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Jonathan Mulrooney Associate Professor Department of English College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793-3440 jmulroon@holycross.edu |
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
My primary interests include the following: British Romantic Literature, esp. Keats and Hazlitt; Romantic-period Theater and Public Culture; Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature; Poetics; Film; Theatrical Performance; Literary Theory, especially Romantic Historicisms. My current scholarly project, Romanticism and Theatrical Experience, explores early nineteenth-century British theater and its periodical culture in relation to "second-generation" Romantic poetry. I'm also at work on several articles, including a piece on Coleridge's "Dejection" Ode. In addition to these interests, I have taught courses in Fantasy Literature (including Tolkien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and the American Western, as well as introductory courses in fiction, drama, and poetry. Before returning to Holy Cross in 2004, I spent two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont in beautiful Burlington, Vermont.
EDUCATION
I received my Ph.D. in 2001 from Boston University. My dissertation, written under the direction of Charles Rzepka, was entitled The Subject of Theater: Theatrical Criticism and Poetry in Britain, 1798-1832. In 1998, I spent a wonderful summer at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, attending the International School of Theory in the Humanities. Before that, I earned an M.A. in English in 1993 from the University of Toronto, where I studied Romanticism with Alan Bewell. The Jesuits presided over my undergraduate days at Boston College, and I graduated with an A.B. in 1991 from the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program after studying with Fr. John Howard, S.J. and Mark O'Connor.
