ROBERT LOVE TAYLOR

Professor of English, Emeritus
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
email address: rtaylor@bucknell.edu
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Formal education

• PhD, Ohio University, 1972
• Concentration: 19th-century American literature
• Minor: History of the English language
• Dissertation: The Memoirs of Ferlin Tussaud (a novel)

• MA, Ohio University, 1970. Thesis: Under the Double Eagle (a novel)

• BA, University of Oklahoma, 1966; Major: English

• San Francisco State College, 1961-1964

• Bucknell University:
• Professor of English, Emeritus (2005- )
• Professor of English (1985-2005);
• Presidential Professor (1993-96);
• Chair, English Department (1988-92); Acting Chair (fall 2003)
• Associate Professor (1979-85); Assistant Professor (1972-79)

• University of Tennessee: National Faculty Exchange Visiting Professor (1987-88)

• Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts: (1979-1981, summers)

• Ohio University: Instructor (1969-1972)

• Willows High School, Willows, California: Secondary English Teacher (1967-1969)

• South Division High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Secondary English Teacher (1966)

• Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1999
• Presidential Professorship, Bucknell University, 1993-96
• Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction for The Lost Sister, 1989; finalist for Lady of Spain, 1992
• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature: 1983, 1985, 1990, 1992
• NDEA Fellowship: Ohio University: 1970-1972

• Blind Singer Joe's Blues. Southern Methodist University Press, 2006.  A novel.

• Lady of Spain. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992. Linked stories and a novella. Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction.

• The Lost Sister. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989. A novel. Winner, Oklahoma Book Award in Fiction.

• Fiddle and Bow. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. A novel.

• Loving Belle Starr. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1984. Linked stories.

• Representative Periodicals (seventy stories published in all)

Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Ontario Review, Iowa Review, Ascent, Columbia, New Letters, Transatlantic Review, Quarterly West, Texas Review, Hudson Review, Western Humanties Review, Missouri Review, Southwest Review, Ohio Review, Agni Review, North American Review, California Quarterly, Northwest Review, Southern Review, Cimarron Review

• Anthologies
• "Pink Miracle in East Tennessee." (Originally in The Ohio Review)
• New Stories from the South. Ed. Shannon Ravenel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.
• "My Mother's Shoes." (Originally in The Southern Review)
• Pushcart Prize XIX. Ed. Bill Henderson. Pushcart Press, 1994.
• New Stories from the South. Ed. Shannon Ravenel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
• "Sentimental Journey." (from Lady of Spain)
• Where Past Meets Present. Ed. James B. Hemesath. University Press of Colorado, 1994.
• "The Bride of His Life."
• Voices Louder than Words. Ed. William Shore. Vintage Books, 1991.
• "Lady of Spain." (Originally in Hudson Review)
• Best American Short Stories. Eds. Shannon Ravenel and Ann Beattie. Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
• Prize Stories: O.Henry Awards. Doubleday, 1987.
• New Stories from the South. Ed. Shannon Ravenel. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1987.
• Par Avion. Translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata. S. D. C. Shuppan, 1988.
• Don't Worry, Boys. Japanese anthology of American fiction. Daiwa Shobo Ltd., 1994.
• "The Revealed Life of Cole Younger." (Originally in Obras)
• Editors' Choice. Eds. Morty Sklar and Mary Biggs. The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1987.
• "The Tennessee War of the Roses." (Originally in Georgia Review)
• New American Short Stories. Ed. Gloria Norris. New American Library, 1986.
• "The James Boys Ride Again." (Originally in Georgia Review)
• Necessary Fictions. Eds. Stanley Lindberg and Stephen Corey. Georgia, 1986.
• "Mourning." (Originally in Ontario Review)
• The Ways We Live Now. Eds. Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Smith. Ontario Review Press, 1986.
• Telling Stories. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. W. W. Norton, 1998.
• "The Spirit of Belle Starr."
• Best Short Stories from the California Quarterly 1971-1985. University of California, 1986.
• "Letha Posey's Husband."
• Descant: 25th Anniversary Issue. TCU, 1986.
• "Where Are Our MIA's?" (Originally in Kansas Quarterly)
• Our Roots Grow Deeper Than We Know. University of Pittsburgh, 1985.
• "Later Phases of the Western Migration."
• Ohio Review: Ten-Year Retrospective Issue, 1983.
• "Colorado." (Originally in The Ohio Review)
• Best American Short Stories. Eds. Shannon Ravenel and Anne Tyler. Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

• Co-Editor and Co-Founder of West Branch: A Twice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry and Fiction, 1977-2000
• Book reviews, 1985-1988 in Philadelphia Inquirer, Cimarron Review
• Co-Founder and co-director of the Annual Bucknell Poetry Festival, 1977-2000
• Senior Fellow, Residential College of the Arts, Bucknell University, 1992-1999
• Literature Panelist, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, 1994-1996

• Associated Writing Programs
• Authors Guild

Carnegie Mellon University, Susquehanna University, State University of New York-Oswego, University of Delaware, Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Williamsport Area Community College, Gmeiner Art Center (Wellsboro, Pennsylvania), Pennsylvania State University, University of Pittsburgh, Durham (N. C.) Public Library, James Brown Library (Williamsport, Pa.), Lock Haven University, Bloomsburg University, Ohio University, Rider College, Bucknell University, National Public Radio ("Morning Edition,"), Booktalk (national public television), National Cowboy Hall of Fame (Oklahoma City), Dickinson College, Galax (Va.) Book Club, Hudson River Writers (Yonkers, NY), Southern Festival of Books (Nashville, Tenn.), American Booksellers Association (Atlanta), Oklahoma Festival of Books (Claremore, OK), Siena College, Youngstown State University, Arkansas public television (Fort Smith, Ark.), James Madison University, Radford (VA) Public Library, Malaprop's Bookstore (Asheville, NC), Southern Kentucky Bookfest, Red Dirt Book Festival (Shawnee, OK)

• At Bucknell:
• Primary responsibility for courses in the writing of fiction
• Residential College in the Arts: Living Art, Making Fiction
• Appalachian literature
• Seminar in the Novel: focus on the uses of place
• Seminar in the Short Story
• Seminar: Regionalism in American Fiction
• Introductory composition and literature courses
• American literature, 1865-1915
• Literary Style/Modern grammars
• Supervision of honors and masters theses in fiction writing, literary studies
• Independent projects in fiction writing, literary studies

• At The University of Tennessee (1987-88):
• Fiction writing, introductory and advanced
• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Freshman composition and literature
• Independent project in fiction

• At Ohio University (1969-72):
• Freshman composition and literature
• Introduction to American literature
• Fiction writing