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.) Boston College, 2003 Ph.D., Harvard University, 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 4 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 Massachusetts 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, “Samuel Johnson 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