School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Páraic Finnerty

Dr Páraic Finnerty

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

SSHLS

paraic.finnerty@port.ac.uk

Profile

Páraic joined the University of Portsmouth as lecturer in English literature in 2004, having previously taught at the University of Kent. He teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American literature. His central research interests are transatlantic literary relations, American literature, women's writing, and literary representations of genders and sexualities.

Main Publications

Books

  • Dickinson and her British Contemporaries: Victorian Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. 2014.
  • (co-authored with C. Boyce and A. Millim) Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan. 2013.
  • Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2006.

Journal Special Issues

  • (co-edited with B. Price) Communities and Companionship Early Modern Literary Studies (forthcoming 2013)
  • (co-edited with P. Pulham) Decadent Crossings Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. 16.2 (October 2012).
  • (co-edited with B. Price) Amity in Early Modern Literature and Culture Literature and History 20.1 (Spring 2011).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • ‘Decadent Masculinity in Early James.’ Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. 16. 2 (October 2012), 147-63.
  • “‘Dreamed of your meeting Tennyson in Ticknor and Fields -’: A Transatlantic Encounter with Britain’s Poet Laureate” The Emily Dickinson Journal 20.1 (2011), 56-77.
  • ‘“Both are alike; and both alike we like’: Sovereignty and Amity in Shakespeare’s King John.’ Literature and History 20.1 (2011), 38-58
  • ‘The Englishman in America: Masculinity in Love and Death on Long Island and Father of Frankenstein.’Genders (Spring 2010)
  • ‘Rival Italies: Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin and Henry James.’ Prose Studies 31.2 (2009). pp. 109-121.
  • “Queer Appropriation: Shakespeare’s sonnets and Dickinson’s love poems.”Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 3.2 (2008).
  • ‘A Dickinson Reverie: The Worm, the Snake, Marvel, and Nineteenth-Century Dreaming.’ The Emily Dickinson Journal 16.2 (2007). pp. 94-118.
  • ‘The Body of the Terrorist in Contemporary Cinema.’ Reconstruction: A Journal in Contemporary Culture 7.2 (2007) co-written with R.Duggan, http://reconstruction.eserver.org/071/dugganfinnerty.shtml
  • ‘The Daisy and the Dandy: Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde.’ Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations. 9.1 (2005). pp 63-87.
  • ‘“We think of others possessing you with the throes of Othello”: Dickinson playing Othello, race and Tommaso Salvini.’ The Emily Dickinson Journal 11.1 (2002). pp. 81-90.
  • ‘Reading Transformations: Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare.’ Studies in English and Comparative Literature 12 (1999). pp. 227-39.
  • ‘“No Matter Now Sweet - But When I am Earl”: Dickinson's Shakespearean Cross Dressing.’ The Emily Dickinson Journal 7.2 (1998). pp.65-94.

Book Chapters

  • ‘Shakespeare’ and ‘Transatlantic Women Writers’ in Emily Dickinson in Context. Ed. Eliza Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.
  • “Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A.” Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film. Eds. B. Nicol, P. Pulham and E. McNulty. London: Continuum Books 2010 141-154.

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