Christopher J. Wheatley, Professor The Catholic University of America Department of English Washington, DC 20064 Office Phone (202) 319 5488 e-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION Ph.D. 12/87 University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. 7/80 University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A. 6/78 University of Washington
TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Catholic University of America: Assistant Professor 8/31/1989; Associate Professor 9/1/1993; Professor 9/1/1999 English Survey, Beowulf to Johnson English Survey, Johnson to Modernism Shakespeare Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama Drama in Ireland in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Readings in Eighteenth-Century Literature (on both graduate and undergraduate levels) Eighteenth-Century British Novel Theory and History of Comedy Modern American Drama Twentieth-Century Irish Drama Rhetoric of Film Freshman Seminars: From Neoclassicism to Romanticism; American Culture in the 1920s and 1930s Senior Seminars: Thornton Wilder, Dryden, Fielding, Pope, O’Neill Graduate Seminars: Austen, American Drama
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland (Fulbright Lecture Appointment) 2/01-6/01 American Drama American Culture Professional Writing
University College Galway (Fulbright Lecture and Research Appointment) 9/93-6/94 Eighteenth-Century Irish Drama Modern American Drama
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Instructor) 8/88-5/89 Freshman Composition Introduction to Drama
University of Washington, Business School (Lecturer) 3/86-8/88 Business Communications
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE: Director of Irish Studies, 2009 to 2011 Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies 1/1/2003 to 8/31/2006 (Acting Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, 8/2003-9/2003)
PUBLICATIONS
Books: Critical; Thornton Wilder and Amos Wilder: Writing Religion in Twentieth-Century America. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, xi + 226.
"Beneath Iërne's Banners": Irish Protestant Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999, x + 166 pp.
Without God or Reason: The Plays of Thomas Shadwell and Secular Ethics in the Restoration. Bucknell University Press, 1993, 201 pp.
Anthology; An Old-spelling Anthology of Drama in English from the Middle Ages to the Early Twentieth Century (forthcoming, The Catholic University of America Press) approximately 1005 pages.
Irish Plays of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (scholarly edition), co- edited with Kevin Donovan (Bristol and Tokyo: Thoemmes Press, 2003): vol. 1, xlii + 462; vol. 2, v + 543.
General Nonfiction; ‘Poland is not yet Lost’: Heroic and Tragic Tales for the Polish Diaspora (Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University Press, May 2004), photographs by Liz Lynch, 122 pp.
Reference; Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Fourth Series: Dictionary of Literary Biography 266. Detroit: Gale Group, 2003. xix + 396.
Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Third Series: Dictionary of Literary Biography 249. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001. xxiii + 430. Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, Second Series: Dictionary of Literary Biography 228. Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. xx + 375 pp.
Articles and Book Chapters: “Historical Religious Crises in Wilder’s Early Novels,” in Thornton Wilder, New Perspectives, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Lincoln Konkle (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2013), pp. 33-61.
“‘Who Vices Dare Explode’: Thomas Shadwell, Thomas Durfey and Didactic Drama of the Restoration,” The Blackwell Companion to Restoration Drama, ed. Susan J. Owen (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2001), pp. 340- 354.
"Tragedy," in The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, ed. Deborah Payne Fisk (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 70-85.
“Analizând ‘Splendidul invalid’: O anatomie a teatrului american în secolul al XX-lea,”(“Examining the Splendid Invalid: An Anatomy of American Drama at the End of the Twentieth Century”), trans. Mihaela Paraschivescu, Rivestă de Sintesă: Literatură Universală Ştiinţele Omului Dialogul Culturilor, 20 (1999), 180-191.
"’Acts of Faith: Thornton Wilder and his Critics’: Public Popularity--Academic Neglect,” Thornton Wilder: New Essays, (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1999), pp. 21-29.
"'Our own good, plain, old Irish English': Charles Macklin (Cathal McLaughlin) and Protestant Convert Accommodations," Bullán, Vol. 4, no. 1 (Autumn 1998): 81-102.
"Finis Galliae: Ascendancy Drama, Burnell to O'Keeffe," New Hibernia Review, Vol 1, no. 4 (Winter, 1997): 104-118.
"Heroic Palimpsest: Robert Ashton's The Battle of Aughrim," Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 11 (1996): 53-73.
"'But speak everything in its Nature': Influence and Ethics in Durfey's Adaptations of Fletcher," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 96 (1996): 515- 33. rptd. in Literature Criticism, Vol. 94, ed. Tom Schoenberg (Detroit: Gale Group, 2004).
"Thornton Wilder, the Real, and Theatrical Realism," Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition, ed. William W. Demastes (University of Alabama Press, 1996), pp. 139-55. "'I hear the Irish are naturally brave': Dramatic Portrayals of the Irish Soldier in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," The Irish Sword: Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland, 19, no. 77 (Summer, 1995): 187- 96.
"Thornton Wilder," in American Playwrights, 1880-1945, ed. William W. Demastes (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995), pp. 437-52.
"Thomas Durfey's A Fond Husband, Sex Comedies of the Late 1670s and Early 1680s, and the Comic Sublime," Studies in Philology, XC, No. 4 (Fall, 1993): 371-90.
"Thomas Shadwell's The Volunteers and the Rhetoric of Honor and Patriotism," ELH, 60 (1993): 397-418.
"'your fetter'd Muse': the Reception of Katherine Philips' Pompey," Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research, SS 7, no. 2 (1992): 18- 28.
"'Power like new Wine': The Appetites of Leviathan and Durfey's Massaniello," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 22 ed. Patricia B. Craddock and Carla H. Hay (East Lansing, Michigan: Colleagues Press, 1992): 231- 51.
"Romantic Love and Social Necessities: Reconsidering Justifications for Marriage in Restoration Comedy," Restoration, 14 (1990): 58-70.
"The Defense of the Status Quo and Thomas Otway's The Atheist," Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research, SS 4, no. 2 (1989): 14- 30.
"Polemical Aspects of Hume's Natural History of Religion," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 19 (1986): 502-14.
Other Publications: “Thornton Wilder,” The Literary Encyclopedia, http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4721
“Anglo-Irish Literature: the beginnings to 1800,” The Encyclopedia of Ireland, ed. James S. Donnelly, James Doan et. al. (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004) 1: 389-91.
“Elmer Rice”, “The Skin of Our Teeth”, and “Thornton Wilder” in Facts on File: Companion to American Drama, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartwig, (New York: Facts on File, 2004), pp. 398-9, 434, 508-10. “Sheridan, The Rivals, and the Maid of Bath,” program notes to the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production (August to October 2003, Washington, DC)
editor, Thomas Shadwell, A True Widow, in The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, general editor J. Douglas Canfield (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2001), pp. 1155-1214.
"'How Near Apostacy to Treason': Structure, Judgment and Compassion in Johnson's Irene," Transactions of the Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest, 17 (1988), ed. Marie-France Hilgar (Las Vegas: University of Nevada Las Vegas, 1988): pp. 224-34.
"Gifford's Annotations of Hodgson's Juvenal," Classical and Modern Literature, 8 (1987): 23-26.
Reviews for The Eighteenth-Current Bibliography, on-line ASECS book reviews, Clio, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Journal of Theatre History, The Scriblerian, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research, Seventeenth-Century News, Journal of British Studies.
Papers and Lectures: Invited lectures at Columbia; Yale; The University of Wisconsin; The National University of Ireland, Maynooth; Delaware Theatre Company; Shakespeare Theatre; Madison Repertory Theatre; University of Wrocław; Oliver Goldsmith Summer School; University of Silesia. 20 or more conference papers.
SERVICE Department Service: Secretary to the English Department Faculty, 1989-90 Director, Developmental English, Fall 1991 Writing Center Coordinator, 1991-3 Undergraduate Adviser, 1989 to 2003. Acting Undergraduate Director, Spring 1998, Fall 2001 Acting Graduate Director, Fall 2002 Member hiring committees 1998-9, 2002-3, 2005-6 Member committee to redesign Graduate Program 1999-2000 Undergraduate Director 2007-2009
University Service: Secretary of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1992-3 Secretary of the Ordinary Professors, 1992-3. NCAA Faculty Representative, 1997-2000 University Self-Study Committee (Material and Financial Resources), 1998-9 University Self-Study Committee (Faculty) 2008-2009 Faculty Representative, Student Judiciary Board of Appeals, 1998-9 Chair, Student Judiciary Board of Appeals, 1999-2000 Academic Senate. 2002-2006 Committee on Appointments and Promotions, 2007 to present
Professional Service: Secretary of the Irish Studies Caucus, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1995-6. Review of applications for tenure: Denison University, Florida State University, University of Texas at the Permian Basin, Lehman College (CUNY, Dept. of History), Marquette University. Review of Application for promotion: Brigham Young University, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, College of New Jersey, American, Florida State. Committee member, Oliver Goldsmith Summer School, Co. Longford, Ireland, 1997-2000. North American Representative, Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, 1999-2003. Advisory Board, “Thornton Wilder Documentary Project,” producer, Ken Witty, 2001. Fulbright Program, reviewer of applications in Theater Arts, 2002-04.
ACADEMIC HONORS 2006 Thornton Wilder Fellowship, Beinecke Library, Yale 2005, 2006 University nominee for U. S. Professors of the Year Award 2005 Monsignor William A. Kerr Adviser of the Year (from the Undergraduate Student Government) 2001 Fulbright Award to Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland 2000 Robert Rhodes Award from the American Conference for Irish Studies for best book on Irish Literature in the 1999-2000 academic year (awarded for Beneath Iërne’s Banners) 1996 British Council Grant for Research in Northern Ireland 1993-4 Fulbright Award to University College Galway 1985-6 Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship 1985 Vilas Travel Fellowship 1984 Graduate School Teaching Award
References
Ernest Suarez, Professor and Chair, Dept. of English The Catholic University of America Washington, DC 20064 e-mail: [email protected] (202) 319-5488
Dr. Lincoln Konkle Professor of English The College of New Jersey Executive Director Thornton Wilder Society [email protected] home phone: (609) 882-6964 institutional postal address: Department of English The College of New Jersey P.O. Box 7718 Ewing, NJ 08628-0718
Deborah Payne Fisk, Associate Professor Department of Literature The American University Washington, DC 20016 phone: 301-320-0618 e-mail: [email protected]