People

Full time faculty

Máirtín Coilféir

Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies

Modern Irish literature, translation, ethics, humour, violence, critical theory
Gavin Foster

Irish history, School of Irish Studies
Keelan Harkin

Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies

Irish literature, law and literature, modernism, contemporary literature, citizenship, the novel, narrative theory, Kate O’Brien, Anne Enright, Edna O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Macardle, mid-century, transnational writing, 1930s, Cold War
Jane G. V. McGaughey

Johnson Chair of Québec and Canadian Irish Studies
Diaspora Studies, School of Irish Studies
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin

Principal & Professor of Anthropology, Ethnomusicology and Cultural History, School of Irish Studies
Emer O'Toole

Performance Studies, School of Irish Studies

Ireland, Performance, Theatre, Film, Activism, Performativity, Inerculturalism, Gender, Race, Class, Horror, The Uncanny, Postcolonialism, Feminism
Katie Young

Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies

The Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies

This position, jointly funded by Concordia University and the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, brings a distinguished scholar to teach within the programs of the School of Irish Studies every fall semester. The duties of the Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar are to teach two undergraduate courses within an appropriate department and to give a public lecture under the auspices of the School's Irish Lecture Series.

The 2023 Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar is Dr. Jérôme aan de Wiel, Lecturer in History and European Studies at University College Cork.