Luke Gibbons
Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies
Professor of English and Concurrent Professor, Film, Television, and Theatre
Specialty
Irish literature and film, post-colonialism
Degrees
Ph.D., Trinity College
Profile
In addition to teaching in the Department of English, Luke Gibbons teaches in the Irish Studies International Programme at the Newman House, Dublin, and is co-director of the Irish Seminar in Dublin. His interests range from film and literature to the visual arts, questions of aesthetics, politics and cultural history, and contemporary debates on post-colonialism. In addition to authoring four books on Irish culture, Gibbons has also co-edited several important interventions in cultural and political debates including, The Theatre of Irish Cinema, a special issue of The Yale Journal of Criticism (2002) edited with Dudley Andrew. He is currently preparing books for publication on James Joyce, modernism, and memory; Irishness and race; and Romanticism and the Enlightenment in Ireland. A former member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation and a consulting editor of Interventions: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Gibbons has been an important figure in mapping Irish Studies onto international critical debates.
Recent Publications
Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonization, and Irish Culture. Galway, Ireland: Arlen House, 2004.
Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Quiet Man. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 2002.
Kirby, Peadar, Michael Cronin, and Luke Gibbons, eds. Reinventing Ireland: Culture, Politics and the Global Economy. London; Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002.
Contact Information
422 Flanner Hall
(574) 631-3419
Luke.C.Gibbons.23@nd.edu