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Dissertation, to be defended July 17, 2026
Ecologies of Belief: Structures of Memory, Knowledge, and History in Irish Stories of the Long Nineteenth Century
Articles
Articles
“Growing Roots: The Irish Famine Mythologized in Folk Memory.” New Hibernia Review 29, no. 3 (Fall 2025), 53-77. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2025.a974315.
In progress:
“Look Down: Bram Stoker's Buried Folklore,” in preparation for Victorian Studies.
“Maids and Monsters: A Fairy Tale Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,” in preparation for Studies in Romanticism.
Recent Presentations
Recent Presentations
“Dirtbags and Bags of Dirt: Home Soil and the Migrant Experience”
American Conference for Irish Studies, Denver, CO, May 30, 2026
“Digging Up Lore: Palimpsestic Accretions of the Irish Dinnseanchas Tradition in Bram Stoker's The Snake's Pass”
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, Nov 21, 2025
“Collectors and Colloquies: Saint Patrick, Lady Gregory, and Cycles of Cultural Transformation in Irish Folklore”
American Conference for Irish Studies, Savannah, GA, Feb 25, 2025
Projects
Projects
Book project underway: Ecologies of Belief: How Legends Live Through Irish Stories, 1800–1945
Public Humanities project, supported by the MLA Public Humanities Incubator program: Victorian Ghosts and Me
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