Contributors
- Contributors
Michael E. Chapman completed his Ph.D. degree in the history of U.S. foreign relations at Boston College in 2006 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Boston College. His dissertation, entitled “Arguing Americanism: John Eoghan Kelly’s Franco Lobby, 1936–43,” is currently under consideration for publication. His articles, “Pro-Franco Anti-Communism: Ellery Sedgwick and the Atlantic Monthly” and “Censorship: From State Power to Social Empowerment,” have appeared recently in the Journal of Contemporary History. He has also edited Lessons of the War in Spain by Gen. Maurice Duval (2006).
Julie Donovan is currently a lecturer in English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Recent essays on aspects of Irish literature have appeared in Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies in 2007 and Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period in 2008. Her book Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) and the Politics of Style will be published by Academica Press in 2009.
Casey A. Jarrin is Assistant Professor of British and Irish literature and film at Macalester College. She has contributed to Irish Studies: Geographies and Genders, ed. Marti D. Lee and Ed Madden (2008), is editing a collection on transatlantic cultures of violence, and is completing the book-length manuscript “Confessional Acts: Interrogation, Authorship, and the Making of the Modern Irish Subject.” [End Page 290] She has received an NEH fellowship to the UCLA Clark Library (2007) and two FLAS grants for the study of Irish-Gaelic (2000, 2001). Her research interests include transnational modernism, diasporic Irish culture, post-war film and visual art, and working-class subcultures.
Daniel Leach earned his Ph.D. degree in history at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2007. His dissertation, entitled “Refuge Ireland: European Minority Nationalists and Irish Asylum, 1937–60,” will be published by Four Courts Press in 2009. His earlier publications have dealt with African-American servicemen in Australia during World War II, Scottish nationalist exiles in Ireland during “the Emergency,” and the Breton nationalist unit of Himmler’s SS (Schutzstaffeln).
Enda Leaney was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Oxford and currently works for the Dublin City Public Libraries. He is a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and has published widely on the history of science in Ireland. He was an IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2002–03, a lecturer in the History Department at the National University of Ireland-Galway from 2004 to 2006, and a visiting associate professor at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2006–07.
Sarah E. McKibben is Assistant Professor of Irish language and literature and a Fellow of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include “New Geographies of Voice in Contemporary Poetry in Irish,” Irish Studies: Geographies and Genders (2008); “Bardic Poetry and the Postcolonial Politics of Close Reading,” Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium (2007); “An Béal Bocht: Mouthing Off at National Identity,” Éire-Ireland (2003); and “Born to Die . . . and Live On: Terminal Metaphors in the Life of Irish,” The Irish Review (2000). She is completing a manuscript entitled “Endangered Masculinities: Gender, Colonialism, and Sexuality in Early Modern Literature in Irish, 1540–1780.” [End Page 291]
Patrick McWilliams was a Research Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at the Queen’s University of Belfast for a number of years and served as co-editor of the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland series. He now holds a position in the Institute of Governance at Queen’s. He completed his doctoral dissertation, “The Ordnance Survey Memoir of Ireland: Origins, Progress, and Decline,” at Queen’s in 2004.
Ciara Meehan is a lecturer in the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin. She is currently working on a study of Cumann na nGaedheal that examines how the party organized itself and fought elections between 1923 and 1933.
Rose Novak is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her dissertation focuses on nineteenth-century Irish women writers and politics. She published an entry in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 240, on Ellen...
