CURRICULUM VITAE

JOHN L. MAHONEY

THOMAS F. RATTIGAN PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH EMERITUS

BOSTON COLLEGE

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION British Enlightenment and Romantic Literature Tragedy and the Drama Religion and Literature

EDUCATION D.H.L. (Hon.) College, 2003 Ph.D., , 1957 A.M., Boston College, 1952 A.B., Boston College, 1950

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English, Emeritus, Boston College, 2002 - present Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English, Boston College, 1994 - 2002 Visiting Professor of English, Harvard University, Summer Session, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1980, 1983, 1986 Professor of English, Boston College, 1965 - 2002 Associate Professor of English, Boston College, 1962 - 1965 Assistant Professor of English, Boston College, 1959 - 1962 Instructor of English, Boston College, 1955 – 1959

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Advisory Board, Resources: Boston College Church in the 21st Century Initiative, 2002 – 2006 Member, Search Committee for Director of the Jesuit Institute of Boston College, 2001 Member, Committee on Religious Art on the Boston College Campus, 2000 – 2

Editor, Fordham University Press Religion and Literature Series, 1995 - 2005 Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching, Modern Language Association of America, 1998 – 2000 Member, University Arts Council, Boston College, 1997 - Member, Faculty Selection, Advisory Committees for Gasson Chair (Jesuit Community, Boston College), Brennan Chair (School of Education, Boston College), Adelman Chair (Philosophy Department, Boston College), David Nelson Chair (Boston College), Drucker Chair (Boston College) Chair, Jesuit Institute Continuing Seminars on the Jesuit-Catholic Identity of Boston College, 1994 - 2004 Planning Committee, Editorial Board Member, Religion and the Arts, Boston College, 1993 - Member, University Search Committee for a Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Associate Vice President for Research, Boston College, Spring 1994 Advisor, Master’s Program in English, Boston College, 1990 - 1991 Outside Consultant for Faculty Appointment, Promotion Department of English, Harvard University; Department of English, Duke University; Department of English, University of California, Davis; Department of English, Fordham University; Department of English, Boston University; Department of English, St. John’s University, New York; Department of English, Seattle University; Department of English, University of Texas, El Paso Elected Member, University Core Development Committee, Boston College, 1991 - 1997 Member, Task Force on the University Core Curriculum, Boston College, 1989 - 1991 Participant, “Educating for Citizenship” Seminar, Access Working Dinner Series on Active Citizenship, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May 24, 1989 Co-coordinator, Wordsworth and the Culture of Romanticism Symposium, Center for Literary Studies, Harvard University, April 30, 1988 Member, Local Planning Committee, National Interdisciplinary 19th Century Studies Conference, Boston, Mass., 1988 Manuscript Consultant, Fordham University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, Southern Illinois University Press, University of Missouri Press, Blackwell Publishers, College Literature, European Romantic Review, Religion and the Arts Member, Advisory Board, Jesuit Institute of Boston College, 1987 - 2005 3

Member, Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Educational Policy Committee, 1985 - 1987 Member, Committee to Review Boston College Graduate Programs in Arts and Sciences, 1985 - 1986 Member, Editorial Board, Boston College Magazine, 1981 - 1990 Member, Committee on Honorary Degrees and Awards, Boston College, 1981 Member, Board of Trustees; Secretary of the Board, The Katherine Gibbs School of Boston, 1982 - 1990 Member, Board of Trustees; Member, Committee on Academic Affairs, St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, Mass., 1980 - 1986 Member, Council on Liberal Education, Boston College, 1980 - 1982 Elected Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 1970 - 1972; 1980 - 1982 Member, Local Screening Committee, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, 1978 Member, Architect Selection Committee and Design Committee for the Thomas P. O’Neill Library, Boston College, 1976 - 1982 Member, Senate of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 1976 - 1980 Seminar Leader, Programs for Women, Boston College - Newton College, 1976, 1978, 1979 Director, Ph.D. Program in English, Boston College, 1970 - 1975, 1982 - 1985 Visiting Team Member, Interstate Certification Compact, Bureau of Teacher Preparation, Certification and Placement, Commonwealth of Mass. Department of Education, 1974 Member, Board of Overseers, St. Joseph’s College, North Windham, Maine, 1973 – 1977, Chairman, Academic and Administrative Committee, St. Joseph’s College, North Windham, Maine, 1976 - 1977 Member, University Academic Planning Council, Steering Committee, Boston College, 1975 Chairman, Sub-committee on University Goals, Boston College, 1975 Member, President’s Advisors, Boston College, 1971 - 1972 Member, Academic Council, College of Advancing Studies, Boston College, 1969 - Member, University Academic Senate; Representative, Executive Committee, Boston College, 1968 - 1973 Consultant, Commonwealth of Mass. English Advisory Council, 1968 – 1970

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Member, Educational Policy Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 1964 - 1967 Chairman, Faculty Council, Boston College, 1964 - 1966 Executive Director, Self-Study of the College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 1964 Chairman, Department of English, Boston College, 1962 - 1967, 1969 - 1970

LANGUAGES Latin, Greek, French

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association of America American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Wordsworth - Coleridge Association of America Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Keats - Shelley Association of America American Association of University Professors (President, Boston College Chapter, 1962) The Johnsonians The Humanities Center, Harvard University

ACADEMIC HONORS The Ignatian Medal, Boston College High School, 2010 Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Boston College, 2003 Annual Wordsworth Memorial Lecturer, Rydal Church, England, 2003 Faculty Undergraduate Research Grant, Boston College, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 1999 - 2000 Inaugural and Permanent Chair, Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English, Boston College, 1994 - 2002 Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, Boston College Omicron Chapter, 1994 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Boston College Omicron Chapter, 1994 Resident Member, The Johnsonians Honorary Member, Golden Key Society Professor of the Year Award, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, 1989 5

Andre´ Favat Award, Massachusetts Council of Teachers of English, 1988 American Philosophical Society Grant for Research on a Literary Life of William Wordsworth, 1987 Boston College Faculty Fellowship, Spring, 1986; Spring, 1994 Boston College Nominee, Teacher of the Year Award, Carnegie Foundation, 1985

Guest Lecturer, Humanities Series of Boston College, “The Fine Art of Reading: British and American Classics,” 1982, 1983 Honorary Member, Alpha Sigma Nu, Jesuit National Honor Society, 1982 National Endowment for the Humanities Lecturer, Boston Public Library Learning Program, 1983, 1986 Mellon Foundation Grant for Research and Faculty Development, 1981 - 1982 Boston College Alumni Award for Excellence in Education, 1978 Listed in Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Contemporary American Education Nominee and Finalist, Danforth Foundation Harbison Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1968 Boston College Campus Council Teacher of the Year Award, 1966 Boston College Faculty Research Grant, 1964, 1968, 1986

COMMUNITY SERVICE Member, Sacred Heart, Lexington Parish Council, 2005 - 2008 Guest Speaker, Newton Mass. Cablevision, 1999, 2000, 2003 Workshop Leader, Woburn Mass. Public Schools English Faculty, “Teaching Language and Literature for a New Century,” November, 1996; May, 1997; Spring, 2004 Lecturer, Our Lady’s Parish, Concord, Mass., Religious Education Series, “Reading, Prayer, and the Religious Imagination,” December, 1996, 1997 Member and Co-chair, Parish Council, Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., 1995-1998 Lecturer, Sacred Heart Parish, Newton, Mass., Religious Education Series, “ and the Christian Life,” December, 1994 Coordinator and Participant, Fall Series on “Religion and Literature,” Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., 1994 Participant, Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., Religious Education Series. Session on 6

“St. Mark’s Gospel,” March, 1994 Lecturer, Sacred Heart Parish, Newton, Mass., Religious Education Series, “Prayer and Poetry,” December, 1993 Reader and Participant, “A Newman Symposium,” Boston College, November 7, 1990 Reader and Participant, “Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Centennial Celebration in Poetry and Music,” Boston College, October 26, 1989 Guest Speaker, Retired Women’s Group, Jewish Community Center, Newton, Mass., “Dominant Themes in Romantic Poetry,” October 23, 1989; “The Various Pleasures of Poetry,” May 14, 1990 Book Reviewer for The Boston Globe, Boston Herald - American, Boston Pilot Member, Religious Education Commission, Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., 1988 - 1994 Lecturer, Town of Lexington Lyceum Series, “The Theme of Freedom in American Literature,” March 31, 1985 Lector, Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., 1972 - Member, Archdiocese of Boston Commission for the Promotion of Parish Councils, 1969 - 1974 Seminar Leader, Christian Youth Education, Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., 1969 - 1973 Vice-Chairman, Parish Council, Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, Mass., 1969 - 1972 Delegate, Lexington Council of Churches, 1968

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS William Wordsworth of Rydal: Religious Experience and Practice. (2003 Wordsworth Memorial Lecture). Rydal Trust, 2003. Wordsworth and the Critics: The Development of a Critical Reputation. Camden House, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2000. Seeing Into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religion. Edited with introduction. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997. Coleridge, Keats, and the Imagination: Romanticism and Adam’s Dream. Edited with J. Robert Barth, S.J. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1990. 7

The Whole Internal Universe: Imitation and the New Defense of Poetry in British Criticism and Aesthetics, 1660 - 1830. New York: Fordham University Press, 1985. The Persistence of Tragedy: Episodes in the History of Drama. Boston Public Library: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985. The Enlightenment and English Literature. Edited with critical introductions and notes. Lexington and Toronto: D. C. Heath and Co., 1980. Reissued by Waveland Press, 1999. The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William Hazlitt. New York: Fordham University Press, 1981. The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. Edited with introductions, critical essay and notes. Lexington and Toronto: D. C. Heath and Co., 1978. Reissued by Waveland Press, 1997. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy and Other Critical Writings by John Dryden. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs - Merrill Company, 1965. William Duff’s Essay on Original Genius. Selected with an introduction. Gainsville, Florida: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1964.

BOOKS (CONTRIBUTOR) “‘We Must Away’: Tragedy and the Imagination in Coleridge’s Later Poems.” English Romantic Poetry. Ed. . Broomall, Pa.: Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. “The Rydal Mount Ladies’ Boarding School: Wordsworthian Education in America.” Cultural Interaction in the Romantic Age. Ed. Gregory Maertz. State University of New York Press, 1998. “Literature and Religion: Theory to Practice.” Perspectives on the Unity and Integration of Knowledge. Ed. Ronald Glasberg. New York: Peter Lang, 1997. “Stevie Smith: Skepticism and the Poetry of Religious Experience.” Seeing Into the Life of Things. Ed. John L. Mahoney. Fordham University Press, 1997. “William Hazlitt.” Encyclopedia of the Essay. Ed. Tracy Chevalier. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997. Essays on “Subjectivity and Objectivity,” “Intensity,” “Spontaneity.” The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Preminger and Brogan. Princeton University Press, 1993. pp. 1229 - 1230, 610 - 611, 1207 - 1208. Essays on “Wise Passiveness,” “Organic Unity,” Disinterestedness.” Encyclopedia of 8

Romanticism. Ed. Laura Dabundo. New York: Garland Publishing, 1992. “’We Must Away’: Tragedy and the Imagination in Coleridge’s Later Poems.” The Imagination in Coleridge and Keats: Romanticism and Adam’s Dream. Columbia, Missouri and London: University of Missouri Press, 1990. pp. 109 - 134. “Teaching Shelley’s ‘Skylark’ and The Defense of Poetry.” Approaches to Teaching Shelley’s Poetry. Ed. Spencer Hall. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1989. pp. 82 - 85. “William Hazlitt, 1778 - 1830.” Book of Days 1988. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pierian Press, 1988. pp. 207 - 208. “Imagination and the Ways of Genius.” Approaches to Hazlitt. Ed. Harold Bloom. New Haven: Chelsea House, 1986. pp. 92 - 95. “Teaching the ‘Immortality Ode’ with Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode.’” Approaches to Teaching Wordsworth’s Poetry. Ed. Spencer Hall and Jonathan Ramsey. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1986. pp. “The Anglo-Scottish Critics: Toward a Romantic Theory of Imitation.” Johnson and His Age. Harvard English Studies, 12. Ed. James Engell. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984. pp. 255 - 283. “The Problem of Imitation in Neoclassic and Romantic Criticism and Aesthetics.” Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. New York University. New York: Garland Press, 1985. “Addison and Akenside: Psychological Criticism and English Romantic Poetry.” The Enlightenment and English Literature (see above). pp. 745 - 750. “New Dimensions in Hazlitt’s Aesthetics.” The English Romantics (see above). pp. 786 - 794. “Shelley’s Defense of Poetry: The Poet and Moral Education.” Inscape: Essays and Studies in Honor of Rev. Charles Donovan, S.J. Boston College, 1977. pp. 108 - 113. Introductory “Note on Eighteenth-Century English Literature.” Sublimity and Sensibility in English Romanticism. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1965. “Imitation and the Quest for Objectivity in English Romantic Theory.” Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. The Hague, Paris, 1966. Originally delivered as a paper at the Congress, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, August 31 - September 5, 1964. 9

ARTICLES AND PAPERS DELIVERED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

“The Romantic Voice:” Reading and Commentary on the major English Romantic Poets” for the Boston College Alumni Association, Newton Campus, October 27, 2010. “Wordsworth and Ultimate Meaning: Poetry and Religious Practice” Presented at the 2009 Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Regis College, University of Toronto, August, 2009. At the closing session of the Meeting directed a Symposium on “Ultimate Reality in the Poetry of Ireland.” “Ibsen: A Doll House, Gender and a Woman’s Quest for Ultimate Reality and Meaning at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of URAM, Regis College, University of Toronto, August, 2007. At the closing session of the Meeting directed a Symposium on “The Poetry of Ultimate Reality and Meaning.” “In Memoriam: J. Robert Barth, S.J.” European Romantic Review. 17.3 (2006): 255-257. “Nora Then and Now: Teaching A Doll House in the Post-Feminist Classroom.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. Philadelphia, Pa., December 28, 2006. “Brooklyn Boy and Doubt: A Parable: Religion and Contemporary Drama.” Religion and the Arts. 9-3/4 (2005): 332-337. “Poetry, Landscape, and Ultimacy: Pope and Wordsworth.” Paper Presented at the 2005 Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Ideas of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Regis College, University of Toronto, August 2005. “Windsor Forest and Tintern Abbey: Religious Experience and Landscape in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (Northeast Section). Burlington, Vermont, November 4-6, 2004. “Wordsworth: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Larger World.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Boulder, Colorado, September 9-12, 2004. “In Memoriam: Walter Jackson Bate: The Humanist as Teacher/Scholar.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies,” Providence, Rhode Island. Published in Religion and the Arts. 9-3/4 (2004): 119- 123. 10

“The Retreat from Moscow.” Religion and Drama: Religion and the Arts. 8-3 (2004): 381- 384. “Poetry and the Quest for Ultimate Reality and Meaning.” A Symposium Presented at the 2003 Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas and Ultimate Reality and Meaning, University College, University of Toronto. August 13 - 16, 2003. “The True Story: Poetic Law and License in Johnson’s Criticism. 1650 - 1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Ed. Kevin Cope. New York: AMS Press. 6 (2001): 185 - 198. “Contemporary Attitudes Toward Biography and the Case of W. J. Bate’s Samuel Johnson.” 1650 - 1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. New York: AMS Press. 6 (2001): 333-347. “Symposium on Literature and Religion.” Organizer and Chair. Tenth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Ideas of Ultimate Reality and Meaning. University College, University of Toronto. August 18 - 21, 1999. “Historicism, Pragmatism, Theory: Why Literature Lasts.” Chair and Respondent. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. Chicago. December 27, 1999. “Teaching Graduate Students to Teach.” Chair and Respondent. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. Chicago. December 29, 1999. “Integrating Religion and the Arts: Developing a Discourse.” URAM: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Philosophy of Understanding. 21.3 (September 1998): 230 - 241. “The Burden of the Mystery: Excerpts from a Conversation on Religion and the Arts with Walter Jackson Bate.” Religion and the Arts. 2.1 (1998). “A Johnsonian Ending: Some Moral and Religious Intersections in The Vanity of Human Wishes.” Annual Conference of the Northeast Section, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Williams College. September 19, 1998. “Hazlitt the Critic and the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.” A Symposium on Text, Art, and Performance. McMullen Museum, Boston College. September 17, 1998. “Wordsworth: Myths and Realities.” Annual Sophie Carr Memorial Lecture. Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. March 3, 1998. “Contemporary Attitudes Towards Biography.” Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. December 27 - 30, 1996. 11

“William Wordsworth: Romantic Poet of the Lake District.” Felltop Theatre, Brockhole Visitors Center. Windermere, England. July 9, 1996. “Morality, Religion, and ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes.’” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Texas, Austin, Texas. March 5 - 9, 1996. “Intersection: The Poetry of Religious Experience.” The Catholic World. 238 (July/August 1995): 148 - 152. Available on a CD-ROM, S.I.R. “Letter, Lecture, Lithograph: A Wordsworthian Episode in America.” Paper presented at the College English Association Roundtable on “Non-Fiction Contexts” at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. San Diego, California. December 27 - 30, 1994. “The True Story: Poetic Law and License in Johnson’s Criticism.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Eighteenth-Century Studies Association. Fordham University. September 30 - October 2, 1994. “Literature and Religion: Theory Into Practice.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Learned Societies of Canada. University of Calgary. June 16 - 17, 1994. “Samuel Johnson Reader - Responding to Three Pope Poems About Women.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Yale Center for British Art. Yale University. September 30 - October 3, 1993. “English Romanticism.” Paper delivered at a symposium on “Romantic Poets and Their Concept of Ultimate Reality and Meaning.” Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning. University of Toronto. August 18 - 21, 1993. “Reynolds and Wordsworth: The Development of a Post-Enlightenment Aesthetic.” European Romantic Review. III, No. 2 (Winter 1992): 147 - 158. “The Rydal Mount Ladies’ Boarding School: A Wordsworthian Episode in America.” The Wordsworth Circle. XXIII (Winter 1992): 43 - 48. Article originally given as a paper at the Seventh Annual Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. Loyola University. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 10 - 11, 1992. “Biographical/Historical Probes: The Wordsworth - Reynolds Connections.” Seminar presentation for Columbia University Faculty Seminars on Eighteenth-Century European Culture. September 17, 1992. 12

“Reynolds’s Discourses: The Emergence of a Post-Enlightenment Aesthetic.” Paper delivered at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Seattle, Washington. March 25 - 29, 1992. “: Reality, Meaning, and the Finer Tone.” Paper delivered at the Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning. University of Toronto. August 24 - 27, 1991. “Reynolds: The Development of a Post-Enlightenment Aesthetic.” Paper delivered at the Enlightenment Congress. University of Bristol, England. July 20 - 27, 1991. Abstracted in Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (1992) 305: 1502 - 5. “The Rydal Mount School: Wordsworthian Education in America.” Paper delivered at the New England Conference on British Studies. Assumption College. Worcester, Mass. April, 1991. “Hazlitt as Critic of Gusto.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Laurie DeMauro. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1991. pp. 178 - 181. “William Hazlitt: The Essay as Vehicle for the Romantic Critic.” The Charles Lamb Bulletin: The Journal of the Charles Lamb Society. No. 75 (July 1991): 92 - 98. Review Essays. William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons. Ed. Kristine Dugas. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988; Coleridge’s “Dejection”: The Earliest Manuscripts and the Earliest Writings. Ed. Stephen Maxfield Parrish. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988; A Selection of Hebrew Melodies, Ancient and Modern by Isaac Nathan and Lord Byron. Ed. with introduction and notes by Frederick Burwick and Paul Douglass. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. XII, 2 (1989). “Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses: The Aesthetics of Change.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Conference on British Studies. Holy Cross College. Worcester, Mass. November 11, 1989. “Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey: The Early Struggle for Ultimate Reality and Meaning.” Paper presented at the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning. University of Toronto. August 24, 1989. “The Romantic Aspects of Reynolds’s Discourses on Art.” Paper presented at the Eleventh International Congress in Aesthetics. University of Nottingham, England. August 13

30, 1988. “Trouble in Paradise: Liberal Education and Its Best - Selling Critics.” Boston College Magazine. 46, No. 4 (Fall 1987): 25 - 32. “Samuel Johnson.” Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia. 1982. “The Religion of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Poetry.” Chairman of panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Houston, Texas. March 25, 1982. “The Problem of Imitation in Neoclassical and Romantic Aesthetics and Criticism.” Paper presented at the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. New York University. August 22 - 29, 1982. “The Problem of Mimesis in Shelley’s Defense of Poetry.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Society of Aesthetics. University of London, England. September 17 - 19, 1982. Published in the British Journal of Aesthetics. 24 (Winter 1984): 59 - 64. “Edmund Burke: The Aesthetics of Passion.” Paper delivered at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Boston, Mass. April 28, 1984. “Dryden: Mimesis and Literary Theory.” Paper delivered at the Tenth International Congress in Aesthetics. University of Montreal. August 16, 1984. “The Mirror and the Lamp: An Assessment of its Impact on Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Paper delivered at a Special Session of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies honoring M. H. Abrams. Syracuse University. October 7, 1983. “Loss and Gain: Irony in the Late Poems of Coleridge.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Wordsworth - Coleridge Association in Conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. New York. December 28, 1981. “Coping with Change at Chestnut Hill.” Boston College Magazine. (Winter 1981). “Coleridge’s ‘Dejection: An Ode’ as Counterpart to the ‘Immortality Ode.’” Paper discussed at the Annual Meeting of the Wordsworth - Coleridge Association in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. Houston, Texas. December 29, 1980. “On Teaching Coleridge.” Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. San Francisco, California. December 29, 1979. 14

“Writing and the University: Some Immodest Proposals.” Publications of the Governing Boards of Universities. 20 (September - October 1978): 46 - 47. “Reynolds’s Discourses on Art: The Delicate Balance of Neoclassical Aesthetics.” British Journal of Aesthetics. 18 (Spring 1979). Abstracted in the International Repertory of the Literature of Art and The Philosopher’s Index. “The Reptile’s Lot: Theme and Image in Coleridge’s Late Poetry.” The Wordsworth Circle. 8 (Autumn 1977): 349 - 360. A shorter version of a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America. San Francisco, California. December 26, 1975. “In the Walks of Real Life: Hazlitt on the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.” Modern Language Studies. 5 (Fall 1975): 21 - 30. Originally delivered as a paper at the Northeast Regional Meeting. Conference on British Studies. April 26, 1975. Abstracted in Albion: Journal of the Conference on British Studies. “The Futuristic Imagination: Hazlitt’s Criticism of Romeo and Juliet.” British Journal of Aesthetics. 19 (Winter 1975): 65 - 67. “Higher Education: The Challenge and the Possibilities.” Improving College and University Teaching. (Fall 1973). “The Deadlock of the Universities.” Intellect. (November 1972): 93 - 94. “Classical Form and the Oratory of Edmund Burke.” Classical Folia. 24 (1970): 46 - 81. “Addison and Akenside: Psychological Criticism and Romantic Poetry.” British Journal of Aesthetics. 6 (October 1966): 365 - 374. “Sheridan on Hastings: The Classical Oration and Eighteenth-Century English Politics.” The Burke Newsletter. 6 (Spring 1965): 210 - 219. “The Real in the Romantic Theory of William Hazlitt.” Paper delivered at the Tenth Congress of the International Foundation of Modern Languages and Literatures. University of Strasbourg, France, August 29 - September 5, 1964. Abstracted in Le Real Dans la Litterature et Dans la Langue (Paris, 1967). “The Changing Concept of Imitation in English Literary Theory from Rymer to Hazlitt.” Paper delivered at the Fourth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. Fribourg, Switzerland. August 31 - September 5, 1964. “Burke and India.” The Burke Newsletter. 4 (1963): 210 - 219. “Platonism as Unifying Element in Spenser’s Foure Hymnes.” Bulletin de Faculte des Lettres de Strasbourg. 52 (December 1962): 211 - 219. 15

“Keats and the Metaphor of Fame.” English Studies. 44 (October 1963): 1 - 3. “Symbolism and Calvinism in the Novels of Kafka.” Renascence. 15 (Summer 1963): 206 - 207. “The Quest for Objectivity in English Romanticism.” Paper delivered at the Twentieth Annual Symposium of the Catholic Renascence Society. (General Theme: A Revolution of Romanticism in the Light of Christian Humanism.) College of St. Thomas. St. Paul, Minn. April 15 - 16, 1963. “Theme and Image in a Keats Sonnet on Fame.” English Record. 12 (Fall, 1961): 24 - 25. Reprinted in Creative Writing. 13 (November 1962): 25 - 26. “Byron’s Admiration of Pope: A Romantic Paradox.” Discourse: A Review of the Liberal Arts. (Summer 1962): 309 - 315. Also delivered as a paper at the Fourth Annual Colloquium of the Department of English. Seton Hall University. (General Theme: Satire as a Literary Weapon.) October 27, 1962. “Donne and Fulke-Greville: Two Christian Attitudes Towards the Renaissance Idea of Mutability and Decay.” CLA Journal. 5 (March 1962): 202 - 212. Originally delivered as a paper at a Joint Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association and the Central Renaissance Conference. University of Nebraska. April 26 - 28, 1962. “The Quest for Objectivity in Hazlitt’s Dramatic Criticism.” Drama Critique. 4 (November 1961): 132 - 136. “Ovid and Medieval Courtly Love Poetry.” Classical Folia. 15 (1961): 14 - 27. “Foundations of Introductory Courses in Literature.” The Catholic Educational Review. 59 (January 1961): 40 - 42. “Child’s English and Scottish Popular Ballads and Ballad Scholarship.” CLA Journal. 4 (1960): 126 - 131. “Dr. Johnson at Work.” Columbia University Library Columns. 10 (November 1960): 20 - 23. “Captain Cox: Ballad and Book Collector Extraordinary.” University of Rochester Library Bulletin. 15 (Winter 1960): 25 - 28. “Thomas Trollope: Victorian Man of Letters.” University of Rochester Library Bulletin. 14 (Spring 1959): 39 - 42. “The Classical Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Rhetorical Education.” History of Education Journal. 9 (Summer 1958): 93 - 97. 16

SCHOLARLY REVIEWS Richard Matlak, Deep Distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1808. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Romantic Circles Reviews (March 2005). Eric G. Wilson, Coleridge’s Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo. Gainesville, UP of Florida. European Romantic Review. 17.4 (October 2004): 495-499. Brian Hanley, Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2001. 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. New York: AMS Press. 13 (2006): 366-370. Nicholas Reid, Coleridge, Form and Symbol or The Ascertaining Vision. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. European Romantic Review. Duncan Wu, Wordsworth: An Inner Life. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Ltd. College Literature. 30.3 (Summer 2003): 152 – 154. Carey McIntosh, The Development of English Prose, 1700-1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Modern Philology. 99.3 (February 2002): 427 – 430. William Ulmer, The Christian Wordsworth, 1798 – 1805. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. Religion and the Arts. 6.4 (2002): 533 – 535. John Worthen, The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802. Yale University Press, 2001; and Keith Hanley, Wordsworth: A Poet’s History. Palgrave, 2001. The Wordsworth Circle. 32.4 (Autumn 2001). Stephen Gill, Wordsworth and the Victorians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Studies in Romanticism. 39.2 (Summer 2000): 185 - 187. Review Essay. Nancy Easterlin, Wordsworth and the Question of “Romantic Religion.” Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1996; and Ronald Wendling, Coleridge’s Progress to Christianity: Experience and Authority in Religious Faith. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1996. Religion and the Arts. 1.4 (Winter 1997): 89 - 96. Vijay Mishra, The Gothic Sublime. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Southern Humanities Review. 30.4 (Fall 1996): 393 - 396. Richard Holmes, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. 17

Southern Humanities Review. 30.2 (Spring 1996): 181 - 184. Jean Hall, A Mind That Feeds Upon Infinity: The Deep Self in English Romantic Poetry. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1991. Studies in Romanticism. 33 (Spring 1994). “On Don Bialostosky’s Wordsworth, Dialogics, and the Practice of Criticism.” Cambridge University Press, 1992. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. XVII, No. 2: 269 - 275. Frederick Burwick, Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. The Wordsworth Circle. XXIII, No. 4: 216 - 220. Janet Ruth Heller, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1990. The Wordsworth Circle. XXII (Autumn 1991): 204 - 205. Stanley Jones, Hazlitt: A Life – From Winterslow to Firth Street. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Studies in Romanticism. 31.1 (Spring 1992). William Wordsworth, Shorter Poems, 1807 - 1820. Ed. Carl Ketcham. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. XIII (1989): 249 – 251. Jeffrey Cox, In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France. South Central Modern Language Association Review. (Winter 1988): 115 - 118. James Engell, The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. America. (December 1981): 385 - 386. M. Jadwiga Swiatecka, The Idea of the Symbol: Some 19th Century Comparisons with Coleridge. Cambridge University Press, 1980. The Wordsworth Circle. (Summer 1982): 124 - 125. Review Essay. The Letters of William Hazlitt. Ed. Herschel Moreland, assisted by William Hallam Bonner and Gerald Lahey. New York University Press, 1978; and John Kinnaird, William Hazlitt: Critic of Power. Columbia University Press, 1978. Studies in Romanticism. 19 (Spring 1980): 142 - 150. J. Robert Barth, The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1977. America. (September 1977): 174 - 175. Richard B. Schwartz, Samuel Johnson and the Problem of Evil. University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. Thought. (1975). 18

Aesthetics and the Theory of Criticism: Selected Essays of Arnold Isenberg. Ed. William Callaghan et. al. University of Chicago Press, 1973. Thought. (1973). Robert M. Cooper, Lost on Both Sides: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Critic and Poet. Ohio University Press, 1970. Thought. (1970).

RECORDINGS (In the Burns Library of Boston College, J. Robert Barth, S.J. Poetry Series) “John Mahoney Reads the Poetry of Faith” (2004) “Freedom: America’s Literary Voices” “John Mahoney Reads Poetry of Ireland” (2007) “Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Read by John Mahoney (2008) “The Romantic Voice: John Mahoney Reads Poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats” (2010)

COURSES TAUGHT The Enlightenment and English Literature English Romanticism Eighteenth-Century British Fiction History of English Literature Tragedy and the Drama The Poetry of Religious Experience Donne and Keats: Metaphysical to Romantic Johnson and Coleridge: Neoclassic to Romantic Advanced Studies in Poetry and Drama: Romantic to Modern Literary Criticism Studies in Poetry Critical Reading and Writing (Core Curriculum – Regular and Advanced Placement Sections)