1976 - 1980

"Change, Science Fiction, and Marxism: Open or Closed Universes?," Science-Fiction Studies, 2 (Part 2, 1973), 90-92. (Reprinted in Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles [Boston: Gregg Press, 1976].)

The Tarry Hand of Herman Melville," in Weapons of Criticism. San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1976, 287-309.

Review essay on Edward Grejda, The Common Continent of Men: Racial Equality in the Writings of Herman Melville; Charles Nnolim, Melville's "Benito Cereno"; Pearl Chester Solomon, Dickens and Melville in Their Time; Paul-Gerhard Buchloh and Hartmut Krüger, Herman Melville; Merton Sealts, Jr., The Early Lives of Melville, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 30 (March 1976), 547-553.

"Crime and Punishment: A Literary Memoir," Book World, The Washington Post, May 2, 1976.

"A Radical Redefiniton of American Literature," Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the College English Association, April 9, 1976.

"Science Fiction as an Historical Phenomenon," Eastern Science Fiction Association, March 7, 1976.

"Marxist Literary History and Literary Criticism," Graduate School Colloquium, Drew University, April 16, 1976.

"New Jersey Writing Today," Moderator, Panel Discussion, Bicentennial Conference on New Jersey's Literary Heritage, Kean College, April 17, 1976.

“The Literature of the American Prison,” Unitarian Church of Summit, May 30, 1976

"Is the World Really Coming to an End: Science Fiction and the Doomsday Imagination," Kean College, December 2, 1976.

"The Sociology of Science Fiction," Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1976.

"The Most Iconoclastic Tradition of All: Frederick Douglass and the Origin of American Literature, Division Meeting, American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, Modern Language Association Convention, December 27, 1976.

"Malcolm Braly: Novelist of the American Prison," Contemporary Literature, 18 (Spring 1977), 217-240.

"Animal Farm Unbound; Or, What the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Reveals about American Literature," New Letters, 43 (Spring 1977), 25-46.

"The Literature of the American Prison," Massachusetts Review, 18 (Spring 1977), 50-78.

"Science Fiction before Gernsback," Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction, edited by Damon Knight. New York: Harper & Row, 1977, pp. 96-99. (Revised from Future Perfect.)

Columbia Cablevision, December, 1977.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

"Literature from Prisons," New York Times (Op-Ed), February 11, 1978.

"Herman Melville--Kunstler der Arbeiterwelt," Amerikanische literaturkritik im engagement. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978, pp. 161-184. (Translation of "The Tarry Hand of Herman Melville.")

"America's Convict Writers--Talent, Torment and Rage," Parade, May 7, 1978.

"The History of Science Fiction," The Arts in New Jersey: UA-Columbia Cablevision, January, 1978.

"Writings from Inside," Heywood Hale Braun Audio Cassette (with Nathan Huggins), Jeffrey Norton Publishers, New York City, 1978.

"Literature from the American Prison," Series of Lectures in prisons in New York State sponsored by Art Without Walls and the New York Council for the Humanities, March 13-24, 1978

Programs on Prison Literature, 1978: WOR (N.Y.); WNYC (N.Y.); WABC (N.Y.); WRVR (N.Y.); WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.); National Public Radio; WECB (Boston); WWDC-FM (Maryland); WBZ (Boston); WGBH-FM (Boston).

Program Director, Melville Society, 1978-1979

"New Discoveries in Nineteenth-Century American Science Fiction," Special Session #58, Modern Language Association Convention, December 27, 1978.

"The Criminal and the Novel," Special Session, The Criminal Hero: An Enigmatic Protagonist in ]9th- and 20th-Century Fiction, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1978.

Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, October 11-13, 1978.

"What Are We To Make of J. G. Ballard's Apocalypse?," Voices for the Future, Volume II. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1979, pp. 82-105.

"Songs of an Imprisoned People," (revised from The Victim As Criminal and Artist), Melus; Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States, Summer, 1979, pp. 6-22.

"Nathaniel Hawthorne," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: Roxby Press, 1979. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979.

"Rehabilitating Prison Education," Change: The Magazine of Learning, 11 (November-December, 1979), pp. 18-21.

"English as an Institution: The Role of Class," English Literature--Opening Up the Canon: Selected Papers From the English Institute, 1979. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 92-106.

"English as an Institution: the Role of Class," The English Institute, September 2, 1979.

"Literature from the American Prison," Lecture presented by the Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore Penitentiary, October 29, 1979.

"From Empire to Empire: BILLY BUDD and the Modern Reader," Modern Language Association Convention, December 19, 1979.

"The Novel of Revolution in the Third World: Ngugi's PETALS OF BLOOD," Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1979.

THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST: LITERATURE FROM THE AMERICAN PRISON. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1978. xxvi+337 pages. Paperback (revised and expanded) edition published as PRISON LITERATURE IN AMERICA: THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1982. xxx+303 pages. [Annotated bibliography published as companion volume.] Third edition, revised and expanded, including "Annotated Bibliography of Literature by American Prisoners, 1798-1988," New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xxxvi+341 pages.

"Literature from Prisons," New York Times (Op-Ed), February 11, 1978.

"Herman Melville--Kunstler der Arbeiterwelt," Amerikanische literaturkritik im engagement. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1978, pp. 161-184. (Translation of "The Tarry Hand of Herman Melville.")

"America's Convict Writers--Talent, Torment and Rage," Parade, May 7, 1978.

"The History of Science Fiction," The Arts in New Jersey: UA-Columbia Cablevision, January, 1978.

"Writings from Inside," Heywood Hale Braun Audio Cassette (with Nathan Huggins), Jeffrey Norton Publishers, New York City, 1978.

"Literature from the American Prison," Series of Lectures in prisons in New York State sponsored by Art Without Walls and the New York Council for the Humanities, March 13-24, 1978.

Programs on Prison Literature, 1978: WOR (N.Y.); WNYC (N.Y.); WABC (N.Y.); WRVR (N.Y.); WJLA-TV (Washington, D.C.); National Public Radio; WECB (Boston); WWDC-FM (Maryland); WBZ (Boston); WGBH-FM (Boston).

Program Director, Melville Society, 1978-1979.

"New Discoveries in Nineteenth-Century American Science Fiction," Special Session #58, Modern Language Association Convention, December 27, 1978.

"The Criminal and the Novel," Special Session, The Criminal Hero: An Enigmatic Protagonist in ]9th- and 20th-Century Fiction, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1978.

Distinguished Lecturer, University of Arkansas, October 11-13, 1978.

"What Are We To Make of J. G. Ballard's Apocalypse?," Voices for the Future, Volume II. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Press, 1979, pp. 82-105.

"Songs of an Imprisoned People," (revised from The Victim As Criminal and Artist), Melus; Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States, Summer, 1979, pp. 6-22.

"Nathaniel Hawthorne," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. London: Roxby Press, 1979. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979.

"Rehabilitating Prison Education," Change: The Magazine of Learning, 11 (November-December, 1979), pp. 18-21.

"English as an Institution: The Role of Class," English Literature--Opening Up the Canon: Selected Papers From the English Institute, 1979. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 92-106.

Program Director, Melville Society, 1978-1979.

"English as an Institution: the Role of Class," The English Institute, September 2, 1979.

"Literature from the American Prison," Lecture presented by the Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore Penitentiary, October 29, 1979.

"From Empire to Empire: BILLY BUDD and the Modern Reader," Modern Language Association Convention, December 19, 1979.

"The Novel of Revolution in the Third World: Ngugi's PETALS OF BLOOD," Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1979.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: AMERICA AS SCIENCE FICTION. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1980. xvi+232 pages.

Introduction to Poems in One/Part Harmony by T. J. Reddy. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Carolina Wren Press, 1980.

"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1980s," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 1981. Reprinted in the Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1981. Unauthorized abridged version published in Vietnam: Anthology and Guide to a Television History, Edited by Steven Cohen. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1983, 1st and 2nd printings, pp. 444-447. Subsequent printings contain full authorized text.

"The Manifest Destiny of the Lone Genius: Science Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America," Nineteenth-Century American Literature Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, February 26, 1980.

"The Manifest Destiny of the Lone Genius: Science Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America," Nineteenth-Century American Literature Lecture Series, University of Kentucky, February 26, 1980.

"Classics? Does That Have Something To Do with Classes?", "Humanists Rediscover the Classics," New Jersey College English Association Conference, Drew University, March 28, 1980.

"Daydreams of the Past, Nightmares of the Future," Contemporary Versions of the American Dream, William Paterson College, April 25, 1980.

"Science Fiction and Us," Newark Museum, May 13, 1980.

"Convicts as Political Leaders," Lecture presented by the Maryland Department of Education, Baltimore Penitentiary, June 9, 1980.

1971 - 1975

FROM THE MOVEMENT: TOWARD REVOLUTION. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971. (Historical essays and collection of primary documents.) xv+170 pages.

"J. G. Ballard's Subliminal Man," in The Mirror of Infinity (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 237-242. In Perennial Library, paperback edition, 220-225. Reprinted in SF: The Other Side of Realism (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971), 199-203.

"Howard Philips Lovecraft," Encyclopedia Americana, 1971.

"The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire," The Politics of Literature (New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972 and Vintage Books, 1973), 101-129. Earlier version in College English, 31 (March 1970), 548-557. Reprinted in 100 Flowers, 1 (Spring 1971), 47-52. Also in University Review, #21 (1971), 29-32.

(Section of Pierre chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Studies in Pierre, Edited by Ralph Willett, Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1971, 88-92.)

THE ESSENTIAL STALIN: MAJOR THEORETICAL WRITINGS, 1905-1952. New York: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972. London: Croom-Helms, 1973. (Collection, with historical introduction.) viii+511 pages.

(Chapter 8 of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Thomas J. Rountree, Critics on Melville, Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1972.)

"The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire," The Politics of Literature (New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972 and Vintage Books, 1973), 101-129. Earlier version in College English, 31 (March 1970), 548-557. Reprinted in 100 Flowers, 1 (Spring 1971), 47-52. Also in University Review, #21 (1971), 29-32.

"The Sky Is Falling," Saturday Review: The Arts, 55 (July 15, 1972), 42-45. (Published under the title "Chic Bleak in Fantasy Fiction.")

"Where All Freedoms but Stanford's Are Academic" (entitled by Change "The Real Issues in My Case"), Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 4 (June 1972), front cover and pp. 31-39.

"The Revolutionary Alliance," The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, July 10-12, 1972. (Published by the Center.)

Section of OPEN SOCIETY, film directed by Otto Lang, produced by Airlie Productions and George Washington University, 1972.

THE ESSENTIAL STALIN: MAJOR THEORETICAL WRITINGS, 1905-1952. New York: Doubleday, Anchor Books, 1972. London: Croom-Helms, 1973. (Collection, with historical introduction.) viii+511 pages.

("Bartleby" chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in A Casebook for Research, New York: Kendall-Hunt Publishing Co., 1973.)

"On Hearing from Some More Professors of the U.S. Empire," College English, 34 (January 1973), 580-582.

"Change, Science Fiction, and Marxism: Open or Closed Universes?," Science-Fiction Studies, 2 (Part 2, 1973), 90-92. (Reprinted in Science-Fiction Studies: Selected Articles [Boston: Gregg Press, 1976].)

"Wie man Literatur auf den Hohen Schuler des Weltreiches lehrt," Zeitschrift fur literaturwissenschaft und linguistik, 9/10 (1973), Frankfurt, Germany, 142-156. (Translation of "The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire.")

1973-2002 : Editorial Board, Editorial Consultant, Science-Fiction Studies.

Review of Less Than a Score, But a Point: Poems by T. J. Reddy,University Review (New York), #41 (December 1974), 29-30.

"The University as a Social Institution," Canadian Conference on Education, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, February 20-22, 1974.

"On Melville," "The Future Was Then," "Multinational Corporations," "The Societal Aetiology of Terrorism," "Terrorism as a World Problem," "The Silence of Literature," "The Other More Nearly Perfect Worlds," "The Cult of Violence," 27th Annual Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, March 10-15, 1974. (All available on cassettes from Conference on World Affairs Office.

"Third World Revolutionary Poetics," Modern Language Association. Convention, December 27, 1974.

1970-1974: Commentator and talk show host (monthly and bi-monthly), KPFA, Berkeley, California.

BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1975. xviii+219 pages.

"Future Shocks," Book World, The Washington Post, April 20, 1975.

"Why Not Teach the Humanities to Adult Basic Education Students," in Why Teach the Humanities to Adult Basic Education Students. Kansas City, Missouri: Center for Resource Development in Adult Education, 1975, 7-22.

"`A' Is for Afro-American: A Primer on American Literature," Minnesota Review, n.s. 5 (Fall 1975), 53-64.

Ten presentations at 28th Annual Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado, March 11-15, 1975. (All available on cassettes from Conference on World Affairs Office.)

"Why Teach the Humanities to Adult Basic Education Students," Town Meeting, University of Missouri--Kansas City, April 16, 1975.

1966 - 1970

THE WAKE OF THE GODS: MELVILLE'S MYTHOLOGY. Stanford University Press, 1963. xii+240 pages. Second (revised) edition and paperback edition, 1966. Third (revised) edition, 1983.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

"Hawthorne and Science Fiction," The Centennial Review of Arts and Sciences, 10 (Winter 1966), 112-130.

"How We Started Our War against North Vietnam," Sequoia (Spring 1966), 4-12.

"Fictions of the Future," Stanford Today (Summer 1966). With subtitle, "The Politics of Literary Prophecy," as condensation in Current (December 1966). Revised, in THE FUTURIST, 4 (February 1970), 26-28.

Revelations about U.S. Air Force Activities, KGO-TV, February 2, 1966.

"Science Fiction in the Classroom," California Conference on Instruction and the Curriculum, June 22, 1966.

"A History of Science Fiction," with Anthony Boucher, Theodore Sturgeon, and A. E. Van Vogt, National Educational Television, Summer, 1966.

1966- : Referee for Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Publications of the Modern Language Association, University of California Press, North-western University Press, American Literature, Duke University Press, American Quarterly, Ramparts Press, Bobbs-Merrill, Harper & Row, Mosaic, Harcourt, Brace and World, Lippincott, University of Pittsburgh Press, Wesleyan University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, Kennikat Press, University of Minnesota Press, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Tennessee Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Northern Illinois University Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Mississippi Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Massachusetts Press, Cornell University Press, et al.

THE SCARLET LETTER, TOGETHER WITH MAIN STREET, ETHAN BRAND, AND HAWTHORNE'S PUBLISHED CRITICAL WRITINGS, compiled, edited, with critical introduction. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1967. xxxiv+355 pages.

HERMAN MELVILLE'S THE CONFIDENCE-MAN: HIS MASQUERADE. Annotated edition with critical introduction. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1967. xxxiv+355 pages. Revised edition with Preface by Daniel Handler. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. xxxiii+355 pages.

"The Island Worlds of Darwin and Melville," The Centennial Review of Arts and Sciences, 11 (Summer 1967), 353-370.

"Lenin, Youth, and Revolution," Progressive Labor, 6 (November- December, 1967), 111-113.

English narrative for U.S. sequence and English translation of French narrative for Vietnamese sequence, Loin du Viet Nam, film by Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais, Roger Pic, William Klein, Chris Marker, et al., Paris, 1967.

"Fictions of Science," Southern Review, 12 (Autumn 1967), 1036- 1049.

"On Afro-American Liberation," with Aimé Cesaire and Alioune Diop, La Société Africaine de Culture (Présence Africaine), Paris, July 8, 1967.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

"Science Fiction: The New Mythology," with Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Darko Suvin (MLA Forum, 1968), transcribed in Extrapolation, 10 (May 1969), 69-115.

"1968; Or, Bringing the War Home: The Vision of the Movement and the Alternative Press," The Vietnam Era. Ed. Michael Klein. London: Pluto Press and Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990, 65-81.

"On 'A Strategy for American Studies,"' American Studies Association of Northern California, October 26, 1968.

"Science Fiction," Chairperson and Panelist, Forum, Modern Language Convention, December, 1968.

"Who Should Run the Universities?" Rational Debate Series of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, January 24 and 31, 1968, Washington, D.C.

WHO SHOULD RUN THE UNIVERSITIES? John A. Howard, President of Rockford College, co-author. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1969. v+243 pages.

"Science Fiction," The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago, 1969.

"Science Fiction: The New Mythology," with Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, and Darko Suvin (MLA Forum, 1968), transcribed in Extrapolation, 10 (May 1969), 69-115.

("Moby-Dick: An Egyptian Myth" from The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Studies in Moby-Dick, Edited by Howard P. Vincent, Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1969, 130-136.)

"The Subversiveness of Science Fiction," Second Annual Conference, Science Fiction Writers of America, Los Angeles, March 15, 1969.

1969- : Lectures and talks at Amherst College, Antioch College; Brown University; University of California, Berkeley; UCLA; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Santa Cruz; Portland State University; Pennsylvania State University; University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; New York University; Wesleyan University; State University of New York, Buffalo; Youngstown State University; University of Akron; Kent State University; Rutgers; Mills College; College of San Mateo; Foothill College; Cañada College; Cabrillo College; University of Connecticut; California State University, San Jose; California State University, San Diego; California State University, Sacramento; California State University, San Francisco; California State University, Hayward; University of Alberta; Valparaiso University (Indiana); Enoch Pratt Library (Baltimore); California State University, Fullerton; University of Santa Clara; University of Colorado; University of Oregon; University of Montana; Claremont Graduate School; Reed College; University of Massachusetts; University of Washington (Seattle); Sarah Lawrence College; Swarthmore College; Trinity College; University of California, Riverside; Yale University; et al.

"Fictions of the Future," Stanford Today (Summer 1966). With subtitle, "The Politics of Literary Prophecy," as condensation in Current (December 1966). Revised, in THE FUTURIST, 4 (February 1970), 26-28.

"J. G. Ballard's Subliminal Man," in The Mirror of Infinity (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), 237-242. In Perennial Library, paperback edition, 220-225. Reprinted in SF: The Other Side of Realism (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1971), 199-203.

"The Teaching of Literature in the Highest Academies of the Empire," The Politics of Literature (New York: Random House, Pantheon Books, 1972 and Vintage Books, 1973), 101-129. Earlier version in College English, 31 (March 1970), 548-557. Reprinted in 100 Flowers, 1 (Spring 1971), 47-52. Also in University Review, #21 (1971), 29-32.

"On Hearing from Some Professors of the American Empire," College English, 32 (November 1970), 219-225. Reprinted in The Politics of Literature.

(Billy Budd chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in edited form in Studies in Billy Budd, Edited by Haskell S. Springer, Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1970, 118-130.)

"The Lumpenproletariat and the Revolutionary Youth Movement," Monthly Review, 21 (January, 1970), 10-25.

"Don't Look Where We're Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1982," Science-Fiction Studies, X (March, 1983), pp. 70-80. Also in Shadows of the Magic Lamp, Edited by George Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. 73-85.

("Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films from 1970 to 1982" [reprint] in Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Ed. Annette Kuhn. London and New York: Verso, 1990. 19-31.)

"Literary Criticism in the 1970s," with Leslie Fiedler and Thomas Clayton, Special Forum, February 6-7, 1970, UCLA.

"Don't Look Where We're Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1981," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, February 28, 1982.

1970-1974: Commentator and talk show host (monthly and bi-monthly), KPFA, Berkeley, California.

1961 - 1965

"The Trial Scene of Webster's The White Devil Examined in Terms of Renaissance Rhetoric," Studies in English Literature, 1 (Spring 1961), 35-51.

"`Apparent Symbol of Despotic Command': Melville's Benito Cereno," New England Quarterly, 34 (December 1961), 462-477.

"Bili-Budd," Mythology and Literature Section, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 23, 1962.

1962-1964: Scientific Writing Consultant, Stanford Research Institute

"Bili-Budd," Mythology and Literature Section, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 23, 1962.

1963: National Chairman, Conference of the Advanced Placement Program in English (College Entrance Examination Board).

THE WAKE OF THE GODS: MELVILLE'S MYTHOLOGY. Stanford University Press, 1963. xii+240 pages. Second (revised) edition and paperback edition, 1966. Third (revised) edition, 1983.

HERMAN MELVILLE'S MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITHER (edition). New York: G. P. Putnam's, Capricorn Books, 1964. xv+581 pages.

"Science Fiction as an Index to Popular Attitudes toward Science," Modern Language Association Convention, December, 1964.

"Redburn's Wicked End," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 20 (September 1965), 190-194.

"Science Fiction as an Index to Popular Attitudes toward Science," Extrapolation, 6 (May 1965), 23-31.

"Science Fiction as an Index to Popular Attitudes toward Science," Extrapolation, 6 (May 1965), 23-31.

(Benito Cereno chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted with revisions in Melville's Benito Cereno: A Text for Guided Research, edited by John P. Runden, New York: D.C. Heath, 1965, pp. 105-117.)

"Time Travel," Modern Language Association Convention, December, 1965.

Chairperson, Science Fiction Conference, Modern Language Association Convention, December, 1965.