Rate My Professor Jonathan Mulrooney

Jonathan Mulrooney is Professor of English and Department Chair at the College of the Holy Cross, where he is also affiliated with the Environmental Studies and Catholic Studies programs. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Boston University in 2001 with a dissertation titled 'The Subject of Theater: Theatrical Criticism and Poetry in Britain, 1798-1832,' an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto in 1993, and an A.B. in English summa cum laude from Boston College in 1991. Mulrooney's career at Holy Cross began as Visiting Assistant Professor of English from 2001 to 2002, followed by Assistant Professor from 2004 to 2008, Associate Professor from 2008 to 2017, and promotion to full Professor in 2017. He previously held an Assistant Professor position in British Romantic and 19th-Century Literature at the University of Vermont from 2002 to 2004. During his tenure at Holy Cross, he chaired the English Department for two terms from 2011 to 2017, leading a faculty of 22 tenured and tenure-track members serving about 250 majors and 3000 undergraduates, managing curriculum development, faculty recruitment and reviews, budgets, and advancement efforts. He also served as Faculty Representative to the Mission and Identity Committee of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees from 2009 to 2015.

Mulrooney's research centers on British Romantic literature, Romantic-period theater and public culture, nineteenth-century British and American literature, film, Romantic historicisms, theatrical performance, literary theory, and magic and magical narratives. He authored Romanticism and Theatrical Experience: Kean, Hazlitt, and Keats in the Age of Theatrical News (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He edited the special issue Romantic Movements for European Romantic Review 25.3 (June 2014), including his 'Introduction: Romantic Movements.' Key peer-reviewed articles include 'Keats’s 1817 Occasions' in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 59.4 (Autumn 2019), 'Environmental Indifference' in Integritas 8.2 (Fall 2016), 'How Keats Falls' in Studies in Romanticism 50.2 (Summer 2011), 'Keats’s Avatar' in European Romantic Review 22.3 (June 2011), 'Keats in the Company of Kean' in Studies in Romanticism 42.2 (Summer 2003), and 'Reading the Romantic-period Daily News' in Nineteenth-Century Contexts 24.4 (December 2002). Book chapters encompass 'Performance' in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Blackwell, 2012) and 'Reading Theatre, 1730-1830' in The Cambridge Companion to Theatre, 1730-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Mulrooney has presented invited lectures such as 'Authors on the Hill' on his book (2019) and 'Keats, Interrupted' (2014).