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Kate Costello-Sullivan

@costelkh.bsky.social
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Professor of Modern Irish literature and program director, Le Moyne College. Irish lit/trauma scholar, mom, wife, friend, ally, and former Dean (nobody’s perfect). Past President of ACIS; current series editor, Irish line, Syracuse UP.

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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Boston College is hiring: an Assistant Professor of the Practice/Assistant Director of Irish Studies. This is a full-time, NTT, three-year renewable position with benefits. deadline for applications is 18 October 2026. apply.interfolio.com/191724.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’ve never claimed humbled because as our friend LB used to say it’s an ego biscuit!! But I have no problem with delighted or excited. I noticed I was missing a lot of publications across the pond and vice versa (I don’t know what’s the gap in our searches?) so I appreciate the info/chance to cheer!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I.e, only two are “just me” monographs; two are critical editions; and now three are coedited collections and I am so privileged in the company I keep.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Book 7– but hardly that many in terms of collaboration!! Grateful to my coeditors and all contributors for a wonderful collection.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Delighted to see this finally in print— congratulations to my coeditors and all contributors!
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
if faculty don’t control curriculum, it’s not actually a university. it’s just expensive high school for adults
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Congrats to all the winners!!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Delighted to give a plenary at this year’s AEDEI conference in lovely Vitoria-Gasteiz. The Spanish branch of Irish studies is formidable and thriving!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Honored for the unexpected honor of induction Into the Irish American Hall of Fame
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
You’re too kind
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pleased to see this in print!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Many congratulations to Molly Ferguson on her new book!
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
*celibacy in Irish women’s writing is the proper title of the special issue
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Delighted to be included in the Humanities special issue on Celibacies, guest edited by Paul Fagan! www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
So happy to see this article on Ghost in the Throat in print to start the new year! Many congrats to the editors and to fellow contributors…😊
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
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Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
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Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Studies Winter 2025-2026 issue has an extensive array of contributions from authors such as Bryan Fanning, Peadar Kirby (@kirbypeadar.bsky.social), Kate Costello-Sullivan (@costelkh.bsky.social), and Carmel Gallagher. Available now from studiesirishreview.ie
This image contains a list of articles included in the Winter 2025-2026 edition of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. The articles are:

Immigrants, Diasporas and Faith-Based Welfare by Bryan Fanning

Literature as Theology: A French Paradox by Kevin Williams

The Impact of Demography and Migration on Employment in Ireland by Martina Lawless and Tara McIndoe-Calder

Life to the Full: The Experience of Returned Irish Missionaries by Carmel Gallagher

Roman Catholicism at a Crossroads by James Kelly

Catholicism, Motherhood, and Intergenerational Agency in Elaine Feeney’s As You Were by Kate Costello-Sullivan
This image contains a list of the review articles and book reviews contained in the Winter 2025 - 2026 edition of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. They are:

Uncovering the Deep Crisis of the Liberal Status Quo by Peadar Kirby

Answering an Impossible Call by Ursula Halligan

A review by Johnston McMaster of Avi Shlaim's book  Genocide in Gaza: Israel, Hamas, and the Long War on Palestine


A review by Nicholas Canny of Neasa MacErlean's book Telling the Truth Is Dangerous: How Robert Dudley Edwards Changed Irish History Forever

A review by Keith Adams of David Hollenbach SJ's book Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition

A review by Stephen Collins of Niamh Howlin and Felix Larkin (eds) book Confluences of Law and History
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Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@costelkh.bsky.social and I were delighted to see our @routledgehistory.bsky.social @routledgebooks.bsky.social History of Irish America warmly reviewed by Bill Mulligan in the latest issue of the Irish Literary Supplement!
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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Contributors to a collection on @tramppress.bsky.social I’m editing with Tara Harney-Mahajan discuss contemporary Irish fiction & publishing & Tramp's Recovered Voices series @ #IrishStudies Seminar CUNY, Dec 5. Registration / full info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
stack of books related to Tramp Press
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
bsky.app/profile/inab... I was delighted to engage!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
What the Republicans’ New Policy Bill Means for Higher Education www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
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What the Republicans’ New Policy Bill Means for Higher Education
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If I said every hour of every day for the next year that Joni Ernst can go fuck herself, it wouldn’t be often enough.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
President Trump posting an image of himself as Pope. We aren't a serious country, and he's not a mentally well man.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass. Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds. See how that works?
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It was great fun, Matt!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
World edition doesn’t include the novel but is a companion to the text with critical readings!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hot off the [SU] Press! Available in the US now, with a companion edition available everywhere else this fall! Congrats Anna, Ellen, and contributors!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Enjoying Claire Lynch’s excellent essay on “Consoling machines in Contemporary Irish Fiction” in Margaret Kelleher and James O’Sullivan’s collection on Technology in Irish Literature and Culture. Grateful to have such smart friends whose work I can use, appreciate, and engage!
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Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Featuring stellar chapters by @costelkh.bsky.social, @maryburke.bsky.social, @lejhouston.bsky.social, @drtinamorin.bsky.social, Sinéad Kennedy, José Lanters, Michael McAteer, Maggie O'Neill, Daniela Theinová, Colleen English, Mindi McMann (and the editors), and an afterword by Joe Cleary.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s here! Hooray! Many congrats to Joe Valente and Seán Kennedy and all contributors. I can’t wait to read it (My article is on Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells!).
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: This Is Just Dumb
The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Please join @costelkh.bsky.social, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, Paige Reynolds, and me for an online conversation about Irish Women Writers hosted by Celtic Junction in St. Paul MN on 16 April at 18:30 CST celticjunction.org/event/her-ow...
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Her Own Future: A Roundtable Discussion of Women Writers
Her Own Future, a compelling online roundtable discussion exploring the voices, narratives, and evolving roles of Irish women writers.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Join us! www.dolphinsonline.org/s/445/16/int...
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The 5th Annual Eileen Patricia McMahon Zogby '67 Irish Lecture
The Irish on American Screens and Streams Presented by Matthew J. Fee, Ph.D., Lecturer and Director, Integral Honors Program, Le Moyne College
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Inaugural too :)
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Since this was announced in a broadcast to the whole College today, I guess I can officially share that I have been named the Mary A. Carroll Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College. Grateful to the selection committee and humbled by this recognition!
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Delighted that this article is forthcoming this month at long last.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
And go raibh maith agat a chara.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It’s just awful :(
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
No — it’ll deepen divisions more and the people whom we need to start to understand will be censored out. We need to take the argument to where those who don’t understand will hear it. Jmho
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Don’t call it a coup: that legitimates their attempts to undermine the legitimacy of our elections. I would agree w/ “stay and boo everything that is BS.” Don’t walk out; republicans will never hear why you did that from MAGA pundits. pick a respondent who will call out the abandonment of democracy.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I know. We will have to find other ways. Flood their phones. SwiftIan pamphlets. Whatever it takes.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We’re trying. Thousands are showing up at town halls, calling their representatives every day…there is an economic blackout today and there will be more. But our Republican Congress has completely caved, craven cowards that they are, jeopardizing the balance of power…we will keep trying. We will.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Please know how many Americans do not want this. Millions of us stand with the EU and Ukraine, and we are so, so sorry we could not prevent this.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
So true, Liz Cheney:
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Could not agree more. The Prez & VP are shameful, embarrassing Putin puppets & a disgrace to our country. 🤮 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.
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Kate Costello-Sullivan @costelkh.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
@ciantmcmahon.bsky.social and @anelisehshrout.bsky.social presenting great papers at the ACIS!
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