Raymond Carver

James Plath is Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he teaches journalism, American literature, film studies and creative writing. The recipient of the university's highest award for trainer-scholars, he also spent a semester teaching at the University of the West Indies in Barbados as a Fulbright scholar in 1995. In addition to publishing critical articles on Raymond Carver, Plath has written essays on John Updike, Ann Beattie. Norman Mailer, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for such publications at the Journal of Modern Literature, journal of the Short Story in English, the Hemingway Review, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and the Mailer Review.