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To mark the second anniversary of Edna O'Brien's passing, read Maureen O'Connor's wonderful article on "Edna O’Brien’s Neglected Widows and Spinsters", published as part of our Humanities open-access Special Issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

The word of the summer is "unfortunately.." I recently applied for 8 positions: 7 desk rejections, 1 interview. Difficult to see a way forward for me in this field as of now. I'm interested to hear from anyone who successfully transitioned from academia who'd like to share their experiences & tips❤️🙏

Thanks to everyone who came out on a blazing hot Friday for the dual launch of the open-access special issue "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" and the accompanying podcast series "Unmarried Sisters" at The James Joyce Centre on Friday! @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social

Looking forward to today's launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Where? The James Joyce Centre Dublin When? 5pm Who? Speakers Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Anne Fogarty, Deirdre Foley, Fae McNamara & Maureen O'Connor Cost? Free event (but booking is essential) Refreshments? Will be provided!

🔥OUT NOW🔥 "Sexual 'Non-Occurrence': Celibacy in Elizabeth Bowen’s Interwar Fiction" by Iva Dimovska Article #10 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

🚨OUT NOW: Article #9 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! "The Marriage Bar in Irish Life" by Deirdre Foley Combining oral history, manuscript sources and personal history, this article considers the impact of the Irish Marriage Bar across generations. Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

"a tremendously exciting book...a real intellectual breakthrough that reinstates work on Joyce at the forefront of critical studies of modernism" I'm so thrilled by Enda Duffy's wonderful review of "Finnegans Wake: Human & Nonhuman Histories" in @mmodernity.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...

One week until the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" at The James Joyce Centre Dublin! Speakers include Katherine Ebury, Anne Fogarty, Maureen O'Connor, Deirdre Foley and Fae Mc Namara! Book your free ticket now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

To mark the centenary of radical poet, feminist & trade unionist Eva Gore-Booth, read @sonjatiernan.bsky.social's "Sex Is an Accident: Heterosexual Celibacy in the Political Writings of Eva Gore-Booth"; published in our special issue Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing! 🔗👉 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

💥OUT NOW!💥 "‘I Hope Now You Will Do Something for Her, as She Is a Great Burden to Me’: The Impact of Economic Dependency on the Afterlives of Cork Single Women Active in the Irish Revolutionary Period" by Leeann Lane Article #8 in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! 🔗 www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

Very cool to receive the physical copy of this year's Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature "Nonhuman Perspectives", including my chapter "Unveiling the Sky: Ecofeminist Revelations in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own"! 🌺

Please join us for the launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing", a new special issue dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women James Joyce Centre Dublin, Fri 10 July 5pm Refreshments will be provided The event is free but booking is essential www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...

Launch of Celibacy in Irish Women's WritingPlease join us for the launch of a new special issue and podcast series dedicated to the untold history of Ireland's unmarried women.www.eventbrite.ie

Proofs from "Nightreadings: Essays on Finnegans Wake II.2", forthcoming from European Joyce Studies! It's such a great idea to dedicate a full collection to this dense episode; I'm thrilled to have contributed a chapter that reads the "Night Lessons" from nonhuman studies & ecofeminist perspectives

🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨 🎉 Launch of "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing" (Special Issue) & "Unmarried Sisters" (Podcast Series) 📆 Friday 10 July (early evening) 📍 The James Joyce Centre, Dublin 🗣️ Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, Deirdre Foley, Maureen O'Connor & more

🔥OUT NOW!🔥 "Women’s Celibacy & the Propagation Imperative in Irish Science Fiction" by Jack Fennell The 7th article in "Celibacy in Irish Women's Writing"! On celibate politics in Irish women's sci-fi, with a focus on "Mercia, the Astronomer Royal" (1895) Read it here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/15...

Thrilled that my chapter "An Béal Bocht and the Ethics of the Modernist Laughing Apocalypse" has been made open-access, as has the whole collection "Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism", through JSTOR's "path to open" project! Available to read online here 🔗👉 www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...

Excited to receive✨️proofs✨️for my chapter on exploitations of nonhuman skins in At Swim, An Béal Bocht & Two in One via book production, clothing, taxidermy In "Flann O'Brien: Palimpsests, Translations, Intertexts", ed Anne Fogarty, Scott Hamilton, Erika Mihálycsa: out soon from @corkup.bsky.social!

My View from the Mass Demonstrations at Vienna University Against €2.5 billion Budget Cuts for Austria's Public Universities If you're interested in learning more about the proposed budget cuts and organising to demonstrate against them, follow #unisretten or link: www.univie.ac.at/en/news/unis...

"a pivotal moment in Flann O’Brien studies...a landmark in O’Brien scholarship and the broader nonhuman turn" - Thierry Robin's Études irlandaises review of "Flann O'Brien & the Nonhuman", which I'd the pleasure of editing with Katherine Ebury & John Greaney journals.openedition.org/etudesirland...

Mass Demonstration Against University Budget Cuts Wed 27 May 2026, 13:00 @univie.ac.at Main Building If you wish to stand up against the catastrophic planned budget cuts of €2.5 billion for Austria's public universities, please join the demonstration! #unisretten 🔗👉 www.univie.ac.at/en/news/unis...