Curriculum Vitae F. C. Mcgrath Professor Emeritus Department of English University of Southern Maine P.O. Box 9300 Portland, ME

Curriculum Vitae F. C. McGRATH

Professor Emeritus Department of English University of Southern Maine P.O. Box 9300 Portland, ME 04104-9300 [email protected]

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. B.A., Dartmouth College.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Irish Literature and Culture Literary Theory Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century British Literature

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1985 to present University of Southern Maine 1979 to 1985 Rutgers University 1973 to 1979 University of Pennsylvania 1969-70, 1972-73 University of Texas at Austin

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Maine Humanities Council Outreach Grant (for visiting Irish Filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick) $1,000, September 2015. University of Southern Maine Faculty Senate Research Award, 1990, 1995, 2013. Center for Technology Enhanced Learning (CTEL) grant to develop ENG 245 Introduction to Literary Studies for online delivery for both the English Major and Liberal Studies in the Humanities Major, 2012-13. Center for Technology Enhanced Learning (CTEL) grant to develop an online course in Irish drama, 2010. Faculty Technology Grant (for classroom use of computers), University of Southern Maine, 1999. Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Scholarship, University of Southern Maine, 1999. Outstanding Teacher/Scholar Award, College of Arts and Sciences, USM, 1997. American Council of Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1990. University of Southern Maine Summer Fellowship, 1986, 1987, 1990. Maine Humanities Council Outreach Grant (for Colloquium on Money and Words: Economics, Literature, and Interpretation) $1100, April 1988. University of Southern Maine Achievement Award, 1987, 1988. University of Pennsylvania Summer Fellowship, 1974, 1977. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1971-72. NDEA Title IV Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1970-71. PUBLICATIONS Books: Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. The Sensible Spirit: Walter Pater and the Modernist Paradigm. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1986.

Articles: “Settler Nationalism: Ulster Unionism and Postcolonial Theory.” Irish Studies Review 20.4 (2012): 463- 485. “Brian Friel: From Nationalism to Postnationalism.” A Companion to Irish Literature, vol 2. Ed. Julia Wright. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010: 265-280. "Brian Friel and the Irish Art of Lying." Brian Friel: A Casebook. Ed. William Kerwin. New York: Garland, 1997. 3-12. "Pater Speaking Bloom Speaking Joyce." Pater in the 1990s. Ed. Laurel Brake and Ian Small. Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 1991. 95-105. "Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language." The Colby Quarterly 26.4 (1990): 241-48. "Language, Myth, and History in the Later Plays of Brian Friel." Contemporary Literature 30.4 (1989): 534-45. "Irish Babel: Brian Friel's Translations and George Steiner's After Babel." Comparative Drama 23:1 (1989): 31-49. "Introducing Ireland's Field Day." Eire-Ireland 23.4 (1988): 145-55. "Laughing in His Sleeve: The Sources of Stephen's Aesthetics." James Joyce Quarterly 23 (1986): 259- 75. "W. B. Yeats's Double Vision of Walter Pater." Unaging Intellect: Essays on W. B. Yeats. Ed. Kamta C. Srivastava and Ujjal Dutta. Delhi: Doaba, 1983. 72-84. "Ulysses and the Pragmatic Semiotics of Modernism." Comparative Literature Studies 19 (1982): 164- 74. "Paterian Aesthetics in Yeats's Drama." Comparative Drama 13 (1979): 33-48. Reprinted in Drama in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Clifford Davidson, C. J. Gianakaris, and John A. Stroupe. New York: AMS Press, 1984. 125-40. "'Rosa Alchemica': Pater Scrutinized and Alchemized." Yeats-Eliot Review 5.2 (1978): 13-20. "Heroic Aestheticism: Yeats, Pater, and the Marriage of Ireland and England." Irish University Review 8 (1978): 183-90. "At the Hawk's Well: Unified Form in Yeats's Drama." The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 3.2 (1977): 59-71. "An Introduction to Literary Theory: An Illustration of Course Design." Curriculum Development in the Project on the Design and Management of Instruction: A Sampler. Ed. George L. Gropper. 1976. "The Plan of The Waste Land." Modern British Literature 1 (1976): 22-34. "Herbert's 'The Bunch of Grapes.'" The Explicator 29 (1970): 15.

Work in progress: Language, Identity and Nationalism: Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company (book). “How Metaphor Works: What Scientific Measurement and Literature Have in Common” (essay). “Remapping Anglo-Irish Relations: Triangulation of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nationality in The Crying Game.”

Reviews: Problems and Poetics of the Nonaristotelian Novel, by Leonard Orr. James Joyce Literary Supplement 6.1 (1992): 5. Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism, by Carolyn Williams. The The Pater Newsletter 25 (1990): 9-13. Walter Pater and the Gods of Disorder, by Robert and Janice A. Keefe. English Literature in Transition 32.1 (1989): 220-23. A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective, by Joseph A. Buttigieg. James Joyce Literary Supplement 2.1 (1988): 9. Education of the Senses, by Peter Gay. Vol. 1 of The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. The Pater Newsletter 16 (1986): 5-7. The Omnipresent Debate: Empiricism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century English Prose, by Wendell V. Harris. The Pater Newsletter 11 (1983): 8-11. Sailing into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot, by M. L. Rosenthal. College Literature 7 (1979): 77- 79. A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890's to the High Modernist Mode, by David Perkins. Modern British Literature 3 (1978): 80-84.

Papers delivered at professional conferences: “Why Field Day Collapsed—Almost: An Inside View of an Irish Cultural Phenomenon.” American Conference for Irish Studies, South Bend, IN, April 2016. “John Hume, Polycentrism, and Post-Nationalism.” American Conference for Irish Studies/Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2014. “Remapping Anglo-Irish Relations: Triangulation of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nationality in The Crying Game.” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference. New Orleans, March 2012. “Settler Nationalism: Ulster Unionism and Postcolonial Theory.” Fifth Galway Conference on Colonialism: Settler Colonialism. Galway, Ireland, June 2007. “Unionist Parades in Northern Ireland.” Special Session on Festivals: Ethnic, Aesthetic and Social Practices. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Diego, December 2003. “The Irish Subaltern Settler: Frank McGuinness And Postcolonial Theory.” American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting. Young Harris, GA, February 2002. “John Hume, the Irish Experience, and Postcolonial Theory.” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference. New York City, June 2001. “The Irish Sexed Subaltern Subject: Anne Devlin, Eavan Boland, and Postcolonial Theory.” American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting. Jacksonville, FL, February 2001. “Settler Nationalism: Ian Paisley and Postcolonial Theory.” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference. Limerick, Ireland, June 2000. “Settler Nationalism: The Marching Season and Postcolonial Theory.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, December 1999. “Teaching about Northern Ireland at the Millennium: An Interdisciplinary, Multimedia Approach.” New England American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference. Westfield, MA, October 1999. "Transnational Ireland and (Post) Colonial Translation." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Toronto, December 1997. "Field Day and the Protestant Other." American Conference for Irish Studies/Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference. Belfast, Northern Ireland, June 1995.

"Field Day and the Politics of Irish Culture." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New York, December 1992. "Brian Friel and the Irish Art of Lying." American Conference for Irish Studies/Canadian Association for Irish Studies Annual Conference. Galway, Ireland, July 1992. "Irish Cultural Politics and the New Nationalism." New England American Conference for Irish Studies. North Easton, MA, October 1991. "Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, December 1990. "Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Toronto, April 1990. "Metaphor and Reference in Science and Literature: Measurement and Conrad's Lord Jim." The Society for Literature and Science Convention. Ann Arbor, MI, September 1989. "Style and Joyce's 'Oxen' Parodies." 1989 James Joyce Conference. Philadelphia, June 1989. "Brian Friel and the Politics of the Anglo-Irish Language. International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, May 1989. "The Politics of Ireland's Field Day." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Wilmington, DE, March 1989. "Style, Voice, Intentionality: Pater Speaking Bloom Speaking Joyce." New Work on Pater Conference. Queens College, Oxford, England, July 1988. "Thomas Kuhn and Paradigmatic Method." Eleventh International James Joyce Symposium. Venice, Italy, June 1988. "The Issue of Language in the Plays of Brian Friel." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Providence, March 1988. "Measurement, Metaphor, Poetry." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Boston, April 1987. "Pater Speaking Bloom Speaking Joyce." Tenth International James Joyce Symposium. Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1986. "Expressionism, Cubism, and Joyce's Portrait." 1985 James Joyce Symposium. Philadelphia, June 1985. "German Idealism and the Aesthetics of Stephen Dedalus." Ninth International James Joyce Symposium. Frankfurt, West Germany, June 1984. "Ulysses and the Boundary between the Literal and the Metaphoric." Ninth International James Joyce Symposium. Frankfurt, West Germany, June 1984. "Historical Idealism: Hegel, Pater, and Modernist Visions of History." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, March 1984. "Ulysses and the Pragmatic Aesthetics of Modernism." Eighth International James Joyce Symposium. Dublin, Ireland, June 1982. "Pater and the Modernists: Some Preliminary Notes on Art and Belief." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. San Francisco, December 1979. "The Plan of The Waste Land." Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Montreal, Canada, April 1975.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Conference for Irish Studies James Joyce Foundation Modern Language Association

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Reader for the International Journal of the Classical Tradition. 2019. Discussion Panel for Brian Friel’s Play Dancing at Lughnasa. Portland Stage Company, Portland, ME, October 2015. Principle Organizer for Maine Humanities Council grant to bring Irish Filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick to USM, St. Joseph’s College, and Bates College. September 2015. Lecture/Presentation, “Ireland’s Latest Troubles and the Rise and Decline of the Field Day Theatre Company.” Department of English Faculty Lecture Series, University of Southern Maine, November 2013. Planning Committee, Annual Bloomsday Celebration, Maine Irish Heritage Center, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. Lecture/Discussion prior to performance of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer by American Irish Repertory Ensemble, Portland, ME, October 2012. Consultant, Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers, 2011. Dissertation Committee for Elizabeth MacCrossan, Department of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2009-10. Advisory Board, American Irish Repertory Ensemble, 2009-2014. Advisory Board, The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, 2009-present. Dissertation Committee for Chu He, Department of English, University of Miami (FL). 2007-2009. Reader for Contemporary Literature. 2005. Outside Evaluator for Self-Study of English Department of Salem State College, Salem, MA. November 2004. Conducted class on Yeats and Irish politics for an honors English class at Portland High School. April, 2004. Conducted a briefing on the history and culture of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland for trade mission to Ireland. Maine International Trade Center. Portland, ME, October 2003. Presentation/discussion, “The Belfast Agreement After Four Years.” World Affairs Council of Maine. Portland, ME, October, 2002. Reader for Edwin Mellen Press. 2002. Member, Committee on Regional Comprehensive Universities, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, 2002. Editorial Board. Mississippi Studies in English. 1979 to present. Presentation, “Brian Friel’s (Post)Colonial Drama.” USM Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Profs in Print Program. Portland, ME, March 2001. Reader for Syracuse University Press. 1999. Discussion of The Crying Game, with Lisa Walker. USM English Department Student Affairs Committee Faculty Favorite Flicks Series. Portland, ME, April 1998. Panel member, "Developing Technology-Mediated Programs and Courses." Education Network of Maine Distance Education Spring Institute. Augusta, ME, May 1997. Presentation with Ron Levere. "Another Way to Use Netscape: For Classroom Instruction." Center for Teaching, University of Southern Maine. Portland, ME, January 1997. Attended conference on Irish Film. Virginia Center for Media and Culture. Charlottesville, May 1996. Lecture, "Reading Irish History." St. Patrick's Day Lecture at Brian Boru's. Portland, ME, March 1996. Reader for Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. 1995. Reader for PMLA. 1993, 1994. 1995. Reader for Contemporary Literature. 1993, 2002, 2005. Grant evaluator for Iowa State Board of Education. 1993.

Presentation/discussion, "James Joyce's Ulysses." USM Honors Program Texts that Matter Series. Portland, ME, March 1993. Moderator for a panel on revising the English major curriculum. MLA/FIPSE Conference. Dallas, TX, November 1992. Reader for University Presses of Florida. 1991. Chair, Panel on "Scientific Themes and Scientific Myths in Literature." Annual Conference of the Society for Literature and Science. Portland, OR, October 1990. Moderator, Panel on "Autobiography and Modernism." Conference on The Subject of Autobiography. University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, September 1989. Lecture, "Introducing Ireland's Field Day." Irish-American Club. Portland, ME, November 1988. Respondent, Panel on "Ulysses and the Parameters of Modernism." Eleventh International James Joyce Symposium. Venice, Italy, June 1988. Director, Colloquium on "Money and Words: Economics, Literature, and Interpretation." University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, April 1988. Panel member, Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. James Joyce's Birthday Conference. University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, February 1988. Attended Institute on Interpretive Communities and the Undergraduate Writer. University of Chicago, May 1987. Chair, Panel on "Joyce and the Aesthetics of Modernism." Tenth International James Joyce Symposium. Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1986. Humanities Consultant. Medicated Theater (Project on Medicine and Theater). Theater by the Sea. Portsmouth, NH, May 1986. Humanities Consultant. Portland Stage Company. Portland, ME, 1985-86. Attended Conference on Literature and History. School of Criticism and Theory. Dartmouth College, April 1986. Chair, Section on Literature and History. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New Brunswick, NJ, March 1986. Chair, Panel on "Joyce After Deconstruction." 1985 James Joyce Symposium. Philadelphia, June 1985. Planning Committee. 1985 James Joyce Symposium. Philadelphia, June 1985. Secretary, Section on Literature and History. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Hartford, CT, March 1985. Lecture, "Shaw's Misalliance." Portland Stage Company. Portland, ME, January 1985. Lecture, "Crossroads in Irish Culture: Brian Friel's Translations." Villanova University Summer Theater. Villanova, PA, July 1984. Chair, Panel on "Joyce and German Thought." Ninth International James Joyce Symposium. Frankfurt, West Germany, June 1984. Moderator, "Continuing the Literary Tradition--II." Annual Spring Conference of the New Jersey College English Association. Princeton, NJ, March 1983. Field Faculty Advisor. Goddard Graduate Program. 1979 to 1981. Secretary, Modern Poetry Section. Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Hartford, CT, March 1979.

SERVICE AT USM

English Department: Chair, Department of English, 1997-2000. Co-Chair, Department of English, 2004-08. Executive Committee, 1990-91, Spring 1992, 1992-93, Fall 1993.

Director of Student Advising, 2003-04. Chair, Personnel Committee, Spring 1990, 1990-91, Spring 1992, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95. Chair, Graduate Planning Committee, 1989-90. Chair, Search Committee, 1986-87, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1994-95, 1996-97. Chair, Curriculum Committee, 1986-87. Co-chair, Colloquia Committee, 1985-86. Coordinator, Tenure Committee for Deepika Marya, Fall 2006. Coordinator, Tenure Committee for Lorrayne Carroll, Fall 2003. Coordinator, 5-year Self Study, 1987-88. Convener, Department Council, 1986-87. Member, Personnel Committee, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1996-97, 2008-09, 2009-10 2010-11, 2011- 12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16. Member, MLA-FIPSE Project Steering Committee, Spring 1992, 1992-93, 1993-94. Member, Curriculum Committee, 1987-88, 1995-96. Member, Search Committee, 1987-88. Member, Policies and Procedures Committee, 1985-86.

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2000-01, 2001-02. Chair, Humanities Transition Group 2010-11. Chair, Faculty Development Committee, 1989-90, 1990-91. Member, Committee for Developing Online Liberal Studies Major, 2011-16. Member, Transition Committee 2010-11. Member, CAS Chairs’ General Education Implementation Committee, 2006-2008. Mentor for Daniel Sonenberg, School of Music, CAS Mentor Program, 2006-07. Member, Dean's Search Committee, 2004. Member, Faculty Development Committee, 1988-89, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97. Member, Dean's Search Committee, 1987-88. Member, Linguistics Program Peer Committee 1992-93, 1993-94.

Campus: Chair, International Academic Programs Committee, 1998-99. Chair, International Academic Programs Subcommittee for Galway, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99. Coordinator, Cluster on Film and Society, General Education Program, 2010-11, 2011-12. Member, NEASC Subcommittee on Undergraduate Programs, 2009-10. Member, University Commons Committee, 2005-06. Member, Planning and Oversight Committee for International Studies Major 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2002- present. Member, International Academic Programs Committee, 1996-97, 1997-98. Member, International Academic Programs Subcommittee for Galway, 1991-present. Member, Honors Advisory Board, 2000. Member, Honors Faculty, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92. Member, Faculty Senate, 1989-90, 90-91. Member, Planning Group, The Modern Age Course, University Honors Program, 1986-87. Member, Evaluation Committee for CORE Humanities Courses, 1987-88.

COURSES TAUGHT AT USM

English 100 College Writing English 120 Introduction to Literature English 145 Literature and History: Irish Culture Ancient to Modern English 150 Topics in Literature English 160 Poetry, the Genre English 245 Introduction to Literary Studies (+online) English 264 Performance Genres English 340 History of Literary Criticism and Theory English 341 Critical Approaches to Literature English 341 Contemporary Critical Theories English 346 Language, Literature, and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Ireland English 375 The Victorian Novel English 376 Victorian Literature and Culture English 377 Victorian Poetry English 395 Irish Literature and Culture English 395 Irish Literature and Culture: 1880-Present English 396 James Joyce (+online) English 397 Studies in Irish Literature and Culture: Irish Drama (+online) English 397 Studies in Irish Literature and Culture: Irish Drama and Film (+online) English 397 Studies in Irish Literature and Culture: Irish Film (+online) English 491 Seminar: Politics of Identity in Contemporary Irish Literature English 491 Seminar: Yeats and Joyce English 491 Seminar: James Joyce English 491 Seminar: Ireland's Field Day Theatre Group Honors 202 The Modern Age CORE 115 Modern Ireland in History and Literature (also delivered on ITV) CORE 148 Northern Ireland: History, Culture, and Conflict