Professor
Office: 211A Allen Hall
Phone: (225) 578-3049
E-mail: jwilcox1@lsu.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

Creative Writing, Fiction.

Publications:

Novels: Heavenly Days (2003); Plain and Normal (1998); Guest of a Sinner (1993); Polite Sex (1991); Sort of Rich (1989); Miss Undine's Living Room (1987); North Gladiola (1985); Modern Baptists (1983).

Short Stories : "The Ivy in the Chimney" The New Yorker , (1986); "Camping Out" The New Yorker , (1981); "Mr. Ray" The New Yorker , (1981); "Seventy Times Seven" Avenue , (1982).

Reviews Appearing in The New York Times Book Review : "Anita and Me" novel by Meera Syal, Aug. 10, 1997; "An Imaginative Experience" novel by Mary Wesley, April 30, 1995; "Delusions of Grandma" novel by Carrie Fisher, March 27, 1994; "Now You Know" novel by Michael Frayn, Jan. 17, 1993 (front page); "Wilderness Tips" short-story collection by Margaret Atwood, Nov. 24, 1991; "A Cure for Dreams" novel by Kaye Gibbons, May 12, 1991; "Richard's Feet" novel by Carey Harrison, Oct. 21, 1990; "Taking Shelter" novel by Jessica Anderson, March 11, 1990; "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" novel by Alan Gurganus, Aug. 13, 1989 (front page); "The Hearts and Lives of Men" novel by Fay Weldon, March 13, 1988 (front page)"All the Right Answers" novel by Robert Noah; "The Kitchen Man" novel by Ira Wood, Nov. 3, 1985.

Reviews Appearing in The Los Angeles Times Book Review : "The Love Letter" novel by Cathleen Schine, May 7, 1995; "Father of Frankenstein" novel by Christopher Bram, April 30, 1995; "The Holy Man" fable by Susan Trott, April 16, 1995; "The House of Percy: Honor, Imagination, and Melancholy in a Southern Family" historical/critical study by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Sept. 18, 1994; "Presumption" novel by Julia Barrett; "Pemberley or Pride and Prejudice Continued" novel by Emma Tennant, Nov. 7, 1993 (front page); "Anthony Trollope" biography by Victoria Glendinning; "Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World" biography by Richard Mullen, June 27, 1993.

Other Reviews: "The Dangers of Happiness" review of The Diaries of Dawn Powell , Elle , October, 1995; "The Taming of the South" article on movies about the South, Elle, April, 1993.

Honors, Awards, and Professional Service:

Awards and Honors: Robert Penn Warren Professorship, Louisiana State University, September 2004-May 2007. Guggenheim Fellowship, 1986.

Other: "Notable Books of 2003" The New York Times Book Review , Dec. 7, 2003, Heavenly Days; Modern Baptists listed by Walter Kirn in 45 th anniversary issue of GQ Magazine as one of the 45 "Best Fiction" selections, Sept. 2002; Interview by John Lowe, Mississippi Quarterly : The Journal of Southern Cultures , Winter 2000; "Notable Books of 1998" The New York Times Book Review , Dec. 6, 1998, Plain and Normal; Southern Writers at Century's End , Editors Jeffrey J. Folks and James A. Perkins; Forward by James H. Justus, University Press of Kentucky, 1997; essay on Wilcox novels by Hugh Ruppersburg, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Professor of English, University of Georgia; The Western Canon , by Harold Bloom, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1994; Modern Baptists included in "The Chaotic Age: A Canonical Prophecy" Modern Baptists excerpted in Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor , Norton, NY, 1994; Southern Writers , photographs by David G. Spielman, text by William W. Starr, University of South Carolina Press, 1997; "North of the Lake: A Conversation with James Wilcox," The Long Haul: Conversations with Southern Writers , William Parrill, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland, New York, London, 1989, 1994; "Visions of Place, Revisions of Self in James Wilcox's Sort of Rich ," by William Dowie, Jr., Regional Dimensions: Studies of Southeast Louisiana , Volume 11, 1993; North Gladiola excerpted in The New Writers of the South , University of Georgia Press, 1987; "Hypocrisy, Religious and Secular in Modern Baptists ," by William Dowie, Louisiana Literature , Fall 1985.

LSU Service and Committee Work: Director of Creative Writing 2002-Spring 2007; Southern Review Search Committee 2002-2004; Graduate Studies Committee 2002-present.