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Telephone: (617) 552-3966 Office Location: Connolly House, Irish Studies Email: savager@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., Boston College, 1992
Fields of Interest
Irish political and cultural history; film and media in Ireland and Britain; Northern Ireland; Anglo-Irish relations in the 20th century
Academic Profile
Robert Savage is co-director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program and teaches in the Department of History. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including Ireland Since the Famine; A Social and Political history of 19th Century Ireland; A History of Northern Ireland 1912 to the Present; the Disunited Kingdom, Culture and Politics in Ireland, Scotland and Wales 1800-2000; and a graduate colloquium in Modern Irish History
He is 2007 Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities; University of Edinburgh and was the Irish-American Cultural Institute Visiting Professor in Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2004.
Savage is the founder and curator of the Boston College Irish Film Series and serves on the editorial board of The Historian, The Irish Literary Supplement, and Film and Film Culture. He is also on the Fulbright National Graduate Screening Committee for Ireland and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Post Graduate Assessment Board.
His books include Ireland in the new century: Politics, Culture and Identity, editor and contributing author (2003), Sean Lemass: a Biography (1999) and Irish Television: a Political and Social History (1996). His most recent articles are; ‘“A Stranger Among Us’ Edward Roth and the Establishment of Irish Television’ in History Ireland (forthcoming 2007) and ‘Sean Lemass and the Advent of Irish Television’ in The Age of Sean Lemass: Ireland 1945-1973 (2005). His next book, A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 will be published by Manchester University Press in 2008.
Representative Publications
Books:
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Ireland in the new century: Politics, Culture and Identity, Four Courts Press (2003)
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Sean Lemass: A Biography, Historical Association of Ireland and Dundalgan Press (1999)
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Irish Television: a Political and Social History, Cork University Press (1996)
Articles and Chapters:
- "'The Soil of Ireland for the People of Ireland': The Politics of Land in Irish Visual Imagery 1850-1936" in Eire/Land, Boston College, 2003
- "Constructing/Deconstructing the image of Sean Lemass's Ireland: The Tear and the Smile", in Nationalism: Visions and Revisions; Film Institute of Ireland (1999)
- "Strongholds and Relics, Images of 'The Troubles'"; in Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists; McMullen Museum of Art (1997)