English Faculty 

John R. Pfeiffer, Ph.D.

Professor

Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 223
(989) 774-3126
John.R.Pfeiffer@cmich.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Kentucky
M.A., University of Detroit

Teaching Expertise

Nineteenth Century British Literature
Twentieth Century British Literature
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Afro-American Literature
Research Practices
Technical Writing
Legal Writing
Composition
Twentieth  Century German Literature

Publications

Collected reissue of 25 years of "A Continuing Checklist of   Shaviana."  SHAW:  The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.   Volumes 1-25  Approximately 500 print pages.  Checklists from 1981 to 1999 are electronically reproduced and presented online in "Bibliographies:  Menu B," International Shaw Society website:          http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/Shaw-Bibliographies.htm.   Checklists from 200 to 2005, and after, are available in the new posting of SHAW:  The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies on Project Muse Scholarly Journals Online. 

 "A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana." SHAW:  The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.  Volume 25.  Edited by MaryAnn K. Crawford.  University Park:  Penn State University Press, 2005:  260-87.

"A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana."  SHAW: Bibliographical Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.  Volume 20.  Edited by Dan H. Laurence and Fred D. Crawford.  University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000, pp. 265-89.

 

Review of Lionel Adey's C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1998).  Utopian Studies 10:2 (1999 [2000]): 207-09.

 

"A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana."  SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.  Volume 21.  Edited by Gale K. Larson.  University Park: Penn State University Press, 2001, pp. 179-99.

  

"A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana."  SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.  Volume 22.  Edited by Gale K. Larson and MaryAnn Crawford.  University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002, pp. 239-63.

 

"Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane" [article on Etheridge Knight's poem].  Masterplots II: Poetry Series, Revised Edition.  Volume 3.  Edited by Philip K. Jason.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002.  pp. 1646-48.

 

"John Christopher (Sam Youd) (16 April 1922-)"  British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers, 1918-1960: The Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Volume 255.  Edited by Darren Harris-Fain.  Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002. pp. 14-29.

 

"The Patternist Series" Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy.  Volume 2.  Edited by Fiona Kelleghan.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002.  pp. 422-29.  Reprint.  

  

"Bertrand Russell" Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition.  Edited by Mark Rehn.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 2003: pp. 2705-06.

 

"A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana" SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies.  Volume 23.  Edited by Gale K. Larson and Mary Ann Crawford.  University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003, pp. 181-201.

 

Review of Alondra Nelson, guest ed.  Social Texts 71:  

            Afrofuturism 20.  Utopian Studies 14:1 (2003): 240-43.

 

"Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) British Novelist and 

            Essayist"  Literature of Travel and Exploration: An 

            Encyclopedia.  Volume 3, R to Z.  Edited by Jennifer

            Speake.  New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003,

            pp. 1083-84.

 

"A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana."  SHAW:  Dionysian Shaw 24. Edited by Michel W. Pharand.  University Park:  Penn State University Press, 2004:  264-92. 

 

 Co-authored with Roger Hatch. "After the Contract: Vigilance" Academic Collective Bargaining: An AAUP Introduction for Full- and Part-Time Faculty and Graduate Assistants.  Edited by Ernst Benjamin and Michael Mauer.  New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association, 2005/6.

"Octavia Butler."  Science Fiction Writers:  Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. Second Edition.  Ed.  Richard Bleiler.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996: 147 - 58.  

"A Continuing Checklist of Shaviana."  Bibliographical Shaw:  Shaw:  The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 20.  (2000):  
265 - 92.

"Octavia Butler Writes the Bible."  Festschrift for Stanley Weintraub.  Ed. Susan Rusinko.  Selinsgrove, New Jersey:  Sesquehanna University Press, 1998.  140 - 52.

"Ray Bradbury's Bernard Shaw."  Shaw and Science Fiction:  Shaw:  The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, 17. (1997):  
119 - 131.

"Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 -- 20 October 1890)."  British Travel Writers, 1837-1875:  The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 166.  (1996):  91 - 97.

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