Dr. Clay Daniel
Department of Literature and Cultural
Studies
University of Texas‑‑‑Rio
Grande Valley
Edinburg, TX 78539
Tel. 956‑665‑3421
e‑mail: clay.daniel@utrgv.edu
Internet site: faculty.utpa.edu/Daniel
or https://faculty.utrgv.edu/clay.daniel/
Education
B.A
History (University Texas----Arlington, 1977)
M.A.
Humanities (University of Texas---Dallas 1980)
Teaching
Certification (University of Texas, 1981)
Ph.D.
English (Texas A&M, 1988)
Teaching Experience
University
of Texas‑RGV (Literatures and Cultural Studies), Associate Professor:
2015‑Present
University
of Texas‑Pan American (English), Associate Professor: 1997‑2015
University
of Texas‑Pan American (English), Assistant Professor: 1991‑1997
University
of New Orleans (English), Instructor: 1988‑1991
Texas
A&M University (English), Teaching Assistant: 1984‑88
Teaching Specializations
Rhetoric
and Composition (English 1301 and 1302)
Introduction
to Literature (Eng 2300)
English
Literature/Major Authors (English 2305)
Edwardian
and Modernist Literature (English 3320)
British
Romanticism (English 3313)
Pre‑Romantic
English Literature Survey (English 3331)
Post‑Romantic
English Literature Survey (English 3332)
Milton
(English 4312)
Awards and Recognitions
1992:
Faculty Research Council grant of $2200.00
1994:
Participant in Texas London Consortium/Study Abroad
1998:
UTPA Scholars' Fund award
2000:
Technology in Teaching Award
2002
Provost's Scholars Awards
Departmental, School, and University Committees
University Committees
Academic
Integrity Committee (2008-2011)
Computer
Council (2000-2003)
Admissions
Committee (1996‑1999)
Faculty
Research Council (1992‑1996)
College Committees
COAH
Outstanding Faculty Awards Committee (ad hoc, 2003)
Teaching
Workload Reduction/Research Proposal Committee (ad hoc, 2001)
College
Retention Committee (ad hoc, 1999-2000)
College
Merit Committee (1999)
College
of Arts and Sciences Promotion Committee (1993‑94)
Department Committees
Carl
Grantz Scholarship Committee (2011-12)
Chair
Search (ad hoc, Fall 1999)
Curriculum
(Advanced/Sophomore) Course Committee (1992‑96, 2000-Dec 2003; Chair,
2001-Dec. 2003)
English
Scholars Undergraduate Committee (2007-2009)
English
MA Exam Committee, Chair (2009-10)
Excet Coordinator, Secondary English (2001-02)
Graduate
Committee (1996‑98; 2001-2007)
Learning
Outcome Assessments/English Majors Effectiveness (2005-2007)
Library
Committee (1991‑2000)
Literature
Committee (2004-Pres)
Merit
Committee (1997‑98; 1999-2000, Chair; 2011-12; 2012-13)
Post-Tenure
Review Committee (1999, Chair)
Post-Tenure
Review Committee (2004)
Promotion
and Tenure Guidelines (ad hoc, 2000, Chair)
Promotion
and Tenure Committee (2003-04, 2005-06, 2009-10)
Promotion
Committee, Chair (1993‑94)
Rhetoric
Committee (1996‑98)
Search
Committees (Chair; Critical Theory; Renaissance; Rhetoric and Composition)
Self‑Study
Committee: Library (1995‑96)
Tenure
Committee (1991-2002)
TeXeS Review Committee (2008-2010)
Upper
Division Coordinator (1999)
Other Professional/Community Service
Assistant
to the Program Director for the 1983 regional meeting of Texas Joint Council of
the Teachers of English (Huntsville, Tx.)
Participant
in the Texas A&M English Department's Writing Outreach Program (1984‑85)
Assistant
to the Program Director for the 1985 regional meeting of the Texas Joint
Council of the Teachers of English (College Station, Tx.)
Participant
in the Spring 1985 Texas A&M campus‑wide faculty writing workshop
Member
of the committee that administered English language competency test to Texas
A&M foreign students (1985‑88)
Assistant
to the Secretary of the American Literature Section of the Modern Language
Association (1987‑88)
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, LaJoya High School, March 1994.
Judge,
UIL Speech contest, Valley View High School, March 1994.
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, Valley View High School, March 1994.
Regional
Publicity Director, the Texas Council of the Teachers of English, 1995.
Panelist,
UTPA Study Abroad, UTPA Honors Society, February 1995.
Organizer/Presenter,
UTPA Study Abroad: London, UTPA Faculty, March 1995.
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, Valley View High High
School, March 1995.
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, Sharyland Intermediate School, April 1995.
Assistant
to the Program Director for the Sept. 1995 regional meeting of Texas Council of
the Teachers of English (UTPA)
Participant/Presenter/Panelist,
CAST (Communities and Schools Together), McAllen High School, November 1995
Judge,
District Spelling Bee, Edinburg CISD, March 1996
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, Weslaco High School, March 1996
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, Porter High School, Brownsville, March 1996
Judge,
District Spelling Bee, Edinburg CISD, March 1997
Presenter,
Teaching Partners: Visiting Faculty Program, 1996‑2006
Chair,
17th-Century British Literature session, 2002 Rocky Mountain MLA
Chair,
Milton session, 2006 Rocky Mountain MLA
Chair,
Popular Women’s Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, 2008 Rocky Mountain MLA
Advisor,
South Texas UIL team , 2002-2008
Chair,
Milton session, 2009 Rocky Mountain MLA
Chair,
17th-century British Literature session, 2012 Rocky Mountain MLA
English
Department Community Outreach Program (2008-Pres)
English
Majors Graduate Network (2008-10), founder
Chair,
Milton session, 2013 Rocky Mountain MLA
Chair,
17th-century British Literature session, 2014 Rocky Mountain MLA
Chair,
17th-century British Literature session, 2015 Rocky Mountain MLA
Judge,
UIL Ready Writing contest, BL Gray JH, Sharyland, February 2016
Chair,
Milton session, 2016 Rocky Mountain MLA
Chair.
Hardy Special Session, 2023 Rocky Mountain MLA
Publications
Books
Death in Milton's Poetry (Bucknell University
Press/Associated University Presses 1994).
Journals
Milton Quarterly 28 (1986): 92‑98,
"Astraea, the Golden Scales, and the Scorpion: Milton's Heavenly
Reflection of the Scene in Eden.”
American Transcendental Quarterly 61 (1986): 23‑36,
"The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne,
Freud, and the Transcendentalists."
Victorian Newsletter 72 (1987): 9‑11,
"The Religion of Culture: Arnold's Priest and Pater's Mystic."
Explorations in Renaissance Culture 13 (1987): 101‑25,
"The 'blind fury,' Providence,
and the Consolations of Lycidas."
Restoration and Eighteenth‑Century
Theatre Research 2 (1987): 26‑37, "The Fall of George
Barnwell."
South Central Review 6 (1989): 6‑31,
"Lust and Violence in Samson
Agonistes."
Explicator 47 (1989): 15,
"Pope's 'The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace Imitated.' "
English Language Notes 26 (1989): 50‑54,
"Keats's Triumphal March of Bacchus and Milton's Mask."
Milton Studies 26 (1990): 25‑57,
"Milton's Early Poems on Death."
Notes and Queries 239 (September 1994):
374, "T. S. Eliot's 'A Cooking Egg.'"
University of Dayton Review, 23 (Spring 1995):
75‑86, "Pope, Milton, and Dunces."
Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 21 (1995): 95‑104,
"Epistola ad Patrem:
Milton's Magnanimous Letter."
ANQ: A Quarterly of Notes, Short
Articles and Reviews, 9 (Winter 1996): 7‑8, "Pope's Dunciad 1. 137‑42 (1729) and 1.
157‑162 (1743)."
Explicator, 55 (Spring 1997):
129‑132, "Paradise Lost
1.293‑315."
Explicator, 56 (Spring 1998):
126‑129, "Cooper's Last of the
Mohicans."
South Central Review, 15 (Summer 1998):
34‑48, "Eikonoklastes
and the Miltonic King."
The Hardy Review, 1 (July 1998): 99‑107,
"Science, Misogyny, and Tess of the
d'Urbervilles."
Thomas Hardy Yearbook, 27 (1998): 3-16,
"Orpheus, Eurydice, and Tess of the
D'Urbervilles."
Connotations: A
Journal for Critical Debate, 8.2 (1998-99): 153-174, "Crucifixion Imagery in Paradise Lost."
English Language
Notes, 37.2 (December 1999): 32-41, "Hardy, Milton, and `The
Storm--The Two Together."
The Thomas Hardy
Journal, 16.1 (February 2000): 63-69, "Orpheus, Eurydice, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles."
Connotations: A
Journal for Critical Debate, 11.2-3 (2001-02): 201-21, "Milton and the
Restoration: Some Reassessments."
Studies in English
Literature 1500-1900, 44.1 (Winter 2004): 173-88, "Milton's Neo-Platonic
Angel?"
English Language
Notes, 41.3 (March 2004): 32-34, "Another Source for
Milton's ‘Blind Mouths!’"
Milton Studies, 46 (2006): 123-48,
“Royal Samson.”
Proceedings of the 14th
Annual Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature (2007): 175-203, “Paradise Lost Books One and Two: Milton
Predicts the Restoration.”
Notes and Queries, 242.1 (March 2007):
39-40, “Milton’s Eagle and Lucan’s The
Civil War.”
Dickens Studies Annual (2007) 93-114: “Jane
Eyre’s Paradise Lost,” 93-114,
Thomas Hardy Journal, 4.1 (Spring 2008):
22-29, “A Note on Milton and Two on a Tower,"
Explicator, 66.4 (Summer 2008):
221-24, “Hardy’s Two on a Tower and
Book Four of The Aeneid”
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short
Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 22.4 (2009 Fall): 46-50, “An Allusion
to Clarissa in Waugh's Unconditional Surrender”
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Gale-Cenage), 229
(Spring 2010): 192-97, rpt.: "Science, Misogyny, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles."
South Atlantic Review, 75.2 (Spring 2010):
19-34, “Why Areopagitica?”
Literary Criticism (Gale-Cenage), 194
(Spring 2011): 9-19, rpt.: "Eikonoklastes and the Miltonic King."
The Hopkins Quarterly, 38.3-4 (Summer-Fall
2011): 146-51: “Robert Bridges’ ‘The Evening Darkens Over,’ W. H. Auden’s ‘Look Stranger, at this island now.’”
Explicator, 69.3 (2011): 153-157,
“John Milton's A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle.”
Quidditas: The Journal of the Rocky Mountain
Medieval and Renaissance Association 33 (2012): 200-230, “Who Killed
Lycidas?” (on-line)
Journal of Literature and Arts, 2.7 (July 2012):
669-82, “A Tale of Two Tempests.”
Appositions 6 (2013),
“Restoration Lost.” (on-line)
Proceedings of the 21th
Annual Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature (2013): 22-35,
"Sight, Spite and Milton." (on-line)
Wordsworth Circle 44.1 (2014): 66-68,
"Milton, Mulciber, and the Prelude."
Christianity and Literature, 64:4 (2015), 414-437, “Milton
and the English Auden.”
Notes and Queries 64.4 (2017): 663-64:
"Auden's 'Hymn to St. Cecilia’ and Tennyson."
Explicator 75.4 (2017): 257-59: “Hardy’s Tess and
Williams’ “The Lonely Street”
Dickens Studies Annual 48 (2017): 253-272. "Paradise
Returned: Hardy’s Return of the Native.”
Wordsworth Circle 48.3 (2017): 172-177: "Milton, Politics, and The Prelude"
Literature
and Theology, 33(4) (2019), 414-433: “Auden, Auden's Milton, and Songs for
Virgins.”
Hardy Society Journal, 15(1), (2019) 15-26: “Hardy,
Milton, Churchiness and Jude.”
Victorians (137) (2020), 44-57: “Comus and The
Picture of Dorian Gray.”
Notes and
Queries (Dec 2020): 67 (265.4) 515-517. "Was it For
This" and "Paradise Lost".
Studies
in English Literature, 60(1) (2020): 91-111:
"The Epic Calm of Milton's Readie and Easy Way.
Charles Lamb
Bulletin: The Lamb Society Journal 175 (2022 Summer): 65-75. “Milton At
Home at Grasemere.”
Milton Quarterly (Spring 2023):25-32:
“Milton, Mansus, and an English Poet.”
Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 32 (2023): 80-94. “Auden's ‘This Lunar Beauty’: Keats's Urn and Hardy's Tess”
The Hardy
Society Journal, (2023) 19(2), 44-56. “The Woodlanders: Adam's
Dream and Pining for a Mate.”
Charles
Lamb Bulletin (2023) 178, 27-41.
"My Story". 27-41.
American
Notes and Queries, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles,
Notes, and Reviews ;
2024 Mar; 37(1) 96-98. “Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Milton’s
Areopagitica: The Satirist in Spite of Himself”
Ben
Jonson Journal 30.2 (2024 Nov). “Lycidas” and Catullus’ Poem 64,
180-91.
Conference Papers
1986
South Central Modern Language Association, "The Religion of Culture:
Arnold's Priest and Pater's Mystic."
1987
South Central Renaissance Conference, "Foretelling in Lycidas."
1988
South Central Renaissance Conference, "Lust and Continence in Lycidas."
1989
South Central Modern Language Association, "Milton's Early Poems on
Death."
1992
South Central Renaissance Conference, "Milton and Eliot."
1993
South Central Modern Language Association, "Milton and the English
Renaissance."
1995
South Central Renaissance Conference, "Epistola
ad Patrem: Milton's Anti‑court
Epistle."
1995
Renaissance Conference of Southern California/Southwest Regional Renaissance
Conference, "Milton's Anti‑Stuart Gunpowder Plot Poem."
1998
South Central Renaissance Conference, "The Crucifixion of Satan in Paradise Lost"
1999
Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, "Milton's Eve and
Castiglione's Court Lady"
1999
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, "Orpheus, Eurydice, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles."
2000
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, "Charlotte Bronte 's Revision of Paradise Lost."
2000
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, "Raphael: Milton's Neoplatonic
Angel"
2001
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, "Milton: Renaissance and
Restoration"
2003
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, "Milton's `Blind Mouths!' and
the Argonautica"
2004
Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, "Royal Samson"
2005 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association,
"Husband-Wife Political Metaphor in Samson
Agonistes"
2006 Federation of North Texas Universities Rhetoric
Symposium, “Teaching Milton.”
2006 Northern Great Plains Conference on Earlier British
Literature, “Paradise Lost: Milton
Predicts the Restoration.”
2006 South Atlantic Modern Language Association, “Milton’s
Eagle and Lucan’s The Civil War.”
2008 Federation of North Texas Universities Rhetoric
Symposium, "Milton and Iscocrates"
2008 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, "The
Problem of St. John Rivers"
2009 South Atlantic Modern Language Association, “Why Areopagitica?”
2010 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, “A Tale of
Two Tempests”
2011 Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference, “Lycidas and The Spanish Tragedy”
2011 Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, “Milton’s Dramatic Pastoral: Lycidas, Revelation, and The Spanish Tragedy”
2012 Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference,
“How Milton Classifies Salmasius”
2013 Northern Great Plains Conference on Earlier British
Literature, “Sight, Spite, and Milton”
2013
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, “Milton and Raphael: Ready and
Easy.”
2014
South Central Renaissance Conference, "Milton, Mulciber, and
Wordsworth"
Current Research
Milton
and the English Renaissance: Milton's reaction to the cultural catastrophes of
the English Renaissance.
Professional Memberships (Current)
Thomas
Hardy Society
Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association
South
Atlantic Modern Language Association
Connotations
Society