Research Interests

• The representation of the Irish in Canadian imaginative discourse including literature, drama, memoirs, diaries, autobiographies, letters, etc.
• The images of Ireland created in Canada by Irish emigrants and Canadians, and the manner in which various cultural forms – films, theatre, music and dance – are used to depict, adapt and transfer such images

Select Publications

• Editor. Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature editor. Gerrards Cross, England: Colin Smythe Publishers; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1995.
• ‘The Internationalism of Jack Hodgins's Regional Imagination.’ In Nationalism vs. Internationalism: (Inter) National Dimensions of Literatures in English. Edited by Wolfgang Zach and Ken. L. Goodwin. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1996. 319-324.
• ‘The Transcendent Impulse in Contemporary Irish Drama.’ In International Aspects of Irish Literature. Edited by Toshi Furomoto et al. England: Colin Smythe, 1996. 272-282.
• ‘Irish Literary Studies: A Paradigm for the New Literatures in English.’ In English Studies: Past, Present, Future. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, 2002. 102-116.
• ‘Re-Configuring Irish Studies in Canada: Writing Back to the Centre.’ In Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan. London: Pluto Press, in press.
• Editor. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 4 Vols. 2000-2003.

Related Activities

Chair in Canadian Irish Studies and Director of the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal.