CURRICULUM VITAE
 of
JOSEPH GOLD

Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo

ADDRESS:              Box 1332, Haileybury, Ont. P0J 1K0

TELEPHONE:          672-9275

DATE OF BIRTH:    30 JUNE 1933

PLACE:                    London, England

CITIZENSHIP:          Canadian

DEGREES:             

ACCREDITATION:         

REGISTRATION:           

PROFESSIONAL
AND TRAINING
CERTIFICATION:             

CLINICAL PRACTICE:      

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Wis. 1955-1959

Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Whitewater State College,
Wis. 1959-1960

Lecturer-Full Professor, Dept. of English, University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Man. 1960-1970

Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.
1970-present

Summer Schools:

University English Courses Taught:

Graduate:

Supervisor -- Dissertations and Theses:

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

Elected to Senate, University of Manitoba: 3-year term, 1968-1971

Elected to Senate Executive, University of Manitoba, 2-year term,
1968-1970.

Elected to Executive: Canadian Association for American Studies:
1964-1966; 1968-1973.

Appointed by Government of Manitoba to Manitoba Censor Appeal
Board, 1969.

Elected Secretary, Association of Academic Staff, University of
Manitoba, late 1960¹s.

Elected to Board of Governors, Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1969.

Corresponding member for Manitoba to Humanities Research Council,
1969.

Chairman:  Department of English, University of Waterloo, Waterloo,
Ontario, 1970-1973.

Elected Vice-President, Association of Chairmen of Departments of
English of Ontario, 1970-1971.

Elected Vice-President, Canadian Association for American Studies,
1970-1972.

Elected President, Association of Chairmen of English of Ontario,
1971-1972;  reelected 1972-1973.

Elected Trustee and Executive Member, The Dickens Society of
America, 1971-1973.

Member of Committee ³X², University of Waterloo, 1971.

Member of Committee on Extra Curricular Activity Policy, University
of Waterloo, 1972.

Chairman:  ACUTE Committee on Professional Concerns, 1974-1976.

Elected President, Temple Shalom Reform Congregation, Waterloo,
Ontario, July 1978.

Campus Representative: ACUTE 1980-1982.

Graduate Executive, Department of English.  Appointed 1981-1983.

Appointed member Chairman¹s Advisory Committee, Department of
English, 1983-1984.

I.P.C.C. representative to Committee on Sexual Abuse Treatment
(COSAT), Waterloo Region, 1984-1985.

Consultant to Committee on Literature and Medicine, Health
Sciences, McMaster University, 1986-present.

Elected to Department of English, Appointments and Promotions
Committee, Sept. 1989.

Appointed to Academic Board, Independent Studies Program, U. of
Waterloo, 1989-present.



PUBLIC ADDRESSES, PAPERS, PANELS, EDITORSHIPS, SEMINARS &
WORKSHOPS:

PAPER, ACUTE,  1968.

Chairman ACUTE session, 1969.

Panelist at MLA, 1969.

Chairman ACUTE session, 1971.

Public Lecture, York University, 1971.

Chairman, Workshop, National Conference on Graduate Education in
English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1972.

Lectures on Dickens, Simon Fraser University and University of
British Columbia, 1972.

Keynote speaker, Annual Meeting of Association of Information
Services of Universities in Canada, 1972.

Public address, ³Teaching English,² University of Toronto Women¹s
Club. 1973.

Chairman and Convener, Conference on ³The Survival of Literacy,²
Glendon College, Toronto, 1973.

Chairman, Workshop on Politics and English, Seneca College, October
19, 1974.

Panelist, ³High School English,² University of Western Ontario,
November 2, 1974.

Panelist, ³The Bible and Literature,² Learned Societies Joint
Session, Edmonton, 1975.

Guest lecture, Sarnia University Women¹s Club 1975.

Chairman and Convener, International Conference, ³The Dickens
Concordance,² October 1975, University of Waterloo.

External Examiner, PH.D. on Dickens, University of Toronto,
December, 1975.

Paper: ³The Experience of the Word,² Alberta Conference on
Literacy, Fall 1976.

Panelist: ³The Dickens Concordance,²  Modern Language Association,
New York, December 1976.

Paper: ³Deuteronomy,² Carleton Bible Studies Conference, Fall 1977.

³Seeing with the Ear² - a Dickens Lecture-Reading at Acadia
University, Wolfville, NS., January 12, 1978.

Guest Lecture, Dept. of English, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, ³The
Origins of Language and the Bible,² April 1978.

Member Editorial Advisory Board, John Foster Newsletter, Ed. Alec
Brice, May 1978.

Lecture to Humanities Association, University of Guelph, ³Seeing
Dickens by Ear,² February 1979.

Moderator, Dickens Session, Learned Societies Conference, Halifax,
N.S., 1981.

³Our Feeling Exactly.² Paper to Alice Munro Conference, March 19,
1982.

³The Bible: a Perspective from Literary Criticism.² Paper to 50th
Anniversary Conference of Joint Session C.S.B.S., Ottawa University,
Learneds Meetings, 1982.

³Ambivalent Beast.².  Paper to Roberts Conference, Acadia
University,  Sackville, N.B., October 1982.

Appointed Chairman and organiser, three-year term, of the Literary
Criticism section of the annual program of the C.S.B.S., Spring 1983.

³Dickens and the Demythologising Process,² Annual Address,
Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, Glendon College, April
1983.

Chairman and contributor, The Frye Symposium, Learned Societies,
U.B.C.,  1983.

Panel moderator, Current Work in the Bible and Literary Criticism,
Learned Societies, U.B.C., 1983.

Conducted workshop on incest for Cambridge Family Shelter, 1984.

Chairman, seminar for C.S.B.S. at Learneds in Guelph, May 30, 1984:
Literary Studies of the Bible.

 Presented paper: ³Biblical Story: The Reader in the Judgment Seat.²
Learneds, Guelph, May 30, 1984.

³Bibliotherapy in Library Practice,² Kitchener Public Library
System, Senior Librarians, Nov. 9, 1984.

³Pastoral Seminar: Bibliotherapy in Parish Practice,² seminar for
local clergy, IPCC, Cambridge, Feb. 6, 1985.

Presented paper: ³Deconstructing Babel: or Bringing Humanities Down
to Earth.²  Public Lecture Series, Mount Saint Vincent University,
February 7, 1985.

³Story and Image in Psychotherapy,² Continuing Education, Inter faith
Pastoral Counselling Centre, March 26, 1985.

³Story in Group Practice,²  Children and Family Services, Kitchener,
April 10, 1985.

³Literature and Human Development:  A Guide for School Practice,²
prepared for York County Board of Education, April 26, 1985.
       
³Fiction and the Helping Professions,² prepared for the Victorian
Order of Nurses, Metropolitan Toronto, May 21, 1985.

Presented paper:  ³The Politics of Survival in the Humanities,²  The
Politics of Experience:  Twentieth-Century Conference in Modern
Literature, Michigan State University, October 4, 1985.

³The Use of Fiction in Mental Health Applications,² prepared for the
Etobicoke School Librarians Association, May 15, 1986.

³The Story and You,² a workshop prepared for CEO  Executive Group
(Waterloo Educational Management Consultants), Toronto, May 16,
1986.

Presented paper:  ³What is Bibliotherapy.²  Meeting of the Part-time
Students Association of the University of Western Ontario,
Grey-Bruce Branch, June 12, 1986.

³Fiction as Therapy,²  Ontario Library Association, Annual
Conference, Toronto, Nov. 7, 1986.

Guest lecture:  ³Literature in the Social Sciences.²  K-W Community
Workers Luncheon, February 19, 1987.

Presented paper:  ³Bibliotherapy.²  Meeting of the UW Librarians
Association, February 24, 1987.

Presented paper: ³The Function of Fiction: A biological model.²  Why
the Novel Matters, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April
24, 1987.

Presented paper:  ³Biography as Fiction:  The Art of Invisible
Authorship.²  Autobiography and Canadian Literature Symposium,
University of Ottawa, April 25, 1987.

³Bibliotherapy,² a workshop for advanced students in Family
Studies, St. Jerome¹s University, Aug.12, 1987.

Presented paper:  ³Preventable Catastrophe:  The Function of
Literature in Human Adaptation.²  A Symposium on Rapid Climate
Change, University of Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 21-24
August 1987.

³An Introduction to Bibliotherapy and Library Services,² Voyageur
Region Library Association, Sudbury, Oct. 8, 1987.

³The Biological Roots of Story,² Education Rounds, Health Services,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Oct. 21, 1987.

Guest lecture:  ³Fiction in Mental Health Practice.²  Health Sciences
Faculty, McMaster University, November 16, 1987.

³Bibliotherapy,²  Foothills Library Association, Calgary, Alberta,
March 1988.

³Fiction in the Therapeutic Process,² Interfaith Pastoral
Counselling Centre, Kitchener, Ont., April 19, 1988.

³Bibliotherapy and Mental Health,² School of Social Work Colloquium,
Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Nov. 16, 1989.

³Literature and Therapy,²  Wilfred Laurier University Conference
³Recreating the Self:  Arts and Therapy.²   March 2, 1990.

Presented Paper:  ³Literature in Action²  at Centennial College on
April 26th 1990.

Presenter:  ³Bibliotherapy² to the Arts in Psychotherapy Symposium,
Wilfred Laurier University, May, 1990.

Presented Paper:  ³Reader Response And Experiential Learning,²
Learned Societies Conference, Victoria B.C. , 1990.

Presentation:  ³Literature in Action,²  Centennial College Banquet,
May 1990.

Workshop presentation to the Ontario Council of Teachers in
English, Oct. 1990.

Presentation to the Brampton Public Libraries author¹s breakfast,
³Read for Your Life² was chosen as their reading promotion slogan,
October 1990.

Keynote address to the Waterloo Region Vocational Rehabilitation
conference, Nov., 1990.

Speaker to the Hamilton Jewish Book Week, Community Centre,
November, 1990.

McMaster U. public presentation sponsored by the U. Bookstore and
the Faculty Assoc., Feb. 1991.

Vaughan Rd. Collegiate presentation to teachers and librarians of
City of York, Apr. 1991.

Guest Speaker - 1st Annual Dinner Meeting of Regional Ontario
College & University Library Association (OCULA), May 2nd, 1991.

Guest Speaker to Professional Development Day, Sheridan College,
May 21, 1991.

Guest Speaker, Etobicoke Public Libraries Annual Volunteer Awards
Night, May 29, 1991.

Keynote Speaker, C.A.L.L.  Conference, Canadore College, June, 1991.

Guest Speaker, Mohawk College, Hamilton, June 10, 1991.

Guest Speaker, Peel Region Library System 25th Anniversary, June, 1991.

Presented 2nd Annual Fredelle Maynard Memorial Lecture,
Metropolitan Reference Library,  Toronto, October 18, 1991.

³Therapeutic Reading,² P.E.N.  International Congress, November 5, 1992.

³Between Writers,²  a talk given to Canadian Writer¹s Association, at  the
Kitchener Public Library,  Feb. 3, 1992.

³The Not So Obvious Occupational Hazards of Practising Medicine,²  a
talk to the Sault St. Marie Medical Association, Feb. 27, 1992.

Two Workshops:  ³They  Are Reading For Their Lives²;  ³Literature As
Counselling,²   Greater Edmonton Teacher¹s Conference Association,
March 5, 1992.

³Reading and Education,² a talk to the Etobicoke School Board
Professional Development Series,  March 24, 1992.

³They Are Reading for Their Lives,² a talk to The Parent
Association of the Country Day School, King City, Ont.,  March 31, 1992.

³Reading Across the Curriculum,² a talk to Havergill College,
Toronto, April 6, 1992.

Keynote Speaker at York University, Continuing Education 25th
Anniversary Conference,  May 8, 1992.

A talk to Whitby Area Teachers, sponsored by Many Colours
Bookstore, Whitby, May 12, 1992.

PUBLISHED WORK

BOOKS:

William Faulkner: A Study in Humanism from Metaphor to Discourse.
Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1966.

King of Beasts and Other Stories, by Charles G. D.  Roberts, Ed. with
an Introduction by Joseph Gold.  Toronto: Ryerson, 1967.

The Stature of Dickens:  A Centenary Bibliography.  Winnipeg:
University of Manitoba Press; and Toronto:  University of Toronto
Press, 1971.

Charles Dickens: Radical Moralist.  Toronto: Copp Clark; Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1972.

The Heart of the Ancient Wood, by Charles G.D. Roberts, Ed. with an
Introduction by Joseph Gold.  Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974
(New Canadian Library No. 110).

In the Name of Language.  Ed. with an Introduction by Joseph gold.
Toronto: Macmillan, 1975.  (Original essays on Literacy and
Education.)

Read For Your Life.  Markham:   Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 1990.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

The Normality of Snopesism,² in William Faulkner: Four Decades of
Criticism, Ed. Linda Welshimer Wagner.  Michigan State University
Press, 1973, pp. 318-327.

³The Experience of the Word,²  Literature, Language and Culture:
Papers Read at the University of Alberta Conference on Literacy,
Ed. P. Gallivan and R.J.  Merrett.  Edmonton:Athabascan Pub. Co.,
1977.

³Deuteronomy.²  The Biblical Mosaic.  Fortress Press, April 1982.

³Our Feeling Exactly: the Writing of Alice Munro,²  The Art of Alice
Munro: Saying the Unsayable, Ed. Judith Miller.  Waterloo:University
of Waterloo Press, 1984, pp. 1-13.

³The Ambivalent Beast,² in The Proceedings of the Sir Charles G.D.
Roberts Symposium, Mount Allison University and Nimbus Pub. Ltd.,
1984, pp 77-86.

³Paul¹s Case,² by Willa Cather, Masterplots 2 (Pasadena: Salem
Press, 1986), pp. 1779-1781.

³Biography as Fiction:  The Art of Invisible Authorship,² in
Reflections:   Autobiography and Canadian Literature, Ed Klaus
Stich.  University of Ottawa Press, 1988.  pp. 131-39.

³The Function of Fiction:  A Biological Model,² in Why the Novel
Matters, Ed. Mark Spilka & Caroline McCracken-Flesher.  Indiana
University Press, 1990.  pp.270-279.

ARTICLES:

³The Humanism of William Faulkner,² The Humanist 20 (March-April 1960):
113-117,

³Truth or Consequences: Faulkner¹s The Town,² Mississippi Quarterly
13 (Summer 1970): 112-116.

³The Sound and the Fury,²  The Explicator 19 (Feb. 1961: 29.

³Delusion and Redemption in Faulkner¹s A Fable,²  Modern Fiction
Studies 7 (Summer 1967): 145-156.

³William Faulkner¹s ŒOne Compact Thing,¹²  Twentieth Century
Literature 8 (Apr. 1962): 3-9.

³Two Romantics:  Jim and Stein,²  CEA Critic 24  (May 1962): 1, 11-12.

³¹Exit Everybody¹:  The Novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett,²  Dalhousie
Review 42      (Summer 1962), 227-238.

³The Normality¹ of Snopesism, Universal Themes in Faulkner¹s The
Hamlet,² Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 3 (Winter
1962):  25-34.

³The Two Worlds of Light in August,²  Mississippi Quarterly 16
(Summer 1963):  160-167.

³Hamlet¹s Sea Change,²  English (Summer 1964):  53-55.

³Reconstructing the ŒHouse of Usher,¹²  Emerson Society Quarterly,
No 37 (4th Quarter 1964): 74-76.

³Love Letter to Big Fat Free Country,²  Saturday Night  (July 1965):
14-15.

³The Precious Speck of Life,²  Canadian Literature No. 26  (Autumn
1965):  22-23.

³Of This Time, of That Place - American Literature in Our
Universities,² CAAS Bulletin 2  (Spring 1966): 2-16.

³No Refuge:  Faulkner¹s Sanctuary,²  University Review 33  (Dec. 1966):
29-35.

³Bumble and Fagin:  Dickens¹ Exemplary Aliens,²  Mosaic 2 (Fall 1968): 77-89.
³Charles Dickens and Today¹s Reader,² English Journal 58 (Feb.1969):
205-211.

³Dickens and Faulkner:  The Uses of Influence,²  Dalhousie Review 49
(Spring 1969): 66-79.

³The Dickens¹ Centenary Year in Canada,²  Dickens Studies Newsletter 2
(Mar. 1971):  10-11.

³Living in a Wale¹:  Martin Chuzzlewit,²  Dickens Studies Annual, Vol. 2,
pp. 150-162.  Ed. Robert B. Partlow, Jr. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1972.

³Dickens¹ Oliver Twist:  The Art of the Radical Moralist,²  Quarterly
of Canadian Studies for the Secondary School (Winter 1972): 212-222;
and 2 (Spring 1972): 23-35.

³A Lament for the Language,²  English Quarterly 5 (Winter 1972-1973):
13-20.

³Sin, Salvation and Bananas¹:  As I Lay Dying,²  Mosaic 7 (Fall 1973):
55-73.

³Recombinant Language:  The Biological Imperative,²  English Studies
in Canada, Vol. VII (1981) 4: 473-482.

³Fiction, Function and Bibliotherapy, ³  The Journal of Literary
Theory 5 (1985): 26-33.

³Opinion,²  University Affairs  (April 1986): 21.

³The Value of Fiction as Therapeutic Recreation and Developmental
Mediator:  A Theoretical Framework,²  Journal of Poetry Therapy  Vol. 1
(Spring 1988)  3: 135-148.

³The Function of Fiction: A biological model,² Novel  (Winter/Spring
1988):  252-265.

³Affective Reading and its Life Applications²  (with Fred Gloade),  The
Arts in Psychotherapy  Vol. 15  (1988):  235-244.

³Reader Response and Experiential Learning,²  in English Studies in
Canada, May, 1992.

REVIEW ARTICLES:

³World War 1 and the American Novel,² Mosaic 1 (Oct. 1967):  147-150.

³Turning New Leaves,²  Canadian Forum 47  (Jan. 1968): 234-235.

³Patterns of Commitment in American Literature,²  Univ. of Toronto
Quarterly 37  (July 1968):  420-434.

³Hang-Ups into Art,²  Canadian Dimension 5  (Sept. 1968):  42-43.
(Review of Cocksure by Mordecai Richler and Above Ground by Jack
Ludwig.)

³The Faulkner Game; or Find the Author,²  Southern Literary Journal 1
(Spring 1969): 91-97. (Review of Faulkner: Myth and Motion by
Richard P. Adams.)

³Promised Lands and Vanishing People,²  Canadian Review of American
Studies 3  (Spring 1972: 60-62.  (Review essay of  The Jewish Writer in
America by Allan Guttman, Oxford Univ. Press, 1971.)

Review article of Mary Williams,  The Dickens Concordance (reprint)
and P. G. Kitton,  The Minor Writings of Charles Dickens  (reprint),
Dickens Studies Newsletter  3  (Mar. 1972): 14-16.

Review article of Bert G. Hornback,  Noah¹s Arkitecture:  A Study of
Dickens¹ Mythology.  Athens: Ohio University Press, 1972, in Dickens
Studies Newsletter 4 (June 1973):  58-60.

Review article of J. Robert Barth,  Religious Perspectives in
Faulkner¹s Fiction:  Yoknapatawpha and Beyond.  Notre Dame:  Univ. of
Notre Dame Press (Indiana), 1973 in The Humanities Assoc. Review 24
(Fall 1973):  335-337.

Review article of David Allenby Smith,  Sharptooth; A Year of the
Beaver.  Toronto: Peter Martin Assoc., 1974, in Canadian Children¹s
Literature, 1975.

Review article of Mordecai Richler, Joshua, Then and Now.  Toronto:
McClelland & Stewart, 1981, in The Fiddlehead 128 (Winter 1981):
106-109.

³Phiz, Not Dickens - Histories Not Words,²  University of Toronto
Quarterly  (Spring 1980): 279.  (Review of Dickens and Phiz by Michael
Steig, Bloomington:  University of Indiana Press, 1978.)

Review article of Editing Nineteenth-Century Fiction:  Papers Given
at the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems,
University of Toronto, 4-5th Nov. 1977.  Ed Jane Millgate (New York:
Garland 1978), in English Studies in Canada, Vol. VII (Spring 1981)
1:114-116.

Review Essay of Frye¹s Great Code in English Studies in Canada, Vol.
IX (Dec. 1983):  487-498.

³Biblical Symmetry:  The Gospel According to Frye,²  Dalhousie Review,
63, #3 (Autumn 1983):  408-411.

³Demythologising Father,²  Canadian Literature 105 (Summer, 1985):
142-144.  (Review of The Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Symposium, Ed. Glenn
Clever, Univ. of Ottawa, N.P.)

WORK IN PROGRESS

³Cognitive Criticism:  A Critical Theory and a Practice.²
Research into fiction as a self-help process.

Writing a book on ³Banned Literature in High Schools.²

Forming the Association for Bibliotherapy in Canada (ABC).

Current Scholarly Activity

Literacy and Education
Neural Parameters of Language and Literature
Bibliotherapy

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

Four Canada Council Research Grants, prior to 1970.

Humanities Research Council Grant, 1967.

Humanities Research Council Grant in Aid of Publication, 1971.

Nine years recipient Research Assistantships, University of
Manitoba.

Summer Research Fellowships, 1968, 1969, 1970, University of
Manitoba.

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Waterloo, 1971.

Canada Council Research Grant, 1973-1974.

Canada Council Research Grant, 1975.

Canada Council Leave Fellowship, 1977-1978.

Academic Visitor, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto,
1977-1978.

Sabbatical Leaves Granted 1967, 1973, 1977.

University of Waterloo, SSHRC Research Grant 1981-1982.

University of Waterloo, SSHRC Research Grant 1983-1984.

Federal grant, Summer Career Access program, 1984.

University of Waterloo Teaching Resource Research Grant, 1984.

University of Waterloo Teaching Resource Grant, 1985.

SSHRC Research Grant, 1985-86.

Federal grant, SEED program, 1985.

University of Waterloo, SSHRC Research Grant, 1985-86.

University of Waterloo Teaching Resource Grant, 1986.

Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation Research Support Grant
for Therapeutic Reading Inventory database, 1988.

U.W. SSHRC Research Grant for Censorship in Education, 1991.

U.W. SCHRC Research Grant for work in Censorship in Education  Fall 1991.

U.W. SCHRC Travel Grant in support of presenting to PEN Conference,
Vienna, Nov., 1991.

NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS:

³Best Director,²  University of Birmingham Drama Festival, 1954.

Actor - Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1970¹s.

Film Reviewer - CBC, WPG - 9 years.

Director - Student Drama, University of Manitoba, 1970¹s.

In 1978 I was asked by the farmers of Wilmot Township, Ontario,to
lead their campaign against Regional government¹s policy on taking
water from the township to serve the city of Kitchener.  Through
public debate, etc., our campaign succeeded in changing policy and
no further wells were drilled.

Numerous radio and T.V. interviews vis-a-vis reading
promotion/bibliotherapy, 1984-86.

Guest on CBC ³Radio Noon² phone-in on Bibliotherapy, July 31, 1985.

CKFM Phone in therapy show quest appearance, April 22/90.

CBC with Ian Brown, April 25/90.

Rogers Cable T.V. programme on literacy guest panelist, Sept.
12/90.

Interview with Doug Hall on CHEX-TV Peterborough, May 11/91.

Interview with Bruce Rogers, T.V.O. ,  Nov., 30/91.

Interview with Lucy Meklars, C.I.U.T. FM,  Dec., 4/91.

 














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