William V. Davis

William V. Davis, Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence, holds the Ph.D. from Ohio University. His teaching and research interests include 20th-century American and British literature. He has published criticism, poetry, and short fiction in a wide variety of periodicals and journals. In addition to scores of articles and essays in scholarly books and periodicals and hundreds of poems and short stories, Davis has published the following books:

Poetry

• One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, 1980 (Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for 1979)
• The Dark Hours, 1984 (Winner of the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize)
• Winter Light, 1990

Criticism

• Robert Bly: The Poet and His Critics, 1994
• Miraculous Simplicity: Essays on R. S. Thomas, 1993
• Critical Essays on Robert Bly, 1992
• Understanding Robert Bly, 1988
• Theodore Roethke: A Bibliography Contributing Editor, 1973
• George Whitefield's Journals, 1737-1741 Editor, 1969