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Dr. Richard Rankin Russell 2012 Baylor Centennial Professor Professor of English Graduate Program Director Director, Beall Poetry Festival: www.baylor.edu/beall Department of English One Bear Place Box 97404 Baylor University Waco, TX 76798-7404 [email protected] 254-710-4815

Education: Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), May 2001 Dissertation: “Seeing ‘with a myriad eyes’: Contemporary Northern and Identity.” Director, Weldon Thornton, UNC; Second Reader, Michael Valdez Moses, Duke.

M.A. in English Literature, UNC, May 1997 Thesis: “Black Passage(s) Through White Spaces: Uses of Masking by Faulkner’s Characters of Color in Go Down, Moses.” Director, Fred Hobson

M. Phil. in English Literature (Modernism), University of (Scotland), July 1996 Thesis: “Ulysses: The Old Sow That Eats Its Children.” Director, Robert A. D. Grant

B.A., summa cum laude, British and American Literature, University of Memphis, 1994 Honors Thesis: “The Place of the Natchez Trace in the Short Fiction of Eudora Welty”

Books under Contract: 1. “: A Critical Introduction,” under contract with University of Edinburgh Press; distribution in North and South America by Oxford University Press. 96,000 words. Due date: January 15, 2016; publication date: Fall 2016.

Books: 1. Seamus Heaney’s Regions. University of Notre Dame Press, June 2014. 498 pp. Back- cover endorsements by Stephen Regan (University of Durham), Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford University), and Henry Hart (College of William and Mary). Second printing issued, 2015. Favorably reviewed in Publisher's Weekly: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0- 268-04036-9, The Oxonian: http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/tag/richard-rankin- russell/, Publisher’s Weekly, Irish Studies Review, Heythrop Journal, New Hibernia Review, and the Irish Literary Supplement. Winner of the Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks Award for literary criticism, 2014. See http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=153572 and https://wkunews.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/warren-brooks-2015/. 2

Foreword Reviews 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist in History. 2. Editor, Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. 191 pp. 3. Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel’s Drama. Syracuse University Press, Irish Studies series, 2013. 318 pp. Back-cover endorsements by Terry Teachout, Drama Critic for The Wall Street Journal, Stephen Watt (Indiana University), Anthony Roche (University College, Dublin) Favorably reviewed in Choice, Comparative Drama, Studies: An Irish Quarterly, Irish Studies Review, and Estudios Irlandeses. 4. Editor, Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, and Translator. Irish Academic Press (Dublin, Ireland and Portland, Oregon), 2013. 215 pp. Book launch, Trinity College, Dublin: November 15, 2013: http://irishacademicpress.ie/book-launch-peter-fallon-poet- publisher-editor-and-translator-edited-by-richard-rankin-russell/. Favorably reviewed in Year’s Work in English Studies, New Hibernia Review, Times Literary Supplement, Sunday Business Post, and Sunday Times (Ireland edition) along with two radio interviews, including “Talking Books” with Susan Cahill, Newstalk Radio, Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, February 10, 2014. 5. Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and . University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 381 pp. Back-cover endorsements by Henry Hart (College of William and Mary), John Wilson Foster (University of British Columbia), and Peter McDonald (Oxford University). Reviewed favorably in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, James Joyce Literary Supplement, and The New Criterion. Winner of the South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize, 2011. Winner of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book Prize, 2011. 6. Bernard MacLaverty. Bucknell University Press, Contemporary Irish Writers Series, 2009. 175 pp. Back-cover endorsement by George Watson, Institute for Irish Studies, Aberdeen, Scotland. Reviewed favorably in Irish Studies Review and in New Hibernia Review 7. Invited Editor of Martin McDonagh: A Casebook. Routledge, Casebooks on Modern Dramatists series, 2007. 180 pages. Reprinted in paperback, 2012. Back-cover endorsements by Nicholas Grene (Trinity College, Dublin) and Anthony Roche (University College, Dublin). Favorably reviewed in The Year’s Work in English Studies, 2009.

Articles in Refereed Journals: 1. “Embodying Place: Ecotheology and Deep Incarnation in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road,” forthcoming in the special “Environmental Imagination” issue of Christianity and Literature, Summer 2016. 2. “The Life of Things and the Place of Community in Howards End,” forthcoming in Journal of Narrative Theory, Summer 2016. 3. “Radical Empathy in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” forthcoming in Genre, 2015. 18,000 words. 3

4. Invited Essay, “Deprovincializing Brian Friel’s Drama in America, 2006-2014: Fort Myers, New York, Houston.” “Mirror up to Theatre: Essays in Honour of Christopher Murray,” Special Issue of Irish University Review 45.1 (Spring/Summer 2015): 103-116. 5. Invited essay, “Down in the Delta: Tallahatchie County, Mississippi and Langston Hughes’s Blues Poetry about Emmett Till.” Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art 16.2 (Winter 2015): 146-163. 6. “The Yeatsian Intertexts of Coetzee’s Disgrace.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, New series, 2.2 (Fall 2014): 3-18. 7. Invited essay, “W. H. Auden, Michael Longley, and Poetry as Citizenship in Northern Ireland.” The Cresset: A Review of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs, Trinity 2014: 6-16. 8. “The Black and Green Atlantic: Violence, History, and Memory in Natasha Trethewey’s ‘South’ and Seamus Heaney’s ‘North.’” The Southern Literary Journal 46.3, “Special Issue, Literatures of Gulf Souths, Gulf Streams, and Their Dispersions” (Spring 2014): 155-172. 9. “‘There lives the dearest freshness deep down things’: The Intertextual Relationship of George Mackay Brown’s Greenvoe and Hopkins’s ‘God’s Grandeur.’” Renascence 66.1 (Winter 2014): 57-76. 10. “Irish Unionism, North of Ireland Protestantism, and Home Rule in Joyce’s Dubliners.” Joyce Studies Annual (2013): 32-64. 11. “Home, Exile, and Unease in Brian Friel’s Globalized Drama since 1990: Molly Sweeney, The Home Place, and Hedda Gabler (after Ibsen).” Modern Drama 56.2 (June 2013): 206-31. 12. “The Mortification Motif in Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal.” Literature and Belief 33.1 (2013): 107-25. 13. Brian Friel’s Short Fiction: “Place, Modernity, and Community.” Irish University Review 42.2 (Fall/Winter 2012): 298-326. 14. Brian Friel’s Transformation from Short Fiction Writer to Dramatist.” Comparative Drama 46.4 (Winter 2012): 451-74. 15. “Shades of Larkin: Singularity and Transcendence in Derek Mahon’s “A Garage in Co. Cork.” Journal of Modern Literature 35.4 (2012): 91-106. 16. “The Keats and Hopkins Dialectic in Seamus Heaney’s Early Poetry: ‘The Forge.’” Irish Literature issue of ANQ 25.1 (Jan.-Mar. 2012): 44-50. 17. “Owen and Yeats in Heaney’s The Cure at Troy.” Essays in Criticism 61.2 (April 2011): 173-89. 18. “‘We pick at the scabs’: Writerly Persistence and Family Woundedness in Harry Crews’s Blood Issue.” Mississippi Quarterly 64.2 (Spring 2011): 269-85. 19. “Black Passages through White Spaces: The Masking of Faulkner’s African-American Characters in Go Down, Moses.” CEA Critic 73.1 (Winter 2010): 86-109. 20. Invited Review Essay, “Reading Poets from the Past: Seamus Heaney’s Poetic Evolution.” Irish Studies Review 18.1 (Feb. 2010): 101-07. 21. “Embod[y]ments of History and Delayed Confessions: Graham Swift’s Waterland as Trauma Fiction.” Papers in Language and Literature 45.2 (Spring 2009): 115-49. Cited positively in Alan Robinson’s Narrating the Past: Historiography, Memory, and the Contemporary Novel. New York: Palgrave, 2011. 4

22. “Seamus Heaney’s Artful Regionalism.” Twentieth-Century Literature 54.1 (Spring 2008): 47-74. 23. “Playing and Singing toward Devolution: ’s Ethical Aesthetics in Kingdom Come and Northern Star.” Irish University Review 37.2 (Autumn/Winter 2007): 366-94. 24. “Escaping the Examined Life in George Moore’s ‘Home Sickness.’” Journal of the Short Story in English No. 48 (Spring 2007): 25-42. Cited by Greg Winston, “George Moore’s Landscapes of Return,” Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, ed. Christine Cusick. Cork: Cork UP, 2010, p. 69.f.n. 13. 25. “Tom Murphy’s Comedy of Redemption in Bailegangaire.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 21.2 (Spring 2007): 79-99. 26. “Imagining a New Province: Seamus Heaney’s Creative Work for BBC Northern Ireland Radio, 1968-1971.” Irish Studies Review 15.2 (Spring 2007): 137-62. Reprinted in Virtual Special Issue, “Remembering Seamus Heaney,” Irish Studies Review, 2014: http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/pgas/cisr-seamus-heaney-virtual- issue. 27. “Exorcising the Ghosts of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Stewart Parker’s The Iceberg and Pentecost.” Eire-Ireland 41.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2006): 42-58. Cited by Aidan O’Malley, Field Day and the Translations of Irish Identities: Performing Irish Identities (New York: Palgrave, 2011), 214n.91. 28. “Talking with Ghosts of Irish Playwrights Past: Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats . . .” Lead Essay, Comparative Drama 40.2 (Summer 2006): 149-68. 29. “The Yeatsian Refrain in Paul Muldoon’s Moy Sand and Gravel.” ANQ 19.3 (Summer 2006): 50-6. 30. “‘Something is being eroded’: The Vanishing Agrarian Epistemology of Brian Friel’s Translations.” New Hibernia Review 10.2 (Summer 2006): 106-122. 31. “The Dramatic Conversion of Nicholas Barber in Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 58.3 (Spring 2006): 221-39. 32. “The Tragedy of Imelda’s Terminal Silence in William Trevor’s Fools of Fortune.” Papers on Language and Literature 42.1 (Winter 2006): 73-94. Positively cited in Jonathan Bolton’s “Blighted Beginnings”: Coming of Age in Independent Ireland (Bucknell UP, 2010), 92. And in Michael O’Neill, William Trevor: Revaluations (New York: Palgrave, 2013). 33. “The Liberating Fictional Truth of Community in Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City.” South Atlantic Review 71.1 (Winter 2006): 42-73. 34. “‘Loyal to the Truth’: Gary Mitchell’s Aesthetic Loyalism in As the Beast Sleeps and The Force of Change.” Modern Drama 48.1 (Spring 2005): 186-201. Positively cited by Amelia Howe-Kritzer in her Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain: New Writing, 1995-2005, NY: Palgrave, 2008, p. 100. Positively cited by Aleks Sierz on p. 62 of the “Modern Literature” section of The Year’s Work in English Studies (2007). 35. “E. M. Forster’s Leonard Bast: A Source for Virginia Woolf’s Septimus Smith.” English Language Notes 42.3 (March 2005): 52-67. In the “Modern Literature” section of The Year's Work in English Studies (2007), p. 11, Andrew Radford terms this article one of three “Key essays on Forster” published in 2005. 5

36. “‘It will make us friends’: Cultural Reconciliation in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink.” Lead Essay in “Writing Life/Writing Fiction,” Special Issue of Journal of Modern Literature 27.3 (Winter 2004): 1-18. Cited in the “Further Reading” section of Paul Delaney’s “‘They Both Add Up to Me’: The Logic of Tom Stoppard’s Dialogic Comedy,” in A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880-2005, ed. Mary Luckhurst (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006). Suggested reading for a course on contemporary British and Commonwealth literature at Phillips-Universitat Marburg, Germany in the winter of 2005-06. Online at staff-www.uni- marburg.de/~kuesterm/ws05/HS_Postmodernism_2-1.pdf. 37. “Inscribing Cultural Corridors: Michael Longley’s Poetic Contribution to Reconciliation in Northern Ireland.” The Colby Quarterly. Special Longley Issue. 39.3 (September 2003): 221-40. Cited positively by Donna Potts, “‘Love Poems, Elegies: I Am Losing My Place’: Michael Longley’s Environmental Elegies,” Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts, ed. Christine Cusick. Cork: Cork UP, 2010, p. 136f.n. 34. 38. “Brendan Behan’s Lament for Gaelic Ireland: The Quare Fellow.” New Hibernia Review 6.1 (Spring 2002): 73-93. Used by Dr. Irene Gilsenan Nordin and Dr. Cecilia Morner for their Irish literature course at Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, Sweden. On- line: www2.du.se/kurser/2097699280/dokument/v05%20compendium%2011%20jan.doc?iKu rsid=2097699280. 39. “Loss and Recovery in Peter Fallon’s Pastoral Elegies.” The Colby Quarterly 37.4 (December 2001): 343-56. 40. “Frank McGuinness’s Exploration of Ulster Unionism’s Mythic and Religious Culture in Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.” Working Papers in Irish Studies 1998. Vol. 2. 1-20. Listed in Helen Lojek’s Contexts for Frank McGuinness’s Drama. Washington, D.C.: Catholic UP, 2003. p. 273. Cited in Hiroko Mikami’s book, Frank McGuinness and His Theatre of Paradox. Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smythe, 2002. f.n. 37, p. 238.

Essays in Edited Books: 1. “Egg and Sky: A Phenomenological Reading of Deirdre Madden’s One by One in the Darkness,” forthcoming in Post-Conflict Literature, ed. Chris Andrews and Matt McGuire, Routledge, 2016. 5,000 words. 2. “War and Peace.” Invited article for Seamus Heaney in Context, edited by Geraldine Higgins (). Volume under contract with Cambridge University Press, 2016. 4,000 words. 3. “‘An Enormous Yes’: Larkin and Longley.” Invited article for Essays on Michael Longley, edited by Meg Tyler (Boston University). Volume under consideration at Syracuse University Press. Other contributors include Langdon Hamner (Yale), Peter McDonald (Oxford), Bernard O’Donoghue (Oxford), Rosanna Warren (Chicago). 6,000 words. 4. “Deep Down Things”: The Inner Lives of Things in Later Heaney.” Invited essay for Later Heaney: The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances, ed. Eugene O’Brien. Volume accepted at University of Notre Dame Press. Other invited contributors include Helen 6

Vendler, Bernard O’Donoghue, Neil Corcoran, Stephen Regan, et. al. 9,800 words. Essay completed. 5. “Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty’s Lamb.” Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), ed. Russell. 27-44. 6. “Introduction.” Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), ed. Russell. 1-8. 7. “The Place(s) of Peter Fallon’s Poetry.” Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, and Translator (Irish Academic Press, 2013), ed. Russell. 139-160. 8. “Introduction.” Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, and Translator (Irish Academic Press, 2013), ed. Russell. Xix-xxvii. 9. “Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney.” Invited essay for Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator, eds. Jason David Hall and Bland Crowder. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 26-41. 10. “Clouded and Clearer Visions: Conflicting Epistemologies in Seumas O’Kelly’s ‘The Weaver’s Grave.’” John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from His Library, eds. Janis and Richard Londraville. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001. 249-69. Reprinted in “Seumas O’Kelly, (1881(?)-1918),” Short Story Criticism, Vol. 136, ed. Jelena Krstovic. Detroit: Gale, Cengage Learning, 2010. 306-15. Favorably reviewed in Choice, March 2002. 11. “Travels in Greeneland: Graham Greene’s Influence on Harry Crews.” Perspectives on Harry Crews, ed. Erik Bledsoe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 29-45. Favorably reviewed in Studies in the Novel 36.1 (Spring 2004): 128-30. Favorably reviewed by Jerome Klinkowitz in “Fiction: the 1960s to the Present.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2001: 367-91. Termed the essay of “greatest originality” in Perspectives on Harry Crews, 381. On-line at muse.jhu.edu/journals/ american_literary_scholarship/v2001/2001.1klinkowitz.pdf. 12. “W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland: Postcolonial Poets?” Yeats and Postcolonialism, ed. Deborah Fleming. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 2001. 101-32. Favorably reviewed in Irish Studies Review 12.1 (2004): 116-19. Favorably reviewed in Choice, Nov. 2001. Favorably reviewed in Irish University Review (Autumn/Winter 2001): 502-04.

Literary Magazine Article, Encyclopedia and Companion Articles, and Interviews: 1. Invited 10,000 Word Essay on Irish Playwright Conor McPherson for Scribner’s British Writers Series. Series Editor, Jay Parini. Detroit: Thomson Gale 2015. 2. Invited 8,000 Word Essay, “ Poets: Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Medbh McGuckian.” Blackwell’s Companion to Irish Literature, Vol. II, ed. Julia Wright, 2010. 296-311. 3. Invited 10,000 Word Essay: “Peter Fallon” in British Writers Supplement XII. Series editor, Jay Parini. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. 101-16. 4. “An Interview with Bernard MacLaverty.” The Irish Literary Supplement 26.1 (Fall 2006): 21-2. 5. Invited Essay, “Irish Drama” to Western Drama through the Ages: A Student Reference Guide, ed. Kimball King. Greenwood, Fall 2006. 7

6. Invited, Signed Entry, “Seamus Heaney,” for the seven volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, eds. Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun, Greenwood, December 2005. 7. Invited, Signed Entry, “Eavan Boland,” for the seven volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, eds. Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun, Greenwood, December 2005. 8. Invited Essay, “The Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival at Baylor University.” The Langdon Review, 1.1, Fall 2004. 9. Invited, Signed Entry, “Eavan Boland,” The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, 2003. 10. Invited, Signed Entry, “Arthur Conan Doyle,” The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, 2003. 11. Invited, Signed Entry, “John Hewitt,” The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, 2003. 12. Invited, Signed Entry, “,” The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, 2003. 13. Invited, Signed Entry, “Michael Longley,” The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature, 2003. 14. Co-editor, “‘Some of Us Do It Anyway’: An Interview with Harry Crews.” Reprinted in Getting Naked with Harry Crews, University Press of Florida, autumn 1999. 273-90. Originally published in Georgia Review 48 (1994): 537-53. Favorably reviewed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Feb. 6, 2000.

Notes: 1. “Auden’s Allusions to Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’ in For the Time Being.” The Explicator 74.4 (Winter 2014): 300-303. 2. “A Syngean Litany of the Dead in Walcott’s Omeros.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 44.3 (May 2014): 7-9. 3. “Wilfred Owen’s ‘Asleep’ and Michael Longley’s ‘Wounds.’” Notes and Queries 61.1 (March 2014): 120. 4. “The Blues of Millenial Mahon in The Yellow Book and Harbour Lights.” Notes and Queries 57.2 (June 2010): 243-46. 5. “Allusions to Wilfred Owen’s ‘An Anthem for Doomed Youth’ in Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 40.1 (Jan. 2010): 20-1. 6. “A Keatsian Echo in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper.” The Cormac McCarthy Review 7.1 (2009): 34-5. 7. “A Paralyzing Echo of Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ in Larkin’s ‘Aubade.’” The Explicator 65.4 (Summer 2007): 234-37. 8. “Reading John McGahern’s The Barracks through Yeats’s ‘Down by the Salley Gardens.’” Notes on Contemporary Literature 36.1 (January 2006): 3-4. 9. “The Intersection of Object and History in Eavan Boland’s ‘Lava Cameo.’” The Explicator 60.2 (2002): 114-17.

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Reviews: 1. Invited Review, Chris Murray, The Theatre of Brian Friel, forthcoming in the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Fall 2015. 2. Invited Review, Magdalena Kay, In Gratitude for All the Gifts: Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe. Toronto Quarterly 83.2 (2014): 517-18. 3. “Marilynn Richtarik, Stewart Parker: A Life,” Irish Studies Review, 2013. 4. Invited Review Essay, “‘Can we turn now to the important things’. . .?: Derek Mahon’s Poetry and Prose.” Irish Studies Review 20.4 (2012): 487-92. 5. “Anthony Roche, Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics.” Modern Drama 55.3 (Autumn 2012): 424-26. 6. “Michael Longley, A Hundred Doors.” New Hibernia Review 15.4 (Winter 2011): 156- 58. 7. “Rand Brandes and Michael J. Durkan, Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959-2003.” Irish Literary Supplement Fall 31.1 (Fall 2011): 17. 8. “John Wilson Foster, New Bearings in Irish Fiction, 1880-1940.” Studies in the Novel 43.1(Spring, 2010): 116-18. 9. “The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney, ed. Bernard O’Donoghue.” New Hibernia Review 14.2 (Summer, 2010): 150-52. 10. Invited Review, “Patrick Lonergan, The Theatre of Globalization.” Irish University Review 39.2 (Fall/Winter 2009): 475-79. 11. Invited Review, “Heinz Kosok, The Theatre of War: The First World War in British and Irish Drama.” English Studies 90.4 (Aug. 2009): 499-50. 12. “Eugene McNulty, The Ulster Literary Theatre and the Northern Revival.” Modern Drama 52.2 (Summer 2009): 250-52. 13. Invited review, “Conor McCarthy, Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry.” Irish Studies Review 16.4 (Nov. 2008): 534-36. 14. “Peter Fallon, Inheritance of Horses.” New Hibernia Review 12.2 (Summer 2008): 154- 56. 15. “Fran Brearton, Reading Michael Longley.” Irish Studies Review 16.2 (May 2008): 226- 28. 16. Invited Review, “Heather Clark, The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972.” Irish Studies Review 15.2 (Spring 2007): 259-61. 17. “John McGahern, All Will Be Well.” New Hibernia Review 10.4 (Winter 2006): 156-59. 18. “Bernard MacLaverty, The Anatomy School.” Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing 5.1 (Fall 2006): 151-55. Online at http://irishstudies.metapress.com. 19. “Michael Longley, Snow Water.” New Hibernia Review 9.3 (Fall 2005): 151-52. On- line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_hibernia_review/toc/nhr9.3.html. 20. Invited Review, “Katherine Mullin, James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity.” Studies in the Novel 37.4 (Winter 2005): 491-93. 21. “Seamus Heaney, Finders, Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001.” New Hibernia Review (Summer 2003) 7.2: 141-3. Online at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_hibernia_review/v007/7.2russell.html. Cited in Anthony J. Cuda’s “The Use of Memory: Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, and the Unpublished Epigraph to North.” Journal of Modern Literature 28.4 (2005): 171. 9

22. Invited Review, “Of Flowers and Fighting: Michael Longley’s Selected Poems.” The Carolina Quarterly 52.2 (Spring 2000): 74-9. Cited on the Wake Forest University Press website for its promotion of Longley’s Selected Poems: http://www.wfu.edu/wfupress/catalog/longley.selectedpoems.html. 23. Invited Review, “Fiction and the Changing Ireland: Gerry Smyth’s The Novel and the Nation, Studies in the New Irish Fiction.” “Ireland 2000” issue of JOUVERT: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, online at http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert. 24. “John Coyle, James Joyce: Ulysses/Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.” James Joyce Quarterly 36.3 (Spring 1999): 690-3.

Teaching Experience: Baylor in Oxford Program at Christ Church, Oxford University, Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2011, Summer 2015 English 2301: Masterpieces of British Literature English 3372: The Oxford Christians English 4374: Directed Reading in Modern British Literature (2003 session only) BIC 4389: Capstone Course: The Examined Life

Baylor University May 2012-May 2013: Baylor Centennial Professor of English Fall 2012-: Professor of English Fall 2007-Summer 2012: Associate Professor of English Fall 2001-Spring 2007: Assistant Professor of English English 1302: First Semester of Freshman Composition English 1304: Second Semester of Freshman Composition English 2301 Honors English 2301 English 3331: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature English 3351: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature English 4369: Modern British Novel English 4372: Modern British and European Drama, 1880-Present English 4374: Twentieth-Century Irish Literature English 4374: Twentieth-Century British Literature English 4382: The Fiction of James Joyce English 5308: Graduate Directed Reading on the Fiction of James Joyce English 5370: Yeats and Joyce in Their Irish Context English 5370: The Poetry, Prose, and Drama of W.B. Yeats English 5371: Joyce, Yeats, and Woolf, 1916-1928 English 5372: Friel, Heaney, and MacLaverty English 5372: British and Irish Literature after 1940 English 5372: The Modern British and Irish Novel English 6374: Yeats and His Poetic Legacies Lecturer in the Baylor Honors Colloquium: Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair, Fall 2004 10

Lecturer in the Baylor Honors Colloquium: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, April 15, 2004 Lecturer in the Baylor Honors Colloquium: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, November 6, 2003 Lecturer in the Baylor Honors Colloquium: Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man, March 20, 2003 Lecturer in Baylor Honors Colloquium: “Reading the Irish Republic in John McGahern's Amongst Women,” November 18, 2002 Lecturer in Baylor Honors Colloquium: “Dramatizing Murder and Morality in Barry Unsworth’s Morality Play,” April 22, 2002

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996-2001: Teaching Fellow English 11: Freshman Composition/First Semester English 12: Freshman Composition/Second Semester English 23: Introduction to Fiction English 24: Contemporary Literature Teacher of the Persuasive Essay, Central Carolina Community College, Sanford, NC, Spring 1996 English as Second Language Instructor, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic, July 1993

Teaching Awards, Honors, Grants, and Nominations: Designated as the Baylor Professor Instrumental in the Academic Achievement of Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Alison Rutledge, May 2007; Christopher Carloy, Alice Edwards, and Susan Lee, May 2006; Daniel Warren, December 2004; Andrew Alwine and Carrie Frederick, May 2004; Leticia Flores, December 2003 Honored as an Outstanding Baylor Faculty Member by the Baylor Mortar Board Chapter’s Circle of Achievement Banquet, Nov. 28, 2006; Nov. 20, 2003 One of Seven Finalists for Baylor’s Carr P. Collins Teacher of the Year Award, 2006 Baylor University Teaching Development Grant: Fall, 2014; Spring, 2014; Summer, 2011; Fall, 2005 Honored at Phi Kappa Chi’s “Light Your World” Faculty Appreciation Banquet, March 2004 Nominated for the Baylor Graduate Student Association's Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, November 2003 Honored at the Baylor Pi Beta Phi Chapter’s Teacher Book Dedication, Nov. 12, 2003 Nominated for Student Undergraduate Teaching Award at UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2000 Cash Prize, C.S. Herschel Undergraduate Course Development Contest for Design of Unit in Literary Theory, Spring 1998 Grant from UNC Graduate School for Implementation of Technological Pedagogy, Spring 1998 Houston International Institute of Education Grant-in-Aid for the Teaching of English as a Second Language in the Czech Republic, May 1993

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Sabbaticals, Fellowships, Scholarships, Awards, Grants, and Nominations: 1. Faculty Research Grant, South Central Modern Language Association, 2014, for research on Seamus Heaney: A Critical Introduction (Only one grant is awarded per year.) 2. Baylor University Research Leave, Fall 2014 3. 2012 Lily Fellows Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, “Teaching Peace and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice in Northern Ireland.” Corrymeela Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, July 7-28, 2012 4. 2011 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book Prize for Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland. Awarded at the Annual SAMLA Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 4-6, 2011 5. 2011 South Central Modern Language Association Book Award for Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland. Awarded at the Annual SCMLA Convention in Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 27-29, 2011 6. Baylor University Research Leave, Fall 2010 7. National Endowment for the Humanities Institute in W.B. Yeats, Galway, Ireland, July 7- August 1, 2008 8. Fellow for the National Humanities Center’s Summer Seminar in Literary Studies: The King James Bible (with James Wood of Harvard), July 8-13, 2007 9. 2007 Achievement Award for New Scholars in Humanities and Fine Arts from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS) for distinguished scholarship published from May, 2000 to April, 2006 by faculty from member institutions. Award presented at Annual CSGS meeting in Chattanooga, TN, Feb. 25, 2007. 10. Fellow for the Aspen Institute’s Wye Faculty Summer Seminar, “Citizenship and the American Polity,” July 22-28, 2006, Queenstown, Maryland (nominated by former Baylor interim president William Underwood, now president of Mercer University) 11. Baylor University Research Leave, Spring 2006 12. Outstanding Professor at Baylor, 2003-04 Awarded for Distinctive Scholarship as an Untenured Faculty Member 13. Baylor University Summer Sabbatical: 2014, 2013, 2010, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2002 14. Ruth Richardson Travel Scholarship, UNC Department of English, Spring Semester 2001 15. UNC Graduate School Dissertation Research Fellowship to Belfast, Northern Ireland, Spring Semester 2000 16. Scholarship to John Synge Summer School, County Wicklow, Ireland, July 1998 17. Phi Kappa Phi National Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1995-6 18. Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of Glasgow, 1994-95

Other Professional Activities: Invited Advisory Editor for Fools of Fortune (William Trevor] Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale/Cengage, 2014 Identified and selected articles on Fools of Fortune for reprinting. Compiled an annotated checklist of works not reprinted in the entry. Vetted the final entry submitted by the freelance editor. Invited Advisory Editor for Amongst Women [John McGahern] Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale/Cengage, 2014 12

Identified and selected articles on Amongst Women for reprinting. Compiled an annotated checklist of works not reprinted in the entry. Vetted the final entry submitted by the freelance editor. Invited Advisory Editor for “Waterland,” [Graham Swift] Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale/Cengage, 2013. Identified and selected articles on Waterland for reprinting. Compiled an annotated checklist of works not reprinted in the entry. Vetted the final entry submitted by the freelance editor. Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion, Washington State University, 2013. Outside Reader for “Postcolonial Overtures: The Politics of Sound in Contemporary Irish Poetry,” Julia Obert, Syracuse University Press, Spring, 2013. Literature Representative, American Conference for Irish Studies Chair the ACIS sessions at MLA in Seattle (2012) and Boston (2013) Host the ACIS/James Joyce Foundation Party at 2012 and 2013 MLA Chair the Robert Rhodes Book Prize Committee for Best Book in Irish Studies, 2012-13 Outside Reviewer for Promotion, University of West Georgia, 2012. Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion, Randolph-Macon College, 2011. Outside Reader for “The Poetry of Displacement: Adam Zagajewski, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Julia Hartwig,” Continuum Press, 2010. Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion, University of Delaware English Department, 2010. Faculty Consultant/Grader for the Advanced Placement English Literature Examination for Educational Testing Services, 2005 and 2006 Referee for Oxford University Press, Syracuse University Press, PMLA, Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Studies, Criticism, Contemporary Literature, World Literature Today, Papers on Language and Literature, South Atlantic Review, Irish University Review, New Hibernia Review, Renascence, and Irish Studies Review Member of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Member of the American Conference for Irish Studies Member of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Member of the Modern Language Association Member of South Central Modern Language Association Member of South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Service to the Department and the University: Graduate Program Director, Baylor English Department: January 2015-. Selection Committee,Baylor University Graduate School, HEB Foundation Faith and Learning Dissertation Fellowship: 2011-. Selection Committee for Best Honors Thesis in the Humanities at Baylor, Spring 2013 Appointed by the Dean of Arts and Sciences to the Beall-Russell Lecturer Committee, Spring 2013- The Beall-Russell Lecture is the Premier Event in the Arts and Sciences each Fall at Baylor Director, Sarah Aspen, MA Thesis, August 2012 graduation Director, Sarah Clark, MA Thesis, “Space, Identity, and Conflict in Elizabeth Bowen and Deirdre Madden,” August 2012 graduation 13

Director, Tyler Hayes, MA Thesis, “Frank O’Connor’s ‘World of Appearances’: Epiphany and False Personality in His Stories of Childhood,” May 2012 graduation Director, Courtney Parker, MA Thesis, “Liturgy, Ritual, and Community in the Plays of Brian Friel,” May 2012 graduation Director, Michael Rawl, MA Thesis, “‘Romantic Ireland's dead and gone’: Social Criticism and Yeats's Later Plays,” May 2012 graduation Guest Lecturers Committee, Baylor English Department, 2012- Graduate Admissions Committee, Baylor English Department, 2010- Head, Job Placement Committee, Baylor English Department, 2011- Director of the Beall Poetry Festival, April 2010- Ph.D. Examiner for Rachel Webster, 20th Century British Literature, Spring 2011 Ph.D. Examiner for Jeffrey Bilbro, Literature and the Environment Examination, Fall 2010 Member of the MA Thesis Committee for Ben Mangrum’s MA Thesis on Cormac McCarthy, Fall 2010 Director of Sarah Casey’s Honors Thesis, “Seamus Heaney’s Sacramental Poetics,” Fall 2008- Spring 2010 Casey’s thesis wins the F. Ray Wilson Honors Thesis Award for best thesis of 2010 on the Baylor campus in the humanities, April, 2011. Director of Bethany Smith’s Dissertation on the Ekphrastic Poetry of W.B. Yeats, Derek Mahon, and Medbh McGuckian, Fall 2008-April 2010. Smith wins Baylor English Department’s Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Spring 2010. Acting Assistant Director (one of six) of Baylor’s University Scholars Program, Fall 2009- Spring 2013 Advised 35 University Scholars per semester; helped run exit interviews for Scholars who are juniors Honors Residential College Faculty Fellow, Fall 2008- Served on the Search Committee for the Chair of the Baylor English Department, Fall 2008- Spring 2009 Director of Laura Schrock’s Master’s Thesis on Graham Swift’s Waterland, Fall 2007-Summer 2008 Director of Kat Adams’s Master’s Thesis on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Fall 2007-Summer 2008- Director of Jordan Gibson’s Master’s Thesis on Bernard MacLaverty’s Novels, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Director of Steve Schuler’s Dissertation, “Augustine’s Aesthetics, Auden’s Poetics: The Influence of Augustine of Hippo on W.H. Auden,” Fall 2007-Summer 2008 Schuler’s revised book manuscript is accepted for publication with University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming in 2013. Served on the Baylor English Departmental Job Search Committee for Fall, 2008 Tenure-Track Positions, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Examiner for Lydia Cooper’s Open Area Ph.D. Exam in Contemporary British Literature, July 2007 14

Examiner for Bethany Wilson’s Major Ph.D. Exam in Modern British Literature, her Open Ph.D. Exam in Art in Literature, and her Minor Exam in Contemporary British/Irish Literature, July 2007 Examiner for Stephen Schuler’s Major Ph.D. Exam in Modern British Literature and his Minor Exam in Contemporary British Literature, May 2007 Member of Graduate English Admissions Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Member of Freshmen Composition Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Directed Mary Woodward’s Honors Thesis on Joyce and Woolf, Fall 2006-Spring 2007 Directed Stephanie Pocock’s MA Thesis, “Between Reality and Mystery: Food as Fact and Symbol in Plays by Ibsen and Churchill,” Spring 2006 Pocock’s essay on Churchill’s play Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, drawn from this work, is being published by Modern Drama Directed Molly Parris’s MA Thesis, “Subversive Pseudo-Dialogic: W. B. Yeats’s Use of the Dialogic to Present the Monologic,” Spring 2006 Examiner for Brenda Welch’s Second Historical Exam Area in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature, Spring 2006 Served on the Baylor English Departmental Job Search Committee for Fall, 2006 Tenure-Track Positions Served on the Baylor English Departmental Subcommittee for the Fall, 2006 Position in Modern/Contemporary British or American Literature. Teaching Mentor to Graduate Student Geoffrey Reiter, Fall 2005 Served on Baylor’s University-wide Bookstore Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Directed Jason Lewallen’s Honors Thesis on Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Fall 2004- Spring 2005 Directed Lauren Dammon’s Honors Thesis on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Member of the Graduate English Faculty’s Curriculum Committee, Fall 2004- Wrote Descriptions for the Department’s New Graduate Courses in English Religious Authors, Modern British Literature (1900-1940), and Contemporary British Literature (1940-present) Teaching Mentor to Graduate Student Katie Calloway, Fall 2004 Brought John Peters (University of North Texas English Faculty) to Baylor for August 2004 Lecture on “Joseph Conrad and Impressionist Literature” Served on the Graduate Faculty Nominating Committee for the Christine Fall TA Award and the Smith Outstanding Graduate Student Award, April 2004 Outside Reader on Kelly Russell’s M.F.A. Thesis on Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats, Spring 2005 Helped Conduct a Mock Interview for Truman Finalist Kristin Kan, March 9, 2004 Kan wins Truman Scholarship, March 2004 Recruited Potential Undergraduate Students to Baylor during Faculty Calling Sessions, Spring 2004 and Fall 2004 Spoke at Baylor’s Houston Recruiting Reception, February 2, 2004 Chair of the Baylor English Department’s Library Committee, Spring 2004- Teaching Mentor to Ph.D. Student Stephen Schuler, Spring 2004 Member of the Baylor English Department’s Library Committee, Fall 2003 15

Faculty Representative to The Arbors Residence Life Apartments, Fall 2003-Spring 2004 Directed Eric Schaefer’s Master’s Thesis, “‘It is horror and tragedy that make them what they are’: Suffering and Optimism in the Fiction of William Trevor,” Fall 2003-Summer 2004 Directed Layne Parish’s Master’s Thesis on Joyce and Irish Sovereignty Goddesses, Fall 2003- Spring 2004 Helped Set up a Mock Interview for Job Candidate Dr. Rebecca Munro and Conducted Interview with Dr. Tom Hanks for Baylor’s Graduate English Student Association, November 2003 Co-Adviser to the Baylor Graduate English Student Association, Fall 2003- Examiner for Joshua Merrill’s Minor Ph.D. Exam in Irish Literature, Fall 2003 Examiner for Frank Sobey’s Minor Ph.D. Exam in Contemporary British Poetry, Fall 2003 Chaired the Session, “Christian Higher Education I: Adapting to a Changing World,” for Baylor’s 2003 Pruit Memorial Symposium: The Schooled Heart: Moral Formation in American Higher Education, Oct. 2003 “How To Be a ‘Quick Starter’ as a New Baylor Scholar/Teacher,” Invited Lecture to the Baylor Summer Teaching Institute, June 17, 2003 Attended Baylor’s Annual Faculty Retreat at Laity Lodge, May 2003 Prepared Andrew Alwine for his Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship Application, April-August, 2003 Sixth Reader on Hadley Mozer’s Dissertation, The Advertising and Advertised Lord Byron, March 2003 Chaired the “Mystery and Meaning Session #1” for Baylor’s Art and Soul Conference, March 2003 Helped Conduct a Mock-Interview for Truman Scholarship Candidate John Hill, February 2003 Hill wins Truman Scholarship, March 2003 Contracted with Megan Mauldin and Sarah Wurgler for Honors in English 4372, Spring 2003 Reader for Amy Hayes’s Honors Thesis in Poetry, Spring 2003 Third reader for Nancy Nibilisi’s Undergraduate Honors Thesis, “Seamus Heaney: A Study of the Feminine Figures in Seamus Heaney's Poetry,” Fall 2002 Second Reader of Blake Royal’s Undergraduate Honors Thesis on Jim Sheridan’s Northern Irish Film Trilogy, Autumn 2002-May 2004 Extensively Discussed the Graduate English Association’s Faculty Survey of Peer-Reviewed Journals with Graduate Student Jennifer Hughes, Autumn 2002 Ex-officio member of Baylor’s National and International Scholarship Committee, 2002- Assistant Registration Manager at SCMLA in Austin, Oct. 31-Nov.2, 2002 Spent approximately twenty hours helping some 600 academics register for this important regional conference hosted by the Baylor English department Member of Beall Poetry Festival Committee, 2002-present: Introduced critic Denis Donoghue as the Virginia Bell Beall Lecturer on Contemporary Poetry, April 2004 Introduced critic Christopher Ricks as the Virginia Bell Beall Lecturer on Contemporary Poetry, April 2003 Publicity responsibilities along with Dr. Chinn, Spring 2003 Helped select poets and critic; helped plan the festival, Fall 2002-present 16

Chair of Scholarly Session on “Writing and the Desert” for Baylor’s Art and Soul Conference, March 2002 Reader in the Baylor English Department for Andrew Armond’s M.A. Thesis, “Critics and Creative Writers: Narrative Theology and Parable as Literary Responses to Postmodern Critical Theory,” Spring 2002 Freshman Writing Committee, Baylor University, 2001-2002 Assessed and Recommended New Textbooks for English 1304 Observer of Part-Time Lecturer in Composition Taylor Hendrix Judge for Baylor’s Roy Cornelius Freshman Essay Contest, October 2001 Invited Speaker on New Faculty Orientation to the Academic Committee of the Baylor Board of Regents, September 2001 Active Participant in New Faculty Orientation, August 2001

Community Activities: Financial Contributor to My Brother’s Keeper, Waco’s Homeless Shelter for Men Attendee at Mission Waco’s Urbanquet, February 2013, February 2005 Brazos Forum Board of Directors: October 2003-05 Active Participant in the Brazos Forum, Fall 2002-04 Member of Selection Committee for Waco’s Inaugural One City/One Book Program, Summer/Fall 2002

Church Activities: Monthly Greeter Nursery Worker, 2002-2014 Sunday School Teacher: Galatians, Fall 2012 Third and Fourth Grade Sunday School Teacher at Redeemer Presbyterian, 2003-05 Deacon at Redeemer Presbyterian, October 2003-June 2006 Active Financial Supporter of Reformed University Fellowship at Baylor, 2003- Sponsor of a Young Life Table at the Annual Young Life Banquet, February 2003 Active Financial Supporter of Redeemer Presbyterian’s Missionaries to China, 2002- Member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Waco, Fall 2002-present