Ph.D. 1969 (English and American literature), M.A. 1968, Harvard; B.A. 1964 (English), Indiana.
Laurence S. Lockridge
Professor of English Emeritus
Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies
Executive Committee, The New York Institute for the Humanities; PEN American Center; American Association of Suicidology; Authors' Guild; The Manuscript Society; New York Institute for the Humanities; Modem Language Association, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, The Biography Seminar.
Golden Dozen Teaching Award, 2008; Mid America Award, 1998; Suicide Prevention Award, 1995; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1977-1978; Danforth Fellowship, 1964-1969; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1964-1965.
Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County. New York: Viking Penguin. 1994. Penguin Books. 1995.
Nineteenth-Century Lives. Cambridge University Press, 1989, rpt. 2008. Co-editor with John Maynard and Donald Stone.
The Ethics of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989. rpt. 2005.
Coleridge the Moralist. Cornell University Press, 1977.
"Explaining Coleridge's Explanation: Toward a Practical Methodology for Coleridge Studies," in Reading Coleridge, ed. Walter Crawford (Cornell University Press, 1979), 23-55.
"Biography and Enigma," in Biography and Source Studies, vol. III (AMSPress, 1998), 143-73.
"The Ethics of Biography and Autobiography," in Critical Ethics, ed. D. Rainsford, T. Woods (Macmillan and St. Martin's, 1998), 125-40.
"Tracking the Political Keats," review of Andrew Motion's biography, "Keats." Partisan Review (3, 1999), 515-19.
Review of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Opus Maximum," ed. T. McFarland. The Wordsworth Circle (Fall, 2002), 132-34.