Biographies


Home Timetable Registration Accommodation Travel Abstracts Technical Support	Mary Reichardt Dr. Mary Reichardt holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a professor in the Catholic Studies department at the University of St. Thomas, she teaches courses in Catholic literature on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She has published seven scholarly books, including Catholic Women Writers (Greenwood, 2001), Exploring Catholic Literature (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) and the two volume Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature (Greenwood, 2004). Her book on contemporary Catholic literature is forthcoming from Catholic University Press. Reichardt is also the editor for the American titles in the new Ignatius Press critical editions series. James S. Donnelly James S. Donnelly, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He authored The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question (1975) and The Great Irish Potato Famine (2001). He co-edited (with Samuel Clark) Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest, 1780-1914 (1983) and (with Kerby A. Miller) Irish Popular Culture, 1650-1850 (1998). He served as editor-in-chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (2004). His book Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-24 will be published in the fall of 2009 by the University of Wisconsin Press and Con Collins of Cork. He is a past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies and is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the Irish American Cultural Institute. With Vera Kreilkamp, he is the co-editor of the journal Eire-Ireland.	Martin McLoone Martin McLoone is Professor of Media Studies (Film, Television & Photography) in the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He is the author of Irish Film: The Emergence of a Contemporary Cinema (London: BFI, 2000) and Film Media and Popular Culture in Ireland: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Soundscapes (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008). Darryl Jones BA, (York), DPhil (York), FTCD Senior Lecturer in English Director, MPhil in Popular Literature Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning Research and Teaching Interests: Popular literature; Horror; Nineteenth-century fiction, especially Jane Austen His current research is on mass death and catastrophe fiction, and on twentieth-century British horror. Recent and Forthcoming Publications: Re-Interpreting Emmet: Essays in the Life and Legacy of Robert Emmet [ed, with Anne Dolan and Patrick Geoghegan] (Dublin: UCD Press, 2007). Jane Austen (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold, and New York, OUP, 2002). Studying Poetry [with Stephen Matterson] (London: Arnold, and New York: OUP, 2000).

Plenary addresses will be delivered by Mary Reichardt Professor of Catholic Studies & Literature, University of St. Thomas, USA. James Donnelly Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin, USA. Martin MacLoone Professor of Media Studies, University of Ulster. Daryl Jones Senior Lecturer of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Patsy McGarry Columnist & Religious Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times.