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
Keelan Harkin

Assistant Professor, School of Irish Studies

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
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
Jane G. V. McGaughey

Johnson Chair of Québec and Canadian Irish Studies
Diaspora Studies, School of Irish Studies
Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin

Principal & Professor of Anthropology, Ethnomusicology and Cultural History, School of 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.

We are delighted to announce that the 2023 Peter O’Brien Visiting Scholar is Dr. Jérôme aan de Wiel, Lecturer in History and European Studies at University College Cork.

Part-Time Faculty

Kate Bevan-Baker

Instructor, Fiddle & Violin, Music
Lecturer, School of Irish Studies
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, Religions and Cultures
Part-time Faculty, School of Irish Studies

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, 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 Ondino Furlani

Full Professor, English
Fellow, School of Irish Studies

modernism / postmodernism / philosophy & literature / modern & contemporary literature / Samuel Beckett / Guy Davenport / urban and mobility studies
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

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

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

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