CHARLES J. NOLAN, JR.
PERSONAL DATA
Work Address:
Department of English
Phone: 410-293-6235
E-Mail:
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1973-1977 Pennsylvania State University Ph.D. (1977)
1968-1969 University of Illinois (Urbana) A.M.
(1969)
1960-1964 Saint
Louis University
B.S. (1964) (Magna Cum Laude)
PROFESSIONAL DATA
Teaching
MLA Certificate of Excellence in Teaching of English
[See PMLA, 86 (1971), 1050.]
Nominated for the Council for Advancement and Support
of Education (CASE) Professor of the Year Award
(1989)
Nominated for Naval Academy Teaching Excellence Award
(2001)(1994)
Publications
Books
Aaron Burr and the American Literary Imagination
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980).
Articles
“’A Little Crazy’: Psychiatric Diagnoses of Three Hemingway Women
Characters.” The Hemingway Review, 28.2 (2009): 105-20.
“The Importance of Hemingway’s ‘The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife.’”
Humanities Review (St. John’s University) 5.1 (2006): 15-24.
“Why We Keep Up.” The CEA Forum 35.2 (2006):
http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/352index.htm.
“Essential Questions: Keys to Meaning in Hemingway’s ‘The Mother of a Queen.’”
“Hemingway’s ‘The Sea Change’: What Close Reading and Evolutionary
Psychology
Reveal,” The Hemingway Review, 53:1 (2001): 53-67.
"'Out of Season': The
Importance of Close
Rocky Mountain Review of Language
and Literature, 53,
No.2 (1999), 45-58, and The Rocky Mountain E-Review of Language
and Literature, 53, No. 2 (1999), http://rmmla.wsu.edu/rmmla
"Hemingway's Puzzling Pursuit
Race," Studies in Short Fiction,
34,
No. 4 (1997), 481-91.
"'Ten Indians' and the
Pleasures of Close
Review,16, No. 2 (1996), 67-77.
"Hemingway's Complicated
'Enquiry' in Men Without Women,"
Studies in Short Fiction, 32, No. 2 (1995), 217-22.
"Making Connections Through Literature," Literature
and Life. Ed. Patricia Phelan.Urbana,
IL:
National Council of Teachers of
English, 1990.
"Heller's Small Debt to
Hemingway," The Hemingway Review,
9, No. 1 (1989), 77-81.
"Teaching at Night: Teaching That Counts," College
Teaching, 36 (1988), 147-48.
(with David O. Tomlinson) "Mark Twain's Visit to
(1987), 2-8.
"Catherine Barkley: Hemingway's Scottish Heroine,"
The Hemingway Review, 7, No. 1 (1987), 43-44.
"Hemingway's Women's Movement," rpt. in Ernest Hemingway:
Six Decades of Criticism, ed Linda W. Wagner (East
"The Joys of Teaching," Journal of General Education,
36, No. 1 (1984 [1985]), 46-49.
"Shooting the Sergeant: Frederic Henry's Puzzling
Action," College Literature, 11 (1984), 269-75.
"Hemingway's Women's Movement," The Hemingway Review, 3,
No. 2 (1984), 14-22.
"Aaron Burr (1716-1757)," in American Writers Before
1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary, eds.
James A. Levernier
and Douglas Wilmes (
"Freshman English Against Itself," Journal of General
Education, 33 (1981), 219-25.
"Hemingway: The Writer as Researcher," Review, 2 (1980),
351-59. [A review essay]
"That Hideous Strength: Antidote to Modernism," Bulletin
of the
(1980), 5-6.
"Structural Sophistication in 'The Complaint unto
Pity,'" Chaucer Review, 13 (1979), 363-72.
"Going Back to School," Journal of General Education, 31
(1979), 129-40.
"Lewis' 'Objective Room': Key to Aesthetics," Bulletin
of the
(1979), 5-6.
"Cotton Mather: An Essay in Bibliography," Resources for
American Literary Study, 8, No. 1 (1978), 3-23.
"The Rhetorical End: 'Venus at St. Anne's,'" Bulletin of
the
8-9.
"Francis Hopkinson: Probable Designer of the Nation's
Flag,"
Park:
"The Child Motif in That Hideous Strength," Bulletin of
the
5-7.
"Teaching Blake's 'The Sick Rose,'" Journal of English
Teaching Techniques, 5, No. 4 (1972-73), 33-34.
Contributor, Annual Bibliography of English Language and
Literature.
Research Association, 1970-93.
Volume 45 (1972)--Volume 68 (1993)
Reviews
Review of The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in
Republic, 2 (1982), 336-37.
Review of The
Staples Shockley, Bulletin of the Society for
Historians of the Early
(1980), 16-17.
Review of The Sex Radicals: Free Love in High Victorian
(1979), 22-24.
Review of Magnalia
Christi
ed. Kenneth B. Murdock, Seventeenth-Century News, 36,
No. 4 (1978), 91.
Participation in Scholarly Meetings
Panel
Speaker, College English Association Convention,
March
2011.
Panel
Speaker, College English Association Convention,
March
2010.
Panel
Speaker, College English Association Convention,
March
2009.
Panel
Speaker, College English Association Convention,
March
2008.
Panel Speaker, College English Association Convention,
April 2007.
Panel Speaker, 12th International Hemingway Conference,
June 2006 (
Panel Speaker, College English Association Conference,
April 2006.
Panel Speaker, College English Association of
October 2005.
Panel Speaker, College English Association,
April 2005.
Panel Speaker, College English Association Convention,
April 2003.
Chair of a Panel, College English Association Convention,
April 2002.
Panel Speaker, College English Association Convention,
April 2001.
Chair of a Panel, College English Association Convention,
April 2000.
Chair of a Panel, College English Association Convention,
April 1999.
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, March 1999.
Chair, Fitzgerald and Hemingway Section, Northeast
Modern Language Association, April 1997.
Chair of a Hemingway Panel, College English Association
Convention, April 1997.
Chair of a Panel, College English Association Convention,
April 1996.
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, March 1996.
Panel Speaker, Northeast Modern Language Association,
April 1995.
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition and
Communication,
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Nashville, 1994.
Panel Respondent to Gerald Graff, SAMLA, Knoxville, 1992.
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition
and Communication,
Co-Chair of a Panel, Association of Departments of
English Eastern Summer Seminar,
NY, 1991.
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition
and Communication,
Co-Chair of a Panel, Association of Departments of
English Midwestern Summer Seminar,
1990.
Associate Chair of a Panel, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Chicago, 1990.
Speaker, Conference of the College English Association,
Chair of a Panel, Conference on College Composition
and Communication,
Speaker, Conference of the College English Association,
Associate Chair of a Panel, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, St. Louis, 1988.
Speaker, 1987-1988 Lecture Series--"It Happened Then:
Speaker, Conference of the College English Association,
Associate Chair of a Panel, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Atlanta, 1987.
Speaker, Conference of the College English Association,
Speaker, Conference of the College English Association,
Speaker, Conference of the College English Association,
Associate Chair of a Panel, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Detroit, 1983.
Speaker, Popular Culture Association in the South,
Associate Chair of a Panel, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, San Francisco, 1982.
Speaker, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Dallas, 1981.
Speaker, Popular Culture Association in the South,
Chair, American Romanticism Section, Northeast Modern
Language Association Meeting, 1980.
Chair, Literature and Composition Section, Conference on
College Composition and Communication, 1979.
Speaker, American Romanticism Section, Northeast Modern
Language Association Meeting, 1979.
Speaker, The English Colloquium,
University, 1977.
Speaker, The
Studies, 1976.
Speaker, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, 1973.
Speaker, Convention of the National Association for
Humanities Education, 1972.
Speaker, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, 1972.
Grants and Fellowships
Naval Academy Research Council Grants, 1994, 1996, 1997,
1998, 1999, 2000.
Naval Academy Research Council Grant, 1989.
(Subsequently declined when elected Department Chair.
Naval Academy Research Council Grant, 1978.
Edwin Erle Sparks Fellowship (for Graduate Study),
Edwin Erle Sparks Fellowship (for Graduate Study),
financial reasons.)
University, 1974-75.(Declined for financial
reasons.)
NDEA Fellowship (for Graduate
Study),
University, 1973-74.
Administrative Experience
Chair, Accreditation Self-Study Committee on Leadership
and Governance, Administration, and Integrity,
United States Naval Academy, 2003-06.
Co-chair, Naval Academy Promotion and Tenure Committee,
1998-99; 2009-11.
President, U. S. Naval Academy Faculty Senate, 1997-98.
Chair, College-wide Committee to Review the USNA Honor
Concept, July-November 1993.
Chair, Department of English, United States Naval
Academy, 1989-93.
Chair, English Department Curriculum Coordinating
Committee, United States Naval Academy, 1986-88.
Chair, English Department Upper Division Curriculum
Committee, United States Naval Academy, 1984-88.
Vice Chair, Accreditation Self-Study Committee on
Admissions, United States Naval Academy, 1984-85.
Administrative Intern to the Academic Dean, United
States Naval Academy, 1983-84.
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Communication Skills, United
States Naval Academy, 1983.
Director, Freshman English, United States Naval Academy,
1978-81.
Director, Advanced Writing, United States Naval Academy,
1977-78.
Academic Service
Member, Naval Academy Promotion and Tenure Committee,
2005-09.
Member, Search Committee for the Naval Academy Registrar,
2004.
Co-Chair, Naval Academy Promotion and Tenure Committee,
1998-99.
Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Center for
the Study of Professional Military Ethics, 1998.
Won the Naval Academy Excellence in Service Award
(1997).
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Admissions, 1996.
Nominated for the Naval Academy Excellence in Service
Award (1995).
Member, Naval Academy Faculty Senate, 1994-present.
President, 1997-98.
Vice-President, 1996-1997.
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee,
1999-Present.
Chair, Senate Committee on Professional/Academic
Ethics and Standards, 1995-96.
Member, Naval Academy Committee on Character Development,
1994-present.
Member, Naval Academy Admissions Board, 1993-96.
Member, Search Committee for the Academic Dean, 1988-89.
Member, United States Naval Academy Rhodes Scholar
Committee, 1980-89; 1993-present.
Member, Screening Committee for Hiring the Director of
Research, United States Naval Academy, 1985.
Member, English Department Pay, Promotion, and Retention
Committee, United States Naval Academy, 1980-83;
1985-89; 1993-present.
Member, English Department Hiring Committee, United
States Naval Academy, 1983.
Member, United States Naval Academy Faculty Forum, 1979-81.
Other
Member, Administrative Council, South Atlantic
Association of Departments of English (SAADE) 1991-93.
Panelist, NEH, Younger Scholars Program, 1987.
Elected Member, MLA Delegate
Assembly, 1981-83,
2001-03.
Judge, National Council of Teachers of English
Achievement Awards, 1972-79.
Co-editor and Judge, Icarus (A magazine of USAF Academy
Cadet Writing).Co-editor (1973); Judge (1969-72).
Elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (1975).
Educational Employment
1977-Present UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
Rank: Professor
Courses Taught:
Literature Courses:
American Literature
Contemporary American Literature
Modern American Literature
America's Literary Coming of Age, 1860-1920
Literature of the American Dream, 1620-1860
Studies in a Literary Figure: Hemingway
Genre Courses:
Types of Fiction
Forms of Poetry
Writing Courses:
Advanced Writing
Professional Writing
Rhetoric and Introduction to Literature
1976-1977 EDWIN EARLE SPARKS FELLOW
(Penn State University)
1974-1976 TEACHING ASSISTANT
(Penn State University)
Courses Taught:
Technical Writing
Writing of Ideas
Composition and Rhetoric
1973-1974 NDEA FELLOW (
University)
1969-1973 UNITED
Highest Rank:
Assistant Professor
Courses Taught:
Literature Courses:
Modern Literature
Western World Literature
The Voice of the Black Man in American Literature
War and its Aftermath in Twentieth-Century
American Fiction
Writing Courses:
Technical Writing and Speech
Advanced Composition and Speech
Writing Critical Papers (Tutorial)
Composition and Literature
1964-1968 USAF ACADEMY PREPARATORY
SCHOOL
(A post-high-school
institution whose
English programs
parallel those in the
community colleges)
Rank: Instructor
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Composition
Developmental Reading
Survey of the Short Story
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to the Novel
Hemingway
Ibsen
Ideas and Issues: The Insights of the Humanities
on Ideas and Issues of Western Life
Part-Time Teaching
1982-1990 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Courses Taught:
Hemingway In Our Time
Fiction: Form and Meaning
Nineteenth-Century American Authors I and II
Technical Writing
Composition
1980-1982 UNIVERSITY
OF
(Baltimore County)
Courses Taught:
Intermediate Exposition
Composition
1979-1980 NORTHERN
(Annandale Campus)
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Literature
Composition
1967-1968 SOUTHERN COLORADO
Freshman Composition