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McGuigan, John
Administration
- Interim Director, Center for Global Education. August 2023-present
- Director, Office of Global Experiences (Study Abroad). January 2019-August 2023
- Policies Website and Updates project. AY 2012-14
- Chancellor's Administrative Fellow. AY 2012-13
Education
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
- M.A., University of Minnesota-Duluth
- B.A., St. John’s University (MN)
Academic Interests
British and American modernism; early 20th century radical art and politics; film and screenwriting; Irish and Scottish literature and culture.
Publications
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“Exiles and the Limits of Egoism,” James Joyce Quarterly, 53.1-2 (Fall 2015-Winter 2016): 115-38. (Published 2017.)
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“To Go and Sin Once More: The Confessional Trajectory of Joyce’s ‘Nausicaa’ Episode,” Modernist Cultures 10.2 (July 2015): 201-26.
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“The Unwitting Anarchism of Mrs. Dalloway.” Woolf Studies Annual 19 (2013): 123-45.
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“On the Danger of Heroes: Black Hawk Down’s Transformation from Narrative Journalism to Cinematic Spectacle.” The Midwest Quarterly 52 (Spring 2011): 221-38.
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“Against the “Foetus of Symmetry: Nightwood and Surrealist Narrative.” M/MLA: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 41.2 (Fall 2008): 18-43.
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“Radically Avant-garde? The Strange History of E. E. Cummings’s The Enormous Room, Reconsidered.” Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society 14-15 (Fall 2006): 94-126.
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“American Writers’ Congress.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 303: American Radical and Reform Writers. Ed. Steven Rosendale. Boston: Gale Research Press, 2005. 371-5.
Courses Taught
101/102: Freshman English
216: British Literature II (1800-present)
271: Critical Writing in the Field of English
300: Special Topics: The Scottish Novel
347: British Modernism
350: Film Genre - The War Film
352: Literature on Film
360: Postwar British Literature
376: Screenwriting
460: Major Authors: Woolf & Joyce
482: Seminar in Literature after 1800
491: Travel Study: Literature and Culture of Ireland
Screenplays
- The Road to Nowhere (drama/comedy)
- Top 50 Semifinalist—Academy Nicholl Fellowship Competition (2020)
- Semifinalist—Austin Film Festival (2020)
- Semifinalist—Humanitas New Voices Competition (2020)
- First Act (drama short)
- Quarterfinalist--PAGE International Screenwriting Competition (2022)
Films
- A Simple Request (drama short) – Maxjet Productions (2024). Writer and Producer
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