Robert Leigh Davis
Curriculum Vitae
Education
"Civil War Nursing" and "Memoranda During the War." In the Walt Whitman Encyclopedia, ed. Donald D. Kummings and J.R. LeMaster, New York: Garland Publishing, 1998.
"The Lunar Light of Student Writing: Portfolios and Literary Theory." In Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives, ed. Kathleen Blake Yancy and Irwin Weiser, Provo: Utah State University Press, 1997.
Review Essay: "Richard Selzer's Raising the Dead." Literature and Medicine 13:2 (fall 1994).
"'America, Brought to Hospital': The Romance of Medicine and Democracy in Whitman's Civil War." The Wordsworth Circle 24:2 (winter 1994).
"Deconstruction and the Prophets of Literary Decline." The Chicago Tribune. Op-Ed. (29 March 1994).
"The Art of the Suture: Richard Selzer and Medical Narrative." Literature and Medicine 12:2 (fall 1993).
"Whitman's Tympanum: A Reading of Drum-Taps." The American Transcendental Quarterly 6:3 (fall 1992).
"Medical Representation in Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams." The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 6:3 (winter 1989).
"That Two-Handed Engine and the Consolation of 'Lycidas.'" Milton Quarterly 20:2 (May 1986).
Honors and Awards
Edith B. and Frank C. Matthies Award for Faculty Research, 1998.
Honorary Membership, The Class of 1997, Wittenberg University.
Southwest Ohio Council of Higher Education Faculty Excellence Award, 1997.
Omicron Delta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award, Wittenberg University, 1996.
Highest Distinction, Comprehensive Oral Exam, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
Benjamin Putnam Kurtz Graduate Essay Prize, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
Teacher of the Year Award, Serra High School, San Mateo, CA, 1985.
Fellowship, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers, Colorado College, 1984.
B.A. with Distinction, Stanford University, 1978.