You can read my article “Performing Hospitality in Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love” in New Hibernia Review vol. 24, no. 1. In this piece, I read Bowen’s lesser-known Big House novel and conclude that her version of hospitality is ultimately a mechanism for upholding colonial power structures. A version of this article is forthcoming …
In 2016, I curated an exhibition at Poets House in New York City with Kevin Young. This exhibition coincided with the centenary of Ireland’s Easter Rising and reconsidered the role of writers in the rebellion. I loved creating an exhibition in this beautiful space and spending time with Emory’s wonderful Irish literary collections. I received …
Together with my colleague Aaron Goldsman and Professor Kevin Young, I curated the exhibition “The Dream Machine: The Beat Generation & the Counterculture, 1940-1975.” This show ran from September 2017 to June 2018 at Emory University’s Schatten Gallery in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. The exhibition reconsidered postwar literature and the ways it mirrored, predicted, …
“Furious Women and Scorned Men,” my review of Geraldine Mill’s startlingly imaginative short story collection Hellkite, is available now on Breac!
My dissertation interrogates the legacy of settler colonialism across cultures through an analysis of women’s writing about the plantation. Domestic Disturbances: Home and History in Global Anglophone Women’s Writing argues that settler colonialism has produced literary forms which are uniquely invested in the issues of inheritance. Ireland, the American South, and the Caribbean share a …
Partitioned Lives: The Irish Borderlands by Catherine Nash, Bryonie Reid, and Brian Graham offers an insightful (if limited) analysis of the lived experiences and material realities of the Irish border. Published in 2013, this volume has acquired a new urgency amidst the Brexit crisis. You can find my full review in in Irish Studies Review 24.4. …
You can find my review of Lucy Collins’ valuable edited anthology Poetry by Women in Ireland: A Critical Anthology 1870-1970 in issue 110 of Feminist Review.
Check out the course website for my Spring 2016 course, ENG 101: Writing about Travel.
Here’s the daily reading, writing, and presentation schedule for ENG 181: Haunted Ireland, fall 2015.
Check out the syllabus for my fall 2015 course, ENG 181: Haunted Ireland.
