Ph.D., 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., College of William and Mary; B.A., College of William and Mary
Nicholas Wolf
Affiliated Faculty
British and Irish history, particularly the cultural history of Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries and the causes and ramifications of the decline of the Irish language in this
period; popular religion and devotional practices; folklore and folk practices; history of linguistics and social history of language
The O’Donnell Fellowship; His dissertation, "Language Change and the Evolution of Religion, Community, and
Culture in Ireland, 1800-1900" was co-awarded the Adele Dalsimer Prize for Distinguished
Dissertation by the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2009.
An Irish-Speaking Island. State, Religion, Community and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland, 1770-1870 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)
"Advocacy, the Enlightenment, and the Catholic Print Trad in Mathew Carey's Dublin," Éire-Ireland 49:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 244-69
"Grammars in Search of a Corpus: Pre-Revival Guides to the Irish Language," Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 12 (2012): 8-24
"Advocacy, the Enlightenment, and the Catholic Print Trad in Mathew Carey's Dublin," Éire-Ireland 49:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 244-69
"Grammars in Search of a Corpus: Pre-Revival Guides to the Irish Language," Australasian Journal of Irish Studies 12 (2012): 8-24
"Orthaí and Orthodoxy: Healing Charms in Nineteenth-Century Catholicism" in Michael de Nie and Sean Farrell (eds) Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honour of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2010), 125-44.
"Scéal Grinn? Jokes, Puns, and the Shaping of Bilingualism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" Journal of British Studies 48:1 (January 2009): 51-75