Seamus Deane
Donald and Marilyn Keough Professor of Irish Studies
Degrees
B.A., M.A., Queen's University, Belfast; Ph.D., Cambridge University; D.Litt., (Hon.), University of Ulster
Specialty
Irish Studies
Profile
Seamus Deane is the author of numerous books about Irish literature. He is also the general editor of Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing and Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs series of which eleven volumes have been published. Deane is a member of The Royal Irish Academy and the Director of Field Day Company.
Selected Publications
Reading in the Dark. New York: Knopf, 1997.
Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
French Enlightenment and Revolution in England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Celtic Revivals: Essays in Modern Irish Literature 1880-1980. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.
Deane, Seamus and Andrew Carpenter, eds. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. 3 vols. London: Faber & Faber, 1991-2002.
Joyce, James. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. Edited by Seamus Deane. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Contact Information
713 Flanner Hall
(574) 631-7120
deane.4@nd.edu