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Seamus O'Malley

Seamus
O'Malley

Associate Professor of English

seamus.omalley@yu.edu
917-326-4808

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#706

Ph.D. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
M.A. in English, Hunter College, 2005
B.A. in English, New York University, 1998

Seamus O鈥橫alley is the author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Irish Culture and 鈥楾he People鈥: Populism and Its Discontents (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has co-edited three volumes, one of essays on Ford Madox Ford and America (Rodopi, 2010), a research companion to Ford (Routledge, 2018) and a volume of essays on the cartoonists Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (Mississippi, 2018). He is the chair of the Ford Madox Ford Society and co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar for Irish Studies.

Dr. O'Malley teaches and researches twentieth-century British and Irish literature. 

樱花动漫 Faculty Research Fund, 2022

Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize, 2019

Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2019-20

Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2018-19

Bertha Kressel Research Scholarship advisor, 2018

Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award, 2016

Honorable Mention, The Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award, 2011

The Publication Subvention Award for Distinguished Dissertations, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011

Books:

Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents. Oxford University Press, 2022. 

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Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative. Oxford University Press, 2015 

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A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell. Volume of essays, co-edited with Tahneer Oksman. University of Mississippi Press, 2019 

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The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Volume of essays, co-edited with Sara Haslam and Laura Colombino.  Routledge, 2019 

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Ford Madox Ford and America. Volume of essays, co-edited with Sara Haslam. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012 

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Peer-Reviewed Articles:

  • 鈥沦耻辫别谤辫辞飞别谤濒别蝉蝉苍别蝉蝉: Hellblazer and Thatcher.鈥 ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 14.2, (Summer) 2023.
  • 鈥溾楾he Final Aim is the Flower鈥: Wild and Domestic Nature in Sons and Lovers.鈥 D.H. Lawrence Review, 2015.
  • 鈥淟istening for Class in Ford Madox Ford鈥檚 Parade鈥檚 End.鈥 Modernism/Modernity, Fall 2014.
  • 鈥淭he Conjuring-Tricks of Capital: Fetishes and Finance Capital in R.L. Stevenson鈥檚 鈥楾he Beach of Fales谩鈥.鈥 English Literature in Transition, 57.1 (January) 2014.
  • 鈥溾楾he Critic Who Does Not Exist鈥: Edmund Wilson as Novelist in the 1920s.鈥 Textual Practice, 2014.
  • 鈥淎mnesia and Recovery of the Great War in Modern Irish Drama.鈥 New Hibernia Review, 16.4 (Winter) 2012, pp. 1-17.
  • 鈥淏elief and Unbelief: Nationalist Doubt in W.B. Yeats鈥檚 The Celtic Twilight.鈥 Irish University Review, 39.1 (Spring/Summer) 2009, pp. 15-31.

 

Book Chapters:

  • 鈥溾楾he People鈥 of Virginia Woolf.鈥 Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History. Anne Besnault, Anne-Marie Di-Biasio and Marie Laniel, eds. Routledge, forthcoming.
  • The Good Soldier, Dora, and the Spas of Europe.鈥 Ford and Alterity. Isabelle Brasme, ed. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la M茅diterran茅e, 2019.
  • 鈥溾楨veryone looks through peepholes鈥: Voyeurism in The Voyeurs.鈥 A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell. Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O鈥橫alley, eds. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2019.
  • 鈥淔ord Madox Ford and History.鈥 The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O鈥橫alley, eds. London: Routledge, 2019.
  • 鈥淭he People of On Another Man鈥檚 Wound.鈥 Modern Ireland and Revolution: Ernie O鈥橫alley in Context. Cormac O鈥橫alley, ed. Kildare, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 2016, pp. 141-158.
  • 鈥淔ord Madox Ford and Modernism.鈥 Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction. Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, eds. London: Ashgate, 2015.
  • 鈥淗ow Much Mud Does a Man Need? Land and Liquidity in Parade鈥檚 End.鈥 Ford Madox Ford, Modernism and the First World War. Rob Hawkes and Ashley Chantler, eds. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014.
  • 鈥淣ostalgia and its Discontents: Ford Madox Ford鈥檚 The Fifth Queen.鈥 The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford. John Coyle, ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013.
  • 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Ford: Glenway Wescott, Katherine Anne Porter, and Knopf鈥檚 Parade鈥檚 End.鈥 Ford Madox Ford and America. Sara Haslam and Seamus O鈥橫alley, eds. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012, pp. 97-108.
  • 鈥淪peculative History, Speculative Fiction: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell鈥檚 From Hell.鈥 Graphic History: Essays on Graphic Novels and/as History. Rick Iadonisi, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
  • "Ford Madox Ford and Modernism.鈥 Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction. Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, eds. London: Ashgate, 2012.
  • 鈥淭he Ferociously Odd, Mutually Beneficial Editorial Relationship of Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis.鈥 Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines, and Editing. Jason Harding, ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010, pp. 89-98.
  • The Return of the Soldier and Parade鈥檚 End: Ford鈥檚 Reworking of West鈥檚 Pastoral.鈥 Ford Madox Ford鈥檚 Literary Contacts. Paul Skinner, ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 155-164.

Other

  • 鈥淚mpressionist Populism? Ford Madox Ford, The People, and le peuple.鈥 Last Post 5.1 (Fall) 2020.
  • Review of The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time by Helen Small. Last Post 4.1 (Spring) 2020.
  • Review of Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts, Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and Anne Besnault-Levita, eds. Last Post 2.1 (Spring) 2019.
  • Review of Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace by Andrew Bennett. Last Post 1.1 (Fall) 2018.
  • Review of Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad by Kim Salmons. Conradiana 50.2 (Fall) 2018. 
  • Review of Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis. Los Angeles Review of Books, March 20, 2017.
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  • Review of Modernist Melancholia: Freud, Conrad and Ford by Anne Enderwitz. Conradiana  48.1 (Spring) 2016.
  • Review of Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists by Hillary Chute. Cleaver Magazine, Spring 2014. cleavermagazine.com/outside-the-box-interviews-with-contemporary-cartoonists-by-hillary-l-chute-reviewed-by-seamus-omalley
  • Review of Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence by Paul Sheehan, and At the Violet Hour by Sarah Cole. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 43.3 2014, pp. 439-446.
  • Review of Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction by Evelyn Cobley. The Space Between, 7.1 2012, pp. 136-139.

 

 

seamus.omalley@yu.edu
917-326-4808

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#706

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