James M. Smith is a Professor in the English Department and Irish Studies Program at Boston College. He has published articles in Signs, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Éire-Ireland and ELH. His first book, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the nation’s architecture of containment (U of Notre Dame P/Manchester UP) was published in 2007 and was awarded The Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Together with his colleagues in the Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) advocacy group, he co-authored Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice (Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2021) and co-edited Redress: Ireland’s Institutions and Transitional Justice (UCD Press, 2022). Together with Maria Luddy, he co-edited the collection Children, Childhood and Irish Society: 1500 to the Present (Four Courts, 2014). And, he edited Two National Tales: Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent and Sydney Owenson’s The wild Irish girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2005 ). Originally from Sligo, Jim lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife Beatriz Valdés.

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