• A member of the 英语 faculty since 1988 and 英语 department chair from 1988-2004, 教授 Balbert teaches courses in modern American literature, the history of the modern British and American novel, and contemporary American literature.

    His research methodology integrates Freudian theory, 心理传记, and intertexuality with major interests in the work of D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and 诺曼·梅勒. The author of four books and more than forty articles, he has served as a panelist for Challenge Grants at the National Endowment for the Humanities, as editorial adviser of 学术领袖, as consultant to the American Institutes of 研究, and as associate editor of Planning for Higher 教育.

    • Ph.D.康奈尔大学
    • M.A.康奈尔大学
    • B.A., University of Michigan

    书

    D书封面. H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix

    This innovative study of eight major works of fiction by D. H. Lawrence examines the dominant presence of what is here termed a "marriage matrix." It reveals how this intense pattern of preoccupation not only structures the symbology and plot development of these powerful stories, but also consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence's life as depression, 疾病, 友谊, 更新, 超越, 和阳痿. As a compelling interpretation of Lawrence's craft and a provocative foray into the intimations of 心理传记, the book's notions of "synergistic criticism" integrate various approaches to this modernist writer to reveal provocative linkages between his visionary art and turbulent career and marriage. The volume contains well-grounded speculations on the sexual life of Lawrence and Frieda, on the oedipal residue of Lawrence's relation to his parents, on the complex 友谊s with Cynthia Asquith, J. 米德尔顿聪聪, and Katherine Mansfield, and on the theories of James Frazer, Sigmund and Anna Freud, 詹姆斯·W. Pryse, Peter Ouspensky, and 诺曼·梅勒. The Marriage Matrix also reproduces six paintings by Lawrence and one by Georgia O'Keeffe within pertinent discussions of Lawrence's practice and theory of visual art and how they further enhance the priorities of his fiction. To further contextualize the book's eclectic approach to impinging issues about the current province of research, 教学, 和文学, the texts of two of the author's controversial presentations to the academy are also included, as well as relevant correspondence with the late writer, 诺曼·梅勒, on the subject of Lawrence's genius and influence.

    • D. H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix:  Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016)
    D. H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination book cover
    D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration book cover
    D. H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm book cover
    • D. H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination: 论文 on Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading. (New York and London, St. Martin's and Macmillan, 1989)
    • D. H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration, a collection of primarily original essays, which I coedited with Phillip Marcus. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).
    • D. H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm (The Hague: Mouton, 1974). 

    论文

    • "Compensatory Reversal and the Voluptuous Suffocation: Nightmare and Sexual Revenge in 'The Border-Line,'" in 梅勒评论 11 (2017), 227-248. 2019年出版的
    • “Impotence, Recovery, and the Honorable Beast: The Aesthetics of the Fourth Dimension in The Virgin and the Gipsy,” in 梅勒评论, 10 (2016), 370-409. 
    • “从 Lady Chatterley’s Lover to 鹿园: Marriage, Instinctual Primacy, and the Dialectic of Erotic Risk,” in 梅勒评论 9 (2015), 251-283. 
    • "The Dark Secret and the Coccygeal Continuum, 1918-1920: From Oedipus to Debasement to Renewal in 最后的女孩," in D.H. 劳伦斯的研究 23 (2015), 101-139. 
    • 20th Century American Literature
    • 现代小说
    • First Year Experience: Creative Genius
    • 关于D的各种研讨会.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, 诺曼·梅勒, and John Updike

    教授 Balbert is a member of the National Association of Scholars and has participated in workshops for the Society of College and University Planning. His administrative scholarship has been used for workshop discussion by the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences.

    Balbert works with peer tutors in First Year Experience: Creative Genius and is a long-standing member of the Council on Teacher 教育.