Leroy Searle

Professor
PDL B-426
543-6631 (voice mail)
Email: lsearle@u.washington.edu

Areas of Specialization

American Literature, Blake, Coleridge, Computer Aided Instruction, and Literary Criticism and Theory

Activities and Interests

Leroy Searle's work in the field of Literary Criticism has resulted in such work as Critical Theory Since 1965, completed in partnership with Dr. Hazard Adams. Dr. Searle's research also focusses on Textual Reading and Theory, which he often integrates with his knowledge of computers, programming and hypertext languages. In addition to his academic study, Dr. Searle is heavily involved in music. His arrangements and performances are a bright addition to the University's campus. Upcoming publications of Dr. Searle's will include Voice Text and Hypertext: Emerging Practices, Visual Intelligence: Collected Essays on Photography, and Critical Theory Since Plato, Third Edition, with Hazard Adams.

Selected Publications

"Making Marks and Making Meaning." Nathan Lyons' Riding 1st Class on the Titanic. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1999.
"Technology and the Perils of Poetry; or, Why Criticism Never Catches Up." Institutions and Originality. Seattle, 1998.
Critical Theory Since 1965. ed. with Hazard Adams. Florida State University Press. 1986.

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