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CONNOLLY, CLAIRE

Claire Connolly is a Reader in Cultural Criticism and English Literature at Cardiff University. Her interests include the British and Irish novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Irish and Scottish Romanticism, Ireland and cultural theory, contemporary Irish writing and Irish-Welsh cultural relations. Claire’s research to date has focused on the cultural history of eighteenth and nineteenth century Ireland, especially the writings of Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, Sydney Owenson, Charles Robert Maturin and Thomas Moore. In addition, she has published on the place of critical and cultural theory in Irish studies, in particular the relationship between feminist and postcolonial approaches.

Between 2002-3, Claire was Visiting Associate Professor of Irish Studies and English, Boston College. From 2000-2004, she was joint General Editor of the European Journal of English Studies, and between 2000-2002, Claire was also Section Editor for the Anglo-Irish Literature volume of Annotated Bibliography for English Studies. She has contributed articles to editions of Field Day Review, Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies, Studien Zur Englischen Romantik: Alternative Romanticisms, Irish Studies Review, Colby Quarterly, European Journal of English Studies and Etudes Irlandaises. Co-ordinator, with Dr Katie Gramich, of Cardiff University’s Wales-Ireland Research Network, Claire is also secretary for the National Council for the British Association for Irish Studies, an executive member of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland and a representative for Europe on the committee of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures.

Current projects include two monographs entitled The Irish Romantic Novel and London and the Making of the Romantic Nation, essays on Celticism and on Corpses, and a special issue of Irish Studies Review on Ireland and Wales (co-edited with Katie Gramich).

Contributed to:
Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (editor and contributor) (Everyman, 1993)
Literatur und Erfahrungswandel, 1780-1830 (contributor) (Wilhelm Fink, 1996)
The Supernatural and the Fantastic in Irish Literature (contributor) (Colin Smythe, 1998)
Borderlands: Negotiating Boundaries in Post-Colonial Writing (contributor) (Rodopi, 1999)
The Novels and Selected Works of Maria Edgeworth (co-editor) (Pickering and Chatto, 1999)
Ireland and Cultural Theory: The Mechanics of Authenticity (contributor) (Macmillan, 1999)
Ormond by Maria Edgeworth (editor) (Penguin, 2000)
Edmund Burke’s ’Reflections on the Revolution in France’: New Interdisciplinary Essays (contributor) (Manchester University Press, 2000)
Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Acts of Union: The Causes, Contexts and Consequences of the Act of Union (contributor) (Four Courts Press, 2001)
Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture and Society under the Act of Union (contributor) (Colin Smythe, 2002)
Theorising Ireland (editor) (Palgrave, 2002)
The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (contributor) (Cork University Press and New York University Press, 2002)
The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) (co-editor and contributor) (Pickering and Chatto, 2002)
Éire-Land (contributor) (McMullen Museum of Art and University of Chicago Press, 2003)
The Irish Act of Union, 1800: Bicentennial Essays (contributor) (Irish Academic Press, 2003)
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (contributor) (Oxford University Press, 2003)
The Encyclopedia of Ireland, ed. Brian Lalor (contributor) (Gill and Macmillan and Yale University Press, 2003)
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture (co-editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
The Irish Novel in the Nineteenth Century: Facts and Fictions (contributor) (Four Courts, 2005)
The Cambridge History of Irish Literature (contributor) (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Ireland, Scotland and the Romantic Aesthetic (contributor) (Bucknell University Press, 2007)