People

Full time faculty

Máirtín Coilféir

Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies

Modern Irish literature, translation, ethics, humour, violence, critical theory
Gavin Foster

Irish history, School of Irish Studies
Michael Kenneally

Principal and Chair, School of Irish Studies
Jane G. V. McGaughey

Diaspora Studies, School of Irish Studies
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin

Johnson Chair in Quebec & Canadian Irish Studies
Anthropology / Ethnomusicology, School of Canadian Irish Studies
Emer O'Toole

Performance Studies, School of Irish Studies

Ireland, Performance, Theatre, Film, Activism, Performativity, Inerculturalism, Gender, Race, Class

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 every fall semester. The duties of the Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar are to teach two undergraduate courses within an appropriate department and to give a public lecture under the auspices of the School's Irish Lecture Series.

Note: We regret that due to the pandemic there will not be a Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar for the Fall 2020 semester.

Part-Time Faculty

Kate Bligh

Part-time Faculty, School of Irish Studies
Part-time Faculty, Theatre
Part-time Faculty, English

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, School of Irish Studies
Part-time Faculty, Education

Pilgrimage theory & practice; Celtic Christianity; historical & contemporary spiritual practices; contemplative traditions; theology & the arts; theology & culture; research methodology & pedagogy; Indigenous research methodology & pedagogy

Fellows

Lorrie Blair

Professor and Acting Chair, Art Education
Fellow, School of Irish Studies

Qualitative and studio-based research methods in art education, art-based ethics, thesis writing, teacher identity, teacher training, youth culture, visual culture, popular culture, photography, arts-based learning, body image, qualitative methods, pedagogy, higher education, teachers in popular culture, outsider/folk art, censorship
Andre Furlani

Chair, English
Associate Professor, English

modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport
Peter Gossage

Professor, History
Ian Irvine

Professor, Economics
Fellow, School of Irish Studies
Research Fellow C D Howe Institute

Tobacco use and policy; cannabis legalization; vaping and smoking
Ted McCormick

Associate Professor, History
Fellow, School of Irish Studies

Early modern British/Irish/Atlantic history, intellectual history, history of science, history of economic thought
Rhona Richman Kenneally

Professor, Design and Computation Arts
Fellow and co-founder, School of Irish Studies

food studies, built environment, materiality, design justice, design theory, domestic space, conceptions of home, Irish studies, Expo 67, wearables, ecosophy, culture and commemoration, mindful eating

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Matina Skalkogiannis, Assistant to the Principal

Marion Mulvenna, Manager, Promotion and Community Outreach

Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi, Office Assistant

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