John L. Mahoney

2003-2007 Presentations and Publications

On August 31, 2007 conducted a Workshop on �The Art and Craft of Teaching� for Teaching Fellows and Assistants at the Annual Day for Strategies of Successful Teaching sponsored by the Connors Learning Center and the Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

On August 8-12, 2007 led a Symposium on �The Poetry of Ultimate Reality and Meaning� and delivered a paper on �A Doll House: Gender and the Quest for Ultimate Meaning� at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas About Ultimate Reality and Meaning,� Regis College, University of Toronto.

On December 28, 2006 presented �Teaching Ibsen�s A Doll House in the Post-Feminist Classroom� a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Philadelphia. On October 23, 2006 presented �Reading Aloud: The Theme of Freedom in American Literature� � The Humanities Division Lecture at the Franklin Pierce University Oktoberfest, Rindge, New Hampshire. A return visit after the October 21, 2002 lecture on �Wordsworth and the Romantics: Myths and Realities� at Franklin Pierce.

On August 3-6 2005, presented a paper, "Poetry, Landscape, Ultimacy: Pope and Wordsworth" at the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Ideas of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, at Regis College, University of Toronto.

On November 4-6, 2004, presented "'Windsor Forest' and Tintern Abbey':Religious Experience and Landscape" at the Annual Meeting of the Northeast Society for 18th Century Studies" (NEASECS), University of Vermont.

Presented the paper "Wordsworth: Religion, The Enlightenment and the Larger World" at the Annual Meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Boulder, Colorado, September 9-12, 2004.

On November 7, 2003 addressed a special session on "The Achievement of Walter Jackson Bate" at the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for 18th Century Studies, in Providence, Rhode Island. The presentation--"Walter Jackson Bate: The Humanist as Teacher and Scholar" has been published in Religion and the Arts 8.1 (2004)and in The Johnsonian News Letter (2004).

Delivered the 2003 Wordsworth Memorial Lecture on "William Wordsworth of Rydal: Religious Experience and Practice" at Rydal Church (Wordsworth's). The lecture was published by the Rydal Church Trust.

Recent Reviews and Essays

Brian Hanley, Samuel Johnson as Book Reviewer: A Duty to Examine the Labors of the Learned in 1650-1850: Ideas, Inquiries, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Era (2001).

Eric G. Wilson, Coleridge�s Melancholia: An Anatomy of Limbo in European Romantic Review (July 2006). 1

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