[Curriculum Vita]

Office: Bondurant C217
Telephone: 662-915-7684
E-mail: djr@olemiss.edu
Home Page: http://www.olemiss.edu/~djr/

Education

• University of Washington: Ph.D., English (1983), M.A., English (1983)
• University of Jyväskylä, Finland: Ph.L., English (1980), M.A., English (1977), B.A., English (1975)

Teaching and research interests:

• linguistic theory
• translation theory
• literary theory
• American literature and culture
• Western ideological history

Selected books:

• Performative Linguistics: Speaking and Translating as Doing Things With Words (Routledge, 2003)
• Who Translates? Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason (SUNY Press, 2001)
• Western Translation Theory From Herodotus to Nietzsche (St. Jerome, 1997)
• Ring Lardner and the Other (Oxford UP, 1992)
• The Translator's Turn (Johns Hopkins UP, 1991)
• American Apocalypses: The Image of the End of the World in American Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 1985)