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Some Recent Writings:
Anthony Manousos joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1985 and is currently editor of Friends Bulletin, the official publication of independent Western Quakers. The author has been involved in many Quaker projects. During the 1980s he helped to edit a Quaker-inspired anthology of writings by Soviet and American writers called The Human Experience which was jointly published in the USA and the former USSR in 1989. This effort at citizen diplomacy is described in a Pendle Hill pamphlet called Spiritual Linkage with Russians: the Story of a Leading (1991). Active in the interfaith and peace movement, has published pamphlets on "Islam from a Quaker Perspective" (2003) and "Living the Peace Testimony: the Legacy of Howard and Anna Brinton" (2004). He has edited two Quaker books, A Western Quaker Reader (2000) and Compassionate Listening and Other Writings by Gene Knudsen Hoffman (2003).
In 1993 the author helped to start a youth service program under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee and has led youth and adults on service projects to Mexico and various other places. He has published numerous articles in Quaker magazines. In 1971 he earned a B.A. from Boston University, where he studied poetry with Anne Sexton; and in 1984, he earned a Ph.D. in British literature from Rutgers University, where he studied with Paul Fussell. He has taught at various colleges and universities and published many academic articles. He is married to a Methodist minister whom he met at Pendle Hill, a Quaker study center. They currently live in Torrance, California.
Dr. Anthony MANOUSOS
3223 Danaha St
Torrance, CA 90505
E-mail: friendsbul@aol.com
Education:
1987-88 Wilmer Young International Peace and Reconciliation Scholar at Pendle Hill, Quaker study center in Wallingford, PA
1976-82 Ph.D., Rutgers University. Specialty: British Literature. Dissertation topic "Ovid in the Age of Dryden, Pope and Swift." Dissertation advisor: Paul Fussell.
1973-76 M.A.T., Trenton State College, Major: English and Education, Secondary Teacher’s Certification
1967-71 B.A., Boston University
Major: Classics and English, with a specialty in creative writing. Advisor: Anne Sexton.
Professional experience:
Editor of Friends Bulletin, the official publication of independent Western Quakers (1996—), editor of A Western Quaker Reader, Writings by and about Independent Quakers in the Western United States, 1929-1999 (Whittier, CA: 2000)
Part-time instructor at San Bernardino Valley College, Mt. San Antonio College, Cal State University at San Bernardino, and La Verne University: Remedial and advanced composition, British literature, American literature, world literature, survey of literature, poetry (1990-1996).
Volunteer youth service coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee, Pasadena, California (1993—2002).
Instructor at Pepperdine University, L.A. City College and El Camino Community College (1988-1990)
Adjunct professor at La Salle University and Rutgers: American literature and writing courses (1986)
Editorial director and publicist for the US/USSR Committee, a Quaker concern that produced The Human Experience, a collection of contemporary Soviet and American writings that was edited and published in the U.S.A. and USSR (1986-1989)
Editor and writer for Fellowship in Prayer, an interfaith publication (circ.5,000) established in 1949 to promote the practice of prayer and meditation. Solicited and edited manuscripts, supervised production, implemented computerized office system, organized events, handled publicity, etc. (1984-1985)
Assistant Professor of English Literature, Carleton College, Northfield, MN: Courses: senior seminar on English literature and Classical traditions; surveys of English literature from Chaucer to Milton and from Dryden to Tennyson; seminar on Pope, Swift, and Johnson (1982-84)
Coadjutant at Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ: composition, technical writing, surveys of English literature (1976-82).
Select List of Publications:
The Western Quaker Reader, Writings By and About Independent Quakers in the Western United States, 1929-99. Friends Bulletin Corporation: Whittier, CA, 2000.
Spiritual Linkage with Russians, Pendle Hill Pamphlet, Wallingford PA, 1992.
The Human Experience, Soviet and American Writings. Ed. by Quaker US/USSR Committee. New York: Knopf, 1989.
"Friends for 70 Years," Friends Journal, May, 2000; "Ten Helpful Hints for Starting an Effective Youth Program," Friends Journal, 1999; "On Reading Scripture Aloud," Quaker Life, Jan./Feb., 1997; "Thanking Our Enemies," Friends Journal, Nov. 1996; "Can the spirit of Quaker service be resurrected?" The Friend, 16 October 1998; "Uses of Silence," Friends Journal, June 1994; "Fishing in Troubled Waters: How to Help the Russians," FJ, July 1993; "All God’s Children Got a Place in the Choir," FJ, April 1992; "All the Time in the World" (a poem), FJ, July 1/15, 1987; "Listening for the Light": FJ, March 15, 1986; "Exiles" (a poem), FJ, April 1, 1986; "Going Deep Into the Heart: An Anthology of Soviet and American Writings," FJ, Dec. 15, 1986.
"O Brave New World Literature Anthologies: A Guide for the Perplexed" (inside english, May, 1996) and "You Can’t Eat a Banana and Throw Away the Peel" (inside english, March, 1996).
Poetry accepted in Berkeley Poets Cooperative, Modern Haiku, Northeast Journal, Frogpond, Antigonish Review, and other publications.
"The Haiku Master," Madison Magazine, October, 1986.
"`Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid’: Robert Lowell, Freud, and the Classics." Comparative Literature Studies (spring, 1984).
"Resuscitating the Lost Art: Latin Verse Composition." Classical and Modern Literature (summer, 1984).
Review of Geoffrey Plowden’s Pope on Classic Ground (Ohio University Press, 1983) and Steve Shankman’s Pope’s `Iliad’: Homer in the Age of Passion (Princeton University Press, 1983).Modern Philology (summer 1985).
"Some Current Publications" [comprehensive annotated bibliography of books and articles about the Restoration appearing during the first six months of 1983]. Restoration (fall 1983).
"Swiftian Scatology and Lockian Psychology." Gypsy Scholar, VII, 1 (1980).
Articles on various sci.fi. writers for Twentieth- Century American Science Fiction Writers, ed. David Cowart and Thomas L. Wymer (Gale Research: Detroit, Mich., 1980) and for Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, ed. Curtis Smith (St. Martins Press: NY, 1981)
Articles on Louis Coxe, Barbara Guest, and Mary Oliver for American Poets since World War II, ed. Don Greiner (Gale Research: Detroit, Michigan, 1980).
Articles on Bergson and Mann for Dictionary of Nobel Prize Winners. (Vis-Ed Corporation: Princeton, NJ).