Thomas Shea
Associate Professor
Associate Professor. Hartford and Storrs Campuses
Specialties:
Modern Irish Literature; Contemporary Irish Literature; Modern British Literature; The Novel;
Ireland’s Blasket Island Writers: Tomás à Criomhthain,  Peig Sayers,  and Muiris à Súilleabháin;
Novelists Flann O’Brien and Patrick McGinley.
Recent Publications:
“Muiris O’Sullivan’s ‘New Storytelling’: The Art of Twenty Years A-Growing,”
      Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies.       Â
“The Islander: A More Provocative Tomas O’Crohan,” New Hibernia Review.Â
âHypertext, Masks, and Resistance,â Flann OâBrien: Problems With Authority,
     James Joyce Literary Supplement.
âPeig Sayers: Religious Subversions, Covert Withholdings, and Undaunted Mettle,â
     The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies.
âThe Blasket Island Writers: Tomás à Criomhthain, Peig Sayers, and Muiris à Súilleabháin,â
     The Cracked Looking-Glass, Princeton University Library.
Previously:
Flann OâBrienâs Exorbitant Novels, Bucknell UP; “Outstanding Academic Book Award,” The Association of College and Research Libraries.
Current Research:
Ireland’s Blasket Island WritersÂ
Kevin Barry’s fiction.
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thomas.shea@uconn.edu | |
Phone | 959-200-3786 |
Mailing Address | UConn Hartford 10 Prospect St. Hartford, CT 06103 |
Office Location | Hartford Times Building, Room 526 |