Prof. Dennis S. Gouws

Springfield College, Massachusetts, USA.

Professor

Email: dgouws@aimhs.com.au

Qualifications

Ph.D., Philosophy – English Language and Literature/Letters, University of Connecticut

M.Sc., Arts - English Language and Literature/Letters, Northeastern University

B.Sc., Arts - Dramatic Arts and English, University of the Witwatersrand

Publications (Selected)

1. “Dignifying Psychotherapy with Men: Beyond Gender Politics and Stereotypes, and Towards a Realistic Understanding of How Men Experience Emotions, Communicate and Cope.” With John A. Ashfield. The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health. Palgrave: London, UK, 2019.
2. “Not So Romantic for Men: Using Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe to Explore Evolving Notions of Chivalry and Their Impact on Twenty-First-Century Manhood.” Transformative Researchers and Educators for Democracy (TRED): Voice the Silences. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA. Sense Publications, 2018.
3. “Manhood and Mettle in George Eliot’s Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss: Male Characters Negotiating Victorian Material Culture.” The Confidential Clerk. Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University, India. Vol. 3, 2017.
4. “A Male-Positive Introduction to the Victorian Manhood Question.” New Male Studies: An International Journal. Vol. 2.2, 2013.
5. “Orientalism and David Hockney’s Cavafy Etchings: Exploring a Male-Positive Imaginative Geography.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society. Vol. 6, 2012.
6. “The New Victorian Gentleman in George Eliot’s Adam Bede.” New Male Studies: An International Journal. Vol. 1.1, 2012.
7. “Uncovering Gendered Assumptions about the Traumatized Male Bog-Body: Seamus Heaney’s ‘Grauballe Man’ and ‘Punishment’ in Their Cultural Contexts.” Peer English: The Literary Journal of the University of Leicester and the English Society. Vol. 6, 2011.
8. "Graphically Appealing to Men: Achieving Male-Positive Literacy in a College-Level Literature Course." The International Journal of Learning Vol. 17.10, 2011.
9. "From Male Pathological to Male Positive: The Engendering of a Post-Heteronormative Gaze in Francis Bacon’s and David Hockney’s Depictions of Men in the 1960s." The International Journal of the Arts in Society Vol.5.5, 2011.
10. “Boys and Men Reading Shakespeare's 1 Henry 4: Using Service-Learning Strategies to Accommodate Male Learners and to Disseminate Male-Positive Literacy.” International Journal of Learning. Vol. 16.10, 2009.
11. “George Eliot’s Enthusiastic Bachelors: Topical Fictional Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Homoerotic Christian Masculinities and the Manhood Question.” Forum on Public Policy: Allusions to God in Prose and Poetry. 2009.
12. “Enabling Men in Literature: Teaching Male-Positive Masculinities in a College English Class.” International Journal of Learning. Vol.15.7, 2008.
13. “Kipling’s Modern Chivalry: Masculinity and War in The Light that Failed.” War, Espionage, and Masculinity in British Fiction. Delaware: Vernon Press, Forthcoming.
14. “Orientalism and David Hockney’s Male-Positive Imaginative Geographies.” Oriental Interiors: Identities, Performance, Space. John Potvin, Ed. London, UK: Berg/Bloomsbury, 2015.
15. "What Assumptions about Boys and Men are Evident in Contemporary Academic Book Reviews on Male Psychology?" [Proceedings: The Influence of Academia on Men in Psychology (Eastern Psychological Association Symposium)] New Male Studies: An International Journal. Vol. 3.2, 2014.
16. “Nick Theophilou, 10 Stories about What Men Are Doing Well.” Book Review. New Male Studies: An International Journal, 3.1 (2014) 121-123.
17. “John Guy, Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel: A Nine-Hundred-Year-Old Story Retold.” Book Review. New Male Studies: An International Journal, 2.2 (2013) 89-91.
18. “Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England.” Book Review. New Male Studies: An International Journal, 1.3 (2012) 151-153.
19. “Boys and Men Reading Shakespeare’s 1 Henry 4: Using Service-Learning Strategies to Accommodate Male Learners and to Disseminate Male-Positive Literacy.” Academic Service-Learning across Disciplines: Models, Outcomes, and Assessment. Jonathan H. Westover, ed. Champaign, IL: Common Ground, The Learner Series, (2012) 367-383.
20. “Paul Lonardo, Strike IX: The Story of a Big East College Forced to Eliminate its Baseball Program and the Team that Refused to Lose.” Book Review. New Male Studies: An International Journal (2012): 1.1. 119-120.
21. “Augustus Dill.” African-American National Biography. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press 2007.
22. “Harold Jackman.” African-American National Biography. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press 2007.
23. "African Homosexualities." Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 2000.
24. "Biological Studies of Homosexuality." Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. 2000.
25. “Kipling’s Modern Chivalry: Masculinity and War in The Light that Failed” Northeast Modern Language Association, Washington D. C., March, 2019.

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