William Reynolds,
Professor and Dean for the Arts and Humanities


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Book

Edited with Elizabeth Trembley. It's a Print: Detective Fiction from Page to Screen. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1994.

Dissertation

"The Ovidius Moralizatus of Petrus Berchorius: A Translation and Introduction." (University of Illinois, 1971)

Articles in Books

"Raymond W. Postgate," in Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 276 (2003). 296-301.

"Paradigm Established, Paradigm Surpassed: Colin Dexter's Last Bus to Woodstock, in In the Beginning. Ed. Mary Jean DeMarr. Bowling Green, Ohio: Popular Press, 1995. 203-23.

"The Patriarchy Restored: BBC Television's Adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers's Strong Poison, Have His Carcase, and Gaudy Night, in It's a Print, cited above.

"Dorothy L. Sayers," in Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D. L. Kirpatrick. 2nd Ed. Chicago, London: St. James Press, 1991. Vol. 2, 1182-84.

"The Parliament of Fowls" and "The Seafarer," in Reference Guide to English Literature. Ed. D. L. Kirpatrick. 2nd Ed. Chicago, London: St. James Press, 1991. Vol. 3, 1767-68, 1835-6.

"Sources, Nature and Influence of the Ovidius Moralizatus of Pierre Bersuire," in The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England. Ed. Jane Chance. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1990. 83-99.

"C. H. B. Kitchin," in Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 77 (1988). 182-85.

"Dorothy Sayers and the Drama of Orthodoxy," in As Her Whimsey Took Her. Ed. Margaret P. Hannay. Kent, Ohio: Kent UP, 1979. 91-106.

Articles

"Ellis Peters's Felse Series: The Road to Brother Cadfael, and More," Clues, 21 (2000), 105-111.

"Second Best, but Not Second-Rate: Dorothy Simpson's Luke Thanet Series," Clues, 19 (1998), 39-46.

"V. C. Clinton Baddeley's Dr. R. V. Davie: A Detective to Remember," Clues, 17 (1996), 9-24.

"The Eight (No, Make That Ten; or Maybe it Should be Twelve) Novels of R. T. Campbell," Clues, 14 (1993), 24-48.

"The Novels of Adam Broome: Golden Age Detection in Africa," Crime and Detective Stories, 18 (1992), 10.

"Clifford Orr: Mystery The New Yorker Style," Crime and Detective Stories, 17 (1991), 25-26.

"Marion Mainwaring: The Uses of Humor in Detective Fiction," Clues, 12 (1991), 83-90.

"Dorothy L. Sayers' Busman's Honeymoon," Clues, 10 (1989), 65-80.

"Text and Subtext: Julian Symons's The Immaterial Murder Case," Crime and Detective Stories, 8 (1988), 15-16.

"Collaborative Detective Publications in Britain 1931-1939," Clues, 9 (1988), 49-70.

"A Note on 'The Next Move,'" Crime and Detective Stories, 6 (1987), 81-82.

"The Detective Fiction Reviews of Torquemada: A Selective Index." Clues, 7 (1986), 147-67.

"The Labyrinth Maker: The Espionage Fiction of Anthony Price," The Armchair Detective, 19 (1986), 350-58.

"Literature, Latin and Love: Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night," Clues, 6 (1985), 67-78.

"C. Daly King: The Aldous Huxley of the Detective Story." Clues, 5 (1984), 14-33.

"The Detection Club on the Air: 'Behind the Screen' and "The Scoop.'" Clues, 4 (1983), 1-20.

"Arthuriana: A Bibliography of Published Treatments of the Arthurian Legend, 1951-1983," Studies in Medievalism, 2 (1983), 89-106.

"Seven Crimefiles of the 1930s: The Purest Puzzles of the Golden Age." Clues, 1 (1980), 42-53.

"Heroism in Beowulf." Christianity and Literature, 27:4 (1978), 27-42.

"Translation of Selections from the De Formis Figurisque Deorum of Petrus Berchorius." Allegorica, 2:2 (1977), 62-89.

"Poetry as Metaphor in The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore, 4:4 (1977), 12-16.

Selected Reviews

Review of Whatever Happened to Sherlock Holmes: Detective Fiction, Popular Theology and Society by Robert S. Paul, Christianity and Literature, 41 (1992), 482-84.

Reviews of John P. Marquand's Your Turn, Mr. Moto and Thank You, Mr. Moto, Crime and Detective Stories, 13 (Feb. 1990), 13.

Review of Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel by William David Spencer, Christianity and Literature, 39 (1990), 457-8.

Review of The Law of Love: English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif, trans. and ed. by D. L. Jeffrey. Christianity and Literature, 38 (1989), 87-89.

Review of The Jig-Saw Puzzle Murder by Walter Eberhardt, Clues, 10 (1989), 150-51.

Reviews of four books by Harold A. Ripley: Minute Mysteries, How Good a Detective Are You?, Mystery Puzzles, and Minute Mysteries, Clues, 10 (1989), 151-54.

Review of The Cambridge Murders and Welcome Death by Glyn Daniel, The Armchair Detective, 21 (1988), 199-200.

Review of The Religion of Science Fiction by F. A. Kreuzinger, Christianity and Literature, 38 (1988), 81-82.

Review of The Native Tongue and the Word by Janel Mueller, Christian Scholar's Review, 15 (1985-86), 277.

Review of Magisterium: Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church by Francis Sullivan, Christian Scholar's Review, 15 (1985-86), 88-89.

Review of "Love All" and "Busman's Honeymoon": Two Plays by Dorothy L. Sayers, ed. Alzina Stone Dale, Christianity and Literature, 34 (1985), 27-28.

Review of England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings by Jared Lobdell, Christianity and Literature, 32 (spring 1983), 72-73.

Review of The Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton by Alzina Stone Dale, The Reformed Journal, 16 (1983), 304.


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