CHRISTOPHER JON FAUSKE
93 High Street
Ipswich MA 01938-1235
cfauske@salemstate.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1994. Dissertation: “An Accidental Patriot: Jonathan
Swift and the Church of Ireland,” directed by Donald C. Mell, Jr.
M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1986. Thesis: “On Louis MacNeice’s Autumn
Journal,” directed by John C. Richardson.
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1984. Cum Laude. Major: English; Minor:
Philosophy with thesis, “Temporal Concepts in the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard,”
directed by Paul Brockelman.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Associate professor, Communications Department, Salem State College, Salem, MA.
Sept. 2009 - present.
Interim dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Salem State College, Salem, MA. 2008 - July
2009.
Associate dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Salem State College, Salem, MA. 2005 2008.
Assistant dean, School of Arts and Sciences, Salem State College, Salem, MA. 2003 2005.
Dean, School of Arts, Science & Technology, Newbury College. 200i - 2003
Associate professor, Newbury College. 1999 - 2001.
Assistant professor, Newbury College, Brookline, MA. 1994 - 1999.
Instructor, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA. January 1993 - August
1994.
Instructor, University of Delaware. 1989 - 1991.
Teaching assistant, University of New Hampshire. 1985 - 1986.
Professional Journalism Experience:
Staff writer, Daily Peloton. 2009 – present.
Contributing editor, American Mix. 1999-2001.
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Freelance journalist and editor since 1991. Articles / essays have appeared in Chronicle of
Higher Edication, Northeastern University magazine, American Police Beat, Eagle Tribune, Motor
Transport, Bergens Tidene, and other publications. Edited professional texts for trade
publishers, most recently on a regular basis for Rockport Publishing.
Sub-editor, Motor Transport. 1987 - 1991.
Copy editor, Western Daily Press. 1987.
Editor, The Advocate (formerly The Commuter Advocate), University of New Hampshire,
1983 - 1985.
PUBLICATIONS (non journalism):
Books:
Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles (Ed.
with C. Ivar McGrath). Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
Skipper Worse Translated from the Norwegian of Alexander Kielland. Jeff Vocolla, 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.
Take Charge of Your Writing: The Power of Self-Assessment (with David Daniel, Peter Galeno,
and Debbie Mael). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Chapters in books:
“A System Illusory and Immoral: Jonathan Swift and the Emergence of the Modern
Economic Polity.” In Speculation and Displacement. Ed. Robert Balfour. London: Palgrave
Macmillan. Forthcoming.
“On Being Orthodox: The Sermons of Laurence Sterne and the Church of England
Context.” In Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne. Ed. W. B.
Gerard. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2010. 45-62.
“Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the
British Isles.” In Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in
the British Isles. Ed. C. Ivar McGrath and Christopher Fauske. Newark: University of
Delaware Press, 2008. 13-25.
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“Misunderstanding What Swift Misunderstood or, the Economy of a Province.” In
Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial Revolution in the British Isles. Ed.
C. Ivar McGrath and Christopher Fauske. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008.
135-156.
“A Life Merely Glimpsed: Louis MacNeice at the End of the Anglo-Irish Tradition.” In
Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry. Eds. Tjebbe
Westendorp and Jane Mallinson. Amsterdam, Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1995. 181-198.
Essays:
“A Most Unlikely Friendship? Jonathan Swift, George Berkeley and the Bonds of
Philosophy with, Perhaps, an Answer to an Age Old Problem” Swift Studies 25 (2010).
Forthcoming.
“John Frederick MacNeice.” In James McGuire et al. (eds), Dictionary of Irish
Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
“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.
“Boyle, John (Orrery and Cork, Earl of).” Dictionary of Irish Literature. Ed. Robert Hogan.
Greenwood, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1996.
“A Life Merely Glimpsed: Louis MacNeice at the End of the Anglo-Irish Tradition.”
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 20.1 (Summer 1994): 17-29.
“A Matter of Dates: Yeats, Starkie, and The Silver Tassie.” Notes and Queries 235 (Dec.
1990): 439-41.
Reviews (selected):
Rev. of Walls and Vaults: A Natural Science of Morals (Virtue Ethics According to David Hume).
By Jordan Howard Sobel. Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. Religion in the Age of Enlightenment 2
(2010). Forthcoming.
Rev. of Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship and the Print Market.
(Autobiographical Writing and British Literature, 1783-1834.) By Scott Hess. New York:
Routledge, 2005. The Scriblerian. Forthcoming.
Rev. of God’s Irishmen: Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland. By Crawford Gribben. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Church History 77.2 (June 2008): 474-6.
Rev. of Church of Ireland Records. By Raymond Refaussé. Maynooth Research Guides for
Irish Local History: Number 2. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. Irish Historical Studies.
35.138 (Nov. 2006): 263-4.
Rev. of Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation. Clíona Ó Gallchoir. Dublin:
University College Press, 2005. Eighteenth-Century Ireland 22 (2007).
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Rev. of “Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718), poet and essayist,” by Bryan Coleborne. Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. The Scriblerian 39.1
(2006): 21.
Rev. of The Letters, Life, and Works of John Oldmixon ed. Pat Rogers. Lewiston: Edwin
Mellen Press. The Scriblerian 38.2 (Spring 2006): 299-301.
Rev. of Swift Among the Satirists by Brean Hammond. Tavistock: Northcote House. The
Scriblerian 38.2 (Spring 2006): 324-5.
Rev. of The Making of Marsh’s Library ed. Muriel McCarthy and Ann Simmons. Dublin:
Four Courts Press, 2004. Eighteenth-Century Ireland 20 (2005): 195-7.
Rev. of The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift ed. Christopher Fox. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003; and of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: A BioBibliographic Handbook. Part I, Swift’s Library in Four Volumes ed. Dirk F. Passmann and
Heinz J. Vienken. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003. Eighteenth-Century Ireland 19 (2004). 223-7.
Rev. of Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture by Ann Cline Kelly. New York: Palgrave (2002).
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 30:1 (Spring 2004). 78-9.
TALKS and PRESENTATIONS (academic):
“The bishop, his son, the poetry and the prose.” Louis MacNeice Conference &
Celebration Programme. Queen’s University Belfast. 13 September 2007.
“A most unlikely friendship: Jonathan Swift and George Berkeley and the bonds of
philosophy; with, perhaps, an answer to an age old problem.” Varieties of Irishness.
International Association for the Study of Irish Literature. University College Dublin. 17
July 2007.
“What we didn’t know we knew.” Board of Higher Education [Massachusetts]
conference on retention and graduation rates. Framingham State College. June 2007.
“Nothing remarkable: The Irish pamphlets of Jonathan Swift.” David Nichol Smith
Seminar. University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ. April 2007.
“Moderate, reasonable and orthodox: The sermons of Jonathan Swift.” Northeast
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference. Salem, MA,
November 2006.
“George Berkeley’s ‘physical’ immaterialism, together with some thoughts on his
‘friendship’ with Jonathan Swift.” Keynote 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.
“Misunderstanding what Swift misunderstood: the economy of a province.” First
biennial colloquium, Money, Power and Prose: The Financial Revolution 1688-1756.
Regina, SK, Canada. June 2004.
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“A friendship most puzzling: Dean Swift and bishop Berkeley.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies. Boston. March 2004.
“The ‘radical’ Swift: The fullback’s dilemma.” Dean Swift: the satirist and his faith.. St
Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. October 2003.
“Other unions: Bishop J. F. MacNeice’s response to partition.” Church of Ireland
Historical Society. Armagh, Northern Ireland. April 2002.
“William Drennan: Anglo-Ireland’s first obituarist.” Northeast Society for EighteenthCentury Studies. Durham, NH. December 1999.
“Closing the divide: Newbury College’s English portfolio.” Northeast Two-Year College
Association. Amherst, MA. October 1999.
“Radical orthodoxy: The archbishop and the dean. The sermons of William King and
Jonathan Swift.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Dublin, Ireland.
July 1999.
“ ‘Specie carried by a friend’: Ireland’s forgotten currency.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. April 1999.
“ ‘Irish’ attitudes toward ‘English’ speakers of Irish.” American Society for EighteenthCentury Studies. Austin, TX. March 1996.
“ ‘To atone for bypast transgression’: Swift, Evans, and the bishops’ rents.” American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Tucson, AZ. April 1995.
“Acting it out: Theater games in composition classes.” Global Conversations on
Language and Literacy. Oxford. August 1994.
“The rhetorical appeal for privilege and protection: Sermons in defense of establishment,
1692-1776.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Charleston, S.C. March
1994.
“Archbishop King and Jonathan Swift: A most uncomfortable alliance.” Swift and Irish
Studies/A.C.I.S., University of Notre Dame. October 1991.
“Louis MacNeice at the end of a world.” International Association for the Study of Irish
Literature, Rijksuniversitet te Leiden. July 1991.
“The DELPHI system: Low-pressure peer groups.” Sixth Annual Conference for
Tutoring the Under-Prepared, Goldey-Beacom College. October 1990.
SELECTED COMMITTEES and SERVICE:
Vice president, New England Educational Assessment Network. July 2009 - present.
Campus liaison, Foundations of Excellence®. March 2007 - present.
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Coordinator, Foundations of Excellence® steering committee, Salem State College.
March 2007 - present.
Organizer, co-founder, and co-convener, “Money, Power, and Print: the Financial
Revolution 1688-1776” colloquium and working group. April 2003 - present.
Campus liaison, Center for Inquiry into the Liberal Arts, Wabash College. August 2008 May 2009.
Secretary, New England Educational Assessment Network. July 2007 – June 2009.
Executive board member, Northeast Region, Massachusetts Pipeline Fund. April. 2004 –
August 2009.
Co-chair, Planning Committee, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies 2006 Annual Meeting, December 2004 – November 2006.