Kim McMullen has been a member of the Kenyon English department since 1984, teaching courses in twentieth-century Irish literature, postmodern narrative, American modernism, American studies and James Joyce. Interested in the intersection of gender and nationality in contemporary Irish culture, she is currently completing a book entitled “Decolonizing Rosaleen: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationality in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film.” Other research interests include the Irish literary heritage industry, the poetry of Eavan Boland and recent Irish fiction.
Nonfiction
Spring 2004
New Ireland / Hidden Ireland: Reading Recent Irish Fiction
Reading Recent Irish Fiction Seeking the “lost land” of Ireland—a place of historical complexity and intense, if ambivalent, personal significance—poet Eavan Boland recalls first a Dublin street “of statues: / […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1999
Imagining Ireland: R. F. Foster’s “W. B. Yeats: A Life” and the ‘New’ Irish Renaissance
W.B. Yeats: A Life Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 by R.F. Foster. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 640 pages. $35, cloth. I. The Irish Are Hot in the […]
