University of Dallas

John Alvis, Ph.D.

Professsor, English
Director, American Studies Program
Location: Braniff Graduate Building 362
Office Phone: 972-721-5365
alvis@udallas.edu

Expertise

Classical Literature
Shakespeare
American Literature
Liberty and Literature

Education

B.A. University of Dallas (English)
M.A. University of Dallas (English)
Ph.D. University of Dallas (Willmoore Kendall Politics-Literature)

Recent Courses

Literary Tradtions I, II, III, IV
Early Modern Literature
Literary Study II: Prose Fiction
Shakespeare
Dante/Milton
Twentieth Century Literature
American Literary Renaissance
Scottish Enlightenment
Tragedy/Comedy
Romantic/Victorian
English Literary History
Liberty and Literature
Homer/Virgil

Research Interests

Shakespeare
Milton
American Literature
playwriting

Scholarship

Selected Publications

ed. Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatism.  Lexington Press, Fall 2002).

Shakespeare's Understanding of Honor. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1989.

Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil: The Political Plan of Zeus. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.

Shakespeare as Political Thinker, ed. with Thomas G. West (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1981).

Ed. Milton's Political Writings. Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund Press, 1999.

"Melville's Quarrel with America", Interpretation (Winter, 1995).

Plays

Publius 1804

WW: A Play in Two Acts

A Deed Without a Name

The Cloudwatchers

Wintergarden

Works in Progress

Liberty in American Literature