Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor of History at University of Connecticut; Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer; author of the award-winning Medical Bondage: Race…

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference November 6th and 7th 2026 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ CFP Proposal Extension: The Call for Papers d...

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference November 6th and 7th 2026 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ CFP Proposal Extension: The Call for Papers d...

If you're eagerly anticipating university life, what better way to prepare than to read one of Ireland's campus novels?

Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for a panel discussion with Renée Fox, Mary Mullen, and Amy Mulligan on the edited volume, Race, Vio...

American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic and New England Regional Conference November 6th and 7th 2026 Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ “Not a Monoculture”: Ideas of Irishness…

The Moose Lottery is a novella written in a style of hardscrabble New England gothic. It follows logger and father Carl Riendeau as he struggles to maintain a grip on his life through a series of bad ...

Today in London a who’s who of the literary world will be observing what may be the inaugural memorial day for the late playwright Tom Stoppard. Celebrations center around the renaming of the Duke …

Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2025)

Education is being polarized by advocates on the left and right, but students' learning should not be limited to mastering skills that lead to economic output.

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

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This essay analyses Anna Burns’ Milkman with a particular focus on the novel’s Cold-War-era setting and its intertextual references to Nikolai Gogol, suggesting hitherto unexplored political and in...

Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.

Published in Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory (Vol. 36, No. 4, 2025)

For years, English majors were mocked as useless. Now, AI is giving them some momentum in the job market, while computer science grads get disrupted.

Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.

<p><b>The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future</b></p><p>Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—

Irish Digital Cultures explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country ...