Keelan Harkin

Department School of Irish University

Research Interests Irish literature; modernism; contemporary literature; mid-century; the novel; the short story; law and literature; narrative theory; new formalism; James Joyce; Flann O'Brien; Kate O'Brien; Anne Enright; Edna O'Brien; John McGahern; Elizabeth Bowen; Colm Tóibín; Dorothy Macardle; citizenship; constitutionality; ideas of the future; transnational writing; feminist history; British and American literature.

Courses Taught in Irish Studies ENGL 356A/IRST 398A "The Irish Short Story Tradition" (Fall 2020)
ENGL 353A/IRST 398D "Contemporary Irish Literature" (Winter 2020)
ENGL 398H/IRST 344A/PERC 398 "Classics of Irish Theatre" (Winter 2020)
ENGL 498D/IRST 498A "The Modern Irish Novel" (Winter 2020)
ENGL 356A/IRST 398C "The Irish Short Story Tradition" (Fall 2019)
ENGL 357AA/IRST 398AA "The Irish Literary Revival" (Fall 2019)

Institutional Affiliation Concordia University

Keelan Harkin is a lecturer in the School of Irish Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He completed his PhD at McGill University in 2018. He is currently completing his first monograph, based on his dissertation, which examines citizenship in Irish novels since 1937. His next research project looks at Irish novels and political negotiations in the 1930s. Articles based on both on his dissertation and current research can be found in Textual Practice, New Hibernia Review, and Irish University Review.

Keelan Harkin

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