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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Jerry Washington Ward, Jr.
Date of Birth: July 31, 1943
Place of Birth: Washington, D. C.
Home Address: 1928 Gentilly Blvd. (504) 948-7503 New Orleans, LA 70119
Office Address: Department of English (504) 816-4502 Dillard University 2601 Gentilly Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70122
Education
Tougaloo College 1960-64 Mathematics B.S.
Illinois Institute 1964-66 English M.S. of Technology
University of Virginia 1974-78 English Ph.D.
Positions
1965-66 Teaching Assistant Illinois Institute of Technology
1966-68 Teaching Fellow State University of New York at Albany
1970-77 Assistant Professor of English Tougaloo College
1970-71 Coordinator of English, Upward Bound Program 1972 (summer) Tougaloo College
1974 (summer) Instructor, Transition Program University of Virginia
1976 (spring) Lecturer in English 1976-77 University of Virginia
1977-84 Associate Professor of English Tougaloo College
1979-86 Chairman, Department of English Tougaloo College
1981 (summer) Faculty, NEH Institute on Southern Black Culture 1982 (summer) Spelman College
1983 (summer) Faculty, Mississippi Committee for the Humanities/ Mississippi Association of Educators Seminar Jackson State University
1984 (summer) Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers “Black South: Opening the Text” Tougaloo College
1984-2002 Professor of English Tougaloo College
1984 Program Officer, Division of Fellowships and Seminars National Endowment for the Humanities
19896 (November) Visiting Black Scholar LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY
1987 (June) Visiting Professor, English Department University of Mississippi
1987-88 UNCF Scholar-in-Residence Talladega College
1988 (Feb-Mar) Rosa Park/Martin Luther king, Jr. Visiting Scholar Department of English, Wayne State University
1988-2002 Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature Tougaloo College
1990-91 Program Director, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change University of Virginia
1993 (June) Director, Faculty Resource Network Seminar New York University
1996 Moss Chair of Excellence in English University of Memphis
1999-2000 Fellow, National Humanities Center
2001 (February) Minority Scholar-in-Residence Grinnell College
2001-2002 Chairman, Department of English Tougaloo College
2002- Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English and African World Studies Dillard University
Selected Lectures and Papers
College Language Association (1995, 2001, 2002) Modern Language Association (1976, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001) National Council of Teachers of English (1977, 1988, 1993, 1995) Conference of Afro-American Writers (1978, 1983) Emory University (1980, 1993) University of Kentucky (1980) Wyoming conference on Freshman and Sophomore English (1980 American Writers Congress (1981) Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies (1983, 1987, 1990) Mississippi Council of Teachers of English (1984, 1989, 1993, 2001) Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar (1984, 1988, 1994) Larry Neal Writers’ Conference (1985) Syracuse University (1986) Southeast Missouri State University (1986) University of Mississippi (1985, 1987, 1992, 1995, 2001) Millsaps College (1987, 1994) University of Alabama (1987, 1995, 1997) Howard University (1988, 2000) The Right to Literacy Conference (1988) National Black Arts Festival (1988, 1994, 1996, 1998) Mississippi State University (1989, 1997) American Literature Association (1990, 1998) Virginia Military Institute (1990) University of Virginia (1990, 1991, 1993, 1996) Drake University (1991) Louisiana State University (1992) New York University (1992) University of Houston (1992) University of Toledo (1993) Universität München (1993) Notre Dame College of Ohio (1993) Oral History Association (1993, 1997, 1999) Indiana State University (1994, 2002) Natchez Literary Celebration (1994, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004) Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival (1995) Poet’s House PASSWORD Series (1995) University of Memphis (1996) St. George Tucker Society (1996) University of Wisconsin (1997) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1998) University of Missouri-Columbia (1999) University of North Carolina-Greensboro (2000) North Carolina Central University (2000) University of Kansas (2000, 2002) Hurston/Wright Foundation (2000) Grinnell College (2001, 2005) University of Illinois-Chicago (2001) Dillard University (2002, 2003 2004) Mississippi College (2003, 2005) Xavier University (2003) Society of the Study of Southern Literature (2004) Mississippi Valley State University (2005) Dickinson Colege (1997, 2005) Northern Arizona University (2005)
Honors and Awards
United Negro College Fund Faculty Grant, 1974-75 Kent Fellowship, 1975-76, 1976-77 Outstanding Teaching Award, Tougaloo College, 1978-79, 1979-80 UNCF Distinguished Scholar Award, 1981-82 UNCF Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, 1987-88 Teacher of the Year, 1993, Tougaloo College Humanities Teacher Award, 1995 (Mississippi Humanities Council) Outstanding Research Scholar, 1995, Tougaloo College Moss Chair of Excellence in English, 1996, University of Memphis Public Humanities Scholar Award, 1997 (Mississippi Humanities Council) Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1999-2000 Darwin T. Turner Award of Excellence, 2000 (African American Literature and Culture Society) International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, 2001 (Chicago State University)
Editorial Positions
Advisory Editor, OBSIDIAN, 1974-1986 Contributing Editor, Callaloo, 1976-1984 Contributing Editor, Jackson Advocate, 1982-1885 Advisory Editor, OBSIDIAN II, 1986-1994 Co-editor, Richard Wright Newsletter, 1991-1998 Advisory Editor, Black American Literature Forum, 1991-1992 Advisory Editor, African American Review, 1992- Advisory Editor, New Literary History, 1991-2002 Advisory Editor, Drumvoices Review, 1991- PMLA Editorial Board, 1992-1994 Editorial Board, Southern Cultures, 1993-2001 Advisory Board, Profession, 1995 Editorial Board, The Mississippi Quarterly, 1995-
Membership
Advanced Placement English Test Development Committee, The College Board (1996-98)
African American Literature and Culture Society
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
American Literature Association
The Authors Guild
College Language Association (Executive Committee, 1974-1976)
Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (Board of Directors, 1978-1982)
Deep South Regional Humanities Center (Advisory Board, 2000-2003)
The George Moses Horton Society for the Study of African American Poetry (Advisory Board, 1997- )
Major Field Test-Literature in English Committee, Educational Testing Service, 2002-2004
Mississippi Council of Teachers of English Mississippi Humanities Council (1984-1988; Vice Chair, 1986-87)
Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters (Board of Governors, 1984-87; 1988-1990; Vice President, 1986-87)
Mississippi State Advisory Committee, United States Commission on Civil Rights (1987-1997; Chair, 1994-1997)
Modern Language Association (Commission on the Literatures and Languages of America, 1980-1983; Committee on Teaching and Related Professional Activities, 1983-1986; Member, Delegate Assembly, 1984-1986; Executive Committee, Division of Black American Literature and Culture, 1984-1988: PMLA Editorial Board, 1992-1994)
National Council of Teachers of English
National Planners Committee, Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities (2000-2004)
Richard Wright Circle (Co-founder, 1990- ; co-editor, Richard Wright Newsletter, 1990-1998)
Society of the Study of Southern Literature (Executive Council, 1997-99)
Publications (selected listing)
Books
Redefining American Literary History. New York: MLA, 1990. Co-edited with A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.
Black Southern Voices. New York: New American Library, 1992. Co-edited with John Oliver Killens
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry. New York: Mentor, 1997.
Articles and Essays
“Folklore and the Study of Black Literature.” Mississippi Folklore Register 6.3 (1972): 83-90.
“Recent Black Writing: An Annotated Bibliography.” Mississippi Review 4.3 (1975): 49-62.
“N. J. Loftis’ Black Anima: A Problem in Aesthetics.” Journal of Black Studies 7.2 (1976: 195-209.
“Illocutionary Dimensions of Poetry: Lee’s ‘a poem to complement other poems’.” Juju (Spring 1977); 43-51. Reprinted in The Furious Flowering of African American Poetry. Ed. Joanne V. Gabbin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 135-145.
“Bridges and Deep Water.” Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature. Ed. Roseann P. Bell et al. New York: Doubleday, 1979. 184-190.
“The Black Critic as Reader.” BALF 14.1 (1980): 21-23.
“Saturated Situations: AnInterview with Stephen E. Henderson.” OBSIDIAN 7.1 (1982): 51-58.
“Escape from Trumblem: The Fiction of Gayl Jones.” Callaloo 5.3 (1982): 95-104. Reprinted in Black Women Writers (1950-1980: A Critical Evaluation. Ed. Mari Evans. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1984. 249-258; reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 131. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. 249-253.
“Selected Bibliography of Afro-American Literature.” ADE Bulletin 78 (1984): 40-42.
“Selected Bibliography for the Study of Southern Black Literature in the Twentieth Century.” The Southern Quarterly 23.2 (1984): 94-115.
“Tom Dent Talking: New Orleans as a Resource for Genius.” Xavier Review 6.1 (1986): 1-11.
“The Wright Critical Canon: Looking Towards the Future.” Callaloo 9.3 (1986): 521-528.
“The System of Dantes’ Hell: Underworlds of Art and Literation.” The Groit 6.2 (1987): 58-64.
“A Writer for Her People: An Interview with Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander.” The Mississippi Quarterly 41.4 (1988): 515-527; reprinted in Conversations with Margaret Walker. Ed. Maryemma Graham. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. 113-124.
“Hirsch, Bloom, and the Proper Ends of Education.” ADE Bulletin 94 (1989): 21-22.
“Southern Black Aesthetics: The Case of Nkombo Magazine.” The Mississippi Quarterly 44.2 (1991): 143-150.
“Interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” New Literary History 22.4 (1991): 927-925.
Introduction. Black Boy. By Richard Wright. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993. xi-xxi.
Richard Wright: Black Boy: A Teacher’s Guide. Jackson: Mississippi Educational Television, 1995.
“Native Son: Six Versions Seeking Interpretation.” Approaches to Teaching Wright’s Native Son. Ed. James A. Miller. New York: MLA, 1997. 16-21.
“For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation.” Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker. Ed. Maryemma Graham. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. 179-186.
“Everybody’s Protest Novel: The Era of Richard Wright.” The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. Ed. Maryemma Graham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 173-188.
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JERRY WASHINGTON WARD, JR.