PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

 Gordon College: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of English, Acting Chairman and Chairman of the Department, 1955-1966. Director, The Gordon Players, 1956, 1958-62.

Hope College: Professor of English, 1966-1996; Chairman of the Department, 1971-1976; Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, 1995-1996; Professor of English Emeritus, May 1996-.

The Johns Hopkins University, Research Fellow, 1980.

Cornell University, Department of Art History, NEH Summer Seminar, 1983.

University of Glasgow (Centre for the Study of Literature and Theology), Honorary Research Fellow, 1995.

Research grants from the Folger Shakespeare Library (1961); American Philosophical Society (1967 and 1978); University of Chicago (1980 and 1984)

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL WORK:

Research and writing
Editorial consultation
Supervision of independent studies
Lecturing (e.g., at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2000), leading workshops, etc.

Primary research projects currently: Susan Howatch; angels in literature, film, art, and music; doubles in literature; David in literature; history of CCL

PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS:

Modern Language Association.  Member, Delegate Assembly, 1980-82; Chairman, Religious Approaches to Literature Division, 1977   

Conference on Christianity and Literature  [12a].  Founding member, 1956.  Secretary, 1958-60; President, 1966-68; Board of Directors 1974-78, 1994- ; Historian, 1994-     

Mythopoeic Society--Board of Advisors 1987-  

Milton Society of America

Charles Williams Society

Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church (New York)

Rotary Club of Holland   (Secretary, 1996-2001) 

Former positions: International Board of Moderators of the honor society Lambda Iota Tau, 1961-62, 1964-66

American Association of University Professors: past president of local (Hope) chapter; Michigan conference committee membership; delegate to several Annual Meetings

The Gordon Review, editor 1957, 1959; board chairman 1965-66; Christian Scholar's Review, book review editor 1974-78

Style consultant, New International Version of the Bible (NIV), mid-1960s.