Research Interests

Feminist critical and cultural theory; contemporary women's writing; contemporary literature; gender and cultural memory

Professional Activities

Employment

  • 2002 University of Limerick - Lecturer
  • 1999 Free University of Amsterdam - Lecturer in English
  • 1998 University College Scarborough - Lecturer in English

Education

  • 1999 University of Strathclyde - Ph.D.
  • 1993 Lancaster University - M.A.
  • 1992 Queen's University, Belfast - B.A.

Publications

Books

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Book Chapters

Daughters of the House of Shame

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2013
Bloomington
Indiana University Press
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The Double Wound: Shame and Trauma in Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2011
Amsterdam
Rodopi
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Mary Morrissy's Maternal Subject

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2006
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'Putting Myself in Her Place: Identity, Identification and Irishness in Nuala O'Faolain's _Are You Somebody?_ and Margaret Atwood's _Alias Grace_'

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2000
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Edited Books

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Peer Reviewed Journals

'Maternal belongings and the question of home" in Mary Morrissy's _Mother of Pearl_'"

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2003
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The ethics of postmemory in Bobbie Ann Mason's 'In Country'

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2006
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Memory, nostalgia, and gender in A Thousand Acres

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2002
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Notes on the afterlife of feminist criticism

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2006
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Kate Atkinson's Family Romance: Missing Mothers and Hidden Histories in _Behind the Scenes at the Museum""

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2006
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Future-perfect: Gender, nostalgia, and the not yet presented in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2004
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Other Journals

Gendered Spaces in Bobbie Ann Mason's In Country

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2008
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Conference Publications

Gendering Citizenship and Globalization

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2005
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Research School on Cultural Norms and Values

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2001
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Unmarried Mothers in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Cultural Reflections

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2004
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Gender and Emotions: An International, Interdisciplinary Workshop

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2008
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City Limits

Dr. Sinead McDermott
1996
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Anglo-Fem Dayschool

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2001
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Literature and Silence

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2008
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Transformations

Dr. Sinead McDermott
1997
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Odysseys -- International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures conference 2001

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2001
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The Contemporary Women¿s Writing Network Conference, For Love or Money? Contemporary Women¿s Fiction in the Marketplace,¿

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2006
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VII Annual Cross-Currents Conference, Spaces in Literature and Film

Dr. Sinead McDermott
1998
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Re-imagining Communities

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2002
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Midwest Modern Language Association 47th Annual Convention: 'Memory, Home, Exile'

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2005
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Sexing the Nation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Belonging

Dr. Sinead McDermott
1998
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Beyond Sex and Gender- The Future for Women's Studies? Women's Studies Network (UK) Association 15th Annual Conference

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2002
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Gender, Memory and Modernity Dayschool

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2005
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Frontiers of Memory

Dr. Sinead McDermott
1999
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Feminist Transitions: Social, Cultural and Global

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2003
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Post-Theory

Dr. Sinead McDermott
1995
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Dept of English Seminar Series

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2000
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Hystorical Fictions

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2003
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Near and Dear: Gender, Generation and Genealogy: Friends and Family Figures in Contemporary Fiction

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2005
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Devolving Identities Dayschool

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2000
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Dayschool on Gender, Memory and Oral History / Narratives of the Self

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2004
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Conference Contributions

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Published Reports

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Editorials

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Book Reviews

Review of Sonia Villegas-Lopez and Beatriz Domingues-Garcia, eds, Literature, Gender, Space

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2005
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Other Publications

Review of Sonia Villegas-Lopez and Beatriz Domingues-Garcia, eds, Literature, Gender, Space

Dr. Sinead McDermott
2005
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