School of Irish Studies:
514-848-2424 ext. 8711
People
Full time faculty
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Máirtín Coilféir
- Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies
Research areas: Modern Irish literature, translation, ethics, humour, violence, critical theory -
Gavin Foster
- Professor Modern Irish History and Principal, School of Irish Studies
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Keelan Harkin
- Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies
Research areas: Irish literature, law and literature, modernism, contemporary literature, citizenship, the novel, narrative theory, Kate O’Brien, Anne Enright, Edna O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Macardle, mid-century, transnational writing, 1930s, Cold War -
Jane G. V. McGaughey
- Johnson Chair of Québec and Canadian Irish Studies
- Professor of Diaspora Studies, School of Irish Studies
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Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
- Professor of Anthropology, Ethnomusicology and Irish Cultural History, School of Irish Studies
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Emer O'Toole
- Performance Studies, School of Irish Studies
Research areas: Ireland, Performance, Theatre, Film, Performance Lectures, Activism, Aesthetics, Performativity, Interculturalism, Gender, Race, Class, Horror, The Uncanny, Postcolonialism, Feminism
Part-Time Faculty
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Kate Bevan-Baker
- Instructor, Fiddle & Violin, Music
- Lecturer, School of Irish Studies
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Kate Bligh
- Part-time Faculty, School of Irish Studies
- Part-time Faculty, Theatre
- Part-time Faculty, English
- Part-time faculty, Education
- Part-time faculty, Applied Human Sciences
Status: part-time professorResearch areas: Theatre director & acting teacher; dramaturgy and playwrighting; postcolonial/intercultural drama and performance; late C20th British & Irish playwrights; performance skills for public & professional figures. -
Sara Terreault
- Part-time Faculty, Theological Studies
- Part-time Faculty, Religions and Cultures
- Part-time Faculty, School of Irish Studies
Research areas: Pilgrimage theory & practice; Celtic Christianity; historical & contemporary spiritual practices; contemplative traditions; theology & the arts; theology & culture; research methodology & pedagogy; Indigenous research methodology & pedagogy
The Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies
This position, jointly funded by Concordia University and the Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, brings a distinguished scholar to teach within the programs of the School of Irish Studies for a semester. The duties of the Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar are to teach up to two undergraduate courses within an appropriate department and to give a public lecture under the auspices of the School's Irish Lecture Series.
The 2023 Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar was Dr. Jérôme aan de Wiel, Lecturer in History and European Studies at University College Cork.
Distinguished Professors Emeriti
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Michael Kenneally
- Professor, School of Irish Studies
- Co-Founder, School of Irish Studies, Concordia University
- Honorary Consul General for Quebec, Government of Ireland, 2002-2022
- Principal, School of Irish Studies, 2009 - 2021
- Co-Founder, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation
- Trustee, Canadian Irish Studies Foundation, 2022-
- Concordia University Chair in Canadian Irish Studies, 2002-2017
- Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, 2019
- Recipient, Honorary Doctorate, National University of Ireland, 2014
- Recipient, Honorary Doctorate, University of Innsbruck, 2012
- Academic Leadership Award, Concordia University, 2012
- Recipient, Montreal Community Award, St. Patrick's Society of Montreal, 2009
- Named to the Global Irish 100 list by Irish America Magazine, 2009
- Grand Marshall, St Patrick’s Day Parade, Montreal, 2002
- Editor, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2000-2003
- Irishman of the Year, United Irish Societies of Montreal, 1997
- Chair, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, 1994-2000
- President, St. Patrick’s Society, 1993-1996
- President, Canadian Association for Irish Studies, 1987-1990
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Rhona Richman Kenneally
- Distinguished Professor Emerita, Design and Computation Arts
- Member, Textiles and Materiality Cluster, Milieux Institute
- Chair, Dept. of Design and Computation Arts (2010-12)
- Academic Co-Founder and Fellow, School of Irish Studies
- 2019 Recipient, Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad
- Concordia Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2015
- Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Fine Arts, 2014
Research areas: built environment, food studies, domestic space, Irish studies, Expo 67, fibres and wearables, mindful eating
Staff
Matina Skalkogiannis, Assistant to the Principal
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