About Colleen English

Colleen English holds a Ph.D. in British and Irish Romantic literature from University College Dublin. Her current book project, “Writing the Dead: Epitaphs, Elegies, and Communities of Sentiment in Romantic Ireland” interrogates the role elegiac poetry written in Ireland in the early to mid-nineteenth century played in reconfiguring the spheres of political and aesthetic influence and fostering transnational connections. She currently teaches writing and literature courses at Loyola University Chicago and co-convenes the Irish Studies Scholarly Seminar at the Newberry Library. Research Interests include: Nineteenth-century British and Irish literature and culture; Creative Writing; the elegy

Colleen English is a scholar of Irish and Romantic literature based at Loyola University Chicago. She co-convenes the Irish Studies Scholarly Seminar at the Newberry Library. On Twitter.

NBN Episodes hosted by Colleen:

Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)

June 18, 2023

Broken Irelands

Mary M. McGlynn
Hosted by Colleen English
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In this interview Mary M. McGlynn, Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, discusses her new book Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash I…

David Clare et al., "The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)

December 21, 2021

The Golden Thread

David Clare, Fiona McDonagh, and Justine Nakase
Hosted by Colleen English

The 2015 #WakingTheFeminists Campaign for gender equality in Irish theatre highlighted the marginalization of women in this industry and led t…