| I grew up in Minnesota and completed my doctoral studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where I researched the cultural work of Irish nationalist women, both north and south, in the 20th century.
Since arriving at TCU in 1996, I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in 20th century British and Irish literature, cultural studies, women's studies and post-colonial literatures and theories. My research concerns the intersection of gender and nationalism in modern Irish culture: Maud Gonne's Irish Nationalist Writings (Irish Academic Press, 2003) recovers and analyzes the political and literary achievement of Irish activist Maud Gonne. Women, Press, and Politics during the Irish Revival (Syracuse UP, 2007) critically examines women's writing in the advanced nationalist press from 1890-1920.
New research projects include: Ireland's Female Literary Nationalists, an anthology of Irish women's writings about nationality during the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland (1800-1921), and Gender and Material Culture, a literary study of the material artifacts concerning Irishness and femininity in the long nineteenth century. |
