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Dr. Deirdre O’Leary

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Dr. Deirdre O’Leary

Assistant Professor of English

 

Education:

  • B.A. Mary Washington College, 1995
  • M.A. CUNY Hunter College, 1998
  • M.Phil. Trinity College, Dublin, 2001
  • Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center, 2005

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Contemporary Women Dramatists, Political Theatre, Irish Drama. Postcolonial literature and theory

Publications:

“Marketing the North in John Byrne’s The Border Itself,” Irish Studies Review, 12: 2 (August 2004): 191-199.

“Staging the City: Contemporary Site Specific Theatre in Belfast,” Foilsiu: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies (under review)

“Choric Potential: Transnational Linguistics in the Works of Anne Devlin,” New Hibernia Review (under review)

World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation (Instructor Manual) by Mira Felner and Claudia Orenstein. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2005.

Performance Review, The Playboy of the Western World, Abbey Theatre on tour, New York University Skirball Center, Theatre Journal, 57:2 (May 2005).

Book Review, The Theatre of Marina Carr: Before Rules Was Made, Theatre Journal, 56: 4 (Winter 2004).

Book Review. The Girls in the Big Picture: New Voices in Ulster Theatre,  Foilsiu: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, 4:1 (Spring 2004).

Book Review. Theatre of Conscience 1939-1953: A Study of Four Touring Community Theatres, New England Theatre Journal, 2004.

Performance Review. Hughie, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island, Eugene O’Neill Review, 26 (2004).

 

Courses Taught/Teaching:

  • ENGL 110 – College Writing
  • ENGL 260 – Comedy and Tragedy
  • ENGL 276 – Introduction to the Drama
  • ENGL 306 – Introduction to Literary Study
  • ENGL 361 – Masterpieces of British Drama
  • ENGL 381 – Masterpieces of American Drama

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