Dr. Richard Black

Professor

Education

• Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Tulsa
• M.A., Texas State University at San Marcos
• B.A., St. Edward's University

Courses Taught

• ENG 650: American Realism and Naturalism
• ENG 650: Hardboiled America: American Crime Fiction
• ENG 640: American Literary Naturalism
• ENG 631: Mark Twain
• ENG 550: California Dreamin’: Literature from the Edge of America
• ENG 550: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner
• ENG 463: American Empire Builders
• ENG 341: Literature and Film
• ENG 325: Studies in Film History
• ENG 315: Writing for the Professions
• ENG 234: American Literature: 1865-present
• ENG 233: American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
• ENG 220: Introduction to Literature, Standard and Honors sections
• ENG 115: Accelerated Composition
• ENG 112: Composition II (Writing as Engagement)
• ENG 111: Composition I (Academic Literacies)

Academic Interests

• American Literature and Culture

Scholarly Activity

Publications

• “Spring Training at the End of the World.” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. 29.1-2 (Fall-Spring 2020-2021): 59-80. 
• “‘A game of cheaters cheating cheaters:’ A Cinematic Close Reading of John Sayles’ Eight Men Out.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 37.1 (Fall 2019-Winter 2020): 57-66.
• “‘Signs in the dust:’ Eric Rolfe Greenberg’s The Celebrant as Baseball Jeremiad.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 35.1 (Fall 2017-Winter 2018): 11-20. 
• “‘The Same Old Mud:’ Mark Twain’s Transcendent Imagination and Jeff Nichols’ Mud.” Mark Twain Annual.  Vol. 15 (2017): 60-70.
• “‘The Infernal Machine:’ Imperial America and John Sayles’ A Moment in the Sun.” Studies in American Naturalism 9.1 (Summer 2014): 79-102. 
• “Real-Life Legends and Reluctant Revolutionaries: Stephen Harrigan’s The Gates of the Alamo."  Southwestern American Literature 36.1 (Fall 2010): 33-50. 
• “Love, as Summer Goes.”  New Texas: A Journal of Literature and Culture.  Vol. 14 (2007): 14-18. 

Book Reviews

• Review of Mark Twain’s America: Then and Now, by Laura DeMarco.  Forthcoming in Mark Twain Annual. 2021.
• Review of Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era, by
• Matthew C. Ehrlich, The Sport Literature Association (2020): https://www.uta.edu/english/sla/br200111.html

Presentations

• Numerous national and international conference presentations.

Other Professional Experiences

Consultation

• External Program Reviewer for BA and MA programs in English at the University of Texas-Permian Basin (2019)

Membership in Professional Organizations

• Mark Twain Circle of America
• Sport Literature Association
• International Theodore Dreiser Society
• Sigma Tau Delta, National English Honor Society

Editorial Work

• Advisory Reader: College Literature