Christopher J Fauske
Professional Details
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office: | MH-100B |
| Phone: | 978-542-6853 |
| Email: | christopher.fauske@salemstate.edu |
| Resume: | Christopher J Fauske [DOC 54KB] |
| Website: | http://www.salemstate.edu/~cfauske |
Spring Courses
| Cat. # | Term | Course # | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1006 | 05 | COM201 | Introduction to Communications |
| 1007 | 06 | COM201 | Introduction to Communications |
| 1025 | 03 | COM309 | Editing |
| 1052 | 01 | COM505 | Internship in Communications |
Professional Biography
EDUCATION:Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1994. Dissertation: "An Accidental Patriot: Jonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland," directed by Donald C. Mell, Jr.
CURRENT POSITION:Interim Dean, School of Arts and Sciences , Salem State College, Salem, MA. 2008-.
Professional Interests
Currently, I am involved in the "Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Financial Revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776" project. Our next meeting will be in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, in June 2008. You can find more details about the project and the St John's sessions at moneypowerandprint.org. I remain interested in the relationship between the Church of Ireland and the secular authorities in Ireland in the period immediately after the Williamite landing in England until the end of the 1720s. This interest grew out of my work on Jonathan Swift and his identification with the Church of Ireland, which, in turn, led to a book, Jonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland, 1710-1724.At the moment, I am working on a paper discussing Swift's understanding of George Berkeley's philosophy, disputing in passing the notion that the two men were friends rather than acquaintances, and suggesting, finally, that it might be possible to gain some insight into Swift's concept of God by considering his reactions to Berkeley's philosophy.If all goes to plan, I hope to begin work on a full-length of baseball player Pete Browning (1861 - 1905) in the next few months.
Responsibilities
As interim dean of the School of Arts and Sciences I am responsible for assisting faculty teaching and research, and for doing what I can to allocate budgetary and intellectual resources as fairly as possible to support the endeavors of all members of the school in advancing the mission of their department, the school, and the college.
Selected Publications
Books (some):
Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles. (Ed. with Charles Ivar McGrath). Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
Skipper Worse. Translated from the Norwegian of Alexander Kielland. Jeff Voccola, ed. New York: Cross-Cultural Communications, 2008.
An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and Her Contexts. (Ed. With Heidi Kaufman). Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.
‘Side by Side in a Small Country’: Bishop John Frederick MacNeice and Ireland. Dublin; Keady, Northern Ireland: Church of Ireland Publications and the Church of Ireland Historical Society, 2004.
Archbishop William King and the Anglican Irish Context, 1688-1729. (Ed.). Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2003.
Jonathan Swift and the Church of Ireland, 1710-24. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2002.
Articles (some):
“On Being Orthodox: The Sermons of Laurence Sterne and the Church of England Context.” Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne. Ed. and intro. W. B. Gerard. Newark: University of Delaware Press. Forthcoming.
“Panama's Finest.” Northeastern University Magazine 31:4 (Summer 2006). 24-29. http://www.numag.neu.edu/summer06/feature2.shtm
“Some Other Culture: Maori Literature as a Unifying Force in a Multicultural Classroom.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 26:1 (Sept. 1998). 18-24.
“A Life Merely Glimpsed: Louis MacNeice at the End of the Anglo-Irish Tradition.” Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry. Eds. Tjebbe Westendorp and Jane Mallinson. Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi, 1995. 181-198.
Selected Presentations
CONFERENCE PAPERS (some):
"Nothing remarkable. The Irish pamphlets of Jonathan Swift." David Nichol Smith Seminar. University of Otago. Dunedin. April 2007.
George Berkeley's 'physical' immaterialism, together with some thoughts on his 'friendship' with Jonathan Swift." Opening address at the 6th annual philosophy colloquium. California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo. April 2005.
"Misunderstanding what Swift misunderstood: Ireland, coinage and the literature of the age." International Association for the Study of Irish Literature. Galway. July 2004.
"The 'radical' Swift: The fullback's dilemma." Dean Swift: the satirist and his faith. St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. October 2003. Available at http://www.unh.edu/english/swift/2003/fauske.htm
"Other unions: Bishop J.F. MacNeice's response to partition." Church of Ireland Historical Society. Armagh. April 2002.
"Radical orthodoxy: the archbishop and the dean. The sermons of William King and Jonathan Swift." International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Dublin. July 1999.
"'Specie carried by a friend': Ireland's forgotten currency." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. April 1999.
" 'To atone for bypast transgression': Swift, Evans, and the bishops' rents." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Tucson, AZ. April 1995.
"Louis MacNeice at the end of a world." International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, Rijksuniversitet te Leiden. July 1991.
Personal Interests
Cricket, mainly. Riding a Bianchi and enjoying a good book.