• Curriculum Vitae
• English 6/76991
  Seminar on Science Fiction
• English 76706
  Methods in the Study of Literature
• Extrapolation, a science-fiction journal

Professor Hassler graduated from Buchtel High School in Akron, then went to Williams College and Columbia University for college and graduate school.  He has taught at KSU for over three decades and has held a number of different positions in the English Department and in the Honors College.  Currently, he is completing a term as Coordinator of the Undergraduate Studies Program and has taught regularly the entry-level course for the major titled “English Studies.”  He has also taught graduate courses in British literature and on science fiction. 

He has been editor and now executive editor of the journal Extrapolation, which deals with science fiction, since 1990.  He and his wife own a remote cabin near Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where they spend a good bit of time in the summer months with their two dogs and a cat. 

One of his favorite hobbies is university politics, and back in the 1970s he worked avidly on the experimental programs in the Honors College and recently has served on the Faculty Senate since 1995. 

His friends call him “Mack,” a shortened version of his middle name.

Areas of Interest

18th–Century British Literature, British and American Science Fiction

Selected Recent Publications

• The Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin's Comic Materialism (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973) 99 p. Reprinted by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA: 1998.
• Erasmus Darwin (New York: Twayne, 1974) 143 p.
• Hal Clement (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont, 1982) 64 p.
• Comic Tones in Science Fiction: The Art of Compromise with Nature (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982) 143p.
• Patterns of the Fantastic, edited (Mercer Island, WA:  Starmont, 1983) 105 p.
• Patterns of the Fantastic II, edited (Mercer Island,  WA: Starmont, 1984) 91 p.

Book Chapters

• On Weighing a Pound of Flesh: Readings from the Third Annual Defiance College Poetry Day (Defiance College, 1973). I have a group of seven poems in this booklet.
• Four: In Memory (Kent State University, May 4 Commit­tee, 1974). I edited this booklet and wrote the intro­duction.
• "Erasmus Darwin and Enlightenment Origins of Science Fiction," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1976): 1045-1056.
• "Asimov's Golden Age: The Ordering of an Art," Isaac Asimov: Writers of the 21st Century (New York: Tap­linger, 1977): 111-119.

Articles

• "Marino Faliero, The Byronic Hero, and Don Juan," Keats-Shelley Journal, 1965, 55-64.
• "Coleridge, Darwin, and the Dome," The Serif, September 1967, 28-31.
• "Erasmus Darwin's Comic Bathos," The Serif, June 1969, 15-26.
• "Erasmus Darwin and Enlightenment Belief,"Enlightenment Essays, Summer 1970, 77-83.
• "David Hume and Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia,"Studies in Scottish Literature, January 1971, 190-193.
• "The Disease of the Learned, Erasmus Darwin and Sensibility," Enlightenment Essays, Summer 1972, 113-119.
• "Belief and Death in Wordsworth's Peter Bell," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Winter 1974, 251-257.
• "Iron Age Visions of a Golden Age," The Journal of General Education, Fall 1976, 266-69.
• "Volunteers in College Teaching," with Helga Kaplan. Alternative Higher Education, Fall 1976, 19-24.
• "Student Evaluations of Experimental University Classes," with Helga Kaplan, The Journal of General Education, Summer 1977, 97-104.
• "The Discovery of the Future and Indeterminacy in William Hazlitt," The Wordsworth Circle, Winter 1977, 75-79.
• "Wilfred Owen and Truth: An Analysis of 'Dulce et Decorum Est, '" American Notes and Queries Supplement 1979, 215-220.
• "The Play of Education: Volunteer Teachers in mental University Classes," with Helga Kaplan Alternative Higher Education, Fall 1978, 51-61.
• "The Eighteenth Century and Science Fiction: A Symbiosis?" Science Fiction, May 1979, 75-82.
• "Images for an Ethos, Images for Change and Style," Extrapolation, Summer 1979, 176-188.
  
• "Byron and Erasmus Darwin," Ball State UniversityForum, Summer 1979, 75-80.
• "Influences on Christian Belief During the Enlightenment," Enlightenment Essays, Fall 1978, 21-34.

Journal Editorship

• Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Brownsville TX: U Texas Brownsville. Quarterly.