Mary McGlynn

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  • Acting Deputy Executive Officer for Placement and Professor, English

Research Interests

  • Irish studies
  • 20th century and contemporary British literature
  • Scottish literature
  • narrative theory
  • working-class fiction
  • class studies
  • literature and economics
  • mystery fiction
  • US/Irish cultural interactions
  • chair, Columbia U. Seminar in Irish Studies

Education

  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Contact

Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Baruch College

Selected Publications:

  • Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction. Syracuse UP, 2022.
  • “Embodiment, Abstraction, and Hidden Reproductive History. Éire-Ireland 35.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2021), 130-158. 
  • “Parma Violets and Pince-Nez: Dorothy Sayers’s Meritocracy.” CLUES: A Journal of Detection 37.2 (Fall 2019), 71-82.
  • “Things Unexploded—The Aesthetics Of Social Risk In Two Post-Boom Irish Novels.” boundary2 45.1 (February 2018) 181-200.
  • “Reshaping Well-worn Genres: Novels of Progress and Precarity 1960-1998.” In A History of Irish Working Class Literature. Ed. Michael Pierse. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2017. 303-317.
  • “ ‘no difference between the different kinds of yesterday:’ The Neoliberal Present in The Green Road, The Devil I Know, and The Lives of Women.” LIT:  Literature, Interpretation, Theory 28.1 (February 2017) 34-54.
  • “Representations of Collectivism and the Thatcher Years.” Twentieth-Century Literature 62.3 (September 2016). 309-336.
  • “Greengos: Contemporary Irish Constructions of Latin America.”  Where Motley is Worn: Transnational Irish Literature, ed. Moira Casey and Amanda Tucker. Cork: Cork UP, 2014.  43-64.
  • How late it was, how late and Literary Value.” Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman, ed. Scott Hames. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010. 20-30.
  • Narratives of Class in New Irish and Scottish Literature: From Joyce to Kelman, Doyle, Galloway, and McNamee.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

recent courses:

  • Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English (Fall 2022)
  • Cheap Aesthetics (Fall 2021)
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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Baruch College