English Department
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields:泭Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture; Modernism; 20th Century British Literature and Culture; Modern Drama and Performance.
楚鳥硃勳梭:泭preynold@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-2695
Office: Fenwick 228
PO Box: 58A
Office Hours: T/R 10-12 pm and by appt.
Biography
I primarily teach courses in modern and contemporary Irish literature, modernism, drama and performance, and academic writing. In these classes, we develop the skills to read and analyze challenging texts such as Joyces Ulysses (1922) or Claire-Louise Bennetts Pond (2015). I ask students to say something new and interesting about our readings, and to use the words on the page to prove their claims in discussion and in papers. In our lively and provocative class discussions, youll learn to take intellectual risks and to embrace the fun of thinking critically about literature and the arts.
We also work together to produce clear and persuasive writing that conveys original insights about literature and performance. To help in this endeavor, I demonstrate for students the pleasures and challenges of being a teacher-scholar, a professor who integrates her classroom practice and scholarly research. In my Modernist Afterlives seminar, for example, we examine how and why the innovative tactics of high modernism, an early twentieth-century cultural movement, continue to appear in contemporary drama, poetry, and fiction a concern that inspired my recent monograph,泭, as well as my edited collection,泭. My research and teaching have informed opinion pieces Ive published in venues including the , , and , as well as in podcasts for and .
Thanks to the Edward Callahan Support Fund for Irish Studies, students have the opportunity to meet and talk with Irish writers whom we read in class, such as Kevin Barry, Anne Enright, Eimear McBride, Mary Morrissy, Paul Muldoon, and Colm T籀ib穩n, and to discuss Irish literature and culture with visiting scholars in Irish Studies. We also support the at the in Dublin, where we are building rich partnerships with Irish cultural institutions and contemporary writers to enable exciting cross-cultural opportunities for the 17勛圖厙 community.泭 My classes have travelled to Boston, Providence, New Haven, and New York to see productions of泭plays, and you might just find us at a local pub discussing poetry or at my house screening a film relevant to our class.
Courses Taught
Introductory Courses
- Critical Reading and Writing: Drama
- Critical Reading and Writing: Fiction
- Critical Reading and Writing: Poetry
- Critical Reading and Writing: Multi-genre
- Introduction to Academic Writing
Touchstones,泭Readings, Masterpieces, and Seminars
- Touchstones II: British Romanticism to the Present
- Readings in Twentieth-Century British Literature
- Masterpieces of British Literature: Audiences and Actors
- Seminar:泭Thirteen Ways of Looking at Things (with Sarah Stanbury)
- Seminar: Modernist Afterlives
Irish Studies Courses
- Modernism and the Irish Literary Revival
- Contemporary Irish Literature
- Irish Sex
- Irish Drama
- 泭Irish Literary Activism
- The Irish Short Story
- James Joyce
- Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll in Irish Literature (non-majors)
- Modern Irish Literature (non-majors)
- Seminar: Joyce's泭Ulysses泭and Critical Theory
- Seminar: Irish Women's Writing
- Seminar: Catholicism in Irish Literature and Culture
- Tutorial: Gender in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture
- College Honors: Irish Experience (with Suzanne Kirschner)
Selected publications
Book
泭泭(Oxford University Press, 2024)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.泭Paperback, 2010.泭Honorable Mention, Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies, 2007
Edited Volumes
- Editor.泭泭Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Co-Editor (with Eric Falci).泭 (1980-2020). Series Editors, Claire Connolly and Marjorie Howes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Invited Guest Editor.泭泭48:1 (Summer 2018).
- Editor.泭泭泭Anthem Irish Studies Series. London: Anthem Press, 2016.泭泭Paperback, 2019.
- Invited Guest Editor.泭泭64:1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2011).泭
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
- Bird Girls: Modernism and Sexual Ethics in Eimear McBrides泭A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing.泭.泭泭Ed. David James.泭泭Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Theatrical Ireland: New Routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre.泭 (1880-1940). Ed. Marjorie Howes.泭泭Series eds. Claire Connolly and Marjorie Howes.泭泭Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 55-72.
- Contemporary Irish Drama and Media.泭(1980-2020). Eds. Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds. Series eds. Claire Connolly and Marjorie Howes.泭泭Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 81-95.
- The Irish Times泭and Tramp Press.泭(1980-2020). Eds. Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds. Series eds. Claire Connolly and Marjorie Howes.泭泭Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 392-400.
- Sean OCaseys Late Modernism: Gender, Race, and Disabled Bodies on the Irish Expressionist Stage.泭.泭泭Eds. Patrick Bixby and Gregory Castle.泭泭Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.泭泭227-242.
- Prose, Drama, and Poetry, 1891-1920,泭.泭泭Eds. Heather Ingman and Cl穩ona Gallchoir.泭泭Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 131-148.
- Spectacular Nostalgia: Modernism and Dramatic Form in Kate OBriens泭Pray for the Wanderer,泭48:1 (Summer 2018). 54-67.
- Publish Little, and Publish Well: An Interview with the Founders of Tramp Press.52:1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2017). 372-390.
- The Avant-Garde Doyenne: Mary Manning, the Poets Theatre, and the Staging of泭Finnegans Wake39:2 (Winter 2017). 109-133.
- Direction and Design to 1960.泭. Eds. Nicholas Grene泭and Christopher Morash.泭泭Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 201-216.
- Modernist Periodicals..泭泭Eds. Alex Davis and Lee Jenkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 118-138.
- A Theatre of the Head: Material Culture, Severed Heads, and the Late Drama of W. B. Yeats.泭泭58:4 (Winter 2015). 437-460.