Joseph Lennon, PhD
Director, Center for Irish Studies & Associate Dean, International and Interdisciplinary Initiatives | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Villanova University
Villanova , PA, UNITED STATES
Joseph Lennon, PhD is an expert in Irish hunger strikes, India and Ireland relationships and contemporary Irish issues.
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Areas of Expertise (4)
Irish Culture
Irish Studies
English Literature
Hunger Strikes
Biography
Dr. Lennon is a leading expert on hunger strikes, the relationships between Ireland and India, multicultural issues and contemporary Ireland. He is a professor English and also heads up Villanova's Center for Irish Studies.
Education (4)
University of Connecticut: PhD
Boston College: MA
Northern Illinois University: MA
Knox College: BA
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Valley eateries aiming for the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick's Day
The Daily Item
2017-03-17
Valley restaurant and pub owners say they don't need much Irish luck when it comes to bringing the crowds out on St. Patrick's Day — especially when it falls on a Friday. ... Villanova University Center for Irish Studies Director Dr. Joseph Lennon said, “Pub culture was a big part of the community because they were not in the centers of powers. Pubs acted as community centers.”
Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest
Irish Times
2016-03-31
Some great pairings at this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature include Jennifer Johnston and Belinda McKeon, Louise O’Neill with the American writer Rachel B Glaser, and Kevin Barry with Canadian author Patrick de Witt … Lennon is the director of Irish studies and associate professor of English at Villanova University.
Select Academic Articles (5)
‘Dreams that hunger makes’: Memories of Hunger in Yeats, Mangan, Speranza, and Irish Folklore
Irish University ReviewJoseph Lennon
Forthcoming - 2017
Antiquity and Futurity' in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan (Chapter)
Essays on James Clarence Mangan2015
The Starvation of a Man: Terence MacSwiney's Hunger Strike and Famine Memory
Memory Ireland: Explorations in Irish Cultural Memory2014
The First Man to Whistle': Two Interviews with Colum McCann
This Side of Brightness: Essays on the Fiction of Colum McCann.2011
Fasting for the Public: Irish and Indian Sources of Marion Wallace Dunlop's 1909 Hunger Strike (Book Chapter)
Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and Historiography2007
