Department of English at the University of Virginia

Interests

20th Century Literature (Irish and English); education of K-12 teachers

Books

• Of Poetry and Power: Literature and the Kennedys (in progress).
• The Storming of Parnassus: Poets, Politicians, and the Laureateship, 1892-1896 (in progress).
• Joyce and the Subject of History, University of Michigan Press, 1996, edited with Mark Wollaeger and Robert Spoo, and Joyce and History, a special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly publishing proceedings of the 1990 Yale Joyce and History conference, edited with Mark Wollaeger.
• Seeing Together: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing, from Mill to Woolf, Stanford University Press, 1993.

Selected Articles

• "Raising the Bar: K-8,"in Composition(s) in the New Liberal Arts, eds. Joanna Castner and James Inman (Hampton, 2009).
• "Power All the Way: Poetry, Presidents, and the Centre," UCG Women's Studies Review  (Galway, Ireland), Volume Three, 1995, excerpted in Women Emerging, A Decade of Irish Feminist Scholarship, eds. R. Pelan and A. Hayes (National University of Ireland at Galway, 2005).
• "Poetry, Casuality, and an Irish Ceasefire," The Peace Review, June 2001.
• "Literary Tourism and Dublin's Joyce," in Joyce and the Subject of History, 1996 (above), originally printed as "'A Standard of Service and Sophistication': Joyce and the Tourism Trap," James Joyce Quarterly, Summer 1991,and reprinted in The Irish Review (Belfast), Winter 1991-1992 and Magyar Lettre Internationale, 1996-1997

Selected Book Reviews

• Joyce and Company by David Pierce, for James Joyce Quarterly, forthcoming
  
• Critical Companion to James Joyce: A Literary Reference to his Life and Work by Nichaols Fargnoli and Michael Patrick Gillespie, for James Joyce Literary Supplement, Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2008
  
• The Marriage Paradox: Modernist Novels and the Cultural Imperative by Davida Pines, for Modernism/Modernity, Volume 14, No. 2, 2007
  
• Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity by Stan Smith, for Irish Studies Review, Volume 15, No. 1, 2007
  
• Beyond Borders: IASIL Essays on Modern Irish Writing for Irish Studies Review, Volume 13, No. 4, 2005
  

Presentations

• “A New Modernist Classroom?,” roundtable co-organized with John Whittier-Ferguson, Modernist Studies Association conference, Nashville, November 2008.
• Major forum on "Teachers for a New Era," American Association for College Teachers of Education annual conference, New York City, February 2007
• Chair, "Beckett at 100 and Irish Writing," Modern Language Association Convention, December 2006
• "Teacher Quality and Induction," "Preparing Today's Leaders for Tomorrow's High Schools" conference, Alliance for Excellent Education, Washington, DC, October 2004
• "The Laureateship as Political Capital," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies conference, Fairfax, Va., April 2002

Other Positions Held

• Faculty member, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1993-1996, 1997-
• Associate Professor of English and Director of University Writing, Brandeis University, 1994-1999.
• Assistant Professor of English, Yale University, 1988-94; Co-Director, Bass Writing Program, 1989-1992, 1993-1994.

Committees and Consultancies

• Executive Committee, Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language Association, 2004-2007, Chair, 2006
• Bread Loaf Rural Teachers Network, 1996 -
• Test Development Committee, Advanced Placement Exam, English Literature and Composition and English Language and Composition, Educational Testing Service, 1995-1998

Awards, fellowships, additional recognition

• Robert Frost Chair, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 2009
• Commencement speaker, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 2003
  
• Marino Chair, Bread Loaf School of English, 1998