Mark Quigley (Assistant Professor)
Statement
My research focuses primarily on Irish literature and culture and postcolonial theory. My current book project examines the forms of autobiography and the novel and the roles that each plays in the constitution of a "national" literature. My other recent work has been in the area of critical race theory and explores responses to hip-hop culture in the U.S. during the late 1980s and early 1990s as a means of tracing a history of the era's atmosphere of racial panic and considering the role it plays in re-articulating racial norms.
I teach a range of courses in Irish literature and British literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as courses in literary theory and the history of the novel. I also direct a study-abroad program based in Galway, Ireland each summer.
Publications
"Unnaming the Subject: Samuel Beckett and Colonial Alterity." Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui 15 (2005)
"Modernity's Edge: Narrating Silence on the Blasket Islands." Interventions: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 5.3 (2003)
