Dr. Margaret Kelleher This is Me

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1. 1. The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies

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   Published on: 5/17/2007   Last Visited: 5/17/2007

   Margaret Kelleher Department of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
   
   Dr. Kelleher received her doctorate in English from Boston College and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is author of The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Invisible? (1997), co-editor of Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and and Private Spheres (with Dr. James Murphy) (1997), editor of Making it New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus (2000) and co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Research (with Larry Geary) (2005). Her research interests include Irish women's literary history, nineteenth-century Irish writing, famine literature and contemporary Irish fiction, and she was a contributing editor to volume 5 of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (2002). In 2002, she was the John BUrns Visiting Scholar at Boston College. Dr. Kelleher's forthcoming projects include The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, co-edited with Philip O'Leary (Boston College), a tw0-volume, 1400-page work which will provide the first comprehensive history of Irish literature in both its major languages.

2. 2. News@Concordia: Margaret Kelleher appointed O’Brien Visiting Scholar

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   Published on: 6/11/2005   Last Visited: 11/17/2006

   Margaret Kelleher appointed O'Brien Visiting Scholar
   
   The Centre for Canadian Irish Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Margaret Kelleher has been appointed 2006 O'Brien Visiting Scholar and will be based in the Department of English.
   
   With her impressive scholarly credentials, Dr. Kelleher brings rare and valuable expertise to Concordia's students. She will teach two courses: Literature of the Irish Famine in a Comparative Context and History and Memory in Modern Irish Literature.
   
   Dr. Kelleher received her doctorate in English from Boston College and is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is author of The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Invisible? (1997), co-editor of Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres (1997), editor of Making it New: Essays on the Revised Leaving Certificate English Syllabus (2000) and co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Research (2005).
   
   The Cambridge History of Irish Literature, which she co-edited with Philip O'Leary, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. This two-volume, 1400 page work provides the first comprehensive history of Irish literature in both its major languages. She is currently working on a History of Irish Anthologies.
   
   Her research interests include Irish women's literary history, nineteenth-century Irish writing, famine literature and contemporary Irish fiction. She was a contributing editor to volume 5 of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (2002).
   
   In 2002 she was the John J. Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College. She is currently President of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and a member of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. While at Concordia, Dr. Kelleher will give a public lecture for the academic and wider communities.

3. 3. PGIL Bulletin of Irish Studies News: People & Places

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   Published on: 9/29/2004   Last Visited: 9/29/2004

   Margaret Kelleher
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   Margaret Kelleher has followed upon her fellowship experience at Boston College (Mass.) with a carefully-prepared plan to publish the first comprehensive history of Irish literature in both the Irish and the English languages. The multi-volume enterprise is currently going forward under contract with Cambridge University Press with an anticipated publication date in 2004.
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   Speaker and their topics in the series include Ina Ferris (Ottawa U.), ‘Morgan's National Toles and the Question of Female Agency'; Margaret Margaret Kelleher (NUI/Maynooth), ‘Cabinets & Household Libraries: 19th-century Literary Anthologies'; Claire Connolly (Cardiff U.), ‘Sectarian Fictions?
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   For some years past the Boston College Burns Scholarship - currently held by Margaret Kelleher of Maynooth (NUI) - has provided a vital opportunity for younger Irish scholars to conduct pure research amidst the rich resources of the Burns Library and nearby Boston Public Library during a study-break from their busy teaching careers.