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Lisa Weihman

Associate Professor

Dr. Lisa Weihman is an Associate Professor of 20th Century British and Irish Literature with a specialization in Irish Studies. She has published work on Dorothy Macardle, Elizabeth Bowen, and Virginia Woolf, and is currently editing a critical edition of Somerville and Ross’s novel The Real Charlotte.  In addition to a wide range of undergraduate classes, Prof. Weihman teaches graduate surveys and seminars on Modernism and Mass Culture, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, 20th Century Irish literature, and Contemporary Irish Women Writers. 

Specializations

  • 19th and 20th Century British and Irish Literature and Culture

Selected Publications

“Mothers of the Insurrection: Theodosia Hickey’s Easter Week,Irish Women’s Writing at the Turn of the 20th Century, ed. Sinéad Mooney and Kathryn Laing. EER Press, 2020. 

“Female Militancy and Irish Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle’s Earth-Bound” in Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive, eds. Maria McGarrity and Claire Culleton; Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.

“The Kathleen ni Houlihan are Lovelier than Ever”: Physical Force Nationalism in Bean na hEireann. Foilsiu, Vol. 6, #1, Spring 2008. 19-44.

“National Treasures and Nationalist Gardens: Unlocking the Archival Mysteries of Anna Parnell’s Tale of a Great Sham and Helena Molony’s Bean na hEireann” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 27, No. 2 Fall 2008. 355-364.

“Grave Girls: Anarchic Women in Helen and Olivia Rossetti’s A Girl Among the Anarchists and G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.” The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 16, Fall 2007, 88105.

“Virginia Woolf’s ‘Harum-Scarum’ Irish Wife: Gender and National Identity in The Years.” Comparative Critical Studies 4, I, 2007, 31-50.

“Doing My Bit for Ireland: Women’s Narratives of the Easter Rising,” Eire-Ireland, Fall/Winter 2004, v. XXXIX