State University Press, 1994. Beyond the Tenure Track: Fifteen Months in the Life of an English Professor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991. Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. Editor. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989. Worlds from Words: A Theory of Language in Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. 1951 births American academics of English literature University of Chicago alumni Ohio State University faculty Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters