EDUCATION

B.A., English & History, University College Dublin, Ireland
M.A., English, Clark University
M.A., Anglo-Irish Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland
Ph.D., English, Boston College

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in Irish literature and culture, cultural studies, and the application of post-colonial theory to an Irish context. His particular interest in twentieth-century Irish narrative is reflected in his current research project, a book-length study focusing on representations of institutional care in contemporary Ireland, and his recent graduate seminars, "Twentieth Century Irish Fiction" and "Contemporary Irish Fiction." He has also taught undergraduate electives on contemporary British Isles fiction, American realism and naturalism, Ireland's colonial context, major Irish writers, and both 19th and 20th century surveys of Irish literature. He is also interested in recent scandals in the Irish Catholic Church and the manner in which these effect relations between Church, State and society.

COURSES

 EN082.08 - Literature and Society

 EN165.01 - 19th Century Irish Literature Survey

 EN764.01 - 20th Century Irish Fiction

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Two Irish National Tales: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl. Editor. New British Riversides. Series Editor, Alan Richardson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 447pgs.
• “The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland’s Containment Culture and ‘The Carrigan Report’ (1931).” The Journal of the History of Sexuality. 13, 2 (2004): 208-233.
• "Remembering Ireland's Architecture of Containment: 'Telling' Stories in The Butcher Boy and States of Fear," Eire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 36, 3&4 (2001): 111-30.
• "Effaced History: Facing the Colonial Contexts of Ben Jonson's Irish Masque at Court," ELH 65 (1998): 297-321.[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v065/65.smith.html]
• "Retelling Stories: Exposing Mother Ireland in Kathy Prendergast's Body Map Series and Mary Leland's The Killeen," in Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works From Irish Women Artists. Ed. Jennifer Grinnell and Alston Conley. Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, (1997): 23-4.
• “Sexual Abuse and the Irish Church: Crisis and Responses,” (with Robert Savage). Occasional Papers. The Church in the 21st Century. Boston College Online Publication. http://www.bc.edu/church21/resources/savagesmith/
• “Re-Imagining Ireland, Britain and Europe.” Rev. of Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy by Richard Kearney. The Irish Literary Supplement 16, 2 (1997): 23-4.

For further information regarding Irish Studies at Boston College, including information regarding graduate programs, faculty listings, and calendar of events, see: http://www.bc.edu/centers/irish/studies/