Robert Stanton

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Welcome to the Homepage of Bob Stanton, Author and Poet

Bob Stanton is an Associate Professor of English at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida, where he has been teaching creative writing and other courses in speech, rhetoric, and literature for the past sixteen years. He has also taught English full time at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida (1972-1974); the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1979-1982), Bishop Kenny High School and Southside Skills Center in Jacksonville (1982, 1985-1987). Between 1993-1997 Stanton was Chairman of the Division of Humanities at Jacksonville University, where he was responsible for all programs in six academic departments. In 1996 he was recognized for his teaching accomplishments in Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Stanton is not only a poet and professor. In 1999 he published The Devil's Rood, a novel he wrote with four of his creative writing students at Jacksonville University, as well as a solo work of collected poems entitled Collected Word Paintings. In 1978 he published the only book bibliography ever written on Gore Vidal and also a two-volume bibliography on seventeen contemporary British novelists. (Nobel Prize Winner William Golding wrote Stanton a letter of praise in which Golding claimed that "You are more comprehensively aware of my work than even I am.") In 1980 Stanton published the only book bibliography ever written on Truman Capote and also a book with Gore Vidal: Views From a Window.

Other works recently completed or soon to be completed by Stanton include a collection of love poems, two group novels, two collaborative novels, a study of the history and techniques of group novel writing, and a filmscript based on The Devil's Rood novel. Stanton's huge and important scholarly study, Gore Vidal: a Menippean Satirist, has been accepted for publication in the near future.

Stanton has been recognized in several Who's Who publications for his achievements in teaching and writing, including Who's Who in the South & Southwest, Who's Who in the World, the Dictionary of International Biography, Who's Who in America, the International Who's Who of Intellectuals, and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century. Bob Stanton also has the distinction of being listed in the 1996 and 2000 editions of Who's Who Among American Teachers. In addition, the Gale Group published Stanton's writing and professional biographies in the 2001 editions of Contemporary Authors and the Directory of American Scholars.

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