| EAMONN WALL |
COMING MARCH 2011 ... Writing
the Irish West Published by University of Notre Dame Press “Eamonn Wall’s Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions makes an important contribution to transatlantic Irish studies. His critical focus on ecocriticism is timely, providing new readings of Irish writing across genres. He employs a methodology that attends to literary cartography, postcolonial contexts, and persuasive close readings of his authors. What results is a book that is fresh, illuminating, and substantive, one that elucidates a new understanding of the literary and cinematic representations of the American West.” — Susan N. Maher, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Duluth
Eamonn Wall is the author of five collections of poetry: A Tour of Your Country (2008), Refuge at De Soto Bend (2004), The Crosses (2000), Iron Mountain Road (1997), and Dyckman-200th Street (1994), all published by Salmon Publishing in Ireland. Individual poems have been published in The Shop, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, West47, TriQuarterly, Crab Orchard Review, South Dakota Review, River Styx, The Recorder, New Hibernia Review, Eire-Ireland, Nebraska Review, and other journals. From the Sin-e Café to the Black Hills, a collection of essays, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2000 and awarded the Michael J. Durkan Prize by the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship. Essays, articles, and reviews of Irish, Irish American, and American writers have appeared in New Hibernia Review, Irish Literary Supplement, The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, South Carolina Review, An Sionnach, and other journals. A longtime member of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Eamonn Wall served as president of the organization from 2005-2007. A native of Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland, Eamonn Wall has lived in the US since 1982. He was educated at University College, Dublin; the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and the City University of New York-Graduate Center, where he received his Ph.D. in English. Eamonn Wall lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and is Smurfit-Stone
Professor of Irish Studies and Professor
of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He teaches
courses in Irish and Irish-American Literature and Creative Writing,
directs the UM-St. Louis Irish Summer School in Galway, and serves
as co-coordinator of the Irish Studies Program. |
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