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Jim O'Loughlin

 

jim.oloughlin@uni.edu

Hailing originally from Connecticut, I received my Ph. D. at the State University of New York (Buffalo) and kept moving west.  At UNI, I offer courses in American literature, fiction writing, and professional writing.  During the school year, I run a monthly reading series and open mic at the Hearst Center for the Arts just off campus, the Final Thursday Reading Series.  I'm also the publisher of the award-winning Final Thursday Press, a chapbook press specializing in poetry and fiction by regional writers.  Check below for links to my critical writing, creative writing, and classroom projects available on the web.

Literary and Cultural Criticism

Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900

    (co-written with Julie Husband) Greenwood Press, 2004

 

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Dominant Culture

   The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 1.1 (2007): 45-56. 

Spin Cities

    Boston College Magazine (excerpt from Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900)

 

Odyssey radio program on Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Audio files of appearance on Chicago Public Radio's Odyssey

 

Grow'd Again: Articulation and the History of Topsy

    Multimedia article on the Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture archive

 

Public vs. Mass Media: The Case of The Internet

    in the Journal of American Underground Computing

 

One Plus One Is Three At Least (co-editor)

    from Meow Press


Creative Writing

A Part of Her (fiction, 2008)

    in Write Around the Block

Rocket Rock-It Pony (fiction, 2008)

    in Flashshot

What I Want To Be When I Grow Up (fiction, 2007)

    in Defenestration

As It Appears (poetry, 2008)

    in Bent Pin Quarterly

The Real Story (fiction, 2006)

    in Pedestal Magazine

Wake (fiction, 2007)

    in The Clarity of Night

The Zone (fiction, 2006)

    in The Daily Palette

Because She Was Nine (prose poetry, 2006)

    in Feila-Festa

The Amazing Eve (fiction, 2005)

    in Flash Me Magazine

Not the way you are supposed to like Jackson Pollock (poetry, 2003)

    in flashquake

Purple A Man (fiction, 2005)

    audio excerpt from Living Forge

(requires RealPlayer software or
program that can read .rm files)

Then There Were No Questions: 2/12/03 (poetry, 2003)

    in Poets Against War

Lou Krupp, Screw Up (fiction, 2004)

    in Laughter Loaf

Drift (poetry, 2003)

    in Prairie Poetry

Testimony (fiction, 2003)

    in Mocha Memoirs

So Big (poetry, 2003)

    in The Green Tricycle

At Least (fiction, 2002)
    in dotlit

Adventures in Marketing (creative nonfiction, 2002)

    in La Petite Zine

The Soliloquy (fiction, 2000)

    in Story Bytes

  


Flash Fiction Projects
These are mini-anthologies of flash fiction stories by students in Beginning Fiction Writing
Spring 2008
 Fall 2007
Spring 2007

Fall 2004
Spring 2004
 Fall 2001


Really Bad Pictures for Beginning Fiction Writing
Couple
Oops
Two Girls

 

Introduction to Literature
Link to NEA Report, To Read or Not To Read Exec. Summary
Link to "Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?"


College Reading and Writing
Webpage for Simon Frith's "The Voice"


American Realism and Naturalism
1906: A Tale of Two Novels
Student webpages on Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth & Upton Sinclair's The Jungle


Student Project Wikipedia Pages
Modern American Literature: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties
Modern American Literature: Jack Conroy's The Disinherited
Modern American Literature: Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth
20th Century American Novel: Jane Smiley's Moo
20th Century American Novel: Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club