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Publications by Doctoral Recipients
Ellen Crowell, Ed Madden, and Karen Steele
“This is a lively and nuanced account of a fascinating subject. Crowell’s readings span topics from the female dandy, to decadence, to the politics of class, nationality, race, and gender, offering a fresh perspective on these canonical and lesser known texts.”
-Emma Sutton, School of English, The University of St Andrews
Ellen Crowell was co-directed by Elizabeth Cullingford and Warwick Wadlington. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Saint Louis University.
“Signals calls us to consciousness in a natural world that is at once quietly witness to our loves and losses and yet always as urgently and insistently alive as we are. Ed Madden, as with any of our most necessary poets, locates us plainly in this conflicted Eden, this garden of the reverent imagination-greatest of creations and, perhaps, if we fail to mind and tend it, ultimately our undoing. He interprets with wonder and sobering wisdom even the slightest marks we leave behind.”
-Rafael Campo, author of The Enemy and The Healing Art: A Doctor’s Black Bag of Poetry
Ed Madden was directed by Elizabeth Cullingford. He is currently an associate professor of English and associate director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina as well as writer in residence at the Riverbanks Botanical Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina. Madden is the author of Tiresian Poetics and Geographies and Genders in Irish Studies. His essays on politics and southern culture have appeared in many newspapers and journals and been featured on NPR. He was selected by editor Natasha Trethewey for inclusin in the anthology Best New Poets of 2007.
“Steele’s book deftly synthesizes literature, culture, history, and politics prior to Irish independence in her analysis of the advanced nationalist press. She simultaneously places women’s contributions firmly at the center of the advanced Irish nationalism and Irish culture more generally….Steele’s scholarship and research are rigorous, original, and persuasive, and her writing is authoritative, clear and a pleasure to read….This book illuminates the work that has been done on Irish nationalism, literature, the press, and women’s contributions to the public sphere and brings fresh, important insights to all of these fields….Essential reading for scholars of Irish history, literature, culture, and politics.”
-Kathryn Conrad, University of Kansas
Karen Steele was co-directed by Elizabeth Cullingford and Barbara Harlow. Karen is currently an associate professor of English and director of Women’s Studies at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. She is the editor of Maud Gonne’s Irish Nationalist Writings.