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Faculty
Moira Casey
Titles
- Associate Professor of English
- Affiliate for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Middletown Campus Faculty Director
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
- British and Irish literature
- Composition
- Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Irish Transnational Literature
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Selected Publications
- "' If love's a country' : Transnationalism and the Celtic Tiger in Emma Donoghue's Landing." New Hibernia Review. 15:2, Summer 2011. 64-79.
- "Exploring the Social Nature of Reading: The Literary Interview Assignment." Co-authored with Jeffrey Sommers. Lore: An E-Journal For Teachers of Writing. Bedford/St. Martin's. Spring 2009 Special Issue on the Intersection of Literature and Composition.
- Review of Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques by Laura Hennessy DeSena. Teaching English at the Two-Year College. 35:3, March 2008. 313-15.
- "From Other to Another: Regional Campus Freshman English in Transition." Co-authored with Karen Cajka and Stephanie Roach. Open Words: Access and English Studies. 2:1, Spring 2008. 49-68.
- "Devoted Ladies and the Apparitional Irish Lesbian." Molly Keane: Centenary Essays. Eds. Eibhear Walshe and Gwenda Young. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 169-180.
- "Mary Dorcey." Dictionary of Literary Biography: British and Irish Short Fiction, 1945-2000. Vol. 319. Ed. David Malcolm. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2005. 63-67. (3000 word entry)
- "Safety of the Nation, Safety of the Family." Review of Kathryn Conrad's Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse. Irish Literary Supplement. March 2005.
- "Rotating Teacher Participation in Workshop Groups." Teaching English at the Two-Year College. 32:3, March 2005. 278-281.
- 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.
- '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's current work involves two primary projects. The first is a co-edited collection of essays on Irish Transnational Literature, for which is she is collaborating with Dr. Amanda Tucker at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and multiple essay contributors. The second is her work on the contemporary Irish crime novels of Tana French, on the subject of which she has presented several conference papers and plans to publish this work in the near future.