Francis Ittenbach
BA in English University of Alabama, MPhil in Irish Writing Trinity College Dublin, PhD Student in English at Emory University
Emory University
Launched in 2004, Emory’s Irish Studies Program builds on our tremendous strengths in teaching and research in Irish literature, arts and culture. Students work with Emory’s extraordinary collection of Irish literary archives ranging from W.B. Yeats and the Revival to Seamus Heaney and contemporary Irish poetry. The Irish Studies Program is housed within Emory’s English Department and introduces students to leading scholarship on Ireland through courses, seminars, readings and lectures. Interested students may study in Ireland either in Semester or Year Abroad programs in Belfast, Dublin or Galway. At the graduate level, there is also an informal Irish-language reading group.
Courses
English 258 Introduction to Irish Studies
English 342 Modern Irish Literature
English 480 Seminar in Poetry: W. B. Yeats and Irish Poetry
English 789 Locating Irish Studies
English 789 Making History in Irish Literature
English 789 Publishing Postcolonial Literature
W. Ronald Schuchard
author of The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (OUP 2008); co-editor with John Kelly of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, volumes III, IV, V; former director of the Yeats International Summer School
Geraldine Higgins
Geraldine Higgins specializes in twentieth-century Irish literature and culture, modern British literature, archival studies and public exhibitions. She joined the Emory faculty in 1996 after completing a B.A. in English and History at Trinity College Dublin and a D.Phil. in