Faculty

KATARZYNA BARTOSZYNSKA

PAUL BOVÉ

MARIE BOURKE

ELIZABETH BUTLER CULLINGFORD


JOE CLEARY

MICHAEL CULLINAN

SEAMUS DEANE



LUKE GIBBONS


DECLAN KIBERD

JASON KING

LAURA O'CONNOR


BREANDÁN Ó BUACHALLA

BRÍONA NIC DHIARMADA

NUALA NÍ DHOMHNAILL

STEPHEN REA

KEVIN WHELAN



Katarzyna Bartoszynska was born in Poland and received her BA from Reed College in 2004 and is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation began as a hunch about a peculiar similarity between Poland and Ireland, and has blossomed into an examination of travel narratives in Polish and Irish literature, beginning with Jonathan Swift and Ignacy Krasicki and ending in the present day.

Paul Bové is the editor of boundary 2, an international journal of literature and culture, published by Duke University Press. He is the author of several books on culture, modernity, poetry, and intellectuals, and is now completing a book on Henry Adams as well as a collection of essays called The End of Thinking. His current research interests are 'globalization', 'intellectuals' and problems of truth in relation to literature, criticism and philosophy.

Marie Bourke is Keeper and Head of Education at the National Gallery of Ireland. An Art historian, she was educated in France and Ireland,and has taught at third level and worked at museums in the United States. She writes on Irish art and museum studies and is currently working on a history of Irish museums. She is Chairperson of the Irish Museums Association and on the Governing Authority of the University of Limerick.

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford is Jane & Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English Literature and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She currently serves as the Chair of the English Department. Her publications include Ireland’s Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture (2001), Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry (1993) and Yeats, Ireland and Fascism (1981). She is studying representations of child abuse in Irish-American drama and film, and also working on a feminist cultural studies project analyzing literary depictions of the only child in multiple contexts.

Joe Cleary is a Professor in English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.  He is the author of Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (2002) and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (2007). He has co-edited (with Claire Connolly) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (2005) and co-edited
an issue of Éire-Ireland on ‘Empire Studies’ (2007).

Michael Cullinan, one of the most distinguished of contemporary Irish architects, is a former Vice-President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. He was educated at Dublin, Harvard and New York. His multiple-award winning work includes houses, public buildings, schools and urban renewal projects

Seamus Deane, Professor of English and Donald and emeritus Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies at Notre Dame, is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company. He is the general editor of the Penguin Joyce, and the author of A Short History of Irish Literature, Celtic Revivals, The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, Strange Country and Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke (2004). Deane also edited the monumental Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing in three volumes, and he has published four books of poetry and a novel, Reading in the Dark, subsequently translated into over twenty languages. Currently he is general editor of a series entitled Critical Conditions and is co-editor of the annual Irish Studies journal Field Day Review since 2005.

Luke Gibbons is Keough Family Chair of Irish Studies at Notre Dame. Among his publications are Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), The Quiet Man (2002) and Edmund Burke and Ireland (2003).

Declan Kiberd joined UCD as lecturer in Anglo-Irish literature in 1979, having taught English previously in the University of Kent at Canterbury), and Irish in Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD in 1997. He has been Director of the Yeats International Summer School, Patron of the Dublin Shaw Society, a columnist with the Irish Times and the Irish Press), the presenter of the RTE Arts programme, Exhibit A, and a regular reviewer in the Irish Times, TLS, London Review of Books and the New York Times. Among his books are Synge and Irish Literature (1979, 1992), Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation (1995), Irish Classics (2000) and The Irish writer and the world (2005).

Jason King is currently an Assistant Professor in English and Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the editor of Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 vols., 2008) and has published numerous articles about Irish diasporic writing in journals and edited collections on both sides of the Atlantic.

Laura O’Connor is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches poetry, Irish literature, and postcolonial theory and issues in Anglophone literature. Her book, Haunted English: the Celtic Fringe, the British Empire, and de-Anglicization, theorizes the role of language in colonization and decolonization through literary vernaculars. She is currently working on Minority Voice, which reads Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in relation to a constellation of contemporary Irish poets writing in English and Irish, with an emphasis on her poet-translators.

Breandán Ó Buachalla is regarded as the leading expert in the literature and ideology of early modern Ireland. Aisling Ghéar (1996) is the first comprehensive analysis of Irish Jacobitism. Other books include I mBéal Feirste Cois Cuain (1968): Peadar Ó Doirnín: Amhráin (1969), Cathal Buí: Amhráin (1975) and An caoine agus an chaointeoireacht (2000). Fellowship, ACLS 1969: MRIA 1979. Professor of Modern Irish UCD (1978-96). Visiting Professor in Irish Studies, NYU (1997). Parnell Fellow in Cambridge (1998-9).

Bríona Nic Dhiarmada is the Notre Dame Chair of Irish and Concurrent Professor of Film, Television and Theatre. She served as a visiting professor for the Department of Irish Language and Literature in 2006 and was selected as the Senior Fulbright Scholar in Irish Language and Literature for 2007-2008. Nic Dhiarmada served as an editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing and general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Irish Women Writers. Téacs Baineann, Téacs Mná, her critical book on the poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, was awarded the prestigious Merriman Prize for Irish Language Academic Book of the Year. Nic Dhiarmada is also the author of over 35 screenplays and 10 documentaries and in 2007 she won the Media Award for Best Television Programme in Ireland.

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was born in England to Irish parents. She moved to Ireland aged five, and was brought up in the Corcadhuibhne Gaeltacht. She studied English and Irish at UCC in 1969 and participated in the Innti school of poets. In 1973, she married Turkish geologist Dogan Leflef and lived in Turkey and Holland for seven years. After her return to Kerry in 1980, she published An Dealg Droighin (1981). Other works include Féar Suaithinseach (1984), Feis (1991) and Cead Aighnis (2000). Her poetry appears in dual-language editions  in Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems (1986, 1988, 1990); The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Pharaoh’s Daughter (1990), and The Fifty Minute Mermaid (2007). For her,  ‘Irish is a language of beauty, historical significance, ancient roots and an immense propensity for poetic expression through its everyday use’. Ní Dhomhnaill has won numerous international awards and her poems are translated into French, German, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. Nuala has been a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Stephen Rea is widely regarded as the most gifted stage and film actor of his generation. Following an initial career on stage at the Abbey and then at The Royal Shakespeare Company in England, he began acting in films in the 1980s.  With Brian Friel, he established the Field Day Theatre Company in Derry which became essentially the Irish National Theatre Company throughout the 1980s.  In 1982, Stephen began his film career with Neil Jordan’s Angel. The Jordan / Rea partnership was to become one of the defining combinations of modern Irish film.  He has more recently returned  to the Abbey Theatre, where Sam Shepard wrote Kicking a Dead Horse and Ages of the Moon especially for him.

Born:  October 31, 1949 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Education:  BA in English from Queens University (Belfast)

Theater and Film credits:

-Abbey Theater, Dublin in late 1960s
-Involved in English "fringe" theater and the English National Theater in the1970s
-Started Field Day Theatre with Brian Friel in 1980
-First film role: Danny in Neil Jordan's Angel (released in the US as Danny Boy) in 1982
-Roles in other Neil Jordan films: The Company of Wolves (1984), The Crying Game (1992), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Michael Collins (1996), The Butcher Boy (1997), In Dreams (1999), End of the Affair (1999)
-Academy Award nomination for Best Actor (for role in Jordan's The Crying Game)
-Awarded Best Actor by the National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA (for The Crying Game)
-Other films: Loose Connections (1983); The Doctor and the Devils (1985); Life is Sweet (1990); Bad Behaviour (1993); Princess Caraboo, Ready to Wear, and Angie (1994); Still Crazy (1998); Guinevere (1999), The Muscateer (2001)
-Awarded the prize for Best Actor by the Catalonian International Film Festival (Sitges, Spain) for his role in Citizen X (1995)
-Royal Court Theater: Ashes to Ashes, 1996 (written and directed by Harold Pinter); Crete and Sergeant Pepper, Freedom of the City, Endgame, Doublecross, Captain Oates Left Sock, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Action
-Royal National Theater: The Playboy of the Western World, Comedians, Tales of the Vienna Woods, Strawberry Fields II, Compiello, The Shaughraun, Making History, Piano
-Booth Theater: Someone Who’ll Watch over Me, (1992, written by Frank McGuinness)
-"Tony" Award nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Play (for role in Someone Who'll Watch Over Me - 1993)
-Hampstead Theater: Ecstasy, Drums in the Night (written by Bertold Brecht), Buried Child, Translations, Killer’s Head, St. Oscar, Kingdom of Earth
-Gate Theater, Dublin (1991 Beckett Festival), Act Without Words II, Play, That Time, A Piece of Monologue

Kevin Whelan is Michael J. Smurfit director of the Keough-Notre Dame Centre in Dublin. Among his publications are Fellowship of Freedom (1998), Acts of Union (2001) and 1798: bicentenary essays (2003).




 

Executive Director: Joe Cleary
Directors: Seamus Deane, Maud Ellmann, Christopher Fox, Luke Gibbons, Breandán Ó Buachalla, Kevin Whelan