James MacKillop, Ph.D.

Personal Information
6240 The Hamlet, Jamesville, NY 13078.
(315)468-0150.
Married to the former Patricia Kahan.
Two grown children.

Education
Harvard University, Visiting Fellow (post-doctoral) in Celtic languages

          Syracuse University, Ph.D. in English Literature.

          Wayne State University, M.A. and B.A. in English Literature.

Professional Experience

Newhouse School, Goldring Journalim Program, Faculty,2007- present
Syracuse University Press, Editor, Irish Series, 2003- present

            Syracuse New Times, Contributing Editor, 1984- present

            Syracuse University, Humanistic Studies Center, Lecturer, 1999- 2006

            Onondaga Community College, Professor of English, 1967-1999

SUNY at Cortland, Lecturer in Cinema Studies, 1979-1984.

SUNY at Utica/Rome, Lecturer in Mythology, 1973-74.

Publications

Books

Penguin Guide to Celtic Mythology. London: Penguin Books, 2006; in hardcover as Myths and Legends of the Celts. London: Penguin, 2005

            Contemporary Irish Cinema. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

            Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Irish Literature: A Reader, with M. Murphy. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987; revised edition, 2005.

Fionn mac Cumaill: Celtic Myth in English Literature. Syracuse University Press, 1986, 2001

Speaking of Words, with D. W. Cross. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978, 1982, 1986.

The Copy Book, with T. Friedmann. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980.

Articles (selected)

“A Primer of Irish Numbers,” Irish Spirit, ed. Patricia Monaghan. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2001. Pp. 111-119.

“Politics and Spelling Irish, or Thirteen Ways of Looking at ‘Banshee,’” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 27, no. 2 (Dec., 1991), 93-102.

“Fitzgerald’s Gatsby: Star of Stag and Screen,” The Recorder: A Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, 3, no. 2 (Winter, 1989), 76-88.

“Fionn mac Cumhaill, Our Contemporary,” Myth et folklore celtiques et leurs expressions literaires en Irlande, ed. R. Alluin et B. Esbarbelt. Lille, Fr: Université de Lille, 1986 (1988). Pp. 69-90.

“The Quiet Man Speaks,” Working Papers in Irish Studies [Northeastern University, Boston], 87-2/3 (Spring, 1987), 32-44.

“Meville’s Bartleby on Film,” American Short Stories on Film, ed. E. Alsen. Munich: Langenscheidt-Longman, 1986. Pp. 101-116.

“Ireland and the Movies: From the Volta Cinema to RTÉ,”Éire-Ireland, 18, no. 3 (Summer, 1984), 7-22.

“The Hungry Grass: Richard Power’s Pastoral Elegy,” Éire-Ireland, 18, no. 3 (Fall, 1983), 86-99.

“Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Language,” Éire-Ireland, 15, no. 1 (Spring, 1980), 138-148.

“Finn MacCool: The Hero and the Anti-Hero,” Views of the Irish Peasantry, 1800-1916, ed. D. Casey and R. E. Rhodes. Hamden, Ct: Archon Books, 1977. Pp. 86-106.

“Ulster Violence in Fiction,” Conflict in Ireland, ed. E. A. Sullivan and H. A. Wilson. Gainesville: University of Florida, Department of Behavioral Studies, 1976. Pp. 131-151.

“Yeats and the Gaelic Muse,” Antigonish Review, no. 11 (Autumn, 1972), 96-109.

Also in World Book Encyclopedia (six entries), International Fiction Review, Syracuse University Magazine, Cithara.

Reviews, journalism

More than 1800 reviews, features and cover stories for the Syracuse New Times since 1972.

Others: The Irish Literary Supplement, Syracuse Post Standard, Newsletter of the American Conference for Irish Studies, radio station WRVO-FM, WONO-FM, New York State Council for the Arts

Honors

Invited to be Visiting Professor, Université d’Haute Bretagne, Rennes, France,Spring, 1994.

            National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1983.

            SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1983.

            SUNY Exchange Scholar, 1991-2000.

            Syracuse Press Club, First Place Award for Criticism, ten times

            Onondaga Community College Trustees’ Award for Distinguished Service, 1981,

                            1983, 1988.

Jeopardy! finalist. Captain of the Wayne State team on the GE College Bowl, CBS-TV.

Listed in Who’s Who, Directory of American Scholars, Who’s Who in Education,

                          International Author’s Who’s Who, Contemporary Authors.

Articles About
Irish Voice [New York], June 17, 1998

            Stars Magazine. Syracuse Herald American, June 14, 1998.

            Syracuse Post Standard, April 12, 1989.

            Irish Echo [New York], May 16, 1988.

            Providence Journal-Bulletin, March 17, 1988.

            Celtic Fringe [Chicago], September, 1986.

            Humanities [Washington], February, 1984.   

Miscellaneus
Radio announcer, WMPL, Hancock, Michigan. WONO-FM (classical     music), Syracuse, New York.

            Conceived and led twelve theater and archaeology tours to Ireland

            Selection Committee, Gifford Lecture Series, Syracuse, New York (2000-)

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