Seamus
O'Malley
Associate Professor of English
Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#706
Seamus O’Malley is the author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Irish Culture and ‘The People’: Populism and Its Discontents (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has co-edited three volumes, one of essays on Ford Madox Ford and America (Rodopi, 2010), a research companion to Ford (Routledge, 2018) and a volume of essays on the cartoonists Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (Mississippi, 2018). He is the chair of the Ford Madox Ford Society and co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar for Irish Studies.
Dr. O'Malley teaches and researches twentieth-century British and Irish literature.
Yeshiva University Faculty Research Fund, 2022
Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize, 2019
Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2019-20
Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2018-19
Bertha Kressel Research Scholarship advisor, 2018
Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award, 2016
Honorable Mention, The Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award, 2011
The Publication Subvention Award for Distinguished Dissertations, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
Books:
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Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents. Oxford University Press, 2022. |
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Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative. Oxford University Press, 2015 |
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A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell. Volume of essays, co-edited with Tahneer Oksman. University of Mississippi Press, 2019 |
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The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Volume of essays, co-edited with Sara Haslam and Laura Colombino. Routledge, 2019 |
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Ford Madox Ford and America. Volume of essays, co-edited with Sara Haslam. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012 |
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Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- “Superpowerlessness: Hellblazer and Thatcher.” ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 14.2, (Summer) 2023. www.imagetextjournal.com/omalley-superpowerlessness
- “‘The Final Aim is the Flower’: Wild and Domestic Nature in Sons and Lovers.” D.H. Lawrence Review, 2015.
- “Listening for Class in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End.” Modernism/Modernity, Fall 2014.
- “The Conjuring-Tricks of Capital: Fetishes and Finance Capital in R.L. Stevenson’s ‘The Beach of Falesá’.” English Literature in Transition, 57.1 (January) 2014.
- “‘The Critic Who Does Not Exist’: Edmund Wilson as Novelist in the 1920s.” Textual Practice, 2014.
- “Amnesia and Recovery of the Great War in Modern Irish Drama.” New Hibernia Review, 16.4 (Winter) 2012, pp. 1-17.
- “Belief and Unbelief: Nationalist Doubt in W.B. Yeats’s The Celtic Twilight.” Irish University Review, 39.1 (Spring/Summer) 2009, pp. 15-31.
Book Chapters:
- “‘The People’ of Virginia Woolf.” Virginia Woolf and the Writing of History. Anne Besnault, Anne-Marie Di-Biasio and Marie Laniel, eds. Routledge, forthcoming.
- “The Good Soldier, Dora, and the Spas of Europe.” Ford and Alterity. Isabelle Brasme, ed. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2019.
- “‘Everyone looks through peepholes’: Voyeurism in The Voyeurs.” A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell. Tahneer Oksman and Seamus O’Malley, eds. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2019.
- “Ford Madox Ford and History.” The Routledge Research Companion to Ford Madox Ford. Sara Haslam, Laura Colombino and Seamus O’Malley, eds. London: Routledge, 2019.
- “The People of On Another Man’s Wound.” Modern Ireland and Revolution: Ernie O’Malley in Context. Cormac O’Malley, ed. Kildare, Ireland: Irish Academic Press, 2016, pp. 141-158.
- “Ford Madox Ford and Modernism.” Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction. Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, eds. London: Ashgate, 2015.
- “How Much Mud Does a Man Need? Land and Liquidity in Parade’s End.” Ford Madox Ford, Modernism and the First World War. Rob Hawkes and Ashley Chantler, eds. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014.
- “Nostalgia and its Discontents: Ford Madox Ford’s The Fifth Queen.” The Edwardian Ford Madox Ford. John Coyle, ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013.
- “America’s Ford: Glenway Wescott, Katherine Anne Porter, and Knopf’s Parade’s End.” Ford Madox Ford and America. Sara Haslam and Seamus O’Malley, eds. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012, pp. 97-108.
- “Speculative History, Speculative Fiction: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell.” Graphic History: Essays on Graphic Novels and/as History. Rick Iadonisi, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
- "Ford Madox Ford and Modernism.” Ford Madox Ford: An Introduction. Ashley Chantler and Rob Hawkes, eds. London: Ashgate, 2012.
- “The Ferociously Odd, Mutually Beneficial Editorial Relationship of Ford Madox Ford and Wyndham Lewis.” Ford Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines, and Editing. Jason Harding, ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2010, pp. 89-98.
- “The Return of the Soldier and Parade’s End: Ford’s Reworking of West’s Pastoral.” Ford Madox Ford’s Literary Contacts. Paul Skinner, ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 155-164.
Other
- “Impressionist Populism? Ford Madox Ford, The People, and le peuple.” Last Post 5.1 (Fall) 2020.
- Review of The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time by Helen Small. Last Post 4.1 (Spring) 2020.
- Review of Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide: Remapping the Turn-of-the-Century Break in Literature, Culture and the Visual Arts, Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and Anne Besnault-Levita, eds. Last Post 2.1 (Spring) 2019.
- Review of Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace by Andrew Bennett. Last Post 1.1 (Fall) 2018.
- Review of Food in the Novels of Joseph Conrad by Kim Salmons. Conradiana 50.2 (Fall) 2018.
- Review of Spaniel Rage by Vanessa Davis. Los Angeles Review of Books, March 20, 2017.
- lareviewofbooks.org/article/little-drawings-make-a-life-on-vanessa-daviss-spaniel-rage
- Review of Modernist Melancholia: Freud, Conrad and Ford by Anne Enderwitz. Conradiana 48.1 (Spring) 2016.
- Review of Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists by Hillary Chute. Cleaver Magazine, Spring 2014. cleavermagazine.com/outside-the-box-interviews-with-contemporary-cartoonists-by-hillary-l-chute-reviewed-by-seamus-omalley
- Review of Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence by Paul Sheehan, and At the Violet Hour by Sarah Cole. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 43.3 2014, pp. 439-446.
- Review of Modernism and the Culture of Efficiency: Ideology and Fiction by Evelyn Cobley. The Space Between, 7.1 2012, pp. 136-139.
Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#706