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Dr. Edward Rielly has been a member of the English Department since 1978.
He is a former dean of the Distance Education Program at Saint Joseph’s
College.
His publications include nine books of poetry. Nonfiction
books include:
- Approaches to Teaching Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
- Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
- The 1960s
- Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
- Baseball in the Classroom: Teaching America’s National Pastime
Forthcoming books are:
- a biography of Sitting Bull
- a book on the relationship between football and American culture
Articles:
- Articles on Robert Creeley, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, and Frank O'Hara
in Beat Culture: Icons, Lifestyles, and Impact (Santa Barbara
, CA : ABC-CLIO, 2005)
- "Cincinnati Reds," Major League Baseball Clubs (Greenwood,
2006)
- "Saul (and Cash) on the Road to Damascus : The Man in White," Literary
Cash (BenBella, 2007)
- Articles on Tom Hayden, Walter Cronkite, David Halberstam, Seymour
Hersh, Martha Gellhorn, W. D. Ehrhart, Tim O'Brien, Tom Andrews, John
Wayne, Yusef Komunyakaa, Walter McDonald, Bruce Weigl, and Barry McGuire
in Americans at War: A Biographical Dictionary of Americans on the
Home Front (Greenwood, 2007)
- "Wolsey Serves as Lord Chancellor and Cardinal," Great Events
from History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600
(Salem, 2005)
- "Television Westerns" and "Dodgers and Giants Relocation," The
Fifties in America (Salem, 2005)
Poetry:
In the following magazines:
- Waterways
- Moonset
- Delta Epsilon Journal
- Gusts
- Hard Road to Hoe
- Acorn
- Frogpond
- Spitball
- Modern Haiku
- Wolf Moon Press Journal
- Red Lights
- Bottle Rockets
- Time of Singing
- Main Channel Voices
- South by Southeast
- HA!
Newspaper Column:
- Around the Bases (regular column in the
American Journal)
Dr. Rielly has published many articles, book reviews, and
individual poems and has earned national awards for his poetry.
He teaches Creative Writing, Nonfiction Prose Writing, 18th-Century
British Literature, Literature of the Vietnam War, The Western Film, Old
and Middle English Literature, Nature and Application of English Grammar,
The English Seminar, and Modern Literature, Baseball, and Society.
Professor Rielly is a runner-up in the Second Annual Central
Valley Haiku Club Haibun Contest. This is a national contest specializing
in haibun, a Japanese literary form consisting of prose and haiku integrated
into a unified experience. The title of his haibun is “Dreamcatcher.”
Last year he was the first-place winner. For many years he has worked
extensively in Japanese poetic forms: the haiku, tanka, and haibun.
Recently, Professor
Rielly won a three-year faculty fellowship.
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