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Wendell Aycock

Professor

Office: 208
Email: wendell.aycock@ttu.edu
Web: http://www.faculty.english.ttu.edu/aycock

Bibliographic Indexes
Bibliographic Essays
Edited Collections
Co-edited Collections
Articles
Translations
Poetry
Poetry
Reprints

Poetry
Translations

Reviews
Presentations
Service and Engagements

 

Film and Literature A Comparative Approach to Adaptation

20th Century Short Story Explication

20th Century Short Story Explication

The Body and the Text

Calderon dele Barca at the Tecentenary

Classical Mythology in 20th Century Thought and Perspective

Climate and Literature

Ethnic Literatures Since 1776

Ibero American Letters in a Comparative Perspective

Joseph Conrad - Theory and World Fiction

Literature and Anthropology

Emigration and Exile

Myths and Realities of Contemporary French Theater

The Teller and the Tale-Aspects of Short Story

The Spanish Civil War Literature

William Faulkner-Prevailing Verities and World Literature


Bibliographic Indexes

  • Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication, New Series, VI.  New Haven, CT.: Shoe String Press, 2004.
  • Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication, New Series, V.  New Haven, CT.: Shoe String Press, 2002.
  • Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication, New Series, IV.  New Haven, CT.: Shoe String Press, 1999.
  • Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication, New Series, III.  North Haven, CT.: Shoe String Press, 1997.
  • Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication, New Series, II.  North Haven, CT.: Shoe String Press, 1995.

 

Bibliographic Essays

  • “Bibliography.”  Studies in Short Fiction 31 (1994):  535-91.
  • “Bibliography.”  Studies in Short Fiction 30 (1993):  433-87.

 

Edited Collections

  • The Teller and the Tale:  Aspects of the Short Story.  Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1982.  152 pp.
  • Shakespeare’s Art from a Comparative Perspective.  Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1980.  197 pp.

 

Co-Edited Collections

  • Climate and Literature: Reflections of Environment. Co-Editor with Janet Pérez.  Studies in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, No.25.  Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1995. 134 pp.
  • The Literature of Emigration and Exile. Co-Editor with James Whitlark.  Studies in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, No. 23.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1992. 186 pp.
  • The Body and the Text. Co-Editor with Bruce Clarke.  Studies in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, No. 22.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1990.  221 pp.
  • The Spanish Civil War in Literature. Co-Editor with Janet Perez.  Studies in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, No. 21.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1990.  178 pp.
  • Literature and Anthropology. Co-Editor with Philip Dennis.  Studies in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, No. 20.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1989.  227 pp.
  • Film and Literature:  A Comparative Approach to Adaptation. Co-Editor with Michael Schoenecke.   Studies in Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, No. 19.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1988.  192 pp.
  • Myths and Realities of Contemporary French Theater. Co-Editor with Patricia Hopkins.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1985. 174 pp.
  • Calderon de la Barca at the Tercentenary:  Comparative Views. Co-Editor with Sydney Cravens.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1982.  195 pp.
  • Classical Mythology in 20th-Century Thought and Literature. Co-editor with Theodore M. Klein.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1980.  235 pp.
  • Ibero-American Letters in a Comparative Perspective. Co-editor with W. T. Zyla.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1978.  190 pp.
  • Ethnic Literature Since 1776:  The Many Voices of America. Co-editor with W. T. Zyla.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1978.  Two Parts.  641 pp.
  • Albert Camus’ Literary Milieu: Arid Lands. Co-editor with W. T. Zyla.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1976.  205 pp.
  • Joseph Conrad:  Theory and World Fiction. Co-editor with W. T. Zyla.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1974.  199 pp.
  • William Faulkner:  Prevailing Verities and World Literature. Co-editor with W. T. Zyla.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1973. 166 pp.
  • Modern American Fiction:  Insights and Foreign Lights. Co-editor with W. T. Zyla.   Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1972.  140 pp.
  • Franz Kafka:  His Place in World Literature. Associate Editor. Proc. of the Comparative Literature Symposium.  Lubbock:  Texas Tech UP, 1971. 174 pp.

 

Articles

  • “Tomás Rivera.  . . . Y no se lo tragó la tierra / And the Earth Did Not Devour Him.”  Literatura Mexicana 8.2 (1997): 837-340.
  • “Subversion of the First Holy Communion in Contemporary Hispanic Fiction.” With Paula Allen. Confluencia 13.1 (1997): 204-218.
  • “Shakespeare en las obras de Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera,” in Yolanda Bache Cortés, et al., eds. Memoria Coloquio International Manuel Gueiérrez Nájera y la Cultura de su Tiempo. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1996.
  • “Julio Cortázar ‘End of the Game (Final del juego).’” Reference Guide to Short Fiction. Ed. Noelle Watson. New York: St. James Press, 1994.
  • “Night Scenes in Don Quixote.”  Romance Language Annual 2 (1991): 323-26.
  • “Pushkin and the Don Juan Tradition.”  The Contexts of Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin.  Ed. Peter I. Barta and Ulrich Goebel.  Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature 1.  Lewiston, New York:  The Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
  • “The Texas Tech Tenure Controversy.”  Symposium:  The Journal of the Texas Faculty Association  2 (1986): 10. 
  • “Shakespeare in the Works of the Young Gutierrez Najera.”  Comparative Literature Studies  20 (1983): 418-34.
  • “The American Short Story Into Film, Once Again.”  Studies in Short Fiction 18 (1981): 324-26.
  • “Don Juan Through Ukrainian Eyes.”  The Ukrainian Review 29 (1981): 81-88.
  • “Lesja Ukrajinka and the Don Juan Legend.”  Lesja Ukrajinka:  Symposium.  Philadelphia:  Permanent Conference on Ukrainian Studies at Harvard Ukrainina Research Institute, 1980.

 

Translations (book length)

  • A Phonetic Description of the Ukrainian Language, by Ivan Zilyns’kyj.  Trans. and Rev. by Wolodymyr T. Zyla and Wendell M. Aycock.  Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Monograph Series.  Cambridge:  Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1979.

 

Poetry

  • “Los buses de Panama--ruidos.”  Latitude 30” 18’ 6 (1986):  90.
  • “The Buses of Panama--Sounds."  Tradeswinds, U.S. Embassy Newsletter in Panama, April 1982: 8. 
  • “Hypen-Nation.”  MELUS 7.5 (1980): 2.

 

Poetry Reprints

  • “The Buses of Panama—Sounds.”
    • Rpt. in The Sunday Republic, Panama, 9 May 1982: 6. 
    • Rpt. in Latitude 30” 18’ 6 (1986): 89.
  • “Hypen-Nation.”
    • Reprinted on program cover of Conference on Ethnic American Women, May 1-3, 1981, University of Southern California.

 

Poetry Translations

  • “The Witch Doctor.”  Trans. of “La Bruja” by Julia Regales de Wolfschoon.  Latitude 30” 18’ 6 (1986): 88.

 

Reviews

  • Rev. of On Cervantes:  Essays for L.A. Murillo, ed. James A. Parr.  Hispania 76 (1993):  79-80.
  • Rev. of Short Story Theory at a Crossroads, ed. Susan Lohafer and Jo Ellyn Clarey; Re-reading the Short Story, ed. Clare Hanson.  Modern Fiction Studies  37 (1991):  337-38.

 

Presentations

Invited

  • Aycock, W. (Presenter Only), Invited Presentation, James Madison University Abroad, London, "Arthur Conan
  • Doyle's "The Speckled Band" in Short Story History," International. (October 14, 2010).
  • Aycock, W., College English Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ""The Last Time I Was in Pittsburgh."," National. (March 2009).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), Universite de Limoges, France, Department of Languages, Limoges, France,
  • ""Katrina in Short Fiction: James Lee Burke's Response"," Regional. (June 2008).

Accepted

  • Aycock, W., College English Association, St. Petersburg, Florida, ""The Recurrent and Irrepressible Sherlock
  • Holmes"," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (April 1, 2011).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), College English Association, San Antonio, Texas, ""Cuckoldry in Modern
  • Short Fiction"," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (March 27, 2010).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter Only), Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ""Shades
  • of Juana la Loca and Faulkner's 'Miss Emily' in Ana Garcia Bergua's Short Story 'Los conservadores.'","International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (March 25, 2010).
  • Aycock, W., South Central Modern Language Association, San Antonio, Texas, ""Guy de Maupassant and
  • Emilia Pardo Bazan"," Regional, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (October 2009).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), Tenth International Conference on the Short Story in English, Cork, Ireland,""Katrina in Short Fiction: James Lee Burke's Response"," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (June 2008).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), College English Association, St. Louis, ""The Short Stories of Part I of Don
  • Quixote"," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (April 2008).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), Modern Language Association, Chicago, ""Don Quixote as a Rewarding Education Experience for Contemporary Students"," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (December 2007).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), College English Association, New Orleans, ""Don Quixote and Translation"," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (April 2007).
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Merida, Mexico, ""Merida Once Again: Memories of SCOLAS"," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed, Published in Proceedings. (March 2007).Page 4
  • Aycock, W. (Presenter & Author), Ninth International Conference on the Short Story in English, Lisbon, Portugal, ""Expatriates on the Edge: Garcia Marquez' Strange Pilgrims"," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (June 2006).
  • Aycock, W. (Author Only), College English Association, San Antonio, ""James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Raymond Carver's 'Will You Please Be Quiet, Please'"," National, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (April 2006).

 

Service/Engagement

  • Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Procedures Committee. (August 2009 - May 2010).
  • Committee Member, Merit Salary Committee. (August 2008 - May 2010).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Council of the School of Biomedical Sciences.
  • Committee Member, TTU Press Editorial Committee. (October 2009 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Service Learning Advisory Council. (August 2009 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Ethics in the Curriculum Committee. (August 2008 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Student Life Council. (August 2008 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Academic Council. (August 2000 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Council. (August 2000 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Executive Committee. (August 2000 - Present).
  • Committee Chair, Graduate Faculty Committee. (August 2000 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Honors Advisory Council. (August 2000 - Present).