JAMES MICHAEL CAHALAN

Online Vita

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

(2001) Edward Abbey:  A Life.  Tucson:  U of Arizona P.  Original hardback edition.  Corrected paperback editions, 2003 and 2007.  Translated into Korean as Samak ui Anarchist: Edward Abbey and published by Dal-Paeng-ee  (Escargot) Publishers, 2006.

(1999) Double Visions:  Women and Men in Modern and Contemporary Irish Fiction.   Syracuse:  Syracuse UP.

(1993) Modern Irish Literature and Culture: A Chronology. New York and London: Macmillan / G. K. Hall. 

(1991) Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses. Ed. with David Downing, with coauthored preface and introduction. Urbana, IL: NCTE. 

(1991) Liam O'Flaherty: a Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne. 

(1988) The Irish Novel: A Critical History. Boston: Twayne / Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 

(1983) Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel. Syracuse: Syracuse UP / Dublin: Gill and Macmillan. 

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters

(2013)  “Teaching Classroom Videorecording Analysis to Graduate Students:  Strategies for Observation and Improvement.”  College Teaching 61:  44-50.

(2008)  "Teaching Hometown Literature:  A Pedagogy of Place."   College English 70.3 (January):  249-74. 

(2005)  “Irish Comedy.”  Comedy:  A Geographical and History Guide.  2 vols.  Ed. Maurice Charney.  Westport, CT:  Praeger.  Vol. 2:  380-93.

(2004) “Mercier’s Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of Irish Studies.”  New Hibernia Review 8.4 (Winter):  139-45.

(1996) "Edward Abbey, Appalachian Easterner." Western American Literature 31.3 (November): 237-61.

(1996-97) "'My People':  Edward Abbey's Appalachian Roots in Indiana County, Pennsylvania."  Pittsburgh History:  A Magazine of the City and Its Region 79.3 (Fall 1996): 92- 107 and 79.4 (Winter 1996/97): 160-78.  Republished in 1997 on Abbey's Web at <http://www.abbeyweb.net/articles/mypeople/index.html>.

(1995) "'Dear Reader' and 'Drear Writer':  Joyce's Direct Addresses to his Readers in Finnegans Wake."  Twentieth Century Literature 41 (Fall): 306-18.

(1995) "Female and Male Perspectives on Growing Up Irish in Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and Brian Moore." Colby Quarterly 31.1 (March): 55-73.

(1994) "'The guilty forgiving the innocent':  Stanislaus, Shaun, and Shem in Finnegans Wake." Notes on Modern Irish Literature 6: 5-11.

(1993) "'Humor with a Gender':  Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M."  Éire-Ireland: The Journal of Irish Studies 28.3 (Fall): 87-102. Slightly revised version in The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers, ed. Theresa O'Connor (UP of Florida), 58-72.

(1991) "Edward Garnett and the Making of Early Modernist Fiction."   Lamar Journal of the Humanities 17.2 (Fall): 41-52.

(1991) "Selected Further Resources for Theory and Pedagogy:  A Bibliographic Essay."  With David Downing. In Practicing Theory (see above). 293-333.

(1991) "Forging a Tradition: Emily Lawless and the Irish Literary Canon." Colby Quarterly 27.1 (March): 27-39.  Revised and reprinted in Border Crossings:   Irish Women Writers and National Identities.  Ed. Kathryn Kirkpatrick.   Tuscaloosa and London:  U of Alabama P, 2000.  38-57.

(1990) "Teaching Ulysses as an Irish Novel." Éire-Ireland 25.2 (Summer): 109-17.

(1986) "Teaching Writing about Work: A Humanistic Pedagogy."  The Journal of Teaching Writing (Fall 1986): 343-50.

(1980) "Beckettian Motifs in 'From an Abandoned Work'."   The Journal of Beckett Studies 6 (Fall): 111-16. With Susan D. Brienza, J. E. Dearlove, Martine de Clercq, Martha Fehsenfeld, Dougald McMillan, Philip H. Solomon, and Thomas J. Taylor.

(1980) "Hemingway's Last Word about the Ending of 'Macomber.'"   Hemingway Notes 5.2 (Spring): 33-34.

(1979) "Tailor Tim Buckley:  Folklore, Literature and Seanchas an Táilliúra." Éire-Ireland 14.2 (Summer): 110-18.

(1978) "The Making of Strumpet City:  James Plunkett's Historical Vision." Éire-Ireland 13.4 (Winter): 81-100.

(1976) "The 'Preacher of Ideas':  Michael Davitt, 1881-1906." Éire-Ireland 11.1 (Spring): 13-33.

Interviews:

(1986) "James Plunkett: An Interview." The Irish Literary Supplement 5.1 (Spring): 9-11.

Articles in Magazines and Newsletters

(2003)  "Was Ed Abbey an `Ecoterrorist'?"  Earth First!  The Radical Environmental Journal September/October:  50-51.  Republished (in slightly expanded form) in February 2004 on Abbey's Web at <http://www.abbeyweb.net/articles/mwgmovie/>.

(2003)  "James Plunkett (Kelly), 1920-2003:  An Appreciation."   American Conference for Irish Studies Newsletter (Fall).

(2001)  "Walking with a Ghost."   National Parks  November/December:  40-41.

(1995)  "A Memorial for Augustine Martin and Hugh Staples."  American Conference for Irish Studies Newsletter (Winter).

(1995) "The Abbey at the Ritz."  With Patricia Kane.  Oak Leaves (Winter): 8-11.

(1976) "Reflections from Belfast." Friends Journal 15 November:   580-82.

Encyclopedia Entries

(1998)  "Irish Novel."  Encyclopedia of the Novel.   Ed. Paul Schellinger.  Chicago and London:  Fitzroy Dearborn.   612-20.

(1997) "Liam O'Flaherty." Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook.  Alexander Gonzalez. Westport, CN: Greenwood P.  344-48.

(1997) "James Plunkett." Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. .  Ed. Alexander Gonzalez. Westport, CN: Greenwood P.   354-58.

(1996) "Benedict Kiely." Entry in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Welch. Oxford, England: Oxford UP.

---. "Eimar O'Duffy." Oxford Companion.

---. "Gerald O'Donovan." Oxford Companion.

(1995) "Irish Literature." Entry in Twentieth-Century Britain: an Encyclopedia." Ed. F. M. Leventhal. New York: Garland. 403-5.

(1979) "James Plunkett." Entry in Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. 554-60.

(1985) "The Other Irish Writers." University Publishing (Spring): 23-24.

Reviews

(2011)  Edward Abbey.  Matter Journal 13 (special Abbey issue).  ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment) 18.3 (Summer):  682-83.

(2008)  Heidi Hansson, Emily Lawless 1845-1913:  Writing the Interspace.  Irish Studies Review 16 (May):  210-12.    [Scroll down to p. 210 or search "Cahalan]

(2008)  Jim Stiles, Brave New West:  Morphing Moab at the Speed of Greed.  Western American Literature 42 (Winter):   444-45.

(2007)  Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed:  Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast.  Ed. David Petersen.  ISLE 14.2 (Summer):  259-60.

(2004)  Daniel J. Philippon, Conserving Words:  How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement.  ISLE 11.2 (Summer):  280-81.

(2004)  Leslie A. Williams, Daniel O’Connell, the British Press, and the Irish Famine:  Killing Remarks.  Irish Studies Review 12.3:  349-50.

(2002)  Wayne E. Hall, Dialogues in the Margin:  A Study of the Dublin University Magazine.  ANQ 15 (Winter):  65-68.

(2001)  Liam Harte and Michael Parker, eds., Contemporary Irish  Fiction:   Themes, Tropes, Theories.  Criticism 43 (Spring):  239-41.

 (1995) W. J. McCormack, Dissolute Characters: Irish Literary History through Balzac, Sheridan Le Fanu, Yeats, and Bowen. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of Ideas 24.2 (Winter): 225-27.

(1993) Sophia Hillan King, The Silken Twine: A Study of the Works of Michael McLaverty. Éire-Ireland 28.4 (Winter): 152-54.

(1993) Audrey Stockin Eyler, Celtic, Christian, Socialist: the Novels of Anthony C. West and Robert Hogan, ed., Jonathan, Jack, and GBS: Four Plays about Irish History and Literature by John O'Donovan. The Irish Literary Supplement 12.2 (Fall): 13-14.

(1992) Paul Hyland and Neil Sammells, eds., Irish Writing: Exile and Subversion; Otto Rauchbauer, ed., Ancestral Voices: The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature; Jacqueline Genet, ed., The Big House in Ireland: Reality and Representation; and John W. Purser, The Literary Works of Jack B. Yeats. Modern Fiction Studies 38.4 (Winter): 966-69.

(1990) John Hildebidle, Five Irish Writers: the Errand of Keeping Alive. Studies in the Humanities 17.1 (Spring): 76-77.

(1990) Adrian Frazier, Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre. Studies in the Humanities 17. 1 (Spring): 77-78.

(1988) James Plunkett, The Boy on the Back Wall and other Essays. Éire-Ireland 23.3 (Fall): 153-54.

(1986) The Irish Short Story: A Critical History, ed. James Kilroy. Éire-Ireland 21.4 (Winter): 154-58.

(1984) Short History of Anglo-Irish Literature, by Roger McHugh and Maurice Harmon. The Scriblerian 17.1 (Autumn): 71.

(1978) The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentlemen, by J. P. Donleavy. Éire-Ireland 13.4 (Winter): 145-47.

(1978) Farewell Companions, by James Plunkett. Éire-Ireland 13.2 (Summer): 147-30.

(1996) Excerpts from 1993 article in Éire-Ireland "'Humor with a Gender': Somerville and Ross and The Irish R.M.," in Humor in Irish Literature: A Reference Guide, ed. Don L. F. Nilsen. Westport, CN: Greenwood.

(1988) "Macken, Walter (1915-1967)," 313-14; "MacManus, Francis (1909-1966)," 323-24; "Murdoch, Iris (1919- )," 406-7; "O'Faolain, Sean (1900-1985)," 511-12; "O'Flaherty, Liam (1896-1984)," 522-23; and "Plunkett, James (1920-)," 548-49--all reprinted from Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel (1983), in Modern Irish Literature. Ed. Denis Lane and Carol McCrory Lane. New York: Ungar.

(1986) Excerpts from book chapter, "Beginnings: the Banims," from Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel (1983, see above); in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 13. Ed. Cherie D. Abbey. Detroit: Gale Research Company. 147-52.

PRESENTATIONS:

(2006)  "Women's Intertextualities versus Men's Anxieties of Influence in Somerville and Ross, Samuel Beckett, and Flann O'Brien."  International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, July.

 (2004)  “Mercier's Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of Irish Cultural and Bilingual Studies.”  Joint meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), British Association for Irish Studies, and European Congress on Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, England, July; and International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), University College, Galway, Ireland, July.

(2001)  "Double Troubles in Fiction and Film by Women and Men."  International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), Dublin City University, August.

1995) "Female and Male Perspectives on Growing Up Irish in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy and John McGahern's The Dark." American Conference for Irish Studies, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, June; and International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland, July.

(1992) "Contrasting Worlds in Somerville and Ross's Experiences of an Irish R.M.:   Comedy, Gender and Class."  American Conference for Irish Studies, University College, Galway, Ireland, July; and International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, July.

(1988) "Critical Tunnel Vision and Peripheral Vision on the Irish Novel." Canadian Association for Irish Studies, Marianopolis College, Montreal, March.

(1982) "Seán O Faoláin's Vision of Modern Irish History in A Nest of Simple Folk." American Conference and Canadian Association for Irish Studies, May.

(1976) "The Later Career of Michael Davitt." The Trinity College, Dublin Historical Society, Winter 1976.

National/International:

(2012)  "Indiana, Pa. Appalachian Native Edward Abbey, turned Southwestern Author and Radical Environmentalist:  a Multi-Media Presentation."  Appalachian Studies Association, IUP, March 24.   

(2008)  "Female and Male Versions of New York Irish America in William Kennedy's Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and Alice McDermott's Charming Billy."  American Conference on Irish Studies, Davenport, Iowa, April.

(2007)  "We Did Go Home Again:  Literary and Philosophical Concepts of 'Home'."  Invited keynote address to the Thomas Wolfe Society, Asheville, NC, meeting in a hotel across the street from Wolfe's boyhood home, May.

(2004)  "Edward Abbey's Appalachian Wilderness: An Environmentalist Critique of the Great Smoky Region."  Appalachian Studies Association, Cherokee, North Carolina, March.

(2003)  "The Urban and East-Coast Edward Abbey."  Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Boston, June.

(2002)  "The Odd Recent Fate of The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives! in Light of Abbey's Longstanding Opposition to Terrorism."  Western Literature Association, Tucson, October.

(2002)  "Edward Abbey at the Time of Silent Spring."  Writers' Conference and Workshop in Honor of Rachel Carson, sponsored by the Nature and Environmental Writers--College and University Educators (NEW-CUE), Boothbay Harbor, Maine, June. 

(2001)  "'Out of Particulars':  Ed Abbey in Flagstaff and Northern Arizona."  Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Flagstaff, Arizona, June.

(2001)  "Edward Abbey:  Following in Jeffers's Footsteps from Western Pennsylvania to Taos."  Robinson Jeffers Association, Taos, New Mexico, April.

(2001)  "`Take the Other':  Ed Abbey's Picaresque Roads to Big Bend."  Desert Crossings Symposium sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Lajitas, Texas, January.

(1999)  "`I am not a naturalist':  Problems in Reading and Writing Edward Abbey."  American Society for Environmental History, Tucson, April 17.

(1999)  "Teaching Introductory Literature and Researching Edward Abbey" (keynote).  New Directions in Critical Theory Conference, University of Arizona, February 12.

(1997)  "Many Images, Many Edward Abbeys."  Western Literature Association, Albuquerque, October.

(1997)  "Gender and History in Trouble:  Jennifer Johnston's Shadows on Our Skin and Bernard MacLaverty's Cal."  American Conference on Irish Studies, Albany, April.

(1997)  "Celebrated Western Writer Edward Abbey, an Appalachian Easterner from the Foothills of Western Pennsylvania."  Appalachian Studies Association, Cincinnati, March.

(1990) "Marxism and Modernism in Liam O'Flaherty and his Short Stories." American Conference for Irish Studies, St. Louis, April.

(1990) "Samuel Beckett as an Irish Novelist." Participant on panel on "Samuel Beckett and Modern Literature" (including Beckett's biographer Deirdre Bair) in the Beckett Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University, March.

(1989) "Cultural and Personal Conflicts in Liam O'Flaherty." American Conference for Irish Studies, Syracuse, 15 March.

(1985) "Liam O'Flaherty's `Dúil' and `Desire': Translation or Rewrite?". American Conference for Irish Studies, Tacoma, Washington, April.

(1983) "What is an Irish Historical Novel? Defining the Form and Charting its Course." American Conference for Irish Studies, Columbus, Ohio, May.

Regional and Invited by Specific Institutions both in Pennsylvania and nationally:

(2008)  "Edward Abbey, Aravaipa Canyon, and 'Merry Christmas, Pigs!'" (morning class presentation) and "Edward Abbey:  from Pennsylvania to Arizona" (evening community presentation).  Eastern Arizona College, February.

(2005)  "Edward Abbey in Texas and Beyond."  Rice University, April.

(2002)  "Edward Abbey and Birding."  Bucks County Audubon Society, New Hope, Pa., December.

(2002)  “Abbey in Indiana and Beyond.”  Indiana Free Library Annual Banquet, September.

(2002)  "Edward Abbey:  A Life."  Indiana County Parks Series, Blue Spruce Park, April 6.

(2002) "Edward Abbey and The Monkey Wrench Gang."  Goucher College, Baltimore, March 7.

(2000)  "Double Troubles in Contemporary Irish Fiction and Film."  Pennsylvania College English Association, Penn State--Altoona, March 18.

(2000)  "Edward Abbey's Appalachian Vision."  Presented twice at Jamestown Community College, New York, as Katharine Jackson Carnahan Scholar in Residence, March 9 and 10.

(1999)  Presented "Edward Abbey:  A Voice in the Wilderness" video at the Tempe and Phoenix public libraries, during "Remembering Ed Abbey" week, March 9 and 11.

(1998)  "Edward Abbey, Defender of  Wilderness."  Arizona Humanities Council presentation at the University of Arizona, Tucson, May 27; and in Prescott, May 31.

(1996-99)  "Edward Abbey:  A Champion of the Wild West from the Appalachian East."  Pennsylvania Humanities Council Commonwealth Speaker lecture.   Indiana, April 1996, February 1997, and April 1998; Ligonier, March 1997; Sizerville State Park, July 1997; Wilson College, Chambersburg, March 1998; Indiana Unitarian Church, March 1998; Chapman State Park, July 1998; Portage National Railroad Site, Cresson, August 1999; Chatham College, Pittsburgh, August 1998, Barnesboro, June 1999; and Promised Land State Park, August 1999.

(1996-99)  "The Great Famine in Fact, Folklore, and Fiction."   Pennsylvania Humanities Council Commonwealth Speaker lecture.  Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, October 1996; Indiana, March 1997; Scranton, April 1997; Portage National Railroad Site, Cresson, August 1997; St. Francis College, Loretto, October 1997; Hazleton, March 1998; Bristol, March 1998; Franklin, May 1998; Sunbury, May 1999; Johnstown, August 1999; Tarentum, September 1999; Bethlehem, September 1999.  Also presented as part of an Ohio Humanities Council grant in Cincinnati, November 1997.

(1994) "Finnegans Wake as a User-Friendly Text; or, James Joyce's Direct Addresses to the Reader in his Most Difficult Fiction." Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, April 8.

(1994) "Male Sibling Rivalry Writ Large: James and Stanislaus Joyce in the Wake." Southern Regional Meeting on Irish Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, March 5.

(1991) "The History and Politics of Ireland as Reflected in Irish Fiction," Commonwealth Lecture sponsored by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, delivered at both California University of Pennsylvania (February) and Bucknell University (April).

(1990) "Exiled from the Canon:  Emily Lawless, 'A Very Isolated Sort of Island'." Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Catholic University, Washington DC, November 3.

(1990) "Liam O'Flaherty and the Irish Language," Lecture to the Gaelic Arts Society, Synod Hall, Pittsburgh, January 26.

(1987) "The Irish Novel, the Joyce Industry, and the Case for Historical Criticism." Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, November.

(1982) "The Year of the French in Irish: Eoghan O Tuairisc's L'Attaque." New England Committee for Irish Studies, Boston, October.

IUP PRESENTATIONS:

(2009)  "Edward Abbey, Internationally Acclaimed Environmentalist Author from Appalachian Indiana and IUP: a Multi-Media Presentation Twenty Years after His Death", People's G20 Summit, IUP, September 22

(1998)  Keynote speaker, "Reading and Writing Edward Abbey:  A Multi-Media Presentation," English Graduate Conference, March 27.

(1997)  Organizer and moderator, panel on publishing and presenting, English Graduate Student Colloquium, April 11.

(1997)  Presentation on Edward Abbey to the English honors fraternity.

(1993) Organizer and introducer, poetry reading by Peter Oresick from Pittsburgh, October 14.

(1990) Organizer and introducer, poetry reading by Desmond Egan from Ireland, October 4.

(1990) Co-organizer (with David Downing), "Why Theory? Rethinking Pedagogy," Lecture/discussion by James Sosnoski of Miami University of Ohio for graduate students, faculty, and the community, March 1-2.

(1989) Organizer and facilitator, "The Literary Canon and the Idea of Candidacy and Comprehensive Exams," discussion for graduate Literature students and faculty, July.

(1989) Participant in mock National Endowment for the Humanities grant review panel as part of Associate Graduate Dean Gerry Stacy's grants workshop for IUP Faculty, January 20.

(1988) Organizer and facilitator, all-day workshop with Paul Bové of the University of Pittsburgh on applying literary theory to teaching and writing about literature, for graduate students and faculty, July.

(1988) "Critical Perspectives on Literature," a panel discussion organized by myself for graduate students and faculty in Literature, led by me and including as presenters Drs. Karen Dandurand, John Freund, Mark Hurlbert, and myself; April.

(1988) "What Does an Instructor Need for his Students in the Writing Center?", a presentation to the IUP Writing Center staff meeting, March.

(2012)  Program Chair, 35th annual national Appalachian Studies Association conference, IUP, March 23-25.

(2012)  Led walking tour to the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, IUP Special Collections, and Ed Abbey and Jimmy Stewart sites downtown, Appalachian Studies Association, March.

(2012)  Convener of featured lecture by John A. Williams; keynote address by Si Kahn; organizing workshops by Si Kahn; and introducer at (and organizer of) featured concert by Si Kahn, Appalachian Studies Association, March.

(2010)  Chair (organized IUP doctoral student presenters and submitted accepted panel proposal), "People, Places, and Themes in Ulysses and in Irish Drama from Yeats to Brian Friel and Abbie Spallen," American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), Penn State, May.

(2004)  Chair, panel on nineteenth-century Irish prose, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), University College, Galway, Ireland, July.

(2003)  Chair, panel on Edward Abbey, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Boston, June.

(2001)  Chair, panel on Irish film, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), Dublin City University, August

(1995) Chair, panel on Irish fiction, Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, California, PA, November.

(1995) Introducer of keynote speaker, Denis Donoghue, at 22nd annual Western Pennsylvania Symposium on World Literatures, "From Shaw to O'Casey: The Irish Legacy in Literature and the Arts," Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, April 6.

(1994) Chair, panel on "Wild Irish Prose," Northeastern Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, April.

(1994) Chair, fiction panel, Southern Conference on Irish Studies, West Virginia University, Morgantown, March.

(1993) Chair, panel on "Irish/American Drama," Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Albany, New York, November.

(1993) Chair, panel on "The Famine and Folklore," American Conference for Irish Studies, Philadelphia, April.

(1992) Chair, Annual Business Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, New York City, November.

(1991) Program Chair, Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Penn State at Ogontz, Abington, PA, November.

(1991) Chair, panel on "Images of Parnell and his Era in the Historical Novel," Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Penn State at Ogontz, Abington, PA, November.

(1991) Chair, panel on Irish Literature, English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities, Uniontown (sponsored by California University), October.

(1991) Organizer and leader of workshop on "Practicing Theory in the Classroom," National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute for Teachers of Literature to Undergraduates, North Myrtle Beach, SC, June.

(1991) Chair, panel on "Ireland, the World, and the Critic," American Conference on Irish Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April.

(1991) Co-chair and organizer of roundtable discussion session on "Practicing Theory in Introductory Literature Courses." Conference on College Composition and Communication ("4 Cs"), Boston, March.

(1990) Chair and organizer of panel on William Butler Yeats at the annual English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) Conference, Kutztown University, October 20.

(1990) Consultant, co-sponsor, and assistant to national conference on "The Role of Theory in the Undergraduate Literature Classroom: Curriculum, Pedagogy, Politics" (chief organizer, David Downing), Indiana, September 21-23.

(1989) Chair and organizer of panel on Irish Literature at the annual English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) Conference, Indiana, October 7.

(1989) Facilitator/Chair of panel on "Assignments That Work With Freshmen." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Seattle, 17 March.

(1988) Organizer and leader of workshop on "Revising the Canon and Innovative Graduate Programs," Summer Institute on Revising the Canon, National Council of Teachers of English, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, June.

(1988) Chair of panel on "Crosscurrents in Irish Fiction" (with papers by Seán Lucy of University College, Cork, and Shaun O'Connell of the University of Massachusetts--Boston), American Conference for Irish Studies, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, April.

(1982) Co-Organizer of the New England Conference for Irish Studies, University of Massachusetts--Boston, October.

WORK FOR SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:

(2009) Referee, African American Review (twice)

(2002-2012)  Referee, ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment)

(1997-2012)  Advisory editor, New Hibernia Review

(1995)  Referee, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

(1992, 1994)  Referee, College English

(1988-2013)  Editorial board member and referee, Works and Days:   Essays in the Socio-historical Dimensions of Literature and the Arts

(1988)  Critiqued two papers for the 1986-87 Proceedings of the Conference on Medievalism at the University of Notre Dame (since published by IUP as Papers on Medievalism)

(1986-2004)  Referee, Studies in the Humanities

    Externally Funded Grant Activity:

SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council Grant ($6,357), 1998-99, for travel for research for my book on Edward Abbey.

Arizona Humanities Council Grant ($1,974), 1998, for travel and expenses to give presentations on Edward Abbey in Tucson and Prescott and do research at the University of Arizona.

SSHE FPDC Grant ($4,890), 1997, for released time for research on "Gender Issues in Modern Irish Fiction."

SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council Grant ($5,997), 1995-96, for travel funds and released time for research and writing on Edward Abbey.

SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council Grant ($4,473), 1991-92, for travel funds and released time for work on Modern Irish Literature: A Chronology.

SSHE Faculty Professional Development Council Grant ($5,773), 1990, 50% with David Downing, for released time and funding for work on Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses.

NEH Travel to Collections Grant ($750), from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a trip to the Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, August 1989, for work related to my third book Liam O'Flaherty: a Study of the Short Fiction.

SSHE Faculty Development Research Grant ($3,565), 1989, for released-time and funding for work on the O'Flaherty book.

NEH Summer Stipend ($3,000), Summer 1986, from the National Endowment for the Humanities for writing my second book, The Irish Novel: a Critical History (commissioned by Twayne/G.K. Hall and company).

Fulbright-Hays/ITT Fellowship ($5,000), 1975-76, for graduate study at University College, Dublin.

Internally Funded Grant Activity

IUP Senate Research Committee Award ($1,500), 2006-7, for travel funds to deliver paper at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures in Sydney, Australia..

IUP Senate Research Committee Award ($1,500), 2004-5, for travel funds to deliver paper at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures in Galway.

IUP Senate Research Committee Award ($1,500), 2001-2, for travel funds to deliver paper at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures in Dublin.

IUP Senate Fellowship Award ($3,500), 1998-99, for travel funds to work on Edward Abbey in Tucson.

IUP Senate Fellowship ($3,496), 1997, for research that led to the 1999 book Double Visions.

IUP Senate Fellowship Award ($2,950), 1995-96, for travel funds to conduct archival research on Edward Abbey at the University of Arizona.

IUP Senate Research Committee Award ($1,500), 1994-95, for travel funds to deliver paper at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Belfast.

IUP Senate Research Committee Award ($1,500), 1991-92, for travel funds to deliver paper at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Galway.

IUP Senate Fellowship Award ($3,500), 1991-92, for travel funds for research on Modern Irish Literature: A Chronology.

IUP Senate Fellowship Award ($5,039), 1990-91, for a summer contract to work on Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses (with David Downing).

IUP Senate Fellowship Award ($3,115), 1989-90, for a summer contract to work on the O'Flaherty book.

IUP Faculty Research Grant ($3,000), 1986-87, for expenses related to writing and typing The Irish Novel: a Critical History.

IUP Faculty Research Grant ($2,603), 1985-86, for travel expenses to Dublin in order to interview James Plunkett, resulting in Spring 1986 publication (listed above).

IUP Graduate School Summer Work-Study Grant ($500), 1985, to hire a research assistant to help me with library work on The Irish Novel.

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