SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Director, MFA Program
(http://www.mfa.mcneese.edu/faculty.htm)
(http://www.mfa.mcneese.edu/program.htm)
• Advisor, MFA Program
• Director, Graduate Studies in English
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Fiction
• Narrative Theory
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
• Member, Association of Writing Programs
SELECTED WORKS
• Buddy Cooper Finds a Way (novel). New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004
• St. Michael's Scales (novel). New York: Arthur A. Levine, 2002
Neil O’Boyle Connelly’s second novel, Buddy Cooper Finds a Way, explores the connections between QVC, faith healing, divorce, asteroids, and professional wrestling. The book was chosen by Amazon.com as a Breakout Book. St. Michael’s Scales, Connelly’s first book, was listed as “Best of the Best 2002” by Borders books. His short fiction has appeared in The Yalobusha Review, The Southeast Review (formerly Sundog), and Speak, among other journals. His story “The Adventures of Ultimate Man” was published in River City and subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Last year, Oxford American included him in a list of prominent Southern novelists.
Connelly is the recipient of the 2004 Pinnacle Teaching Excellence Award as well as of a fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts.
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