English Department Faculty

Colleen Taylor

Assistant Professor, English & Irish Studies

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Colleen Taylor

Ph.D.

Contact

Email: taylorft@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Fordham University
  • M.Phil, Trinity College Dublin
  • Ph.D., 艾可直播 College

Department

English

Biography

Colleen Taylor specializes in eighteenth-century Irish and British literature and the environmental humanities. Her teaching and research explore how Irish ecologies facilitated cultural expression and colonial resistance. She is the author of聽Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830聽(Oxford University Press, 2024), and her articles on Irish literature and material culture have appeared in聽Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Eire-Ireland,聽补苍诲听Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.聽Colleen previously held the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Award at University College Cork. Her current research project examines eighteenth-聽and nineteenth-century Irish culture through the blue humanities, theorizing聽the decolonial implications of Ireland's oceanic imagination.

Publications

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  • Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2024)

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Edgeworth鈥檚 Great Coat: A Material-Semiotic Reading of the Irish Mantle and Novelistic Interiority." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35, no. 2 (April 2023): pp. 261 鈥� 286.
  • 鈥淣ew Materialisms.鈥� In The Year鈥檚 Work in Critical And Cultural Theory, Vols. 31-33, edited by Emeila Quinn and Ranjan Ghosh. The English Association & Oxford University Press, 2023.
  • 鈥淢organ, (n茅e Owenson), Sydney, Lady.鈥� In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women鈥檚 Writing, edited by Natasha Duquette, et. al. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
  • 鈥淪alvatora Rosa by Lady Morgan. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women鈥檚 Writing, edited by Natasha Duquette, et. al. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
  • 鈥淎 Song of Ireland in Chawton House.鈥� The Female Spectator, vol. 6, no. 1. (2022): pp. 74-77.
  • 鈥淪ydney Owenson, Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and the Domestic Stage of Post-Union Politics.鈥� In Ireland, Enlightenment, and the English Stage, 1740-1820, edited by David O鈥橲haughnessy, pp. 146-164. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019.
  • "Reading Post-Union Material Culture: 鈥榯he Bodkin is particularly deserving our notice.鈥欌�� Eire-Ireland 53, no. 3 (2018): pp. 36-63.
  • 鈥淔eminist Fancy in the National Tale: Edgeworth, Owenson, and Sarah Isdell鈥檚 The Irish Recluse.鈥� Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature 37, no. 2 (2018): pp. 295-323.
  • 鈥淎usten Answers the Irish Question: Satire, Anxiety and Emma鈥檚 Allusory Ireland.鈥� Persuasions 38 (2016): pp. 218-227.
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