M.A. Alumni
Michael Beebe
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Liam O’ Flaherty: Socialist Realism and the Literary Insurgency of Post-Independence Ireland”
Russell Brown
Research Interests: M.A. Thesis, “the lone dancer: the impact of the eighteenth century jib on the history of solo performance”
Margaret Cardosi
Research Interests: M.A. Special Project, Irish Adoptees in America
Christian Clark
Research Interests: MA Special Project, "Muide Éire: Race, Education and Integration in a Changing Changing Ireland”
Joe Clarke
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Charles O’Conor of New York, 1804-1884: A Nineteenth Century Irish-American”
Brendan Dolan
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Music in the Mountains: The Irish Catskills and Traditional Music”
Angela Donovan
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “De Valera delivers--Neutrality as victory in the battle for Irish Independence”
Meagan Drillinger
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Ireland on the Brink: Tourism’s Role in Ireland’s Broken Economy”
Adam Farley
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Sic Transit: Transportation, Time and Genre in the Poetry of Louis MacNeice”
Kate Feighery
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “‘The Streets Were Paved Green, White, and Gold:’ The Heydey of the Irish in Highbridge, 1920-1970”
Paul Ferris
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “‘Dreadful Scenes in Newark’: The Press and the September 5, 1854 Nativist Riot in Newark, New Jersey”
Virginia Ferris
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “‘Inside of the Family Circle’: Irish and African American Interracial Marriage in Manhattan’s Eighth Ward, 1870”
Alexandra Harper
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “The Beastmaster: Masculinity, Animals and the Supernatural in the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Sarah Harsh
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Mothers of Sin and Salvation: Reimagining Icons of the Maternal in the Bildungsroman of James Joyce and Edna O’Brien”
Ari Hausler
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “From Garrison Game to Beautiful Game: An Examination of Ireland’s Influence on Soccer in the British Isles”
Caroline Heafey
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Penning Punishment: Uncovering Trauma and Narrative Nuance in Dorothy Macardle's Prison Writings”
Joseph Long
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Family & Community on the Waterfront: Irish Life in Chelsea and Greenwich Village”
Sara McCabe
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Tending the Hearth: A Collection of Songs from the Folk Culture of Irish Women”
Flannery McDermott
Research Interests: MA Thesis, "Teanga Dhúchais: Irish Language and the Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill"
Andrew J McGaffey
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “The Irish Sugar Trade 1742-1763”
Rebecca McGlynn
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Socio-Historical Anxieties in the Short Stories of Maeve Brennan”
Garrett McGrath
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “A History of Punk Rock Music and Race”
Karen O'Leary
Research Interests: MA Special Project, “An Uncommon Beauty: Catherine Hayes’ Representation of Irish Femininity on the Nineteenth Century American Stage”
Aliah D. O’Neill
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Alternate Nationhood: The Political Poetry of Evan Boland”
Ricardo Piazza
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “The Protestant Union: An Analysis of the Anglo-Irish Union’s Unintended Consequences”
Hilary Sophrin
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “A Small Town Somewhere in Ireland: Reading Billy Roche’s Wexford”
Ann Swank
Research Interests: MA Special Project, “The Mythic and the Modern: The New Mythology of the Fifty Minute Mermaid
Hilary Sweeney
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “An Introduction to the Linguistic and Social Landscape of Ireland: From Before the Celts to the Flight of the Earls”
Sarah Tereniak
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “The Dancer, The Muse and Poetic Form: Iseult Gonne and WB Yeats”
Greta Van Lith
Research Interests: MA Special Project, "The Memoirs of Mrs. Leeson, Madam, in context: Prostitutes in Eighteenth-Century Dublin "
Oliver Wallis
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “Distributed Consciousness in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Daphne Dyer Wolf
Research Interests: MA Thesis, “The View from Two Windows: Researching a Rent Strike in Roscommon”