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Faculty ProfileDr. Joseph Lennon
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Research and Scholarly Interests:Irish literature and culture; 20th century British and Irish literature; postcolonial literature and theory, contemporary literature; creative writing; contemporary poetry. I am working on poetry and a book project on postcolonial aesthetics. I am also writing on representations of hunger and hunger strikes in Irish, Indian and British texts. Select Publications:Scholarly Work: Review of James Cousin’s The Renaissance in India in The Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2008. "Fasting for the Public: Irish and Indian Sources of Marion Wallace Dunlop's 1909 Hunger Strike," Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and History. Four Courts, 2007. Review of Patrick O'Keefe's The Hill Road, in Provincetown Arts, 2007. "'Where East and West are One': James Cousins and Postcolonial Aesthetics," India and Ireland: Colonies, Culture, and Empire, ed.s Maureen O'Connor and Tadhg Foley, Irish Academic Press, 2007. "Antiquarianism and Abduction: Charles Vallancey as Harbinger of Indo-European Linguistics," The European Legacy, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 5-20, 2005. "Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History." Syracuse Univeristy Press, 2004 "Irish Orientalism: An Overview," Ireland and Postcolonial Theory, eds. Clare Carroll and Patricia King. Cork University Press, 2003. "Writing Across Empire: Rabindranath Tagore and W.B. Yeats,"Rabindranath Tagore: University and Tradition, eds. Patrick Hogan and Lalita Pandit, AUP, 2003. "Colum McCann" (7,000 words) signed entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 267. 2002. "George Russell (AE)" (10,000 words) signed entry in British Writers Supplement VIII, 2002 (Scribners). Review of Stephen Howe's Ireland and Empire, in The Irish Literary Supplement, Summer 2001. "Man Writing: Gender in Contemporary Irish Poetry," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 29:5, October 2000. "James Laughlin" (1, 400 words) and "Eamon Grennan" (600 words) signed entries in The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Review of Gerry Smyth's Decolonization and Criticism, in The New Hibernia Review 3:4, Winter 1999. "James Stephens' Diminutive National Narratives: Imagining an Irish Nation based on the Orient," Comparatist, Spring 1996, pp 62-81. Selected Poetry: “1981”; “Making Change”; “Wood Bullet”; “Still Life with Apple”; “If Vermeer were Here”; “Family Country”; “Harmonica Lesson II”; “Sleeping Place (Conemeterium)”; New Hibernia Review, Fall 2007, pp 40-45. "Harmonica Lesson," Poetry Ireland. Spring 2007 "Cords" and "Walnuts," The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Norte Dame UP, 2006 "Melody Lane," Natural Bridge (Spring, 2005 - nominated for a Pushcart Prize). "If Vermeer were Here,"; "Smoking Ban"; "29th Birthday," Foilsiú, 4.1. Spring 2005. "Moose," The Recorder, American Irish Historical Society, Spring 2001. "Hitching Tuam Road," Denver Quarterly, University of Denver, Spring 1999. "Meniscus," Long River Review, University of Connecticut, Spring 1999.
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