Theodore Lehre is a Doctoral Candidate in the English Department at Boston College. They have a BA in English Literature from UC Berkeley and an AA from Santa Rosa Junior College. They passed their general field exams with distinction: 1880-1920 British and Irish Literature (minor) and Motherhood and Queerness in 20th Century Irish Literature (major). They are currently working on a dissertation on queer and alternative motherhoods in 20th century Irish literature.
As an instructor, they have designed and taught courses in writing, literature core, and queer Irish literature at Boston College, and courses in academic writing and research at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They also teach in the Introcaso Center for Lifelong Learning at La Roche, with courses on general Irish literature, the Celtic Revival, and Oscar Wilde.
Mr. Lehre has presented at the Regional American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Boston, the 2024 National ACIS in Ireland, and the 2025 National ACIS in Georgia, USA.
Their digital humanities work concentrates on motherhood, maternity and pregnancy in global constitutions, using an open-access ArcGIS StoryMap to document all 110 countries and constitutions that explicitly mention mothers. This open-access resource can be found and explored at tinyurl.com/motherlandhood1.
