Charles Fanning

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Charles Fanning
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Charles F. Fanning, Jr.
EducationHarvard College
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)Historian, educator
SpouseFrances Fanning
Children2

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

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

Bibliography

  • 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. )
  • Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years. University Press of Kentucky. 1978. )
  • Mapping Norwood: An Irish-American Memoir. University of Massachusetts Press. 2010. .

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