EDUCATION

Ph.D. in German Literature: Princeton University, 1979

M.A. in German Literature, with Philosophy minor: Brigham Young University, 1976

B.A. in German Literature, with Honors: Brigham Young University, 1973

EMPLOYMENT

1979‑1981       Princeton University, Lecturer

1981‑1988       Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor

   (Tenure granted and promoted to Associate Professor, March, 1988)

1988-1999            Brigham Young University, Associate Professor

1999-2000             Utah Valley State College, Associate Professor 

2000-present    UVSC, Professor  

BOOKS

Fictions of Freemasonry: Freemasonry and the German Novel.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Ponavljanja (Repetitions: Travels in a Novel(ist)'s Landscape).  With Zarko Radakovic.  Belgrade: Vreme-knjige, 1994.

TRANSLATIONS

The German Army and Genocide: Crimes Against War Prisoners, Jews, and Other Civilians, 1939-1944. Ed. by the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. New York: The New Press, 1999.

Five stories from Peter Handke=s Once Again for Thucydides. Conjunctions (Web site of  the literary journal) Fall 1998.

Peter Handke's A Journey to the Rivers or Justice for .  New York: Viking, December 1996.

EDITION

Various Atmospheres, a book of poetry by A.F. Caldiero, ed. Scott Abbott.  Salt Lake City: Signature Press, 1998.

ARTICLES

 
“’That sweet And so on’: Peter Handke’s Yugoslavia Work.” In the Companion to the Works of Peter Handke, Camden House, 2005 (359-386).

“Peter Handke.” Author entry in the Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.

“Wunschloses Unglück.” Work entry for the Encyclopedia of German Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.

“The Rhetoric of War and Peace: Peter Handke’s Unter Traenen fragend.”  In World Literature Today, Winter 2001 (78-81).

 
“Modeling a Dialectic: Peter Handke’s A Journey to the Rivers or Justice for Serbia.” In Willy Riemer, ed., After Postmodernism: Austrian Literature and Film in Transition. Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 2000 (340-352).

 
“The Reader Takes a Hike.” In Noch einmal fue r Jugoslawien: Peter Handke. Ed. by Thomas Deichmann. Frankfurt am Main:Suhrkamp Verlag, 1999 (259-261).

"Postmetaphysical Metaphysics? Peter Handke's Repetition.” Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1997, 22-233.

“Izmebu Dva Jezika: Zarko Radakovic i Peter Handke (Between Two Languages: Zarko Radakovic and Peter Handke).” LETOPIS: MATITSE SRPSKE (CHRONICLE: SERBIAN ANNALS, Novi Sad) July-August, 1995, 164-170.

“’The Material Idea of a Volk': Peter Handke's Dialectical Search for a National Identity.” Amsterdam: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik, 1995, 479-494.

“Five Documents Relating to the Final Illness and Death of Ignaz Semmelweis.”  With K. Codell Carter and James L. Siebach.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 69 (1995): 255-270.

“Standing Stones and Stanzas: ‘The Twelve Stones of Pentre Ifan.’”  An Open World: Essays on Leslie Norris. Ed. by Eugene England and Peter Makuck.  Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994, 78-86.

“Peter Handke.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1919-1992, v.124.  Ed. by Wolfgang D. Elfe and James Hardin.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1992, 176-187.

“The Semiotics of Young Werther.”  Goethe Yearbook, 6 (1992): 41-65.

“’Des Dastehns großer Anfangsbuchstab’: Standing and Being in Rilke's Fifth Elegy.”  The German Quarterly, 60 (Summer 1987): 432‑446.

“Wunschloses Unglück in an American Context.”  Knjiñevna kritika (Literary Criticism,

Belgrade), 18 (January‑February 1986): 86‑91.  Tr. by M. Radakoviƒc.

“’Des Maurers Wandeln / Es gleicht dem Leben’: The Freemasonic Ritual Route in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre.”  Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift, 58 (June 1984): 262‑288.

“The Raw and the Cooked: Claude Lévi‑Strauss and Günter Grass.” In Günter Grass's ‘The Flounder’ in Critical Perspective.  Ed. Siegfried Mews.  New York: AMS Press, 1983, 107‑121.

“Günter Grass’ Hundejahre: A Realistic Novel about Myth.”  The German Quarterly, 55 (March 1982): 212‑220.

   Reprinted in:

   Critical Essays on Günter Grass.  Ed. Patrick O'Neill.  Boston: G.D. Hall. 1987.

“Der Zauberberg and the German Romantic Novel.”  The Germanic Review, 55 (Fall 1980): 139‑145.

“The Artist as Figurative Jesus in Buddenbrooks.” Perspective: Journal of Critical Inquiry, College of Humanities, Brigham Young University, (Winter 1976): 85‑94.

ESSAYS and REVIEWS

“Dictionary of Accepted Ideas: Michael McDonald’s Butchery of Peter Handke.” The American Scholar, Summer 2007.

“On Words: The Eyes of a Flounder: Poems by Laura Hamblin.” Catalyst Magazine, March 2007.

“On Words: An Essay on Immigration.” Catalyst Magazine, December 2006.

“On Words: Charles Bowden’s Inferno.” Catalyst Magazine, November 2006.

“On Words: Abstractions Come Home: A review of interstices, by Laurelyn Whitt and Sound Weave, by Theta Naught and Alex Caldiero.  Catalyst Magazine, October 2006.

“On Words: Mormon Civilization and its Schizophrenic Discontents, Brian Evenson’s The Open Curtain. Catalyst Magazine, September 2006.

“A Reasonable Dictionary” (travel narrative). Salt Flats Annual, (Fall 2005), 98-149.

“Immortal For Quite Some Time” (memoir excerpt). Irreantum: A Review of Mormon Literature and Film, V. 7, Nr. 1 (2005), 75-94.

“Polka-dotted Truth: Adam Worden Collages at the Salt Lake Art Center.” Catalyst Magazine, May 2005.

“Michael and Me: Education, Politics, Money, Culture, and Michael Moore at UVSC.” Catalyst Magazine, October 2004.

“Every Angel is Terrifying: Frank McEntire and Alex Bigney, with Alex Caldiero, in a Stunning Kimball Exhibit.” Catalyst Magazine, March 2003.

 
“Wild Rides, Wild Flowers: Biking and Botanizing the Great Western Trail.” With Sam Rushforth. Salt Lake Observer (March 26, April 9, April 23, May 7, etc. 1999; Catalyst Magazine, monthly since June, 2000, ended December 2002).

“Radical Jazz: Angela Davis Paints a History in Blacks and Blues.” Salt Lake Observer (April 9, 1999).

“Ein Blick vom Berg Olymp in Utah.” In NOVO, No. 39, March/April 1999, 45.

“Chick Corea.” Salt Lake Observer (February 26, 1999), 20.

“Educating Leavitt: Essay on the Western Governors’ University.” Salt Lake Observer (January 15, 1999),         7 and 17.

“Joshua Payne=s Sweet Jazz Suite.” Salt Lake Observer (January 15, 1999), 20.

“Jazz Cogitation.” Salt Lake Observer (December 4, 1998), 19.

“Poets, Paranoids, Police, Reformers in the Rain: Letter from Belgrade.” Salt Lake Observer (December    4, 1998), 1 and 21.

 
“Crossing.” Catalyst, Salt Lake City (December 1998), 14-17. An essay growing out of a June 1997 trip to  a Tarahumara village in central Mexico.

“Gordon and Mike Bring Jazz to the Hilton.” Salt Lake Observer (October 22, 1998), 22.

“Hampton and Zen: Stripped to the Essentials.” Salt Lake Observer (August 28, 1998), 21.

“Immortal Beloved: Celebrity and Death.” Salt Lake Observer (August 28, 1998), 1.

“A Landscape in Tatters: Letter from .” Salt Lake Observer (July 31, 1998), 1.

“Timbre and the Jazz Voice.” Salt Lake Observer (July 3, 1998), 21.

“The Cultivation of Page One Hatred.” Salt Lake Observer (June 5, 1998).