Jane G. V. McGaughey is the Johnson Chair of Québec and Canadian Irish Studies (2021-26).  She joined the School of Irish Studies at Concordia in 2012 as the Assistant Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies.  She completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2008.  Her first book, Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities and Militarization in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2012.  She was a co-editor of Ireland and Masculinities in History (Palgrave, 2019).

Her second monograph, Violent Loyalties: Manliness, Migration, and the Irish in Canadas, 1798-1841, was published with Liverpool University Press in 2020.  This was the first dedicated history of Irish male migration to Canada, questioning the validity of the "wild Irish" stereotype in Canada in the decades before the Great Irish Famine, and examining connections between the Irish Rising of 1798 and the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38.

Prior to her arrival at Concordia, Dr McGaughey taught at the Royal Military College of Canada and was the 2009-10 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Since 2022, Dr McGaughey has written and hosted the popular podcast, The Irish in Canada, providing short, exciting episodes about the lives of Irish immigrants and their Canadian descendants.  Episodes have included examinations of Grace Marks, Captain Francis Crozier, Colonel James FitzGibbon, and the "Ghost of Griffintown."  The third season of the podcast will debut in March 2024.  All episodes are available for downloading through Apples Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and through the show's website: www.theirishincanadapodcast.ca