The University of Texas at Tyler

Department of Literature and Languages

Nathanael O'Reilly - Curriculum Vitae

NATHANAEL O’REILLY – CURRICULUM VITAE

 

BUS 235, The University of Texas at Tyler, 3900 University Blvd., Tyler, TX, 75799 (903) 566-7438 nathanael_oreilly@uttyler.edu

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EMPLOYMENT

The University of Texas at Tyler, Department of Literature and Languages

Assistant Professor of English, 2008 - present.

 

Albion College, Department of English

Visiting Instructor, 2005-2007.

 

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in English. Western Michigan University. 2008.

Dissertation: “Between the City and the Bush: Suburbia in Contemporary Australian Fiction.” Dissertation committee: Gwen Tarbox (chair), Allen Webb, Todd Kuchta, Nicholas Birns (outside reader).

Comprehensive Exam Fields: Contemporary Australian Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Modern British and Irish Literature.

Master of Arts in English. Western Michigan University. 2004.

Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Social & Political Studies. University of Ballarat

(Australia). 1995.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collections

Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press,

Forthcoming 2010. Print.

With Jean-François Vernay. Fear in Australian Literature and Film. Special Issue of

Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 23.1 (June 2009). Print.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“‘Is That an Accent I Detect?’: Accent, National Identity and the Australian Diaspora.”

Lemuria 2.1 (2009): Forthcoming November 2009. Print.

“Embracing Suburbia: Breaking Tradition and Accepting the Self in Hanif Kureishi’s The

Buddha of Suburbia.” Literary London 7.2 (2009): n. pag. Web.

“Imagined America: Whitman’s Nationalism in The First Edition of Leaves of Grass.”

Irish Journal of American Studies Online 1.1 (Summer 2009): n. pag. Web.

“Imagined England: Robinson Crusoe’s Nationalism.” Symbolism: An International

Annual of Critical Aesthetics 7 (2007): 283-299. Print.

“‘I Could Interpret These Signs’: Adventures in Teaching James Joyce’s ‘Araby.’”

Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction 7.2 (Spring 2007): 82-89. Print.

“The Influence of Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang: Repositioning the Ned

Kelly Narrative in Australian Popular Culture.” The Journal of Popular Culture 40.3 (Jun. 2007): 488-502. Print.

“Teaching ‘English with a Twist’: Australian Literature in the United States.” Antipodes:

A North American Journal of Australian Literature 21.1 (June 2007): 60-67. Print.

“Contemporary Nationalist Revisions of ‘Australia’: Illywhacker and A River Town.”

ReVisions of Australia: Histories, Images, Identities. Ed. Gabriella T. Espak. Special Issue of Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 12.1-2 (Fall 2006): 115-129. Print.

“Rejecting and Perpetuating the Anti-Suburban Tradition: Representations of the Suburbs

in The Tax Inspector, Johnno and Cloudstreet.” Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 20.1 (June 2006): 20-25. Print.

 

Chapters in Edited Collections

“Government, Media and Power: Terrorism in the Australian Novel Since 9/11.” From

Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the

US. Ed. Cara Cilano. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009. 295-315. Print.

With Jean-François Vernay. “Terra Australis Incognita?: An Introduction to Fear in

Australian Literature and Film.” Fear in Australian Literature and Film. Eds. Nathanael O’Reilly and Jean-Francois Vernay. Special Issue of Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 23.1 (June 2009): 5-9. Print.

“‘No One Gives a Fuck about Australia’: Aussies Abroad in The Riders and

Homesickness.” Bernard Hickey, A Roving Cultural Ambassador: Essays in His Memory. Eds. Maria Renata Dolce and Antonella Riem Natale. Udine, Italy: Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, 2009. 177-185. Print.

 

Interviews

“Negotiating Two Hemispheres: An Interview with Jonathan Bennett.” Antipodes: A

North American Journal of Australian Literature 21.1 (June 2007): 31-36. Print.

“The Voice of the Teller: A Conversation with Peter Carey.” Antipodes: A North

American Journal of Australian Literature 16.2 (December 2002):164-67. Print.

 

Foreword

“Foreword.” Another Kurukshetra, by Satish Verma, Ajmer, India: Arawalii, 2010.

Forthcoming. Print.

 

Reference Articles

“Bharati Mukherjee’s ‘The Management of Grief’”; “George Orwell’s ‘A Hanging’”; “Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Prophet’s Hair’”; “Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horsemen”; “Peter Carey’s ‘The Fat Man in History’; “Peter Carey’s ‘Do You Love Me?’”; “Peter Carey’s ‘American Dreams.’” Dictionary of Literary Characters. Ed. Michael D. Sollars. New York: Facts on File, Forthcoming 2010. Print.

“Morris West.” Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction. Eds. Geoff Hamilton and

Brian Jones. New York: Facts On File, 2009. 368-70. Print.

“Michigan.” Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, History. Eds. James P. Byrne,

Philip Coleman and Jason King. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. Print.

“D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Piano.’” The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the

Present. Eds. James Persoon and Robert R. Watson. New York: Facts On File, 2008. Print.

 

Book Reviews

Rev. of The Boat, by Nam Le. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian

Literature 23.1 (June 2009): 93-94. Print.

“Testing the Limits of Endurance.” Rev. of Breath, by Tim Winton. Antipodes: A North

American Journal of Australian Literature 22.2 (Dec. 2008): 169-170. Print.

Rev. of Mind the Country: Tim Winton's Fiction, by Salhia Ben-Messahel. Australian

Literary Studies 23.3 (Apr. 2008): 359-61. Print.

“McCann Rejects Mainstream Australian Literature.” Rev. of Subtopia, by A.L. McCann.

Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 20.2 (Dec. 2006): 199-200. Print.

Rev. of Suburban Anatomy, by Penelope Layland. API Review of Books 44 (July

2006): n. pag. Web.

Rev. of City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination, by Christopher

Lee. Biography 29.2 (Spring 2006): 380-83. Print.

Rev. of Griffith Review 6: Our Global Face – Inside the Australian Diaspora. Reviews

in Australian Studies 1.1 (Mar. 2006): 182. Print.

Rev. of Culture and Customs of Australia, by Laurie Clancy. Reviews in Australian

Studies 1.1 (Mar. 2006): 46. Print.

“A Journey across the Continent into Family History.” Review of Remnants, by Nigel

Featherstone. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 19.2

(Dec. 2005): 221-22. Print.

Rev. of Griffith Review 8: People Like Us. API Review of Books 37 (Sep. 2005): n. pag. Web.

Rev. of Transactions, by Neil Boyack. API Review of Books 27 (Sep. 2004): n. pag. Web.

Rev. of drums & bonnets, by Miriel Lenore. API Review of Books 25 (July 2004): n. pag. Web.

“A Timely Tale of Terrorism.” Review of Due Preparations for the Plague, by Janette

Turner Hospital. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 18.1 (June 2004): 88-89. Print.

Rev. of Straightshooter: Autobiographical Stories, by T.A.G. Hungerford. API Review

of Books 23 (March 2004): n. pag. Web.

“The Production of Australian Literature.” Review of The Making of the Australian

Literary Imagination, by Richard Nile. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 17.2 (December 2003): 171-172. Print.

 

Annotations

“In the Beginning: David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life,” by Yvonne Smith. The

Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“Imagining Transcendence: The Poetry of David Malouf,” by Natalie Seger. The

Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“Citizens of the World: Émigrés, Romantic Cosmopolitanism, and Charlotte Smith,” by

Adriana Craciun. The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“British Identity and the Challenge of Immigration in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Dottie and By

the Sea,” by Ian Q. Watts. The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“‘The Age of Reason is Over … An Age of Fury was Dawning’: Contemporary Anglo-

American Fiction and Terror,” by Robert Eaglestone. The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“Embodied Panic: Revisiting Modernist ‘Religion’ in the Controversies Over Ulysses and The Satanic Verses,” by Jean Kane. The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“Representations of Lawrence of Arabia: From Said's Orientalism (1978) to David Lean's

Film (1962),” by Alexander Lyon Macfie. The Annotated Bibliography of English

Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“The Lifting and the Lifted: Prefaces to Colonial Modernist Texts,” by Amardeep Singh.

The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“The Death of the Reader” by Tabish Khair. The Annotated Bibliography of English

Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

“‘Bringing the Head and the Body Together’: Valerie Mason-John and Dorothea Smartt

in Conversation,” by Maggie Gee. The Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk, by Susheila Nasta (Ed). The

Annotated Bibliography of English Studies. London: Routledge, 2008. n. pag. Web.

 

Poetry

“Anna Karenina in Canberra” and “Suburban Fantasy.” “Pop Goes the Region”:

Regionalism and Popular Art/Literature. Eds. Victoria Kuttainen and Lindsay Simpson. Special issue of LiNQ (Literature in North Quensland) 37 (2010): forthcoming. Print.

“Afternoons Waiting in Libraries,” “Surfside 2,” “Datsun 180B,” “Deep Water,” and

“The Present” Blackmail Press 26 (Dec. 2009): n. pag. Web.

“Free.” Taj Mahal Review 8.2 (Dec. 2009): forthcoming. Print.

“The Whaler’s Inn.” Harvest 4 (Dec. 2009): forthcoming. Print.

“Symptoms of Homesickness.” Transnational Literature 2.1 (Nov. 2009): n. pag. Web.

“The Hills of Bendigo.” Mascara Literary Review 5 (June 2009): n. pag. Web.

“Transience: Poems from Four Nations”: “No Chinese,” “Texas,” “Check King,”

“Slaving,” and “Transitory.” Transnational Literature 1.2 (May 2009): n. pag. Web.

“Fell Apart.” Meanderings: A Collection of Poetic Verse. Clarksville, TN: Diversion

Press, 2009. 113. Print.

“Breaking Surf” and “Yambuk.” Postcolonial Text 4.3 (2008): n. pag. Web.

“Seven.” Blackmail Press 23 (Dec. 2008): n. pag. Web.

“Stopping for Fish and Chips,” “Mentor” and “The Woods.” Blackmail Press 22 (July

2008): n. pag. Web.

“Pure Adrenalin Sound.” Southern Ocean Review 48 (July 2008): n. pag. Web.

“Queenslander.” Prosopisia: An International Journal of Poetry and Creative Writing

1.1 (2008): 36-37. Reprinted in Prosopisia: An International Journal of Poetry and Creative Writing 1.2 (2008): 33-35. Print.

“Skipton,” “Bound” and “Blank Faces.” Southern Ocean Review 46 (2008): n. pag. Web.

“Requiem.” Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 21.2 (Dec.

2007): 138. Print.

“Maple Street.” Postcolonial Text 3.3 (2007): n. pag. Web.

“York.” Namaste Fiji: The International Anthology. Special Issue of The Blue Fog

Poetry Journal 2 (July 2007): 26. Print.

“Cartography.” White Leaf Review 7 (Summer 2007): n. pag. Web.

“No Accident.” Red River Review (May 2007): n. pag. Web.

“Folk LPs and No TV” and “On Winter Evenings.” Correspondances Oceaniennes 4.1

(October 2005): 33. Print.

“Beyond.” The Oklahoma Review 6.2 (Fall 2005): n. pag. Web.

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Dissolving Borders: Teaching Jonathan Bennett's Verandah People in the United

States.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Calgary, Canada. February 26-28, 2009.

Panelist in Roundtable Discussion on “The Current Status of Australian Literary

Studies.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 22-24, 2007.

Participant in Discussion Panel on Postcolonial Literature. WIDR 89.1 FM.

Kalamazoo, MI. March 8, 2005.

“Using Readings in the College Composition Classroom.” Graduate Teaching Orientation

Seminar. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI. August 2003.

Introduction of Peter Carey. Western Michigan University Reading Series. Kalamazoo,

MI. October 16, 2002.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Waves of Fosters, Crocodiles and Ockers: Representations of Australia in American

Popular Culture.” Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference. Sydney, Australia. June 30 – July 2, 2010.

“Australian Literature as Postcolonial Literature.” American Association of Australian

Literary Studies Annual Conference. Washington, DC. February 25-27, 2010.

“Anti-Suburbanism, Indigenous Australians and the Struggle for Belonging in Tim

Winton’s Cloudstreet.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Calgary, Canada. February 26-28, 2009.

“Movie Stars, Gleaming Cars, and Cancer Clusters: U.S. Cultural Influence in Peter

Carey’s Fiction.” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association. Albuquerque, NM. October 16-19, 2008.

“Drugs, Booze, Violence and Indigenous Identity: Suburbia in Melissa Lucashenko’s

Steam Pigs.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Austin, TX. February 28 – March 1, 2008.

“Expatriation as Escape from the Cultural Desert in David Malouf’s Johnno and A. L.

McCann’s Subtopia.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. December 27-30, 2007.

“The Seduction of Radicalism and Terrorism in Andrew McCann’s Subtopia.” American

Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 22-24, 2007.

“Teaching the Thriller as Literature: Janette Turner Hospital’s Due Preparations for the

Plague.” Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. October 27-29, 2006.

“‘Is That an Accent I Detect?’: Accent, National Identity and the Australian Diaspora.”

American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. April 7-8, 2006.

“Constructions of Irishness in Four Contemporary Australian Novels: Tim Winton’s The

Riders, Thomas Keneally’s A River Town, David Malouf’s The Conversations at Curlow Creek and Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang.” Affecting Irishness: Mutability, Nationality and Writing ‘The Green’: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Irish and American Studies. University of Dublin, Trinity College. Dublin, Ireland. January 13-14, 2006.

“No One Gives a XXXX about Australia: Aussies Abroad in The Riders and

Homesickness.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April 29-30, 2005.

“Imagined England: Robinson Crusoe’s Nationalism.” Michigan Academy of Science,

Arts and Letters Annual Meeting. Eastern Michigan University. Ypsilanti, MI. March 5, 2005.

“Contemporary Nationalist Revisions of ‘Australia’ in Peter Carey’s Illywhacker and

Thomas Keneally’s A River Town.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 30, 2004.

“Beyond the Stereotypes: Teaching Australian Literature.” National Council of Teachers

of English Annual Convention. Indianapolis, IN. November 18, 2004.

“Contemporary Revisions of the Ned Kelly Narrative in Australian Popular Culture.”

Popular Culture Association Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. April 10, 2004.

“The Outsider as Narrator and Protagonist in Peter Carey’s The Unusual Life of Tristan

Smith and True History of the Kelly Gang.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Richmond, VA. April 2003.

 

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Program Chair. American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference.

Washington, DC. February 25-27, 2010.

Panel Organizer. “New Directions in Contemporary Australian Literature.” Modern

Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 27-30,

2009.

Panel Organizer. “Australian Narratives.” Modern Language Association Annual

Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 27-30, 2009.

Panel Chair. “Looking at History.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies

Annual Conference. Calgary, Canada. February 26-28, 2009.

Panel Chair and Organizer. “Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature.” Northeast

Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Buffalo, NY. April 10-13, 2008.

Panel Chair. “Pedagogy.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Austin, TX. February 28 – March 1, 2008.

Panel Chair. “New Kinships.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies

Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 22-24, 2007.

Panel Chair. “Film Noir and Teaching the Thriller.” Midwest Popular Culture

Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. October 27-29, 2006.

Panel Chair. “Aboriginal Images and Stories.” American Association of Australian

Literary Studies Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada. April 7-8, 2006.

Panel Chair. “Cultural Studies.” American Association of Australian Literary Studies

Annual Conference. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April 29-30, 2005.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Western Michigan University.

2007-2008.

Modern Language Association Graduate Travel Grant. December 2007.

Kappa Delta Professor of the Month. Albion College. April 2007.

Faculty Development Committee Research Grant. Albion College. 2007.

Office of Academic Affairs Faculty Travel Grant. Albion College. 2007.

Recipient of Virginia Watterson Scholarship. Western Michigan University. 2006.

English Department Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award. Western Michigan

University. 2006.

Office of Academic Affairs Faculty Travel Grant. Albion College. 2006.

English Department Doctoral Associateship. Western Michigan University. 2005-2006.

Co-recipient of Wertheim Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper presented at the

American Association of Australian Literary Studies Annual Conference. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April 29-30, 2005.

Graduate College Travel Grant. Western Michigan University. 2005.

Graduate College Travel Grant. Western Michigan University. 2004.

Graduate College Doctoral Associateship. Western Michigan University. 2004-2005.

English Department Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award. Western Michigan

University. 2004.

Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Western Michigan University. 2002-2004.

Summer Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Western Michigan University. 2003.

Graduate College Travel Grant. Western Michigan University. 2003.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The University of Texas at Tyler, Department of Literature and Languages

Assistant Professor of English, 2008-present.

English 4360: Studies in World Literature

English 3308: Writing Literary Analysis and Interpretation (two sections)

English 2363: World Literature Since The Renaissance (two sections)

English 1301: Grammar and Composition I (three sections)

English 1302: Grammar and Composition II

All classes individually designed and taught.

 

Albion College, Department of English

Visiting Instructor, 2005-2007.

English 389: Australian Literature and Culture (two sections)

English 203: Advanced Expository Writing (two sections)

English 151: Introduction to Literature

English 101: English Composition (six sections)

English 100: Writing Essentials

All classes individually designed and taught.

 

Western Michigan University, Department of English

Doctoral Associate, 2004-2006.

English 3310: British Literature II

English 2070: Australian Literature

English 1100: Literary Interpretation (three sections)

Graduate Assistant, 2001-2004.

English 1050: Thought and Writing (seven sections)

All classes individually designed and taught.

 

Western Michigan University, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Adjunct Instructor, 2002

IME 1020: Technical Communication

 

Kellogg Community College, Department of English

Adjunct Instructor, 2001-2005.

English 152: Freshman Composition II (eleven sections)

English 151: Freshman Composition I (ten sections)

English 120: Developmental Writing.

All classes individually designed and taught.

 

Davenport University, Department of Communications

Adjunct Instructor, 2001-2002.

Communications 120: Freshman Composition (three sections)

All classes individually designed and taught.

 

Glen Oaks Community College, Department of Communications

Adjunct Instructor, 2002.

Communications 121: Freshman Composition II

Communications 120: Freshman Composition I

All classes individually designed and taught.

 

SERVICE

Sigma Tau Delta Faculty Advisor. The University of Texas at Tyler. Fall 2009 - present.

Member of Commencement Committee. College of Arts and Sciences. The University of

Texas at Tyler. Fall 2009 – present.

Faculty Judge for Robert R. Muntz Library Student Poetry Contest. The University of

Texas at Tyler. Spring 2009.

Member of Advisory Committee on First Year Composition. The University of

Texas at Tyler. 2009.

Advisory Board Member. A.R.A.W.L.II, an international publisher of poetry, fiction and

drama based in Ajmer, India. 2009-present.

Editorial Board Member. Prosopisia: An International Journal of Poetry and Creative

Writing. 2009-present.

MLA Liaison for American Association of Australian Literary Studies. 2009-present.

SACS/Freshman Composition Committee Member. The University of Texas at Tyler.

2008-present.

UT-Tyler Faculty Representative at the College and Career Readiness Initiative

English/Language Arts Symposium, organized by The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Austin, TX. Jan. 23, 2009.

Assessment of World Literature survey exams for SACS. The University of Texas at

Tyler. Fall 2008.

Writing Center/Assistant Professor of English Search Committee Member. The

University of Texas at Tyler. 2008-2009.

Vice-President, American Association of Australian Literary Studies. 2008-present.

Editorial Advisory Board Member. Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature. 2007-2009.

Student Internship Advisor. Albion College. 2007.

Individually-Designed-Major Advisor. Albion College. 2006-2007.

Webmaster, American Association of Australian Literary Studies. 2006-present.

Newsletter Editor, American Association of Australian Literary Studies. 2006-present.

Secretary, American Association of Australian Literary Studies. 2005-2008.

Committee Member for Honors College Senior Thesis. Western Michigan University.

2005-2006.

Guest Referee for Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature. 2005.

Doctoral Student Representative on Postcolonial Comprehensive Exam Development

Committee. Western Michigan University. 2005.

Elected Graduate Student Representative on English Department Grievance Committee.

Western Michigan University. 2004-2005.

Association of Graduate English Students. Mentor for incoming M.A. Literature

Students. Western Michigan University. 2003-2004.

Volunteer Instructor at East Texas Literacy Council. 1995-1997.

Elected Student Representative on Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Academic Curriculum Committee. University of Ballarat. 1993.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of Australian Literary Studies

Modern Language Association