James Schevill
James Schevill is a poet, playwright, and Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University. He has published numerous collections of poetry, many plays which have been produced in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and a novel based on his experiences in World War II. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Margot.
Author of…
The Complete American Fantasies
“Fantasies to me, as I wrote in an earlier 1983 edition of American Fantasies, are the active, visionary links between reality and imagination as my characters pursue their destinies. Although we pretend to be a pragmatic, materialistic country, our fantasies, once suppressed by tradition, peer increasingly through the media into our private and public behavior.…
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Lovecraft's Follies, The Ushers, Mother O, Shadows of Memory, The Last Romantics
In 1970 Adrian Hall’s production of Lovecraft’s Follies by the Trinity Repertory Company was praised in The New York Times as a “hilarious extravaganza—with music—that is also an earnest attempt to come to grips with the guilts and terrors of the Age of Technology.…
New and Selected Poems
From a poetic career that spans more than half a century and that is still producing poems as fresh and honest as the first, comes James Schevill's New and Selected Poems, redefining the achievement of this uniquely American vision.…
Ambiguous Dancers of Fame
Collected Poems: 1945-1986
This second volume of James Schevill's collected poems is a companion to his remarkable ongoing sequence of poems, The American Fantasies, published by Swallow in 1983. This collection extends the scope of the poet's concern with American power and influences to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.…
Collected Short Plays
In a time that emphasizes media spectaculars, the short play offers an exploration of minimal possibilities yet has the power to fix history in a moment's structure, a flash of revelation. The short play is a powerful and innovative theatrical medium, relying upon compression and clarity rather than amplification, and reducing character and action to a spare, dramatic core.…
American Fantasies
Collected Poems, 1945-1981
In this collection, Schevill brings together a series of poems that he has been working on since his first book was published in 1947. Diverse characters, both real and imaginary, reveal fantasies of American life and history.…
- Howard L. Sacks
Professor of sociology and director of the Rural Life Center at Kenyon College… - Mikko Saikku
Assistant director of the North American Studies Program at the Renvall Institute for Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki… - Muhammad Haji Salleh
- Ronald E. Salomone
Professor of English at Ohio University-Chillicothe and the co-editor with James E. Davis of Teaching Shakespeare Today… - Cora Sandel
- Ciro A. Sandoval
Associate professor of Spanish and Comparative Studies at Michigan Technological University… - Carlos Sandoval-Garcia
- Hilary Sapire
Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Birkbeck College, University of London… - Jeremy Sarkin
Visiting Professor of International Human Rights and Senior Professor of Law at the Fletcher School at Tufts University… - Lowell J. Satre
Emeritus professor of history at Youngstown State University, in Youngstown, Ohio… - John S. Saul
- Mahir Şaul
Professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign… - Mahir Şaul
- Mark Harril Saunders
Henry Hoyns Fellow… - H. Lee Scamehorn
Professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder campus… - Harry N. Scheiber
Riesenfeld Chair Professor of Law and History in the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley… - Marguérite Schenkhuizen
- Harold Scheub
Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison… - James Schevill
Poet, playwright, and Emeritus Professor of English at Brown University… - James Schiff
Associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati… - Jim Schiller
- A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings
Freelance translator and author of many books and articles on the Indonesian language… - Elizabeth Schmidt
Professor of history at Loyola University Maryland… - William H. Schneider
Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis… - Mary A. Schofield
Professor of English at St. Bonaventure University… - Henry Schoolcraft
- Michael D. Schulman
Distinguished professor of sociology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, with a dual appointment in public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… - David E. Schultz
Technical editor for an environmental engineering firm in Milwaukee and has prepared several editions of works by Lovecraft and Ambrose Bierce… - Lynda Schuster
- Bernard L. Schwartz
- Alice-Lyle Scoufos
- Roger Sedarat
Assistant professor in the MFA program at Queens College… - Jeremy Seekings
- Jessica Senehi
Associate professor of peace and conflict studies, cofounder of the doctoral and joint master’s programs in peace and conflict studies, and associate director of the Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba… - Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
- Luis Hector Serra
Professor of sociology at the Central American University in Managua… - William David Setzerkorn
- Wendie Shaffer
- Bożena Shallcross
Associate professor of Polish literature at the University of Chicago… - Brent Shannon
Visiting professor of English at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky… - Robert B. Shaw
Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College… - Thomas Sheehan
- Randall T. Shepard
- Nick Shepherd
Senior lecturer in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town… - Michael J. Sheridan
Assistant professor of anthropology at Middlebury College… - Abdul Sheriff
Professor of history at the University of Dar es Salaam and the author of The History and Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town and coeditor of Zanzibar under Colonial Rule… - Jan Bender Shetler
Associate professor of African and world history at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana… - Kate B. Showers
Visiting research fellow and senior research associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, England… - Phillip R. Shriver
Past president of Miami University… - Silvana R. Siddali
Assistant professor of history at Saint Louis University… - Daniel Siegel
Associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham… - Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
- Julian Silva
- Carole G. Silver
- Robert Silverberg
- Jeremy Silvester
- Marc Simmons
Called by another writer “one remarkable caballero.” He certainly is. He has been a Wyoming ranch hand, a movie extra with Warner Brothers, a Peace Corps training officer, a horseshoer, and has taught history at the University of New Mexico… - David Simon
Reader in Development Geography and Director of the Centre for Developing Areas Research at Royal Holloway, University of London… - Simon Simonse
- Dick Simpson
- Arvind Singhal
Author of Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action and Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change… - Peter W. Sinnema
Associate professor of English at the University of Alberta… - Luke Sinwell
Senior researcher with the Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. … - Sheila Skaff
Assistant professor of film studies at the University of Texas at El Paso… - Pippa Skotnes
Professor of fine art and director of the Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre… - Dianne P. Small
Executive assistant at the Ohio State University Medical Center… - Donald Smalley
- Charles Allen Smart
Raised on the East Coast and died in his adopted home near Chillicothe in 1967… - Andy Smith
Associate professor of archaeology at the University of Cape Town… - Charles R. Smith
Award-winning playwright and member of the Playwrights Ensemble of the Tony Award–winning Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago… - Dwight L. Smith
- John David Smith
- Ken Smith
Professor of History at the University of South Africa… - Phyllis Smith
- Robert Michael Smith
Author of a number of articles on labor relations and the progressive movement… - David Sofield
Samuel Williston Professor of English at Amherst College… - Thomas P. Somma
Director of the Mary Washington University Galleries at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia… - Charles L. Sonnichsen
- Lionel Sotheby
- Marcia Southwick
- Sally J. Southwick
Native of southwestern Minnesota and has lived throughout the West… - Linda Spatig
Professor of educational foundations at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia… - Thomas Spear
- Linda Spence
- Maja Spierenburg
- John C. Spores
- Marshall Sprague
- E. G. Squier
- Shawn St. Jean
- George J. Stack
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University College of New York at Brockport, and the author of several books dealing with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche… - Paul Staudinger
- Beata Stawarska
Professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon… - Timothy Steele
- H. Leslie Steeves
Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon… - Kevin Stein
Poet and critic and the author of James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man… - David Steinberg
- Bruce E. Steiner
- Edward I. Steinhart
Professor of history at Texas Tech University, Lubbock… - Darl L. Stephenson
Retired Middle East specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency… - J. David Stevens
- Alan M. Stevens
- Patricia Bunning Stevens
Author of Merry Christmas! A History of the Holiday… - David Stewart
- Andrew Steyn
- R. L. Stine
- Gill Straker
- Stephen M. Streeter
- Victor L. Streib
Ella and Ernest Fisher Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University… - Frances Strickland
- Rennard Strickland
Philip H. Knight Professor of Law and dean emeritus at the University of Oregon School of Law and founding director of the University of Oklahoma Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy… - Ted Strickland
- Elisabeth Ströker
- Lucien Stryk
Prize–winning author and editor of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, translations, and edited collections… - Sue Studebaker
Author of Ohio Samplers: Schoolgirl Embroideries, 1803-1850 and has published articles in the Antique Review and Early American Life… - Beth Sullebarger
Principal of a historic preservation consulting firm in Cincinnati… - Jack Sullivan
- Carol Summers
Assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond… - Hollis Summers
- Thaddeus Sunseri
Professor of African history at Colorado State University in Fort Collins… - Lisa Surridge
Associate professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia… - Leo Suryadinata
- Marilou K. Suszko
Author of Farms & Foods of Ohio: From Garden Gate to Dinner Plate… - Mary-Lynn Suttie
Senior research librarian for history and politics at the University of South Africa… - John E.G. Sutton
Former director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa… - Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
Associate professor of English at the Lima campus of the Ohio State University… - Alan Swallow
- Oscar E. Swan
- James L. Swauger
Research associate, rock art, at the University of California, Los Angeles, and curator emeritus of anthropology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh… - David C. Sweet
Dean of the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University… - Ray Swick
- Charles I. Switzer
Emeritus administrator and professor of English at Eastern Illinois University.… - Les Switzer
Professor in the School of Communication and an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston… - Ibrahim Syukri
