James Smith received his BA from University College Dublin (Ireland), his MA in English from Clark University, his MA in Anglo-Irish Studies from University College Dublin (Ireland) and his PhD from Boston College. He specializes in Irish literature and culture, cultural studies, and the application of post-colonial theory to an Irish context. He teaches graduate seminars on modern and contemporary Irish fiction, and on Ireland's colonial contexts.
Selected Publications:
- Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment (2007)
- “The Magdalene Sisters: Evidence, Testimony … Action?” Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Winter, 2007)
- “Re-Imagining Ireland, Britain and Europe” in Traversing the Imaginary eds. Peter Gratton and John P. Manoussakis (2007)
- Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl, Editor (2005)
- “The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland’s Containment Culture and ‘The Carrigan Report’ 1931” Journal of the History of Sexuality (2004)
- “Sexual Abuse and the Irish Church: Crisis and Responses” (with Robert Savage) Occasional Papers, (2003) The Church in the 21st Century. Boston College Online Publication. http://www.bc.edu/church21/resources/savagesmith/
- “Remembering Ireland’s Architecture of Containment: ‘Telling’ Stories in The Butcher Boy and States of Fear” Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 36, (2001)
- “Effaced History: Facing the Colonial Contexts of Ben Jonson’s Irish Masque at Court” ELH 65 (1998)
- “Retelling Stories: Exposing Mother Ireland in Kathy Prendergast’s Body Map Series and Mary Leland’s The Killeen” Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works From Irish Women Artists eds. Jennifer Grinnell and Alston Conley (1997)
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