The Pastoral Tradition in Contemporary Irish Poetry, University of Missouri Press, 2011. CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Title, 2012. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation. ed. Donna Potts and Amy Unsworth. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism: The Influence of Owen Barfield. Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press, 1994. In Progress: “Sexual Assault in Academia”; “Hell’s Half Acre in the 1930s”; “The Wearing of the Deep Green: Contemporary Irish Poetry and Environmentalism”; “Big Girl Now” (memoir) ARTICLES “‘Room for Creatures’: Francis Harvey’s Bestiary,” Representing Animals in Irish Literature and Culture, ed. Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbala Farago, Palgrave, 2015. “Locked in this Landscape’s Fierce Embrace: Francis Harvey’s Environmental Ethos,” This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace: The Poetry of Francis Harvey. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. "Underneath the Wave: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Mermaids, and the Irish Otherworld" East Meets West. Editors: Reiko Aiura, J. U. Jacobs, J. Derrick McClure. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 136-147. “The Wearing of the Deep Green: Irish Poetry and Environmentalism.” “What Country’s this? And Whither are we Gone?” Papers from the Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, eds. J. Derrick McClure, Karoline Szatek and Rosa Penna. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. “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 University Press, 2010): 127-150. “Water from Stone: The Spirit of Place in Moya Cannon’s Poetry.” An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts 3:2 (Fall 2007) 46-54. “Reviving the Lass of Aughrim: Mary Lavin’s ‘Sarah.’” Celtic Cultural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal 6 (2007). “‘When Ireland was still under a spell’: Miraculous Transformations in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,” New Hibernia Review 6:3 (October 2003): 119.
“AAUP Success Stories,” MS AAUP State Conference Meeting, Jackson State University, April 20, 2013. “Room for Creatures: Francis Harvey’s Bestiary,” ACIS, Chicago, IL, April 13, 2013. “AAUP’s Report on Campus Sexual Asssault,” GA AAUP State Conference Meeting, Georgia Highlands University, Rome, GA, April 6, 2013. “AAUP Shared Governance Success Stories.” Naropa University, Boulder, CO, March 9, 2013. “The Wearing of the Deep Green: Contemporary Irish Poetry and Environmentalism,” (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, 14th Jan Poetry reading, EFLU, Hyderabad, India, 15 Jan., 2013. “At the Movies with Frank McCourt”, Osmania University Centre for International Programs, Hyderabad, India, 16 Jan., 2013. “Sex in a Cold Climate: Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and Sexual Violence.” EFLU, 17 Jan., 2013. “The Role of the Faculty in Financial Exigency and Program Closure,” AAUP Panel, MLA, Boston, January 5, 2013. “AAUP Success Stories,” AAUP ASC workshop, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 10; (same pres.) AAUP National Council meeting, Nov. 17, 2012, Washington, DC “Shared Governance in Kansas and Missouri,” Joint meeting of the KS and MO State Conference executive committees, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Oct. 20, 2012. “The AAUP: First Principles,” “How a Chapter can Transform your Campus,” K.U., Student Union, Oct. 18, 2012. “How a Chapter can Transform your Campus,” St. Louis University, Oct. 18, 2012. Nebraska AAUP State Conference meeting, dinner talk with Joerg Tiede, Oct. 13, 2012. “Occupying the Corporate Campus,” AAUP State Conference Meeting, U.C. Boulder, Oct. 6, 2012. “Protecting Higher Education in Pennsylvania,” “What an AAUP Chapter Can do for Penn State,” Pennsylvania State Conference Meeting, Harrisburg Community College, Harrisburg, Penn., September 29, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
“Locked in this Landscape’s Fierce Embrace,” International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, Concordia University, Montreal, August 3, 2012. “Building State Conferences,” AAUP Summer Institute, Chicago, July 28, 2012. “Women’s Rights are Faculty Rights,” AAUP Summer Institute, Chicago, July 27, 2012. “AAUP, Shared Governance, and the U.M. Press,” University of MO, Columbia, July 24, 2012. Poetry Reading, Galway City Library, Ireland, June 28, 2012. Poetry Reading, Pecs, Hungary, June 22, 2012. “Learning the Lingua Franca of a Lost Land: The Poetry of Eavan Boland,” Region and Nation Literature Association, University of Pecs, Hungary, June 22, 2012. “The Best of Times, the Worse of Times for Women,” AAUP Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 14, 2012. “First they Came for the Undergraduates,” Iowa State Conference of the AAUP, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, April 28, 2012. “What a Chapter Can Do,” Jackson State University, AAUP meeting with representatives from Mississippi HBCUs, April 19, 2012. “What a Chapter Can Do,” Louisiana State University; Response to Program Closures and Faculty Terminations, Southern University in Baton Rouge, April 17, 2012. “Corporatization and Higher Education,” Tulane University, New Orleans, April 14, 2012. “The Ryan Report, the Magdalene Laundries, and Ireland’s Culture of Containment,” Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, March 28, 2012. “Building a State Conference,” Maricopa Community College, Tempe, Arizona, March 27, 2012. “The Challenges of Corporatization on College Campuses,” Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 2012. “Restoring the Lost Land: Eavan Boland’s Post-Pastoral,” March 17, 2012. “Occupying the Corporate Campus,” Illinois Wesleyan, March 2, 2012.
“Working Together: AAUP Chapters and University Administrations.” Austin College, Sherman Texas, Feb. 17, 2012. “Working Together.” Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK, Feb. 17, 2012. “Working Together.” Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK, Feb. 17, 2012. “Locked in this Landscape’s Fierce Embrace: The Poetry of Francis Harvey,” Irish Studies Centre, Dec. 6, 2012 “Chapter Development,” AAUP ASC Workshop, Austin, TX, October 29, 2011. “Chapter Building,” Baltimore City Community College, Baltimore, MS, August 19, 2011. “Strength Training for State Conferences,” AAUP Summer Institute, Boston, MA, July 23, 2011. “For Rape Victims, Silence isn’t Golden,” Take Back the Night March, Kansas State University, April 14, 2011. “Building Coalitions,” Kansas State Conference AAUP Meeting, Newman University, Wichita, KS, April 9, 2011. “Chapter Building,” Madison Area Technical College, April 2, 2011. “Campaign for the Future of Higher Education,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2, 2011. “‘Going, Going, Gone’: John Montague and Environmentalism.” University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 28, 2011. “Shared Governance,” Missouri State Conference AAUP Meeting, Missouri Southern State University, March 19, 2011. “Collaborative Budgeting,” Berea College, Kentucky, Feb. 28, 2011. “Conference Building,” Tennessee State Conference AAUP Meeting, Feb. 27, 2011. “The ABCDs of Double Colonization in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.” Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, Jan. 6, 2011. “Collaborative Budgeting.” AAUP Shared Governance Conference, Washington, DC, Nov. 13, 2010. “Building and Maintaining a Strong State Conference,” AAUP New Leaders Workshop,
of Literature and the Environment, Flagstaff, Arizona, June 20, 2001. “The God in the Tree: Seamus Heaney and the Pastoral Tradition,” invited lecture, Charles University, Prague, March 20, 2001 “Yeats’s Representation of Ireland,” invited lecture, Charles University, Prague, March 22, 2001. “‘Where World and Thought Exactly Meet’: Howard Nemerov and Owen Barfield,” Rocky Mountain MLA, October 12, 2000. “The Land Ethic in Native American Women’s Poetry of the Southwest,” Eighth Annual Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, Ostersünd , Sweden, August 5, 2000. “No Count Dust Bowl Whores,” Cultural Studies Symposium, K.S.U., March 10, 2000. “Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and The Woman Issue,” 7th Annual WERCC Conference, “Celebrating Irish Women’s Writing,” Dublin, Ireland, May 29, 1999. “Postcolonial Identities in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Hotel Roanoke Conference Center, Roanoke, Va., May 15, 1999. “From the Wasteland to Larkinland: the Poetry of Eliot, Auden, and Larkin,” invited lecture, University of Limerick, April 30, 1998. “‘Creating a Vigourous Hybrid’: Intertextuality as BorderCrossing in Atwood’s The Robber Bride,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, June 28, 1998. “At the Movies with Frank McCourt: Sacralizing the Secular in Angela’s Ashes,” International Conference on the Study of Irish Literature, University of Limerick, July 21, 1998 “‘When Ireland was still under a spell: Miraculous Transformations in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,” Seventh International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, Germersheim, Germany, August 2, 1998. “National/Regional Identity in Ireland and America,” Forum on “Region and Nation in and outside Terranglia,” Seventh International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation,”August 4, 1998. “‘The Mind’s Eye Lit the Sun’: Transcendentalism in Contemporary American Poetry,” invited lecture, University of Limerick, November 26, 1997. “Native American Fiction and the Land Ethic”; the Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, KSU, March 1996.
Mo.; Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, Mo., 19801983 TEACHING Introduction to Short Stories Humanities: Modern Period Written Communication for Engineers Honors English Expository Writing I Expository Writing II Contemporary Irish Poetry and Environmentalism African Literature Written Communication for the Sciences Humanities in the Ancient World The Literature of Work World Literature Introduction to Poetry Representations of Ireland (NUIG) Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Literature Shakespeare (NUIG) 20th Century Poetry in English Contemporary Irish Literature and Environmentalism History of the English Language Reading Now (Contemporary Literature) Graduate Seminar: Irish Literature and Trauma Women Writers Graduate Seminar: Literature Pedagogy Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry 19891990: Lecturer, University of Missouri, St. Louis Advanced Expository Writing Composition I Composition II INROADS (precollege minority Enrichment Fall 1987: Instructor, Washington University, St. Louis Freshman Composition INROADS 19831988: Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri, Columbia Introduction to Film Composition I Introduction to Fiction Composition II