Professor
Department of English
Office - Bellarmine 107
Phone: (610) 660-1886
Email: jfeeney@sju.edu
Education
A.B., Fordham University, 1958
M.A., Fordham University, 1961
Ph.L., Woodstock College, 1959
S.T.B., Woodstock College, 1964
S.T.L., Woodstock College, 1966
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1971
Courses Taught
English 1011 (Craft of Language)
English 1021 (Texts and Contexts)
English 2531 (20th Century Authors: Hopkins and Joyce)
English 2541 (20th Century British and Irish Novel)
English 2921 (Literature and Culture: [1] The Catholic Imagination in America, [2] Modernism and Postmodernism)
Honors 1293 (The Modern/Postmodern Mood)
Publications
The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008)
Hopkins Variations: Standing round a Waterfall, ed. Joaquin Kuhn and Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. (Philadelphia and New York: Saint Joseph’s University Press and Fordham University Press, 2002)
"A new-found poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins," The Month (London) 260 (1999): 249-51
"At St Beuno's: Newly Discovered Work by Gerard Manley Hopkins," TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 29 January 1999: 13-14
"My dearest Father: Some unpublished letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins," TLS: The Times Literary Supplement 22 December 1995: 13-14
"His Father's Son: Common Traits in the Writing of Manley Hopkins and Gerard Manley Hopkins," in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Critical Discourse, ed. Eugene Hollahan (New York: AMS, 1992): 277-92
"Hopkins, Mahler, Bruckner: The Poet as a 'Post-Romantic,'" Thought 65 (1990): 535-43
"The Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center," in The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin n.s. 46/47 (1989): 11-39
General Fields of Professional Interest
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
American Literature
Modernism and Postmodernism
Contemporary British and Irish Drama
The Religious Imagination
Jesuit Education
The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pedagogical style
English 1011-workshop; lower-division courses-lecturing with some discussion; upper-division and Honors courses-some lecturing but mostly analytical discussion.
Other information
Member of MLA, AAUP, Alpha Sigma Nu, Co-Editor of The Hopkins Quarterly; former trustee of Fordham University, the Loyola School (New York); and Saint Joseph’s Preparatory School; NEH Summer Seminar Award, 1978; Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1983; Tengelmann Teaching and Research Award, 1999; teaching awards, Saint Joseph's University, 1979, 1983, 1986; research award, Saint Joseph's University, 1988; awarded the O'Connor Cup by the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society of Ireland, 1998; Jesuit Chair Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, 1986-87; Bannan Foundation Visiting Professor, Santa Clara University, spring 1998; LeRoux Chair Visiting Professor, Seattle University, spring 2003; Fellow of the English Association, 2006.