Mark Quigley (Assistant Professor)
Statement
My research focuses primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and Irish literature, transatlantic modernism, and postcolonial literature and theory. My first book, Empire's Wake, traces the development of a distinctly postcolonial late modernism that begins to emerge in Irish writing in the late 1920s. My current book project, Dislocated Modernism, examines how an array of different modernist practices arise in the postcolonial spaces of India, Trinidad, Nigeria and Ireland to re-define the bases of international modernism over the course of the twentieth century.
I teach a range of courses in British, Irish and postcolonial literatures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as courses in literary theory and the history of the novel. I also direct a study-abroad program based in Galway, Ireland each summer and am the departmental coordinator for the London Winter program.
Publications
Empire's Wake: Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
"Modernization, Republicanism and the Free State: Re-reading Irish Nationalism Through Sean O'Faoláin's King of the Beggars." Revivals and Revisions: Essays in Irish Criticism and Intellectual History. Ed. Conor McCarthy. Dublin: Four Courts Press, forthcoming.
"White Skin, Green Face: House of Pain and the Modern Minstrel Show." The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas Eds. David Lloyd and Peter D. O'Neill. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
"Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity." Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 15 (2005)
"Modernity's Edge: Narrating Silence on the Blasket Islands." Interventions: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 5.3 (2003)
