SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

James Keech
Emeritus
English Department
(716) 837-9381
JamesKeech@verzion.net

Tenure at Buffalo State: 1965-1999, 34 years

Degrees earned:
B.A. University of North Carolina 1955,
M.A. Louisiana State University 1961,
Ph.D. Louisiana State University 1965

Courses taught: Composition, Introduction to Poetry, History of the Novel, Victorian Literature, Romantic Literature, Charles Dickens, Satire, English Literature 1800-Present, and Gothic Novel

Publications:
“The Survival of the Gothic Response,” The Novel, 1974.
“Make ‘em Wait: Installment Suspense in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair." The Serif, 1966.
“Grissing's New Grub Street and the Triple- Headed Monster," The Serif, 1970
“Trilling's Of This Time, Of That Place,” Explication 1965.
“Dover Beach Again,” CEA Critic, 1973

Current activities: Fishing and writing short stories for The Hunting and Fishing Journal.