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.” 2 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. 3 "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