James C. McKusick

Curriculum Vitae

Office Address:

            The Davidson Honors College

            The University of Montana-Missoula

            Missoula, Montana 59812

Education:

            Ph.D.   1984, Yale University, English

            M.Phil. 1982, Yale University, English

            M.A.    1980, Yale University, English

            B.A.     1979, Dartmouth College, English and Comparative Literature

Experience in Higher Education:

            2005-present: Dean, Davidson Honors College, The University of Montana-Missoula

            2005-present: Professor of English, The University of Montana-Missoula

            2002-2005:  Director, Honors College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

            2002-2005:  Professor of English, UMBC

            1998-2002:  Chair, English Department, UMBC

            1989-2002:  Associate Professor, UMBC

            1984-1989:  Assistant Professor, UMBC

Fellowships and Awards:

            2005: Certificate of Appreciation, Golden Key International Honour Society, University of Montana

            2004: Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honour Society, UMBC

2002: Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology designated by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

            2001: UMBC Faculty Development Grant for Technology Enhanced Learning

1997: Humanities Teaching Fellowship, UMBC

1997: Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library

1997: Provost’s Research Fellowship, UMBC

1995-96: Special Research Initiative Support, UMBC

1995: Shriver Center Service-Learning Faculty Development Grant, UMBC

1994-95: Special Research Initiative Support, UMBC

1992: Faculty Summer Fellowship, UMBC

1990-91: NEH Research Fellowship for College Teachers

1990: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library

1989: NEH Summer Institute at the Newberry Library

1989: Faculty Summer Fellowship, UMBC

1988: Faculty Summer Fellowship, UMBC

1987: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers

1986: Exxon-Huntington Library Fellowship

1985: NEH Summer Stipend

1979: Phi Beta Kappa honors society

            1979: Salutatory Rank, Dartmouth College Class of 1979

            1979: Marshall Scholarship finalist; Rhodes Scholarship finalist

Publications—Books:

!   Green Writing: Romanticism and Ecology.  New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2000. This book was reviewed in Symbiosis (2001), Romantic Circles Reviews (2002), University of Toronto Quarterly (2002), Canadian Literature (2003), Romanticism on the Net (2003), and Studies in Romanticism (2003)

!   Bridget Keegan and James C. McKusick, co-editors.  Literature and Nature: Four Centuries of Nature Writing.  New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2001.  An Instructor’s Manual is also available.

!   Coleridge’s Philosophy of Language.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986

Publications—Articles and Book Chapters:

!   “Nature.”  The Blackwell Companion to European Romanticism, ed. Michael Ferber (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming 2006)

!   “Ecology.”  Romanticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 199-218

!   “Coleridge and Symbol.”  The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, ed. Lucy Newlyn (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 217-230

!   “William Cobbett, John Clare, and the Agrarian Politics of the English Revolution.”  Radicalism in British Literary Culture, 1650-1830: From Revolution to Revolution, ed. Timothy Morton and Nigel Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 167-182

!   “Stepping Westward.”  Wordsworth Circle, 32 (2001): 122-126

!   “Kubla Khan and the Theory of the Earth.”  Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Sciences of Life, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 134-151

!   “John Clare’s Version of Pastoral.”  Wordsworth Circle, 30 (1999): 80-84

!   “‘Wisely forgetful’: The Politics of Pantisocracy.”  Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830, ed. Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 107-128

!   “Coleridge and the Economy of Nature.”  Studies in Romanticism, 35 (1996): 375-392

!   “From Coleridge to John Muir: The Romantic Origins of Environmentalism.”  Wordsworth Circle, 26 (1995): 36-40

!   “John Clare and the Tyranny of Grammar.”  Studies in Romanticism, 33 (1994): 255-277.  Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 85 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2000) and republished online at the Literature Resource Center, www.galenet.com

!   “‘Singing of Mount Abora’”: Coleridge’s Quest for Linguistic Origins.”  Critical Essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Leonard Orr (New York: G.K. Hall, 1994), pp. 53-70

!   “Beyond the Visionary Company: John Clare’s Resistance to Romanticism.”  John Clare in Context, ed. Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips, and Geoffrey Summerfield (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 221-237

!   “‘That Silent Sea’: Coleridge, Lee Boo, and the Exploration of the South Pacific.”  Wordsworth Circle 24 (1993): 102-106

!   “‘A language that is ever green’: The Ecological Vision of John Clare.”  University of Toronto Quarterly, 61 (Winter 1991-92): 30-52.

!   “‘Living Words’: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Genesis of the OED.”  Modern Philology, 90 (1992): 1-45.  Includes appendix entitled “Coleridgean Coinages: A Reference List”

!   “The Politics of Language in Byron’s The Island.”  ELH, 59 (1992): 839-856

!   “John Clare’s London Journal: A Peasant Poet Encounters the Metropolis.”  Wordsworth Circle, 23 (1992): 172-175.  Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 85 (Detroit: Gale Research, 2000) and republished online at the Literature Resource Center, www.galenet.com

!   “Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Coleridge.”  Approaches to Teaching Coleridge’s Poetry and Prose, ed. Richard Matlak.  New York: Modern Language Association, 1991, pp. 49-56

!   “A New Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”  Modern Philology, 84 (1987): 407-415

!   “Coleridge’s Logic: A Systematic Theory of Language.”  Papers in the History of Linguistics, ed. Hans Aarsleff, Louis G. Kelly, and Hans-Josef Niederhe.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987, pp. 479-489

!   “Coleridge and Horne Tooke.”  Studies in Romanticism, 24 (1985): 85-111

Publications—Edited Collections of Essays:

!   Romanticism, Ecology, and Pedagogy, edited with an introduction by Bridget Keegan and James McKusick. Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons (forthcoming 2006)

!   New Directions in John Clare Studies.  Selected conference papers, edited with an introduction by James McKusick.  Wordsworth Circle, 34 (Summer 2003): 130-158

!   Romanticism and Ecology, edited with an introduction by James McKusick.  Romantic Circles Praxis Series (November 2001), published online at www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/ecology

!   Romanticism and Ecology.  Selected conference papers, edited with an introduction by James McKusick.  Wordsworth Circle, 28 (Summer 1997): 121-200

!   The Cultural Legacies of Romanticism.  Selected conference papers, edited with an introduction by James McKusick.  Wordsworth Circle, 27 (Winter 1996): 1-44

Publications—Book Reviews:  James McKusick has published over two dozen scholarly book reviews in such journals as Eighteenth-Century Studies, European Romantic Review, Huntington Library Quarterly, Keats-Shelley Journal, Modern Philology, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Romantic Circles, Romanticism on the Net, South Central Review, Studies in Romanticism, University of Toronto Quarterly, and The Wordsworth Circle.

Papers Presented:   James McKusick has presented over 50 scholarly papers at such meetings as the American Conference on Romanticism, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Convention, Coleridge Summer Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Modern Language Association Convention, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, and Wordsworth Summer Conference.

Academic Service—National and International:

      2000-present: Convener, The Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, U.K.

1997-present: Executive Director, The John Clare Society of North America

1997-present: Manuscript reviewer for College English, European Romantic Review, John Clare Society Journal, Modern Philology, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, PMLA, Wordsworth Circle, Macmillan Press, McGill-Queens University Press, Oxford University Press, Pickering & Chatto, Princeton University Press, Routledge, and Yale University Press

1995-present: President, The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

1995-98: Executive Board, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism

University Service:

      2005-present: Member, Scholarship and Financial Aid Committee, University of Montana

      2005-present: Member, Advisory Board, Center for Ethics, University of Montana

      2005-present: Member, Advisory Board, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Montana

      2005-present: Member, Advisory Board, Ursa Major Program, University of Montana

      2005-present: Washington Center Liaison, University of Montana

      2004-2005: President, UMBC Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa

      1998-2002: Member, Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph.D. Program Steering Committee

1995-2002: Faculty Sponsor, UMBC Chapter of Sigma Delta Tau (English Honors Society)

1999-2000: Chair, Institutional Faculty Nominating Committee, UMBC

      1999: Conference Director, University System of Maryland Chairs’ Conference

1997-98: Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, UMBC