EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Literature and Philosophy) University of Wisconsin, 1966
M.A. (Literature) University of Wisconsin, 1962
B.A. (English and French) Brigham Young University, 1960
Certificate (French Language and Literature) Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, 1959
Certificate Center for Educational Leadership, Los Angeles, 1972
Certificate Inner-Quality Management, Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, CA, 2001
Certificate Qualified Instructor–Resilient Educator, Institute of HeartMath, Boulder Creek, CA 2007
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2016- Director, Mormon Studies, Graduate Theological Union
1999-2011 Director, Education and Humanities, Institute of HeartMath
Responsible for applying HeartMath’s innovative research on the physiology of learning and performance, including heart-brain dynamics, to education and directing education programs for preschool through university.
1977-1992 Director, Department of the Arts, University Extension, UCLA
Oversaw the growth and development of the largest and most successful continuing arts education program in the nation with a staff of seventy, an instructional staff of over a thousand part-time teachers and an annual enrollment of over 35,000 students.
1982-1987 Assistant Dean, College of Fine Arts, UCLA
Working with the Dean and his administrative staff, coordinated academic activities between the Extension Division and the Campus; was a member of various campus committees including Royce Two-Seventy, the organization responsible for Campus public performing arts events.
1979-1988 Director of Studies, the UCLA/Cambridge Program, the UCLA/Royal College of Arts Program, the UCLA/Royal College of Music Program
Created and administered study programs at these British institutions.
1974-77 Director, Department of the Humanities and Communications, University Extension, UCLA.
Oversaw the growth and development of a large continuing education program in the humanities, including the American Language Center and the administration of a number of federally funded programs aimed at minority and disadvantaged student populations (Veterans Head Start, Educational Opportunities Center, etc.).
— Executive Secretary, Articulated Instructional Media Program, University of Wisconsin. Administered an experimental education program funded by the Carnegie Foundation to use new media and new education models for creating innovative ways of teaching and learning.
TEACHING
2013- Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
2010- Visiting Professor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
1998-2000 Lecturer, Merrill College, University of California at Santa Cruz
1995-1996 Fulbright Professor of American Literature, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania
1992-1995 Visiting Professor of American Literature, Vytautas Magnus University
1980-1990 Adjunct Professor of English, UCLA
1972-1991 Senior Extension Instructor, UCLA Extension
1974-77 Adjunct Professor, Liberal Studies, Pepperdine University
1975 Visiting Professor of English, California State University, Northridge
1966-1974 Assistant Professor of English, UCLA
1961-62 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Wisconsin
COURSES TAUGHT: 1964-2014
The American Dream
Americans in a Changing World
American Literature, 1801-1865
American Literature, 1866-1912
The American Novel
The British and American Short Story
British Literature, 1660-1832
British Literature, 1832-present
Communication Studies
The Devil in American Literature and Thought (seminar)
Fiction and Film: The American Short Story
Introduction to Drama
Introduction to the Fine Arts
Introduction to Methods of Literary Research (graduate)
Introduction to Mormonism (graduate)
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Short Fiction
James Joyce’s Dubliners (seminar)
Literature and Film (graduate)
Major American Authors
Modern American Literature
Modern American Poetry
Modern Fiction
Modern Moral Problems (freshman honors)
Mormon Ethics (graduate)
Mormonism: How an American Faith Became a World Religion
Mormonism: The Emergence of a New World Religion (graduate)
Prosody
Reading Texts (graduate course in Shakespeare and modern texts)
Sacred Texts of the Latter-day Saints (graduate)
Time and Timelessness in American Literature and Thought (seminar)
20th-Century British and American Poetry
20th-Century British Poetry and Short Prose
The Vanished Garden: Nature and Ecology in American Literature (seminar)
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
In addition to organizing and administering a number of academic programs for UCLA in Europe, I was responsible for planning and administering four conferences involving writers from the United States and China, two of which were held at UCLA and two in China.
I was a member of a delegation from UCLA invited by the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences to Moscow and St. Petersburg in April l990 to explore joint ventures in education. From 1993-1996, I was a visiting professor of American Literature at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. I have also lectured at Kaliningrad University, Riga University (Latvia), Vilnius University (Lithuania), Klaipeda University (Lithuania) and Tartu University (Estonia).
RESEARCH, HUMANITARIAN SERVICE AND INTERFAITH WORK
2013- Fellow, Center for Advanced Research, Aorangi Molana Sanctuary, New Zealand
2012- Member, Bay Area Mormon Studies Council
2012-2017 Board of Directors, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
2012-2015 Member, Board, Marin Interfaith Council
2010-2016 Advisory Board, No Bully
2008- Founding member and Vice-President, Liahona Children’s Foundation (provides nutrition and education to disadvantaged children in Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru Cambodia, the Philippines and Africa)
2006-2016 Advisory Board, Save African Families Enterprise (S.A.F.E. provides anti-viral drugs to pregnant HIV-infected mothers in Zimbabwe)
2006- Advisory Board, Mormon Studies Council, Claremont Graduate University
2005-2008 Board, Council on Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University
2000-2002 Member, Santa Cruz Interfaith Council
1998-2000 President, University Religious Conference, UC Santa Cruz
1994-96 Director of Humanitarian Services, Baltics States, Deseret International Charities. (Responsible for coordinating all humanitarian efforts in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Kaliningrad, including working with local and American charities to import and distribute food, clothing, and medical equipment and supplies to needy individuals and organizations.)
1995 Founder and board member of Seima (“Family”) (humanitarian service organization in Lithuania)
MEDIA
Writer, “American Dreams” (a play about the American Renaissance), 2013
Advisor, “Families Are Forever,” a documentary film produced by the Family Acceptance Project, San Francisco State University
Producer, “The Golden Angel Over the City,” a documentary film for Lithuanian State Television. Aired 18 February 1996.
Producer, Director and Writer, “Spires to the Sun: Sabatino Rodia’s Towers in Watts.” A documentary film sponsored by the California Council for the Humanities which had its premier showing on Public Television Station KCET on 10 May 1992. Also shown on TELE-3, Lithuania, March 1993.
Writer (with Ken Kemp) of a script entitled “Crucifixion of Innocents: The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.” Optioned by Artemis Films.
Writer (with Ken Kemp) of an original screenplay entitled “A Perfect World.”
Writer (with Raphael La Rosa) of a script, “Sabatino Rodia: the Artist Nobody Knows,” for KCET Public Television.
Executive Producer, “I Hear Tell: Storytelling in American Cultures,” a projected documentary film on storytelling, funded through the planning and script development phases by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Designer, writer, and editor of a tele-course on the American Short Story, produced by Coastline Community College.
RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS (partial list)
General
“Trump Changes His Mind about Syria . . . And Everything Else”
“Donald Babbling”
“Jesus Loves Muslims! Shouldn’t Trump!”
“Donald Trump, Wonderland and the Meaningless of Words”
“The Turning Point in the Election—and the Nation’s Future?”
“Sowing Hatred”
“Darkness Descends on the Republic”
“Forward” to Raymond Bradley’s Consciousness and the Lens of Love; publication pending.
Religious & Mormon Studies
“Why Liberalism is the Ultimate Flowering of Mormonism,” Dialogue
“Choosing Peace: The Case for Mormon Pacifism,” to be published in a forthcoming collection of essays on Mormons and Peace.
“Misreading Scripture: The Abrahamic Sacrifice Reconsidered”; submitted to Dialogue 3.9.17
“Looking Deeper into Joseph Smith’s First Vision,” forthcoming in Interpreter, 9 March 2017.
“The Lord of the Dance,” forthcoming from Sunstone.
“The Gift of Christmas,” Submitted to Meridian Magazine, December 2016.
“Why Mormons Should Vote for and Support Hillary Clinton”
“Finding Jesus in the Labyrinth,” Sunstone, 183 (Winter 2016), 8-9.
“The Story of an Award-Winning Ad That Never Ran,” forthcoming from Dialogue.
“The Heart of and In Alma 12 and 13,” forthcoming from a collection of essays on Alma 12 and 13 sponsored by the Mormon Theology Seminar and published by the Maxwell Institute in 2017.
“Rethinking Scripture: The Abrahamic Sacrifice,” re-submitted to Dialogue.
“Joseph Smith and the Face of Christ,” submitted to Dialogue 9 March 2017.
“Jesus in the Air,” Sunstone, 182 (Fall 2016).
“Ordination and Blessing,” Dialogue 49:1 (Spring 2016), 131-137.
“Joseph Smith and the American Renaissance, an Update,” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 19 (2016), 1-16. See also the conversation that follows the article.
“Loaves and Fishes: The Work of the Liahona Children’s Foundation,” Meridian Magazine, 20 January 2016; http://ldsmag.com/loaves-and-fishes-the-work-of-the-liahona-childrens-foundation/.
“Late Night Thoughts on the LDS Church’s Policy on Gay Parents &Their Children,” Rational Faiths, 29 November 2015; http://rationalfaiths.com/late-night-thoughts-on-the-lds-churchs-policy-on-gay-parents-their-children/
“The LDS Church’s Policy on Gay Parents and Their Children as Seen through the Lens of Love,” posted on Exploring Sainthood, 20 December 2015; No More Strangers: LGBT Mormon Forum’ 31 December 2015, and Affirmation, January 2016.
“Dialogue [with Gordon Thomasson]: Religion as Peacemaker,” Peace Is Possible (publication of the 26th Annual Conference of the LDS International Society, 6 April 2015), 28-31.
“Disciplinary Councils: Excommunication and Community in the Modern Church,” in Voices of Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism, ed. Gordon Shepherd, Lavina Fielding Anderson and Gary Shepherd (Draper, UT: Kofford Books, 2015), 227-240.
“Christ is the Population of the World,” Sunstone, 179 (Fall 2015), 34-35.
“Amazing Grace,” Sunstone, 178 (Summer 2015), 60-61.
“John Milton, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 54:3 (2015), 6-18.
“Mary as Mother,” submitted to Dialogue 11 May 2015.
“Toward a Gender Neutral Hymnal” forthcoming from Exponent II.
“Reductio ad Absurdum,” Rational Faiths, 9 March 2015.
“Is the Church True or False?” Exploring Sainthood, 4 May 2015.
“Finding Christ at St. Thomas Episcopal Church,” Sunstone (April 2015).
“Addressing Malnutrition among Latter-day Saint Children Living in an Imperiled Island Paradise,” Meridian Magazine 23 March 2015.
“Teaching Mormon Studies at a School of Theology and a Public University,”
Mormon Studies Review 2 (2015): 33–41.
“Excommunication,” Exploring Sainthood, 2 November 2014.
“Feed My Lambs,” Meridian Magazine, 12 December 2014; http://ldsmag.com/feed-my-lambs-jesus-last-great-teaching/
“Tikkun k’nessiah: Repairing the Church,” submitted to Dialogue, 18 October 2014; shortened and revised submitted to Dialogue, 11 May 2015. http://www.faithagain.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Repairing-the-Church.pdf; resubmitted to Dialogue 3.9.17
“Addressing Malnutrition in the Modern Church: Colombia,” Meridian Magazine, 19 September 2014.
“Sun (Plus) Stone,” Sunstone, 175 (June 2014), 82.
“Guns, More Guns and Mormon Guns.” Scheduled for publication in Restoration Studies, 2016.
“I wasn’t going to excommunicate anyone,” guest post, Flunking Sainthood, 14 July 2014.
“Addressing Malnutrition in the Modern Church: The Work of the Liahona Children’s Foundation,” Meridian Magazine, 9 July 2014.
“Ode to Joy,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 46:4 (Winter 2013), 222-229.
“I Heard the News from Heaven Today,” Exploring Sainthood (blog and podcast), 20 December 2013.
“A Pioneer Christmas,” Exploring Sainthood (blog and podcast), December 2013.
“Mary and the Meaning of Christmas,” Meridian Magazine, December 2013.
“Cleaning the House of the Lord,” Exploring Sainthood, 13 November 2013
“Spiritual Guidance in the Latter-day Saint Tradition,” A Companion on the Journey: Traditions of Spiritual Guidance in the Religions of the World, Edited by John R. Mabry (Skylight Paths Press, 2013)
“Parenting and Same-sex Marriage,” Exploring Sainthood, 2 May 2013.
“Small Things: Notes on Mormon Feminism,” Exponent II 32:4 (Spring 2013), 18-20.
“Glenn Beck: The Meteoric Rise and Decline of a Mormon Media Phenomenon,” in Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon, Vol. II, ed. J. Michael (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2012), 165-186.
“Jon McNaughton: Mormon Artist, Right-wing Propagandist” Sunstone 168 (September 2012), 40-44.
“Teaching Mormon Studies,” organizer & panelist, Sunstone Symposium, 2012.
“Hosannas at Glide Memorial Church,” Sunstone 172 (August 2013), 23-25; third place, Eugene England Memorial Essay Contest.
“Empathy, Sympathy and Compassion,” organizer & panelist, Sunstone Symposium, 2012.
“Anti-Mormonism in the 2012 Presidential Campaign,” organizer & panelist, Sunstone Symposium, 2012.
“Mitt Romney in Political Cartoons,” Sunstone Symposium, 2012.
“The Prodigal Daughter” in Parables for Today, 2012 (Salt Lake City: Alta Publishing, 2012).
“Are Mormons Christian?” Graduate Theological Union, December 2011.
“The Heart and Spirituality,” webinar presented at the Institute of HeartMath, 2011.
“Imagining Peace: The Example of the Nephites Following Christ’s Visit to the New World,” War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives, ed. Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher & Richard L. Bushman (Salt Lake City: Kofford Books, 2012).
“Children of Light: How the Nephites Sustained Two Centuries of Peace,” in Third Nephi: An Incomparable Scripture, ed. Andrew C. Skinner and Gaye Strathearn (Provo, UT: Maxwell Center, BYU, 2012), 309-328.
Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011).
“Glenn Beck: Rough Stone Roaring,” Sunstone 159 (June 2010), 9-27.
“Toward a Mormon Feminist Midrash: Mormon Women and the Imaginative Reading of Scripture,” Sunstone Symposium, 2009; Sunstone 166 (March 2012), 55-61.
“The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Fall 2011), 44-66.
“Alma the Younger’s Seminal Sermon at Zarahemla,” Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of Kent Brown (Provo, UT: Maxwell Institute, 2011), 329-344.
“How Mormons Could Help End the Genocide in Darfur,” Sunstone 152 (Dec. 2008), 26-29.
“The Goodness of the Church,” Dialogue 41:1 (Summer 2008) 162-173.
“To Sing the Song of Redeeming Love, Alma 1-19,” in The Reader’s Book of Mormon (2008).
The Reader’s Book of Mormon, co-ed. with Eugene England (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2008).
“Mormons and the Cross,” Sunstone Symposium, 2007.
“The Cost of Credulity: Mormon Urban Legends and the War on Terror,” Sunstone 144 (Dec. 2006).
“The Book of Mormon and Automatic Writing,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 15:1 (2006), 4-17, 68-70.
“‘Lord, To Whom Shall We Go? The Challenges of Discipleship and Church Membership,” Dialogue (fall 2006), 103-114.
“An Open Letter to Nathan Oman,” Dialogue, 39:2 (Summer 2006), 173-177.
“The Possibilities of Dialogue,” Dialogue 39:2 (Summer 2006), 97-99.
“Seeing Joseph Smith: The Changing Image of the Mormon Prophet,” Sunstone 140 (December 2005), 18-27.
“Introduction,” Proving Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005), xiii-xx.
“Eugene England Enters Heaven,” Proving Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005), xiii-xx.
“Black African Jews, the Mormon Denial of Priesthood to Blacks, and Truth and Reconciliation.” Sunstone (Oct. 2004), 62-67.
“Why Mormons Should Celebrate Holy Week,” Dialogue 37:3 (Fall 2004), 151-167.
“America’s War on Terrorism: One Latter-day Saint’s Perspective,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36:1 (Spring 2003), 11-32.
“Irony in the Book of Mormon,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (fall 2003), 20-31.
“loneliness,” Sunstone (October 2002). Third place winner, the Eugene England Personal Essay Contest.
“Talking with Gene,” http://www.eugeneengland.org/eugene-england/remembering-gene-project/remembering-gene-mission-marriage-mit-air-force-stanford-dialogue/talking-with-gene.
“Eugene England: Our Brother in Christ,” Dialogue 35.1 (Spring 2002): 27–33.
“Joseph Smith and the American Renaissance,” Dialogue 35:3 (Fall 2002), 83-112.
“Forgiving the Church and Loving the Saints: Spiritual Evolution and the Kingdom of God” Sunstone 16:1 (February 1992), 18-27.
“It Has Opened My Heart Wide to Experience His Love,” in Converted to Christ through the Book of Mormon, ed. Eugene England (Deseret Book, 1989), 192-98.
“Every Soul Has Its South Africa,” Sunstone (November 1988), 18-20.
“Monologues and Dialogues: A Personal Perspective” Dialogue 20:2 (Summer 1987).
“Ammon,” in The Book of Mormon: It Begins with A Family (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983), 79-89.
“‘Cooperating in Works of the Spirit’: Notes Toward a Higher Dialogue” Dialogue 11:1 (Spring 1978), 13-17.
“Letters of Belief: An Exchange of Thoughts and Feelings About the Mormon Faith,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 9, no. 3 (Fall 1974): 9-20.
“The Possibilities of Dialogue” Dialogue 9:3 (Autumn 1974)
“The Gospel, Mormonism and American Culture” Dialogue 8:2 (Summer 1973).
“The Liberty With Which We Are Made Free: Intellectual and Spiritual Freedom in the Restored Church,” Academic Awareness (Brigham Young University, Summer 1973), 21-30.
“A Christian Peace,” Dialogue 7:3 (Autumn 1972), 4-5.
“A Continuing Dialogue” Dialogue 6:1 (Spring 1971).
“’Truth is the Daughter of Time’: Notes toward an Imaginative Mormon History,” Dialogue 4:3/4 (1971), 15-22.
“Articles and Essays in Mormon Studies” Dialogue 1:4 (Winter 1966).
Melville’s Alma and the Book of Mormon,” Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 43 (II Quarter 1966), 41-46.
Education and Psychology
The College De-Stress Handbook, a handbook for emotional self-management for college students (Boulder Creek, CA: Institute of HeartMath, 2011), co-author with Jeff Goelitz.
“Connecting the Heart and the Brain: A New Approach to Social and Emotional Learning,” NAEYC Conference, 4 November 2010, Anaheim, CA
“The Effect of an Emotion Self-Regulation Technology (the emWave PC) on Student Test Anxiety and Performance,” presentation at the American Education Research Association Conference, Denver, CO., 2 May 2010.
“Nurturing the Hearts of Children,” webinar (with Debbie Rozman), HeartMath, 2010.
“Early HeartSmarts,” National Head Start Conference, Orlando, FL, 29 April 2009; Dallas, TX, May 2010.
“Facilitating Emotional Self-Regulation in Preschool Children: Efficacy of the Early HeartSmarts Program in Promoting Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Development,” co-author (submitted to Early Childhood Research Quarterly)
“The HeartMath System: Integrating Ancient Wisdom and New Science in Teacher Education and Practice” (submitted to the Journal of Multicultural Social Work)
“Biofeedback and Positive Emotions,” Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology, ed. S. J. Lopez (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); co-author.
“The Heart-Brain Connection,” Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology, ed. S.J. Lopez (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); co-author.
“The Central Role of the Heart in Generating and Sustaining Positive Emotions,” The Handbook of Positive Psychology, 2nd Edition. ed. C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009); co-author. Revised edition 2016.
“Early HeartSmarts,” National Head Start Conference, Orlando, FL, 29 April 2009; Dallas, TX, April 2010.
“HeartSmarts: Teaching and Learning from Children about the Heart,” Third ChildSpirit Conference, Chattanooga, TN 10 November 2007.
“On Wings of Love: Children’s Intuition, Quantum Holography and the Future,”
Third ChildSpirit Conference, Chattanooga, TN 11 November 2007.
“Positive Heart-based Tools for coherent Living,” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 2007.
“Effective Tools for Reducing Test Anxiety and Improving Test Performance,” NASP Conference, New York City, May 2007.
“The Spiritual Roots of Heart-based Therapy,” AMCAP Conference, Salt Lake City, April 2007.
Reducing Test Anxiety and Improving Test Performance in America’s Schools: Results from the TestEdge National Demonstration Study (Institute of HeartMath, 2007); co-author.
“Children’s Views of the Heart,” ChildSpirit Conference, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2004
“The Heart in Holistic Education,” Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice 16:3 (Autumn 2003), 13-23; co-author.
“The Heart and Children’s Spirituality,” ChildSpirit Conference, Atlanta, October 2002
The Arts
“Spires to the Sun: Rodia’s Towers in Watts” (a multi-media presentation), Lithuanian Association of North American Studies Conference, Vilnius University, April 1995.
“Images of America in Lithuania,” North American Studies Conference, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia, April 1995.
“The Sea in Literature and Painting,” as part of the UCLA Extension lecture series “The Lore and the Lure of the Sea,” February 21, 1985.
“From Rococo to Revolution: Contradiction and Conflict in 18th-Century Culture,” Los Angeles Stake Cultural Arts Series, April 14, 1984.
“The Age of Reason: Light and Enlightenment in 18th-Century Art and Literature,” Los Angeles Stake Cultural Arts Series, February 1983.
“Images and the Imagination,” Plato Society of UCLA Colloquium, May 1982.
“Caravaggio and de la Tour: The Experience of Light,” Los Angeles Stake Cultural Arts Series, February 20, 1982.
“Hymns and the Divine Light: The Flowering of the Gothic Cathedral,” Los Angeles Stake Cultural Arts Series, March 1981.
“Paste or Pearl? The Popular Arts vs. The Fine Arts,” BYU Humanities Forum, November 1980.
“Man, The Measure of All Things: Leonardo da Vinci and the Spirit of the Renaissance, ” Los Angeles Stake Cultural Arts Series, February 22, 1980.
Literary Studies
Proving Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005)
“Jehu O’Cataract at Mid-life: John Neal and the Family Companion” (submitted to Studies in Bibliography)
“Hearing the Han Shan Bell,” Lithuanian Association of North American Studies, 1 (1996), 30-33.
“A Conversation with Deng Youmei, Secretary of the Chinese Writers’ Association,” Weber Studies 10:3 (1993)
“The Kalevala and Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha: Points of Comparison,” in The World of the Kalevala, Proceedings of a UCLA Conference in Celebration of the 150 Year Jubilee of the Publication of the Finnish National Epic, Robert A. Georges and Michael Owen Jones, eds., UCLA Folklore and Mythology Publications, 1986.
“The Bible in American Literature,” Bulletin of Bibliography, 29, 3 (1972), 101-108.
Fifteen American Authors Before 1900: Bibliographic Essays on Research and Criticism (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1971; revised edition, 1984); with Earl Herbert.
Guide to the American Short Story, study guide for a tele-course produced by Coast Community College (Costa Mesa, California, 1982).
Washington Irving’s The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837); as part of the Washington Irving Project sponsored by the Center for the Editions of American Authors (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977); with Alan Sandy.
The Short Story: An Introductory Anthology (Boston: Little Brown, 1969; second edition 1975); with Barry Meinkoff.
“The Imagination’s New Beginning: Thoughts on Esthetics and Religion,” Dialogue, 4 (Autumn 1969), 21-25.
The Emerson Society Quarterly: Index of the First Decade (Transcendental Books, Hartford, 1966); with Richard Rust.
A Checklist of Emerson Criticism (1951-1961) (Transcendental Books, Hartford, 1963); with Jackson Bryer.
“William Gilmore Simms and The Family Companion,” Studies in Bibliography, 24 (1971), 109-129.
“Index and Author Guide to the Family Companion,” Studies in bibliography, 25 (1972), 205-212.
“James Russell Lowell,” in Fifteen American Authors Before 1900, (1971; revised edition, 1984).
“Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven and The Gates Ajar,” English Language Notes, 7 (March 1970), 197-202.
“Mark Twain’s ‘The Turning Point of my Life’,” American Literature, 40 (January 1969), 524-535; with Richard Rust.
“Mark Twain and Lucius Fairchild,” Wisconsin Academy Review, 15 (Spring 1968), 8-9.
“James Russell Lowell in Spain and England: New Letters,” Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 47 (II Quarter 1967), 7-13.
“Seeds of the Enlightenment: Public Testimony in the New England Congregational Churches, 1630-1750,” Early American Literature, 3 (Spring 1968), 22-29.
“‘The Paradise of Meaning’: Reflections on Teaching Literature,” Lithuanian Association of North American Studies, The America Center, Vilnius, Lithuania, February 1996.
“William Carlos Williams,” Riga University (Latvia), April 1994.
“The American Short Story,” Kaliningrad State University, January & February, 1994.
“Teaching English through Fiction and Poetry,” English Teachers Association, Kaliningrad, Russia, January 1994.
“Modern American Poetry,” Vilnius University, Spring 1993
“Monologues and Dialogues,” Essays read at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20, 1989.
“The Kalevala and Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha: Points of Comparison,” the International Symposium, “The World of the Kalevala,” UCLA, January 26, 1985.
“Dreams, Mutabilities, and Disturbances in the Field,” commencement address, Crossroads School for Arts and Science, June 18, 1984.
“Images and the Imagination,” Plato Society of UCLA Colloquium, May 1982.
“The Clock and the Circle: Time and Timelessness in American Literature,” UCLA Alumni Lecture Series, January 1979.
“The Imagination and Christ: Muriel Spark’s Use of Baudelaire,” Western Conference on Christianity and Literature, Whittier, California, January 1979.
“The Short Story as an Approach to Teaching Language,” Soviet Teachers of Literature Seminar, UCLA, August 1972, August 1973.
“Saints and Sinners: A New Look at Puritan Literature,” UCLA Extension Symposium on American Puritanism, Lake Arrowhead, California, November 1972.
“Imagination and the Religious Experience,” Annual Phi Kappa Phi Awards Lecture, Brigham Young University, May 1972.
“The History of a Campaign That Failed’: Mark Twain and War,” American Studies Lecture Series, San Diego State University, May 1969.
Gender and Sexuality Studies
“A Welcome Message,” No More Strangers 1 February 2015; Exploring Sainthood
“Enigma,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog, 1 Jan 2015
“Holy Envy at Midnight,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog
“The Devil is in the Details,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog, 22 June 2014.
“Biblical Standards of Morality and Employment,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog, 20 July 2014.
“Twelve Years,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog, 14 December 2013
“Salt Lake: We Have a Problem,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog, 14 November 2013.
“Inconvenient Truths & Convenient Falsehoods: Broadening and Deepening the Dialogue on Homosexuality among the Mormons,” Keynote address, Compassionate Care Conference, Seattle, Washington, 17 August 2013. No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog.
“The Heart of the Matter: Turning Our Hearts to Our LGBT Community,” capstone address, Compassionate Care Conference, Seattle, Washington, 17 August 2013. No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog 26 October 2013.
“From Russia with Hate,” A Rational Faith, 11 August 2013; No More Strangers: LGBT Forum blog, 14 August 2013.
“Gays As Parents,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 30 May 2013.
“’42” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 10 May 2013.
“A Garden in the Desert,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 2 May 2013.
“Black-White, Gay-Straight: A Perspective on Perspectives,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 7 April 2013
“Out of the Downton Abbey Closet,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 17 Feb 2013.
“No More Strangers,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 9 February 2013.
“Epiphany,” No More Strangers: LGBT Forum, 26 January 2013.
“A Failure of Love,” in Michelle Beaver, The Gay-Mormon Decade: Changing a Church from Within (Amazon: Kindle Edition, 2013).
“Love and the Christian Imagination,” (Keynote Devotional, Affirmation National Conference Seattle, Washington, 21 October 2012); trans. Into Spanish by Hugo Olaiz, “El Amor y la Imaginación Cristiana.”
“Supportive Families, Healthy Children: Helping Latter-day Saint Families with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Children,” The Family Acceptance Project, San Francisco State University, 2012.
“Forward” to Carol Lynn Pearson’s No More Goodbyes: Circling the Wagons around Our Gay Loved Ones (Walnut Creek, CA: Pivot Books, 2007).
A Guide for Latter-day Saint Families Dealing with Homosexual Attraction (Salt Lake City: Deseret Books, 2002); co-author.
The Persistence of Same-Sex Attraction in Latter-day Saints Who Undergo Counseling or Change Therapy (Pocatello, Idaho: Resources for Understanding Homosexuality, 2004); co-author.
“Requiem for a Gay Mormon,” Family Fellowship, 2007.
“’In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See’: Personal Reflections on Homosexuality among the Mormons at the Beginning of a New Millennium,” Dialogue 33:3 (Fall 2000), 137-151. Winner of the Lowell Bennion Award.
No More Strangers and Foreigners: A Mormon Christian Response to Homosexuality (Provo, UT: Family Fellowship, 1998); trans. Into Spanish by Hugo Olaiz, “El Amor y la Imaginación Cristiana”
“Bearing Out Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon” Dialogue 24:4 (Winter 1991)
Editorials
“Why Mormons Should Vote for and Support Hillary Clinton,” http://religionnews.com/2016/11/07/why-mormons-should-vote-for-hillary-clinton/
“We Are All Responsible for Orlando,” Rational Faiths, http://rationalfaiths.com/we-are-all-responsible-for-orlando/; Religion News,
http://religionnews.com/2016/06/23/anti-lgbt-bias-means-we-are-all-responsible-for-orlando/
“Power of Obama’s South Carolina Speech Couldn’t have Been Matched by Another President,” Oakland Tribune 5 July 2015; http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/ci_28424320/guest-commentary:-power-of-obamas-south-carolina-speech-couldnt-have-been-matched-by-another-preisdent
“Brian Williams, Neurology and the Construction of Memory,” accepted but not published by the Oakland Tribune, Contra-Costa Times, March 2015.
“Torture and the Golden Rule” Oakland Tribune, 19 December 2014; http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_27166554/guest-commentary-u-s-use-torture-not-consistent
“Muslims, Mormons and Obama, One Might Think They Would Do Better Together,” Oakland Tribune, Contra-Costa Times, 22 November 2014. Also posted on Exploring Sainthood, November 2014
“Facing Up to the World’s War on Women,” Oakland Tribune, Contra-Costa Times, 27 September 2014.
“Long-awaited day has finally arrived for Mormons,” Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, 14 December 2013.
“Denying Care to Poor Expressly Violates Christian Principles,” Oakland Tribune, Contra-Costa Times, 8 June 2013.
“Why I Am a Christian First and a Mormon Second,” Religion Dispatches, October 2012; Contra Costa Times, October 2012; A Rational Faith blog,
“Is Nothing Sacred? Thoughts on Mormon Undergarments,” Religion Dispatches, 24 August 2012; Contra Costa Times/Oakland Tribune, 1 September 2012. ; guest post, Flunking Sainthood, 24August, 2012; translated into French by “N’y a-t-il plus rien de sacré ? Quelques remarques sur les sous-vêtements des mormons,” blog, Mormonisme et Sociétés.
“Ways of Seeing,” BroadBlogs and FreeMeNow, 7 September 2010.
“Caught Between Church and State,” Salt Lake Tribune (July 2008).
“Lessons Gleaned From the Mountain Meadows Massacre,” Salt Lake Tribune, 7 October 2007.
“Special Providence and the War in Iraq,” Salt Lake Tribune, 21 January 2007.
“Seeing the Flag through My Father’s Eyes,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, 25 December 2006.
“Building Bridges,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, 11 May 2000.
“Where Have All the Students Gone?” Salt Lake Tribune, 15 October 2006.
“Bi-Polar America: The Disappearing Middle,” Salt Lake Tribune, 5 November 2006.
“Science and Religion,” Dialogue 8:3/4 (1973), 4-6.
“A Christian Peace,” Dialogue 7:3 (1972), 4-5.
“A Continuing Dialogue,” Dialogue 6:1 (1971), 4.
Poetry
Works of Grace, scheduled for publication by Zarahemla Press, 2017.
“Turning,” “Sun Seeds,” “Forgotten Birds,” “Heart Mountain”: submitted to Dialogue 3.9.17
“Famine and Scarcity,” Dialogue (Winter 2014), 133.
“Her,” A Mother Here online anthology, http://www.amotherhere.com/poems.
“Breath” Dialogue 46:2 (Summer 2013),
“Easter,” Dialogue 46:2 (Summer 2013), 92-93.
“Melancholia,” Dialogue 46:2 (Summer 2013), 94-95.
“Sabbath Baptism,” Dialogue 46:2 (Summer 2013), 96-97.
“Birdsong/Eve’s Song,” Exponent II
“Mother,” Exponent II (Summer 2013); accepted for publication in Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry.
“Wedding Flower,” Dialogue 40:2 (fall 2007)
“Black Handkerchief,” 40:2 Dialogue (fall 2007)
“Gene at Wilder Beach,” Proving Contraries: A Collection of Writings in Honor of Eugene England, ed. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005), xi.
“El Cordero de Dios,” Dialogue 38:2 (Summer 2005), 186-87.
“Baptism,” Dialogue 38:2 (Summer 2005), 188.
“Heart Mountain,” Dialogue, 37:3 (Fall 2004), 138-39.
“Blind Tears,” Dialogue 37:3 (Fall 2004), 168-171.
“The Cedars of Lebanon,” Dialogue, 37:1 (Spring 2004)
“Yellow Crane Tower,” “Spring Comes to the Ming Tombs,” “Liu Shahe,” and “Tai Chi in Xian”—in Kenneth Lincoln, A Writer’s China (Capra Press, April 1999)
“Hearing the Han Shan Bell,” Lithuanian Association of North American Studies, 1 (1996), 30-33.
“At St. Bartholomew the Great,” Wasatch Review, 1993.
“The Creatures We Kill,” West/Word, Fall 1992.
“Modern Poetry,” Onthebus, Winter 1990.
“Salamander,” Sunstone, August 1989.
“Fishers,” Dialogue, January 1984. Named outstanding poem for 1984 by the Association of Mormon Letters. Reprinted in Final Harvest (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989)
“The Dancing Beggar of London,” BYU Studies, Spring 1984.
“Once at La Jolla,” Sunstone, 1984.
“In St. Paul’s Cathedral,” BYU Studies, Spring 1982.
“Gilead,” Sunstone, Jan.-Feb. 1981. Awarded prize for Best Poem by the Association of Mormon Letters. Reprinted in Final Harvest.
“Somewhere Near Palmyra,” Dialogue, Fall 1980. Reprinted in Final Harvest.
Reviews
“An Imperfect Book,” Review of Earl M. Wunderli’s An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2013), 389 pp. Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 12 (2014), 33-47.
“The Dawning of a Brighter Day: An Analysis of mormonsandgays.org.” www.mormongsandgays.org. Sunstone, 174 (March 2014), 38-40.
”Theology as Poetry,” review of Adam S. Miller’s Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology, Dialogue 47:1 (Spring 2014), 178-187.
“The Figure in the Carpet: Grant Hardy’s Reading of the Book of Mormon,” review of Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader’s Guide, The John Whitmer Association Journal (fall 2011).
“God’s Fools”: Review of Bill Maher’s film Religulous, Sunstone (May 2009)
Review of Wayne Booth’s My Many Selves. The Quest for a Plausible Harmony Journal of Mormon History. 35:3 (Summer 2008), 232-235.
“Dining with the Devil,” review of Robert A. Christmas’s A Long Spoon, Dialogue 40:2 (Summer 2007), 179-181.
“Between Suicide and Celibacy”: Review of Marilyn Matis and Ty Mansfield’s In Quiet Desperation, Dialogue 38:4 (Winter 2005), 208-217.
Review of Peggy Thatcher Stack’s A World of Faith, Sunstone, No. 117 (May 2000), 68-69.
Review of Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert. eds. A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints (Utah Historical Quarterly, 43:4 (fall 1975), 421-23.
“On Poetry” (Review of Louis Phillips, Landscape with Three Human Figures; Morton Marcus, The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems; and William Childress, Lobo), Westways, 65 (June 1973), 80-83.
“Dramatic Christianity” (Review of Daniel Berrigan’s The Trial of the Cattonsville Nine), Dialogue, 5 (Winter 1970), 89-92.
Review of Mark Twain’s Letters to His Publishers: 1867-1894, Mark Twain’s Satires and Burlesques, and Mark Twain’s Which Was the Dream? and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years, in Nineteenth Century Fiction, 23 (June 1968), 113-116.
Review of A Believing People: The Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Utah Historical Quarterly, 43 (1967, 421-23).
Dramatic Christianity: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Daniel Berrigan Vol. 5, Num. 4 – Winter 1970
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS
2012 Affirmation Allies Award, Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons.
Eugene England Essay Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, 2014, “Finding Christ at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.”
Eugene England Essay Writing Contest, Third Place, 2012 for “Hosannas at Glide Memorial Church”
Advisory Board, Center for Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child, San Jose State University, 2008-2012.
Eugene England Essay Writing Contest, Third Place for “Loneliness.”
Fulbright Professor of American Literature, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1995-96.
Three grants from the California Council for the Humanities totaling $80,000, to produce a documentary film, “Spires to the Sun: Sabatino Rodia’s Towers in Watts,” 1983-87.
Two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, totaling $50,000, to do the research for and write the script for a documentary film on storytelling in American cultures, 1979-89.
Outstanding poem (“Fishers”) for 1984 by the Association of Mormon Letters.
Member, Advisory Committee, Shakespeare Globe Theater, 1984-85
Three grants from the Center for the Editions of American Authors, 1969, 1970, 1971
Humanities Institute, University of California, 1968-69
Danforth Foundation Associate, 1968-1978
Faculty Fellowship, UCLA, 1966-67
Danforth Foundation Fellowship — finalist, 1960
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, 1960