Curriculum Vitae
Carl W. Wooton


Employment

University of Southwestern Louisiana Professor 1965-1993 (Retired)

California Polytechnic State University, (SLO), Lecturer, 1993-Present

Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1967

Dissertation: "Responses to the Modern World: A Study of Evelyn Waugh's Novels"

Research in Progress

A sequence of stories dealing with several characters of a single family.  Nine have been written, seven published.

A novel set in south Louisiana and California (200 pages written).

Honors, Awards, and Offices

Distinguished Professor (USL Foundation), 1972

Phi Kappa Phi, 1969

NDEA Fellow, University of Oregon, 1961-64

Woodrow Wilson Fellow (Honorary), 1961-62

Publications

Stories and Poems

“Retreatants,” “Vocation,” “Autumn on the California Central Coast” (poems), Moonshade Magazine, #5 (November, December, 1997)

“About Writing Poems,” “Gardens,” The Poet’s Edge Magazine, 2, 1 (Spring 1998), 11.

“Searchers” (story), Beloit Fiction Journal, (Summer, 1992).

"The Auctioneer" (story), reprinted in Something in Common, edited by Ann Brewster Dobie.  Louisiana State University Press (1991), 241-252.

"All in a Day's Work," (story), Hudson Review, 42 (Winter 1990): 549-564.

Carl Wooton

"Harmony's Song" (story).  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 92.3 (1988): 128-37.

"Ramblers and Spinners" (story).  Hudson Review, 40 (1988): 561-83.

"A Reconciliation" (story).  Hudson Review, 41 (1988): 45-70.

"The Auctioneer" (story).  Sun Dog, 5 (1984): 58-66.

"The Tick is Full" (story).  Hudson Review, 37 (1984): 399-420.

"The Chill" (story).  Cuyahoga Review, 1 (1983): 155-65.

"A Notice to Fathers" (poem).  New Laurel Review, 8 (1978): 28.

"Call Back" (story).  Slackwater Review, 2 (1977): 16-24.

"Once Around the Park" (story).  Forum, 15 (1977): 52-55.

"Traveling Man" (story).  Crow's Nest, 3 (1977): 50-56.

"The Hairpiece Incident" (story).  Revue de Louisianne, 3 (1974): 83-88.

"When An Old Man Died" (poem).Revue de Louisianne, 3 (1974): 82.

"Final Arrangements" (story).  Ball State University Forum, 8 (1967): 17-22.

"Hurricane" (story).  Laurel Review, 7 (1967): 11-17.

"Under Silent Stars" (story).  Georgia Review, 21 (1967): 218-25.

"Lambs and Wolves" (story).  St. Joseph Magazine, 67 (1966): 15-18.

"Ordination" (poem).  More: New Verse, 1 (1965): 14.

"That Summer Day" (story).  Literary Review, 9 (1965): 65-76.

Plays

"Call Back," a one-act play adapted from my own short story, produced at Eavesdrop Theatre (Lafayette).

Carl Wooton

"Once Around the Park," a one-act play adapted from my own short story, produced at Eavesdrop Theatre, Baton Rouge Experimental Theater, and Festival Coteau.

"I.M.E." and "Diggers," one-act plays produced by Eavesdrop Theatre.

Criticism

With Marcia Gaudet.  Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines: Conversations      on the Writer's Craft, Louisiana State University Press, 1991.

With Marcia Gaudet.  "Talking with Ernest J. Gaines."  Callaloo (Summer 1988): 229-43.

With Marcia Gaudet.  "An Interview with Ernest J. Gaines."  New Orleans Review 14.4 (1987): 62-70.

With Ann Dobie.  "Spark and Waugh: Similarities by Coincidence." Midwest Quarterly 13 (1972): 423-34.

"Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: War and Limited Hope." Midwest Quarterly 10 (1969): 359-75.

"Poems of `Stark Abundance.'"  Northwest Review 7 (1965): 89-93.

"The Country Wife and Contemporary Comedy." Drama Survey 2 (1963): 333-43.

"The Terrible Fire of Gerard Manley Hopkins."  Texas Studies in  Literature and Language 4 (1962): 367-75.

"The Mass: `Ash-Wednesday's' Objective Correlative."  Arizona Quarterly, 17 (1961): 31-42.

"The Vultures: Becque's Realistic Comedy of Manners."  Modern Drama, 4 (1961): 72-79.