MIT CV

<July 2002>

Education

(1981) Ph.D. (English and American Literature, Harvard University)
(1967) BA (English History and Literature, Harvard College)

Fellowships and Honors

2005 Arthur C. Smith Award (MIT)
1994-5 Fulbright Grant (University College, Galway Ireland)
1989 Finalist (Fiction) Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grants
1987 Thompson Visiting Poet (Babson College)
1986 Old Dominion Fellowship (MIT)
1986-88 Class of '22 Career Development Professorship (MIT)
1986 and 1989 Finalist, Samuel French Morse Prize (Northeastern)
1985 John Gardner Short Fiction Prize (SUNY Binghamton)
1984 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction (Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa OK)
1982 Book Award (Poetry Center, San Francisco State University) 

Professional Experience
Academic:

1994-present Professor of Literature (MIT)
1986-1994 Associate Professor of Literature (MIT)
January and March 2001 Faculty Member, Teachers as Scholars program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
1981-1999 Faculty Member, Harvard Extension Program
1980-83 Lecturer on English and American Literature, English Department, Harvard University

Other Teaching and Administrative Experience:

1980-1983 Allston Burr Senior Tutor (Assistant to the Dean of the College), Adams House, Harvard College
1978-1979 Assistant to the Manager, Training and Educational Services Department, Kurzweil Computer Products, Cambridge MA
1969-1978 Teacher (Eighth Grade Social Studies) Frank A. Day Junior High School, Newton MA

Fields of Interest

19th/20th Century American Literature
Modern Irish Literature in English
Contemporary Poetry

Publications
Books

• Signs, Translations (poems; forthcoming 2003)++
• 1999 Defining Absence (poems)
• 1994 One Sleep, One Waking (poems)
• 1989 The Errand of Keeping Alive (criticism)
• 1987 Stubbornness: A Field Guide (fiction)
• 1983 Thoreau: A Naturalist's Liberty (criticism)
• 1983 Modernism Reconsidered (criticism: assisted Robert J. Kiely as editor)
• 1981 The Old Chore (poems)

Other Publications (selected)
chapters in books:

In:

• Education for Judgment,
• Thoreau: Modern Critical Perspectives,
• The Automobile in American Culture,
• Modernism Reconsidered,
• Seamus Heaney,: A Celebration,
• Baseball and the Game of Life,
• Baseball and the Game of the Mind,
• Garland Encyclopedia of the History of Science,
• Contemporary Irish Women Writers: Some Male Perspectives,
• Simultaneously Actual and Illusory: Memory in Some Plays by Brian Friel, in A Brian Friel Companion (forthcoming).

articles and essays:

In:

• Janus, Massachusetts Review,
• Harvard Review,
• Eire-Ireland,
• Prose Studies,
• Twentieth-Century Literature,
• Modern Language Studies,
• Dickens Studies Annual,
• New England Review,
• Garland Encyclopedia of American Science,
• Religion and the Arts.

fiction:

In:

• American Literary Review,
• Yankee,
• Partisan Review,
• New England Review,
• Story Quarterly,
• A Ghost at Heart's Edge,
• Finding America.

poetry:

In:

[selected]

• Poetry Ireland Review,
• Dan River Anthology,
• Centennial Review,
• Stone Country,
• Witness and Wait,
• Something Understood,
• City River of Voices,
• Poetry,
• Ploughshares,
• Kenyon Review,
• Southern Poetry Review,
• Poetry Porch,
• Touched by Adoption,
• The MIT Song Book,
• Terrain.

on the World Wide Web:

• Terrain
• The Poetry Porch
• Poetry.Com

Current Projects:

• The Eye's Plain Version (poems),

Readings and Presentations:

• May 27 -- Invited Particiipant, "A Gathering of Writers: A May Brunch Benefit." RIPEN, Johnston RI
• July 6- 13 Residency, "the Writer's Place, Knockeven, Co. Clare, Ireland
• July 1-5 Bear River Writer's Conference, Petoskey, MI

At annual meetings of the:

• Northeast Popular Culture Association,
• the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature,
• the American Conference for Irish Studies,
• the Modern Language Association and the Northeast MLA;

And also at:

• St. John's Episcopal Church,
• the O'Neill and Central Square Branches of the Cambridge Public Library, and
• the James Library (Norwell MA).

Other Activities:

• Founding Member, Every Other Thursday Press.
• Book Prize Selection Committee, New England Popular Culture Association.
• Board Member, Ellen LaFarge Poetry Foundation.
• Judge, Poet Laureate's Competition, North Carolina Poetry Association.

Institute Service:

• Departmental advisor and Undergraduate Officer,
• Freshman Advisee Seminar Leader,
• Maier Committee on the Reform of the Hum-D System,
• Committee on Student Life,
• Task Force on the Campus Activities Center,
• Campus Dining Board