Westminster English Professor Plans Busy November Promoting New Book

Dr. James A. Perkins, professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Public Relations at Westminster College, plans a busy November promoting his recently released book For the Record: a Robert Drake Reader.

Perkins travels to Atlanta, Ga. For the 11th annual meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) held Nov. 9-11. He and co-author Randy Hendricks will hold a book signing at the Mercer University Press booth.

After the meeting, Perkins travels to the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, where he will present a poetry reading on the evening of Nov. 12.

On the evening of Nov. 13, Perkins will give a public lecture on his recent work, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions, and his manuscript, Robert Penn Warren and the Cass Mastern Material, which was recently revised for Louisiana State University.

During the same time period, Perkins will be appearing at Louisiana State University's celebration of the publication of Noel Polk's "Restored Edition" of Robert Penn Warren's All the Kings Men. Perkins assisted Polk with the textual editing of the restored edition based on the "setting copy" of the novel, which is located at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. While there, Perkins will make two video-taped appearances at the LSU conference. In the first taping, he will make some general remarks on the publication of he restored edition, and in the second, he will discuss his work on the Cass Mastern material.

Perkins, who has been at Westminster College since 1973, has been an NEH fellow at Yale University, New York University, and Princeton University, and was awarded a Fulbright in 1998 at Seoul National University in Korea. His previous publications include Snakes, Butterbeans, and the Discovery of Electricity, and Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions, which he co-edited with James Grimshaw.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Centre College, his master's from Miami University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.

For more information, contact Perkins at (724) 946-7347.