JAMES MICHAEL CAHALAN

Online Vita

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate

At IUP (an incomplete list--not updated in the last few years):

ENGL 581 Literary and Cultural Dublin (in Dublin Program)

ENGL 673 Seminar in British Drama

ENGL 674 Bibliographical Methods in English

ENGL 671 The Novel

ENGL 676 Critical Approaches to Literature

ENGL 685 Criticism: Contemporary Approaches to Literature

ENGL 752 Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer

ENGL 753/853 Literature as a Profession

ENGL 760/860 Teaching College Literature                                                                                                                                                                         

ENGL 762 Topics in American Lit. since 1870:  Appalachian Literature

ENGL 764 Topics in British Literature since 1660: Modern Irish Lit.

ENGL 764/864  Irish Writers of Nature and Place

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: Mod. British and Irish Fiction

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: Modern British and Irish Drama

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: 20th-Century Irish Poetry

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: Irish Comic Writers

ENGL 765 Topics in Literature as Genre:  Hometown Literature     

ENGL 765 Top. in Literature as Genre: The 20th-Century Bildungsroman

ENGL 765 Topics in Literature as Genre:  Nature Writing and Biography

ENGL 766 Topics in Comparative Literature: Modernism

ENGL 766/866 Topics in Comparative Literature:  Pairs of Irish and U. S. Texts

ENGL 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Author: Joyce

ENGL 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Author: Yeats

ENGL 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Theme:  Bildungsromans

ENGL 784 Literary Theory, Gender, and History in Irish Fiction 

ENGL 785 Biography

ENGL 785 Coming of Age in 20th-Century Irish Fiction and U. S. Nature Writing

ENGL 785 Ecocriticism applied to Irish and U. S. Writers

ENGL 785 Hometown Literature  

ENGL 984 Literature from the Irish Diaspora

ENGL 984 Joyce's Ulysses

ENGL 985 Ecocriticism, Place Studies, Environmental Writing, and Hometown Literature

Previously:

The Irish Short Story (UMB)

Undergraduate

AT IUP:

ENGL 101 College Writing

ENGL 121 Humanities Literature

ENGL 202 Research Writing

ENGL 306 Modern British Literature

ENGL 352 Symbol and Allegory                                                                                                                                                                                          

ENGL 353 The Oral Dimension                                                                                                                                                                                           

ENGL 386 Regional, Hometown Literature                                                                                                                                                                           

ENGL 386 Regional Literature in English:  Appalachian Literature                                                                                                                                          

ENGL 387 Irish Literature                                                                                                                                                                                                          

PS 481 Modern Ireland:  Literature and History (in Dublin Program)                                                                                                                                        

HNRC 499 Honors Synthesis:  Appalachian Culture                                                                                                                                                            

HNRC 499 Honors Synthesis:  National Parks                                                                                                                                                                      

LBST 499 Senior Synthesis:  Appalachian Culture                                                                                                                                                                

HNRC 499 Honors Synthesis:  Appalachian Culture

LBST 499 Senior Synthesis:  Modern Ireland

LBST 499 Senior Synthesis:  National Parks

Previously:

Yeats (University of Massachusetts--Boston [UMB])
Joyce (UMB)
Irish Literature (UMB)
The Study of Folklore (Northeastern University)
Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Literature (UMB)
Practical Criticism (UMB)
World Literature (University of Cincinnati [UC])
Great Themes in Literature: Crime (Northeastern)
Introduction of Modern Irish (UC)
Intermediate Composition (UMB)
Writing about Literature (UC)
Writing about Film (UC)
Freshman English I (UC, UMB, and Northeastern)
Freshman English II (UC, UMB, and Northeastern)
Developmental Composition (UMB and Northeastern

PROGRAMS DEVELOPED AT IUP AND TAKEN THROUGH SENATE APPROVAL:

Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism (1989) with 15 new courses

M.A.  in Literature (1990), with 11 new courses

M.A./Generalist (1990), with 11 new courses

Oversaw Senate approval, as a package, of these two M.A. tracks as well as the ones in Teaching English and TESOL

B.A. in Literature (1997), with 27 new courses

EARLIER  COURSES DEVELOPED  AT IUP:                                                                                           

EN 581/681 Topics in Irish Lit. and Studies (for Dublin Program)
EN 480 Senior Seminar
EN 382 War in Literature
EN 280 Country Life/City Life
EN 373 Concepts of Character in Drama and Novel
EN 372 Alienation in Literature                                                                                                                                                                                            
EN 352 Symbol and Allegory
EN 350 The Metaphoric Perspective
EN 217 Drama
EN 216 Short Fiction
PS 581/481 Modern Ireland: Lit. and History (for Dublin Program)

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Last Updated:   June 1, 2013