MVSA Executive Secretary, 1977-1980 | MVSA President, 1988-1990
MVSA Executive Board, 1990-1992
Professor Emeritus, English, University of Illinois–Chicago
Research Interests: Religion in 19th-century Britain; late-Victorian musical culture
Selected Publications: The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality (Virginia, 2014)
Midwest Victorian Studies Association 