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 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

• “Speelse poëzie vol grote vragen.” Review of Caroline Bird, Rookie. Levende Talen Magazine 110.1 (2023): 48-9.
• “Horrors Laid Bare.” Review of Liam Kennedy, Donald M. MacRaild, Lewis Darwen, and Brian Gurrin, The Death Census of Black ’47, and Ciara Breathnach, Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class. Irish Times, 7 January 2023.
• 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.