Jim
O’Loughlin
EDUCATION
Ph. D. in English; SUNY at Buffalo (1998)
Major Field: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American literature
Minor Field: Literary and cultural theory
M.A. in English; Boston College (1991)
B.A. in English,
concentration in creative writing; Trinity College, Connecticut (1988)
EMPLOYMENT
Adjunct
Professor in English. University of
Northern Iowa. Fall 2000 to present.
Teach
courses in American literature, multicultural literature, fiction writing, composition, introduction to literature.
Full-time Lecturer in English. Penn State Erie. Fall 1998 to Spring 2000.
Taught courses in American literature, composition,
desktop and
electronic
publishing, journalism.
Advised campus newspaper.
MAJOR
PROJECTS
Daily
Life in America, 1870-1900: The Industrial Experience.
Co-author. Contracted for
publication in 2004 by Greenwood Press. This
book explores changes in everyday experience wrought by rapid industrialization
in post-Civil War America. Topics
include factory and domestic work, popular entertainment, and the growth of
cities.
Literature Without Guarantees: American Fiction in the Public Sphere. Readers: Professors Kenneth Dauber (director), James Holstun, Stacy Hubbard and Christopher Wilson (outside reader). This dissertation explores the American novel during a period of social change, focusing on how popular novels became a means through which audiences and writers made sense of their world. Individual chapters focus on works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edward Bellamy and Upton Sinclair. New material focuses on Thomas Dixon and D. W. Griffith. Under revision for future publication.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, cultural studies, computers and writing, African-American literature.
REFEREED
PUBLICATIONS
“Bad
Metaphor: The Problem With the ‘Community’ in ‘Cybercommunity.’” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 18.2 (Fall 2001): 85-88.
“Articulating
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” New
Literary History 31.3 (Summer 2000): 573-97.
“Sentimental Education: Frederick Douglass, Susan Warner,
and the Place of Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America.” Representations of Education in Literature. Ed. Paul Nixon, London:
Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 51-66.
“The
Whiteness of Bone: Russell Banks’ Rule of the Bone and the Legacy of Huckleberry
Finn.” Forthcoming in Modern
Language Studies special issue on Whiteness.
“Teaching Genre with ‘The Yellow Wall-paper.’” Forthcoming in Reading the Writing on the Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Ed. Jeffrey Weinstock. Peter Lang Publishers.
“The
Mission.” (fiction) Friction Magazine.
2.2 (Spring 2000). <http://www.frictionmag.com/archives/2000/spring/fiction/oloughlin.html>.
“Questioning
the ‘Success’ of Collaborative Learning.” Socialist
Review. 27.1-2 (1999): 29-47.
“Public vs. Mass Media: The Case of the Internet.” The Journal of American Underground Computing. 1.2 (April 4, 1994). <http://www.etext.org/Zines/ASCII/JAUC/tjoauc1-2>.
NON-REFEREED
PUBLICATIONS
Editor
for The Beet. On-line
publication at <http://www.thebeet.com>.
“The Soliliquy.”
(fiction) Storybytes. 53 (September 2000). <http://www.storybytes.com/view-stories/2000/soliloquy.html>.
Essay on Jerome
Wurf. The
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives.
Ed. Kenneth T. Jackson. New
York: Scribner’s, 1998. 896-98.
6 additional publications.
SELECTE
“Naturalism
in the Public Sphere: The Case of The Jungle.” Northeast Modern
Language Association conference. Hartford,
CT. April 2001.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin and 1876.” Modern Language Association
conference. Washington, D.C.
December 2000.
“Revising Utopia: From Looking Backward to Equality.”
Midwest Modern Language Association conference.
Kansas City, MO. November
2000.
“Still Struggling With the Whiteness of Huckleberry Finn.” NEMLA conference.
Pittsburgh, PA. April 1999.
“Cultural Studies and Praxis.” New York College English Association conference. Daemen College. November 1996. Awarded “Outstanding Graduate Student Presentation.”
11 additional conference presentations, 6 conference panels chaired.
SELECTED
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Beginning
Fiction Writing (University of Northern Iowa, Fall 2001).
American Renaissance (UNI, Fall 2001. Maternity leave replacement).
Multicultural Literature (UNI, Fall 2001. Maternity
leave replacement).
Survey of American Literature: The Uses of American Literature (Penn State Erie, Fall 1999).
Freshman Seminar: Writing the First Year Experience (Penn State Erie, Fall 1999, Spring 2000).
Technology & the Humanities: The Small Press (Penn State Erie, Spring 1999, 2000).
Reading Fiction: Introduction to Literature & Literary Criticism (Penn State Erie, Fall 1998).
Newspaper Practicum (Penn State Erie, Fall 1998 to Spring 2000).
Rhetoric and Composition (University of Northern Iowa, Fall 2000 to Fall 2001; Penn State Erie, Fall 1998 to Spring 2000; SUNY-Buffalo, Fall 1992, 1993, 1994; Boston College, Fall 1990, 1991).
UNIVERSITY
& PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Advisory Editor of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture website (Fall 2000 - present). Founding Editor and Publisher of Buffalo Americanist Digest (1993-98). Co-Editor of The Graduate Quill (1995-96). Reader for Research & Society (1994-96).
At Penn State Erie
Theses supervised: “Alan Ginsberg and Communism,” “God and Meaning in American Nature Writing.” Advisor to campus newspaper, The Behrend Beacon (Fall 1998 to present). Humanities and Social Sciences Computer Committee (Fall 1998 to present). School of Information Sciences and Technololgy Formation Committee (Fall 1998, Fall 1999). Student Life Committee (Fall 1999). Recipient of Mary Behrend Cultural Fund grant (Spring 1999, Spring 2000).
REFERENCES
Professor Kenneth Dauber, SUNY-Buffalo English, (716) 645-7525, dauber@acsu.buffalo.edu
Professor James Holstun, SUNY-Buffalo English, (716) 645-7525, jholstun@acsu.buffalo.edu
Professor Stacy Hubbard, SUNY-Buffalo English, (716) 645-7525, sch1@acsu.buffalo.edu
Dean Roberta Salper, So. New Hampshire Univ. School
of Liberal Arts, (603) 645-9692, r.salper@snhu.edu
Professor John Champagne, Penn State Erie English,
(814) 898-6331, jgc4@psu.edu