Cecelia Swartz
M.A.
- cswartz@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Irish Literature, Mythology, Fantasy, Contemporary Literature, Gender Studies, YA Literature
Biography
Cecelia Swartz is a master’s student at the University of Notre Dame from Bethesda, Maryland. Her research explores myth retellings within fantasy and young adult literature with a focus on modern Ireland. She is interested in literature and mythology as cultural products and how traditional stories are retold in new ways to respond to different social and political conditions in a given time period, especially regarding questions of gender.
Recent Scholarly Activity
“Sovereignty Goddesses and Feminism in Modern Versions of the Táin Bó Cúailnge.” Paper presented at the Celtic Students Conference, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, May 2024.