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HILARY BRACEFIELD-Lecturer in Music, University of Ulster
JIM BYRNE- Boston College
RON CALLAN- Lecturer in American Literature, University College Dublin
Modern American Poetry (Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams), Canadian Literature, Children's Literature
PHILIP COLEMAN - Lecturer in English, Trinity College Dublin
Philip specializes in American literature. He currently teaches two year-long advanced undergraduate seminars, one on American poetry from the early national period to the present, and another on short fiction from William Austin to David Foster Wallace. He contributes lectures to undergraduate courses on Modernism, Periodicity and Fables; he also teaches seminars on popular poetry, Dante and Modern and American poetry, and American expatriate writing to Trinity's taught M.Phils in Popular Literature and Comparative Literature. He is also a member of a committee established by Trinity's School of English in 2005 to design a new M.Phil in Literatures of the Americas, expected to begin in October 2007. Dr Coleman is the editor, with Philip McGowan (QUB), of After thirty Falls: New Essays on John Berryman (Rodopi, 2007), and the author of Berryman's Fate: Reception and Redress (UCD Press, 2007). With James P. Byrne (Boston College) and Jason Kling (Concordia), he has edited the three-volume encyclopaedia Ireland and the Americas: Politics, Culture, History (ABC-Clio, 2007), and he has also edited a collection entitled "Parts of What We Are": Essays on Literature and Science (Four Courts, 2007). In additon to the above, Philip is also involved in a long-term project to prepare an edition of John Berryman's literary correspondence. He is also writing a book on epistolarity and the role of the letter in the literature of the Americas.
Dr. Coleman welcomes queries from undergraduate students interested in doing postgraduate work in any area of American literature, but especially those wishing to do research on nineteenth and/or twentieth century poetry or short fiction. He is interested in discussing possibilities for teaching exchanges in these (and other) areas with colleagues from universities in ireland, Europe and the USA. For a detailed listing of his most recent journal publications see:
http://tcd.ie/English/staffandresearch/coleman.php.
JOHN-PAUL COLGAN-
NIAMH DOHENY-
TONY EMMERSON-Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Ulster
Tony Emmerson has worked at the University of Ulster and its predecessor institutions since 1967. He is currently Head of Subject and Course Director for American Studies.
He teaches American Studies and American history. He teaches on both interdisciplinary American Studies modules in First Year – Defining America and American Visions and Revisions. He teaches two Second Year modules on 20th Century US History and The West, and one Final Year module on The Depression.
Tony is responsible for US exchange programmes with the United States. He has been Treasurer of the British Universities Transatlantic Exchange Association since 1996, and serves on the Council of Advisers of the International Student Exchange Program (Washington, DC). He visits the USA at least three times a year.
His long term research interests are the development of the transcontinental railroads and the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. More recently, he has been researching the involvement of the United States war effort in Northern Ireland from 1940 until 1945.
Telephone: +44 (0) 28 7032 4644
KIT FRYATT- Lecturer in English, Mater Dei Institute (DCU)
Modern American Poetry, Atlantic Poetries
RICHARD HAYES-Lecturer in English, Waterford Institute of Technology rhayes@wit.ie
Research Interests: Twentieth-century American theatre, particularly Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman and Tennessee Williams; Hollywood, particularly dramatists in Hollywood; adaptation, theory and practice, particularly film adaptations of plays; Progressivism; McCarthy, HUAC and theatre/literature/film; European film and its influence on American film/theatre; the Group Theatre; Sheldon Cheney and the Art Theatre.
MICHAEL HINDS- Head of Humanities, Head of English, Mater Dei Institute (Dublin City University), Co-Ordinator of Irish Centre for Poetry Studies (irishcentrefor poetrystudies.materdei.ie)
Teaching History- Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Queens University Belfast, International Christian University (Tokyo), The University of Tokyo, Mater Dei Institute
Research Interests: Modern American Poetry (Randall Jarrell and Contemporaries), The American Poetry Book, Ekphrasis, Classical Influences on Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (Sappho, Catullus, Ovid), Rock Music (Pixies, Beach Boys, whatever). Eager to enable research in these areas.
Currently Teaching: Dickinson, Whitman, Frost, Wharton, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Raymond Chandler, Bradstreet, James Agee, Hitchcock, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Plath, Louise Gluck, Frederick Seidel, Anne Carson, Philip Roth, Jeffrey Eugenides, Art Spiegelman, John Kennedy Toole, David O. Russell, the Marx Brothers, Bob Dylan, John Berryman, E.L. Doctorow.
Currently Supervising: Masters Research on Louise Gluck (sic), Emily Dickinson, Bob Dylan. Doctoral resarch on Stephen Crane.
Relevant Recent Publications: Editor of POST: A REVIEW oF POETRY STUDIES (Issue One, Poets and Space, Spring 2009). The Irish Reader: Essays for John Devitt, edited by Hinds, Kelleher and Denman, Otior Press, April 2007. "Allusions, etc.: John Berryman, Catullus and Sappho", in After Thirty Falls: Critical Essays on John Berryman, eds Philip Coleman and Philip McGowan: New York: Rodopi, 2007; “Thoreau’s Hut”, Huts Douglas Hyde Gallery , Dublin: March 2005; Rebound: the American Poetry Book, co-edited with Stephen Matterson, Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, September 2004. “Introduction” and “Randall Jarrell’s Book of the Dead”; “Randall Jarrell and Donatello’s David”, in, Letteratura d’America, University of Rome Press, 2004; "Nor Is He Out Of It: Ciaran Carson in the Wars", an essay on the recent poetry of Ciaran Carson. Metre, February 2004. Reviews in The Irish Times, The Irish Book Review.
LEE JENKINS- Senior Lecturer in American Literature, University College Cork
Lee is the author of numerous articles on American and modernist literature and of the monographs The Language of Caribbean Poetry (UP of Florida, 2004) and Wallace Stevens: Rage for Order (Sussex Academic Press, 1999), and the co-editor of the collection Locations of Literary Modernism (Cambridge UP, 2000) and The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (2007). Her research interests include: modernist poetry; the Harlem Renaissance; Caribbean literature; Frederick Douglass; transatlantic literary exchange. She is currently researching a monograph on D.H. Lawrence and the Americas to be published by the University Press of Florida.
Lee teaches widely in American and Caribbean literature and modern poetry, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and co-ordinates the MA in American Literature & Film at University College Cork. She welcomes research proposals in the areas of: modern American poetry and fiction; the slave narrative; modernism; the Harlem Renaissance; Caribbean writing.
Contact: l.jenkins@ucc.ie
Phone (021) 4902050
MARIA JOHNSTON- Graduate Student, Trinity College Dublin
Maria Johnston holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin where she currently lectures in American poetry. She also teaches part-time at Mater Dei Institute to both undergraduates and MA students. Her reviews and essays on modern and contemporary poetry have appeared in journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, the Dublin Review of Books, Irish University Review, POST and Contemporary Poetry Review and she also reviews modern Irish poetry for the Years Work in English Studies. She has published essays on the work of poets such as Sylvia Plath, Louis MacNeice, John Berryman and Brian Coffey and her essays on Paul Muldoon, Anthony Hecht and Pearse Hutchinson will appear in forthcoming essay collections published in Ireland and the U.S. 2008 saw the publication of both Stewart Parker’s High Pop which she co-edited with Gerald Dawe along with Stewart Parker: Dramatis Personae and Other Writings, co-edited with Gerald Dawe and Clare Wallace. She is also currently editing a book of essays on Poetry & Politics for publication and is co-editing, with Philip Coleman, a collection of essays on the work of Pearse Hutchinson which will be published by Irish Academic Press in 2011. She is the current Reviews Editor for the IJASOnline.
JAMES KELLY
LIAM KENNEDY-Clinton Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
PADRAIG KIRWAN- Lecturer in English, Goldsmith's College, London
Native American Writing
LESTER LAMON
BILL LAZENBATT- Lecturer in English, University of Ulster
JOANNE MANCINI- Lecturer in History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Research and teaching interests:
JoAnne Mancini’s main research interests are in the history of the United States and its colonial antecedents, interdisciplinary cultural history, and the intersections between American and world history. She teaches courses in American history, American cultural history, world history, and historiography. She is currently working on a book manuscript called ‘Asian objects: visual culture, imperial relations, and the Pacific world’ and, with Terry Dooley, an edited collection entitled 'The politics of architectural destruction'.
Selected publications:
J. M. Mancini and Graham Finlay, "‘Citizenship Matters’: Lessons from the Irish Citizenship Referendum", American Quarterly 60, no. 3 (September 2008), 575-599; Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show (Princeton University Press, 2005); "'Messin' with the Furniture Man': Early Country Music, Regional Culture, and the Search for an Anthological Modernism," American Literary History 16:2 (summer 2004), 208-237; "Discovering Viking America," Critical Inquiry 28:4 (summer 2002), 868-907; "'One Term is as Fatuous as Another': Responses to the Armory Show Reconsidered," American Quarterly 51:4 (December 1999), 833-870; "'The Safeness of Standing Alone': Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work and the Organizational Roots of the American Avant-Garde," Canadian Rev. of Am. Studies 28:2 (1998), 37-79
Selected fellowships and prizes:
Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2008; Helm fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University, 2007; Getty Scholar, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 9/06-6/07; British Academy Exchange Grant, Royal Irish Academy, 2005; Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts, 2003; Yasuo Sakakibara Prize, American Studies Association, 2002; Andrew Oliver Research Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2002; Robert R. Wark Fellowship, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, 2001; Hamilton Research Grant, Elizabeth Dafoe Library, University of Manitoba, 2001; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999-2000; Research Grant, Minnesota Historical Society, 1998
Department of History
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, County Kildare
JoAnne.Mancini@nuim.ie
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PROFESSOR STEPHEN MATTERSON- Professor of English, Head of School of English, Trinity College Dublin
Research and Teaching Interests: 19th and 20th century American literature generally. I’m especially interested in poetry, literature and race, literary nationalism, and the writings of Herman Melville. I currently teach courses in American literature, Poetry, and American Autobiography.
Recent Publications:
Books: American Literature: The Essential Glossary. London: Edward Arnold: New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; Studying Poetry. London: Arnold and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (With Darryl Jones); Rebound: The American Poetry Book. Collection of critical essays, commissioned and edited with Michael Hinds. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2005); The Collected Poems of Walt Whitman, selected with an introduction and notes, Wordsworth publications, Ware. (2006).
Articles: '"The Whole Habit of the Mind": Stevens, Americanness and the Use of Elsewhere.' In The Wallace Stevens Journal 25:2 (Fall 2001), pp. 111-121; 'Robert Lowell's Life Studies' in Blackwell's Companion to 20th Century Poetry ed. Neil Roberts Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 481-490; 'Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs', in Soft Canons: American Women Writers and the Masculine Tradition, ed. Karen L. Kilcup, Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1999, pp. 82-96; 'A Life in Pictures: Harold Pinter’s The Last Tycoon.' Literature and Film Quarterly, 27 (1999), pp. 50-54; 'From Unreal to Hyper-real: Nathanael West's Los Angeles.' In Citta Reali E Immaginarie del Continente Americano, eds Cristina Giorcelli, Camilla Cattarulla, Anna Scacchi. Rome: Edizioni Associate Press, 1998, pp. 73-81; 'Tenth-Muse-ism, Or, The Discontinuity of American Poetry.' In The United States in Europe 1945-95, eds Rob Kroes and Cristina Giorcelli. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1997, pp. 255-261; 'Indian-Hater, Wild Man; Melville’s Confidence-Man.' Arizona Quarterly, 52 (1996) pp. 21-35; 'To Make it Mean Me: Frost’s North of Boston as a sequence.' In Rebound: The American Poetry Book; 'He Lived Like A Rat: The Trickster In The Dream Songs.' In After Thirty Falls: Essays on John Berryman, eds Philip McGowan and Philip Coleman. (Rodpi, forthcoming 2007); 'The New Criticism' in The Theory and Practice of Literary Criticism: An Oxford Guide, ed. Patricia Waugh, Oxford University Press. (forthcoming).
Currently supervising research in the following areas: Sylvia Plath and Influence; Wallace Stevens and Romanticism; Violence in Joyce Carol Oates; Nostalgia in John Updike and Don DeLillo; Autobiography in Philip Roth; Transsexual Autobiography.
Contact Details:
- Stephen Matterson
Department of English
Trinity College
University of Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland. - Tel: + 353 1 896 1879.
- Fax: + 353 1 671 7114.
- e-mail: smttrson@tcd.ie
STEPHEN MILLIGEN- University of Ulster
JONATHAN MITCHELL-
SINEAD MOYNIHAN-
CIARAN MCCABE
SHARON MCCANN
KATHLEEN MCCRACKEN - Lecturer in English, University of Ulster
- Modern American Poetry, Native American Literature
PHILIP MCGOWAN- Lecturer in English, Queens University Belfast
Philip McGowan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature with particular though not exclusive interest in twentieth-century American poetry. In his previous position at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, he taught and supervised on a range of courses and subjects including contemporary American fiction, Puritan and revolutionary America, the American nineteenth century, westerns, crime fiction, as well as on film, most recently the American movies of Alfred Hitchcock. Philip’s research interests range across these and other areas, and he is interested in supervising on these and related topics. He is currently working on an illustrated biography of Dorothy Parker (Overlook Press, New York) and is co-editing a book of essays on the American poet John Berryman (Rodopi, 2006) to be followed by a monograph on Las Vegas (Berg). His publications to date include American Carnival: Seeing & Reading American Culture (Greenwood, 2001) and Anne Sexton & Middle Generation Poetry: The Geography of Grief (Praeger, 2004).
CONOR MCGRATH- Independent Scholar, Formerly Lecturer in Political Lobbying & Public Affairs, School of Communication, University of Ulster
Research Interests: Lobbying and Lobbyists; Public Affairs; US and UK politics; Popular Culture
Recent Publications:
- McGrath, C. (in press, 2007) ‘K Street: “Raping HBO” or “What HBO Is All About”?’, in Leverette, M., Ott, B. and Buckley-Ott, C. (eds) It’s Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era. New York: Routledge.
- McGrath, C. (in press, May 2007) ‘Advocacy’, ‘Coalition Building’, ‘Gun Politics’, ‘Lobbying’, ‘National Rifle Association’, and ‘Professional Activist Organizations’, in Anderson, G.L. and Herr, K. (eds) (2007) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
- McGrath, C. (2006) ‘Grass Roots Lobbying: Marketing Politics and Policy “Beyond the Beltway”’, pp. 105-130 in Davies, P.J. and Newman, B. (eds) (2006) Winning Elections with Political Marketing. Binghamton: Haworth Press.
- Spencer, T. and McGrath, C. (eds) (2006) Challenge and Response: Essays on Public Affairs and Transparency. Brussels: Landmarks.
- Spencer, T. and McGrath, C. ‘Preface: A Function Under Pressure?’, pp. 10-13.
- McGrath, C. ‘Lobbying and Public Trust’, pp. 73-80.
- McGrath, C. (2006) ‘The Ideal Lobbyist: Personal Characteristics of Effective Lobbyists’, Journal of Communication Management 10(1), pp. 67-79.
- McGrath, C. (2005) Lobbying in Washington, London, and Brussels: The Persuasive Communication of Political Issues. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
- McGrath, C. (2005) ‘Towards a Lobbying Profession: Developing the Industry’s Reputation, Education and Representation’, Journal of Public Affairs 5(2), pp. 124-135.
- McGrath, C. (2005) ‘Lobbying by US Beer Wholesalers’, pp. 269-280 in Harris, P. and Fleisher, C. (eds) (2005) Handbook of Public Affairs. London: Sage.
- mcgraths@iol.ie
AOILEANN NI EIGEARTAIGH - Lecturer In English, Dundalk Institute of Technology
Dr Aoileann Ni Eigeartaigh is a Lecturer in the Department of Humanities in Dundalk Institute of Technology. Her main research interests are literature (Irish and American), cultural theory and contemporary border theory. She is a founding researcher at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society at Dundalk Institute of Technology and coordinator of the MA in Cultural Innovation for the Arts programme. She has published on a variety of topicsa related to irish and American culture and literature. Recent publications include (with David getty and Kevin Howard) Rethinking Diasporas: Hidden narratives and Imagined Borders (Cambridge Scholars press, 2007); (with david getty) Borders and Borderlands in Contemporary Culture (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006); "Mise Eire (I am Ireland)": Redefining Irish identity in the 21st Century" in Cultural Studies Journal (University of Latvia, 2005); "Borders and Borderlands in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon" in Irish Journal of American Studies, vol.11-12 (2002-2003). She also contributed 25 articles to Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History (2007).
MARISA RONAN – IAAS Secretary, University College Dublin
Marisa Ronan is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clinton Institute for American Studies. She successfully completed a PhD in American Studies, the parameters of which explored an intellectual and literary history of American Evangelicalism from Puritanism to postmodernism. The title of her thesis was "Evangelising Postmodernism: Christian Fiction and the Pursuit of a New Evangelical Christianity".
Her role as Postdoctoral Fellow includes teaching MA courses on “Religion in the Americas”, “Research Skills”, “American Masculinity” and “America in the Twenty First Century”. She also lectures an MPhil course in Trinity, “Theorising White Masculinity in American Literature”. She has taught both within the School of English and the School of History in UCD and this summer helped coordinate a summer school, "Ireland and America: Transatlantic Communities of Thought" in the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Her publications include:
"Evangelical Christian Fiction: Reflections of a 'Culture in Transition". The Journal of the British Association for American Studies. Issue 60, 2007.
"Left Behind and Evangelical Literary Culture". Left Behind and the Evangelical Imagination (With a response from Jerry Jenkins). Mark Sweetnam and Crawford Gribben (eds). University of Sheffield Press, Forthcoming 2010.
“After the American Century: Periodisation and the Re-writing of Christian Fiction”. Literature After the American Century. Lance Rubin, Gioia Woods (eds). In construction.
SUE NORTON - Lecturer in English, Dublin Institute of Technology
Sue Norton - Lecturer of English The Dublin Institute of Technology. Sue's teaching and research interests include creative non-fiction, rhetoric & composition, modern literature, applied grammar and writing skills, and English as a foreign language.
http://www.languages.dit.ie/index.php?Contact_us:Lecturing_Staff:English#sue_biography
DAVID RYAN - Lecturer in History, University College Cork, Co-Chair Transatlantic Studies Association
Current Research: US Collective memory of the Vietnam Wars, US Intervention in regional conflicts:
JULIE SHERIDAN-Trinity College Dublin
Julie Sheridan is a PhD student at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where she is writing her doctoral thesis on the fiction of contemporary American writer Joyce Carol Oates. She holds a Masters degree in American Literature from University College Dublin, and has been awarded several academic scholarships and bursaries over the course of her studies. Her research interests include representations of the body in literature and culture; constructions of gender (with a particular focus on masculinity); violence in literature; race, ethnicity, and identity politics; narrative temporality. She has presented her work at academic conferences in Nottingham, Dundee, Manchester (BAAS Conference, 2004), Dublin, Dundalk (IAAS Conference 2003) and Cork (IAAS Conference 2001). As Chair of the IAAS Postgraduate Caucus, she has organized three postgraduate symposiums on behalf of the IAAS. She has gained extensive teaching experience at UCD, where she tutored in Modern English for three years. At Trinity College, she worked for four terms as a teaching assistant on the Senior Freshman American Literature course, covering a wide range of texts from the colonial to the postmodern. She has delivered guest lectures on the work of Jewish-American dramatist and screenwriter David Mamet (with special reference to his play/film Glengarry Glen Ross), and on the short fiction of Joyce Carol Oates. Her essay “‘Why Such Discontent?’: Race, Ethnicity, and Masculinity in What I Lived For” appears in Studies in the Novel 38.4/Winter 2006 (Special Issue on Joyce Carol Oates, ed. Gavin Cologne-Brookes), pp. 494-512. jasherid@tcd.ie
THERESE SMITH - Lecturer in Music, University College Dublin
DESMOND TRAYNOR - University College Dublin
Desmond Traynor studied English and Greek and Roman Civilisation (B.A.) and Anglo-Irish Literature (M.A.) at University College Dublin, and Creative Writing (M. Phil.) at Trinity College Dublin. He is doing a PhD at the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin, on dissent in contemporary American popular music, for which he has been awarded the Dr. Ciaran Barry Research Scholarship.
He has written about books, film, theatre, music and travel for The Sunday Independent, The Irish Independent, The Evening Herald, The Sunday Tribune, The Irish Times, Magill, Village, The Irish Book Review, The Journal of Music in Ireland, Books Ireland, Film Ireland, Film West, Graph, The Dubliner, The World of Hibernia and The Big Issues. His short stories have been widely published and anthologised, and he was nominated for a Hennessy Literary Award for ‘Best Emerging Fiction’ in 1998 and 2000, winning a Special Merit Hennessy Award in 2000. His first novel, The Myth of Exile and Return, was nominated for the Hughes & Hughes/Sunday Independent Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2005. He has also been awarded a Bursary in Literature by Dublin City Council, and a Bursary in Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland. While at Trinity he won the Alumnus Award for the best critical essay published in Alumnus, an annual journal of work by Trinity postgraduates of all disciplines.
He has given creative writing workshops in Dublin City Council Libraries, and as part of the Writers in Schools scheme, and lectured on contemporary Irish fiction in the Irish Writers’ Centre. He teaches creative writing at Rathmines College of Further Education and at the Irish Writers’ Centre. In summer 2005, he taught courses in Creative Writing and Irish Literature at the summer programme of Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland. In autumn 2005 he gave an evening course in Contemporary Irish Fiction for the Adult Education Centre at University College Dublin, and was also Course Director for the Diploma in Creative Writing at the School of Arts in Dublin Business School. He is currently teaching the Contemporary International Fiction module to final year B.A. students at Dublin Business School, and the Postcolonial Literature and Theory module to second year students.
ALICE WALSH -
LOUISE WALSH
IRCHSS Scholar, Ph.D. Student – Clinton Institute of American Studies – U.C.D.
Academic Qualifications:
B.A. – English and History (Joint Honors) University College Cork
M.A. – 20th Century American Literature and Film – University College Cork:
M.A. Thesis: Black and Green Blueprints: A Comparative Analysis of the Harlem Renaissance and the Irish Literary Revival
Ph.D. Research
My research centers on a comparison of the Harlem Renaissance and the Irish Literary Revival with particular attention to the respective locations of these movements within the landscape of literary modernism. A large part of my project therefore involves an interrogation of what constitutes modernist writing, a literary praxis which is currently being revisited by the academy. To this end, I am assessing the contemporaneous impact of the ethnographical research undertaken in Ireland and African America, as important aspects of folk culture common to both movements were unearthed and reclaimed through its enterprise. My project will evaluate to what extent these engagements shaped the creative literary output of the writers of both movements and examine whether it underscored (or indeed attenuated) their modernist credentials.
Ad Astra Research Scholar.
Research Papers:
Bookends Postgraduate Conference - March 2007 – University College Cork
Ireland, a Blueprint for Black Writing: A Comparison of the Poetics of W.B. Yeats and Sterling Brown.
Transatlantic Studies Association Conference – July 2007 – University College Cork.
Ireland, a Blueprint for Black Writing: An Analysis of the Impact of the Occult and Voodoo on Creative Processes of W.B. Yeats and Zora Neale Hurston Respectively.
IAAS Annual Postgraduate Symposium – January 2008 – Clinton Institute of American Studies.
The Vindication of Vernacular: Representations of Dialect in Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes' Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life and J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World.
Transatlantic Studies Association Conference – July 2008 – West Park Conference Centre, Dundee.
The Vindication of Vernacular: Representations of Dialect in Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes' Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life and J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World.
NERYS WILLIAMS - Lecturer in American Literature, University College Dublin
Modern and Contemporary American poetry and poetics.
GWENDA YOUNG - Lecturer in Film, University College Cork
Film (Early Hollywood)
NERYS YOUNG- University of Ulster
US-Sandinista Diplomatic Relations: Voice of Intolerance.
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_____. US Foreign Policy in World History. (New International History Series)
_____. United States and Europe in the Twentieth Century. (Seminar Series). London: Addison Wesley Longman, 2003.
Teaching: The
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