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Miriam O’Kane Mara
Department of English 210 N Eleventh St #102
Minard Hall 320 Fargo, ND 58102
North Dakota State University 419-957-3052
Fargo, ND 58105
Education
Ph.D. English, University of New Mexico, 2003.
M.A. English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1998.
B.A. International Studies, Jacksonville University, Summa Cum Laude, 1989.
Professional
Assistant Professor: North Dakota State University.
Assistant Professor: Ohio Northern University, 2003-2006.
Instructor/Teaching Assistant: University of New Mexico, 1998-2003.
Faculty Consultant: Advanced Placement Reading, Educational Testing Service, Summer 2002 & 2003.
Publications
A Famine Of Preference: Anorexia in Contemporary Irish Literature. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, full manuscript under review.
“Reading the Landscape for Clues: Environment in Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.” Murmurs That Come out of the Earth ed Christine Cusick, under review.
“(Re)producing Identity & Creating Famine in Nuala O’Faolain’s My Dream of You.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, forthcoming.
“University Commons: A Place to Take an Educational Stand,” Works and Days, under review (Written with Dr. Andrew Mara).
“The Geography of Body: Borders in Edna O’Brien’s Down By the River and Colum McCann’s ‘Sisters.’” Having Our Own Field Day: Essays on the Irish Canon, Ed. Helen Thompson. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
“Sucking the Empire Dry: Colonial Critique in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” Dickens Studies Annual Vol 32, New York: AMS Press, 2002. 233-246.
Professional Conference Presentations
“ ‘Liquids I Can Eat’ Stephen Dedalus Channels Female Anorexia” Grian Conference. New York. April, 2006.
“Pathologies of Femininity: Cancer Crossing the Borders of the Body in O’Brien and O’Faolain” Session Organizer. American Conference on Irish Studies. South Bend, Indiana. April 15, 2005.
“Starving and Feasting in Nuala O’Faolain and James Joyce” Bloomsday 100: 19th International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland. June 15, 2004.
“Anorexia: Food and Control in Edna O’Brien’s Fiction.” The Irish Renaissance Cultural Festival, Albuquerque, NM. October, 2001.
“Roddy Doyle’s own Bird Girl: An Eco-Critical Reading of Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha.” Southwest Symposium, Albuquerque, NM. April, 2001.
“The Schizophrenia of Narrators in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Los Angeles, CA. October 22, 2000.
“Epiphany or Rebirth: Evaluating the Bird Girl in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Miami Joyce Conference, Miami, FL. February 7, 2000.
“The Trope of Silence in John Montague and Seamus Heaney.” American Conference on Irish Studies Roanoke, VA. May 17, 1999.
Invited Presentations
Symposium Series: A Pharmacist’s Right to Choose, Ohio Northern University, 2005
“Class-based Ethos in the Denial of Patient’s Rights”
Lecture to Pennsylvania State University Department of English, 2003
“Facing the New Normal”
Lecture to Irish-American Society: Albuquerque, NM. October 11, 2002
“Anorexia, Food, and Space in Contemporary Irish Literature”
University Courses Taught
Ohio Northern University:
English 432: Studies in Comparative Literature
English 430: Readings in English-Language Literature – Post-colonial Literature.
English 324: Victorian Literature English 263: Women’s Literature
English 262: African Literature English 219: Non-Western Literature
English 214: British Literature II English 204: Great Works
English 111: Writing 2 English 110: Writing 1
University of New Mexico: As a Teaching Assistant I had the sole responsibility for classroom instruction of these courses (excluding English 537, which was team taught).
English 537: Teaching Composition English 295: Survey of Later British Literature
English 220: Advanced Expository Writing English 219: Technical Writing
English 102: Argumentative Writing English 101: Expository Writing
First Year Learning Community Linked Writing Course
Other Teaching
GRE Preparatory Class, University of New Mexico, Special Programs, Summer 2000.
Fantasy Quest: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Duke University: Talent Identification Program, 1999.
Writing With Power, Duke University: Talent Identification Program, 1999.
Grants and Academic Honors
Faculty Development Grant: College of Arts and Sciences, ONU. $1300. Summer, 2005
Faculty Development Grant: College of Arts and Sciences, ONU. $1000. Summer, 2004.
Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, Ohio Northern University, 2004.
Research, Projects, and Travel Grant: Office of Graduate Studies, UNM. Under $500. Fall, 2000.
Research, Projects, and Travel Grant: Office of Graduate Studies, UNM. Under $500. Spring, 2000.
Phi Kappa Phi.
Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society.
Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society.
Social Sciences Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Jacksonville University, 1989.
University Scholarship, Jacksonville University, 1985-1989.