227 Public Profiles Found:#1 Mary E. Aldridge, Mesa Community College Research Interests: W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, late 19th and early 20th century poetry, drama, and fiction, contemporary fiction and poetry, women in Ireland #2 Jonathan M. Allison, University of Kentucky Research Interests: Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature; Modernism; W.B. Yeats and his circle; Louis MacNeice BA, PGCE (Queen's University, Belfast); MA, PhD (Michigan) #3 Jolynn Amrine Goertz #4 Beth O'Leary Anish, Quinsigamond Community College Research Interests: 20th century Irish fiction and memoir; Irish American drama, memoir and history; Catholicism and the Irish gothic I am an adjunct faculty member teaching mainly English courses. I'm in between graduate degree programs (I've finished a master's and have hopes of pursuing a PhD in English with a concentration in Irish Studies). I recently completed writing my first novel, an Irish immigrant tale/story of a woman battling depression, set in the era of the Great Famine. #5 Margot G. Backus, University of Houston Research Interests: modern Irish literature and film with a focus on class, gender, sexuality, and post- and neo-colonial symbolic and material relations. First book, _The Gothic Family Romance: Child Sacrifice and Heterosexuality in Anglo-Irish Colonial Literature_, Duke UP, received the ACIS prize for a distinguished first book in 2001. In 2007-8, received the IACI/NUIG Fellowship in Irish studies to complete research on a book on Irish and Northern Irish scandal culture in relationship to narratives of sexual initiation. For the 2007-8 academic year, in residence in Galway at the National University of Ireland-Galway's Centre for Irish Studies. #6 Gregory E. Baker, Brown University - Comparative Literature Research Interests: Modernism in Ireland and Britain, Classical reception, translation studies. #7 Elizabeth A. Ball, National University of Ireland, Galway #8 Michael Baltasi, Univ. of Chicago Research Interests: I am currently writing a dissertation on the intersection between ethics and literature, using several early 20-C Irish writers as individual case studies. #9 Phillip Barron, nicomedia #10 James A. Bell, Grand Valley State University #11 Richard B. Bizot, University of North Florida (emeritus) #12 James J. Blake, WFUV Radio, Fordham University Research Interests: Irish Gaelic language and its Modern Literature; Yeats, Irish Literary Revival in both languages #13 Scott Boltwood, Emory & Henry College Research Interests: Post WW2 Theatre: Brian Friel, The Ulster Group Theatre, The Abbey Theatre, and contemporary theater in Northern Ireland Research interests in Post WW2 Theatre: Brian Friel, The Ulster Group Theatre, The Abbey Theatre, and contemporary theater in Northern Ireland. Having finished a book on Friel (2007), I'm now working on a survey of conntemporary Ulster theater, especially Chritina Reid, Martin Lynch, Marie Jones, Gary Mitchell, Owen McCafferty #14 Micheal Booker, University of Tennessee Research Interests: The Protestant Irish in Scotland; Northern Irish socio-cultural and political history; 20th century Glasgow; The Orange Order; Loyalism/Unionism in Northern Ireland & Scotland; civil religion; football culture #15 Dominic Bryan Research Interests: Political anthropology, ethnicity and identity, ritual and symbols, Irish identities, Orangeism, public space. #16 Victoria M. Bryan Research Interests: James Joyce, John Banville, the modern Irish novel #17 Catherine M. Burns, University of Wisconsin, Madison Research Interests: US immigration and ethnic history, Irish-American history. I am a PhD candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prior to earning my MA in history at Wisconsin, I received BAs in both English and history from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. #18 Stephen Butler Research Interests: Irish-American Print Culture; James Joyce #19 Jan Cannavan, Independent Scholar Research Interests: revolutionary Irish women; 1798 & 1848 rebellions; Irish American left political activists. #20 Thomas P. Carey, University of California Berkeley Research Interests: Jeremy Bentham and the Crofton System in Irish penology; 19th & 20th century Irish political prisoner resistance trends and protest movements; the Troscead, James Joyce, and the symbolism of self-sacrifice within modern Republican hunger strikes, formation of public legitimacy; Madge Daly and the role of women in Irish Nationalist propaganda Thesis: "'On the King's Threshold': Irish Hunger Strikes and the Struggle for Legitimacy within the Penal Systems of the United Kingdom and Ireland, 1916-1946" #21 Ray Cashman, Ohio State University Research Interests: Irish folklore (traditional, vernacular expressive and material culture); politics of culture and identity; social memory, commemoration, and nostalgia; oral history, folk history, ethnohistory; place-making, regionalism, local identity; cultural and linguistic anthropology; fieldwork and ethnography; Ireland, north and south, particularly the border #22 Michael Cavanagh, English Dept Research Interests: Seamus Heaney, modern poetry, Yeats, Milton, Dante. I am at work on a book about PARADISE LOST Routt Professor of Literature, Grinnell College. Author of several articles on Seamus Heaney and a new book PROFESSING POETRY: SEAMUS HEANEY'S POETICS (Catholic UP, 2009), reviewed in Choice and Irish Studies Review as of March 1, 2010 #23 Jodi N. Chilson, Boise State University #24 Fiona Coffey, Tufts University Research Interests: Northern Irish women playwrights; Troubles theatre; economics of Irish theatre; post-colonial studies; theatre in a post-Celtic Tiger Ireland; irish theatre and globalization. M.Phil in Irish theatre and film from Trinity College, Dublin. PhD candidate in theatre history at Tufts University. #25 Christopher K. Coffman, Boston U #26 Timothy D. Connors, Central Michigan University Research Interests: Irish theatre and drama #27 Kevin P. Coogan, Manhattan College Research Interests: James Joyce, Modern and Contemporary Irish literature, Contemporary Iirsh society #28 Brandon S. Corcoran Research Interests: Irish migration and settlement, immigrant political sentiment in the U.S. and British North America 1776-1867. BA - History from Michigan State University (2006). MA - Historical Research from University College Cork (2007). Currently in PhD program at the University of Toronto. #29 Abbie L. Cory, Palomar College Research Interests: Women's roles in social movements and rebellions Poetry #30 Kate P. Costello-Sullivan, Le Moyne College Research Interests: 19th and 20th C Irish fiction; Anglo-Irish women's literature; theories of nationalism and (post)colonialism #31 John C. Countryman, Berry College Research Interests: Theatre and Drama Theatre professor for 32 years, Dissertation on plays about the Rising, ACIS, CAIS, and IASIL member for many years. Also perform (act) at conferences on occasion with a colleague. Interests: plays about the North, plays by Irish women, new play development and "emerging" playwrights as well as the "canonical" dramatists of the last century plus. Irish myth as a source for plays, adaptations by Irish dramatists of Greek plays, Chekhov, etc. Profiles of Artistic Directors at various theatres in Ireland. A pretty keen interest in Irish history as well. #32 Ellen Crowell, Saint Louis University Research Interests: Irish modernism, Irish gothic literature, Ireland and the American South, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor #33 Jennifer Crowley, University at Albany, SUNY; Department of Anthropology #34 Dara H. Culhane, Simon Fraser University Research Interests: performance studies, experimental ethnography, indigenous studies (Canada), irish studies, postcolonial theory, feminist theory Associate Professor, Anthropology major publications: AN ERROR IN JUDGMENT: politics of medical care in an Indian/White Community; THE PLEASURE OF THE CROWN: anthropology, law and First Nations; IN PLAIN SIGHT: Reflections on Everyday Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver current research (working titles) (1) People Like You: ethnographic performance and video (2) Performance, Creativity and Bare Life (article) (3) COMPLICITY: a play (4) Memories, Transgressions, Exiles and Returns: An Encore for the Ghost of Margaret Sheehy, ms. #35 Elizabeth Cullingford, University of Texas at Austin Research Interests: Contemporary Irish politics, culture, literature, film. Yeats. Nuns. Elizabeth Bowen. #36 Joan Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City Research Interests: Twentieth century Irish theatre and film. #37 Alan B. Delozier, Seton Hall University Research Interests: Twentieth Century American and Irish Educational, Religious and Social History. Director of the Archives & Special Collections Center at Seton Hall University. Curator of the Meagher MacManus and Rita Murphy Irish Book Collections. #38 Andrew D. Devenney, Central Michigan University Research Interests: History of the British Isles, specifically Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; European Integration; Identity and Nationalism in Comparative Context #39 Richard F. Dietrich, University of South Florida Research Interests: Modern Drama, Bernard Shaw President of the International Shaw Society. Series Editor for the University Press of Florida's Bernard Shaw Series. Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida #40 Stephen J. Dilks Research Interests: Beckett, Joyce, Literary Marketing, Northern Ireland since 1968. Born in Lincolnshire, in the shadow of Lincoln Cathedral and Lincoln Prison, I am the product of a local economy culture built with Dutch money and Irish sweat and blood. I grew up listening to Stiff Little Fingers in ignorance of Irish history. I began to learn this history at Stirling University in 1979 from students from Derry and Belfast and from Professors Dunn and Jeffares. At Rutgers University I learned some Irish. I studied Beckett and Joyce. I learned most about Englishness in relations to Irishness and vice versa from two long sessions with Bernadette MacAliskey. I teach Modern and Contemporary Irish Lit in the context of colonial and postcolonial politics. #41 Brooks E. Doherty, Rasmussen College - Eden Prairie, MN Research Interests: University College London MA thesis: "Letting the Fatherland Down: Tradition and Modernity in Brendan Behan's An Giall". Academic Dean at Rasmussen College - Eden Prairie, MN. #42 Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, Southern Illinois University Research Interests: The Act of Union, the Irish literary childhood, feminist approaches to Irish literature, 19th and 20th century Irish fiction and memoir, Mary Robinson, British representations of the Irish #43 Martin W. Dowling, Queen's University of Belfast Research Interests: Irish traditional music, Irish social history, sociological approaches to music and history. Martin Dowling is a fiddle player, historian and sociologist. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has held research fellowships in history and sociology in Queen #44 David Downs, Northern Illinois University Research Interests: Irish soldiers serving in the British Empire 18th-20th centuries. B.A. (2007) and M.A. (2009) in History from Murray State University. Ph.D. in progress at Northern Illinois University. #45 Maria Doyle, Univ. of West Georgia Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Drama, esp. theater and cultural identity, space and performativity, theatrical violence and spectacle, theater and its audience #46 Dawn Duncan, Concordia College Research Interests: Postcolonial Theory and Irish Drama; Irish Myth in Film and Lit; Contemporary Irish fiction PhD in 19th-20th Century British/Irish Literature; MEd in Theatre; BA in Journalism and Theatre. Remains active in theatre as an actor and director. Proficient in use of service-learning and activist pedagogies. Also teaches interdisciplinary courses in Global Studies. #47 Ryan D. Dye, St. Ambrose University Research Interests: Irish Americans in the Midwest; Irish in Britain Associate Professor of History, Irish Studies Program Director, Director of International Education #48 Joyce E. East Research Interests: Irish novel, Irish drama #49 Helen V. Emmitt, Centre College Research Interests: Contemporary poetry #50 Joseph Fahey Research Interests: The Peace Process, legal issues in Northern Ireland, The 1916 Rising,The history and politics of the Irish- American diaspora. Adjunct Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law, a Judge of the New York State Unified Court System, B.S. University of Tennessee-1971, J.D. Syracuse University College of Law-1975, LLM University at Buffalo-2003. #51 Charles Fanning, RETIRED Research Interests: HIstory and Literature of Irish Immigration #52 James M. Farrell Research Interests: Discourse about the Irish Famine, especially American news reporting and religious preaching about the Famine, and the consequent immigration to the U.S. of Famine immigrants. Associate Professor in Communication at UNH. Ph.D. in Rhetoric (1988) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Recent Irish-related publication: “‘This Horrible Spectacle’: Visual and Verbal Sketches of the Famine in Skibbereen,” in Lawrence J. Prelli, ed. Rhetorics of Display, (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006), 66-89. Apart from Irish topics, my major research interests are in the history of American oratory, and the history of rhetorical theory. #53 Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University Research Interests: My work has centered on an examination of the links between sectarian violence and the evolution of political culture in modern Ulster. I am currently working on a book project on evangelical Protestantism and the making of the working class in Early Victorian Belfast. #54 Steven G. Farrell, Greenville Technical College Research Interests: Irish and Irish-Americans on film and Irish-American athletes and their impact upon American popular culture. World Audience Publishers of New York has released a collection of my essays, stories, reviews and a play in a book entitled "Farrell's Irish Papers." I have 2 novels ("Liverpool Roared" and "zen Babe") and 1 play ("Boston Knockles" ) available at Amazon.com. My articles ("Mickey Machine Gun is Back!" "Galloping Gallagher Deserves the Gallows!" "King Kelly and the Boston strong Boy!" and "Molly, Nellie, Anne & Mother: 4 Irish-American Hell Cats!" have all been published numerous times. #55 Tyler Farrell Research Interests: Irish Memoir, Literature, Creative Writing, Poetry #56 Anne-Marine Feat, Universit Research Interests: Irish-American Women's Lit; Celtic Women's Lit' #57 Matthew Fee Research Interests: Irish Cinema #58 Marissa S. Filippo Research Interests: Film, feminism, queer theory #59 Richard B. Finnegan Research Interests: Ireland twentieth century politics and government Richard B. Finnegan is Professor and Chair of Political Science and Director of The International and Irish Studies Programs at Stonehill College. A Graduate of Stonehill College he also holds masters degrees from Boston College and Harvard University and his doctorate from Florida State University. A Senior Fulbright Specialist since 2001, he has been a Visiting Professor at Boston University and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and University College Dublin He currently teaches a course on Irish Politics at Harvard. His grants include a Fulbright Award to China in 2006, A National Science Foundation, a Department of Education Title VIB, six National Endowment for the Humanities, and support from the Whiting Foundation twice. He was awarded the Moreau Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the College on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary. Finnegan was selected Stonehill College Distinguished Faculty Scholar for 2001-02 and the Irish American Cultural Institute Visiting Research Scholar at the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2003. He is the author or co-author of six books on the political and economic development of modern Ireland. Irish Government Publications: A Comprehensive Guide 1922-2002. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, (with James L. Wiles) forthcoming 2007: Women and Public Policy in Ireland: A Documentary History 1922-1997. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, (with James L. Wiles) 2005: Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics. Boulder: Westview Press, (with Edward McCarron) 2000. A Guide to Irish Government Publications: 1972-1992. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, (with James L. Wiles) 1995: Aspirations and Realities: A Documentary History of Economic Development Policy in Ireland Since 1922, Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, (with James L. Wiles) 1993: Ireland: The Challenge of Conflict and Change, Boulder: Westview Press, 1983, (A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1983-84.) His current research is focused the development of democracy in Ireland in the twentieth century; the effects of education policy on Irish political development; and the effects of British security policy on the politics of Sinn Fein. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Irish Cultural Centre of New England and was awarded the Silver Key by the Irish Charitable Society of Boston in 2004. #60 Christie L. Fox, Utah State University Research Interests: Irish drama: particularly late 20th and contemporary theatre, and theatre that employs extra-linguistic devices, such as physicality, puppets, etc. (Macnas, Barabbas, Corn Exchange, etc.). I'm beginning a project on immigration and theatre, focusing on space and the representation of space. #61 Brigittine M. French, Grinnell College Research Interests: history of anthropology, ethnography, language politics, ethnic and national identity formation #62 Michael F. Funchion, South Dakota State University Research Interests: The Irish in the United States. #63 Karina Gafford Research Interests: The growth of Irish nationalism, the role of violence, the role of the Catholic Church, the active creation of an Irish identity for the new Irish state, the cultural revival, Irish identity in terms of Atlantic World studies, and the concept of post-colonialism in Ireland. M.A. History - Winthrop University, 2010. H.B.A. History - Rollins College, 2007. #64 Peter J. Gahan, independent Research Interests: writings of Bernard Shaw author of REREADING THE TEXTS OF BERNARD SHAW (University Press of Florida, 2004) #65 David M. Gardiner, Irish Studies/English Dept, Creighton University Editor, An Sionnach: A Journal of Lit., Culture, and the Arts (www.an-sionnach.com) Director, Creighton University Press (www.creighton.edu/cupress) #66 Michael Geaney, Independent Scholar Research Interests: 1. Early Irish History 2. Traditional Irish Singing 3. Gaelic Language A graduate of University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin he tours illustrated presentations on Early Irish history and Gaelic language with their great heritage in stone, bronze, gold, manuscripts and learning. He sings in Gaelic and in English in the sean nós or traditional Irish style as part of each presentation. Having graduated in Gaelic Language and History from UCC, he became a teacher and later, a second level school principal. Masters degree from Trinity College, Dublin. Following early retirement a few years ago, he focused on his interests in Early Irish History, the Gaelic language and its traditions, especially traditional singing. He is planning a coast-to-coast tour of America for spring of 2011 and can be contacted at michaelgeaney@gmail.com. #67 John Gibney, Univ. of Notre Dame Research Interests: Late seventeenth-century political and cultural history of Ireland; Restoration England; 'Three Kingdoms' history. BA, Ph.D (Trinity College, Dublin); NEH Faculty Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies #68 Shawn P. Gillen, Beloit College Research Interests: Irish-American Literature, Writing, Chicago, and teaching Irish Literature. #69 Elizabeth Gilmartin, Monmouth University Research Interests: 19th and 20th Irish literature Irish drama Women Writers Anglo-Irish Dialect Irish language #70 Karen B. Golightly, Christian Brothers University Research Interests: 19th-century Irish fairy tales, fiction, creative nonfiction BA, Rhodes College, MFA, University of Memphis, PhD, Southern Illinois University #71 Patricia A. Gott Research Interests: Edna O'Brien, Irish American writers, women writers, Jean Rhys, modern Irish writers. Associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. #72 Bill Grantham Research Interests: Law, history, media, communications and culture Independent scholar, researching and writing at the intersections of law, culture, media, communications and culture, including the construction of Irish identity and Irish historiography. #73 Elizabeth Grubgeld, Oklahoma State University Research Interests: Autobiography, Anglo-Ireland, George Moore, Disability Studies #74 James Guilfoyle, University of Tennesse at Chattanooga Research Interests: Early modern England-Ireland interaction; the political, economic, and administrative history of the first British Empire; mercantilism and commercial regulation; the history of economic thought #75 Jill Hampton, University of South Carolina-Aiken Research Interests: Nineteenth-century Irish Women Writers; Eco-critical readings of Irish-American poetry; Landscape and Irish and Irish-American Literature #76 James J. Harkins, Founder - Florida Catholic Heritage Trail Research Interests: Documenting the societal contributions made by the illustorious Irish monk-scholars during that historical period of ignorance known to us as Europe's "Dark Ages". As the hereditary stewart of the Arms ÓhEarcáin he was educated in Europe and America; holding dual citizenship (Irish and American). He resided chiefly in Germany and Ireland most of his adult life. Author of numerous monograph on German and Irish history - his current and principal work is: “The Irish Matryoshka: A History of Irish monks in Medieval Europe” ISBN: 978-0-615-14801-4 was self-published and available (only) via the internet. This unique book contains a six monographs that articulate the first five centuries of the Irish monastic movement and was granted an Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat. The Irish Matryoshka has gotten international acclamation. Latest Reviews include: 1.) Dr. Mary Katharine Simms, the distinguished Senior Lecturer Medieval Studies, Trinity College, who wrote: “In a series of chronologically ordered studies, 'The Irish Matryoshka' paints with broad strokes the conversion of Ireland to Christianity and the subsequent spread of the early medieval Irish monks to England and the Continent, bringing their faith and scholarship with them. This book is especially commendable for its dispassionate and reflective discussion of the good and bad points of this Irish mission, and for its use of modern German and French historical work, too often neglected by English-speaking writers."; and, 2. ) Donegal Annual – Bliainiris Dhün na nGall 2007 (No. 59) that observed: “The word matryoshka in the title of the book is explained by the author as a Russian word which is used as a metaphor to cover the work of Irish monks as they carried their mission into Europe. It is a detailed and complex story which the author, James Harkins, compresses skillfully into six major themes that escort the reader from the fields of Gratan to the gates of Rome. On his journey of discovery, the author pays particular attention to St. Columcille, St. Patrick, Columbanus, and Fergil of Salzburg, exploring philosophies, cultures, and civilizations that shaped European society, landscape, and educational institutions. The book cannot be described as arid, uncritical historical analysis as the author introduces the complex problems which confronted Irish monks in their crusades to spread the Gospel amid peasants and prelates in medieval Europe. In setting himself a challenging and formidable task, the author engages in researching, analyzing, and interpreting the outstanding work of Irish missionaries from early Christian times and succeeds in producing a work of which represents a learned contribution to deepen our understanding and appreciation of our Christian heritage, from its humble origins to its impressive expansion.“ Co-Author of the following internationally acclaimed books: 1.) (Englsih/Spanish) “Florida Catholic Heritage Trail – El Camino de la Herencia Católica en la Florida” a bi-lingual endeavour documenting how the Roman Catholic Church was a significant and positive force in the 500 year history of Florida. ISBN: 0-9765051-0-3; and, 2.) (German) "Die Wasserkuppe: Ein Berg mit Geschichte" The complete history of Wasserkuppe mountain Rhoen, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-7900-0389-5 Additional information go to webpage: www.irishmatryoshka.com #77 Tara C. Harney, University of Connecticut Research Interests: Edna O'Brien, Jennifer Johnston, and Elizabeth Bowen, Contemporary Irish Women Writers I am currently a 1st year PhD student and a Graduate Instructor at the University of Connecticut. #78 Frank W. Harris, Farmingdale State College Research Interests: Tudor and Stuart Ireland, Irish Legal and Constitutional History before the Union, Irish Military History #79 Dr. Michelle L. Hartman, Saint Peter's College - Political Science Research Interests: Irish Assmilation in US, Irish during the American Civil War Ph.D. in Political Science - New School for Social Research Asst. Professor of Political Science - Saint Peter's College #80 Rachael Havranek, University of St. Thomas-Houston #81 Joseph C. Heininger, Dominican University Research Interests: Irish poetry and fiction, Irish autobiography and memoir, especially from the time of WB Yeats; 20th-century and 21st-century Irish and Irish-American poets. Intersections of literature and philosophy, literature and religious traditions, especially ethical and ecocritical approaches to literature. #82 Graley Herren, Xavier University Research Interests: Samuel Beckett, Modern Irish and British Literature, Modern Drama Editor of The Beckett Circle (Samuel Beckett Society Newsletter); Executive Board Member, Samuel Beckett Society; Executive Board Member, Comparative Drama Conference #83 Jennifer J. Holland Research Interests: Joyce's Ulysses, particularly the "Penelope" chapter; W. B. Yeats; Elizabeth Bowen; "Famous Seamus" In addition to research, I am interested in scholarly publishing. I'm putting together a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal ("Quoits"); its first issue is scheduled for November 2009. I'm soliciting articles on literature by Arabic-speaking women in particular, as the journal (eventually) will be in Arabic and English. I am a freelance book editor (fiction, non-fiction, poetry) and also a writer. My first novel (fiction, but using some juicy Joycean and Yeatsian themes) will be published in 2009. #84 Ben W. Howard Research Interests: Modern Irish Poetry; Contemporary Irish Poetry; Modern Irish drama #85 Brian K. Hudson, University of Oklahoma Research Interests: At the moment, I'm particularly interested in the intersection of Human-Animal studies with late nineteenth and early twentieth century Irish drama (George Bernard Shaw's plays for example). #86 Eugene Hussey, Regis University #87 Michael R. Hutcheson, Landmark College Research Interests: Early modern environmental history of Ireland and Britain #88 Irish Texts Society, Irish Texts Society The Irish Texts Society, founded in 1898, is established to advance public education by promoting the study of Irish literature, and as ancillary thereto to publish texts in the Irish language, accompanied by such introductions, English translations, glossaries and notes as may be deemed desirable. #89 Ely M. Janis, Boston College Research Interests: Immigration, transatlantic history, Irish-America #90 Maureen A. Jenkins Research Interests: playwriting and poetry #91 Matthew L. Jockers, Stanford Research Interests: Irish-American Literature and the American West Jockers teaches Irish literature and humanities computing in the English Department at Stanford University. #92 Dr. Roy HW Johnston, consultant scientist Research Interests: History of science in the cultural environment of an emergent nations; science and politics; technology and economic sustainability; eco-friendly technology.... After a period researching high-energy particle physics in the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies in the 1950s, I went into industrial applied science, and then into techno-economic analysis when computing power became available in the 1960s. A period at the university-industry interface followed. Since the 1980s I have been in the private sector, mostly on socio-technical problems; I am currently working with a software house interested in knowledge-intensive applications. #93 Robert Kanigel, MIT Research Interests: Blasket Islands I'm a writer by trade, author of five books, professor of science writing at MIT, now embarked on a new project related to the Blasket Islands, the scholars and writers who visited them in the early twentieth century, the friendships they made there, and the literary legacy they inspired. I'm going to the Blasket commemoration conference in October. #94 Douglas N. Kanter, Florida Atlantic University Research Interests: British-Irish relations, 18th and 19th centuries; Irish intellectual history #95 Elizabeth Keane, Eton College Research Interests: Modern Irish foreign policy, Irish-American political history #96 Ryan W. Keating, Fordham University Research Interests: The Fenian movement of 1857-1867; The failure of Irish nationalism in the 1860's; The development of Irish nationalism 1900-1921; Irish Americans in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War; Irish Immigration and Labor hisory #97 Charles P. Keegan #98 Meg W. Keiley-Listermann, Georgia Gwinnett College Research Interests: Irish peace process, Republican politics, Sinn Fein #99 Jerry Kelly, Fordham University Research Interests: Ard-Seanchas na hÉireann (.i. seanchas go dtí an 17ú haois), scéalaidheacht na ndámhscoileanna, béaloideas, stair na nGael sa domhain nua roimh an Réablóid Mheiriceánach. Ard-Seanchas of Ireland (the law, history, and genealogy of Irish kinship groups until the 17th century), the epic storytelling tradition of the 'Schools of Good Company,' Irish language folklore, the history of the Gaeil in the new world before the American Revolution. Múineoir na Gaeilge ó 1979 - An Claidheamh Soluis (Cathair Nua-Eabhraic), Scoil Ghaeilge Ghearóid Tóibín (Babylon, Oileán Fada, Nua-Eabhrac), Coláiste Mholloy (Rockville Centre, Nua-Eabhrac), agus na laethanta seo, Cumann Carad na Gaeilge (ar fud an domhain ar an nGréasán) agus Ollscoil Fhordham. Irish Language teacher since 1979 - Irish Arts Center (NYC), Gerry Tobin Irish Language School (Babylon, Long Island, NY), Molloy College (Rockville Centre, NY), and currently, Cumann Carad na Gaeilge / The Philo-Celtic Society (worldwide on the web), and Fordham University. #100 Mary C. Kelly, Franklin Pierce University, History Department Research Interests: Irish-America; Irish New York; The Great Famine and Irish-American Famine Remembrance Associate Professor of Modern American History; I teach Modern American History, including courses in: Women's, Intellectual, Immigration, and Modern Ireland. I published The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transaltantic Identity 1845-1921 (New York: Peter Lang, 2005), and am currently writing on Famine remembrance in the United States. #101 James J. Kennelly, Skidmore College Research Interests: Sustainable Development and Co-operative Organizations #102 Kathleen S. Kennon, Tara Circle Arts Center Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Drama Literary Manager/Dramaturg specializing in Irish theatre #103 Jerry D. Kerlin, Manhattanville College #104 John C. Kerrigan, Rockhurst University, English #105 Laila Khan, University of Connecticut #106 Kevin K. Kiely, Boise State Univ. Research Interests: Modernist Poetry; Irish Literature & Drama of the 20th Century See Website: www.KevinKiely.com #107 Thomas J. Kiernan, Univ. of MD,Univ. College, Lecturer at Law Research Interests: Irish Law, History and Current Events Retired Faculty and Lecturer in Law, Univ of Maryland, Overseas Div Asian/European Div, Univ College Juris Doctor ( JD ) , USC 1974 BS, History, Fordham Univ, 1960 Past President, Irish Heritage Society SCHH Community, Bluffton SC 29909 Col US Army - Ret #108 Jeanne I. Lakatos, Western Connecticut State University Research Interests: Iconic realism, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), an Ghaeilge, James Joyce, Roman de la Rose #109 Marti D. Lee, University of South Carolina Research Interests: Appropriation of myth for political purposes, particularly during the Celtic Renaissance. #110 Joseph Lennon, Manhattan College Research Interests: Irish Orientalism, contemporary poetry, Celtic Revival, cultural studies, representations of hunger and hunger strikes
#111 Connor Lewis, Canisius College #112 Maire M. Liberace, Rockland Community College Research Interests: George Sheils. The Famine. Early Celtic Society. Contemporary poets and writers. #113 Peggy J. Lindsey, Wright State University #114 Patrick Lonergan Research Interests: Irish Theatre, nineteenth century Irish fiction #115 William J. Lowe, Metropolitan State University Research Interests: Current interest is the history of the Irish Constabulary, 1837-1922. #116 Patricia A. Lynch Research Interests: Irish folk medicine; Hiberno-English (Irish-English) in Irish Writing; Stylistics in Irish Writing; Postcolonial Studies; Utopian Studies. Recently retired from the University of Limerick, Ireland, but still active in research. #117 Margaret E. Lynch-Brennan, Adjunct faculty, Hudson Valley Community College; Independent Scholar; NYS Education Dept., Retired Research Interests: Irish immigrant women domestic servants in the U.S., circa 1840-1935 and Irish women in America and Ireland, 1800-1935 My book, "The Irish Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930," which was published by Syracuse University Press in Spring 2009, is going into a second printing. I also wrote Chapter 11, "Ubiquitous Bridget" which appeared in "Making the Irish American," ed. J.J. Lee and Marion Casey (NYU Press, 2006, 2007). In January 2008, I retired from the NYS Education Department and I am now working as a member of the adjunct faculty of the History Department at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, N.Y. I am also continuing my work as an Independent Scholar. I was awarded a Ph.D. in American history from the University at Albany (SUNY) in Dec. 2002. My dissertation, entitled "Ubiquitous Biddy: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Service in America, 1840-1930," was nominated by the History Dept. for the University's Distinguished Dissertation Prize. In 2003, an essay I wrote appeared as a chapter entitled "The Servant Slant: Irish Women Domestic Servants and Historic House Museums," in "Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History," ed. Polly Welts Kaufman and Katharine T. Corbett (Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Co, 2003). #118 Elizabeth A. Mac Crossan, U of Texas San Antonio Research Interests: Northern Ireland culture and politics, language, border theory, feminist theory, postcolonial theory, the commemorative landscape #119 Dr. Ciaran P. Mac Murchaidh, St Patrick's College, Dublin (DCU) Research Interests: Religious Poetry and Prose of the 18th Century. The teaching of Irish language & grammar. Some Publications: Ciar #120 James MacKillop, Syracuse University Press Research Interests: Omnia Hibernica. History of the ACIS ACIS Past President, 1995-97. ACIS Executive, 10 years. Seven books published. #121 James V. Magee Research Interests: Modern Irish history and politics, the Travelling people, globalization in Ireland, Irish American conflict history. I am a real estate attorney with an MA in Political Science and am currently working on an MA in Irish Heritage and Culture from Ulster University. I am the past National Legal Counsel to the Ancient Order of Hibernians in America and the current Ohio State President of the AOH. I tour Ireland annually (aohirishtour.org), am second generation Irish and have a love of things Irish. I have taught a course on The Troubles at Thomas More College in Northern Kentucky and enjoy the history and culture of Ireland. As a Hibernian I have been active in attempting to thwart the ratification of the US Britain Extradition Treaty as well as further immigration reform to 'legalize the Irish'. There is life after law and I would like to teach on the college level in a small college in the midwest. #122 Regina Mahlke, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin #123 Tom Mahon Research Interests: The IRA, especially in Cork, 1919-1930. Nationalist attitudes to violence, individual rights, religion and diversity. Irish nationalist newspapers. Physician, graduated University College Dublin, 1983. Wrote Decoding the IRA - a history of the post-Civil War IRA, which is based on the decryption of secret coded IRA documents #124 Caroline R. Malloy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Interests: Irish Art History; Imperial/Colonial relations; International Exhibitions; Irish gender & repesentation #125 Catharine D. Malloy, Marquette University Research Interests: Twentieth Century Irish literature #126 John K. Malloy, Marquette Univ. Research Interests: Twentieth Century Irish Literature; James Joyce; Samuel Beckett; John McGahern B.A. Holy Cross; M.A. Marquette; PhD Candidate at Marquette #127 Michelle Maloney-Mangold, University of Connecticut Research Interests: 20th and 21st Century Irish literature and culture #128 Elizabeth Mannion, Temple University Research Interests: Urban repertoire of the early Abbey Theatre, biodrama, genre studies, the city in film #129 Sean P. Mannion, Notre Dame Research Interests: British and Irish modernism; James Joyce; early twentieth century literary representations of Dublin; urbanization and technology in modernism; Marxist theory #130 Miriam O. Mara, North Dakota State University #131 Kathryn M. Martin, Cape Cod Community College Research Interests: 16th-century Ireland; the development of notions of "other" among English, Irish and Hiberno-Normans (perception and self-perception); myths and realities #132 April F. Masten, SUNY Stony Brook Research Interests: Transatlantic exchange in early American popular culture; Irish and African American dance and music, 1840-1865. Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History, Culture, and Political Economy #133 Kelly Matthews, Framingham State College Research Interests: 20th Century Irish literature #134 Michael Mays, The University of Southern Mississippi Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Irish literature and culture #135 Marion S. McAvey, Becker College Research Interests: Women & Desire in Anglo-Irish novel of Charles Lever, Somerville and Ross. #136 Nicole R. McClure, University of Connecticut Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Film; Minstrelsy in Irish and African- American culture; Dialect and language #137 James and Jane McDonnell, Carleton College Research Interests: The work of Frank O'Connor #138 Patricia A. McGivern, Hofstra University Research Interests: local history, genealogy and immigration studies Retired from Valley Stream South High School English Department. Supervising students teachers in English at Hofstra. Presently president of the American Irish Teachers Assoc. #139 Mary L. McGrath, Sacramento City College Research Interests: Irish folklore; Dingle; Peig Sayers; Great Blasket; storytelling I have studied the scholarly work surrounding the oral repertoire of Peig Sayers, and have worked with Gaelic speaking translators to get an accurate and personal way to tell her stories in English in performance settings #140 Nora A. McGuinness Research Interests: Twentieth/Twenty-first Century Irish Drama, Fiction by Irish women, Irish women playwrights #141 Timothy G. McMahon, Marquette University Research Interests: Modern Irish History; Nationalism/National Identity; Gaelic Revival; War of Independence; Ireland and the British Empire BA - Washington and Lee University, 1987 MA - University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994 Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001 #142 Ray McManus, Univeristy of South Carolina #143 Donald McNamara, Kutztown University Research Interests: Irish literature, language #144 Charles McShane, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Research Interests: Irish and Irish-American historical memory, Twentieth-Century U.S. Urban and Political History #145 James P. Miller, University College Cork Research Interests: Early Irish language and literature, Medieval Irish manuscripts, Women in medieval Irish and Welsh literature, Pennsylvania history and folklore. Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork, Ireland. Native of Philadelphia. Recently relocated back home to Philly to finish writing up my dissertation. #146 Dan Milner, Hunter College Research Interests: Geomusicology, Irish in America, New York City, Irish Folk Song in the English Language, North American Lumber Camps, The Inishowen Peninsula of Co. Donegal. Over the last 30 years, Dan Milner has presented more than 600 concerts of traditional music in New York City, and sung at many internationally known venues including Lincoln Center, The New-York Historical Society and the National Maritime Museum in the USA, the Sidmouth International Festival and Cecil Sharp House in England, and The Goilin Singers Club and the Cobh Maritime Song Festival in Ireland. He has been a guest lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and at New York University's Kodaly Summer Institute. A former National Park Ranger at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Dan is a columnist for Irish Music magazine (Dublin). His articles have appeared in The Living Tradition, Seaport, and The Log of Mystic Seaport. The Bonnie Bunch of Roses, his collection of 150 Irish and British traditional songs, was published in 1983 by Oak. Dan has produced three CDs for Folk-Legacy Records: Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea, Irish in America, and Irish Songs from Old New England. Dan was raised in Ireland, Britain, Canada and the United States. His late mother, Nora Cremin Milner, was a native of Brosna, Co. Kerry. #147 Jean Minto, Philadelphia Biblical University & Drew University Research Interests: Ancient Ireland; 1798 Rising; Irish Women; Irish America #148 Michael A. Moir, Catholic Univ. of America Research Interests: Modern poetry and drama, literary decadence, comic theory, the Gothic Member of the Modern Language Association (2005-present), the Arthurian Society (2006-present), the American Conference for Irish Studies (2006-present), the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (2007-present), the Canadian Association for Irish Studies (2009-present), and the Modernist Studies Association (2008-present). I teach literature and composition at the Catholic University of America, and in my second year of PhD coursework. I earned my MA in Irish Studies at CUA in 2006, and have also studied at Muhlenberg College, the University of Glasgow and the National University of Ireland (IPA). I am about to begin a dissertation on the nature of space in the writings of Louis MacNeice. #149 Liam Moroney #150 Maureen E. Mulvihill, Princeton Research Forum (Princeton, New Jersey) Research Interests: Research Interests: Irishwomen Writing Politically, Pre-1800; Irish Print Trade, Pre-1800; Swift & His Circle; Oscar Wilde & His Circle; Rare Books, Pre-1800; Multimedia Research Methodology. Affiliation: Scholar & Writer, Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ ('92-); Associate Fellow, Institute for Research in History, NYC ('83-'91). Credentials: PhD, English Literature, 1660-1800 ('82, Wisconsin). Post-doctoral Stds: Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Columbia University Rare Book School, NYC. Distinctions/Honors: NEH Fellow, Johns Hopkins University. Honored Woman Scholar, American Society for l8thC Stds. Frances Hutner Awardee (Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ). Referee, James Clifford Award Committee (American Society for l8thC Stds). Guest Speaker: James Johnson Sweeney Conference, hosted & funded by Jackson Pollock-Elaine Krasner Foundation, East Hampton, Long Island, NY, and SUNY-Stony Brook. Recent Visiting Professor Appointments: St John's University, Manhattan, 2005-2007 (Shakespeare; Global Literature). Also, New York University, 2007 (Diaspora Paradigms -- Irish, Jewish, African -- and Early New York City). Guest professor & speaker on several campuses. Reader/Peer Reviewer: NEH; MLA 'Options in Teaching' book series; journals, Women's Writing (UK), Restoration & l8thC Theatre Research, European Society for Textual Scholarship, Stds in Eighteenth-Century Culture, et al. Book Credits: (1) Poems by Ephelia (1992; 2d prtg 1993; nominated for MLA 1st Book Award); (2) 'Ephelia' (Ashgate UK, 2003); (3) "Poems by Mary Shackleton Leadbeater (Dublin & London, 1808)", edited, with critical essay & apparatus, by Maureen E. Mulvihill. Irish Women Poets series (new digital textbase of the primary writings), Alexander Street Press, Virginia, 2008. Includes first-ever publication of a portrait-silhouette of Leadbeater in Quaker cap (two recorded copies extant: TCD and NLI). (4) "Thumbprints of Ephelia: A Multimedia Monograph & Archive" (www.marauder.edu/~resound/ephelia/; 2001-). (5) In development: "No More Lovely Lore: Irishwomen's Political Writings & Response, Pre-1801" (working title); this, the subject of Mulvihill's 'Irish' panel, MLA, NYC, 2002. Advisory Editor / Board Member: "Ireland And The Americas," 3 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA; Cambridge UK: ABC-Clio, 2008); Contributor to latter project, "Mary Robinson, Ireland president emerita", "Sir Michael Smurfitt, KBE", and "Donald R. Keough" (Keough Irish Institutes, Dublin & Notre Dame U., Indiana; CEO, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA.). On-site interviews, NYC, with Robinson and Keough. Recent Essays (Selections): "Ireland, On Both Sides of the Slavery Issue", Irish Echo newspaper (Belfast & NYC), March 2010; review of Nini Rodgers book on the subject. Hosted, with image of Rodgers' book cover, on John McCavitt's Flight of the Earls website, 2010. "Painting the Ginger of Life: A Laurel for Jack B. Yeats", WB Yeats Society of NY, online Web site, December 2009, with several images of Yeats paintings & drawings, and music track by Doug Saum (Yeats Society member). "Captured by Jane: The Jane Austen Show, Morgan Library, New York (November 2009-March 2010). A multimedia review (text, image, sound) of the exhibited books, mss, and associative visual art; with several images. Jane Austen Centre, Bath UK, its online magazine, February 2010. "Bedazzled by Burney", commissioned by the Frances Burney Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; on market values in Frances Burney (books, mss, visual art) at the May 2009 auction of the Paula Peyraud Collection, Bloomsbury Auctions, NYC; with 8 images. Published in The Burney Letter, ed Lorna Clark, Spring 2010; posted online, Burney Centre website, McGill University, April-Dec 2010. "Dancing On Hot Bricks: Virginia Woolf in 1941", Rapportage (literary magazine), Lancaster, Pa., Dec., 2009; with 10 images. "When Literary Property Changes Hands: The Paula Peyraud Collection, Bloomsbury Auctions, NY, May 2009," Eighteenth-Century Stds., Fall, 2009; with 12 images and the author's original buyers' list of acquired books, mss, and visual art, with new locations. Peyraud Collection: mostly English women writers of the late-Georgian period; Irish women writers: Mary Leadbeater, Maria Edgeworth, et al.). "Bloody Sunday" (New Hibernia Review, Winter 2002). With on-site B&W image of atrocity photo. "James Esdall" (18thC Irish patriot printer & political journalist), Oxford DNB (2004). Essays in the Irish Literary Supplement, 1995 to date: extended essays on the Dublin Book Trade, Swift, Thomas Sheridan, Brian Lalor's "Encyclopedia of Ireland", Mary Tighe, and Oscar Wilde (illustrated essay on Wilde hosted by The OScholars, online Web site, June 2002). "Facing the Victorians," review of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection (U of Delaware), Grolier Club, NYC, posted by The Victorian Society in America e-newsletter, March-Apr 2008, with images. Online Web site. Contributor of "Emma Donoghue," "Mary Tighe" and "Biddy Jenkinson," to Irish Women Writers, ed Alex Gonzalez (Greenwood, 2005). Chapter author, "Irish Women Writers: A Multimedia Research Methodology," in Irish Literatures: Old & New Worlds, ed. Maureen Murphy, 2 vols (Westport, CT: Greenwood, f/coming). "Mary Leadbeater" article, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 9 vols (Royal Irish Academy, with Cambridge UP, 2009). "Mary Tighe," "Eibhlin Ni Chonaill," Encyclopedia of British Women Writers, eds Schlueter & Schlueter (1998). "Wall Street Irish," The World of Hibernia (Summer 95). The Mulvihill Collection of Rare & Special Books and Images: Selected volumes will be a gift to the Berg Collection, NYPL, NYC. This collection includes the Lytton Strachey copy of Mary Tighe's "Psyche", with Strachey bookplate designed by Dora Carrington, as well as first and/or early editions of 'Ephelia,' Aphra Behn, Anne Finch, Delarivier[e] Manley, Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, Anna Maria Van Schurman, Mary Leadbeater, Virginia Woolf, Maria Edgeworth, Vita Sackville-West, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, et al. Opening Remarks / Introduction: Beverly Schneller's 'Anna Parnell' lecture, American-Irish Historical Society, NYC, January, 2006. ___ #151 John L. Murphy, DeVry University Research Interests: Irish-language representation in English-language literary culture. Republicanism in Irish culture. Traditional, folk, and rock music in Ireland. Purgatorial, otherworld visions, and liminal lore from medieval and modern accounts. Irish-language learning and studies on Irish-language culture within English-dominant discourse. West of Ireland and Galway local history. Welsh-Irish cultural and linguistic connections. B.A. (English Literature) Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles. M.A. The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont CA. Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles. 1995-present. Humanities Coordinator and professor, DeVry University, Long Beach CA. Native of Los Angeles; first-generation Irish American-- mother from Salthill, Galway city, raised in Belfast and then Rathgar, Dublin. #152 Rose M. Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College ret. Research Interests: Irish women, women writers, women immigrants, storytelling, Irish Literary Renaissance My book -- Ella Young, Irish Mystic and Rebel: From Literary Dublin to the American West -- was recently published by The Liffey Press, Dublin. For 15 years, I've taught Irish literature, history and culture in varied venues, including co-classes at Sonoma State University and community classes in Sonoma, California. Irish-related articles have appeared in the San Francisco Examiner and Spokane Intelligencer. At Santa Rosa Junior College, I taught literature and composition, frequently focusing on Irish literature and drama. I produce, and perform in, an annual March Irish drama production in Sonoma, in which selections range from Martin McDonagh to John B. Keane. #153 Deborah Murray, St. Leo University Research Interests: Irish culture through the centuries and how the Irish have maintained it and even converted those who tried to dominate them. How they survived the British occupation. Also studying the Irish language. #154 Jason R. Myers, Loyola University Chicago Research Interests: Irish social and cultural history, particularly memory and the First World War in Ireland. B.A. - Oakland University (MI), 2004 Ph.D. - Loyola University Chicago, 2010 #155 Christopher C. Nagle, Western Michigan University Research Interests: Irish Romanticism; women writers; Anglo-Irish literature from 1700-1900 #156 Sarah M. Nestor, Marquette University Research Interests: 20th century Irish literature, contemporary Irish women writers B.A. in English writing from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN. M.A. in English literature from the University of Indianapolis. English literature Ph.D. candidate at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. #157 Michael D. Nicholsen, Middle Tennessee State University Research Interests: Traditional musicians, migration, and identity. #158 Alisha Nypaver Research Interests: My research interests are concentrated in the history of Irish music in Ireland. In particular, I have been concentrating on the musical interactions between the English and Irish and the social spheres in which these interactions occured. I recently presented a paper on the role Irish music played in English politics in the period from 1366 to about 1600. #159 Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, University College Cork Research Interests: Irish traditional music, its aesthetics, identities and dissemination; ethnomusicology; 19th & 20th century Ireland; Irish language literature; island studies; the shared Gaelic culture of Ireland and Scotland and the shared folk music culture of the British Isles. Deirdre Ní Chonghaile (MA Oxon 2004) read Music at St. Hilda's College, Oxford and is now completing her PhD on the traditional music and song of the Aran Islands. The largest of the islands, Árainn, is her home. She recently presented and co-produced a 12-part radio series for RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta called 'Bailiúchán Bhairbre,' which aired her late aunt Bairbre Quinn's tape recordings for the first time. The series can be accessed online (see URL below). She also plays fiddle. #160 Bridget G. O'Brien, Boston University #161 Sean T. O'Brien, University of Notre Dame Research Interests: Prison literature, Victorian studies, disability studies, 19th-century Irish Literature, sequential art. #162 Liam O'Cuinneagain Research Interests: Teaching of the Irish language to Adults Native of Gleann Cholm Cille, Co Dh #163 John E. O'Rourke #164 Edward J. O'Shea, SUNY Oswego Research Interests: W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Contemporary Irish Poetry #165 Gillian O'Brien, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra Research Interests: Newspaper & Journalism History; Urban History particularly Dublin, London & Chicago; Britain's relationship with Ireland in the 1790s; History of Education #166 Matthew J. O'Brien, Franciscan University Research Interests: Irish migration and ethnicity #167 Edward J. O'Day, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Emeritus) Research Interests: 18th-19th Century Ireland; the Irish Diaspora; Irish America; New England Irish; Irish Genealogy #168 Eleanor S. Owicki, University of Texas, dept of Theatre and Dance Research Interests: Northern Irish theatre, gender and Irish theatre, theatre as historiography #169 Michael R. Parker, 33 Woodlands Research Interests: Twentieth and twenty-first century Irish Literature, especially that of the Northern Ireland Troubles; contemporary British fiction, drama and poetry. Michael Parker is Professor of English at the University of Central Lancashire and a Fellow of the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies. His publications include Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet (Macmillan 1993), The Hurt World: Short Stories of the Troubles (Blackstaff 1995), Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories co-ed. with Liam Harte (Macmillan 2000). His most important book to date, Northern Irish Literature: The Imprint of History 1956-2006 is due out from Palgrave Macmillan in September 2007. An interdisciplinary study in two volumes, it explores texts from all three literary genres and the political and cultural contexts that shaped them. #170 Séamus Pender, Franklin Pierce University Research Interests: Art, Music, History, Folklore; Irish and Irish-American Studies Vocal Performer #171 Aaron Percich, West Virginia University Research Interests: Irish Modernism, Postcolonial Studies. #172 Shirley A. Peterson, English/ Daemen College Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature, especially novel and film as they relate to changing concepts of home. Shirley Peterson is Associate Professor of English at Daemen College. She is the author of articles on Edna O'Brien, country/western singer Steve Earle, film, and freaks in literature. She co-edited Unmanning Modernism (University of Tennessee Press) with Elizabeth Harrison. She is currently working on novels of the Celtic Tiger as they relate to concepts of home. #173 Daniel K. Pettit Jr., Doctoral Student, Syracuse University Research Interests: Post-Medieval archaeology, colonialism, landscape, and tenant class. Postcolonial issues of memory and social identity in modern Ireland. #174 Donna L. Potts, Kansas State University Research Interests: primarily modern and contemporary Irish fiction and poetry: Emma Donoghue, Moya Cannon, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Longley, Patrick McCabe, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eamonn Wall, Katharine Tynan #175 Paula Pratt, Coppin State University Research Interests: Contemporary Irish women's poetry; North African women's writing; translation studies From 1997 - 2007 I taught in a U.S.-style university in Morocco. During that time I built on the readers' theatre script of Irish women's poetry, which I had produced in 1992 for my PhD work. I expanded it to a chamber theatre work which includes the writing of Irish women (translated from Irish into English) as well as that of North African women (translated from Arabic and French into English). Since 2008 I have taught in the Humanities Department of Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland (a 110 year-old HBCU), where I continue to work on _CRIB_ (the chamber theatre work), and am currently in charge of the institution's observance of Irish Heritage Month this March. #176 Stephanie Rains, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Research Interests: Irish and Irish-American popular culture, especially Irish and Irish-American film, tourism and commodity culture. Stephanie Rains is a lecturer in the Centre for Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She received her PhD from Dublin City University in 2003, and her book, The Irish-American in Popular Culture, was published by Irish-Academic Press in 2007. She is currently working towards a book on the development of consumer culture in 19thC Ireland. #177 Mary-Kathryn L. Rallings, Queen's University Belfast Research Interests: Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland; Politics of Northern Ireland; Management of civic/public space; Territory and segregation; Public policy in Belfast; Public order and policing public disorder; Police reform; Parading in Northern Ireland; Human rights and social justice; Contemporary public and urban art BA Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2008; MA Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast 2009; PhD Candidate in Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast 2012. Current research: The politics and policy of negotiated 'shared' space in Belfast. #178 Steven D. Rast, Winthrop University - Graduate Student Research Interests: Iris Murdoch - James Joyce - Comtemporary Irish economy, especially the banking system Accountant in private practice - Enrolled to Practice before the IRS BA English & Philosophy - Winthrop University Fall 1984 Graduate work in Philosophy Fall1984- Spring 1987 MBA Winthrop University Summer 2007 Graduate Student Winthrop University Fall 2007 - #179 Mindy Ratcliff, Georgia Southern University Research Interests: James Joyce; Ulysses #180 Celeste Ray, University of the South Research Interests: Holy Wells, Saint Cults, Ethnohistory, Ethnoecology #181 Kendall M. Reid, Tacoma Community College Research Interests: Wake Forest University Press poets #182 Shawn M. Reming Jr, PhD Student, Queens University of Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies Research Interests: Museums, Memory and Identity. Northern Ireland, Modern and Contemporary. Commemoration, specifically museums as commemorative practice. Museum education and "mobile museums"/museum outreach. Certificate in Northern Irish Studies, Queens University of Belfast, 2005.</br> B.A. History, Saint Vincent College, 2006. </br> Museum Program Assistant, Educational Outreach, Jamestown - Yorktown Foundation, Inc. Jamestown Living History Museum. Jamestown, Virginia. 2007. </br> Graduate Research Assistant, 2008-2009, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.</br> M.A. History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2009.</br> PhD Research Student, Irish Studies. Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. In - Progress. Current Research: Memory, Identity and the Role of Museums in Northern Ireland.</br> #183 Dana M. Resente, Montgomery County Community College #184 Lauren G. Rich, U of Notre Dame Research Interests: British and Irish early 20C literature, middlebrow literature, food studies, early 20C Dublin foodways #185 David Rosenwasser, Muhlenberg College Research Interests: contemporary Irish drama (especially Conor McPherson, Marina Carr, Martin McDonagh, Mark O'Rowe), Molly Keane, William Trevor #186 Kara M. Ryan Research Interests: 19th Century Ireland; women writers; Received PHd in 2006; my dissertation is on 19-century British and Irish women writers and the genre of the historical novel. My project begins with an examination of Maria Edgeworth and her novel The Absentee. I argue that the tumultuous history of Ireland effects the novel's nascent historical consciousness. From Edgeworth, I proceed to Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's historical novels of Ireland, The Rockite and Derry, A Tale of Rebellion. From here I look at Martineau's A Manchester Strike and The Turn-Out, Bronte's Shirley, Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers, and Eliot's Adam Bede and Felix Holt, The Radical. #187 Mary Ann Ryan #188 Robert Savage, Boston College Research Interests: Modern Irish History Robert Savage is Adjunct Associate Professor of History. His research on contemporary Irish history has been funded through fellowships and grants by the Leverhulme Trust of Great Britain, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, the Department of Education and Science (Ireland), the Irish-American Cultural Institute and University College, Galway. He served as a director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program from 1995-2010. Representative Publications A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 (2010) ‘“A Stranger Among Us’ Edward Roth and the Establishment of Irish Television’" in History Ireland (2010) ‘Sean Lemass and the Advent of Irish Television’ in The Age of Sean Lemass: Ireland 1945-1973 (2005) Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture and Identity, editor and contributing author (2003) "'The Soil of Ireland for the People of Ireland': The Politics of Land in Irish Visual Imagery 1850-1936" in Eire/Land, Boston College (2003) Sean Lemass: A Biography (1999) "Constructing/Deconstructing the Image of Sean Lemass's Ireland: The Tear and the Smile", in Nationalism: Visions and Revisions; Film Institute of Ireland (1999) "Strongholds and Relics, Images of 'The Troubles'"; in Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists; Boston College (1997) Irish Television: a Political and Social History (1996) #189 Susan Schreibman, University of Maryland Research Interests: Modernism, Thomas MacGreevy, Digital Humanities #190 Matthew Schultz, Saint Louis University Research Interests: Irish historical fiction, the novel, hauntology, James Joyce, Sebastian Barry, Colm Tóibín. #191 Leslie A. Singel, Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago Research Interests: 20th c. Irish and African-American literature, Northern Irish poetry, Brian Friel #192 Susan Smallwood-Herold, Retired from the University of Northern Colorado Research Interests: Textiles (Historic), Artist (Harry Clarke, Moyra Barry, Basil Blackshaw, Alice Maher, Dorothy Cross), Ireland (The Arts and Language, ) I am retired from the University of Northern Colorado School of Art and Design. My main focus was Fibers and I also taught Drawing and Art and the Environment. My husband and I have four grown children, all college graduates and all with careers. Ireland is my main interest these past thirteen years with a focus on the arts particularly ancient textiles, literature (poetry) and Irish Music. #193 James M. Smith, Boston College Research Interests: My interests include contemporary Irish literature, culture, and politics; cultural studies, and post-colonial theory. I teach graduate seminars on modern and contemporary Irish fiction, and on Ireland's colonial contexts. #194 Scott B. Spencer, New York University Research Interests: Ethnomusicology, especially traditional Irish music. My dissertation focus is on the recent resurgence in uilleann bagpiping, with a social, political, and musicological approach. Recent articles involve Irish music and digital technology; negotiating authenticity in Irish music; 78 rpm records and Atlantic migrations. Scott Spencer is currently Interim Associate Director of the CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies, based at Lehman College. He also acts as Coordinator for the CUNY-IIAS Center for Traditional Irish-American Music. Spencer is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at New York University, with an expected completion date of Fall 2008. #195 Barry J. Stapleton, Ward Irish Music Archive, Milwaukee Irish Fest Research Interests: Irish Americans in American entertainment #196 Karen M. Steele, TCU Research Interests: gender in 19th-20th c. Irish culture; periodical studies; feminist approaches to Irish culture #197 Melissa D. Stevenson, John Brown University Research Interests: Anglo-Irish Literature, 20th century Irish art, John McGahern, Irish culture as expressed and promoted through film #198 Michael L. Storey, College of Notre Dame of Maryland Research Interests: Irish short story; the Troubles Latest publication: Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction, Catholic University of America Press, 2004 #199 Patrick Tally, University of Colorado at Boulder #200 Daniel E. Tobin Research Interests: Irish and Irish American Poetry Daniel Tobin is the author of four books of poems, Where the World is Made (University Press of New England 1999), Double Life (Louisiana State University Press, 2004), The Narrows (Four Way Books, 2005), and Second Things (Four Way Books, 2008), as well as the critical study Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (University Press of Kentucky, 1999). A collection of essays, Awake in America, is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press. Tobin has also edited The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), Light in the Hand: The Selected Poems Lola Ridge (Quale Press, 2007), and (with Pimone Triplett) Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art (University of Michigan Press, 2007). Among his awards are the "The Discovery/The Nation Award," The Robert Penn Warren Award, The Greensboro Review Prize, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has been anthologized in Hammer and Blaze, The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, Poetry Daily Essentials 2007, Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn, Third Rail: The Poetry of Rock and Roll, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, and elsewhere. He is Chair of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College in Boston. #201 Jessica S. Tomell-Presto, DePaul Univ.-College of Communication Research Interests: Irish dance and its performance of cultural identity including ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. #202 Mary Trotter, University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Interests: Irish Theatre, Political Performance #203 Shelley Troupe, National University of Ireland, Galway I am a PhD candidate investigating the Internationalisation of Irish Drama, 1975-2005. My specific research is on the Druid Theatre Company. I am also interested in Asian American theatre. #204 Thomas M. Truxes, Glucksman Ireland House, NYU Research Interests: Early-modern Irish history; Ireland and the Atlantic world before 1800; the overseas trade of British America; eighteenth-century urban life, particularly New York City EDUCATION: Ph.D., 1985, Trinity College, Dublin (Modern History); M.A., 1975, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; M.B.A., 1968, Syracuse University; B.S., 1963, Boston College. TEACHING: Member of the Irish Studies faculty at New York University. SELECT PUBLICATIONS: Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York (New Haven, 2008); Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, Merchants of New York and Belfast, 1756-57 (Oxford, 2001); Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783 (Cambridge, 1988); “London’s Irish Merchant Community and North Atlantic Commerce in the Mid-Eighteenth Century,” in Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, David Dickson, Jan Parmentier, and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds. (Ghent, 2007); “Transnational Trade in the Wartime North Atlantic: The Voyage of the Snow Recovery,” Business History Review 79 (winter 2005); “Waddell Cunningham (1729-97)” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). The Overseas Trade of British America, 1607-1775 (Yale University Press, forthcoming). #205 Tramble T. Turner, Penn State Abington Research Interests: Irish Drama; the fiction of Colm Toibin and of William Kennedy; Race and Gender within Irish Literature #206 Meg B. Tyler, Boston University Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Poetry, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley #207 Elizabeth L. Venable, Univ. California--Riverside Research Interests: Competitive Irish Step Dancing #208 Eileen M. Ward I retired from College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn IL as a Professor of Humanities. In my twenty-two years of teaching at C/D, I led many travel/studies to Ireland and taught many courses with Irish humanities as the curricular base. I still do Irish programs although my permanent residence is now in San Diego CA. #209 Stephen Watt, Indiana University Research Interests: My research interests include drama and theatre, especially later 19th century to the present, and Irish writing of the 20th century more broadly. I have a new book coming out later this spring, BECKETT AND CONTEMPORARY IRISH WRITING, from Cambridge University Press, and am now working on another project on detention and prison writing. #210 Lydia Weary Research Interests: Irish Art, History, Mythology and Culture. I am presently a BFA student at Columbus College of Art and Design incorporating themes from Irish culture in my work. I am currently applying to several Irish graduate schools and plan to teach Fine Art, Art History, and History classes in the future. #211 Jack W. Weaver, Winthrop College Research Interests: Joyce and Music, Irish-American Culture, Robert Greacen, John F. Deane, AE, W.B. Yeats, George Moore. #212 Paul F. Wells, Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University Research Interests: Irish and Irish-American traditional music. #213 Lachlan Whalen, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg Research Interests: Republican prison writing, Gaeilge, contemporary Irish literature My book, Contemporary Irish Republican Prison Writing, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan in November 2007. #214 Gail Gráinne Whitchurch, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Research Interests: families of rural western Ireland famine-era history in the West of Ireland Achill Island Achill Mission Gail Gráinne Whitchurch is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Associate Professor, International Studies at IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)), where she also is also Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Sociology. She is an active member of the British and Irish Studies faculty research group. She holds B.A. (International Studies) and M.A. (Communication Studies) degrees from the University of Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. (Family Studies) from the University of Delaware. Her current research project is a social history entitled _Achill Violets: Family Stiries of 175 Years in an Irish Country Guest House_. She is also at work on research projects pertaining to the famine-era Achill Mission, located on Achill Island, off the coast of Co. Mayo. Prof. Whitchurch teaches such courses in international studies, qualitative research methods, the family communication research capstone course, and a multi-disciplinary course "Ireland: Tradition and Change." Dr. Whitchurch divides her time between Indianapolis, Indiana USA, and Achill Island, County Mayo, where she lives and conducts research for part of each calendar year. #215 Timothy J. White, Xavier University Research Interests: Irish political culture, nationalism, foreign policy #216 Sean Williams, Evergreen State College Research Interests: Irish traditional music, language, poetry, sean-nós singing Sean Williams (Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington) teaches a full-time, year-long Irish studies program at Evergreen State College, once every three years. The program includes history, literature, song, film, dance, language, poetry, politics, etc. and culminates with a six week visit to Donegal in spring quarter. Her current work includes trying to finish up a co-written book (with Lillis Ó Laoire of NUI Galway) on the sean-nós singer, Joe Heaney. Called "Bright Star of the West: Joe Heaney, Irish Song-Man," it will be published by Oxford in 2009. #217 Daniel Williamson, University of Hartford Research Interests: Republic of Ireland's diplomatic response to the conflict in Northern Ireland from 1969-1972. Associate Professor of History at Hillyer College, University of Hartford. Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Connecticut in 2000. #218 Andy J. Wilson, Loyola University Research Interests: US role in NI conflict. Unionist reaction to US involvement. Clinton and the peace process. Comparative analysis of NI conflict and global conflict issues. #219 Nicholas M. Wolf, Virginia Commonwealth University Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Irish History, History of the Irish Language, Irish Cultural and Social History #220 Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University Research Interests: Irish literature, 1750-1900, especially in relation to ideas of nationality. Books in Irish Studies: *Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature* (Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback, 2009); (ed.) *Irish Literature, 1750-1900: An Anthology* (Blackwell, 2008); (ed.) *Companion to Irish Literature* (2 vols., Blackwell, forthcoming 2010); (ed.) Morgan's *The Missionary: An Indian Tale* (Broadview Press, 2002); (ed.) *Reconsidering the Nineteenth Century*, a special issue of *Canadian Journal of Irish Studies* (2004). Also, articles in *ELH*, *European Romantic Review*, *Eire-Ireland*, *Keats-Shelley Journal*, *Irish Studies Review*, essay collections, etc. Website on 19th-c. Irish Literature: http://irish-literature.english.dal.ca Canada Research Chair in European Studies and Associate Professor of English; Co-editor of Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies #221 James F. Wurtz, Indiana State University Research Interests: 19th and 20th-century literature, modernism, the Gothic, postcolonial writing, James Joyce I am Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University. My primary research is on the relationship between modernism and the Gothic in Irish writing. At the moment, I'm revising this project into a tighter manuscript. I have an article on Joyce and the Gothic in the Journal of Modern Literature (29:1), and current research interests also include the construction of the Anglo-Irish as a political entity in Elizabeth Bowen #222 Paul R. Wylie Research Interests: American Irish History, Irish in the Civil War, Irish in Montana and the West. Author of THE IRISH GENERAL: THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER, published by University of Oklahoma Press, September 2007, 416 pages. #223 Lisa S. York, U of Florida; Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Research Interests: James Joyce, "Post"/Semi-Colonial Literature and "British" Literature, and Intellectuals and the Public Sphere PhD candidate at the University of Florida. Currently teaching at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Asheville, NC #224 Michael W. de Nie, Univ. of West Georgia Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century Irish and British press, Anglo-Irish relations, Ireland and Empire #225 Skadi meic Beorg Research Interests: Iron Age Celtia; Emhain Macha lore; applying archetypes, mythological concepts and ancient ethics to modern society; Green Knight/Green Man mythos writer; social hermit; Toltec #226 Brian Ó Conchubhair, University of Notre Dame Research Interests: 19 th & 20 th century Ireland, the Irish Revival, contemporary Irish language fiction, the European Fin de SiËcle and the Irish language in the U.S. Brian Conchubhair is Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature at Notre Dame. A native of Tralee, Co. Kerry, he received a B.Ed. from Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick (1991) before undertaking an M.A. in Modern Irish at University College, Galway (1995) and subsequently an M.A. in English/Irish Studies at Boston College (1999). As an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar he completed a Ph.D. in Modern Irish at NUI, Galway on the Irish Language Revival and the European Fin de Siecle (2002).He has taught at Katolicke Uniwersytet Lubelski, Boston College and NUI, Galway, as well as coordinating the Irish Studies On-Line course at the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI, Galway. His publications appear in Irisleabhar Mh· Nuad, Comhar, Eire-Ireland, New Hibernian Review, Irish University Review and Yearbook of English Studies. Ollamh c?nta i Roinn Theanga agus LitrÌocht na Gaeilge È Brian Conchubhair. CiarraÌoch Û dh?chas, do bhain sÈ B.Ed. (Oideachas agus Gaeilge) amach i gCol·iste Mhuire Gan Sm·l, Luimneach (1991). Bronnadh M.A. Nua-Ghaeilge i gCol·iste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh (1995) agus do lean sÈ ar aghaidh le M.A. sa BhÈarlaLÈann …ireannach air Û Bhoston College ina dhiaidh sin (1999). Do ghnÛthaigh Ph.D. sa Nua-Ghaeilge Û Ollscoil na h…ireann, Gaillimh (2002 mar Scol·ire Iar-ChÈime Rialtas na h…ireann (IRCHSS). Ba theagascÛir È i Katolicke Uniwersytet Lubelski, Boston College agus Ollscoil na h…ireann, Gaillimh. T· ailt d· chuid le f·il sna hirisÌ seo a leanas: Irisleabhar Mh· Nuad, Comhar, Iris …ireannach Nua/New Hibernian Review, …ire-Ireland, Irish University Review agus Yearbook of English Studies. T· spÈis faoi leith aige in Athbheochan na Gaeilge, nualitrÌocht na Gaeilge, An Ghaeilge sna St·it agus an lÈann cult?rtha.rnrnTelephone (574) 631-0499rn Facsimile (574) 631-3620rn E-mail oconchubhair.1@nd.edurn rnrnrn rn #227 Brían M. Ó hAirt, Washington University in Saint Louis Research Interests: Irish language history, decline, maintenance and spoken forms/dialects; Modern Irish language literature; Gaeltacht civil rights focusing on history and modern cultivation. Music, song and dance traditions of Ireland with a focus on song repertoires and singing styles. Irish communities in diaspora. Shared historical, linguistic and folkloric links between the Gaelic communities of Scotland and Ireland. Irish Gaelic instructor at Washington University and for Cumann na Gaeilge & Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in St. Louis, Missouri. |