Keen Butterworth

Associate Professor

akbutter@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1970

Specialization Areas

• Twentieth-Century American
• Southern Literature and Culture
• Creative Writing

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 846C Faulkner & His Successors 
• ENGL 385 Modernism
  

Current Research Project(s)

• Novel in progress
• Article on W. C. Williams
• Article on James Dickey's "Owl King"

Publications

Essay review of John Boorman's Adventure of a Suburban Boy. James Dickey Newsletter 20 (Spring 2004), 35-40.

"Projections and Reflections in Audubon: A Vision," Southern LIterary Journal 36 (Fall 2003), 90-103.

Edited, William Gilmore Simms. Joscelyn: A Tale of the Revolution. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1975.

Co-Author (with James E. Kibler, Jr.), William Gilmore Simms: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980.

Author, A Critical and Textual Study of Faulkner’s A Fable. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Co-Author (with Nancy Butterworth), Annotations to Faulkner’s A Fable. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.

Articles

Paper on Faulkner's A Fable to be presented at MLA in December 2004.

“A Census of Manuscripts and Typescripts of William Faulkner’s Poetry.” Mississippi Quarterly, 28 (Summer 1973). Reprinted in A Faulkner Miscellany, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974.

"William Gilmore Simms 1806-1870." First Printings of American Authors, I. Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli Clark, 1977, 325-334.

"William Styron." Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2. American Novelists Since World War II. Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli Clark, 1978, 460-475.

"William Gilmore Simms." Dictionary of Literary Biography, 3. Antebellum Writers in New York and the South. Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli Clark, 1979, 306-318.

"Theodore Roethke." Dictionary of Literary Biography, 5. American Poets Since World War II. Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli Clark, 1980, 196-207.

"William Styron." Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980. Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli Clark, 1981, 99-105.

"The Savage Mind: James Dickey's Deliverance" Southern Literary Journal 28 (Spring 1996), 69-78.

Poems

"Two Poems: The Fount and A Doxology." Southern Humanities Review, 10 (Spring 1976), 170-171.

"The Jack Pot." Southern Humanities Review, 11 (Spring 1977), 109.

"The Gun." The Yemassee, 1 (Spring 1993), 18.

Stories

"Raven." The Chariton Review, 19 (Spring 1993), 46-57.

"Red Wolf." The Chariton Review, 20 (Fall 1994), 26-47.

"Scars." The Chariton Review , 22:2 (Fall 1996), 45-62.

"Blood Knot." The Chariton Review, 24:2 (Fall 1998) [nominated for a Pushcart Prize]