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British translator. Instructor and later Research Associate at Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College), British Columbia, Canada.
Works
Translations
Works by Franz Kafka
- Before the Law
- A Hunger Artist
- The Hunter Gracchus
- Up in the Gallery
- In the Penal Colony
- A Country Doctor
- A Report for An Academy
- The Metamorphosis
- An Imperial Message
- Jackals and Arabs
- The Great Wall of China
Lectures
- Ancient and Modern Science: Some Observations (external text)
- Introductory Note on Classical Greece (external text)
- The Triumph of the Lions? An Introduction to Antony and Cleopatra (external text)
- Critical Approaches to Shakespeare: Some Initial Observations (external text)
- On Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (external text)
- A Note on the Life and Work of Aristotle (external text)
- Variations on a Theme of Love: An Introduction to As You Like It (external text)
- An Introductory Note to Euripides’ Bacchae (external text)
- On Satire in Aristophanes’s Clouds (external text)
- Creationism in the Science Curriculum? (external text)
- Preliminary Notes on Cubist Architecture in Prague, 2004
- Some Introductory Historical Observations (on Czech history), 2004
- Lecture on Dante’s Inferno (external text)
- Some Non-Scientific Observations on the Importance of Darwin (external text)
- Lecture on Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (external text)
- Basic Historical Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to The Second Sex (external text)
- Lecture on Robinson Crusoe (external text)
- On Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method (external text)
- Notes on Notes from Underground (external text)
- Lecture on T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land (external text)
- Introduction to Rousseau’s Emile (external text)
- Lecture on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (external text)
- Responses to Some Common Objections to “The Short Proof of Evolution” (external text)
- Introductory Remarks on the Book of Exodus (external text)
- Lecture on Frayn’s Copenhagen (external text)
- On Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents (external text)
- On Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (external text)
- Introductory Lecture on Shakespeare’s Hamlet (external text)
- On Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk, 2007
- The Foxes, The Lion, and the Fat Knight: Introduction to Henry IV, Part 1 (external text)
- The Ironies of Success in Politics: An Introduction to Shakespeare’s Henry V (external text)
- On Hobbes’ Leviathan (external text)
- On Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (external text)
- Introduction to Shakespeare Studies (external text)
- A Brief Introduction to The Varieties of Religious Experience (external text)
- Lecture on Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” (external text)
- Speak What We Feel: An Introduction to King Lear (external text)
- Some Observations on Lucretius (external text)
- Introduction to Macbeth (external text)
- Lecture on Machiavelli’s The Prince (external text)
- On Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, 2000
- Lecture on Marx (external text)
- Karl Marx on Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis (external text)
- Introductory Lectures on Matthew and Epistle to the Romans (external text)
- On Spiegelman’s Maus I and II (external text)
- Lecture on Plato’s Meno (external text)
- Some Observations on Montaigne’s Essays (external text)
- An introduction to the work of Alfons Mucha and Art Nouveau (2004, revised 2014)
- Myth Conceptions of Academic Work Once More (external text)
- “There’s Nothing Nietzsche Couldn’t Teach Ya About the Raising of the Wrist” (external text)
- Some Preliminary Observations on Classical Greek Literature (external text)
- Lecture on the Odyssey (external text)
- Fate, Freedom, and Tragic Experience: An Introductory Lecture on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (external text)
- Lecture on the Oresteia (external text)
- Lecture on Plato’s Republic (external text)
- Research Revisited: The Rage of Caliban (external text)
- The Issue of Language: Introduction to Richard II and Hamlet (external text)
- Lecture on Shakespeare’s Transformation of Medieval Tragedy and an Introduction to Richard III (external text)
- Introduction to the Romantic Era in English Poetry (external text)
- A Brief Note on the Historical Background to Shakespeare’s First and Second History Cycles (external text)
- On Rousseau’s Discourse On Inequality (external text)
- The Short Proof of Evolution (external text)
- A Note on Shakespeare’s Sonnets (external text)
- Why Should I Obey the State? (external text)
- Lecture on Stendhal’s The Red and the Black (external text)
- Lecture on Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (external text)
- Lecture on Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (external text)
- You Can Go Home Again, Can’t You?: An Introduction to The Tempest (external text)
- Preliminary Observations on Thucydides (external text)
- The Legend of the Trojan War (external text)
- Lecture on Huckleberry Finn (external text)
- The Ironies of Happy Endings: An Introduction to Twelfth Night (external text)
- Towards an Initial Understanding of Science (external text)
- Some Historical Observations on Western Civilization; or, Why Is Everyone Studying English These Days? (external text)
- Lecture on Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (external text)
- Lecture on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (external text)
Other lectures, etc.
- My Body the Billboard (external text)
- A Toast to the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns (external text)
- God’s Handicap: Golf as Spiritual Ordeal (external text)
- In Praise of Conversation (external text)
- Is not the Truth the Truth? (external text)
- No Snakes on these Islands (external text)
- Participating in Seminars (external text)
- the e-coli (external directory)
- God Rides a Harley in the Land of the Free (external text)
- Lecture on Hildegard of Bingen (external text)
- Essays on Homer’s Iliad: a series of eight essays (external directory)
- Homer’s War
- Homer’s Similes: Nature as Conflict
- The Gods
- The Heroic Code
- Arms and the Men
- Hector and Achilles
- Homer and the Modern Imagination
- On Modern English Translations of the Iliad
- Lecture Notes on Mill’s On Liberty (external text)
- Losing One’s Cherry: Reactions to Rorty’s Contingency, irony, and solidarity (external text)
- Our Universities: How We Got Where We Are (external text)
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