English Department Faculty
Colleen Taylor
Assistant Professor, English & Irish Studies
Colleen Taylor
Ph.D.
Contact
Email: taylorft@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Fordham University
- M.Phil, Trinity College Dublin
- Ph.D., Boston College
Department
Publications
Books
- Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Edgeworth’s Great Coat: A Material-Semiotic Reading of the Irish Mantle and Novelistic Interiority." Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35, no. 2 (April 2023): pp. 261 – 286.
- “New Materialisms.” In The Year’s Work in Critical And Cultural Theory, Vols. 31-33, edited by Emeila Quinn and Ranjan Ghosh. The English Association & Oxford University Press, 2023.
- “Morgan, (née Owenson), Sydney, Lady.” In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women’s Writing, edited by Natasha Duquette, et. al. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
- “Salvatora Rosa by Lady Morgan. In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women’s Writing, edited by Natasha Duquette, et. al. Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
- “A Song of Ireland in Chawton House.” The Female Spectator, vol. 6, no. 1. (2022): pp. 74-77.
- “Sydney Owenson, Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and the Domestic Stage of Post-Union Politics.” In Ireland, Enlightenment, and the English Stage, 1740-1820, edited by David O’Shaughnessy, pp. 146-164. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019.
- "Reading Post-Union Material Culture: ‘the Bodkin is particularly deserving our notice.’” Eire-Ireland 53, no. 3 (2018): pp. 36-63.
- “Feminist Fancy in the National Tale: Edgeworth, Owenson, and Sarah Isdell’s The Irish Recluse.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 37, no. 2 (2018): pp. 295-323.
- “Austen Answers the Irish Question: Satire, Anxiety and Emma’s Allusory Ireland.” Persuasions 38 (2016): pp. 218-227.