Recent Work
Recent AWARDS
Dean’s Recognition Award for Teaching, Montclair State University, 2023
Visiting Research Fellow, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Spring 2023
Visiting Fellow, Maynooth University Arts & Humanities Institute, Summer 2023
Recent Publications
“Derek Mahon’s New York,” in Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker, ed., Derek Mahon: A Celebration, Liverpool University Press, forthcoming November 2024
“French Kissing in the Gaeltacht and Other Allusions in Recent Irish Poetry,” in Guinn Batten and Anna Teekell Hays, ed., Teaching Irish Poetry, MLA, forthcoming Fall 2024
“Remapping Ireland in Poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanaín, and Nithy Kasa,” The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Irish Writing, ed. Anne Fogarty and Eugene O’Brien, forthcoming 2024
Broken Archangel: The tempestuous lives of Roger Casement by Roland Phillips, TLS (June 28, 2024), 9
“Yeatsian Masculinities,” in Matthew Campbell and Lauren Arrington, ed., The Oxford Handbook of W. B. Yeats, Oxford University Press, 2023, 624 - 642
“The Third Space in Recent Irish Expatriate Poems,” in Lauren Arrington, ed. Late Modernism and Expatriation (Clemson UP, 2022), 157 – 169
Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay, ed. Daniel Mark Epstein, TLS (June 17, 2022), 30
Review of A History of Irish Women’s Poetry, ed. Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Romantic-Era Irish Women Poets in English, ed. Stephen Behrendt, The Irish Times (Saturday, September 11, 2021)
“Comradeship: Feminist and Revolutionaries in Holloway Prison 1918-1919,” in Linda Connolly, ed., Women and the Irish Revolution: Feminism, Activism, Violence, (Indiana UP, 2020) 33 – 46
"The Hugh Lane Controversy and the Irish Revival," in Marjorie Howes, ed., Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 (Cambridge UP, 2020), 133 – 151
Review of Leeann Lane, Dorothy Macardle; UCD Press 2019 and Margaret Ward, Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution; UCD Press 2019, Saothar; Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, Issue 45, April 2020, 192-194 (2,000 words)
“How The Parents of Ireland’s Authors Survived Their Past: The Story of Robert Brennan’s Memior ‘Allegiance’,” The Irish Times (Saturday, December 8, 2018)
Review of The History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature, Heather Ingman and Clíona Ó Gallchoir, eds., The Irish Times (Saturday, November 17, 2018)
The Vibrant House: Irish Writing and Domestic Space (edited with Rhona Richman Kenneally), Four Courts Press, 2017
“Misfortunes: Thief of a Christmas and Bailegangaire,” in The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer, ed. Nicholas Grene (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 189 – 200
“The Railroad Reverie in Contemporary Irish Poetry,” Éire-Ireland, Volume 52, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2017, 78-100
“Leland Bardwell’s A Restless Life,” Cyphers Magazine (Dublin: Vol 83, Spring 2017), 72 – 74
Recent Invited Lectures
“Recent Irish Poetry and the Slightly Magical,” Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, March 2023
“The Ontology of Space in Recent Irish Poetry,” University College Cork, March 2023
“Magic Mists and Recent Irish Poetry,” Moore Institute, National Univ of Ireland Galway, March 2023
“Yeatsian Masculinities,” Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, July 2022
“Ireland in Greenwich Village: Derek Mahon’s Hudson Letter,” invited lecture, Derek Mahon: A Celebration, Trinity College Dublin, November 2021
“Recent Irish Poetry and Slightly Magical Liquids,” University of Edinburgh, March 2020 (rescheduled)
“Emotions and Behaviors in Fairy Legends Collected by Lady Gregory,” Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering, Gort, Co Galway, September 2019
“Poetry of Hair: W.B. Yeats, Eliéan Ní Chuilleanáin, & Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill,” Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, July 2019
“Longley Reclining,” Michael Longley 80th Birthday Symposium, Queen’s University Belfast, June 2019
“Women’s Maladies in Fairy Legends Collected by Lady Gregory,” Women’s History Association of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, December 2018
“Kissing in the Village: Edna St. Vincent Millay on Bedford Street,” The Village Trip, September 2018
“The Disturbed House in Irish Women’s Poetry,” Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland, July 2018
Reading from memoir in progress, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland, July 2018
Presentation on At Home in the Revolution, Montclair Literary Festival, March 2018
Reading from memoir in progress at Muldoon’s Picnic, Irish Arts Center, New York, March 2018
“Tropes of Distance in Contemporary Irish Poetry,” Late Modernism and Expatriatism, Boston College, October 2017
“The Unimagined Community: Feminists and Revolutionaries in Holloway Prison,” Women in Irish History, 1917 – 1922: Feminism, Violence, Activism, Maynooth University (Ireland), September 2017
“The Muse on the Train in Contemporary Irish Poetry,” Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, March 2017
“The Dreamer on the Train in Contemporary Irish Poetry,” Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University, Belfast, March 2017
“Fairy Legends, Houses, and the Architecture of Rebellion,” Boston College Irish Studies, February 2017
Recent Conference Papers
“The Poetic Uncanny in Poems by Groarke, Bergin, and Ní Chuilleanáin,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, June 2024
“Decentered Ireland in Map Poems by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Anatoly Kudryavitzky, and Nithy Kasa,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Boston College,” October 2023
“Pearse Hutchinson: Noting Strangers,” Irish Poetry Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism, MOLI, March 2023
“Remapping the Globe in poems by Paula Cunningham, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Nithy Kasa,” IASIL, University of Limerick, July 2022
“The Slightly Magic Tongue in Recent Irish Poetry,” New England / Mid-Atlantic American Conference for Irish Studies, Sacred Heart University, October 2021
“Fanciful Political Poems: Colette Bryce, Alan Gillis, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe,” American Conference for Irish Studies, International Meeting, Derry, Northern Ireland, June 2021 (remote)
“A ‘Troubles’ Childhood in Derry: Some Poems by Colette Bryce,” Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, Galway, Ireland, June 2021 (remote)
“Dwelling ‘Away’ in Fairy Legends collected by Lady Gregory in Visions & Beliefs in the West of Ireland,” Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland, University College Cork, June 2021 (remote)
Session chair, “The Home Front,” Eilís Dillon Centenary Conference, Trinity College Dublin, March 2020
"The Poetry of Hair: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Tara Bergin, Vona Groarke" IASIL, July 2019, Dublin
"The Idea of the Cat in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry," American Conference for Irish Studies, March 2019, Boston
“’1916 Not to be Commemorated’: the anti-commemoration poem,” MLA, New York, January 2018
SELECTED BROADCAST INTERVIEWS
AND TALKS
Video interview (June 2021) of my memories of the late Derek Mahon, Irish poet; interview by Professor Nicholas Grene; clips in Derek Mahon: Piecing together the Poet, online exhibition hosted by Trinity College Dublin Library and The Rose Library, Emory University
Talking Head in Short Video, Anne Jellicoe, Irish Educationalist and Buswells Hotel, written & produced by Leonor Bethencourt, Heritage Week Ireland, 2020 https://www.heritageweek.ie/projects/anne-jellicoe-irish-educationalist-and-buswells-hotel
Interviewed about the women of 1916 in Anne Jellicoe, Irish Educationalist and Buswells Hotel, written & produced by Leonor Bethencourt, Heritage Week Ireland, 2020 https://www.heritageweek.ie/projects/anne-jellicoe-irish-educationalist-and-buswells-hotel
Live Interview, Farmgate series on Women of the South: Radicals and Revolutionaries -http://farmgatecork.ie/womenofthesouth/whatwomensaidanddid1916/ -- “Professor Patricia Coughlan in Conversation with Professor Lucy McDiarmid,” 14 March 2016.
Radio Broadcast, interview about women and 1916, Talking History, 21 February 2016
Film Feature http://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/at-home-in-the-revolution-what-women-said-and-did-in-1916, RTE, Century Ireland, produced by Boston College, 1916 website, directed by Professor Mike Cronin (interview based on my book At Home in the Revolution)
Radio Broadcast, Glucksman Ireland House Radio, of my talk “Excess of Love’: Yeats and the Rebels of 1916,” Taste of the Yeats Summer School, Yeats Society of New York; broadcast on August 29, 2015
Radio Broadcast, Yeats section of MLA-sponsored program Great Irish Writers; aired in the NYC metropolitan area on WBGO (88.3 FM) at 7:30 pm EDT, Wednesday May 20, 2009
Radio Broadcast, interviewed by William Crawley on “the controversy surrounding the ownership of 39 French Impressionist paintings that once belonged to Dublin gallery owner Hugh Lane,” BBC Radio 3, 25 July, 2008
MISCELLANEOUS
“Fellow in Focus” (interview by Professor Eve Patten), Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, March 2023