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1 EÓIN FLANNERY EDUCATION 2004: Doctor of Philosophy (English), University of Limerick, Ireland. Dissertation entitled: Fanon s One Big Idea: Ireland and Postcolonial Studies. 2000: MA (Hons.) in Culture and Colonialism, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. 1998: BA (Hons.) (English, History), National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland. TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING 2015 Lecturer (Above the Bar) in English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick : Reader in Irish Literature, Department of English and Modern Languages, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford : Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Department of English and Modern Languages, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford : Lecturer in English Literature, Department of English and Modern Languages, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford. Undergraduate teaching: Literary Modernism The Development of Modern Drama Introduction to Literature Neoclassical Literature Romantic Literature Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama The Art of Poetry Critical Theory in Action (Module Leader and Designer of Module) Narrative and Narratology Aspects of European Modernism (Module Leader) World Literature (Co-Designer of Module) Twentieth Century Literature Landscapes and Mindscapes (Co-Designer of Module) Work Placement Module (Module Leader and Designer of Module) Contemporary Literature (Module Leader and Designer of Module) Postcolonial Literatures (Module Leader and Designer of Module) Supervision of Final Year Dissertations in English Literature Postgraduate teaching:

2 Modern American Fiction, M.A. in English Literature (Module Leader and Designer of Module) The Modern Irish Novel, M.A. in English Literature (Module Leader and Designer of Module) M.A. Key Concepts and Methods Postcolonial Theory seminar Supervision of M.A. Dissertations in English Literature by research and taught programmes. Supervision of PhD Theses 1 PhD supervised to completion; Director of Studies on 2 PhDs; second supervisor on 2 PhDs; and Internal Examiner on 1 PhD : Teaching Fellow, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland : Lecturer, Department of English, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Doctoral Viva Examinations: The Role of the Chair and the Internal Examiner, Research and Graduate Studies School, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 29 th October, Positive Management and Motivation, half-day workshop, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, 2 June Understanding Academic Advising, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, 17 December Recruitment and Selection Refresher Training, 1-day programme, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, 4 December Introducing Impact and Engagement, 1-day programme, Research & Business Development Office, Oxford Brookes University, 20 November The Oral Examination, the Role of the Internal Examiner, the Graduate College, Oxford Brookes University, 19 November Grademark Training, OBIS, Oxford Brookes University, 15 September Management of a research degree programme and examining a research degree, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, 1 May Academic Performance Tracking Tool training workshop, the Graduate College, Oxford Brookes University, 21 September

3 Recruitment and Selection Training 2-day programme, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, May Student and Dissertation Supervision training workshops, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, October- December Effective use of TURNITIN training workshop, Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, 21 May New Lecturer s Workshop, English Subject Centre, National Centre for School Leadership, University of Nottingham, November Using Technology to Support the Student Learning Experience, Netskills Workshop, University of Oxford, 15 October E-Learning for Arts and Humanities seminar, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, 13 December Curriculum Development in Third Level Education seminar, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Limerick, 12 February Arts and Humanities Web-Training workshop, School of Arts and Humanities, Oxford Brookes University, 1 October SULIS and Virtual Learning Environments workshop, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Limerick, 25 January Increasing Participation in small teaching groups workshop, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Limerick, 27 September TURNITIN and digital detection of plagiarism seminar, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Limerick, 30 September ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT: Research Lead, Department of English and Modern Languages, June 2014-July Director of the Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre December July Programme Lead for English, Drama and Creative Writing, September January 2013 Director of Department of English and Modern Languages Research Seminar,

4 Member of the Steering Committee of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and Archway Foundation Time to Change project, University Research Staff Mentor, Chair of English and Modern Languages Research Committee, Member of the University Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee, Member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee, Chair of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize Steering Committee, Member of the English and Modern Languages Short Course Development Group, Member of EML Departmental Doctoral Studentship Award Interview Panel, March Member of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Enhancement and Standards Committee Member of Advisory Panel on Minor Change to MA in International Relations, February 2013 Member of Internal REF Audit on Impact Case Studies, February June 2013 Chair of English Programme Committee Chair of English Subject Examination Committee Member of EML Departmental Doctoral Studentship Award Interview Panel, March 2014 Member of Poetry and Poetics Doctoral Studentship Award Interview Panel, October Member of Faculty of HSS John Henry Brookes Scholarship Award Panel, July 2013 Member of EML Departmental Doctoral Studentship Award Interview Panel, March 2013 Member of Departmental Appointment panel, January 2013 University Early Career Fellowship Member of Departmental Appointment panel, June 2012 Lecturer in American and British Literature 4

5 Member of Departmental Appointment panel, August 2011 Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature Member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Work-Placed Learning Group, Member of the English Programme Committee, Member of English Department Research Committee, Member of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre Management Committee, Co-Director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, Member of English MA Management Committee, Departmental Recruitment Tutor, Member of English Department Teaching and Learning Committee, Erasmus Exchange Programme, Academic Contact (English), Member of School of Arts and Humanities Marketing Committee, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Academic Advisor, Year Tutor, B.A. Second Year, RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER SINGLE AUTHORED BOOKS Ireland and Ecocriticism: Literature, History and Environmental Justice Routledge, pp. Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption Irish Academic Press, pp. Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia Palgrave/MacMillan, pp. Versions of Ireland: Empire, Modernity and Resistance in Irish Culture Cambridge Scholars Press pp. EDITED BOOKS AND VOLUMES The Journal of Ecocriticism: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 5.2, This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Co-edited with Susan Cahill Peter Lang, pp. Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture. Co-edited with Michael Griffin Syracuse University Press pp. 5

6 Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography. Co-edited with Angus Mitchell. Four Courts Press pp. Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on Ireland (editor) 3.3, JOURNAL ARTICLES and REVIEW ESSAYS Ecocriticism, in The Year s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), Autumn 2016, Listen to the Leaves : Derek Mahon s Evolving Ecologies, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. 57.3, 2016, Crocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the work of Jamie McKendrick and W.G. Sebald, Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue on Roger Casement 4, Ecocriticism, in The Year s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), Autumn 2015, Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam s The Wasted Vigil (2008) and Colum McCann s Let the Great World Spin (2009) English, Volume 62, no. 238, 2013, A Land Poisoned : Eugene McCabe and Irish Postcolonial Gothic, Literature and History, 22.2, 2013, Ireland and Ecocriticism, The Journal of Ecocriticism Special Issue on Ireland 5.2, 2013, 1-8. The Buried Life : Ecological Criticism and the Deep Past, Critical Quarterly, 54.4, 2012, Ecology, Memory and Speed in John McGahern s Memoir, Irish University Review, 42.2, 2012, Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan s Zulu 9, The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47.1, 2011, The Hard Hunger : Famine, Sexuality and Form in Eugene McCabe s Tales from the Poorhouse, New Hibernia Review, 14.2, 2010, Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse, Textual Practice, 24.3, 2010, Reprinted in Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology, Pramod Nayar (ed.) (Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2015),

7 So many destinations in one place : Chris Arthur s Words of the Grey Wind: Family and Epiphany in Ulster and Irish Elegies, Irish Studies Review, November, 19.4, 2010, Troubling Bodies: Suffering, Resistance and Hope in Colum McCann s Troubles Short Fiction, The Irish Review Special Issue on Northern Ireland Aaron Kelly (ed.) 40, 2009, Reprinted in Short Story Criticism (Thomson Gale 2013). Rites of Passage: The liminal in Colum McCann s Songdogs and This Side of Brightness. Irish Studies Review, 16.1, 2008, Irish Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory, Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on Ireland, 3.3, 2007, 1-9. Ireland among Empires, The Irish Book Review, Autumn 2007, Gable-ends and Che Guevara: Political Murals and Postcolonial Ethics. The Irish Review Number 34, Spring 2006, Passion and Arrogance: Poetic craft and topographies of remembrance in the work of Michael Hartnett, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. June 2006, External Association: Ireland, Empire and Postcolonial Theory. Third Text: Special Issue on Irish Culture. 19.5, September 2005, Outside in the Theory Machine: Ireland and Postcolonial Studies. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review , pp Reading in the Light of Reading in the Dark. Irish Studies Review, , pp Hopes and Impediments: Ken Wiwa s In the shadow of a saint. Postcolonial Studies. 6.3, 2003, Postcolonial Borderlands. English: The Journal of the English Association. 52, 2003, BOOK CHAPTERS the incorrigible Irishman : Roger Casement and the greening of Irish Studies, Matthew Wickman (ed.) Scottish and Irish Literature Before and After Theory (Aberdeen: University of Aberdeen Press, 2017). Burning from the inside out : Colum McCann s Let the Great World Spin 9/11 in European Literature Svenja Frank (ed.) Palgrave/MacMillan,

8 Ill Fares the Land : Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland, The Postcolonial World David D. Kim and Jyotsna Singh (eds.) Routledge, 2017, Essayist of Place: Postcolonialism and Ecology in the work of Tim Robinson, Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture, and Environment. Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin (eds.), Manchester University Press, Decline and Fall : Empire, Land and the Twentieth-Century Irish Big House Novel, Ecocriticism of the Global South Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran (eds.) Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann s Let the Great World Spin, Ireland: Arrivals and Departures Irish Studies in Europe, Scott Brewster and Werner Huber (eds.), Embracing the Other in Colum McCann s Zoli (2006), The Leaving of Ireland: Literature, Migration and Belonging, John Lynch and Katherina Dodou (eds.) Peter Lang, 2015, Ship of Fools: The Celtic Tiger and Poetry as Social Critique, From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath Eugene O Brien and Eamon Maher (eds.) Manchester University Press, 2014, Troubles Trilogy: Everything in This Country Must, This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Susan Cahill and Eoin Flannery (eds.) Peter Lang, 2012, pp Introduction: The Fiction of Colum McCann, co-authored with Susan Cahill. This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann. Susan Cahill and Eoin Flannery (eds.) Peter Lang, 2012, pp Ireland of the Welcomes, or Strange Country : Tourism, Modernity and the Ruined Landscape. Murmurs that Come out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Christine Cusick (ed.) Cork University Press, 2010, The art of resistance: Visual iconography and the Northern Troubles. Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture. Eóin Flannery and Michael Griffin (eds.) Syracuse University Press. 2009, Sites of Worship, Sites of Desire: Catholicism and Dorothy Cross Stabat Mater, Contemporary Catholicism in Ireland: A Critical Appraisal. Eamon Maher and John Littleton (eds.), Columba Press, 2008, Terrorised Youths: Colum McCann s Short Fiction Fishing the Sloe-Black River and Everything in This Country Must, Essays on Modern Irish 8

9 Literature John Strachan and Alison Younger (eds.), University of Sunderland Press, 2007, Empire, Literature and History, co-authored with Angus Mitchell. Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell (eds.) Four Courts Press, 2007, Collateral Language: Empire, Theory and the Idioms of Power. Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography Eóin Flannery and Angus Mitchell (eds.) Four Courts Press, 2007, Morning Yet on Field Day? The Field Theatre Company and Postcolonial Theory Having Our Own Field Day: Essays on the Irish Canon, Helen Thompson (ed.) Edwin Mellen Press. 2006, Secular Prayers: Landscape, Language and Cultural Memory in the poetry of Michael Hartnett. Remembering Michael Hartnett: a language seldom spoken. John McDonagh and Stiofáin Newman (eds.) Four Courts Press, 2006, The People s Front of Judea, or The Judea People s Front: The Life of Irish Postcolonial Theory. New Voices in Irish Criticism 5. Anne Coughlan (ed.) Four Courts Press. 2005, SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Organizer of Crisis and Commemoration in Ireland: , Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, 14 th October Director, Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre, Director, Department of English and Modern Languages Research Seminar, Co-Organizer of Sketches from the Poem Road exhibition, Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre and the Glass Tank Gallery, Oxford, July Member of the Organizing Committee of HSS Faculty, Research and Teaching conference, September 2015, Oxford Brookes University. Organizer of session entitled, Reflections on the life and work of Seamus Heaney, at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 28 March Organizer and Chair of Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre session at the Reading Poetry Festival, University of Reading, 8 November Organizer and Chair of Irish Studies and the New Humanities research workshop, 1 July 2014, Oxford Brookes University. 9

10 Co-Organizer of Where We Begin to Look. Landscape and Poetry exhibition, Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre and the Glass Tank Gallery, October- November, Co-Organizer of Business and Poetry: Risk, Recession, Recovery, creative writing project, Oxford Brookes University Poetry Centre and Pegasus Theatre, Oxford, February-May Organizer and Chair of session entitled, Culture and the Irish Future, at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, Christ Church College, University of Oxford, 1 April Ireland and Utopian Studies Workshop, Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes University, 27 March Member of Management Committee of Oxford Brookes University Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Co-Director of Oxford Brookes University Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Seeing Things: Visual Studies and Irish Culture Plassey House, University of Limerick, June Enemies of Empire, Centre for Historical Research, University of Limerick, June MIC/UL, College of Humanities postgraduate research symposium, 20-21May PLENARIES AND INVITED PAPERS Invited speaker on Crocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the works of WG Sebald and Jamie McKendrick, Irish Afterlives symposium, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 8 September Invited speaker on Time, Speed and Ecology in John McGahern s fiction, St. Patrick s College, Drumcondra, April Invited speaker on Listen to the Leaves : Irony and Commitment in Contemporary Irish Ecopoetry, Imaginaries of the Future: Politics and Poetics Symposium, Queen s University, Belfast, 21 January Plenary speaker on Ireland, the Environmental Humanities and the Utopian Impulse, at Waiting for Utopia: Ireland and the Utopian Impulse conference, University of Caen, France, 20 November,

11 Invited speaker on Poetry and Justice: Art, Politics and the afterlife of Roger Casement in modern and contemporary writing, at the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival, 25 February Invited speaker on Essayist of Place: Postcolonialism and Ecology in the work of Tim Robinson, at the Postcolonial Research Forum, Queen s University, Belfast, 29 November Plenary speaker on The Ecologies of Contemporary Irish Poetry, Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, 23 May Plenary speaker on Playing the Scales: Humanity, Non-Humanity and Ecocriticism, Mapping the Self conference, Oxford Brookes University, 15 December Plenary speaker on Ireland, Postcolonialism and the European Union, In and Out of (Postcolonial) Europe: Portugal and Ireland conference, Queen s University, Belfast, 5 July Plenary speaker on Ireland and Postcolonial Studies, International Art Historians conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, 23 April Invited speaker on Irish Gothic Fiction, University of Malta, 4 May Invited speaker on Orientalism, Historiography and Contemporary Politics, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, 13 April CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES Ill Fares the Land : Ecology, Capitalism and Literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland, European Federation of Irish Studies conference, University of Palermo, Sicily, 5 June New Generation, New Environments in Contemporary Irish Poetry, New Generation to Next Generation 2014: Three Decades of British and Irish Poetry, Institute of English Studies, University of London, March Profit and Loss: The Ecologies of post-celtic Tiger Irish Poetry, The Literature of Loss conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 20 February Listen to the Leaves: The Global Climate Crisis in the poetry of Derek Mahon, at the Ireland and Ecocriticism conference, University College Cork, Ireland, June Public interview with poet Jamie McKendrick at the Oxford Human Rights Arts Festival, 28 February

12 Crocodiles and Obelisks: the literary afterlife of Roger Casement in the works of WG Sebald and Jamie McKendrick, Roger Casement: The Global Imperative conference, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, Tralee, Ireland, October, Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann s Let the Great World Spin, 9/11: European Perspectives conference, St Hilda s College, University of Oxford, September Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Colum McCann s Let the Great World Spin, European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies conference, University of Salford 1-3 September Ecology, Speed and Memory in John McGahern s Memoir, John McGahern Conference, University of Swansea, 8-9 April Contemporary Irish Poetry, Centre for Irish Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden, 9 September 2009 The Hard Hunger: Famine, Sexuality and Form in Eugene McCabe s Tales from the Poorhouse, delivered at New England Chapter of the American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS) Boston University, 8 November Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse, delivered at the Utopian Studies Society International Conference, Ralahine Utopian Studies Centre, University of Limerick, 3 July Conspicuous Theorizing: Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus and Irish Cultural Criticism, delivered at the Association of Franco-Irish Studies Conference, University of Rennes, 23 May Troubled Times: The North of Ireland in Colum McCann s short fiction, delivered at North East Irish Culture Network International Conference, University of Sunderland, 11 November Visualising Difference: Migration and Postcolonialism in Contemporary Cinema, delivered at Royal Irish Academy In/Difference Conference, University of Limerick, 9 November Gothic Bodies in Eugene McCabe s Christ in the Fields, delivered at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Conference, University College Dublin, 15 July The other within: Migration, Postcolonialism and Cinema in France and Ireland, delivered at the Association of Franco-Irish Studies Conference, Institute of Technology Tallaght, Dublin, 10 May Ireland in Focus: A review of the intersections between Postcolonial Irish Studies and visual culture in Ireland, delivered at the Association of Art Historians conference, University of Ulster, Belfast, 13 April

13 Lonesome pubtalk: Michael Hartnett s Inchicore Haiku, delivered at North East Irish Culture Network International Conference, University of Sunderland, November Writing on the walls: Mural Art and Cultural History in Northern Ireland delivered at the European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies conference, Gothenburg University, 8-10 December Haunted Histories in contemporary Irish fiction delivered at The Twenty First Century Novel: Reading and writing Contemporary Fiction conference, Lancaster University, 2-3 September Framing the Landscape: Photography, Eviction and Modernity in Nineteenth century Ireland. delivered at Land and Landscape in the Nineteenth century Ireland conference, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, June Identity as Performance: Liminality and Ritual in Colum McCann s Songdogs and This Side of Brightness delivered at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 20 July Gable-ends and Che Guevara: Ethics, Murals and (post-) colonial space delivered at the Enemies of Empire conference at the Centre for Historical Research, University of Limerick, June Alternative Resistance: Political murals and Postcolonial Ethics, invited lecture delivered at the University College Dublin Staff/Postgraduate Seminar, 14 April Representing the Margins: Irish History and Subalternity delivered at the Irish History Students Association conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, 21 February The Chauri Chaura Express: Subaltern Historiography and Postcolonial Irish Studies delivered at the New Voices in Irish Criticism 6 conference, University of Ulster, Derry, 8 February The People s Front of Judea or The Judean People s Front? The Life of Irish Postcolonial Theory, paper delivered at the New Voices in Irish Criticism 5 conference, University College Cork, 7 9 February Crossing thresholds of identity in contemporary Irish fiction, paper delivered at the Department of English, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Postgraduate Research Seminar, 14 October Songdogs and Sandhogs: the fiction of Colum McCann, paper delivered at British Association of Irish Studies conference, Hammersmith and Fulham Irish Centre, London, 7 September

14 The real and the phantasmal : A reading of Seamus Deane as postcolonial critic, paper delivered at the New Voices in Irish Criticism 4 conference at Trinity College, Dublin, 1-3 February RESEARCH AND OTHER AWARDS Mary Immaculate College Research Award, February 2016 Award to support collation of Visual and Verbal Bibliography of the Celtic Tiger, 2300 EURO. Irish Research Council, New Foundations Scheme 2015 Award to support conference, Crisis and Commemoration: Towards a Critique of the Closed Cycle, 4000 EURO. Mary Immaculate College Research Award, December 2015 Award to support Irish Poetics Workshops, 2700 EURO. Brookes People Award nominee, March University-wide peer recognition award. Higher Education Innovation Fund 5, Oxford Brookes University February 2015 Award to finance the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund May 2014 Award to support completion of monograph, Ireland and Ecocriticism 1619 Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund April 2014 Award to support Irish Studies and the New Humanities research project Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, partner with the Archway Foundation, Time to Change award Oxford Brookes University HSS Research Fund November 2013 Award to support completion of monograph Higher Education Innovation Fund 5, Oxford Brookes University March 2013 Award to finance Poetry and Business project 5800, with Louise Grisoni. Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund June Award to finance Department of English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series 2012/ Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund December Award to finance Department of English and Modern Languages Research Seminar Series 2011/

15 Oxford Brookes University Central Research Fund Research Leave Award January-September 2011 towards completion of research monograph, Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption. British Academy Overseas Conference Grant, July Institute for Historical and Cultural Research, Oxford Brookes University, January 2009 to host Ireland and Utopian Studies Workshop 300 Project Research Seed Funding Grant, College of Humanities, University of Limerick, EURO Keough Centre for Irish Studies/University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar Open Fellowship EURO Keough Centre for Irish Studies/University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar Open Fellowship EURO Keough Centre for Irish Studies/University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar Open Fellowship EURO Byrne/Perry Summer School Sinnott Fellowship EURO Parnell Summer School Postgraduate Scholarship EURO PhD Funding, University of Limerick, Doctoral Fellowship EURO. EXTERNAL DUTIES AND INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION External Examiner, PhD Thesis, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, (2015) External Examiner, MA Research Thesis, University of Buckingham, (2015) External Examiner, PhD Thesis, University of Bucharest, Romania, (2011) External Examiner for English Literature Undergraduate Programme, Department of English, University of Buckingham, External Modular Assessor, Literary and Cultural Theory, for Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, (2009) External Reviewer MacArthur Foundation ( Genius ) Fellowship Programme, USA, (2008) Literary Consultant, Midas Productions, Death in the Fields Eugene McCabe, RTE Television, (2010). 15

16 Invited Literary contributor and reviewer for The Sunday Times and Invited Author of Ecocriticism section of The Year s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (Oxford University Press), Book Reviews Editor, Utopian Studies Member of Editorial Board, Utopian Studies Member of editorial sub-committee of Irish University Review, IASIL Bibliography Bulletin (Irish publications). Responsible for Irish entries in annual IASIL bibliography. Irish University Review, Associate Editor and member of the editorial board of the quarterly publication The Irish Book Review, Reviewer of book manuscripts for Manchester University Press, Cork University Press, and Brill Publishing. Reviewer of scholarly essay submissions for 22 international scholarly journals: PMLA (USA); New Hibernia Review (USA); Irish University Review (Ireland); Irish Studies Review (UK); Postcolonial Studies (Australia and UK); Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism (UK); ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (USA and UK); Postcolonial Text (Canada); The Journal of Postcolonial Writing (UK) ; Etudes Irlandaises (France); Literary Geographies (Finland and UK); Studies in the Novel (USA); Photography and Culture (UK); Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (Canada); Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (Canada); The Journal of Art Historiography (UK); Studies in American Fiction (USA); Journal of Ecocriticism (Canada); Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (USA); Others: Representation and Rewriting History (France); Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos/Review of American Studies (Spain) and Utopian Studies (USA). Book Reviewer for 12 international scholarly journals : Utopian Studies; The Irish Literary Supplement; Irish Studies Review; Estudios Irlandeses; Postcolonial Text; Journal of Southern African Studies; Irish University Review; Canadian Journal of Irish Studies; Postcolonial Studies; English: The Journal of the English Association; Film and Film Culture; and Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 16

17 Current Member of professional associations: European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies (EFACIS); Association for Franco- Irish Studies (AFIS); British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS); Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick; and the Irish Environmental History Network, Trinity College, Dublin (IEHN). 17