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James MacKillop (born May 31, 1939, Pontiac, Michigan)[citation needed] is an American professor and scholar of Celtic and Irish studies and an arts journalist.[1][2] A child of Gaelic-speaking Highland emigrants, he has lived in Upstate New York since the late 1960s.[citation needed]
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MacKillop was raised in Southeast Michigan and attended the University of Detroit High School[3] and Wayne State University (BA, MA in English). At Wayne, he wrote for the Daily Collegian[4][failed verification] and captained the university team on the GE College Bowl television program.[5][failed verification] He received a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and was a visiting fellow in Celtic Languages at Harvard University.[citation needed]
MacKillop taught for more than forty years at various universities. Appointments include Michigan Technological University, Onondaga Community College, State University of New York College at Cortland and the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He also held a year's appointment as Professeur Invité at the University of Rennes 1 in France. He was awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence.[6][failed verification]
MacKillop has published ten books, dozens of scholarly articles, and thousands of newspaper items.[1] These include The Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford)[7] and Myth & Legends of the Celts (Penguin).[8] His Irish Literature: A Reader (Syracuse),[9] with Maureen Murphy is used in some university Irish literature courses.[citation needed] Speaking of Words (Holt, Rinehart)[10] was co-edited with Donna Woolfolk Cross. Writing for newspapers since college years, MacKillop has been the drama critic with the Syracuse New Times for decades, winning the Syracuse Press Club Award for criticism sixteen times.[citation needed]
Joining as a graduate student, MacKillop served on the executive committee of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) for ten years, organizing three national conventions (Syracuse, 1989; Belfast-Queens U., 1995; Albany, 1997), and serving as president, 1995–97.[11]
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