Mary McGlynn

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: mary.mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu

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Biography
Teaching
Research and Creative Activity
Grants
Honors and Awards
Service

Education

Ph.D., English, Columbia University

MPhil, English, Columbia University

M.A., English, Columbia University

B.A., Plan II/English/Spanish, University of Texas, Austin

Semester	Course Prefix	Course Number	Course Name
Fall 2024	ENGL	90000	Dissertation Supervision
Summer 2024	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Spring 2024	ENG	6002H	Honors English II
Spring 2024	ENGL	86700	Econ Thry&Neoliberalism Labor&
Spring 2024	ENG	4400	Brit Poetry Fr 1900
Spring 2024	ENGL	90000	Dissertation Supervision
Fall 2023	ENG	6001H	Honors-English I
Spring 2023	ENG	6002H	Honors English II
Spring 2023	ENG	4420	20 Cent British Lit
Fall 2022	ENGL	70000	Intro/Doctoral Studies in Engl
Fall 2022	ENG	6001H	Honors-English I
Fall 2022	ENG	3940	Topics in Film
Spring 2022	ENG	4410	Modern Irish Writers
Fall 2021	ENG	3270	Film and Literature
Fall 2021	ENGL	80600	Problems in Contemporary Thry
Spring 2021	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Fall 2020	ENG	4400	Brit Poetry Fr 1900
Spring 2020	ENGL	81000	Advanced Individual Research
Spring 2020	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Fall 2019	ENG	3940	Topics in Film
Fall 2019	ENGL	70000	Intro/Doctoral Studies in Engl
Fall 2018	ENG	3270	Film and Literature
Spring 2018	ENG	4400	Brit Poetry Fr 1900
Spring 2018	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2017	ENG	4410	Modern Irish Writers
Spring 2017	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Fall 2016	ENG	3940	Topics in Film
Fall 2016	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2016	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Fall 2015	ENG	4410	Modern Irish Writers
Spring 2015	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Spring 2015	ENG	3270	Film and Literature
Fall 2014	ENG	3010	Survey of English Literature I
Fall 2014	ENG	2850H	Honors Great Works II
Spring 2014	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2014	ENG	4420	20 Cent British Lit
Fall 2012	ENG	4420	20 Cent British Lit
Fall 2012	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Summer 2012	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Spring 2012	IDC	4050H	Hon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2012	WSM	4900	Topics in Women's Studies
Spring 2012	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2011	ENG	3940	Topics in Film
Spring 2011	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2011	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Spring 2011	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Fall 2010	ENG	3270	Film and Literature
Spring 2010	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Spring 2010	ENG	3036	Post-Colonial Literature
Spring 2010	ENG	6002H	Honors English II
Fall 2009	ENG	6001H	Honors-English I
Fall 2009	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2009	ENG	4460	The Modern Short Novel
Fall 2009	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2009	ENG	2150	Writing II
Spring 2009	ENG	4420	20 Cent British Lit
Fall 2008	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2008	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2008	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Fall 2007	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2007	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2007	ENG	2100H	Honors Writing I
Spring 2007	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2007	ENG	3950	Topics in Literature
Fall 2006	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2006	ENG	4460	The Modern Short Novel
Fall 2006	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2006	ENG	2100	Writing I
Summer 2006	ENG	3015	Surv English Lit II
Fall 2005	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2005	ENG	2150	Writing II
Spring 2005	ENG	3720	Women in Literature
Fall 2004	FRO	1000	First Year Seminar
Fall 2004	ENG	4460	The Modern Short Novel
Fall 2004	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Fall 2004	ENG	2100	Writing I
Spring 2004	ENG	2800	Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2003	ENG	5000	Independent Study English I
Spring 2003	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2002	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2002	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2002	ENG	4420	20 Cent British Lit
Spring 2002	ENG	3720	Women in Literature
Spring 2002	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2001	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2001	ENG	2100	Writing I
Fall 2001	ENG	2850	Great Works of Literature II

Books

McGlynn, M. M. (2022). Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Literature. (p. 290). Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press.

McGlynn, M. (2008). Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

McGlynn, M. (2021). Embodiment, Abstraction, and Hidden Reproductive History. Éire-Ireland, 56(3&4). 130-158.

McGlynn, M. (2019). “Parma Violets and Pince-Nez: Dorothy Sayers’s Meritocracy”. CLUES: A Journal of Detection/McFarland, 37(2). 71-82.

McGlynn, M. (2018). “Things Unexploded—The Aesthetics Of Social Risk In Two Post-Boom Irish Novels” . boundary 2/Duke UP, 45(1). 181-200.

McGlynn, M. (2017). “no difference between the different kinds of yesterday:” The Neoliberal Present in The Green Road, The Devil I Know, and The Lives of Women. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory/Taylor & Francis, 28(1). 34-54.

McGlynn, M. (2016). "Collectivism, Thatcherism, and the Move to a ‘Classless’ Society". Twentieth-Century Literature, 62(3). 30.

McGlynn, M. (2008). "'I Didn't Need To Eat:' Janice Galloway's Anorexic Text and the National Body". Critique 49.2, 221-240.

McGlynn, M. (2005). "Pregnancy, Privacy, and Domesticity in The Snapper: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Family Romance". New Hibernia Review, 9, no.1, 141-156.

McGlynn, M. (2004). "Why Jimmy Wears a Suit: White, Black, and the Working Class in The Commitments". Studies in the Novel, 36, no. 2, 232-250.

McGlynn, M. (2003). "Janice Galloway's Alienated Spaces". Scottish Studies Review, 4, no. 2, 82-97.

McGlynn, M. (2002). "Middle-Class Wankers and Working Class Texts: The Critics and James Kelman". Contemporary Literature, 43, no.1, 50-84.

McGlynn, M. (2001). "Janice Galloway". Review of Contemporary Fiction, XXI(no.2). 7-40.

McGlynn, M. (1999). "'But I keep on thinking and I'll never come to a tidy ending:' Roddy Doyle's Useful Nostalgia". LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 10(1). 87-105.

Book Chapters

McGlynn, M. (2025). “‘A tiny refuge of imperfection:’ Isolation in Tramp Press writer Sara Baume”. In Burke, M., & Harney-Mahajan, T. (Eds.), Tramp Press Bucknell UP.

McGlynn, M. (2024). “The Relational Novel in an Era of Individualization”. In Scheible, E., & Devine, B. (Eds.), Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches Lewisburg, PA. Bucknell University Press. In Progress.

McGlynn, M. (2024). Keeping Class Visible in Recession-Era Irish Women's Poetry. In Clarke, B. (Ed.), Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature Routledge.

McGlynn, M. (2023). Foreclosed Futures and the Persistence of Patriarchy in Post-Recession Irish Novels. In Costello-Sullivan, K. (Ed.), Syracuse, NY. Syracuse UP. In Progress.

McGlynn, M. (2017). "Reshaping Well-worn Genres: Novels of Progress and Precarity 1960-1998". In Pierse, M. (Ed.), Cambridge History of Irish Working Class Literature (p. 19). Cambridge,United Kingdom. Cambridge UP..

McGlynn, M. (2014). “Greengos: Contemporary Irish Constructions of Latin America”. In Casey, M., & Tucker, A. (Eds.), Where Motley is Worn: Transnational Irish Literature Cork,Ireland. Cork University Press.

McGlynn, M. (2010). “How late it was, how late and Literary Value.”. In Hames, S. (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature) (pp. 20-30). Edinburgh,Scotland. Edinburgh UP.

McGlynn, M., Caraher, B. G., & Mahoney, R. (2007). "New Irish New York: Contemporary Irish Constructions of New York City.". Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Denis Donoghue (pp. 205-221). Newark. University of Delaware Press.

(2006). "Play that Country Music, Garth Brooks in Ireland." The Irish In Us,. (pp. 196-219). Diane Negra. Durham: Duke UP.

Presentations

McGlynn, M. “Class politics and the economics of publishing in contemporary Irish poetry”. Irish Literature & the Global Marketplace. KU Leuven, Belgium: Irish College.

McGlynn, M. “Teaching Sally Rooney's Relational Novels in an Era of Individualization”. ACIS Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Baruch College, CUNY: American Conference for Irish Stuides.

McGlynn, M. "'A tiny refuge of imperfection:' Isolation in Tramp Press writer Sara Baume". ACIS National Conference 2023. San José State University, California: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2025, June 16). “Treat Yo Self: deaths of despair and the privatization of stress in recent Irish literature”. ACIS American Conference of Irish Studies Annual Meeting. San Jose State University: American Conference of Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. Collectivism, Trauma, and Appropriation: post-Catholic Spiritualisms. ACIS Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regional meeting. Boston College: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. “ ‘I’m not religious; I’m spiritual’: the search for meaning in post-Catholic Irish literature”. Irish and Chinese Literature in a Global World. University College Cork

McGlynn, M. Reproductive Justice, the Discourse of Rights, and Narratives about Abortion. What US Feminists Can Learn from Irish Abortion Activists. University of Pittsburgh: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program.

McGlynn, M. (2025, October 16). “Beautifully Untogether: Class politics and Irish poetry since the Boom”. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Philadelphia, PA: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2025, May 16). Response to Sinéad Kennedy’s “Bodies under the Law: Feminist Artistic Practice and the Struggle to #Repealthe8th”; a roundtable on the Eire/Ireland special issue Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Women's Health in Ireland. ACIS American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting. Derry (online): American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2025, October 16). “Animacy, assemblage, and invisibility in post-2008 fiction¿”. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting.. Fairfield, CT: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2021, March 20). Class and Gender: Control. Containment, and Crisis Pregnancies. ACIS Southern Regional Annual Meeting. online: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2020, March 14). The gothic irreal in Irish fiction of crisis and austerity (unpresented due to COVID-19). Colloque SOFEIR Irlande: Spectres et chimères. UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS Champagne Ardenne: SOFEIR La Société Française d'Études Irlandaises.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 31). ‘and the wheels chewing the gravel:’ The Lives of Objects in Irish Novels of Crisis, Austerity, and Recession. American Conference for Irish Studies, National Annual Meeting,. Boston, MA: ACIS.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 1). Crisis and Catachresis. CUNY GC English Department Friday Forum. CUNY GC English Department: CUNY GC English Department.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 1). McCormack’s Concrete Form. Columbia Irish Studies seminar. Columbia University Faculty House: Columbia Irish Studies seminar.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 31). Spiral Staircase: the Big House Novel in the Neoliberal Present. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Georgetown University: ACLA.

McGlynn, M. (2019, November 1). Sean Mulryan has a Horse Called “Forget The Past:” The Mass-Market Big House Novel in the Age of Big Development. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Hunter College, CUNY: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2018, January 5). The Big House in 21st Century Irish Novels. MLA Annual Convention. New York, NY: Modern Langauge Association.

McGlynn, M. (2018, April 21). The Old West and New Ireland: Westward Expansion in Recession Literature. 6th Annual Dean Hopper Conference,. Madison, NJ: Drew University.

McGlynn, M. (2017, November 3). Irrealism and Infrastructure: Ungrammaticality in Post-Boom Novels. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Georgetown U, Washington, D.C.: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2016, May 3). Haunted Domestic Spaces in Recent Irish Women's Fiction. WSAS English Department Works-in-Progress.

McGlynn, M. (2016, October 28). 'I can haz global?' Non-place and the neoliberal present in post-Boom fiction. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. NYU: ACIS and NYU.

McGlynn, M. (2015, November 21). Unlucky: Irish Fiction since the Economic Crash. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Kutztown University: American Conference of Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2015, March 7). The Miseducation of Peter Wimsey. Narrative. Chicago: International Society for the Study of Narrative.

McGlynn, M. (2014, January 12). Killing Time and the Gentry: Syllepsis in the Inter-War Period. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL: MLA.

McGlynn, M. (2014, March 21). Tinker Meritocrat, Soldier, Spy: Thrillers and the Rhetoric of Classlessness. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. NYU

McGlynn, M. (2013, April 12). Celtic Tigre: Evolving Irish Constructions of Latin America. American Conference for Irish Studies, National Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL: ACIS and Northern Illinois University.

McGlynn, M. (2013, April 3). Meritocracy and Magical Thinking in Blair-era British Films and Literature. Neag Annual Lecture. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut English Department.

McGlynn, M. (2013, March 9). What to do if you find yourself on a Pathway. 36th Annual New Jersey College English Association Conference. South Orange, NJ: NJCEA and Seton Hall University.

McGlynn, M. (2011, September 30). Documentary Antirealism and the Belfast Thriller. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2010, April 9). Killing the Gentry and Time: Syllepsis in Mystery Fiction. CUNY Grad Center, New York, NY: English Department Friday Forum.

McGlynn, M. (2009, March 21). James Kelman's How late it was, how late and Literary Value. Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ: New Jersey College English Association.

McGlynn, M. (2009, December 29). Stuck inside of Glasgow with the Memphis Blues Again: Kelman's Texas.". Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA: Modern Language Association.

McGlynn, M. (2009, July 27). Ireland and the 'New World:' Recent Historical Fiction about the Americas. IASIL Annual Meeting. Glasgow: International Association for the Study of Irish Literature.

McGlynn, M. (2008, April 17). History Repeating Itself: Contemporary Authors and Historical Fiction. ACIS National Annual Meeting. St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2008, October 17). 'Wipe your tears away:' Working-Class Masculinity in the Thatcher Years. Class, Labor, and Literature Group. New York, NY: CUNY Grad Center.

McGlynn, M. (2008, October 11). Thatcherite Ireland? U2 and Dirty Realism. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2007, July 21). Dilly Dedalus and the Urban Working Class. IASIL Annual Meeting. Dublin: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

McGlynn, M. (2006, October 27). Which Direction Dilly? A Working-Class Ulysses. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2005, December 28). 'I didn't need to eat:' Janice Galloway's Anorexic Text and the National Body. MLA Annual Convention. Washington DC: Modern Language Association.

McGlynn, M. (2004, October 22). Greengos: Contemporary Irish Constructions of Latin America. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.

McGlynn, M. (2004, July 13). Urban Macho: Textual Experimentation and the Vernacular in Bolger, Bateman, McNamee, and Wilson. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting. Liverpool

McGlynn, M. (2004, February 6). One Man, Two Nations: Garth Brooks and the Rhetoric of Compromise. Columbia Irish Studies Seminar. New York, NY: Columbia University.

McGlynn, M. (2003, June 14). Novel Concerns: Form and Content in New Irish New York. Transatlantic Poetics. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Queens University.

McGlynn, M. (2003, March 8). Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Family Romance. GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies. New York University

McGlynn, M. (2002, April 11). A Reply to Hollywood: Contemporary Irish Contructions of New York City in Film. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico: American Comparative Literature Association.

McGlynn, M. (2002, April 24). Race in the Immigrant Metropolis: New Irish New York. Baruch Junior Faculty Lecture Symposia. New York, NY

McGlynn, M. (2001, February 3). Dublin gas, working-class stereotypes, and pregnancy as performance in 'The Snapper'. The Theater of Irish Cinema. Yale University, New Haven: Yale University.

McGlynn, M. (2001, November 2). New Irish New York. American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Meeting. Abington, Pennsylvania: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2001, August 4). The Fifth Province on Fifth Avenue: Contemporary Irish Constructions of New York City. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Meeting. Dublin, Ireland: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

McGlynn, M. (2000, October 27). United We fall: Unions and Collective Identity in Roddy Doyle and Frank McCourt. American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Meeting. College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, New York: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2000, September 19). Why Jimmy Wears a Suit: Black, Global and the Working Class in 'The Commitments'. Writing Diasporas: Transnational Literatures. Swansea, Wales

McGlynn, M. (2000, February 28). FIFA fo fum: American Climbs the Beanstalk (World Cup Soccer). American Comparative Literature Association. New Haven

McGlynn, M. (1999, February 28). The Narratology of Commodification, or, Gerty MacDowell Then and Now. 32nd Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain. : Texas Tech University.

McGlynn, M. (1999, April 30). How the West Was Won: Garth Brooks in Ireland. American Comparative Literature Association. Montreal

McGlynn, M. (1999, May 31). Play that Country Music, Whiteboys: Country and Westerns in Ireland. American Conference of Irish Studies. Roanoke

McGlynn, M. (1998, March 31). The Tedium is the Message: Marshall McLuhan meets Mario Vargas Llosa. ACLA. Austin

McGlynn, M. (1998, February 6). 'But I keep on thinking and I'll never come to a tidy ending:' Roddy Doyle's Useful Nostalgia. Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar. New York

McGlynn, M. (1997, April 30). Shallow Brave: Neonationalism in The Commitments and Trainspotting. ACLA. Puerto Vallarta

McGlynn, M. (1997, April 4). The Boundaries of Exile: Localism in Kelman and Doyle. Northeast Modern Language Association. Philadelphia

Other Scholarly Works

McGlynn, M. (2003). Forging the Conscience of Their Race: CUNY Irish Conference. Baruch College Magazine. 5.

McGlynn, M. (2002). "Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla.". World Literature and Its Times: Spanish and Portuguese Literature and Their Times. 343-352.

McGlynn, M. (2001). "James Kelman's A Disaffection.". World Literature and Its Times: British/Irish Literature and Its Times. 87-95.

McGlynn, M., & Negra, D. (2000). Encyclopedia entries on immigration, Irish America magazine, Mayor Richard Daley, Jack Demspey, the Boston Celtics, Notre Dave Fightin' Irish. Routledge Encyclopedia of Irish American Culture. V: 1900-present

McGlynn, M. (1997). "Bloomsgate". 2(2),

McGlynn, M. (1996). "Research and Teaching". 1(2),

Reviews

McGlynn, M. (1970,January 1). “More of a question than a comment: a response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary”. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. Cambridge UP.

McGlynn, M. (2019,November 1). Review of Mary Eagleton, Clever Girls and the Literature of Women’s Upward Mobility. London: Literature & History/SAGE.

McGlynn, M. (2019,November 1). Review of Giving Shape to the Moment: The Art of Mary O'Donnell: Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer, edited by María Elena Jaime de Pablos. Oxford: Peter Lang, 1988.. Dublin,Ireland: Irish University Review.

McGlynn, M. (2017,May 10). Review of Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film, Phyllis Lassner.. London,UK: Literature & History/SAGE Publications London.

McGlynn, M. (2016,May 1). "Review of Nicola Wilson, Home in British Working-Class Fiction. Ashgate, 2015, 244 pages, £60.00.". London,United Kingdom: Literature & History/SAGE Publications London.

McGlynn, M. (2016,January 1). "Restoring the Clutter of the Everyday": review of Maggie Andrews and Sallie McNamara: Women and the Media: Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present, New York: Routledge, 2014 AND Christine Grandy, Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.

McGlynn, M. (2015,January 1). "Pandemics and Plot Devices": review of A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh. Edinburgh,Scotland: Edinburgh Review.

McGlynn, M. (2004,April 1). Roddy Doyle's Rory and Ita. The Irish Literary Supplement, 23, no.1.

McGlynn, M. (2003,January 1). Review of "The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Special issue: Ireland as Postcolonial.". Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. .

McGlynn, M. (2000,January 1). "From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish, by Eamonn Wall.". Journal of the New York Irish History Roundtable.

Title	Funding Agency Sponsor	Start Date	End Date	Awarded Date	Total Funding	Status
“Father, Son, and Digital Ghost: Disembodied Labor in Post-Catholic Ireland”	PSC CUNY 53	07/01/2022	06/30/2023	04/15/2022	4801	Completed
Other Irelands: Globalism, Irrealism, and Ungrammaticality in Recession Literature	CUNY Book Completion Award	07/01/2019	06/30/2020	05/15/2019	5000	Completed
Other Irelands, Chapter 4: "'and the wheels chewing the gravel:' The Lives of Objects in Irish Novels of Crisis, Austerity, and Recession"	PSC-CUNY 50	07/01/2019	12/31/2022	04/13/2019	4830	Completed
Other Irelands, chapter3: "Updates to the Big House in Recession Literature"	PSC-CUNY 49	07/01/2018	06/30/2019	04/15/2018	4830	Completed
“The Miseducation of Peter Wimsey”	PSC-CUNY 45	07/01/2014	06/30/2015	04/15/2014	4498	Completed
“Killing Time and the Gentry: Syllepsis in Mystery Fiction”	PSC-CUNY 42	07/01/2011	06/30/2012	04/15/2011	3990	Completed
Working-Class Masculinity in the Thatcher Years	PSC-CUNY 41	07/01/2010	06/30/2011		4265	Completed
Scottland and Ireland	PSC-CUNY 39	07/01/2008	12/31/2009		2475	Completed
“ ‘Maybe he would go someplace else all the gether:’ James Kelman’s America”	PSC-CUNY 38	07/01/2007	06/30/2008		3990	Completed

Honor / Award	Organization Sponsor	Date Received	Description
Baruch College Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Service	Baruch College, CUNY	2016
Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor of British Literature	University of Connecticut Department of English	2013	I was in residence at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, for the Spring 2013 semester, during which time I had the opportunity to teach one graduate and one undergraduate course and work on several publications.
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics	CUNY Graduate Center	2011	Fellow 2010-11
Whiting Teaching Award		2003
Nominated for Best Graduate Student Essay, ACLA		1999
Lois Trice Scholarship in Plan II at the University of Texas		1992
Marjorie Hope Nicholson Fellowship in English at Columbia		1992
Phi Beta Kappa		1992
National Merit Scholar		1988

College

Committee Name	Position Role	End Date
Department Chair	Committee Chair	Present
Department Executive Committee	Committee Member	Present
WSAS Academic Standing Committee	Committee Member	Present
General Faculty Committee on Enrollment Management	Committee Member	Present
Deputy Chair - English Department	Department deputy chair	5/31/2023
College Academic Review Committee	Committee Member	9/1/2022
WSAS Executive Committee	Committee Member	6/30/2021
General Faculty Committee on Ceremonial Occasions	Attendee, Meeting	6/30/2020
School Academic Review Committee	Committee Member	6/30/2020
Baruch College Self Study Working Group VI	Committee Chair	3/31/2020
Honors Admissions Committee	Committee Member	3/1/2020
College Strategic Plan Implementation Committee	Committee Member	5/31/2019
Curriculum Committee	Committee Chair	9/30/2018
School Academic Review Committee	Committee Chair	9/1/2018
Advisory Committee on faculty non-teaching assignments before and after Paid Parental Leave	Committee Member	10/31/2016
Search Committee, Dean of WSAS	Committee Member	12/31/2015
Curriculum Committee	Committee Chair	10/31/2015
Middle States Periodic Review Report	Committee Chair	6/30/2015
Film Studies Minor	Committee Chair	1/31/2013
Department Executive Committee		1/31/2013
Department Chair - English Department		1/31/2013
Committee on Social and Academic Events		12/31/2012
Committee for Whiting Teching Award Fellowships	Committee Member	4/30/2012
College Academic Review Committee	Committee Member	1/31/2012
Weissman School Executive Committee	Committee Chair	1/31/2012
Deputy Chair - English Department		1/31/2012
Curriculum Committee	Committee Chair	12/31/2011
College for a Day		3/31/2010
Composition Committee		12/31/2009
Middle States Accreditation Working Group on Faculty		5/31/2009
Weissman School Committee of Latin American and Caribbean Studies	Attendee, Meeting	12/31/2008
Committee on Collegiate Athletic Activities	Attendee, Meeting	12/31/2008
Acting Writing Director		1/31/2006
Student Recruitment Phonathon		12/31/2003
English Club	Faculty Sponsor	12/31/2003
Department Secretary		12/31/2002
Weissman School High School Essay Contest	Reader	12/31/2002

University

Committee Name	Position Role	Start Date	End Date
CUNY Institute for Irish American Studies	Faculty Council Member	1/1/2001	Present
Deputy Executive Officer for Job Search	Committee Chair	8/25/2022	Present
English Department Membership committee	Committee Member	9/1/2019	Present
Portfolio Examination Committee	Committee Member	8/1/2020	Present
mentoring for incoming students	Faculty Mentor	8/1/2020	Present
English Department Friday Forum Programming	Committee Member	9/1/2020	6/1/2020
Graduate Student Orals and Dissertation Committees	Committee Member	1/1/2004	12/31/2009
Faculty Fellowship Publication Program	mentor	1/1/2008	6/30/2008
Baruch representative for General Education initiatives		1/1/2006	12/31/2007
PSC-CUNY Research Award Review Panel for English		1/1/2001	12/31/2003

Professional

Organization	Position Role	Organization State	Start Date	End Date	Audience
Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar	Chairperson	New York	9/1/2000	Present
American Conference of Irish Studies Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting	Conference-Related		4/1/2024	10/7/2024	Regional
Southern Illinois University	promotion letter		6/1/2024	9/3/2024	Local
Oxford University Press	Reviewer, Book		2/1/2021	5/7/2021	International
Hostos Community College, CUNY	tenure review letter		7/1/2019	9/30/2019
Modern Language Association	Reviewer, Journal Article		10/1/2018	11/30/2018
University of New Haven			7/1/2015	9/30/2015
Modern Fiction Studies	Reviewer, Journal Article		9/1/2013	11/30/2013
Ohio State University	Reviewed tenure materials		8/1/2013	8/31/2013
Palgrave Macmillan Press	Reviewer, Book			2/28/2011
Amanda Muller, Flinders University	Committee Member			9/30/2010
Routledge Press	Reviewer, Book			9/30/2009
Edward Mellen Press	Reviewer, Book		1/1/2005	12/31/2007
American Conference for Irish Studies	Co-Chair		2/1/2006	4/30/2007
Irish Academic Press	Reviewer, Book			1/31/2007
Mosaic	Reviewer, Journal Article		2/1/2005	2/28/2005
Project Ascend/McNair Summer Research Mentor				12/31/2003
City College Fellowships Program	Mentor		1/1/2002	12/31/2003
Contemporary Literature	Reviewer, Journal Article			12/31/2002
American Conference of Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting	Conference-Related			12/31/2002
Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar	Rapporteur		1/1/1997	12/31/2000
Graduate Student Activities Committee	Department of English Student Representative		1/1/1997	12/31/1999
Conference Organizing Committee, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Spring 1997, 1999			1/1/1997	12/31/1999
Graduate Student Activities Committee	Chairperson		1/1/1998	12/31/1999
Department of English and Comparative Literature Student representative, Graduate Student Activities Committee	Activities Chair		1/1/1998	12/31/1999
Department of English and Comparative Literature Student representative, Graduate Student Activities Committee	Secretary		1/1/1997	12/31/1998
SUNY College at Purchase	Wrote "Handbook for Composition Instructors."			12/31/1998
Research assistant for Prof. Louise Yelin	Assisted in preparation of Writing From the Margins of Empire.			12/31/1998
Graduate Student Activities Committee	Secretary		1/1/1997	12/31/1998
Mentor to first year graduate students			1/1/1997	12/31/1998
Mentor to first year graduate students			1/1/1996	12/31/1997
Abstract Review Board, ACLA			1/1/1996	12/31/1997
Department of English and Comparative Literature Application Review Board				12/31/1997
Research assistant for Prof. Jean Franco			1/1/1993	12/31/1994
Application review board, Plan II Honors program			1/1/1989	12/31/1992
Prepared index of Academic Fiction by Dr. Janice Rossen				12/31/1992
Joan Holliday Teaching Award	Committee Chair			12/31/1991