Joe Nugent received his BA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and research engage with Ireland about the turn of the twentieth century. The discourses of gender, religion, and post-colonialism inform his use of the literatures, both Irish language and Anglo-Irish, from that period. A product of UC Berkeley, he has much experience in teaching language, literature, and pedagogy. His dissertation, "Performing Priestliness," examines the ways in which nineteenth-century Irish Catholicism inflected the production of the normative male. His particular interest in James Joyce is reflected in his Finnegans Wake reading group, and in his ongoing project to scrutinize the author's life outside the confines of the Dublin metropolis. He teaches courses on Irish language, memoir and biography, and Irish modernism. He is currently writing a book on representations of clergy in the Irish fin-de-siecle.
Connolly House 203
617-552-2228
joseph.nugent.2@bc.edu