People
Faculty
Moira Casey
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in English, University of Connecticut, 2003
- M.A. in English, University of Connecticut, 1996
- B.A. in English Education, Magna Cum Laude, The College of New Jersey, 1994
Teaching Interests
- Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Literature
- the Novel
- Irish fiction
- Gay and Lesbian Literature
- Women's Studies
- Composition
- Writing Program Administration
Research Interests
- the Novel
- Irish fiction
- Gay and Lesbian Literature
- Women's Studies
- Composition
- Writing Program Administration
Selected Publications
- 'Rotating Teacher Participation in Workshop Groups.' Teaching English at the Two-Year College. Forthcoming.
- Khan, F. and Casey, M. "Imbedding Writing within the Engineering Curriculum." Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. Published on CD-ROM, 2004.
- 'An Interview with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne.' Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing. IV: 1 & 2, 2003. 133-146.
- 'Mary Dorcey.' Dictionary of Literary Biography: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000. Ed. David Malcolm. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman. Forthcoming. (3000 word entry)
- 'James Ryan.' Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-first Century British and Irish Novelists. Vol. 267. Ed. Michael R. Molino. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. 304-309. (3000 word entry)
- 'Sex and Popular Culture in Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked into Doors and Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto.' Foilsiú. 1:1, 2001. 77-86.
- ''the harmless deceptions of male companionship' : Sexuality and Male Homosocial Desire in Patrick McGinley's Bogmail.' Colby Quarterly. Fall, 2000. 184-197.
- ''Apes and Echoes of Men' : Gentlemanly Ideals and the Restoration Fop.' Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Ed. Vicky K. Janik. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998. 207-14.
- Eating Cake. Eating Our Hearts Out. Ed. Lesléa Newman. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1993. 43-46. (short fiction)
Work in Progress
Dr. Casey is currently working on a book about Irish lesbian fiction, entitled The Lesbian in the House: Twentieth-Century Irish Lesbian Fiction. This book compares the treatment of lesbian desire in a range of fiction produced by Irish writers between 1928 and 1997. Beginning with works produced by Molly Keane and Kate O'Brien in the first half of the twentieth-century and moving up through more recent fiction by Emma Donoghue, Mary Dorcey, and others, this analysis traces the evolution of a literary Irish lesbian tradition; specifically, the book focuses on the fictional settings within domestic spaces and shows how these works attempt to place lesbian desire within the traditionally heterosexual domestic sphere.