Mary McGlynn

Mary McGlynn

Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise:

Email Address: mary.mcglynn@baruch.cuny.edu

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Education

Ph.D., English, Columbia University

MPhil, English, Columbia University

M.A., English, Columbia University

B.A., Plan II/English/Spanish, University of Texas, Austin

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Fall 2023ENG6001HHonors-English I
Spring 2023ENG6002HHonors English II
Spring 2023ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Fall 2022ENGL70000Intro/Doctoral Studies in Engl
Fall 2022ENG6001HHonors-English I
Fall 2022ENG3940Topics in Film
Spring 2022ENG4410Modern Irish Writers
Fall 2021ENG3270Film and Literature
Fall 2021ENGL80600Problems in Contemporary Thry
Spring 2021ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2020ENG4400Brit Poetry Fr 1900
Spring 2020ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Spring 2020ENGL81000Advanced Individual Research
Fall 2019ENG3940Topics in Film
Fall 2019ENGL70000Intro/Doctoral Studies in Engl
Fall 2018ENG3270Film and Literature
Spring 2018ENG4400Brit Poetry Fr 1900
Spring 2018ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2017ENG4410Modern Irish Writers
Spring 2017ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2016ENG3940Topics in Film
Fall 2016ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2016ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2015ENG4410Modern Irish Writers
Spring 2015ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Spring 2015ENG3270Film and Literature
Fall 2014ENG2850HHonors Great Works II
Fall 2014ENG3010Survey of English Literature I
Spring 2014ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Spring 2014ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2012ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2012ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Summer 2012ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2012ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2012IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2012WSM4900Topics in Women's Studies
Fall 2011ENG3940Topics in Film
Spring 2011ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Spring 2011ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2011ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2010ENG3270Film and Literature
Spring 2010ENG3036Post-Colonial Literature
Spring 2010ENG3950Topics in Literature
Spring 2010ENG6002HHonors English II
Fall 2009ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2009ENG6001HHonors-English I
Fall 2009ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2009ENG4460The Modern Short Novel
Spring 2009ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2009ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Fall 2008ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2008ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2008ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2007ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2007ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2007ENG2100HHonors Writing I
Spring 2007ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2007ENG3950Topics in Literature
Fall 2006ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2006ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Fall 2006ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2006ENG4460The Modern Short Novel
Summer 2006ENG3015Surv English Lit II
Fall 2005ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2005ENG3720Women in Literature
Spring 2005ENG2150Writing II
Fall 2004FRO1000First Year Seminar
Fall 2004ENG4460The Modern Short Novel
Fall 2004ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2004ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2004ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2003ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2003ENG5000Independent Study English I
Fall 2002ENG442020 Cent British Lit
Fall 2002ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2002ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2002ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2002ENG3720Women in Literature
Fall 2001ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2001ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2001ENG2850Great Works of Literature II

Books

McGlynn, M. M. (2022). Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Literature. (p. 290). Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press.

McGlynn, M. (2008). Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature. Palgrave Macmillan.

Journal Articles

McGlynn, M. (2021). Embodiment, Abstraction, and Hidden Reproductive History. Éire-Ireland, 56(3&4). 130-158.

McGlynn, M. (2019). “Parma Violets and Pince-Nez: Dorothy Sayers’s Meritocracy”. CLUES: A Journal of Detection/McFarland, 37(2). 71-82.

McGlynn, M. (2018). “Things Unexploded—The Aesthetics Of Social Risk In Two Post-Boom Irish Novels” . boundary 2/Duke UP, 45(1). 181-200.

McGlynn, M. (2017). “no difference between the different kinds of yesterday:” The Neoliberal Present in The Green Road, The Devil I Know, and The Lives of Women. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory/Taylor & Francis, 28(1). 34-54.

McGlynn, M. (2016). "Collectivism, Thatcherism, and the Move to a ‘Classless’ Society". Twentieth-Century Literature, 62(3). 30.

McGlynn, M. (2008). "'I Didn't Need To Eat:' Janice Galloway's Anorexic Text and the National Body". Critique 49.2, 221-240.

(2005). "Pregnancy, Privacy, and Domesticity in The Snapper: Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Family Romance". New Hibernia Review, 9, no.1, 141-156.

McGlynn, M. (2004). "Why Jimmy Wears a Suit: White, Black, and the Working Class in The Commitments". Studies in the Novel, 36, no. 2, 232-250.

McGlynn, M. (2003). "Janice Galloway's Alienated Spaces". Scottish Studies Review, 4, no. 2, 82-97.

(2002). "Middle-Class Wankers and Working Class Texts: The Critics and James Kelman". Contemporary Literature, 43, no.1, 50-84.

McGlynn, M. (2001). "Janice Galloway". Review of Contemporary Fiction, XXI(no.2). 7-40.

McGlynn, M. (1999). "'But I keep on thinking and I'll never come to a tidy ending:' Roddy Doyle's Useful Nostalgia". LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory, 10(1). 87-105.

Book Chapters

(2024). Keeping Class Visible in Recession-Era Irish Women's Poetry. In Clarke, B. (Ed.), Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature Routledge.

McGlynn, M. (2024). “The Relational Novel in an Era of Individualization”. In Scheible, E., & Devine, B. (Eds.), Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches Lewisburg, PA. Bucknell University Press. In Progress.

McGlynn, M. (2023). Foreclosed Futures and the Persistence of Patriarchy in Post-Recession Irish Novels. In Costello-Sullivan, K. (Ed.), Syracuse, NY. Syracuse UP. In Progress.

McGlynn, M. (2017). "Reshaping Well-worn Genres: Novels of Progress and Precarity 1960-1998". In Pierse, M. (Ed.), Cambridge History of Irish Working Class Literature (p. 19). Cambridge,United Kingdom. Cambridge UP..

McGlynn, M. (2014). “Greengos: Contemporary Irish Constructions of Latin America”. In Casey, M., & Tucker, A. (Eds.), Where Motley is Worn: Transnational Irish Literature Cork,Ireland. Cork University Press.

McGlynn, M. (2010). “How late it was, how late and Literary Value.”. In Hames, S. (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature) (pp. 20-30). Edinburgh,Scotland. Edinburgh UP.

McGlynn, M., Caraher, B. G., & Mahoney, R. (2007). "New Irish New York: Contemporary Irish Constructions of New York City.". Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Denis Donoghue (pp. 205-221). Newark. University of Delaware Press.

(2006). "Play that Country Music, Garth Brooks in Ireland." The Irish In Us,. (pp. 196-219). Diane Negra. Durham: Duke UP.

Presentations

McGlynn, M. “ ‘I’m not religious; I’m spiritual’: the search for meaning in post-Catholic Irish literature”. Irish and Chinese Literature in a Global World. University College Cork

McGlynn, M. Collectivism, Trauma, and Appropriation: post-Catholic Spiritualisms. ACIS Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regional meeting. Boston College: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. Reproductive Justice, the Discourse of Rights, and Narratives about Abortion. What US Feminists Can Learn from Irish Abortion Activists. University of Pittsburgh: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program.

McGlynn, M. "'A tiny refuge of imperfection:' Isolation in Tramp Press writer Sara Baume". ACIS National Conference 2023. San José State University, California: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2024, June 3). “Treat Yo Self: deaths of despair and the privatization of stress in recent Irish literature”. ACIS American Conference of Irish Studies Annual Meeting. San Jose State University: American Conference of Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2024, October 3). “Beautifully Untogether: Class politics and Irish poetry since the Boom”. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Philadelphia, PA: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2024, May 3). Response to Sinéad Kennedy’s “Bodies under the Law: Feminist Artistic Practice and the Struggle to #Repealthe8th”; a roundtable on the Eire/Ireland special issue Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Women's Health in Ireland  . ACIS American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting. Derry (online): American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2024, October 3). “Animacy, assemblage, and invisibility in post-2008 fiction¿”. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting.. Fairfield, CT: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2021, March 20). Class and Gender: Control. Containment, and Crisis Pregnancies. ACIS Southern Regional Annual Meeting. online: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2020, March 14). The gothic irreal in Irish fiction of crisis and austerity (unpresented due to COVID-19). Colloque SOFEIR Irlande: Spectres et chimères. UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS Champagne Ardenne: SOFEIR La Société Française d'Études Irlandaises.

McGlynn, M. (2019, November 1). Sean Mulryan has a Horse Called “Forget The Past:” The Mass-Market Big House Novel in the Age of Big Development. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Hunter College, CUNY: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 31). Spiral Staircase: the Big House Novel in the Neoliberal Present. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Georgetown University: ACLA.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 31). ‘and the wheels chewing the gravel:’ The Lives of Objects in Irish Novels of Crisis, Austerity, and Recession. American Conference for Irish Studies, National Annual Meeting,. Boston, MA: ACIS.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 1). McCormack’s Concrete Form. Columbia Irish Studies seminar. Columbia University Faculty House: Columbia Irish Studies seminar.

McGlynn, M. (2019, March 1). Crisis and Catachresis. CUNY GC English Department Friday Forum. CUNY GC English Department: CUNY GC English Department.

McGlynn, M. (2018, January 5). The Big House in 21st Century Irish Novels. MLA Annual Convention. New York, NY: Modern Langauge Association.

McGlynn, M. (2018, April 21). The Old West and New Ireland: Westward Expansion in Recession Literature. 6th Annual Dean Hopper Conference,. Madison, NJ: Drew University.

McGlynn, M. (2017, November 3). Irrealism and Infrastructure: Ungrammaticality in Post-Boom Novels. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Georgetown U, Washington, D.C.: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2016, October 28). 'I can haz global?' Non-place and the neoliberal present in post-Boom fiction. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. NYU: ACIS and NYU.

McGlynn, M. (2016, May 3). Haunted Domestic Spaces in Recent Irish Women's Fiction. WSAS English Department Works-in-Progress.

McGlynn, M. (2015, November 21). Unlucky: Irish Fiction since the Economic Crash. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Kutztown University: American Conference of Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2015, March 7). The Miseducation of Peter Wimsey. Narrative. Chicago: International Society for the Study of Narrative.

McGlynn, M. (2014, January 12). Killing Time and the Gentry: Syllepsis in the Inter-War Period. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago, IL: MLA.

McGlynn, M. (2014, March 21). Tinker Meritocrat, Soldier, Spy: Thrillers and the Rhetoric of Classlessness. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. NYU

McGlynn, M. (2013, April 12). Celtic Tigre: Evolving Irish Constructions of Latin America. American Conference for Irish Studies, National Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL: ACIS and Northern Illinois University.

McGlynn, M. (2013, April 3). Meritocracy and Magical Thinking in Blair-era British Films and Literature. Neag Annual Lecture. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut English Department.

McGlynn, M. (2013, March 9). What to do if you find yourself on a Pathway. 36th Annual New Jersey College English Association Conference. South Orange, NJ: NJCEA and Seton Hall University.

McGlynn, M. (2011, September 30). Documentary Antirealism and the Belfast Thriller. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2010, April 9). Killing the Gentry and Time: Syllepsis in Mystery Fiction. CUNY Grad Center, New York, NY: English Department Friday Forum.

McGlynn, M. (2009, March 21). James Kelman's How late it was, how late and Literary Value. Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ: New Jersey College English Association.

McGlynn, M. (2009, July 27). Ireland and the 'New World:' Recent Historical Fiction about the Americas. IASIL Annual Meeting. Glasgow: International Association for the Study of Irish Literature.

McGlynn, M. (2009, December 29). Stuck inside of Glasgow with the Memphis Blues Again: Kelman's Texas.". Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA: Modern Language Association.

McGlynn, M. (2008, October 11). Thatcherite Ireland? U2 and Dirty Realism. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2008, April 17). History Repeating Itself: Contemporary Authors and Historical Fiction. ACIS National Annual Meeting. St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2008, October 17). 'Wipe your tears away:' Working-Class Masculinity in the Thatcher Years. Class, Labor, and Literature Group. New York, NY: CUNY Grad Center.

McGlynn, M. (2007, July 21). Dilly Dedalus and the Urban Working Class. IASIL Annual Meeting. Dublin: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

McGlynn, M. (2006, October 27). Which Direction Dilly? A Working-Class Ulysses. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2005, December 28). 'I didn't need to eat:' Janice Galloway's Anorexic Text and the National Body. MLA Annual Convention. Washington DC: Modern Language Association.

McGlynn, M. (2004, February 6). One Man, Two Nations: Garth Brooks and the Rhetoric of Compromise. Columbia Irish Studies Seminar. New York, NY: Columbia University.

McGlynn, M. (2004, July 13). Urban Macho: Textual Experimentation and the Vernacular in Bolger, Bateman, McNamee, and Wilson. American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting. Liverpool

McGlynn, M. (2004, October 22). Greengos: Contemporary Irish Constructions of Latin America. ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University.

McGlynn, M. (2003, March 8). Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Family Romance. GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies. New York University

McGlynn, M. (2003, June 14). Novel Concerns: Form and Content in New Irish New York. Transatlantic Poetics. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Queens University.

McGlynn, M. (2002, April 24). Race in the Immigrant Metropolis: New Irish New York. Baruch Junior Faculty Lecture Symposia. New York, NY

McGlynn, M. (2002, April 11). A Reply to Hollywood: Contemporary Irish Contructions of New York City in Film. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. San Juan, Puerto Rico: American Comparative Literature Association.

McGlynn, M. (2001, November 2). New Irish New York. American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Meeting. Abington, Pennsylvania: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2001, August 4). The Fifth Province on Fifth Avenue: Contemporary Irish Constructions of New York City. International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Annual Meeting. Dublin, Ireland: International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

McGlynn, M. (2001, February 3). Dublin gas, working-class stereotypes, and pregnancy as performance in 'The Snapper'. The Theater of Irish Cinema. Yale University, New Haven: Yale University.

McGlynn, M. (2000, September 19). Why Jimmy Wears a Suit: Black, Global and the Working Class in 'The Commitments'. Writing Diasporas: Transnational Literatures. Swansea, Wales

McGlynn, M. (2000, October 27). United We fall: Unions and Collective Identity in Roddy Doyle and Frank McCourt. American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Meeting. College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, New York: American Conference for Irish Studies.

McGlynn, M. (2000, February 28). FIFA fo fum: American Climbs the Beanstalk (World Cup Soccer). American Comparative Literature Association. New Haven

McGlynn, M. (1999, May 31). Play that Country Music, Whiteboys: Country and Westerns in Ireland. American Conference of Irish Studies. Roanoke

McGlynn, M. (1999, February 28). The Narratology of Commodification, or, Gerty MacDowell Then and Now. 32nd Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain. : Texas Tech University.

McGlynn, M. (1999, April 30). How the West Was Won: Garth Brooks in Ireland. American Comparative Literature Association. Montreal

McGlynn, M. (1998, February 6). 'But I keep on thinking and I'll never come to a tidy ending:' Roddy Doyle's Useful Nostalgia. Columbia University Irish Studies Seminar. New York

McGlynn, M. (1998, March 31). The Tedium is the Message: Marshall McLuhan meets Mario Vargas Llosa. ACLA. Austin

McGlynn, M. (1997, April 4). The Boundaries of Exile: Localism in Kelman and Doyle. Northeast Modern Language Association. Philadelphia

McGlynn, M. (1997, April 30). Shallow Brave: Neonationalism in The Commitments and Trainspotting. ACLA. Puerto Vallarta

Other Scholarly Works

McGlynn, M. (2003). Forging the Conscience of Their Race: CUNY Irish Conference. Baruch College Magazine. 5.

McGlynn, M. (2002). "Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla.". World Literature and Its Times: Spanish and Portuguese Literature and Their Times. 343-352.

McGlynn, M. (2001). "James Kelman's A Disaffection.". World Literature and Its Times: British/Irish Literature and Its Times. 87-95.

McGlynn, M., & Negra, D. (2000). Encyclopedia entries on immigration, Irish America magazine, Mayor Richard Daley, Jack Demspey, the Boston Celtics, Notre Dave Fightin' Irish. Routledge Encyclopedia of Irish American Culture. V: 1900-present

McGlynn, M. (1997). "Bloomsgate". 2(2),

McGlynn, M. (1996). "Research and Teaching". 1(2),

Reviews

McGlynn, M. (1970,January 1). “More of a question than a comment: a response to Modernism, Empire, World Literature, by Joe Cleary”. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. Cambridge UP.

McGlynn, M. (2019,November 1). Review of Giving Shape to the Moment: The Art of Mary O'Donnell: Poet, Novelist and Short Story Writer, edited by María Elena Jaime de Pablos. Oxford: Peter Lang, 1988.. Dublin,Ireland: Irish University Review.

McGlynn, M. (2019,November 1). Review of Mary Eagleton, Clever Girls and the Literature of Women’s Upward Mobility. London: Literature & History/SAGE.

McGlynn, M. (2017,May 10). Review of Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film, Phyllis Lassner.. London,UK: Literature & History/SAGE Publications London.

McGlynn, M. (2016,May 1). "Review of Nicola Wilson, Home in British Working-Class Fiction. Ashgate, 2015, 244 pages, £60.00.". London,United Kingdom: Literature & History/SAGE Publications London.

McGlynn, M. (2016,January 1). "Restoring the Clutter of the Everyday": review of Maggie Andrews and Sallie McNamara: Women and the Media: Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present, New York: Routledge, 2014 AND Christine Grandy, Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014. WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly.

McGlynn, M. (2015,January 1). "Pandemics and Plot Devices": review of A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh. Edinburgh,Scotland: Edinburgh Review.

McGlynn, M. (2004,April 1). Roddy Doyle's Rory and Ita. The Irish Literary Supplement, 23, no.1.

McGlynn, M. (2003,January 1). Review of "The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Special issue: Ireland as Postcolonial.". Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. .

McGlynn, M. (2000,January 1). "From the Sin-e Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish, by Eamonn Wall.". Journal of the New York Irish History Roundtable.

TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
“Father, Son, and Digital Ghost: Disembodied Labor in Post-Catholic Ireland” PSC CUNY 5307/01/202206/30/202304/15/20224801Completed
Other Irelands: Globalism, Irrealism, and Ungrammaticality in Recession LiteratureCUNY Book Completion Award07/01/201906/30/202005/15/20195000Completed
Other Irelands, Chapter 4: "'and the wheels chewing the gravel:' The Lives of Objects in Irish Novels of Crisis, Austerity, and Recession"PSC-CUNY 5007/01/201912/31/202204/13/20194830Completed
Other Irelands, chapter3: "Updates to the Big House in Recession Literature"PSC-CUNY 4907/01/201806/30/201904/15/20184830Completed
“The Miseducation of Peter Wimsey”PSC-CUNY 4507/01/201406/30/201504/15/20144498Completed
“Killing Time and the Gentry: Syllepsis in Mystery Fiction”PSC-CUNY 4207/01/201106/30/201204/15/20113990Completed
Working-Class Masculinity in the Thatcher YearsPSC-CUNY 4107/01/201006/30/20114265Completed
Scottland and IrelandPSC-CUNY 3907/01/200812/31/20092475Completed
“ ‘Maybe he would go someplace else all the gether:’ James Kelman’s America”PSC-CUNY 3807/01/200706/30/20083990Completed
Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
Baruch College Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished ServiceBaruch College, CUNY2016
Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor of British LiteratureUniversity of Connecticut Department of English2013I was in residence at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, for the Spring 2013 semester, during which time I had the opportunity to teach one graduate and one undergraduate course and work on several publications.
The Center for Place, Culture, and PoliticsCUNY Graduate Center2011Fellow 2010-11
Whiting Teaching Award2003
Nominated for Best Graduate Student Essay, ACLA1999
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Travel Grant 1997, 19981998
Lois Trice Scholarship in Plan II at the University of Texas1992
Marjorie Hope Nicholson Fellowship in English at Columbia1992
Phi Beta Kappa1992
National Merit Scholar1988

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
College Academic Review CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
WSAS Executive CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
WSAS Academic Standing Committee Committee MemberPresent
General Faculty Committee on Enrollment ManagementCommittee MemberPresent
Department Executive CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Deputy Chair - English DepartmentDepartment deputy chair5/31/2023
School Academic Review CommitteeCommittee Member6/30/2020
General Faculty Committee on Ceremonial Occasions Attendee, Meeting6/30/2020
Baruch College Self Study Working Group VICommittee Chair3/31/2020
Honors Admissions CommitteeCommittee Member3/1/2020
College Strategic Plan Implementation Committee Committee Member5/31/2019
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Chair9/30/2018
School Academic Review CommitteeCommittee Chair9/1/2018
Advisory Committee on faculty non-teaching assignments before and after Paid Parental LeaveCommittee Member10/31/2016
Search Committee, Dean of WSASCommittee Member12/31/2015
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Chair10/31/2015
Middle States Periodic Review ReportCommittee Chair6/30/2015
Film Studies MinorCommittee Chair1/31/2013
Department Chair - English Department1/31/2013
Department Executive Committee1/31/2013
Committee on Social and Academic Events12/31/2012
Committee for Whiting Teching Award FellowshipsCommittee Member4/30/2012
Weissman School Executive CommitteeCommittee Chair1/31/2012
College Academic Review CommitteeCommittee Member1/31/2012
Deputy Chair - English Department1/31/2012
Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Chair12/31/2011
College for a Day3/31/2010
Composition Committee12/31/2009
Middle States Accreditation Working Group on Faculty5/31/2009
Committee on Collegiate Athletic ActivitiesAttendee, Meeting12/31/2008
Weissman School Committee of Latin American and Caribbean StudiesAttendee, Meeting12/31/2008
Acting Writing Director1/31/2006
Student Recruitment Phonathon12/31/2003
English ClubFaculty Sponsor12/31/2003
Department Secretary12/31/2002
Weissman School High School Essay ContestReader12/31/2002

University

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
CUNY Institute for Irish American StudiesFaculty Council Member1/1/2001Present
Deputy Executive Officer for Job SearchCommittee Chair8/25/2022Present
English Department Membership committeeCommittee Member9/1/2019Present
Portfolio Examination Committee Committee Member8/1/2020Present
mentoring for incoming studentsFaculty Mentor8/1/2020Present
English Department Friday Forum ProgrammingCommittee Member9/1/20206/1/2020
Graduate Student Orals and Dissertation CommitteesCommittee Member1/1/200412/31/2009
Faculty Fellowship Publication Programmentor1/1/20086/30/2008
Baruch representative for General Education initiatives1/1/200612/31/2007
PSC-CUNY Research Award Review Panel for English1/1/200112/31/2003

Professional

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
Columbia University Irish Studies SeminarChairpersonNew York9/1/2000Present
Hostos Community College, CUNYtenure review letter7/1/20199/30/2019
Modern Language AssociationReviewer, Journal Article10/1/201811/30/2018
University of New Haven7/1/20159/30/2015
Modern Fiction StudiesReviewer, Journal Article9/1/201311/30/2013
Ohio State UniversityReviewed tenure materials8/1/20138/31/2013
Palgrave Macmillan PressReviewer, Book2/28/2011
Amanda Muller, Flinders UniversityCommittee Member9/30/2010
Routledge PressReviewer, Book9/30/2009
Edward Mellen PressReviewer, Book1/1/200512/31/2007
American Conference for Irish StudiesCo-Chair2/1/20064/30/2007
Irish Academic PressReviewer, Book1/31/2007
MosaicReviewer, Journal Article2/1/20052/28/2005
Project Ascend/McNair Summer Research Mentor12/31/2003
City College Fellowships ProgramMentor1/1/200212/31/2003
American Conference of Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting Conference-Related12/31/2002
Contemporary LiteratureReviewer, Journal Article12/31/2002
Columbia University Irish Studies SeminarRapporteur1/1/199712/31/2000
Graduate Student Activities CommitteeChairperson1/1/199812/31/1999
Department of English and Comparative Literature Student representative, Graduate Student Activities CommitteeActivities Chair1/1/199812/31/1999
Conference Organizing Committee, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Spring 1997, 19991/1/199712/31/1999
Graduate Student Activities CommitteeDepartment of English Student Representative1/1/199712/31/1999
Department of English and Comparative Literature Student representative, Graduate Student Activities CommitteeSecretary1/1/199712/31/1998
SUNY College at PurchaseWrote "Handbook for Composition Instructors."12/31/1998
Research assistant for Prof. Louise YelinAssisted in preparation of Writing From the Margins of Empire.12/31/1998
Graduate Student Activities CommitteeSecretary1/1/199712/31/1998
Mentor to first year graduate students1/1/199712/31/1998
Department of English and Comparative Literature Application Review Board12/31/1997
Abstract Review Board, ACLA1/1/199612/31/1997
Mentor to first year graduate students1/1/199612/31/1997
Research assistant for Prof. Jean Franco1/1/199312/31/1994
Prepared index of Academic Fiction by Dr. Janice Rossen12/31/1992
Application review board, Plan II Honors program1/1/198912/31/1992
Joan Holliday Teaching AwardCommittee Chair12/31/1991