A conversation among three scholars who work on water, literature, history, race, and gender. The participants seek some common points of contact and departure for study. In addition, they contemplate connections between offshore dimensions of Irish and other literatures.
Christin Mulligan
Christin M. Mulligan is a feminist scholar of Irish and global Anglophone literatures at Caldwell University. In 2019, she published her first monograph, Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture: Intimate Cartographies with Palgrave. She has been a Fulbright-Hays FLAS Scholar in the Gaeltacht and a Werner Friedrich Fellow at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. Her work has also appeared in the interdisciplinary volume, Gender Justice and the Law; Humanities, Literature Interpretation Theory, and Hypermedia Joyce Studies, and is forthcoming in a collection on Flann O’Brien. In addition to research and teaching, she is a freelance writer and editor as well as a grants and events coordinator. Christin earned her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College, where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hanna Holborn Gray Fellow.
Peter O’ Neill
University of Georgia
Peter D. O’Neill is an Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia in Athens. He has served as a Research Fellow at UGA’s Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and as a Lilly Teaching Fellow. With David Lloyd, he co-edited an essay collection, The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas, (Palgrave Macmillan; 2009), while his book, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, was published by Routledge in 2017. His current projects include a biography of Irish American author, Dillon O’Brien, and a cultural history of white nationalism and Irish America.
Cóilín Parsons
Georgetown University
Cóilín Parsons is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Global Irish Studies Initiative at Georgetown University. His first book was The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (Oxford UP, 2016), and he has co-edited Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (2015), and Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (2019), as well as a recent issue of Interventions titled “South Africa and Ireland: New Geographies of Comparison.”