Dr. James S. Baumlin

Prof. James S. Baumlin

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Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Missouri State University, USA

Prof. James S. Baumlin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Missouri State University, USA, where he has taught coursework in early-modern English literature (Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton), critical theories, and the history of rhetoric. A graduate of Georgetown (B.A. Honors English and Philosophy) and Brown University (Ph.D. English Literature), he has written and lectured extensively in these fields, as well as in rhetorical theory, creative nonfiction, and composition pedagogy.

His publications include two scholarly monographs, fifteen edited and coedited collections, and over one hundred book chapters, journal articles, scholarly notes, and reviews. In his service to the academy, he has guest-edited several special issues for scholarly journals and co-founded two academic small presses. His current research focuses on the history of Western ethos from antiquity to the present day. Among his many honors and awards is an election to membership in the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE, an affiliate of the UNESCO-sponsored International Federation of Modern Languages and Literatures) and receipt of an Excellence in English award, presented by the English-Speaking Union, H.R.H. Prince Philip presiding.

Email: jbaumlin[at]missouristate[dot]edu

Selected Publications:

• The Orbit of Meter: Writings on Poems and Prosody by Robert Wallace (coedited with Anne Marie Baker), foreword by Christina Wallace. Springfield MO: Ozarks Studies Institute, 2023. 252 pp. Featuring Materials from the Robert Wallace Collection in Meyer Library Special Collections and Archives, Missouri State University.

Contributions as author:

• • “On Robert Wallace and the Wallace Collection: An Introduction” (with Anne Marie Baker), 13-22.
  • “A Wallace Bibliography: Citations of Critics and Criticism” (with Katherine Coulter), 200-06.
  • “The Smoothest Typer Ever to Come Out of Springfield: A Treasury of Letters from The Robert Wallace Collection,” 207-43.

• Histories of Ethos: World Perspectives on Rhetoric (coedited with Craig A. Meyer). Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2022. x + 218 pp. An essay collection based on the journal special issue, “Histories of Ethos,” Humanities 7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-1699-8

• Living Ozarks: The Ecology and Culture of a Natural Place (coedited with William B. Edgar and Rachel M. Besara). Foreword by Clifton M. Smart III. Springfield, MO: Ozarks Studies Institute, 2018. 304 pp. with 126 illustrations.

Contributions as author:

• • “Introduction and Acknowledgments” (with William B. Edgar), 13-19.
  • “The Ozarks: Sharing the Ecological Message, 1818-2018: (with William B. Edgar), 20-50.
  • “‘Elnora’ and Other Poems, by S.W. Mannon” (with Tessa Devine), 259-63.
  • “‘And We Won’t Never Come Back Again’: From Shepherd of the Hills (1907)” (with Tessa Devine), 299-300.

• Explorations in Renaissance Culture: 40th Anniversary Double Issue (coedited with Tita French Baumlin and Frances M. Malpezzi) 40.1-2 (2014): 261 pp.

Contribution as author:

• • “Editors’ Notes and Acknowledgments” (with Tita French Baumlin and Frances M. Malpezzi), 5-6.

• Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature: Reading Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (scholarly division of Rowman and Littlefield), 2012. liv + 257 pp. Reprint in softcover, 2014. Digital: Kindle edition, AS0IN: B008MLNN1C.

• Jim W. Corder on Living and Dying in West Texas: A Postmodern Scrapbook (coedited with Eric Knickerbocker). Springfield, MO: Moon City, 2009. 159 pp. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8GZ3ZXFoisgC 

Contributions as author:

• • “Preface.” 9-11.
  • “The Art of Corder’s Scrapbook” (co-authored with Eric Knickerbocker), 13-25.

• Selected Essays of Jim W. Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing (coedited with Keith D. Miller). Foreword by Wendy Bishop. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2004. xxi + 320 pp.   

Contribution as author:

• • “Introduction” (co-authored with Keith D. Miller), 1-41.

• Post-Jungian Criticism: Theory and Practice (coedited with Tita French Baumlin and George H. Jensen). Foreword by Andrew Samuels. Albany, NY: The State U of New York P, 2004. xvi + 318 pp. https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780791485736

Contributions as author:

• • “Jane Iterare: Jane Eyre as a Feminist Revision of the Hero’s Journey” (co-authored with Tita French Baumlin), 117-38.

• Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis (coedited with Phillip Sipiora). Foreword by Carolyn R. Miller. Albany, NY: The State U of New York P, 2002.  xiii + 258 pp. https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780791489383

Contributions as author:

• • “Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric,” 138-64.
  • “Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare’s Hamlet” (co-authored with Tita French Baumlin), 165-86.
  • “A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts” (co-authored with Tanya Zhelezcheva), 237-46.

• Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory (coedited with Tita French Baumlin). Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1994. xxxi + 457 pp.

Contributions as author:

• • “Situating Ethos in Historical and Contemporary Theory: An Introdu­ction,” xi-xxxi.
  • “On the Psychology of the Pisteis” (co-authored with Tita French Baumlin), 91-112.

• John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1991. xiv + 333 pp.

Reprinted selections:    

• • “James S. Baumlin on the Sun’s Paradoxical Nature.” John Donne: A Comprehensive Research and Study Guide. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall, PA: Chelsea, 1999. 27-28.   
  • “James S. Baumlin on the Union of Body and Soul.” John Donne: A Comprehensive Research and Study Guide. Ed. Harold Bloom. Broomall, PA: Chelsea, 1999. 58-60.