Fascinating current research on Irish settlement in Quebec and the latest in Joyce studies moderated by James Blackwell Phelan, PhD.
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1455 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
James Blackwell Phelan teaches at Concordia and Dawson and online for UBC. Before coming home to Montreal in 2020, he taught at Vanderbilt in Nashville, where he completed his PhD in 2018. A special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly he co-edited, “Encyclopedia Joyce,” appeared in 2019 and included his article “Ulysses, Annotation, and the Literature of Information Overload.” He has presented on Joyce at conferences in Canada, the US, England, Belgium, and the Netherlands and was interviewed for Bloomsday Montreal’s kickoff event in 2023.
Dónal Gill is Assistant Professor (LTA) of Canadian Politics at Concordia University.
Dónal has a PhD in Political Science from Concordia University (2020) and a BA in History and Politics (2008) and MA in Politics from University College Cork (2010). His academic interests are the history of political thought with a particular emphasis on the intersection of politics and literature, and party politics and elections in Canada & Ireland.
Dónal is a regular analyst in the media on matters related to Canadian/Quebec politics, appearing on CBC, CTV, and Global News in Canada and FOX in the US.
His writing has featured in the Montreal Gazette, Maclean’s Magazine, and he has published academically on the political thought of Jonathan Swift and James Joyce.
Jeremy Colangelo is an adjunct lecturer in English and Disability studies at The University of Western Ontario. He is the editor of Joyce Writing Disability and the author of Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature and the forthcoming Agony for Others: On Literature and Pain, both with the University of Michigan Press. He is also an author of fiction, whose story collection, Beneath the Statue, was published in 2020.
Samara O’Gorman is an Irish-Canadian poet, actress, and singer from Montreal. She is the author of the #1 bestselling poetry collection, What If The Sun Died. A scholar of Irish studies, she is also a sought-after public speaker who engages audiences on topics such as leadership, Irish culture, and literature. Her academic research focuses on Irish folklore, poetry, and landscape. During her Bachelor’s degree, she became a recognized scholar by the Government of Ireland for her academic achievement in the Irish language.
Katherine Diamond is a master’s student in History at Concordia University, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She is engaged with studying the Irish diaspora’s participation in the American Revolution. Under the supervision of Dr. Jane McGaughey, Katherine’s thesis project will interrogate Major General Richard Montgomery’s legacy in the public memory of the American Revolutionary War. Her professional intention as she grows her academic career is to foster a love for history in the general public, primarily through the development of educational programs in museums and other heritage sites.
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