Homepage of Richard Tuerk
Professor of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce


Richard Tuerk at the National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD, August 21, 2004. Picture taken by Rosalind Tuerk

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Address
Department of Literature and Languages
Box 3011
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce TX 75429-3011
Telephone: 903-886-5266
Fax: 903-886-5980
E-mail: Richard_Tuerk@tamu-commerce.edu
 
Education
A.B., Columbia College of Columbia University, 1963
M.A., The Johns Hopkins University, 1964
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1967

Selected Award
Special Award, Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1981.
Honors Professor of the Year, East Texas State University, 12 Apr. 1985.
Texas Association of College Teachers Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 1989-90.
East Texas State University Piper Professor nominee, 1990.
Named a Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, 1991.
H. M. Lafferty Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creativity, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 1997.
Best paper award, Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association of Texas, 1999.
Texas A&M University-Commerce Faculty Senate Professional Achievement Award 2001-2002.

Teaching Areas
American Literature 
Children's Literature 
Distance Education via Interactive Video 


Ralph Waldo Emerson in
1874 (detail) (The Works of 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Boston: Houghton, 1883])


Lone Elephant in Bath
Richard Tuerk, El Paso, TX, May 19, 2002

the Crocodile let go of the Elephant's Child's nose with a plop that you could hear all up and down the Limpopo. (Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, 1902)

 

 

Lone Elephant in Bath One Year Later,
Richard Tuerk, El Paso, TX, May 18, 2003

Then he uncurled his trunk and knocked two of his dear brothers head over heels.
"O Bananas!" said they, "Where did you learn that trick, and what have you done to your nose?"
"I got a new one from the Crocodile on the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," said the Elephant’s Child. "I asked him what he had for dinner, and he gave me this to keep."
"It looks very ugly," said his hairy uncle, the Baboon.
"It does," said the Elephant’s Child. "But it’s very useful," and he picked up his hairy uncle, the Baboon, by one hairy leg, and hove him into a hornets’ nest. (Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, 1902)
   

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