Graduate Students in Irish Studies
Christopher Flavin
Christopher Flavin in
a Ph.D. candidate specializing
in Medieval literature and culture. His dissertation focuses on the
construction of identity for medieval women, particularly
religious women,
through biography and autobiographical writings. His article on Brigit
O’Donnel
and the limits of poetic language for Early Modern Irish women appears
in the
Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Working
Papers through Sheffield-Hallam University. His most recent
article, “The
Demarcations of Trauma and Language: Form, Fiction, and Identity in
Edna
O’Brien’s
Down by the River,” is under review. The
article analyzes the use of ritual language
and
cultural trauma in O’Brien’s novel through the lens of trauma theory
and
imposed history. Mr. Flavin is currently the research assistant for
Irish and
Irish Immigration Studies at SIUC.
Amy Nejezchleb
Amy Nejezchleb is a doctoral
candidate who specializes in Modernism and Irish Studies.
Her dissertation focuses on
twentieth-century, Irish author and journalist, Flann O’Brien, and his
work in
new media, most of which is unpublished and located in Morris Library’s
Special
Collections. Nejezchleb has published
two book reviews in New Hibernia Review
and is currently working on an article for an edition forthcoming from
Four
Courts Press about the works of Flann O’Brien. The
article analyzes O’Brien’s scriptwriting for
Radio Telefís Eireann
and BBC during the 1960’s. She was
awarded a Research Assistantship by Irish and Immigration Studies in
conjunction with the National University of Ireland Galway in Spring
2009, and
for the Fall 2009-Spring 2010 academic year, she has been awarded the
Dissertation Research Assistantship by the Graduate School.
