O Hare, Shawn Faculty Accomplishments

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1 O Hare, Shawn Faculty Accomplishments Positions: At Carson-Newman College: Chair, Department of English, 2009-present Associate Dean, School of Humanities, Associate Chair, Department of English, Associate Professor, 2005-present Assistant Professor, Editorial Work: Editor, Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, Vol. I, No. 1; Vol. I, No. 2; Vol. II, Nos. 1 & 2 (double issue); Vol. III (Nos. 1 & 2); Vol. IV (Nos. 1 & 2); Vol. V, No. 1. Assistant Editor, Journal of Beckett Studies (New Series), Vol. II, No. 2; Vol. III, No. 1; Vol. III, No. 2; Vol. IV, No. 1; Vol. IV, No. 2; Vol. V, No. 1. Editorial Assistant, Journal of Beckett Studies (New Series), Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2; Vol. II, No. 1. Publications: Liam O Flaherty s The Arrest and The Pedlar s Revenge. A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Ed. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, The $34,000,000 Man: John Clarkson and the Great Pitching Year Ever. Northsiders: Essays on the History and Culture of the Chicago Cubs. Eds. Gerald C. Wood and Andrew Hazucha. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Publications (continued): Jacques Derrida Was a Cubs Fan: Critical Theorists and Their Baseball Teams. Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, Eds. Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Samuel Beckett. British and Irish Short Fiction, Ed. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm. Detroit, Washington DC, London: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 2006: Jennifer Johnston. Irish Women Writers, An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Alexander Gonzalez. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 2006: Deirdre Madden. Irish Women Writers, An A-to-Z Guide. Ed. Alexander Gonzalez. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,

2 O Hare 2 I Must Go On: A Review of Jennifer Johnston s Grace and Truth. The Irish Book Review. 1.1 (Summer 2005): Frank O Connor s Book of Dreams and the Road to Modernity. Frank O Connor: New Perspectives. Eds. Robert C. Evans and Richard Harp. West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1998: Review of James B. Johnson s Exile: Poems of an Irish Immigrant. Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine (Summer 1998): 39. Roddy Doyle. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. 2 nd ed. Westport, Deirdre Madden. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. 2 nd ed. Westport, Joseph O Connor. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. 2 nd ed. Westport, James Plunkett. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. 2 nd ed. Westport, Colm Tóibín. Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan. 2 nd ed. Westport, Review of A Frank O Connor Reader. The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 1994): An Interview with James Plunkett. The Journal of Irish Literature (September 1993): Dissertation: Frank O Connor s Repressed Modernity: An Examination of Here Comes Everybody. Using primary materials, the dissertation examines O Connor s long-labored but never published book about interpreting dreams and how O Connor s interest in dreams affected his writing. Dissertation director: S. E. Gontarski Selected Awards and Honors: Spring 2006 Carson-Newman College Research Award, Faculty Honors Banquet, April Fall 2005 PEW grant ($500) from the Carson-Newman College faculty development to give a paper at the Shakespeare and the Irish Writer conference in Maynooth, Ireland.

3 O Hare 3 Spring 2003 Sabbatical awarded for Spring 2004 to devote time to scholarship. Fall 2002 PEW grant ($500) from the Carson-Newman College faculty development fund to continue research about Jennifer Johnston in Dublin, Ireland. Summer 2002 Instructor at the Central European University Summer University program Cultural Diversities, East and West in Budapest, Hungary. Taught the section The New Americans: Latinos in the United States. Spring 2001 Spring 1999 Spring 1999 Spring 1999 Spring 1998 PEW grant ($500) from the Carson-Newman College faculty development fund to present a paper at the 2001 Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Freeman Foundation Fellowship ($4,000) to attend the Freeman Foundation Symposium about U.S. and Asian Values, at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, June PEW grant ($500) from the Carson-Newman College faculty development fund to conduct research about Frank O Connor in Dublin and Dalkey, Ireland, May Carson-Newman College Research Award, Faculty Honors Banquet, April 1999 Mellon grant ($4,000) to attend the Contemporary Novels session of the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, March Spring 1998 PEW grant ($500) from the Carson-Newman College faculty development fund to attend the 1998 American Conference for Irish Studies Conference and serve as Chair for the session about Contemporary Irish Drama in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, April Selected Conference Papers: Watching the Detectives: Great Irish Writers and Detective Fiction. South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting, Louisville, KY, November The Making of Maz: Mazzilli, Mets, and Marketing. Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 2008 O'Flaherty and Marx (Leo, Not Karl): Ecocriticism and the Aran Islands. American Conference for Irish Studies meeting, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, April 2007 Jacques Derrida Was a Cubs Fan: Critical Theorists and Their Baseball Teams. Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 2007

4 O Hare 4 Frank O Connor, the Father of Godot, American Conference for Irish Studies meeting, University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2006 The $34 Million Man: John Clarkson and the Greatest Pitching Year Ever, Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 2006 Frank O Connor s Road to New Historicism: Shakespeare, The Road to Stratford, and a New Way of Thinking, Shakespeare and the Irish Writer Conference, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, February 2006 Theories of Identity in Deirdre Madden s Authenticity, American Conference for Irish Studies Annual General Meeting, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, April 2005 More than Poo: Roddy Doyle as Children s Writer, 2001 Southern regional American Conference for Irish Studies meeting, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, February 2001 Newbies in the Nineties: Three Debut Irish Novels, 1999 Southern regional American Conference for Irish Studies meeting, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, February 1999 The New Emigrants: Exile in Joseph O Connor s True Believers, 1997 South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1997 Battle of the Beckett Biographies: Bair vs. Knowlson, 1997 Southern regional American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, February 1997 Selected Conference Papers (continued): Marching to the Beat of a Dead Drummer: Using Rhythm to Foster Analysis in First- Year Composition, 1995 South Atlantic Modern Language Association meeting, Savannah, Georgia, November 1996 Central America s Ireland: Nicaragua in Joseph O Connor s Desperadoes, 1995 Southern regional American Conference for Irish Studies, College of Charleston, Charleston South Carolina, March 1995 From the Page to the Screen: Ireland at the Movies, Comparative Literature and Film Circle Conference, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, January 1992 Selected Professional Service: Referee, Studies in Medievalism, 2006

5 O Hare 5 Chair, Northern Irish Writing session, American Conference for Irish Studies, 2005 Referee, South Atlantic Review, 2003-present Chair, Irish Studies section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2001 Manuscript Reader, University Press of Florida, 2001 Secretary, Irish Studies section, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2000 Manuscript Reader, Pluto Press (London), 2000 Judge, Frank O Connor Essay Contest, 1999 Chair, Contemporary Irish Drama session, American Conference for Irish Studies, 1998 Teaching Experience: At Carson-Newman College: ENG 470, Twentieth Century Irish Literature and Film ENG 460, English Senior Seminar (Critical theory) ENG 451, Major Authors of British Literature: Joyce and Beckett ENG 443, U. S. Ethnic Literature ENG 380, Ireland and Its Literature ENG 363, British Literature II ENG 351, Readings in Irish Literature ENG 342, Studies in Irish Drama ENG 340, Studies in the Twentieth Century Novel ENG 340, Studies in the Postcolonial Novel ENG 310, The Art of Film ENG 305, Literary Criticism and Theory ENG 301, Writing and Literary Studies III ENG 222, British Literature II ENG 221, British Literature I ENG 212, American Literature II ENG 201, Writing and Literary Studies II ENG 102, Composition II ENG 101, Writing and Literary Studies I ENG 101, Composition I College Service: At Carson-Newman College: Member, Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Committee, 2009-present Chair, Multicultural Awareness Committee, Faculty Advisor, Progressive Student Alliance, Faculty Advisor, College Democrats, 2007-present Member, Academic Programs Committee, Member, Global Education Steeple Committee, Member, Study Abroad Coordinating Committee, Member, Multicultural Affairs Committee, Member, Concert Lecture Series Committee, Coordinator, May-term class in Ireland, 1997-present Fellow, Ernest L. Boyer Laboratory for Learning,

6 O Hare 6 Memberships: American Conference for Irish Studies Council of Editors of Learned Journals South Atlantic Modern Language Association References: Dr. S. E. Gontarski Dr. Bethany White Sarah Herndon Professor of English Assistant Professor of English Department of English Carson-Newman College Florida State University Jefferson City, TN Tallahassee, FL (865) (850) bwhite@cn.edu sgontarski@english.fsu.edu Dr. Andrew W. Hazucha Dr. Gerald C. Wood Dean, Humanities Dean, Humanities (retired) Ottawa University Director, Horton Foote Center Ottawa, KS Carson-Newman College (785) , ext Jefferson City, TN andy.hazucha@ottawa.edu (865) gwood@cn.edu Dr. John W. Wells Vice President of Academic Affairs Mars Hill College Mars Hill, NC (828) jwells@mhc.edu Updated on January 26, 2011