Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 122
Phone: (610) 660-1885
Email: fburch@sju.edu
Education
A.B., Fordham University, 1956
M.A., Fordham University, 1958
Ph.L., Woodstock College, 1957
S.T.B., Woodstock College, 1962
S.T.L., Woodstock College, 1964
Docteur d'université de Paris, Sorbonne [comparative literature],1967
Courses Taught
English 1011 (The Craft of Language)
English 1021 (Texts and Contexts)
English 1051 (Advanced Composition)
English 1051 (Writing for Publication)
English 2401 (American Colonial and Federal Literature)
English 2711 (American Poetry)
English 2921 (The Beat Rebellion)
English 1011FS (The Self and the World)
Publications
Intro. and trans. [with François Gérard], The Personalist Challenge: Intersubjectivity and Ontology, by Maurice Nédoncelle, The Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series, 27 (Allison Park: Pickwick Publications, 1984)
Intro. and trans., The Path to Transcendence: From Philosophy to Mysticism in Saint Augustine, by Paul Henry; The Pittsburgh Theological Monograph Series, 37 (Pittsburgh: Pickwick Press, 1981)
Sur Tristan Corbière: lettres inédites adressées au Poète et premières critiques le concernant (Paris: A.G. Nizet, 1975)
[with P. O. Walzer], eds., Tristan Corbière: Oeuvres complètes, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Paris: Gallimard, 1970)
Tristan Corbière: l'originalité des "Amours jaunes" et leur influence sur T. S. Eliot (Paris: A.G. Nizet, 1970).
A selection of journals in which articles, translations, and verse have appeared: American Literature, American Notes and Queries, American National Biography, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, The Downside Review, The Explicator, French Forum, The Heythrop Journal, Modern Language Notes, The Modern Language Review, The Month, The Negro History Bulletin, The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Notes and Queries, La Nouvelle Tour de Feu, Philosophy Today, Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Revue Dominicaine, Romance Notes, Si & No, Studi Francesi, Studies in Comparative Literature, Translation.
General Fields of Professional Interest
Ironic, conversational poetry 1850 to the present, French and Anglo-AmericanThe neoplatonic tradition in literature and religion.
Pedagogical style
Lecture, Socratic discussion, and close reading of texts.