The Wayward Professor

Joel J. Gold was a professor of English at the University of Kansas from 1962 until his retirement in 1999.

StorytellingThe Classroom and Its Pitfalls

-The Paper Shredder

-Kneecapped in the Art Museum

-The Beast in the Champaign Jungle

-Fear and Trembling in the English Novel

-Satire a la Sartre

-The Hazards of Humor

Research Capers

-The Two Cultures and Dr. Franklin’s Fly

-Seduced by Scholarship

-The Shorthand Man

-Memoirs of a Library Collector

Professional Business

-The University of Requests the Honor of Your Presence

-Academic Conventions

-The Ph.D. and the IRS: Innocence and Experience

-Ingenuity and the Grant Application

After Hours Amusements

-Party Time in Academe

-Rum Running in Kansas

-Revenge of the Kanji

Travelers’ Tales

-Wheeling and Dealing at the Luxembourg Airport

-My Italian Fiaasco: Arrivederci, Trezzo

-The V Sign and Other Old-World Driving Hazards

-Peril on the Sea

An Alien in London

-Sabbatical Projects: Learning the Language and Reading the Natives

-Alien Registration and Other Formalities

-Sixteen Minutes to the British Museum

Endnote

-September Song