Jim
McGavran, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Education
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- M.A., Columbia University
- B.A., The College of Wooster
Areas of Interest
- British Romantic Era: I have drafted three parts of a book-length project on intergenerational tensions in Romantic-Era texts. One of these, “Smuggling, Poaching, and the Revulsion against Kinship in Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House,” has been accepted for publication in a special 2008 issue of Women's Writing, edited by Antje Blank, dedicated to Smith's writings.
- Creative Nonfiction/Nature Writing: I have finished and am now circulating a book-length memoir based on the childhood vacations I spent with my family in Leelanau County Michigan.
- Children's Literature
- Gender Theory
Selected Publications
Edited Books:
Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations. Ed. James Holt McGavran. Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1999.
Romanticism and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century England. Ed. James Holt McGavran, Jr. Athens: U Georgia P, 1991.
Articles:
“Gender Fluidity and Nature Writing: William Wordsworth and Edward Abbey,” The Wordsworth Circle 33 (2002), 47-52.
“'Insurmountable Barriers to Our Union': Homosocial Male Bonding, Homosexual Panic, and Death on the Ice in Frankenstein,” European Romantic Review 11 (2000), 46-67.
“Defusing the Discharged Soldier: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Homosexual Panic,” Papers in Language and Literature 32 (1996), 147-65.
“Glossing Over The Ancient Mariner: Perversion, Panic, and Collage-Texts,” The Wordsworth Circle 26 (1995), 162-64.
“Xanadu, Somersetshire, and the Banks of the Wye: A Study of Romantic Androgyny,” Papers on Language and Literature 26 (1990), 334-45.
“Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals: Putting Herself Down,” The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings. Ed. Shari Benstock. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 1988. 230-53.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
- ENGL 3100 Approaches to Literature
- ENGL 3200 British Literature Survey II
- ENGL 4125 The Romantic Era
Graduate:
- ENGL 6101 Introduction to English Studies
- ENGL 6125 The Romantic Era
- ENGL 6070/LBST 6102 The Idea of Nature
- ENGL 6680 Seminar in British Literature: Women Writers of the Romantic Era
- ENGL 6680 Seminar in British Literature: Modern British Fiction
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointment:
UNC Charlotte since 1973
Administrative Appointments:
Interim Chair, Department of Dance and Theatre, 2000-02
English Graduate Coordinator 1997-2000
Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences 1988-93
President of the UNC Charlotte Faculty 1986-87
Teaching Awards
- UNC Board of Governors Teaching Excellence Award 2007
- Bank of America Teaching Excellence Award 2006
- English Graduate Students' Association Teacher of the Year Award 2006
- Finalist, NationsBank Teaching Excellence Award 1995
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