This conference was organized by Maureen Fadem (Kingsborough, CUNY), Sarah Covington (Queens, CUNY), Jason Leggett (Kingsborough, CUNY) and Mary O’Malley Madec (Villanova University). You can reach us at the following email address:
Feel free to reach out with questions, special requests, etc. One of us will respond to you just as soon as we are able.
We look forward to seeing you in November!
The Conference Organizers:
Maureen Fadem completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is Associate Professor of English at The City University of New York / Kingsborough and has taught at Drew University, The Graduate Center, Hunter College and Eugene Lang College. Maureen’s research is on Anglophone writing of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries with specializations in Irish, Asian and African American literatures. Her research fields include Postcolonial and Irish studies, Partition and Gender studies, Literary Theory and Literary Poetics. Maureen’s first book The Literature of Northern Ireland: Spectral Borderlands appeared in 2015 (Palgrave Macmillan). A second monograph Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian is in press with Lexington Books / Rowman (2019). Her third book, Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Case for Reparations and the New Abolitionism is in contract and due out in 2020 from Routledge, Inc. And, a collection she has edited titled The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter is also in contract with Routledge and also to appear in 2020. Recent articles include “A Consciousness of Streets: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Partition” in Synthesis (2016) and “Drawing the Border, Queering the Nation: Nation Trouble in Breakfast on Pluto and The Crying Game” in Gender Forum (2016). The chapter “Impassable Partitions | Chthonic Integration: Cultivating Race-Class Solidarity through (Pedagogical) Modalities of Quiet Revolt” is to be included in Strategies and Perspectives on Social Justice Work (ed. Neal Lester, MLA 2019). Maureen is commencing research for a theoretical study of national partition and a three-volume work on modes of realism in comparative literatures of partition. She lives in Brooklyn.
Sarah Covington is Professor of History at the Graduate Center and Queens College as well as director of the Irish Studies program at Queens College, and the M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir at the Graduate Center. Specializing in early modern England and Ireland, she has published The Trail of Martyrdom: Persecution and Resistance in Sixteenth-Century England (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004); Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009); and Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods and Perspectives, co-edited with Vincent Carey and Valerie McGowan-Doyle (Routledge, 2018) Her forthcoming book, Remembering Oliver Cromwell in Ireland, to be published by Oxford University Press in early 2020, will explore the social memory of this most hated enemy in the Irish historical, literary and folkloric imagination over three centuries. She is also co-editor, with Kathryn Reklis, of the forthcoming collection Explorations in Protestant Aesthetics (Routledge). Her other projects include a monograph on the theological and literary reinterpretations of problematic biblical characters and episodes (Judas, Gethsemane) in the wake of the sixteenth-century reformation; and, returning to Ireland, a book on John O’Donovan and his Ordnance Survey letters.
Jason M. Leggett is an Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College. He earned a Juris Doctorate from Seattle University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (Honors with Distinction) focused on political participation and communication at the University of Washington in Seattle. He moved to New York City in 2008 to study public interest legal education and began working for City University of New York in 2010. Jason is the Director of the CUNY Kingsborough Global and Environmental Studies Concentration and has published innovative work on civic learning and democratic engagement. He conducts most of his research in Law, Politics and Society. He is presently completing a 10 year study of legal exclusion within the American immigration and health care systems. This book project is broken up into three sections examining: courts and the law, the history of exclusionary legal language, and legal mobilization. In addition Jason produced a short docmentary film and is writing a legal non-fiction narrative about his journey to find an undocumented immigrant who was illegally deported by a private hospital in Florida to better understand the social dimensions involved. In addition to his full-time teaching load at CUNY Kingsborough in Brooklyn, Jason has taught for the opportunity programs initiative at Barnard College at Columbia University, and the college experience program through Brooklyn Public Libraries for people interested in coming to college. Jason is completing collaborative research with co-researchers in culturally responsive teaching, fake news and participatory democracy, civic identity and agency through dialogue, and political ecology and democratic theory.
Mary O’Malley Madec’s Ph.D. in Linguistics is from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). Her research focuses on the use of English in Irish speaking communities in Ireland exploring scoiolinguistica phenomena and discourse marking. She has also worked on the Irish Traveller Cant and culture. Mary has taught Linguistics at Open University, NUI Galway and at Penn and she worked as a researcher at the former Institute of Linguistics in Dublin. She has published on discourse markers in language contact and other sociolinguistic phenomena in this contact situation. In Ireland she is the resident director of Education Abroad for Villanova University and teaches for them as part of that program. Mary is also an established Irish poet. In 2008 she won the Hennessy XO Award for Emerging Poetry. Since then she’s published two collections with Salmon Poetry, In Other Words (2010) and Demeter Does Not Remember (2014). Mary’s third volume of poems, The Egret Lands with News from Other Parts (2019), is just out, also from Salmon. She was twice the recipient of an Arts Council participation bursary (2011, 2014) which allowed her to develop a ground-breaking program for people with intellectual disabilities from which came the book Jessica Casey & Other Stories (Salmon Poetry, 2012) anthologizing the work of the participants in the workshops and which Mary edited.
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