2007 Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar
at Centre for Canadian Irish Studies
By MEGAN FINDLAY
MONTREAL - Distinguished scholar Dr. Clare Carroll of Queens College, CUNY, will be the 2007 Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar in Canadian Irish Studies.
This position, jointly funded by Concordia University and the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, is intended to bring prominent scholars to teach within the programs offered through the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies. The appointment runs from the beginning of September until the first week of December.
Dr. Carroll received her doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is currently Director of Irish Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College and The Graduate Centre in the City University of New York.
She is a specialist in Renaissance Studies, with particular interests in early modern colonialism, epic poetry, and historiography. She is the co-editor of Ireland and Postcolonial Theory (Cork UP 2003) and author of Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Writing about Ireland (Cork UP 2001), among other publications.
She was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at Trinity College Dublin in 2000-2001, and was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute Fellowship at the National University of Ireland in 2006.
When she won the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1993, one of her students commented, "She encourages us to disagree, debate, and discuss. Most important, she gets us to think."
Dr. Carroll will be teaching two courses in the Department of History during the Fall 2007 semester at Concordia University. Early Modern Irish Cultural History (HIST 398L/IRST 398I) will include readings of the first Irish travel narrative, the first modern Irish language history of Ireland, and the memoir of an Irish chevalier in Rome.
Ireland in the Twentieth Century (HIST 398N/IRST 398J) will examine how the Irish waged the first great anti-colonial war of the Twentieth Century, and how Ireland has gone from being one of the most economically isolated to the most globalized country in Western Europe.
In addition to this, Dr. Carroll will be available to students seeking valuable insight and guidance in the field of Irish Studies. For further information about Dr. Carroll or her role as Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar, contact the Centre for Canadian Irish Studies at cdnirish@alcor.concordia.ca or visit www.cdnirish.concordia.ca.
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