Monday, May 25, 2020

CV


CURRICULUM VITAE

Chris Cairney 
Professor of English
Middle Georgia State University, Cochran Campus
1100 2nd St. SE
Cochran, GA 31014
Phone: (478) 934-3349
christopher.cairney@mga.edu
Faculty Page at MGA

EDUCATION

2006  SINGLE-SUBJECT CREDENTIAL, ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO—CLAD AND NCLB EMBEDDED.  “HIGHLY QUALIFIED.”

1995  PhD IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, USA
MAJOR FIELD: RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
MINOR FIELD: COLONIAL AMERICAN LITERATURE
OUTSIDE AREA: ANTHROPOLOGY

1989  MA IN ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, USA

1986  MA IN IRISH AND SCOTTISH STUDIES, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO, USA

1984  BA IN LINGUISTICS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO, USA

POSITIONS/WORK EXPERIENCE

(2013–present)  Professor of English Literature, Middle Georgia State University.

Courses Taught:

ENGL1101, English Composition I; ENGL 1102, English Composition II; English 2111, World Literature I; ENGL 2112, World Literature II; ENGL 2121, British Literature I; ENGL 3010, Gateway to Literary Studies; ENGL 3300, Literature of the English Renaissance; ENGL 3990, English On-Campus Internship; English 3991, English Off-Campus Internship; ENGL 4400, 19th Century British Poetry and Prose; ENGL 4470, Contemporary Literature; ENGL 4700, Topics in Literary Theory; ENGL 4900, Senior Capstone Seminar.

Administrative and Other Duties:

English Department:

Assistant Chair of English, 2013–present.

Editor-in-Chief, Culture in Focus, an International e-Journal of Educational, Literary and Cultural Studies, a peer-reviewed English Department Publication, 2017–present.

Writing Center coordinator on the Cochran Campus, 2013–present.

Took English Department students to present at the Undergraduate Research Forum at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conferences in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Spearheaded establishment of “Subject Guides” for Gothic Literature and for Literary and Critical Theory at the MGA Library website.
Enlarged and updated the Critical Theory subject holdings in Roberts Library to support new course offerings in anticipation of ENGL 3010, Gateway to Literary Studies; ENGL 4700, Literary Theory, and the former ENGL 4900, Senior Capstone Seminar.
Helped develop a proposal for introducing a degree minor in English.
Faculty advisor for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English Honor Society, 2013–2017.
Faculty advisor for the Canterbury Club/Cochran ESO, 2013–present.
Advising for English Majors.  Helped guide students in their coursework towards fulfilling graduation requirements and assisted with paperwork on an ongoing basis, 2013—present.

College of Arts and Letters:
Recruited prospective students at the Bleckley County High School Career Day events, 2016–present.
Developed a study-abroad program for France and led students on a trip to Paris, 2013.
Member, International Festival Committee, 2013–2015.
Faculty advisor for the Performing Arts Club, 2015–2018.
Coordinator for the Pop-Culture LLC.
Coordinated a joint research project with Dicle University in Turkey on the subject of English Online Instruction which may pave the way for globalization activities and ESL/EFL tracks.
Spoke at both the Cochran and Macon Writing Centers on job opportunities (Teaching Abroad panel).
English Department Assessment Committee.
SOAL Recruitment Committee.
SOAL Strategic Planning Committee.
SOAL Excellence in Service Committee.
Chair of the PTPTR sub-committee for Charlie Agnew’s application for full professor.
SOAL Online Academic Program Coordinator Committee (hiring committee).
Visual Communication Art Search Committee (hiring committee).
Coordinator for Student Leadership Programs Committee (hiring committee).

University-Wide:
Served on the Academic Personnel Policies Taskforce for the 2013–2014 MGA Faculty Handbook to help ensure that BOR policies were in the handbook and that MGA policies were in alignment with the requirements of the BOR, 2013.
Participated in an on-site interview with the SACS team on the Cochran campus, Fall 2015.
Member, Global Initiatives Committee, 2013–2014.
Member, Institutional Review Board, 2013–present. Secretary, 2019–present.
Spoke on ethics at the 2013 MGA Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Warner Robins Campus and at the 2014 MGA Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Cochran Campus.
Invited speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2015 Orientation Program.
Keynote Speaker for Duke University T.I.P. Recognition Ceremony, Middle Georgia State University, Cochran, Georgia, May 7, 2016.
Invited speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2017 Orientation Program (“On Writing for College Courses”).
Provost Fellow, exploring student retention and Learning Communities in residential life, Fall 2018.
BOLD advisor, Cochran campus, 2019–present.
Mentor and course leader for the Knights Lead program, 2019–present.

Profession:
Member, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Executive Committee, 2016–18.
Served as co-chair of the Professional Development Workshop “What Can’t You Do With an English Degree?” at SAMLA 88 in Jacksonville, Florida 4 November 2016.
SAMLA Studies Book Award Committee, 2017–present.

Community:
Member of the Cochran-Bleckley Arts Alliance Board of Directors, 2010–present (Chairman 2014–present). 
Bleckley County Primary School, School Council member, 2011–2015.
Kindergarten and First Grade Reader, MGA School Reader’s Program, 2013–2015.
Coach, Cochran-Bleckley Recreation Department Youth Soccer, 2013–2016.
Coach, Cochran-Bleckley Recreation Department Youth Football, 2013–2016.
Cub Scout leader, Troop 53, Boy Scouts of America, Cochran, Georgia, 2008–2016.
Invited Speaker for International Women’s Day at the March 8, 2016 meeting of the American Association of University Women, Houston-Peach Branch, Trinity United Methodist Church, Warner Robins, Georgia ("Turkish Women and Education Through the Eyes of an American Scholar").
Member, Clan na nGael Gaelic Sports Club, Atlanta, 2008–present. 

(2008–2013) Assistant Professor of English Literature, Middle Georgia College, Cochran, Georgia.
Courses Taught:
Composition I, Composition II, British Literature I, World Literature II (English Department).
RDED 3121, Teaching of Reading (Education Department).
Learning Support Reading II, Learning Support English II (Learning Support) (Prep Academy).

Administrative and Other Duties:
Department:
Faculty advisor for Sigma Kappa Delta, the English Honor Society, 2009—2012.
Promoted MGC English at Spring and Fall First Looks, 2008—2010.
Assisted in the survey of English holding at Roberts Memorial Library, 2009.

Division:
Served on the Humanities Division’s Reading Series Committee, 2009—2012.
Served on the Big Read Planning Committee, 2010—2012.
Contributed to SACS follow-up data by helping to create an ENGL 1102 grading rubric, 2010.
Presented the lecture "Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Kurtz: Nietzsche and the Wild Man in Conrad’s fiction" at the MGC Humanities Lyceum, 2011.

University-Wide:
Served on the Quality Enhancement Program’s subcommittee for reading, helped develop a module to test students reading skills and graded sample student responses, 2009—2012.
Served on the Faculty Evaluation and Development Committee, helped review and revise the content and wording of MGC tenure and promotion policies and procedures and helped revise and in some cases simplify procedures and forms associated with the annual Faculty Evaluation process, 2009—2012.
Served on the International Committee, 2009—2012, and developed the Paris, France study-abroad opportunity for MGC students.
Served on the Global Initiative Committee, 2012.
Served on the Syllabus Evaluation Committee, 2009—2012.
Served on the Teacher Education Unit Council, including hiring committees as needed, 2009—2012.
Served as advisor for Learning Support students with last names starting with “T”.  Successfully guided students in coursework towards fulfilling graduation requirements and assisted with paperwork on an ongoing basis, 2008—2012.
Provided samples of Korean cuisine at the International Food Festival, 2009—2012.
Served as a mentor with the African-American Male Initiative and the Multicultural Affairs Advising Program in Student Success Services at MGC, 2011—2012.

Community:
Gave a talk to the Cochran Rotary Club about Irish and Scottish history and culture and about my book, Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland, 2010.
Read to Kindergarten and First Grade students as part of the MGC Reading Program with Bleckley Primary School, 2011—2012.

(2007-2008)  English Teacher, Fremont Unified High School District, Sunnyvale, California. 
Tenth-grade World Literature.
Twelfth-grade English.

(2006–2007)  English Teacher, Pierce Joint Unified School District, Arbuckle, California.
Honors 11/12 English.
Eleventh-grade American Literature, ninth-grade English.       
      
(2000–2005)  Assistant Professor of English Literature, Doğus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Courses Taught:
The English Novel I and II, English History II, British Drama I and II, English Comedy (intermediate undergraduate).
British Fiction I and II, Fantasy Literature, Shakespeare, Modern British Poetry (advanced undergraduate).
Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, Critical Theory, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romanticism, Shakespeare's Contemporaries (graduate).
Administrative and Other Duties:
Faculty Academic Board.
Academic Advisor.
Senior Thesis Advisor.
Department Erasmus Coordinator. 
Contributing Editor, Doğus University Journal.

(Summer 2000)  Visiting Professor, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Courses Taught:
First Year Composition.
Introduction to Philosophy.

(1999–2000)  Assistant Professor of English Literature, University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon.
Courses Taught:
The Early English Novel, Modern British Fiction (intermediate and advanced undergraduate).
First Year Composition.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Coordinator of English Composition.
Faculty Advisor to the English Club.

(1998–1999)  English Instructor, Foreign Language Education Center, Chonbuk National University, South Korea.
Courses Taught:
Beginning, intermediate and advanced English classes.
English refresher courses for secondary teachers.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Contributing Editor, Chonbuk University Catalog.

(1995–1997)  Director of Learning Center, Athletic Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Recruitment and scheduling of tutors and workers.
Manage budget.
Plan and implement programs.

(1991–1995)  Coordinator, Computer Learning Laboratory, Department of Athletics, University of Missouri.
Administrative and Other Duties:
Recruitment and scheduling of tutors and workers.
Manage budget.
Plan and implement programs.

(1990–1991)  Adjunct Professor, Department of Language and Literature, Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador.
Courses Taught:
The Modern Novel.
Advanced and Intermediate English.

(1987–1995)  English Instructor, Department of English, University of Missouri.
Courses Taught:
Expository Writing I and II.
Expository Writing I and II for non-native speakers.
Business Writing.

(1986–1987)  English Instructor, Department of English, Butte Community College, Chico, California.
Courses Taught:
Expository Writing I and II.
Remedial Expository Writing.
Beginning English Grammar.

GRANTS/SUBSIDIES
2003–2004  Travel bursary, Joseph Conrad Society of the UK.
2000–2001  Travel bursary, Salzburg University.
1987–1995  Teaching Fellowship, University of Missouri.
1985  University Foundation Grant, California State University.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
(1999)  Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland, an Ethnography of the Gael, 550–1750. Westminster MD: Willow Bend Books (Originally published by McFarland and Co., London). ***Google Scholar. Available online in English and Spanish at www.electricscotland.com/webclans/cairney/index.htm

Dissertation
(1995)  “The Villain Character in the Puritan World: An Ideological Study of Richardson, Radcliffe, Byron, and Arnold," Dissertation Abstracts International 57:9 (1995): 3946A (University of Missouri). ***MLA International Bibliography and Google Scholar. Available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Villain_Character_in_the_Puritan_Wor.html?id=A1XgtgAACAAJ

Journal Issues, as General Editor
(2018)  Culture in Focus. Vol. 1, Issue 1.
(2019)  Culture in Focus. Vol. 2, Issue 1.

Chapters in Books
(2018)  “Other Dragons or Dragon Others?  A Cultural View of the Loch Ness Monster.”  Monsters of Film, Fiction and Fable.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ***Google Scholar.
(2008)  "Gaelic Borderlines and Borderlands in the New Cultural Geography of Scotland.” In Re-Visioning Scotland: New Readings from the Cultural Canon.  Edited by Lyndsay Lunan, Kirsty Macdonald and Carla Sassi (in the series: Anglo-Amerikanische Studien/Anglo-American studies—Rüdiger Ahrens and Kevin Cope gen. eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. ***MLA International Bibliography and Google Scholar.
(2008)  “Joseph Conrad, ‘The Secret Sharer’ and ‘An Outpost of Progress’.” In The Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Ed. Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.  ***MLA International Bibliography and Google Scholar.
(2005)  "Benedict Kiely." In Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol 319: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945–Present.  Columbia, S. C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman. ***MLA International Bibliography and Google Scholar.
(2005)  "Eilís Ní Dhuibhne." In Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol 319: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945–Present.  Columbia, S. C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman. ***MLA International Bibliography.
(2005)  "The Need for Strangeness: Captivity Narratives and Issues of Race and Gender in Early America" In Close Encounters of an Other Kind.  Joensuu Finland: U of Joensuu P. ***MLA International Bibliography.
(2005)  "A Noble Wanderer of Europe: Traces of the Byronic in Conrad's Marlovian Texts."  In Conrad’s Europe. Opole: U of Opole P. ***Google Scholar and available at www.jstor.org
(2005)  "Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and ‘The Horse of Stone’ in Nostromo.” In Nostromo: Centennial Essays. Edited by Allan H. Simmons and J.H. Stape.  Amsterdam: Rodopi. ***MLA International Bibliography and Google Scholar.
(2004)  "Gothic Liminality." In Confluences. Vol. 24. Paris: University of Paris X-Nanterre.
(2004)  "The Impossibility in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto." In Studies in English and Comparative Literature, Vol. 20. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
(2003)  "Austrian Images in the Works of James Joyce."  In Studies in English and Comparative Literature, Vol. 19.  Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.

Journal Articles
(2019)  “A Third Eye: Reading Conrad in Light of/in Spite of Achebe.”  L'Epoque Conradienne. 42 (2019) 27–43.
(2018)  “Intertextuality and Intratextuality: Does Mary Shelley ‘Sit Heavily Behind’ Conrad’s           Heart of Darkness?” Culture in Focus. 1.1 (2018), 89–125. ***Google Scholar.
(2006)  “Race Relations and Point of View in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Karain.’”  British and American Studies. 12 (2006). ***Google Scholar.
(2004)  "Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and ‘The Horse of Stone’ in Nostromo." The Conradian.  29.2. ***Google Scholar.
(2001)  “Antagonist Characters in the Early Gothic Novel: A Matter of Political Anxiety?” Doğus University Journal 3 (2001), 13–28. ***Google Scholar.
(1992)  "'That Evil Fiddle': Scotch-Irish Folk Religion and Ethnic Boundary Maintenance in Southern Missouri." The Missouri Folklore Society Journal. 13–14 (1991–1992). ***MLA International Bibliography.

Reviews
(2017)  Review of the Academic Session The Idea and Its Aftermath: Charting Dystopias in Conrad’s Fiction.  88th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 42, No. 1, 2017.
(2017)  Review of In the Realms of Biography, Literature, Politics, and Reception, Polish and East-Central European Joseph Conrad  by Wieslaw Krajka (ed.)  Joseph Conrad Today, vol. 42, No. 2, 2017.

Published Proceedings
(2004)  "The Bird, the Snake, and the River: Conrad's Complicated Look at Colonialism."  In Joseph Conrad and His Work: Proceedings of the Tenth METU British Novelists Seminar.  Ankara: British Council, 2004.
(2003)  "Two Types of Evil, Two Types of Gothic: The Ideology of the Villain 'Montoni' in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho."  In Evil in English Literature: Proceedings of the 23rd All-Turkey English Literature Conference. Ankara: British Council, 2003.
(2002)  "The Colonizers Colonized: Structural Implications of the Arrival of the 'Honourable Lieutenant' in Orwell's Burmese Days." In George Orwell and His Work: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual METU British Novelists Seminar. Ankara: British Council, 2002.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(1999)  "The Villain Character in the Early English Novel, a Structuralist and Post-Structuralist Approach" at the annual meeting of the Association of English Language and Literature in Korea held at Chonbuk National University, 5 June, 1999.
(2000)  "Austrian Images in the Works of James Joyce." International Conference on Austria in World Literature, University of Salzburg, Austria, October 22–25, 2000.
(2001)  "The Impossibility in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto." International Conference on Tale, Novella and Short Story, University of Salzburg, Austria, November 2–5, 2001.
(2001)  "The Colonizers Colonized: Structural Implications the Arrival of the 'Honourable Lieutenant' in Orwell's Burmese Days." Ninth Annual METU British Novelists Seminar, 13–14 December 2001.
(2002)  "Two Types of Evil, Two Types of Gothic: The Ideology of the Villain 'Montoni' in Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho." 23rd Annual All-Turkey English Literature Conference, April 24–26, 2002.
(2002)  "Celtic Affinities: Irish and Scottish Clan Societies in the age of Globalization and the Internet." At the conference: Celtic Popular Culture, Held at the Center for Celtic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 12, 2002.
(2002)  "The Theme of 'Von Browne' in the Works of Joyce." At the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, State University of NY-Cortland, October 27–29, 2002.
(2002)  "The Bird, the Snake and the River: Conrad's Complicated Look at Colonialism."  Tenth Annual METU British Novelists Seminar, 13–14 December 2002.
(2003)  "Stereotypes of Race and Gender in Captivity Narratives in Colonial America."  Bogazici University American Studies Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, March 6–7, 2003.
(2003)  "Fashionable Masculinity: The Construction of English Victorian 'Highlanders.'"  Annual Worcester Conference in Victorian Literature and Culture, University College Worcester, 26 April 2003.
(2003)  "The Need for Strangeness, Captivity Narratives and Issues of Race and Gender in Early America." At the international conference: Close Encounters of an Other Kind, New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and American Studies, University of Joensuu, Finland, 6–8 June, 2003.
(2003)  "Liminality and Alienation in the Construction of Irish Literature." International Conference, Poetics and Linguistics Association: Challenging the Boundaries, Bogazici University, June 23–26, 2003.
(2003)  "Gothic Liminality." International Conference: Border Lines and border Lands, Centre de Recherches Espaces/Écritures: Bibliothèque Durrell, Paris, France, June 26–27, 2003.
(2003)  "Conrad and Colonialism." 29th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society, London, 3–5 July, 2003.
(2003)  "Ideological Transmission and Transformation in Radcliffe's Gothic tales." At the conference: Gothic Ex/Changes: Sixth biennial conference of the International Gothic Association, Liverpool Hope University College, 17–20 July, 2003.
(2003)  "Positive Reconciliation in James Joyce's Ulysses. 24th Annual All-Turkey English Literature Conference, British Council and Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, October 15–17, 2003.
(2003)  "The Function of Alienation in the Fiction of Benedict Kiely and Eilís Ní Dhuibhne." Spaces, Gaps Borders: the Eighth Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies, 24–26 October, Sophia, Bulgaria.
(2004)  "The Faustian and the Byronic in Conrad's Fiction." 14th Conference on British and American Studies, 13–15 May, Timisoara, Romania.
(2004)  "Pushkin's 'Bronze Horseman' and the Statue of Charles IV in Nostromo." 30th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), 1–3 July, London, England.
(2004)  "Gothic Voyages: From the Scottish Gothic to the Irish Un-Dead?" At the conference: Gothic Voyages, Mona Bismarck Foundation, 6–8 July, Paris, France.
(2004)  "Gaelic Borderlines and Borderlands in the New Cultural Geography of Scotland." Seventh Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, 8–12 September, Zaragoza, Spain.
(2004)  "A Noble Wanderer of Europe: Traces of the Byronic in Conrad's Marlovian Texts." At the conference: Conrad and Europe, 22–26 September, Opole/Krakow, Poland.
(2004)  "Conrad on America, Conrad in America." At the conference: Transatlantic Relations in a Changing Cultural Context, Ninth Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies, 22–24 October, Varna/Shumen, Bulgaria.
(2005)  "Race and Point of View in Conrad's 'Karain'". 15th Conference on British and American Studies, 18–21 May, Timisoara, Romania.
(2005)  "Politics and/in the Aesthetics of Macpherson, Scott and Byron." Politics [and/in] Aesthetics: Joint International Conference of Aristotle University, Greece and the University of Veliko Tarnova, Bulgaria, June 9-12.
(2005)  "'Those Dutchmen are all alike': Race relations and biopsychology in Conrad's 'Karain'". 31st Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), 7–9 July, Amsterdam.
(2007)  “Swimming for Stars: Intertextuality and Allusion in “The Secret Sharer’.” 33rd Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), 5–7 July, London, England.
(2009)  “A Structuralist Perspective on ‘Mania and Modernity.’”  Special Session: Leaps of Faith: Mania Meets Modernity.  81st Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 6–8 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 
(2010)  “The Watcher Watching: Fear and Loathing in Under Western Eyes.”  36th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), held in conjunction with the Société Conradienne Française, 14–17 September, Paris, France.
(2010)  “Gawain’s Green Gallery: Anti-social Reminders of the Centrality of Nature in European Oral tradition.”  Southeastern Medieval Association Session: The Interplay of Text and Image in Medieval Literature.  82nd Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 5–7 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 
(2011)  “Folkloric Resonance: The Leshy or Green Man in Conrad’s Under Western Eyes.”  Southeastern Medieval Association Session: The Power of Medieval Poetry in the Modern World.  83rd Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 
(2012)  “Turgenev's superior Homo Duplex:  ‘Into’ ‘The Secret Sharer’ and ‘A Smile of Fortune’ and ‘out of’ ‘A Personal Record.’”  Affiliated Session: “Conrad’s A Personal Record and Twix Land and Sea at 100.”  127th Conference of the Modern Language Association, 5–8 January, Seattle, Washington, USA.
(2013)  “The Other, Othering: A Phenomenology of the Wild Man in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes.” Special Session: Monsters and the Monstrous in Literature. 85th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 8–10 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2014)  “The Raw and the Cooked: Shades of Frankenstein and Wild Men and ‘Eating Dog’ in Conrad’s Fiction.” 40th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK), 2–6 July, Canterbury, England.
(2014)  “Banishing Dragons: St. Patrick and the Oilliphéist as a type of St. Columba and the Loch Ness Monster in Celtic Christian Hagiography.”  Special Session: Literary Monsters.  86th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 7–9 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2014)  “Under the Influence: Introducing Polish, Russian or French Contexts to Joseph Conrad’s Fiction to Undergraduates: An Example Lesson.  Affiliated Session: Sustainable Conrad: Teaching Heart of Darkness and Other Texts by Joseph Conrad to Undergraduates. 86th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 8–10 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2015)  “In other words/without words: Gain and Loss in Graphic Novel Versions of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent and Heart of Darkness.”  Regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: To Make You Hear, To Make You Feel…To Make You See.  87th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 13–15 November, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
(2016)  “The Idea and Its Aftermath”: Charting Dystopias in Conrad’s Fiction.  Regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: Whose Paradise Is it? Bearing the ‘Spark’ of Dystopia/Utopia in Conrad.  88th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
(2017)  “The Idea(l) and Its Aftermath: Reading Conrad in Light of/in Spite of Achebe.”  At the conference: Transnational Conrad, Between Texts and Theory.  University of Limoges held in conjunction with the Société Conradienne Française, 21–22 September 2017, Limoges, France.
(2017)  “Marlow Watching: High Art, Low Art and Socio-Political Inversions in Heart of Darkness.”  Regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Conrad’s Fiction.  89th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
(2018)  “Intertextuality and Intratextuality as Aids in Decoding Meaning in a Work of Literature.” Special session: Into the Ludic. 90th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2–4 November, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
(2019)  “Power, Relationships and 'Promethean Language' in Conrad and Shelley.” Regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: Conrad and Power. 91st Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15–17 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

SESSION CHAIR
(2003)  D.H. Lawrence and his Work: The 11th METU British Novelists Seminar, Ankara, Turkey, 18–19 December, 2003.  Chair, session seven, Lacan and Lawrence.
(2004)  14th Conference on British and American Studies, 13–15 May, Timisoara, Romania. Chair, session one, British Literature.
(2004)  Transatlantic Relations in a Changing Cultural Context: 9th Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies, 22–24 October, Varna/Shumen, Bulgaria. Chair, session four, British Literature.
(2005)  15th Conference on British and American Studies, 18–21 May, Timisoara, Romania.  Chair, session one, British Literature.
(2010)  82nd Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 5–7 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Secretary and acting Chair of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) session: The Interrelation of Text and Image in Medieval Literature.
(2011)  83rd Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Chair of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) session: The Power of Medieval Poetry in the Modern World.
(2012)  84th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 9–11 November, Durham, N.C., USA.  Chair of the special session: Teaching Heart of Darkness and Other Texts by Joseph Conrad: Strategies, Epiphanies, and Possibilities.
(2013)  85th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 8–10 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Secretary of the affiliated session: Conrad and Technology.
(2014)  86th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 7–9 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Chair of the affiliated session: Sustainable Conrad: Teaching Heart of Darkness and Other Texts by Joseph Conrad to Undergraduates.
(2016)  88th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 4–6 November, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.   Co-chair of the regular, affiliated session: Whose Paradise Is It?: Bearing the “Spark” of Dystopia/Utopia in Conrad.
(2017)  15th Annual Conference of the Georgia Tutoring Association, 21 October, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia, USA.  Moderator of the session: Why College Students Cannot Write and How Can Tutoring Benefit.
(2017)  89th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the regular, affiliated session, Joseph Conrad Society of America: High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Conrad’s Fiction. 
(2017)  89th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the session: The Zombie Swarm, Low Art as Hyperobject.
(2017)  89th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 3–5 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Chair of the Undergraduate Research Forum: Shades of the Übermensch, From Gothic Romanticism to Nietzsche and Conrad. http://bleckleyprogress.com/artman/publish/article_10392.shtml
(2018)  90th Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 2–4 November, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Chair of the Undergraduate Research Forum: Literature and Performances: Self and Culture, Self in Culture, Self or Culture.
(2019)  91st Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15–17 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Chair of the special session: Visual and Textual Art: Negotiations of Power, Identity, and Relationships. 
(2019)  91st Conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, 15–17 November, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.  Chair of the Undergraduate Research Forum: Promethean and Faustian Intimations and Augmentations in English Literature. 

INVITED TALKS/KEYNOTES/PRESENTER
(2019)  Keynote speaker at the 11th World Conference on Educational Sciences held in Milan and Venice, Italy, February 7–10 2019 (“A Phenomenology of Reception for Student Engagement: Intertextuality and Intratextuality as Hermeneutic Tools in Literary Analysis”).
(2017)  Cochran Rotary Club meeting, 7 December, 2017, Cochran, Georgia.  Spoke on the Cochran-Bleckley Arts Alliance and creative community partnerships. 
(2017)  Presented the SAMLA Studies Awards for “Best Monograph” and “Best Edited Volume” at the 89th Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
(2017)  Invited speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2017 Orientation.
(2016)  Keynote speaker for the 2016 Duke University TIP recognition ceremonies held on Saturday, May 7th at the MGA Cochran campus.
(2016)  Invited Speaker for International Women’s Day at the March 8, 2016 meeting of the American Association of University Women, Houston-Peach Branch, Trinity United Methodist Church, Warner Robins, Georgia ("Turkish Women and   Education Through the Eyes of an American Scholar").
(2015)  Invited speaker for the Georgia Academy Fall 2015 Orientation.
(2014)  Spoke at the 2014 MGA Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held at the Cochran Campus.
(2013)  Spoke on ethics at the 2013 MGA Student Government Association (SGA) Retreat held     at the Warner Robins Campus.
(2011)  MGC Humanities Lyceum, 20 April, Cochran, Georgia.  Presented the lecture "Herr Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Kurtz: Nietzsche and the Wild Man in Conrad’s fiction."
(2010)  Cochran Rotary Club meeting, 20 July, Cochran, Georgia.  Spoke on my book, Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland.
(2004)  14th Conference on British and American Studies, 13–15 May, Timisoara, Romania.  Plenary Speaker.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
(2009)  Attended the conference “Frontiers and Fringes, The Ulster Scots Experience in America,” hosted by the Center for Irish Research and Teaching, Georgia Southern University, 11–12 September, Savannah, Georgia, USA.
(2011)  Attended the USG Board of Regents conference “Innovative Teaching Strategies for Learning Support,” 8–10 April, Athens, Georgia, USA.
(2016)  Attended the 14th Annual Conference of the Georgia Tutoring Association, 22 October, Middle Georgia State University, Macon, Georgia, USA.
(2017)  Attended the “Train-the-Trainer” Conference of the Georgia Tutoring Association, 24 February, Georgia State University Newton Campus, Covington, Georgia, USA.

MEMBERSHIPS
The Joseph Conrad Society of America (life member).
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA).
The Georgia Tutoring Association.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020



Nolan, William, Liam Ronayne and Mairead Dunlevy, eds.  Donegal History and Society.  Dublin, Geography Publicaitons, 1995.


Chapter 2: "Early Christian Decorated Slabs in Donegal" byMichael Herity.  66, notes 82.
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Chapter 4: "Sandholls, Silver and Shrines: Fine Metalwork of the Medieval Period in Donegal" by Raghnall Ó Floinn. 102-135; notes 140-48.
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Chapter 6: "Late Medieval Donegal" by Katharine Simms.  183-88; notes 199-201.
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Chapter 27: "The Gaelic Families of Donegal" by Fergus Mac Giolla Easpaig.  759 ff.
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Sunday, September 2, 2018

Some notes on the Cairney surname


Celtic Christianity and the Cairney surname history are somewhat interfused. Also, for any collection of Cairney surname information, some basic word history for “Cairney” can prove informative.  I feel that looking at any surname associated in the past with Celtic Christianity yields historical information that sheds a less generalized light on Celtic religious practice and other matters.  The study of such “names” then can perhaps allow the studier to better process and integrate the inevitably more generalized findings of various authors on the subject of Gaelic or Irish history, social anthropology or historical religious studies.

Cairney is a Scots word. That means that anyone who had the surname Cairney was linguistically—and probably culturally and politically—under Scottish influence at some key point in his or her family history between 1650 and 1850. The name is much older than that of course, but it found the form Cairney during that roughly 200 year period.

There would have been other forms of the name earlier from other languages. Scots (related to English, but not a dialect of English) is a language spoken in Scotland and the North of Ireland. Other languages existed in Scotland and the North of Ireland as well, including Gaelic, a Celtic language, and English.

The Cairneys have a history going back to early medieval times (or rather histories, for, like the Fergusons—another set of Gaelic families with a Scots name—there are origins in Scotland and origins in the North of Ireland). Not an entirely local or insular set of people, they were always connected with the medieval church, and so the name has links to the Gaelic world but also to the Norman world and to the world of the Holy Roman Empire. The family was, like many others, consistently involved in the work of the Church, particularly in the work of the Columban Church, the lay and monastic foundations of St. Colm Cille—St. Columba—of Iona, Derry, Dunkeld and several other locations. Most Cairneys are related in this way: they have origins linked to the kindred of St. Columba and are ecclesiastical septs—one way or another—of the Cenél nEógain branch of the Uí Néill.

So, “Cairney” is a Scots surname version (Cairnie, Carny, Carnie) of Ó Cearnaigh or Mac Cearnaigh (where an English translation would typically use “Kearney” or “Carney”). It is also a Scots placename-based surname translating Gaelic “(de) Car[de]naigh”.

There are different lineages: apart from occasional instances of “part-taking” via adoption or assumption of surname or as the result of incidental polyandry, there are a limited number of lineages whose members typically bear the surname “Cairney”, and so we can discuss the names in terms of “origins”. 

Most “Cairneys” (Cairnies, Cairnys) are from one of four lineages.


Origin 1: Cairney of Donegal and Derry, Ó Cearnaigh.

Derry/Donegal/Tyrone (probably into Sligo) (probably into Down/Armagh) especially as “Kearney”, “Cairney” and “Carney”, and into Scotland and Glasgow especially as “Cairney” and “Cairnie”. Ó Cearnaigh-Derry Research: Ó Cearnaigh: Bhí clann airchinnigh i nDoire. Carney/Kearney: an erenagh family in Derry. Closely related to the House of Dunkeld. This clann is a branch of the Uí Néill and were at various times coarbs or erenachs of Derry. Several are mentioned in the Irish Annals. In the Annals of the Four Masters for the year 1096: “Eoghan Ua Cearnaigh, airchinneach of Doire, died on the eighteenth of the Calends of January.”

Another mentioned is Gille Críost Ó Cearnaigh who was Abbot and Coarb of St. Columba (St. Colm Cille) at Derry. The Annals of Ulster entry for 1198: “Gilla Mac Liac Ua Brenan put the succession away from him and Gilla-Crist Ua Cernaigh by choice of laity and clergy of the North of Ireland was ordained in his stead in the abbacy of Colm-cille.” The same event is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters: “Gillamacliag O'Branan resigned his abbacy; and Gilchreest O'Kearney was elected coarb of St. Columbkille by the universal suffrages of the clergy and laity of the north of Ireland.”

Historical variants in Donegal: O'Carnie (1609), O'Carney (1659), O'Kairney (1665), O'Kearny (1665), and Cairney (1743). Many went to Glasgow in the 19th century.




 
Origin 2: Cairney of Perthshire, Cardenaigh.

Cairney, Carnie, Cairnie and Cairny: Perthshire and into Aberdeen and Glasgow/Edinburgh. Specific lineage from Sir John de Cairdeney of that Ilk (Cardney) near Dunkeld.

Beginning at Cardney, The Cairnys were later seated at Tulchan. They acquired the Perthshire inheritance of the ecclesiastical family of MacNair, a sept of the House of Dunkeld. 


 
Origin 3: Cairnies of Aberdeen, Cardenaigh.

Cairnie, Carnie, Carny, etc.: Specific lineage(s) (early 14th century) from one or other of the various “Cairney” placenames in Scotland besides the one near Dunkeld, the most likely candidate being the barony of Cairney across the Tay from Abernethy. An Abernethy clan lineage, also to Aberdeen, Banff and Edinburg. The Abernethy clan is a House of Dunkeld sept with a Columban connection.

Primarily Pre-1950 Aberdeenshire.


 
Origin 4: MacCairneys of Galloway, Mac Cearnaigh.

McCarney, MacCairney, etc.: Monaghan and into Scotland, Galloway and Glasgow, especially as “Cairney”, “Cairnie” and “MacCairnie”.

Monaghan in Ireland, Wigtown to Glasgow in Scotland.

 
Less Likly Cairney Origins:


Ó Catharnaigh: Kearney, Carney of Westmeath and Offaly and into Dublin. Some possible migration into Down/Armagh and into Scotland and Glasgow as “Cairney”.




Ó Ceithearnaigh, Kerney, Kearney of Roscommon (Castlerea): very limited migration to Scotland and Glasgow.




Ó Cearnaigh, Carney, Kearney of Mayo (Balla) and possibly into Sligo. Uí Fiachrach.


Ó Cearnaigh, Carney, Kearney of Tipperary and Kerry and some into Mayo and Dublin. Dál gCais.