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Professor Claire Connolly - BA, MA (NUI), PhD (Wales)

Overview

Professor Claire Connolly Position: Professor Email: Connolly@cf.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75621
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74647
Extension: 74502
Location: Humanities Extension, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU.

Research Group

Cultural Criticism / English Literature

Postgraduate Students

I would welcome applications from potential students whose plans overlap with any of my listed interests. Informal enquiries are always welcome.

Research Interests

The British and Irish novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Irish-Welsh cultural exchanges; Irish and Scottish Romanticism; Ireland and cultural theory; contemporary Irish writing.

Selected Publications

2011 A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge University Press)

2010 Co-editor, with Angela V. John, Menna Gallie, You're Welcome to Ulster [1970] (Honno Press)

2009 'Four Nations Feminism: Una Troy and Menna Gallie', UCD Scholarcast

2008 ‘Ugly Criticism: Edmund Burke and Irish Literature’, Field Day Review, 4 (2008), pp. 236-257

2006 ‘Theatre and Nation in Irish Romanticism: the tragic dramas of Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil’, Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, 41: 3 (Fall/Winter 2006), pp. 185-214

2006 'Irish Romanticism,1800-1829' in The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, eds. Margaret Kelleher and Philip O'Leary, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Vol I, pp. 407-448

2005 Co-editor, with Joe Cleary, Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

 

Publications

Books

2011 A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge University Press).

Edited Books

2005 Co-editor (with Joe Cleary), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), liii + 363pp

2003, 2002 Editor, Theorizing Ireland (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave), ix + 11 + 215pp

2000 Editor (with Stephen Copley), Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl (Pickering and Chatto, London), lxvi + 328pp

2000 Editor, Maria Edgeworth, Ormond (Harmondsworth: Penguin), xxxviii + 314pp

1999 Editor (with Marilyn Butler), Manoeuvring and Vivian, Vol. 4, The Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth (London: Pickering and Chatto), xxviii + 323pp

1999 Editor, Ormond, Vol. 8, The Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth (London: Pickering and Chatto), viii + 248pp

1993 Editor and Introduction, Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (London: Everyman), xxvi + 95pp

Essays in book collections

2012 'The National Tale' in Peter Garside and Karen O'Brien (eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume II (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2011 'The National Tale', in James H. Murphy (ed.), The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV:  The Irish Book in English, 1800-1891 (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2007 ‘Prince Hohenlohe's Miracles: Supernaturalism in the Irish Public Sphere’, in Ireland, Scotland and the Romantic Aesthetic, eds. David Duff and Catherine Jones (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press) [page spans to follow]

2006 ‘Irish Romanticism, 1800-1829’, in Cambridge History of Irish Literature, eds. Margaret Kelleher and Philip O'Leary, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Vol I, pp. 407-448

2005 ‘Public and Private Meanings in Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage’ in Jacqueline Belanger (ed.), The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Facts and Fictions (Dublin: Four Courts), pp. 63-79

2003 ‘Completing the Union? The Irish Novel in Cultural History’, in The Irish Act of Union, 1800: Bicentennial Essays, eds. Michael Brown, Patrick Geoghean and James Kelly (Dublin: Irish Academic Press), pp. 157-176

2003 ‘The Turn to the Map’, Éire-Land ed. Vera Kreilkamp (Chicago: McMullen Museum of Art and University of Chicago Press), pp. 27-33

2002 'The Politics of Love in The Wild Irish Girl', in 'Contemporary Cultural Critique', ed. Clair Wills, The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, eds. Angela Bourke et al (Cork and New York: Cork University Press and New York University Press), pp. 1645-1648 [reprinted from Introduction to my 2000 edition of The Wild Irish Girl (Pickering and Chatto, London)]

2002 ‘Nothing More than Feelings? Rereading the National Romance’, in Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture and Society under the Act of Union, ed. Bruce Stewart (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe), pp. 98-110

2001 ‘Writing the Union’, in Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union, eds. Dáire Keogh and Kevin Whelan (Dublin: Four Courts Press), pp. 171-186

2000 ‘Reflections on the Act of Union’ in Edmund Burke’s 'Reflections on the Revolution in France': New Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. John Whale (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp. 168-192

1999 'Reading Responsibility in Castle Rackrent' in Ireland and Cultural Theory: The Mechanics of Authenticity, eds. Richard Kirkland and Colin Graham (Basingstoke: Macmillan), pp. 136-161

1999 ‘(Be)longing: The Strange Place of Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout’ in Borderlands: Negotiating Boundaries in Post-Colonial Writing, ed. Monika Reif-Hülser (Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi), pp. 135-14

1998 ‘Uncanny Castle Rackrent’ in The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature, ed. Bruce Stewart (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe,), pp. 205-220

1996 ‘Representing Ireland’ in Literatur und Erfahrungswandel, 1780-1830, ed. Rainer Schöwerling, Harmut Steinecke and Günter Tiggesbäumker (Munich: Wilhelm Fink), pp. 249-268

Essays in journals

2008 ‘'Ugly Criticism: Edmund Burke and Irish Literature', Field Day Review, 4 (2008), pp. 236-257

2006 ‘Theatre and Nation in Irish Romanticism: the tragic dramas of Charles Robert Maturin and Richard Lalor Sheil’, Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, 41: 3 (Fall/Winter 2006), pp. 185-214

2003 ‘Tales of Ruin: Irish Romanticism and the Traumatic Paradigm’, Studien Zur Englischen Romantik: Alternative Romanticisms, Vol. 15, pp. 41-52

2001 ‘Theorising Ireland’, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 301-31

2000 ‘“I accuse Miss Owenson”: The Wild Irish Girl as Media Event’, Colby Quarterly, special issue on ‘Irish Women Novelists, 1800-1940’. Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 98-115

1999 ‘Postcolonial Ireland: Posing the Question’, European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 255-261

1999 ‘Reflections on the Future’, Etudes Irlandaises, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 115-125

Journals edited

1999 Editor, ‘Postcolonial Ireland?’ special issue, European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3

2000-2004 General Editor, with Catherine Bernard and Ansgar Nünning, European Journal of English Studies

Bibliographical and Encyclopaedia entries

2003 Entry on ‘Maria Edgeworth’ for Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Alan Charles Kors (Oxford University Press, New York)

2003 Entries on ‘Maria Edgeworth’, ‘Sydney Owenson’, ‘Jonah Barrington’, ‘Anthologia Hibernica’, ‘Castle Rackrent’ for The Encyclopedia of Ireland, ed. Brian Lalor (Dublin and New Haven, CT: Gill and Macmillan and Yale University Press), pp. 33, 74, 165-6, 340-1, 850

2000 Bibliographical entries on Regina Maria Roche, Louisa Sidney Stanhope, Mary Meeke, Sydney Owenson [Lady Morgan], John and Michael Banim and Gerald Griffin, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Vol. IV, ed. Joanne Shattock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 989, 1079-1080, 959-960, 967-9, 883-5, 1303-4

2000—2002 Section editor (‘Eighteenth-Century Ireland’) for the Anglo-Irish Literature volume of Annotated Bibliography for English Studies

Research

My research to date has focused on the cultural history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland, especially the writings of Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Robert Maturin and Thomas Moore. In addition, I have published on the place of critical and cultural theory in Irish studies, in particular the relationship between feminist and postcolonial approaches.

Current projects are:

  • A book which reads the Holyhead Road as a cultural corridor along which people, books and ideas move; an essay entitled 'Via Holyhead: Modernism and Celticism between Ireland and Wales'.
  • A book chapter on Maria Edgeworth and biopolitics.
  • An essay on Irish funeral fictions.
  • An essay on Irish romanticism and the culture of the copy.

Biography

Director of Research (English Literature and Critical Theory)

Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Criticism. Appointed 1993.

2011 Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal

2002-3 Visiting Associate Professor of Irish Studies and English, Boston College.

Co-ordinator, with Dr Katie Gramich and Dr Paul O'Leary of the Wales-Ireland Research Network.

Principal Investigator, AHRC-funded Wales-Ireland Research Network (2007-2009)

Member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2007-2010); member of the International Assessment Board for the Irish Research Council in Humanities and Social Sciences’ postdoctoral competition (2011); the AHRC Postgraduate Peer Review Panel (2008; panel dissolved); the International Assessment Board for postgraduate competition, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2008-2012); the International Assessment Board for the Irish Research Council in Humanities and Social Sciences’ Research Initiative competition (2008, 2009).

Member of the international advisory board for the journals Irish University Review and English Text Construction; Irish University Review, the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, and English Text Construction; for the Centre for Irish Studies, Leuven University; and for the AHRC-funded Wales and the French Revolution project (Aberystwyth University).

Professional Associations