Thomas Shea

Associate Professor

English

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About

Thomas Shea is an Associate Professor of English at the Hartford and Storrs Campuses. He is currently researching Kevin Barry’s fiction and is working on a research project called Ireland’s Blasket Island Writers.

Recent Publications:

• “Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier: Unearthing Fairy Forts of Memory,”

           Australasian Journal of Irish Studies.

• “Muiris O’Sullivan’s ‘New Storytelling’: The Art of Twenty Years A-Growing,”

           Estudios Irlandeses: Journal of the Spanish Association of Irish Studies.

• “The Islander: A More Provocative Tomas O’Crohan,” New Hibernia Review.
• “Hypertext, Masks, and Resistance, Flann O’Brien: Problems With Authority,”

           James Joyce Literary Supplement.

• “Peig Sayers: Religious Subversions, Covert Withholdings, and Undaunted Mettle,”

           The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies.

• “The Blasket Island Writers: Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig Sayers, and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin,”

           The Cracked Looking-Glass, Princeton University Library.

Specialties

• Modern Irish Literature
• Contemporary Irish Literature
• Modern British Literature
• The Novel
• Ireland’s Blasket Island Writers: Tomás Ó Criomhthain, Peig Sayers, and Muiris Ó Súilleabháin
• Novelists Flann O’Brien and Patrick McGinley