Publications

Books and special issues

• Editor, with Bridget English and Matthew L. Reznicek. The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature. Under contract with Liverpool University Press.
• Editor. “Religion and Cultural Identity in Irish American Literature.” Special forum. Religion & Literature 52.3-53.1 (2021).
• Editor, with Marguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den Beuken. Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations. Reimagining Ireland 79. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. ISBN: 978-1787072251.
• Editor, with Marguérite Corporaal, Lindsay Janssen, and Ruud van den Beuken. Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Reimagining Ireland 60. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014. ISBN: 978-3034309035.
• Editor, with Marguérite Corporaal and Lindsay Janssen. Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology. Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and British Fiction, 1847-1920. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2012. ISBN: 978-0716531289.

Articles, chapters, and review essays

• “‘People call this the death ticket’: The Workhouse in Famine Fiction.” Stories from the Irish Workhouse. Ed. Ciarán Reilly. Dublin: Wordwell [accepted].
• “‘This Merciless Inventory’: Using Irish Poetry in EFL Teacher Education.” MLA Options in Teaching Modern Irish Poetry. Ed. Guinn Batten and Anna Teekell. New York: Modern Language Association [forthcoming].
• “‘Back into the old homestead’: The Irish Cottage in in Irish-American Fiction, 1861-1873.” Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, ed. Heather Laird and Jay Roszman. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press [forthcoming].
• “‘Seanachie to the New World’: Seumas MacManus and the Transatlantic Appeal of Irish Local Colour.” Open Library of Humanities 8.2 (2022) [open access].
• “Dublin Fictions and the Economics of Famine Memory.” Dublin and the Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Ciarán McCabe, and Ciarán Reilly. Dublin: UCD Press, 2022. 121-32, 83-5.
• With Lindsay Janssen. “‘’Tis Yourself Is a Skeleton’: Deathbed Scenes and Ethnic Identity in Irish-American Short Fiction, 1895-1910.” Irish Studies Review 30.1 (2022): 1-15 [open access].
• “Religion and Cultural Identity in Irish American Literature.” Religion & Literature 52.3-53.1 (2021): 138-45.
• “‘Here at least and at last is reality!’: Catholic Graveyards and Diasporic Identity in Irish North American Fiction, 1859-92.” The Graveyard in Literature: Liminality and Social Critique. Ed. Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2021. 159-73.
• With Lindsay Janssen and Marguérite Corporaal. “‘In Ireland I’d Have Starved’: North American Fiction about the Great Irish Famine, 1850-1918.” New Hibernia Review 25.2 (2021): 129-54.
• “Sunk in the Mainstream: Irish Women Writers, Canonicity, and Famine Memory, 1892-1917.” Irish Women Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Alternative Histories, New Narratives. Ed. Kathryn Laing and Sinéad Mooney. Brighton: EER, 2020. 37-48.
• “Transformative Nationalism and Class Relations in Irish Famine Fiction, 1896-1909.” The Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations. Ed. Marguérite Corporaal and Peter Gray. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019. 151-69.  [Pre-publication PDF]
• With Marguérite Corporaal and Lindsay Janssen. “Reimagining Rural Ireland: Famine, Migration and Feudalism in Irish and Irish North-American Fiction, 1860-1895.” Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies 8 (2018) [open access].
• With Marguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den Beuken. “Never Forget? Memory’s Role in Irish Culture.” Irish Times website, 10 February 2017.
• With Marguérite Corporaal and Ruud van den Beuken. “Introduction: Transitions and Transformations.” Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations. Ed. Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud van den Beuken. Reimagining Ireland 79. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 1-15.
• With Marguérite Corporaal and Lindsay Janssen. “From Restoration to Reinscription: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction, 1847-1921.”  Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations. Ed. Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud van den Beuken. Reimagining Ireland 79. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017. 233-55.
• “Famine Memory and Diasporic Identity in US Periodical Fiction, 1891-1918.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations 19.2 (2015): 153-69.
• With Marguérite Corporaal. “In Praise of Mary Anne Sadlier, a Literary Figurehead of Catholic North America.” Irish Times website, 18 March 2015.
• With Marguérite Corporaal and Lindsay Janssen. “Introduction.” Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen and Ruud van den Beuken. Reimagining Ireland 60. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014. 1-15.
• With Lindsay Janssen. “Famine, Home, and Transatlantic Politics in Two Late Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Novels.” Atlantic Studies 11.3 (2014): 403-18. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2014.921104.
• With Lindsay Janssen. “Death in the Family: Reimagining the Irish Family in Famine Fiction, 1871-1912.” New Voices, Inherited Lines: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Irish Family. Ed. Yvonne O’Keeffe and Claudia Reese. Reimagining Ireland 47. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. 7-34.
• Review essay on Famine studies and the politics of blame. Irish University Review 42.2 (2012): 453-61. Books reviewed: Ciarán Ó Murchadha, The Great Famine; and David P. Nally, Human Encumbrances. DOI: 10.3366/iur.2012.0048.
• With Marguérite Corporaal and Lindsay Janssen. “Recollecting Hunger: An Introduction.” Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology. Cultural Memories of the Great Famine in Irish and British Fiction, 1847-1920. Ed. Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2012. 1-22.
• With Marguérite Corporaal. “Rites of Passage: The Coffin Ship as Site of Immigrants’ Identity Formation in Irish and Irish-American Fiction, 1855-1885.” Atlantic Studies 8.3 (2011): 343-59. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2011.589697.
• “Beyond the Emerald Isle: Studying the Irish Atlantic.” Review essay. Atlantic Studies 8.3 (2011): 379-88. Books reviewed: Peter D. O’Neill and David Lloyd, eds., The Black and Green Atlantic; David T. Gleeson, ed., The Irish in the Atlantic World; Angela F. Murphy, American Slavery, Irish Freedom; and Jonathan Gantt, Irish Terrorism in the Atlantic Community. DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2011.589700.

Academic reviews and literary criticism

• Review of Richard Fallon, Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature: How the ‘Terrible Lizard’ Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon. BAVS Newsletter 22.2 (2022): 4-5.
• “No Happy Lists.” Review of Richard Skelton, Stranger in the Mask of a Deer; Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Of Sea; and Gail McConnell, The Sun Is Open. Poetry London 102 (2022): 49-51
• “Hardly a Walk in the Park.” Review of Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire, and Seán Ó Cuirreáin, The Queen v Patrick O’Donnell: The Man Who Shot the Informer James Carey. Times Literary Supplement, 13 May 2022.
• Review of LeAnne Howe and Padraig Kirwan, eds., Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present. Saothar 47 (reviews supplement) (2022): 13-15.
• “The Unknown Night.” Review of Carolyn Jess-Cooke, We Must Leave the Earth, and Maurice Riordan, Shoulder Tap. Poetry Review 112.1 (2022): 112-6.
• “What Happens to Other People’s Voices Inside Me.” Review of Stephen Sexton, Cheryl’s Destinies, and Caleb Klaces, Away From Me. Poetry Review 111.4 (2021): 141-5.
• “Strange Miracles.” Review of Ciaran Carson, Still Life, and Derek Mahon, Washing Up. Poetry Review 111.2 (2021): 102-5.
• Review of Cian T. McMahon, The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine. Irish Times, 12 June 2021.
• “Corvid Song.” Review of Crispin Best, Hello; Geraldine Clarkson, Monica’s Overcoat of Flesh; and Matthew Welton, Squid Squad: A Novel. Poetry London 98 (2021): 55-7.
• Review of Jasmijn Bloemert, Getting Off the Fence: Exploring the Role, Position, and Relevance of Literature Education in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language in Dutch Secondary Education. Levende Talen Tijdschrift 21.4 (2020): 39-44.
• Review of Luke Gibbons, Joyce’s Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, Memory. English Studies (2020).
• Review of Gillian O’Brien, The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland’s Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion. Irish Times, 17 October 2020.
• Review of Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster. Times Literary Supplement, 11 September 2020.
• Review of Ewout van der Knaap, Literatuur en film in het vreemdetalenonderwijs [Literature and film in foreign language education]. Levende Talen Magazine 107.3 (2020): 53-4.
• Review of Peter D. O’Neill, Famine Irish and the American Racial State. Journal of American Ethnic History 39.1 (2019): 113-4.
• Review of Damien Goodfellow, Black ’47: A Story of Ireland’s Great Famine. Irish Times, 17 August 2019.
• “Myths of Complex Identity.” Review of Colin Broderick, ed., The Writing Irish of New York; Colin Broderick, Orangutan; and Colin Broderick, That’s That. Irish Times, 3 August 2019.
• Review of Margaret Kelleher, The Maamtrasna Murders: Language, Life and Death in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Times Literary Supplement, 8 February 2019.
• Review of George O’Brien, The Irish Novel 1800-1910. Notes and Queries 66.1 (2019): 152-4.
• “Being New York, Being Irish: A Celebration of Irish-American Diaspora.” Review of Terry Golway, ed., Being New York, Being Irish. Irish Times, 22 December 2018.
• Review of Niamh Ann Kelly, Imaging the Great Irish Famine: Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture. Times Literary Supplement, 28 September 2018.
• “Children and the Great Hunger: Old and New Perspectives on the Famine.” Review of Christine Kinealy, Jason King, and Gerard Moran, eds, Children and the Great Hunger in Ireland. Irish Times, 11 August 2018.
• “Grace Under Pressure: The Famine in Fiction.” Irish Times website, 6 June 2018.
• Review of Alvin Jackson, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History. Times Literary Supplement, 20 February 2015.
• Review of James H. Murphy, Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age. English Studies 95.3 (2014): 343-5. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.894759.
• Review of Amy E. Martin, Alter-Nations: Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Nations and Nationalism 20.2 (2014): 384-6. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12065_6.
• “Maps, MOPEs and Englishmen.” Review essay. Times Literary Supplement, 15 March 2013. Books reviewed: William J. Smyth, John Crowley, and Mike Murphy, eds., Atlas of the Great Irish Famine; John Kelly, The Graves Are Walking; Tim Pat Coogan, The Famine Plot; and Enda Delaney, The Curse of Reason.
• Review of Maud Ellmann, The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud. English Studies 93.8 (2012): 991-3. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2012.721279.
• Review of Declan Kiberd, Ulysses and Us; and Julie Sloan Brannon, Who Reads Ulysses?. English Studies 92.4 (2011): 471-73. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2011.564421.
• Review of Helen Kelly, Irish ‘Ingleses’: The Irish Immigrant Experience in Argentina 1840-1920. Irish Studies Review 19.2 (2011): 221-23. DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2011. 565949.
• Several entries in the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (2009-2011).

Creative writing

• “Birds.” Creative nonfiction. Hinterland Magazine 9 (2021): 71-86.
• From seize: i. Ink Sweat & Tears (18 April 2021).
• “talion.” Poem. Abridged 0 – 68: Trivia (2021).
• Translation of “when my mother died / we didn’t talk about it” by Tommes Gaarder. Poem. Poetry London 98 (2021): 22.
• “once upon a time.” Poem. Abridged 0 – 67: Nux (2020).
• “Anamnesis.” Poem. The Honest Ulsterman (October 2020).
• “The Glummest Rook.” Creative nonfiction. The Manchester Review 23 (2020).
• “Consequentialism.” Poem. Abridged 0 – 19: Eris (2020).
• “Plutonium.” Poem. Abridged 0 – 59: Persephone (2020): 18.
• “Taxidermy Owls.” Poems. 3:AM Magazine (December 2019).
• “A Penny for Two Thoughts.” Poem. Poetry Ireland Review 128 (2019): 88-9.
• “Juxtapositions.” Creative nonfiction. Crossing the Dissour 2 (August 2019).
• “Vacancy.” Poem. The Honest Ulsterman (June 2019).
• “The River, The Bridge.” Creative nonfiction. Banshee 8 (2019): 19-25.
• “Westminster Bridge.” Poem. Poetry Salzburg Review 18 (2010): 147-8.
• “Epulum Iovis (Liber Amoris).” Poem. Poetry Salzburg Review 18 (2010): 148-9.