DAVID HAVIRD
Professor of English
dhavird@centenary.edu
Tel (318) 869-5085 or -5254
Fax (318) 841-7243
Department of English
Centenary College of Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana 71134-1188
Fare
Well as your skill's worth . . .

Courses

Current (2007-2008)
Current Syllabi in Blackboard

Fall 2007

Seminar in Rhetoric and Culture (ENGL 101C)

Romantic Friendships: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron and the Shelleys (ENGL 201)

Seminar in Major Authors: Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy (ENGL 341)

Spring 2008

Seminar in Rhetoric and Culture (ENGL 101C)

Studies in Literary Masterworks (ENGL 201): Southern Literature

Seminar in the British Novel (ENGL 332)

Past

Rhetoric I: The First-Year Experience (ENGL/FYE 101) (Fall 2006)

Rhetoric I: The First-Year Experience (ENGL/FYE 101) (Fall 2005)

Rhetoric I: The First-Year Experience (ENGL/FYE 101) (Fall 2004)

Rhetoric I (ENGL/FYE 101) (Fall 2001-Fall 2003)

Studies in Literary Masterworks (ENGL 201): Modern American Poetry

Studies in Literary Masterworks (ENGL 201): Southern Literature

Studies in Representative British Authors (ENGL 241) (Spring 2005)

Studies in Representative British Authors (ENGL 241)

Literary Journalism (ENGL/COMM 312) (Spring 2007)

Literary Journalism (ENGL/COMM 312) (Spring 2006)

Studies in 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature (ENGL 326W) (Spring 2007)

Studies in 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature (ENGL 326W) (Spring 2006)

Studies in 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature (ENGL 326W) (Spring 2004)

Studies in 19th- and 20th-Century British Literature (ENGL 326W) (Spring 2002)

The Lyric in English (ENGL 331) (Spring 2007)

The Lyric in English (ENGL 331)

Seminar in the British Novel (ENGL 332) (Spring 2006)

Seminar in Major Authors (ENGL 341): Major Southern Authors (Fall 2006)

Seminar in Major Authors (ENGL 341): Faulkner and His Contemporaries (Fall 2004)

Seminar in Major Authors (ENGL 341): Austen and Hardy (Fall 2005)

Seminar in Major Authors (ENGL 341): Austen and Hardy

Seminar in Major Authors (ENGL 341): Austen and Byron


Scholarship Online

"The Horse on Zennor Hill," Poem for Tuesday, August 14, 2007, Poetry Daily.

"In and Out of Class with James Dickey" (essay memoir), Virginia Quarterly Review 76 (Summer 2000): 455-469. 

"Tate, Allen," American National Biography (Oxford UP, 1999).  Available online at Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson (Oxford UP, 2000).


Web Pages

Jack Gilbert at Centenary College (April 2004)

Poems by Allen Tate
 

Farewell then as your skill's
Worth, you wandering keel.
Make your best wake . . .

W. S. Graham