Thomas Shea

Associate Professor

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Associate Professor. Hartford and Storrs Campuses

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.

 

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.            

“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.

 

Previously:

Flann O’Brien’s Exorbitant Novels, Bucknell UP; “Outstanding Academic Book Award,” The Association of College and Research Libraries.

 

Current Research:

Ireland’s Blasket Island Writers 

Kevin Barry’s fiction.

 

 

View Thomas Shea’s Faculty Bookshelf page

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