Monographs:

• Men with Stakes:  Masculinity & the  Gothic in US Television.  Manchester: Manchester UP, 2016.
• Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism. Syracuse NY: Syracuse UP, 2014.
• Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature.  Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 2007; paperback, 2009.  (Original title:  "Insensible Empire: Representing India, Ireland, and National Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature")
• Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation.  Athens, OH:  Ohio UP, 2004.  Winner of the 2002 Northeast Modern Language Association / Ohio University Press Book Award, and excerpted in Blake's Poetry and Designs (Norton, 2nd ed.). 

Editions:

• (co-ed. with Jason Haslam) Casino Royale (1953), by Ian Fleming. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2020.
  
• (ed.) The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys: A National Tale (1827), by Lady Morgan.  Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2013.
• (ed.) Irish Literature 1750-1900:  An Anthology.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
• (ed. & intro.) The Sons of Erin (1812), by Alicia Lefanu.  British Women Playwrights Around 1800 (2004).  Gen. ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra and Thomas Crochunis. The site is no longer available, but the text of the play was also posted on my website--which still exists.
  
• (ed.) The Missionary:  An Indian Tale (1811), by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan).  Includes an introduction and appendices.  Peterborough:  Broadview Press, 2002. 

Co-edited & Edited Volumes:

• (co-ed. with Joel Faflak) A Handbook to Romanticism Studies.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012; paperback, 2016.
• (co-ed. with Kevin Hutchings) Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870: Gender, Race, and Nation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.
• (ed.) Companion to Irish Literature. 2 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
• (co-ed. with Elizabeth Sauer) Reading the Nation in English Literature:  A Critical Reader.  New York: Routledge, 2009.
• (co-ed. with Jason Haslam) Captivating Subjects:  Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century.   Toronto:  U of Toronto P, 2005.
• (co-ed. with Joel Faflak) Nervous Reactions:  Victorian Recollections of Romanticism.  Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 2004. 
• (co-ed. with Tilottama Rajan)  Romanticism, History, and the Possibilities of Genre:  Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998; paperback, 2006.

Special Journal Issues:

• (ed.)  Irish Romanticism. European Romantic Review  28.4 (2017).
• (co-ed. with Lauren Goodlad) Victorian Internationalisms.  Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (November 2007).
• (ed.)  Reconsidering the Nineteenth Century.  Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 30.1 (Spring 2004).
• (co-ed. with Angela Esterhammer) 1798 and Its Implications.  European Romantic Review 10.2 (Spring 1999).
  

• "'This Strange Horror': Irish Gothic Poetry in the Nineteenth Century." Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Jarlath Killeen and Christina Morin. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, forthcoming.
• "The Unheimlich State: Surveillance and the Digital Nation.” Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Bernice Murphy and Sorcha Ní Fhlainn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2022. 129-43.
• "’Dire Reverse’: Poetic Structure and Historic Catastrophe.” Reader’s Forum on Catastrophe. English Studies in Canada 44.3 (2018): 3-9.
• "Irish Literary Theory: From Politeness to Politics." Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830. Vol. 2 of Irish Literature in Transition. Ed. Claire Connolly. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. 69-84.
• "Blake, Nation, and Empire." Blake in Context. Ed. Sarah Haggarty. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. 309-16.
• "Cosmopugilism: Thomas Moore's Boxing Satires and the Post-Napoleonic Congresses." Studies in Romanticism 56 (Winter 2017): 499-523.
  
• "American Gothic Television." American Gothic Culture: An Edinburgh Companion. Ed. Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016 .
• *"Professionalism, Citizenship, and the Problem of University Governance." MLA Profession (2013): 126-38.
• "'A Wicked Whisper': Censorship and Affect in Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.'" The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope. Ed. Joel Faflak and Jason Haslam. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2013. 51-71.
• "Literature and Nationalism." Vol. 6 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Ed. M. A. R. Habib. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. 97-114.
• "The Gothic Frontier of Modernity: The 'Invisible Hand' of State-Formation in Deadwood." The Last Western:  Deadwood and the End of American Empire.  Ed. Jennifer Greiman and Paul Stasi.  New York: Continuum, 2012.  42-61.
• "Thomas Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity in Irish Romanticism." United Islands? The Languages of Resistance. Ed. Michael Brown, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble.  London: Pickering and Chatto, 2012. 153-65. 
• "Nation and Empire." A Handbook to Romanticism Studies. Ed. Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 259-75.
• "Outlaws or Immigrants?  Atlantic Exile and the Stateless Citizen in Irish Romanticism."  Wordsworth Circle (Winter 2009): 36-44.
• *"Pathologizing Procrastination; Or, the Romanticization of Work."  English Studies in Canada 34.2-3 (June/September 2008): 16-20.
• "'Wel gelun a gud?': Thomas Sheridan's Brave Irishman and the Failure of English."  Irish Studies Review 16.4 (November 2008): 445-60.
• "Latchkey Hero: Class, Masculinity, and the Gothic in Eric Kripke's Supernatural." Genders 47 (Spring 2008).
• "Introduction: Anna Liddiard." Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period. Ed. Stephen C. Behrendt. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2008.
• "'The Policy of Geography': Cavour's Considerations, European Geopolitics, and Ireland in the 1840s." Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 48 (November 2007).
• "'All the Fire-Side Circle': Irish Women Writers and the Sheridan-Lefanu Coterie."  Forum.  Keats-Shelley Journal 55 (2006): 63-72.
• "Baillie, Blake, and the Enlightenment Subject in Romantic Drama." Women Reading William Blake: "Opposition is True Friendship." Ed. Helen P. Bruder. New York: Macmillan/Palgrave, 2006. 270-78.
• "'National Feeling' and the Colonial Prison: Teeling's Personal Narrative." Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005. 175-98.
• "National Erotics and Political Theory in Morgan's The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys."  European Romantic Review 15 (2004): 229-41.
• *"The Simulation of Academic Crisis; Or, Chicken Little Rules the Roost." Reader's Forum: What's Left of English Studies? English Studies in Canada 29 (2003): 85-96.
• "'Growing-Pains': Representing the Romantic in Gaskell's Wives and Daughters." Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism. Ed. Joel Faflak and Julia M. Wright. Albany, NY: SUNY P, 2004. 163-85.
• "'The Same Dull Round Over Again': Colonial History in Moore's Memoirs of Captain Rock." European Romantic Review 14 (2003): 243-53.
• "'Sons of Song':   Irish Literature in the Age of Nationalism."  Romantic Poetry.   Ed. Angela Esterhammer.  Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002. 333-53.
• "Lewis's 'Anaconda': Gothic Homonyms and Sympathetic Distinctions." Gothic Studies 3 (2001): 262-78.
• "Devouring the Disinherited: Familial Cannibalism in Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer." Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity. Ed. Kristen Guest. Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 2001.  79-105. 
• "'Little England':  Anxieties of Space in Mary Shelley's The Last Man."  Mary Shelley's Fictions:  From Frankenstein to Falkner.  Ed. Michael Eberle-Sinatra. New York:  St. Martin's/Macmillan P, 2000. 129-49.
• "The Medium, the Message, and the Line in Blake's Laocoon."  Mosaic 33 (2000): 101-24. [an expanded and revised version is in Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation.]
• "Courting Public Opinion:  Handling Informers in the 1790s." Eire-Ireland 33 (1997-1998): 144-69.
• "'The Nation Begins to Form': Competing Nationalisms in Morgan's The O'Briens and the O'Flahertys." ELH 66 (1999): 939-63.
• "'Greek & Latin Slaves of the Sword': Rejecting the Imperial Nation in Blake's Milton." Milton and the Imperial Vision. Ed. Elizabeth Sauer and Balachandra Rajan.  Afterword by Homi Bhabha. Pittsburgh:   Duquesne UP, 1999.  255-72.
• "'The Order of Time': Nationalism and Literary Anthologies, 1774-1831." Papers on Language and Literature 33 (1997): 339-65.
• "'I Am Ill Fitted': Conflicts of Genre in Eliza Fenwick's Secresy." Romanticism, History, and the  Possibilities of Genre: Re-forming Literature, 1789-1837. Ed. Tilottama Rajan and Julia M. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 149-75.
• "'And None Shall Gather the Leaves': Unbinding the Voice in Blake's America and Europe."  European Romantic Review 7 (1996): 61-84.
• "'Which Is to Be Master': Classifying the Language of Alice's 'Antipathies.'" English Studies in Canada 20 (1994): 301-17.
• *"Comprehensive Examinations in English Literature: Institutional Initiation Rites and the (De)canonization of the Academy." Critical Mass 4 (1994): 3-18.
• "Peacock's Early Parody of Thomas Moore in Nightmare Abbey." English Language Notes 30 (1993): 31-38.
• "'Empire Is No More': Odin and Orc in America." Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 26 (1992): 26-29.
• "'A Small Violence to History': Reflecting on the Past in Fielding's Drama Eurydice Hissed." CLIO 23 (1993):  63-79.
• "'The Inevitable Inciter of Crime': Illicit Genders and Sherlock(ed) Holmes." (Sa)fire/works: More Works in Progress by Students of Feminism(s). Ed. Trish Dick and L. Michelle Amlin. London, Ontario: Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research (U of Western Ontario), 1994.  110-120.
• "'Diogenes in Disguise': Inversion and Identity in The Confidence-Man." Canadian Review of American Studies 23 (1992): 73-91.

Other Publications:
Co-editor, with Kevin Hutchings, of the Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies (2005-2015).

Policy Briefings:

Various (sole author unless otherwise noted):
• * Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Amanda Clarke, Matthew Herder, Howard Ramos, and Julia M. Wright. “It’s Time to Protect Expert Advice.” Globe and Mail 3 March 2022.
•  “How Books, Movies, and TV Help Us Understand the Infodemic, Anti-Vax Messages, and Conspiracy Theories.” The Conversation 9 February 2022. 
• *“We need a long-term plan for the post-secondary sector in Canada.” The Hill Times 15 September 2021. 
• *“Listening to Expertise: We can do better in higher education.” Globe and Mail 1 September 2021. 
• *Brennan, Jennifer, Karen Foster, and Julia M. Wright. “Universities, Colleges, and COVID-19: Lessons Learned?” Globe and Mail 12 April 2021.
• *Trilokekar, Roopa Desai, Leesa Wheelahan, and Julia M. Wright. “COVID-19 is Changing Our World: It’s Time to Rethink International Education.” Globe and Mail 16 February 2021. 
• “The pandemic has shown us why we must restore a margin of safety in our public institutions.” Globe and Mail 19 January 2021. 
• * “Independence of Universities Doesn’t End at Boardroom Door.” NS Advocate 24 August 2020.
  
• "Poetry has Linked War and Disease for Centuries." The Conversation April 2020.
  
• *  "How to Invest in our PhDs? Through Faculty Renewal" (#SupportTheReport). University Affairs, December 2017.
• *  "Guest Post: Research Climate Change."   English Matters (ACCUTE Blog), 25 January 2016.
• "Irish Poetry to 1880." Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. 4 vols. Ed. Dino Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• *"Open Access and the Public Purse." Academic Matters (28 July 2014).
• "Thomas Moore." The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. Ed. Frederick Burwick, Nancy Moore Goslee, and Diane Long Hoeveler. 3 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
• "National Literature." John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Revised edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. [online: 2500 words] Also in John Hopkins Guide Contemporary Critical
  Theory. Ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. 355-60. (a collection of selected entries from the full Guide)
• "Charlotte Brooke," "Maria Edgeworth," and "Lady Morgan." Encyclopedia of Celtic History and Culture. Ed. John T. Koch. Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2006. 295, 646, 1412.
  
• *(with Kieran Bonner, Diana Brydon, and Marjorie Stone) "Building Research Networks:  A Panel."  Open Letter:  A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory.  12th series.  9 (2006): 83-103.
• Reviews in such journals as Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Irish Studies Review, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Romanticism on the Net, and Studies in Romanticism.

Recent Conference Presentations:

Selected Plenaries and Other Invited Talks:

• *“Knowledge-Sharing in the (Mis)Information Age: Supporting Researcher Safety and Information Hygiene.” Panel on HSS Commons. Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 12 May 2022. Online.
• *(panelist) Webinar on Protecting Expert Advice for the Public. Royal Society of Canada, 11 February 2022. Online.
• Discussant. Webinar for People and the Ocean Speaker Series. Ocean Frontier Institute (Memorial Univ.). 9 November 2021. Online. 
• “‘Thy Heart is Sunk’: Storm and Sensibility in Maturin’s Bertram.” Charles Robert Maturin at 201. Marsh’s Library, Dublin, October 2021. Online.
• “Interdisciplinarity and the RSC.” For panel “RSC 101: The Example of the Task Force on COVID-19.” 23 November 2020. Online. 
• *(panelist) “Research in a Pandemic.” CAUT Webinar on Academic Work and COVID-19. 16 April 2020. Online.
• *“Reviving University Governance.” Memorial University. St. John’s Nfld., 13 November 2019.
• “’Dire Reverse’: Poetic Structure and Historic Catastrophe.” ESC Roundtable: Catastrophe and Its Discontents. Annual meeting of the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, CFHSS Congress, University of British Columbia, June 2019.
  
• *"Breaking the Bottleneck in University Governance." Canadian Association of University Teachers Council, Ottawa, 23 November 2018.
• "'Render Unto Sea, Sir': Imagining the Transatlantic." Royal Society of Canada Symposium, Halifax, 15 November 2018.
• "Literary Ladies: Education and Literary Theory in Edgeworth's Ireland." Teaching Edgeworth/Edgeworth Teaching. Organized by the Fordham Romanticism Group & Institute of Irish Studies. Fordham University, New York, 18 September 2018.
• "'Supporting the Female Right to Literature': Irish Writing on Education and Authorship, 1775-1830." 2017 Thomas J. Flatley Irish Studies Lecture Series. Boston College, 6 April 2017.
  
• "Spooky Houses and the Unheimlich State."  Gothic Migrations.  Biennial  conference of the International Gothic Association. Vancouver, BC, July 2015.
• "Cosmopugilism:  Irish Writers on European Conflict."  Travelling Irishness. University of Limerick, 28-29 August 2014.
• "'Mene, Mene': The Humanities in a Time of War." Decadence.  Dalhousie University, 15-17 August 2014.
• "Defining Irish Romanticism: Genre, Nationalism, and Literary History." Annual Meeting of the International Conference on Romanticism. Montreal, 3-6 November 2011.
• "(Dis)locations of Gender: Representing National Crisis in Irish Romanticism." International meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Madison, WI, 30 March - 2 April 2011.
• "Outlaws or Immigrants? Atlantic Exile and the State Citizen in Irish Romanticism."  Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, UK, 4-9 August 2008.

Other (various selected):
• *"Collegial Governance and Collective Agreements." MLA Convention. San Francisco, January 2023.
• "'Roughly, yes, I suppose': Explanatory Failures in Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes." Petrocultures 2022: Transformations. Stavanger, Norway, August 2022.
• "Tempests and Turmoil: Storming the Castle in Maturin's Betram." Gothic Interruptions, Biannual Conference of the International Gothic Association, Dublin, July 2022.
• "Literary Criticism in 1790s Dublin: Robert Burrowes, Thomas Moore, and 'Easy Simplicity." Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures. Dublin, July 2019.
  
• "'Prepared by Terror': Irish Gothic and Shakespeare's The Tempest." Annual meeting of the Association of Canadian College & University Teachers of English. University of British Columbia, June 2019.
• "Who Watches the Microwaves?: Technology and the Gothic State." Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for American Studies. OCADU, Toronto, 27-29 October 2017; also International Gothic Association conference, Manchester, UK, July 2018.
• "'All the Terrors of Shipwrecked Vessels': Maturin and Contemporary Irish Literary Theory." Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. Cholula, Mexico, 18-21 July 2017.
• *"Know Your Audience; Or, How to Get Ahead in Knowledge Mobilization." Executive Panel: Using Our Outside Voices: Humanities in a Public Register. ACCUTE conference. Ottawa, 30 May-2 June 2015.
• "Diasporic Nationalism and the Refashioning of the Native in Irish Romantic Poetry." Annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. University College Dublin, 11-14 June 2014.
• "Gothic Television in Gothic History."  Frontiers in Cultural Studies.  Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), June 2013. 
• "Transforming the National Tale: Le Fanu's Early Contributions to the Dublin University Magazine." Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Assoc.  Montreal, November 2010.
• "Early and Late Irish Romanticism:  Thomas Moore and D. F. MacCarthy."  Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Vancouver, BC: August 2010.
• "'Tho' Glory Be Gone': Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity."  Annual ACCUTE conference. Montreal, 28-31 May 2010.
• "Out of Time: Healing Histories in Irish Romanticism."  ACIS Panel: Irish Temporalities.  MLA Convention, Philadelphia PA, 27-30 December 2009.
• "'If a Man Fails at Home': Historicizing Gender in the Second Season of Millennium." Canadian Assoc. For American Studies Annual Conference.  University of Western Ontario, 13-15 November 2009.
•  (invited symposium paper).  "Stateless Citizens: The Problem of Masculinity in Moore and Morgan."   United Islands 2.  Queen's University Belfast, August 2009. 

Further Selected Information from CV:

Degrees:
HBA (1988); MA (1989); PhD (1994), University of Western Ontario

Recent External Awards and Research Grants:

• CAUT Dedicated Service Award (2022)
  
• SSHRC Insight Grant (2013-2018; 2020-2024)
• SSHRC Connection Grants (2015; 2017)
• SSHRC Standard Research Grants (1997-2000; 2002-05; 2006-09; 2009-12)
• Canada Foundation for Innovation Grants (2002-05; co-applicant, 2007)
• Canada Research Chairs (2002-05, in English & Cultural Studies; 2005-10, in European Studies, and renewed 2010-12)


Boards of Directors


• Council of Canadian Academies, January 2020-December 2022 (includes Audit, Finance, and Human Resources Committee, 2020-22)
• Royal Society of Canada, November 2019-November 2022 (included Governance & Ethics Committee, 2019-22; Vice-President Designate, 2021-22)
• Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015-19 (included Executive Committee, 2017-18, and Audit & Finance Committee, 2017-19)


Presidencies


• President, Academy of the Arts and Humanities, Royal Society of Canada (2019-2022)
• President, Dalhousie Faculty Association (2019-20; President-Elect, 2018-19)


Selected External Professional and Academic Service:


• Member, Royal Society of Canada Task Force on COVID-19 (2020- )
  
• Co-Organizer, "North Atlantic Worlds." Memorial University of Newfoundland, 24-27 June 2020. (SSHORE conference; cancelled because of COVID-19)
  
• Co-Organizer, "Canada's Responsibility to  Our Shining Seas." 10-12 May 2017 at Dalhousie University. SSHRC-funded workshop for SSHORE (Social Sciences and Humanities Oceans Research and Education, a Dalhousie-Memorial research network)
• Editorial Board, Nineteenth-Century Studies (2011- )
• Executive Committee, MLA Discussion Group for Anglo-Irish Literature (2010-15)
• Editorial Board, Genders (2008-16)
• College of Reviewers, Canada Research Chairs Program (2002- )
• Conference Committee.  Romanticism & History. 10th annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. University of Western Ontario. London, Canada, 22-25 August 2002. 
• Conference Committee.  1798 and Its Implications. First joint conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the British Association for Romantic Studies.  St. Mary's University College.  Strawberry Hill, England, 6-10 July 1998.

Selected Recent Research-Related Service in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences:

• Acting Associate Dean Research, FASS (July 2021-June 2022)
• Associate Dean Research, FASS  (July 2013-June 2016); includes FASS Library Committee, FASS Research Development Committee,  Dalhousie Research Advisory Committee (university), and so on.
• Co-Organizer, "European Cooperation/Cooptation:  Ideas of Collaboration and Coordination."  Third Annual European Studies Colloquium. Dalhousie Centre for European Studies, 26-27 April 2013.
• Co-Organizer, "Performing Europe / European Performances."  Annual European Studies Colloquium. Dalhousie Centre for European Studies, 27-28 April 2012.
• Organizer. "European Mediations:  Transnational and Supranational Formations." Annual European Studies Colloquium. Dalhousie Centre for European Studies, 9 April 2011.
• Acting Co-Director, Centre for European Studies (2011-2013)
• Research Development Committee, FASS (2006-07, 2008-10)


Selected Recent University Service:


• Grievance Officer, Dalhousie Faculty Association (2018-21)
  
• Bargaining Team, Dalhousie Faculty Association (2017-18)
• Senate Workshop Planning Group (Diversity, Inclusion) (2015-16)
• Research Sub-Committee, Senate (2013-2015)
• Dalhousie SSHRC Leader (May 2013-June 2016)
  
• Scholarly Integrity Committee (2012-2014)
• Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Scholarly Integrity Policy, Dalhousie (2010- ; Chair, 2011-2012); Committee to Review the Scholarly Integrity Policy, Dalhousie (2015-2016)
• University-level work at previous universities:   Senate, Senate Executive Committee, Research Grants Committee, etc.
  



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