HERMAN L. ASARNOW
Professor of English, University of
Portland
Department of English
11628 S.W. Oak Creek Drive
University of Portland
Portland, OR 97219-8929
5000 N. Willamette
Blvd.
503-244-5854
Portland, OR 97203-5798
503-943-7244
Internet: asarnow@up.edu
Homepage at University
of Portland: http://faculty.up.edu/asarnow
EDUCATION
B.A., English,Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1972.
M.A., English (with emphasis in Creative Writing), University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1974.
Ph.D., English and American Literature (with emphasis in
18th-century
British
literature), University of Denver, Colorado, 1981.
THESIS AND DISSERTATION
Asarnow, H.L. Threads: Original Poems. Master's thesis, University of Denver, 1974.
Asarnow, H.L. Pope's Early Public Character (1709-1729): His Creation and Promotion of a Public Image in the Early Career.
Doctoral dissertation, University of Denver, 1981.
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
1979-1985 Assistant Professor of English, University of Portland
1985-1996 Associate Professor of English, University of Portland
1996- Professor of English, University of Portland
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
1983-1986 Chairman, Department of English & Modern Languages, University of Portland
1988-89 Acting Chairman, Department of English & Modern Languages, University of Portland
1995-98 Chairman, Department of English & Foreign Languages, University of Portland
2004- Chairman, Department of English, University
of Portland
RESEARCH SUPPORT
Graduate Dean's Research Grant Award, University of Denver, Summer 1979; $700 for use in procuring photocopies of rare books and documents from the late 17th and early 18th centuries for my dissertation research.
The Graves Award (American Council of Learned Societies and Pomona College), 1984; $7000 for three months' reading and research in the Renaissance and Eighteenth Century literature and culture, conducted in Portland and at the Henry Huntington Library, Gallery, and Gardens, and the W.W. Clark Rare Book library (UCLA) in Los Angeles.
Summer Research Grant, University of Portland, 1985; $1200 to pay for the salary of a research assistant to help complete an empirical study of the efficacy of Computer-Assisted Instruction in teaching English grammar and usage to college freshmen as part of a course in Expository Writing.
Summer Research Grant, University of Portland, 1996; $1100 for travel to England for research on Alexander Pope, 18th-century drama, and Shakespearean plays in performance.
Summer Research Grant, Butine Fund, University of Portland, 1999; $2000 for travel to France for research in Bordeaux and Aquitaine for a series of essays related to Michel de Montaigne.
Summer Research Grant, Butine Fund, University of Portland, 2001, $5000; for writing essays and poetry.
Butine Fund Grant ,
University of Portland, 2008, to support the Writing-Embedded Project at U.P.
RESEARCH AND WRITING
Writing poetry; writing essays. The poetry and career of Alexander
Pope; intertextuality in 18th-century British writing, particularly between
canonical and non-canonical writers; the role of extra-literary invention (book
formats, special type fonts, uses of illustration, portraiture, advertising,
etc.) in the career of Pope and in the development of the book as mass medium;
the rise of the idea of celebrity in eighteenth-century England (and its
analogies to the idea of celebrity in our own time).
CONSULTANTSHIPS
Numerous instances of book reviewing for texts in poetry and
introduction to literature; most recently with HarperCollins (X.J. Kennedy’s Literature
,1994-2000) and HarperCollins’s Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (ed. R.S.
Gwynn, 1993); also with Little Brown, McGraw Hill, etc.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Modern Language
Association of America
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
AWP—The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
AWARDS AND ACADEMIC HONORS
John C. Underwood Prize
for Poetry, 1971 and 1972, Trinity College
The Graves Award, ACLS and Pomona College, 1984.
Burlington Northern Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, University of
Portland, 1988.
Best Paper Award, South Central Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1995.
The James Culligan Award for Distinguished Service and Teaching, U. of Portland,
1998.
Faculty Award for Entrepreneurial Endeavor, Franz Chair in Entrepreneurship,
University of Portland, 2004.
University of Portland Nomination for Oregon Teacher of the Year, 2006 and 2007.
Pushcart Prize Nominations for poetry: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008 (2).
The Hugh S. Ogden Poetry Prize, Trinity College 2009, awarded annually to an
alumnus or alumna who has shown exemplary talent and commitment to poetry
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Asarnow, Herman. Glass-Bottom Boat: Poems, Higganum Hill Books, 2007.
Asarnow, H. Writing Second Edition: Instructor's Manual.
Scott, Foresman and Company, 1986.
Essays
Asarnow, H. “James Merrill’s ‘Pearl,’” Poetry Northwest, Issue #7 (Volume 4, Number 1), http://www.poetrynw.org/.
Asarnow, H. "The Center of His Stage." Portland Magazine, Fall 2003.
Asarnow, H. "Champignons, or Delicacies." the Seattle Review, Vol. XXIV, Number 2 (2002), 78-86.
Asarnow, H. " All in War with Time."
Iron Horse,
Vol. 3, No. 1 (First Frost
2001), 97-111.
Asarnow, H. "Mixing Bowl." North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Spring 2000), 98-102.
Asarnow, H. "Dancing Through Doorways." Living Words:
Best High Holiday Sermons of 5759. Boston:
Jewish Family & Life Press,
1999, 35-43.
Asarnow, H. "Burgeoning with Birds." The Southwest Connection. March, 1999, 20.
Asarnow, H. "Chèvre." North Dakota Quarterly,Vol. 65, No. 2 (Summer, 1998), 7-14.
Asarnow, H. "The Virtue of the Voice."
Portland Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring, 1998).
Reprinted in Unison, the Newsletter of the American Choral Directors
Association, XI, No. 3
(Spring 1998), 7-9.
Asarnow, H. "The True Wonder of Desire." High Plains Literary Review, XII, No. 2 (August 1997), 48-55.
Asarnow, H. "Fishing the Shelves." South Dakota Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 1996), 53-58.
Asarnow, H. "Eating Tongue." North Dakota Quarterly,Vol. 63, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), 32-36.
Asarnow, H. "A Place Apart." Portland Magazine 14, No.3 (Fall 1995), 19-23.
Asarnow, H. "My Wife's Taste." High Plains Literary Review, VIII, No. 3 (Dec. 1993), 58-66.
Asarnow, H. "A Choice of Life." Portland Magazine, 11, No. 2 (Summer 1992), 22-25.
Reprinted in The Teaching Professor (November 1992),
Madison, Wisc.
Reprinted in Directions (January 1993), Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
Poetry in Literary Magazines
“Cuervo: Hook, Line, & Sinker.” Garbanzo, Fall 2008.
“Panoramas.” 32 Poems, Spring 2007.
“ ‘Too
Marvelous for Words.’”
Meridian, Fall/Winter
2006/2007.
“Aubade: Drooling.”
Meridian, Fall/Winter
2006/2007.
“Ode to Joy Ovation.”
Meridian, Fall/Winter
2006/2007.
“Frozen Frame: the Kitchen—1959.”
Prairie Schooner.
Volume
80, Number 3, Fall 2006, 117.
“Cause and Effect Café.” Tar River
Poetry, Spring 2006, Vol. 45, No. 2, 15.
“Double Fault.” Valparaiso Poetry
Review, Fall 2005.
“Star.” Guernica: A Magazine of Art and
Politics, September 2005.
“Resistance.” Beloit Poetry Journal,
55. No. 4, Summer 2005. 11.
“Thruway.”
West
Branch, 56, Spring 2005, 23.
“Kind of Blue.”
OnTheBus, 19/20, 2005, 56.
“What to Keep.” The
Southern Review, Autumn 2004, 629.
"Letting in the Horse." Potomac Review, Issue 37, Spring/Summer 2004, 86-87.
"What the Trees Say About Love." Potomac Review, Issue 37, Spring/Summer 2004, 88.
"Blue Light Special.” Tar River Poetry, Winter 2004.
“At Bottom (May, 1982).” Rattle, Volume 9, No. 1, Issue 19, Summer 2003, 16.
“Poetry.” Southern Humanities Review, Spring 2003, Vol. 37, No. 2, 170.
“The
Burning Pond.” Lynx Eye. Fall 2002, Vol. IX, No. 4, 95.
“Driving
in My Convertible, Exposed to the Elements.” Poet Lore, Vol. 97, No.
3/4, Fall/Winter, 2002, 78.
“Argument
(Empirical) Favoring the Existence of a Soul.” Poem, Nov. 2001, 26-27.
"Surrendering to the Air." Poem, Nov. 2001, 28.
"Mystère Chinois." Connecticut River Review, 21, No. 2, 17-18.
"Curves." Rattle, 15 (Summer 2001), 12-13..
"The Hand of
Silence." the Small Pond, Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2001, 7.
"Snapshots: Kensington Gardens." Southern Humanities Review, Spring 2001, 128-129.
"Magnolia Soulangiana." Poet Lore. Vol. 96, No. 1, Spring 2001, 35.
"poison, flower. " South Dakota Review. Vol. 38, Number 4, Winter 2000, 142-143.
"What Touches." Potpourri, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2001, 62.
"Le Merveilleux." The Chariton Review. Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2000), 109.
"Luncheon at the Ritz." The Chariton Review. Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2000), 108.
"Double Helix." the Seattle Review. Volume XII, Number 2, 54-55.
"The presence of some things." Lynx Eye, Spring 2000, 118.
"Panorama." Clackamas Literary Review. Vol. 4, Issue 1. Spring 2000, 128.
"Seeking Home." Clackamas Literary Review. Vol. 4, Issue 1. Spring 2000, 129.
"Aubade: Bonnard’s ‘Nude Against the Daylight’." Rattle. 12, Vol. 5, No. 2 (December 1999), 13.
"Sun/Moon." Potomac Review. Number 25, Winter 1999-2000, 110.
"Witch Hazel. " Whetstone. Volume 16, 1999, 66.
"The Camellia's Story. " South Dakota Review. Vol. 37, No. 3 (Fall 1999), 109.
"In Daylight Darkness. " South Dakota Review. Vol. 37, No. 3 (Fall 1999), 107-108.
"For Nausicaa: On Searching for a Poem by Someone Else to Send to You."The Classical Outlook:Journal of the American Classical
League.Vol 77, No. 1, Fall 1999, 16.
"Prunus Domestica." POEM. Number 82, November 1999, 46-47.
"Poets’ Stones." POEM. Number 82, November 1999, 48.
"Hope." Oxford Magazine. Volume XIII, 1999, 17. ( also in The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, January 9, 1999.)
"I Have Sworn Off Writing Love." The Antigonish Review. No. 117, Spring 1999, 94.
"In the Garden, Contraries." The Antigonish Review. No. 117, Spring 1999, 93.
"Reconciliation." Beloit Poetry Journal. Vol. 49, No. 3, Spring 1999, 18.
"Year 48—3 A.M." Beloit Poetry Journal. Vol. 49, No. 3, Spring 1999, 16-17.
"In the Garden, Uncertainty." The Southwest Connection. No. 53 (December 1998), 28.
"Heir’s Loom." Bridges, Vol. 7, Number 2 (December 1998), 92-93.
"This Hazy Light." Poet Lore, Volume 93, Number 1 (Spring 1998), 48.
"Darling, I Cannot Say." Santa Barbara Review, 6, Number 1, (Spring 1998), 99.
"Disturbance in the Field." Santa Barbara Review, 6, Number 1, (Spring 1998), 98.
"Something Rich and Strange." Santa Barbara Review, 6, Number 1, (Spring 1998), 98.
"On the Lips." Wisconsin Review, 31, No. 1, Fall 1997.
"Love Poem to a Ms.: A Modest Proposal." Oxford Quarterly Review, 1, No. 1, (Winter 1996), 48.
"Why I Want To Play It With Feeling." The Laurel Review, Buckhannon, W. Va. (Summer 1985).
"For a Friend." New Arts Review, Athens, Georgia (Summer 1982), 19.
"Needle." New Arts Review, Athens, Georgia (Summer 1982), 19.
"Report from the Mountains." New Arts Review, Athens, Georgia (Summer 1982), 19.
"Ruby." Plainspeak Magazine, Denver, Colorado (Autumn 1978).
"Obsequy for a Peace." Foothills, Denver, Colorado (Winter 1973).
Translations
"Faults." Translation from the Spanish of Noni Benegas's poem "Interrupciones" from Cartographía Ardiente. Editorial Verbum,
S.L., 1995, Madrid. Forthcoming in Meridian, 19 (Spring/Summer 2007).
"On Love." Translation from the Spanish of Noni Benegas's poem "De Amor" from Cartographía Ardiente. Editorial Verbum,
S.L., 1995, Madrid. Forthcoming in Meridian, 19 (Spring/Summer 2007).
"Words." Translation from the Spanish of Noni Benegas's poem "Las Palabras" from Fragmentos de un Diario Desconocido, Fundacion
Caixagalicia (2004). Forthcoming in Meridian, 19 (Spring/Summer 2007).
"The Waiting." Translation from the Spanish of Noni Benegas's poem "La Espera" from Cartographía Ardiente. Editorial Verbum,
S.L., 1995, Madrid. The Marlboro Review, 9 (Winter/Spring 2000), 38.
"The Rope." Translation from the Spanish of Noni Benegas's poem "La Cuerda" from Cartographía Ardiente. Editorial Verbum,
S.L., 1995, Madrid. The Marlboro Review, 9 (Winter/Spring 2000), 39.
"Passion's Map." Translation from the Spanish of Noni Benegas's poem "Cartographía Ardiente " from Cartographía Ardiente.
Editorial Verbum, S.L., 1995, Madrid. The Marlboro Review, 9 (Winter/Spring
2000), 40.
Critical Review Articles and Reviews
Season We Can’t Resist (Word Tech, 2007), by Martha Carson-Bradley, review forthcoming, The Marlboro Review.
Asarnow, H.
“Necessarily Strange, Strangely Necessary,” The Cincinnati Review, 6.1,
Summer 2009, 198-208.
Unknown Friends (Penguin, 2007), by Carl Dennis, review, Pleiades
28:1 (2008), 185-189.
"The Marlboro Review." In Literary Magazine Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2005, 15-20.
" Night Train, III." In Literary Magazine Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, Winter 2004, 14-20.
The Evolution of English Prose 1700-1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture. Carey McIntosh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1998. In The Scriblerian,Vol.
XXXIV, Nos. 1 and 2, Autumn 2001 and Spring 2002,
91-93.
William Warburton, Robert M. Ryley. The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 12 (1986). [in print Jan.1991]
"Contemporary Poets and the Responsibilities of the Small Press."The Denver Quarterly, 12, No. 4 (1978), 90-94.
"Philip
Larkin's High Windows." The Denver Quarterly, 10, No. 1 (1975), 116-118.
PAPERS PRESENTED and READINGS
Asarnow, H. Invited Reading,
Silverton Poetry Festival, Silverton, Oregon, April 26, 2009.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Oregon Jewish Museum, November 10, 2008.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Bend, OR, Public Library, May 10, 2008.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Western Oregon University, May 8, 2008.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, May 7, 2008, Oregon Literary Review
First Wednesday Readings Series, Portland, OR.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, April 28, 2008, Loggernaut Reading
Series, Portland, OR.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Lewis & Clark College, February 28,
2008.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Mountain Writers, Portland, OR, December
5, 2007.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Portland State University, November 14,
2007.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Wordstock, Portland, OR, November 11,
2007.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited Reading of Poems, Gonzaga University, September 18, 2007.
Asarnow, H.L.
Invited reading of poems, Collegium, Portland, Oregon, June 13, 2004.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited reading of poems, Mountain Writers’ Center, Portland, Oregon, September 29, 2002.
Asarnow, H.L. Invited reading of poems, Trinity College, Connecticut, October 10, 2001. Also guest lecturer in 2 classes.
Asarnow, H.L. Reading of poems, for Department of Romance Languages and Department of English, University of Oregon,
conference on "Internal
Voices/External Echoes," Eugene, Oregon, October 14-15, 2000.
Asarnow, H.L.
Reading of poems, South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, session titled "The Scholar’s Muse,
Scholars of the 18th Century reading from their own works," Louisana State University, Shreveport, Louisiana,
February 25-27, 1999.
Asarnow, H.L. Reading of poems, South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, session titled "The Scholar’s Muse,
Scholars of the 18th Century reading from their own works," University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond,
Oklahoma, February 27-29, 1997.
Asarnow, H.L. "Objectifying His Books, Objectifying Himself": Pope’s Extra-Poetic Image-Making," South Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, session titled "The Book as Object: Materialism and Meaning," New Orleans, Feb.
22-24, 1996.
Asarnow, H.L. Reading of poems and essay, South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century tudies, session titled "The Scholar’s
Muse, Scholars of the
18th Century reading from their own works," New Orleans, Feb. 22-24, 1996.
Asarnow, H.L. "Pope’s Work and the Dunces’ Work: Can We Tell the Dunciad-er fom the Dunce?" South Central Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Utah, March 2, 1995. Winner, Best Paper Award.
Asarnow, H.L. "Double Exposures-Indecent Exposures: Pope's Early Portraits and Engravings --and the Dunces' Response."
Session on "Pope and Pictorialism," Modern Language Association, New York, December 1986.
Asarnow, H.L. "Exposures and Double Exposures: Pope's Early Portraits and Engravings--and the Dunces' Response."
Western Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southern California, February 15, 1986.
Asarnow, H.L. (& S.D. Baillet). "Empirically Measuring the Effectiveness of Computer-AssistedDrill-and-Practice in a Real
Life Setting." Microcomputers and Basic Skills in College conference, City University of New York, November
22, 1985.
Asarnow, H.L. "Public
and Private Character in Pope’s Early Career." Western
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Stanford
University, February 22, 1985.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected listing, from 1988 to present)
1987-1989 Designed initial phases of University of Portland's Integrated Writing Program, a structured approach to the integration of writing instruction in all five colleges of the University.
1988 Lecture to student body as part of "Last Lecture" series.
1988-89 With Drs. Houck, Easton, and Baillet, designed Freshman Seminar Program later adopted by full faculty.
1988-89 Freshman Orientation Task Force
1988-89 Ad Hoc Committee to Create Non-tenure track lectureships (with Fr. Sherrer and Drs. Wilson and Kuhn).
1988-89 Chair, Search Committee for Integrated Writing Program Director
1988-89 University Computer and Telecommunications Committee
1988-89 University Teacher Education Committee
1988-89 Presidential Advisory Committee on Finance
1989 Keynote address, Freshman (& Transfer) Orientation dinner
1989-93 Support committee for Integrated Writing Program
1989-90 Faculty Representative, Presidential Search Committee
1990-91 Chair, CAS Dean's Selection Committee
1990-91 Chair, Committee on Committees, Univ. of Portland
1990-92 Elected Faculty Representative, University Council
1990-93 Academic Senate
1991-92 Freshman Curriculum Focus Group
1991-92 Search Committee for Stage Designer, Performing and Fine Arts
1992-93 Faculty Welfare Committee
1992-93 Chair, Search Committee for American Literature position, English & Foreign Languages Department
1993 Design Committee, Franz Hall, University of Portland
1993 Program Speaker, Board of Regents, University of Portland
1993 Commencement Speaker, Summer Commencement, University of Portland
1994 Director, University of Portland Summer Program in London
1999 Search Committee, new German position.
1994-01 Faculty Welfare Committee
1999-02 Core Curriculum Evaluation Team, University of Portland
1999-01 Faculty Standard Committee, Accreditation Self Study, University of Portland
2000 Director, University of Portland Summer Program in London
1999- Coordinator, English & Foreign Languages Readings & Lectures Series
2003-2004 Committee on Rank & Tenure, University of Portland
2003--2007 Coordinator, Northwest Undergraduate Conference on Literature (NUCL), University of Portland
2004-2007 Core
Curriculum Team, with Drs. Martin, Baasten, Monto, and Shapiro, under Dean
Favero
2006 Developer of new Summer Literary London program, in conjunction with
Gonzaga University’s English Department. Co-director of the program with Dr.
Michael Pringle of
Gonzaga University.
2007- College of Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee
COMMUNITY SERVICE
1989-92 Religious School Committee, Congregation Havurah Shalom
1991-93 Steering Committee, Congregation Havurah Shalom
1994-95 Board of Directors, Jewish Family & Child Services, Portland, Oregon
1996-7 Member, Board of Directors, Jewish Federation of Portland
1995-99 Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Jewish Family & Child Services, Oregon.
1996-98 Vice-President, Board of Directors, Jewish Family & Child Services, Oregon.
1995- Fundraising Committee, Congregation Havurah Shalom
1998-00 Co-developer, Rabbi Liaison Committee, Congregation Havurah Shalom
2001-2004 Chairman, Rabbi Liaison Committee, Congregation Havurah Shalom
2007-
Member, Steering Committee (Board of Directors), Congregation Havurah Shalom.
2008-2009 Second Vice-President,
Congregation Havurah Shalom, Portland, Oregon
2009-
Co-President, Congregation Havurah Shalom, Portland, Oregon
