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).
