Education

PhD, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
MA, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
BA, San Francisco State University, CA

Area(s) of Specialty

Irish literature from Swift to contemporary period, with particular emphasis on W.B.Yeats and 20th Century Irish Poetry
Late Victorian and Modernist poetry
Aesthetics

Contact Information

C104 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3365
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 111- Nature Writing
ENG 368- Irish Poetry of the 20th Century
ENG 768- Folklore and
Mythology in Irish Literature
ENG 300- Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
ENG 362 - The Irish Literary Renaissance
and its Backgrounds
ENG 165- The Rhetoric of Morality
FYS 100- Landscape in Irish Literature

Selected Publications

“A Snake Pouring Over the Ground”: Nature and the Sacred in Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Irish University Review: Special Issue on Eiléan Ní Chuilleanái/. Spring/Summer 2007

Edited and introduced The WFU Series of Irish Poetry: Volume 1, Wake Forest University Press, 2005.

Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W.B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2000.

Co-wrote with Wanda Balzano, “Tracking the Luas between the Human and the Inhuman,” Irish Postmodernism and Popular Culture (London: Palgrave, 2007).

“Reclaiming the Wilderness: Nature and Perception in Caitríona O’Reilly,” Etudes Irlandais, 2006, 31.1.