PhD, University College Dublin (National University of Ireland)
MA, University College Dublin (National University of Ireland)
MA, Istituto Universitario Orientale (University of Naples, Italy)
BA, Istituto Universitario Orientale (University of Naples, Italy)
Area(s) of Interest
Anglo-Irish Studies
Women’s Literature and Drama
Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Translation, Classics, and Cultural Analysis
Italian influences in English Literature
Intersections of Film, Art, and Gender Studies in Cultural Discourse
Courses taught at WFU
ENG 160 – Introduction to British Literature
ENG 165 – Studies in British Literature
ENG 302/ 602 – Irish Women in Writing and Film
ENG 302/602 – Feminist Leadership: Theory, Literature, and Action
ENG 302/602 – Gendered Connections: Italy in the American and British Imagination
HON 260 – Rethinking Space, Place, and Gender in the City
HMN 385 – Inclusive Public Spaces: Examining the Role of Space, Place, and Gender in Communities [ACE (Academic Community Engagement) designation]
MLS 805: Isle of Saints and Sinners: Ireland’s Literature and Culture
WGS 101 – Window on Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 150 – Perspectives in Gender and Sexuality
WGS 150 – Sorrento and Southern Italy: Broadening Familiar and Feminist Perspectives
WGS 200/600 – The Field Guide to Museums
WGS 221/622 – Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 221/622 – Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in Italy and the US
WGS 318/618 – Film Lab in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 327/627 – The Feminist Book Society
WGS 377/677 – Gender and the Foreigner in a Transnational World
WGS 396/696 – The Feminist Project in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 398/698 – Theory and Practice of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
WGS 399/699 – Feminist Leadership: Theory, Literature, and Action
Selected Publications
“In Women’s Hands: Remembering the White Art and Maria Orsini Natale’s Mediterranean World,” in Giovanni Spani and Marco Marino (eds.) Women of the Mediterranean: Women and Memory (Lanciano: Rocco Carabba, 2019).
“’The World Has Shown Up’: Race, Gender, and Class in the new Ireland of Emer Martin,” in Feminism: Past, Present and Future Perspectives, edited by Josefa Ros Velasco (New York: Nova Science Publishers-Women’s Issues Series, 2017).
Writing Exile: Women, the Arts, and Technologies (special issue of Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, issue 17:, no.1, December 2013) edited with Silvana Carotenuto;
Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, edited with Anne Mulhall and Moynagh Sullivan (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Irish Feminisms (special issue of the Irish Review, No.35, Summer 2007) edited with Moynagh Sullivan.
