Charles F. Fanning, Jr. is an Irish American historian and academic.

Life

He grew up in Norwood, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1964, with a master's in 1966, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a master's and doctoral degrees, in 1968 and 1972. He taught at Bridgewater State College, and at Southern Illinois University Carbondale from 1993 to 2007.[1][2] He and his wife, Frances, live in Carbondale, Illinois.[3] They have two children, Stephen, born in 1982 and Ellen, born in 1984.

A Medal and Lecture in Irish Studies are named for him.[4]

Awards

• 2004 Outstanding Scholar, Southern Illinois University Carbondale [5]
• 1989 American Book Award for The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
• 1979 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians for Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years
• 1991 Prize for Literary Criticism from the American Conference for Irish Studies for The Irish Voice in America

Bibliography

• Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years. University Press of Kentucky. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8131-1365-4. (reprint 2008 ISBN 978-1-59740-420-4)
• The woman of the house: some themes in Irish-American fiction. Irish Studies Program, Northeastern University. 1985.
• Charles Fanning (1990). The Irish voice in America: 250 years of Irish-American fiction. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-1721-8. (second edition 2000 ISBN 978-0-8131-0970-1 )
• Mapping Norwood: An Irish-American Memoir. University of Massachusetts Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55849-810-5.

Editor

• James T. Farrell (2008). Charles Fanning (ed.). The Face of Time. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03310-0.
• James T. Farrell (2008). Charles Fanning (ed.). Father and Son. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07495-0.
• James T. Farrell (2008). Charles Fanning (ed.). My Days of Anger. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03270-7.
• James T. Farrell (2007). Charles Fanning (ed.). No Star Is Lost. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07422-6.
• James Thomas Farrell (2007). Charles Fanning (ed.). A world I never made. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07423-3.
• John V. Kelleher (2002). Charles Fanning (ed.). Selected writings of John V. Kelleher on Ireland and Irish America. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2482-8.
• Charles Fanning, ed. (2000). New perspectives on the Irish diaspora. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2344-9.
• James Thomas Farrell (1998). Charles Fanning (ed.). Chicago Stories. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01981-4.
• Charles Fanning, ed. (1997). The Exiles of Erin: nineteenth-century Irish-American fiction. Dufour Editions. ISBN 9780802313157.
• Finley Peter Dunne (1987). Charles Fanning (ed.). Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: the autobiography of a nineteenth-century ethnic group. Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 978-0-8132-0650-9.

References

External links

• "IRISH VOICES", Perspectives, Spring 2004

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