Friday, September 14th, 2-4pm, Room 5409 – Joe Cleary (Yale) – London Bridge is Falling Down: Irish and American Modernisms, Empire, and World Literature

 

The CUNY Graduate Center 20th/21st-Century Area Studies Group Speaker Series Fall 2012

 Joe Cleary

London Bridge is Falling Down: Irish and American Modernisms, Empire, and World Literature

Friday, September 14th

CUNY Graduate Center

Room 5409

2-4pm

 All are welcome

 Joe Cleary is a Visiting Professor at Yale University and a Professor in English at NUI Maynooth. He was educated in NUI Maynooth and in Columbia University, New York, where he studied with Edward W. Said. He is the author of Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland (Dublin: Field Day Publications, 2007). He has co-edited (with Claire Connolly) The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and (with Michael de Nie) a special issue of Éire-Ireland on ‘Empire Studies’ (Summer 2007).

 

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