B.A., Dartmouth; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard

Professor Dowling’s publications include: Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (University Press of New England, 2005), A Reader’s Companion to Infinite Jest (with Robert H. Bell) (Xlibris Corporation, 2004), Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson (University of South Carolina Press, 1999); The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory (University of Nebraska Press, 1999); The Epistolary Moment: the Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle (Princeton University Pres, 1991); Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut (University of Georgia Press, 1990); Jameson/Althusser/Marx (Cornell University Press, 1984); Language and Logos in Boswell’s Life of Johnson (Princeton University Press, 1981), The Boswellian Hero (University of Georgia Press, 1979), and The Critic’s Hornbook (Crowell, 1977). His current project is Ricoeur on Time and Narrative, an introduction to Temps et Récit by French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.