Directions, 1953-1968. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2000
- (coedited with Jeffrey J. folks) Southern Writers at Century's End, Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1997, According to WorldCat, the book is held in 554 libraries [1]
Creative Works
Poetry
- The Woodcarver, 1978.
- The Amish 2, Perceptions 2, 1981.
- Brother enemy : poems of the Korean War edited and translated by Suh Ji-Moon ; in collaboration with James A. Perkins. Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, 2002. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 144 libraries.[2]
Fiction
- Snakes, Butterbeans and the Discovery of Electricity, 1990, 2003; Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2003 According to WorldCat, the book is held in 31 libraries.[3]
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