Megan Crotty is a Doctoral Candidate and Irish Studies Fellow. Her research interests include empire, nationalism, and gender in Irish and Commonwealth literature. She is particularly interested in conversations around gendered violence in postcolonial spaces, and her dissertation focuses on formal techniques and representations of trauma in contemporary novels by Irish women writers. She has received several awards and fellowships, including the Dalsimer Dissertation Fellowship, an MLA Summer Teaching Institute Fellowship, the Kiara Kharpertian Writing Award, and the Pierce Loughran Scholarship at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo, Ireland. She also served as a Graduate Fellow for the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy from 2019 to 2022.
Ms Crotty has taught freshman writing and introductory literature courses at Boston College, MCPHS University, and Middlesex Community College. She also taught an upper-level elective for the English Department entitled “Harpies, Hysterics, and Fallen Women” in the Spring of 2020. During her time in the PhD program, Megan has worked as a graduate assistant for the Irish Studies Program and the Undergraduate Writing Awards. She was a co-organizer and assistant to the conference director for Towards Transitional Justice: Recognition, Truth-telling, and Institutional Abuse in Ireland, an international conference held at BC in the Fall of 2018. In addition, Megan helped to found and organize Comhfhios Boston College: An Irish Studies Conference and acted as conference director in 2022. She also founded the first-generation group for graduate students in English and History in 2019 with a grant from the Institute for Liberal Arts.
Megan holds a B.A. in English and Dance from the University of Massachusetts Boston and an M.A. in English from Boston College.
