Contributors
- Contributors
Margaret Brehony has worked for a number of years with the Irish Refugee Council and Mayo Intercultural Action on research and policy development in the area of inward migration to Ireland. She completed an MA in Culture and Colonialism at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway in 2004. In 2008 she was awarded a Government of Ireland scholarship to pursue research on the subject of Irish migration to Cuba, drawing on colonial manuscript sources at the Cuban National Archive. Based at the Center for Irish Studies NUI Galway, she has recently submitted her Ph.D. thesis, “Irish Migration to Cuba, 1835–45: Empire, Ethnicity, Slavery and ‘Free’ Labour.”
Patricia Coughlan, Professor of English at University College Cork, has published widely on Irish writing, including essays on colonial discourse, Irish Gothic, and twentieth-century literature (Beckett, Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Heaney’s gender representations). Edited or coedited collections include Spenser and Ireland (1990), Modernism and Ireland: The Poetry of the 1930s (1995), and Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives (2008). Recent work includes articles on Banville, Peig Sayers, Edna O’Brien, Ní Chuilleanáin, Enright, and others. During the 2000s she led a state-funded research project on women in Irish society; she has been Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Irish Studies Professor at Concordia University. She is currently completing a study of gender and subjectivity in contemporary Irish literature. [End Page 271]
Alice Feldman is a lecturer in the School of Sociology, codirector of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative, and coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree in International Migration and Social Cohesion at University College Dublin. Through the use of creative, arts-based, and participatory research methods, her work explores the multiple and intersecting marginalities underpinning the construction of otherness among and across “indigenes” and “migrants” in the spaces and places of the nation and everyday life. She has served in a variety of research and advisory capacities with a number of nongovernmental organizations and agencies in Ireland involved in antiracism and integration work.
Gavin Foster is Assistant Professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University (Montreal) and history reviews editor for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. He completed his Ph.D. thesis, “The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War,” at the University of Notre Dame in 2009. His work has appeared in Field Day Review, Saothar: Journal of the Irish Labour History Society, History Ireland, and (forthcoming) New Hibernia Review. Currently preparing his thesis for publication, he has also embarked on a new project funded by Le Fonds de recherche du Québec: Société et culture using oral histories to explore the post-memory of the Irish Civil War in Ireland and among the Irish diaspora.
Breda Gray is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Director of postgraduate programs in Gender, Culture & Society at the University of Limerick. She is also coconvener of Gender ARC (www.genderARC.org). She has published on themes of gender, diaspora, transnationalism, and mobility: Women and the Irish Diaspora (2004), coeditor Mobilities 6(2) 2011, editor Irish Journal of Sociology 19(2) 2011, and editor Social Politics (2013). Current research projects include IRCHSS-funded “The Irish Catholic Church and the Politics of Migration” (www.ul.ie/icctmp) and ISSP-funded “Nomadic Work/Life and the Knowledge Economy” (nwl.ul.ie/).
Mary J. Hickman is Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology and Director of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University. Her most recent book is Migration [End Page 272] Social Cohesion in the UK (2012, with Nicola Mai and Helen Crowley). She has been a Visiting Professor at New York University, Columbia University, Victoria University (Melbourne), and University College Dublin. Her current research interests include migrations and diasporas, with a focus on comparative study of the Irish diaspora in Britain and the United States; national (re)formations and diaspora spaces; ethnic and racial differentiations and discriminations; second generations; and comparative processes of integration/social cohesion.
Jason King lectures in English at the University of Limerick. He was also an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal where he conceptualized and designed a major...
