curriculum vitæ
	Associate Professor Robert Dunne 318 Willard Hall (860) 832-2756 dunne@ccsu.edu

EDUCATION

 PhD, English, Lehigh University, 1992 (Major concentration: American literature and culture)
 MA, English, Columbia University, 1987
 BA, summa cum laude, English, Media Studies, Fordham University, 1986
 

 Ulysses
 Sherwood Anderson and Some Crosscurrents of Modernism
 Southern Literature and Culture
 American Renaissance
 James Joyce's Dublin (study-abroad course)
 American Nationalism, 1840-1860
 Melville
 American Myth-making in Prose and Film
 19th-Century American Pop Novels and Social Intolerance
 American Canon(s)
 American Literature I
 American Literature II

Antebellum Irish Immigration and Emerging Ideologies of "America": A Protestant Backlash (Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2002)

A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson’s Early Fiction, book in progress, under consideration with Kent State UP

Dictionary of Midwestern Literature published by Indiana University Press, 2001 (Senior Editor)

"The Book of the Grotesque: Textual Theory and the Editing of Winesburg, Ohio," Studies in Short Fiction 35.3, forthcoming

"Dueling Ideologies of America in The Bread-Winners and The Money-Makers," American Literary Realism 1870-1910 28 (1996): 30-37

"Not for White Men Only: The Methodology Behind the Dictionary of Midwestern Literature," MidAmerica 20 (1993): 40-47

"Avoiding Labels: Recasting a Canon Via Myth Criticism," College Literature 19 (1992): 136-41

"Absalom, Absalom! and the Ripple-Effect of the Past," University of Mississippi Studies in English 10 (1992): 56-66

SELECTED ACADEMIC SERVICE

Chair, American Studies Committee, and Coordinator of the program, Central Conn. State, 1995-

Chair, English Dept. Graduate Committee, Central Conn. State, 1998-2000, 2001-; Member, 1994-2000

Chair, English Dept. Curriculum Committee, Central Conn. State, 1994-97; Secretary, 1992-93, 1997-2000; Member, 2001-
 
Coordinator, guest lecture on the World Trade Center, by Paul Goldberger (The New Yorker), Central Conn. State, 2002

Coordinator, photo exhibit on World Trade Center, Central Conn. State, 2002

Coordinator, "Americans Abroad: Getting an International Perspective on U.S. Culture," study-abroad workshop, Central Conn. State, 1999

Coordinator, "Studying the United States from Abroad" and "Features of American English and Their Origins," guest lectures by Professor Zoltan Kovecses (Eotvos Lorand Univ., Budapest, Hungary), Central Conn. State, 1997

Coordinator, "Teaching American Studies at CCSU" workshop, Central Conn. State, 1997

Coordinator, "American Studies Today," guest lecture by Professor Alan Trachtenberg (Yale Univ.), Central Conn. State, 1997

Coordinator, "Is There a Theory in This Class?: A Workshop on Recognizing and Using Theory in Literature Courses, Central Conn. State, 1995

Coordinator, "The Significance of the Frontier Myth in U.S. History," guest lecture by Professor Richard Slotkin (Wesleyan Univ.), Central Conn. State, 1994

Coordinator, "The Canon Controversy: A Workshop on the American Literary Canon," Central Conn. State, 1993
 

Senior Editor, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, vol. 2, 2001-
Senior Editor, Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, vol. 1, 1992-2001
Fulbright Senior Scholar, Eötvös Loránd University, József Eötvös University College, Budapest, Hungary, 1996

 

SELECTED PAPERS

"No Irish Need Apply: Antebellum Irish Immigration and the Nativist Response," at the conference, "Strangers in the Land of Strangers: Defining ‘American’ in Times of Conflict," Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2002

"A New Book of the Grotesque: Contemporary Approaches to Winesburg, Ohio," Midwest Modern Language Association annual convention, Kansas City, 2000

"Hollywood, Myth-Making, and the Endurance of Violence," guest lecture, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, May 9, 1996

"Anderson's Place in a Multicultural Canon," Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature annual conference, Michigan State, 1995

"The Indeterminacy of Language and Myth in Glengarry Glen Ross," Modern Language Association annual convention, San Diego, 1994

"Clashing Myths of America: Labor vs. Capital in The Bread-Winners and The Money-Makers," Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature annual conference, Michigan State, 1994

"The Garies and Their Friends: How to Be Black and Rich in Antebellum America," MELUS annual conference, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
 

 Volunteer Archivist and Writer, Manchester Historical Society, 2000-
 Secretary, School Board, St. Bridget School, Manchester, CT, 1999-
 Liturgical Reader, St. Bridget Church, 1993-
 Member, Christian Social Action Committee, St. Bridget parish, 1992-96