Kara Lee Donnelly
[email protected] University of Notre Dame Department of English 356 OShaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Notre Dame, expected defense June 2014 Graduate Minor in Irish Studies Candidacy Examination passed with distinction, 2012 DISSERTATION: The Booker Prize and Popular Postcolonial Literature DIRECTOR: Declan Kiberd COMMITTEE: Jim Collins, Matthew Wilkens, and Clair Wills M.A. in English, New York University, 2010: THESIS: No One Even Knows I Have a Story: Remnant Women in Contemporary Irish Novels DIRECTOR: John Waters B.A. in English and French, Cum Laude and Honors in English, Wellesley College, 2006 THESIS: Saying Things that Should Be Said: Voice in Roddy Doyles Novels DIRECTOR: Margery Sabin FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Presidential Fellowship, University of Notre Dame (2010-2015) Zahm Research Travel Grant (2012) Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Graduate Student Research Award (2012) Mary Ann Youngren Award for Critical Reading (2006) PUBLICATION Metafictions of Development: The Enigma of Arrival, You Cant Get Lost in Cape Town, and the Place of the World in World Literature. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Forthcoming. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Commonwealth Literature Does Not Exist: How Salman Rushdie and the Booker Prize Invented High-Pop Postcolonial Literature. Modern Languages Association Conference, Chicago, IL. 9-12 January 2014. Selling Trauma. American Conference for Irish Studies Mid-Atlantic, Rochester, NY. 15-16 November 2013. 1084 Woodward Ave South Bend, IN 46616 978-808-0590
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The Frightful Mechanics of Authorship: Exhaustion and the Global Literary Marketplace. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 5, Detroit, MI. 3-6 October 2013. Writing and Shopping in Anne Enrights The Gathering. American Conference for Irish Studies, Chicago, IL. 10-13 April 2013. V.S. Naipaul, the Booker Prize, and the Formation of World Anglophone Literature. American Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Toronto. 4-7 April 2013. A Portrait of the Artist and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman. Hybrid Irelands, Notre Dame, IN. 30 March 2012. Anxiety after Empire. Louisville Conference for Literature and Culture after 1900, Louisville, KY. 24 February 2012. No One Even Knows I Have a Story: Remnant Women in Contemporary Irish Novels. American Conference for Irish Studies, State College, PA. 5-8 May 2010. Davids Story: Global Text, Local Harm. The Cape and the Cosmopolitan: Reading Zo Wicomb, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 10 April 2010. The Pram: Gaelic Gothic for the 21st Century. American Conference for Irish Studies West, Los Gatos, CA. 16-18 October 2009. (Im)possible Speech: Misreading the Body in The Woman Who Walked into Doors. University of Virginia Graduate Conference, Charlottesville, VA. 21 March 2009. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record Writing and Rhetoric (AY 2011-2012) Teaching Assistant Introduction to Shakespeare (Fall 2013) OTHER ACADEMIC SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE President, English Graduate Student Association, University of Notre Dame (2013-2014) Vice President, English Graduate Student Association, University of Notre Dame (2012-2013) Editorial Board member, Braec: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (2012- ) Graduate Writing Tutor, Writing Center, University of Notre Dame (2012- ) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Comparative Literature Association American Conference for Irish Studies Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Modern Language Association
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LANGUAGES Proficient in French. Basic reading in Irish.
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