Janik, Del Ivan 1945–

PERSONAL: Born February 11, 1945, in Berwyn, IL; son of Ladislav Ivan (an architect) and Olga (a financial officer; maiden name, Beranek) Janik; married Carol-Ann Reith (a teacher), June 15, 1969; children: Kathleen, David. Education: Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, B.A., 1966, Ph.D., 1971; University of Michigan, M.A., 1967. Hobbies and other interests: Serious music, cross-country skiing, travel.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of English, State University of New York College at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Educator and writer. State University of New York College at Cortland, assistant professor, 1971–75, associate professor, 1975–79, professor of English, 1979–. Fulbright exchange professor at Polytechnic of North London, 1983–84.

MEMBER: Modern Language Society of America, D.H. Lawrence Society, Friends of the Earth.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow of State University of New York Research Foundation, 1977, 1980.

WRITINGS:

The Curve of Return: D.H. Lawrence's Travel Books, ELS Publications (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 1981.

(Editor, with Robert Rhodes) Studies in Ruskin: Essays in Honor of Van Akin Burd, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1982.

(Editor, with Vicki K. Janik) Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2002.

Contributor to language and literature journals.

SIDELIGHTS: An English professor who specializes in modern British and American literature, Del Ivan Janik is coeditor with Vicki K. Janik of Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. The book features fifty-eight twentieth-century women writers who were either from England or countries once controlled by the British Empire, and includes such notables as Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf, and Katherine Mansfield. In addition to an overview of each writer and an analysis of her work, the book includes a critique of critical responses to the works and a bibliography. Writing in the Library Journal, Mirela Roncevic commented that the volume "is packed with facts and bears all the features of a bona fide reference source." Roncevic went on to call the book "a foremost research tool." A Booklist contributor noted that the volume contains a "considerable variety in the range of writers included."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, September 1, 2003, review of Modern British Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, p. 173.

Library Journal, March 1, 2003, Mirela Roncevic, review of Modern British Women Writers, p. 81.

ONLINE

State University of New York College at Cortland Web site, http://www.cortland.edu/ (December 8, 2005), faculty profile of author.