Mary Mullen to Present at C19 Conference on "Hard Borders"

Professor Mary Mullen will be speaking at an upcoming CUNY C19 conference on “Hard Border(s): Ireland and the British Question,” to take place virtually on May 7. Professor Mullen will be speaking about Ireland and the Colonial Politics of Public Interest. The conference's speakers will touch on a variety of themes related to Ireland and its relationship to Great Britain, including "imperial hauntings," "nationalism," and "populism." 

Professor Mullen is the author of Novel Institutions: Anachronism, Irish Novels, and Nineteenth-Century Realism (Edinburgh, 2019), which won the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature from the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has published articles on settler colonialism, the politics of time, public humanities, fast-day literature, and nineteenth-century English and Irish writing. She is currently working on a new book project on the colonial politics of public interest, which considers how public interest is a strategy for managing racial and colonial difference in an era of globalization.

More information can be found on C19's website.