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Professor Emeritus of English

Office: 110 Leonard Hall
Phone: (724) 357-2262
E-mail: CahalanÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â@gmail.com

Education

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 1982
MA, University College, Dublin, 1976
BA, New College, Sarasota, Florida, 1975

Academic Interests

Modern and contemporary Irish literatures in both English and Gaelic, including fiction, drama, poetry, and film; modern and contemporary American literature, especially nature writing, Appalachian and southwestern authors; modern British literature, particularly drama and fiction; theory (new historicism, feminism, ecocriticism, cultural studies, others); and pedagogy (teaching college literature in light of both theory and pragmatic concerns, observing and videotaping classroom teaching, and mentoring teaching associates).

Profile

From 1984 to 2013 I was professor of English at in 55 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, teaching coursesin ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â's English Department and its Graduate Program in Literature, which I directed during 1987-91. I continued directing, into my retirement, 13 dissertations, and while at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â I directed 36 other dissertations and much student writing that was published. During my 29 years at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â, I did a lot of . I was of the 35th annual national Appalachian Studies Association conference at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â in March 2012. I earned my PhD at the University of Cincinnatiin my hometown, my MA at , and my BA at in Florida. Before coming to ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â, I taught for seven years at three other universities: the , the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Northeastern University. You can e-mail me at CahalanÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â@gmail.com and sample a few of my by clicking on these numbers: on Edward Abbey , , , 3 , , ,; on pedagogy, 1,2 , and ; and on Irish literature,1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 . My final academic publications were on pedagogy, including my article "Teaching Classroom Video recording Analysis to Graduate Students: Strategies for Observation and Improvement"(2013) in . "Teaching Hometown Literature: a Pedagogy of Place" appeared in in January 2008. I co-edited the book .

I am the author of the biography , which can be ordered online at discount in .This book, which won the 2002 from the , was excerpted in the . A Korean translation of this bookwas published in 2006. I've presented on Abbey more than 30 times, in 10 different states, such as in Arizona in 2008. The most distinguish-
ed literary native son of , was the author of numerous essays and novels and the inspiration for the environmentalist movement called and the elaborate and very useful hosted in Stockholm, Sweden, where you can read my Earth First! . You can also read and look at all the pictures and maps in my . I sponsored the , dedicated in 1996 by the , beside the village sign at Home, Pennsylvania, ten miles north of Indiana, near where Abbey grew up. You can see a from the February 2002 ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â library display on Abbey, and also a photo of in Flagstaff, and a drawing of me in Jim Stiles's Abbey-inspired, wonderful . I've visited many U.S. national parks, I taught a course on that subject, and I published an .

Most of my other , including five of my seven books, are about Irish authors, particularly fiction writers beyond . My article "Mercier's Irish Comic Tradition as a Touchstone of Irish Studies" appeared in 2004; an earlier one was about . My last of five books in the field was (1999). I spent four months in in 1973 and have been in love with the country ever since then, returning more than a dozen times for visits ranging in length from two weeks to a year-and-a-half. I taught courses on Irish literature and the Irish languagebeginning in 1978, and I directed an Irish studies undergraduate degree program in the early 1980s and a summer-study abroad program in Dublin in the late 1980s. I was a long-time member of the (ACIS)and the . In summer 2006 I attended the IASIL Conference in Sydney and took a lot of photos of Australia and New Zealand. In 2009 I traveled to Argentina, where I took some more photos. During 1996-99 I lectured in many places on the of more than 150 years ago. A lot of my work was concerned with Irish history, folklore, language, and gender issues. I am a big fan of traditional Irish and other .

A concerned about peace, social justice, and environmental issues, I enjoy tennis, biking, and golden doodles.

Course Specialties

Graduate

At ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â (an incomplete list--not updated in the last few years):

ENGL 581 Literary and Cultural Dublin (in Dublin Program)

ENGL 673 Seminar in British Drama

ENGL 674 Bibliographical Methods in English

ENGL 671 The Novel

ENGL 676 Critical Approaches to Literature

ENGL 685 Criticism: Contemporary Approaches to Literature

ENGL 752 Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer

ENGL 753/853 Literature as a Profession

ENGL 760/860 Teaching CollegeLiterature

ENGL 762 Topics in American Lit. since 1870: Appalachian Literature

ENGL 764 Topics in British Literature since 1660: Modern Irish Lit.

ENGL 764/864 Irish Writers of Nature and Place

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: Mod. British and Irish Fiction

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: Modern British and Irish Drama

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: 20th-Century Irish Poetry

ENGL 764 Top. in Brit. Lit. since 1660: Irish Comic Writers

ENGL 765 Topics in Literature as Genre: Hometown Literature

ENGL 765 Top. in Literature as Genre: The 20th-Century Bildungsroman

ENGL 765 Topics in Literature as Genre: Nature Writing and Biography

ENGL 766 Topics in Comparative Literature: Modernism

ENGL 766/866 Topics in Comparative Literature: Pairs of Irish and U. S. Texts

ENGL 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Author: Joyce

ENGL 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Author: Yeats

ENGL 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Theme: Bildungsromans

ENGL 784 Literary Theory, Gender, and History in Irish Fiction

ENGL 785 Biography

ENGL 785 Coming of Age in 20th-Century Irish Fiction and U. S. Nature Writing

ENGL 785 Ecocriticism applied to Irish and U. S. Writers

ENGL 785 Hometown Literature

ENGL 984 Literature from the Irish Diaspora

ENGL 984 Joyce's Ulysses

ENGL 985 Ecocriticism, Place Studies, Environmental Writing, and Hometown Literature

Previously:
The Irish Short Story (University of Massachusetts--Boston [UMB])

Undergraduate

AT ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â:

ENGL 101 College Writing

ENGL 121 Humanities Literature

ENGL 202 Research Writing

ENGL 306 Modern British Literature

ENGL 352 Symbol and Allegory

ENGL 353 The Oral Dimension

ENGL 386 Regional, Hometown Literature

ENGL 386 Regional Literature in English: Appalachian Literature

ENGL 387 Irish Literature

PS 481 Modern Ireland: Literature and History (in Dublin Program)

HNRC 499 Honors Synthesis: Appalachian Culture

HNRC 499 Honors Synthesis: National Parks

LBST 499 Senior Synthesis: Appalachian Culture

HNRC 499 Honors Synthesis: Appalachian Culture

LBST 499 Senior Synthesis: Modern Ireland

LBST 499 Senior Synthesis: National Parks

Previously:
Yeats (UMB)
Joyce (UMB)
Irish Literature (UMB)
The Study of Folklore (Northeastern University)
Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Literature (UMB)
Practical Criticism (UMB)
World Literature (University of Cincinnati [UC])
Great Themes in Literature: Crime (Northeastern)
Introduction of Modern Irish (UC)
Intermediate Composition (UMB)
Writing about Literature (UC)
Writing about Film (UC)
Freshman English I (UC, UMB, and Northeastern)
Freshman English II (UC, UMB, and Northeastern)
Developmental Composition (UMB and Northeastern)

Programs Developed at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â and Taken Through Senate Approval:

PhD in Literature and Criticism (1989), with 15 new courses

MA in Literature (1990), with 11 new courses

MA/Generalist (1990), with 11 new courses

• Oversaw Senate approval, as a package, of these two M.A. tracks as well as the ones in Teaching English and TESOL

BA in Literature (1997), with 27 new courses

Earlier Courses Developed at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â:

EN 581/681 Topics in Irish Lit. and Studies (for Dublin Program)
EN 480 Senior Seminar
EN 382 War in Literature
EN 280 Country Life/City Life
EN 373 Concepts of Character in Drama and Novel
EN 372 Alienation in Literature

EN 352 Symbol and Allegory
EN 350 The Metaphoric Perspective
EN 217 Drama
EN 216 Short Fiction
PS 581/481 Modern Ireland: Lit. and History (for Dublin Program)