Office: Keezell 405
Phone: 540-568-6198
Email: gaughrre@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Spring - MWF 11:00 -12:00, MW 1:30-2:30

Courses:
Spring 2008
ENG 302- Special Topic Seminar
GENG248 - Survey of American Literature II
ENG 299 - Writing About Literature

Specialties: 20th Century American Literature, Baseball Literature, Balkan Literature

Education: B.A. Roberts Wesleyan College, 1980; M.A. Lehigh University, 1985; Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1989

Bio/Interests/Publications:
Lived and worked in Eastern Europe for 5 years (1997-2000 in Macedonia, 2000-2002 in Slovakia); has published literary translations (Macedonian to English), including the translating/editing of contemporary Macedonian short story collection CHANGE OF THE SYSTEM.

Has also published on Larry Brown (forthcoming), Mark Twain, Baseball Fiction, as well as a couple of original short stories.

Upcoming conference presentations on The Big Lebowski (September, 2006) and Harry Crews (October 2006)

Alternating with wife Lucy Bednar, writes (since February, 2003) a regular book review column for the Daily News Record of Harrisonburg, VA.

Has fondness for local acoustic musicians; the films of the Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah, W.C. Fields, the Coen Brothers; blues/jazz/bluegrass music

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