This Round Table will discuss the way that gender and class intersect in Irish writing. Dr O’Malley will bring in his research on how gender and class work in the texts and life of Lady Gregory; Dr. Redwine will reflect on how gender and class influence the issues of authorship and performance at the Abbey; and Dr. McGlynn will talk about how working class women get marginalized in Irish literature.
Elizabeth Redwine
Seton Hall University
Dr. Elizabeth Brewer Redwine is coming out with two books this spring, Gender, Performance, and Authorship at the Abbey Theatre with Oxford and, with co-editor Dr. Amrita Ghosh, Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning with Brill. She, with colleague Dr. Martha Carpentier, edits the online journal Critical Inquiries into Irish Studies. Dr. Redwine is president of the New Jersey College English Association and is a lecturer at Seton Hall University. She studied under Dr. Geraldine Higgins and Dr. Ronald Schuchard at Emory.
Seamus O’Malley
Yeshiva University
Seamus O’Malley is an Assistant Professor of English at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University. His book Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He has also published on W.B. Yeats, Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank McGuinness, Edmund Wilson, D.H. Lawrence, and Alan Moore, and co-edited the volume Ford Madox Ford and America (Rodopi, 2012). He is the co-editor of a research companion to Ford for Routledge (2019), the co-editor A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (University of Mississippi Press, 2019), and is currently writing a book on populism in Irish literature. He is book review editor for Last Post: A Literary Journal from the Ford Madox Ford Society.
Mary McGlynn
Baruch College, CUNY
Mary McGlynn is an Associate Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. She has a PhD from Columbia University. Her research interests are Irish Studies, 20th century and contemporary British literature, Scottish literature, narrative theory, working-class fiction, class studies, literature and economics, mystery fiction, and US/ Irish cultural interactions. She is the chair of the Columbia University Seminar in Irish Studies.