Luke Gibbons, PhD (TCD)

Third Year Co-Ordinator

Contact Details

Office Location:

Office 0.34, Ground Floor, Iontas Building

Telephone Number:

+353 (1) 7086805

Email:

luke.gibbons@nuim.ie

Consultation Hours Academic Year 2012-13

Wednesday 12.00pm - 2.00pm, or by prior appointment.

Luke Gibbons, is Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at the School of English, Drama and Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and formerly taught at the University of Notre Dame, U.S.A., and Dublin City University. He has published widely on Irish culture, film, literature, and the visual arts, as well as on aesthetics and politics. His publications include Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonialism and Irish Culture (2004), Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime (2003), The Quiet Man (2002), Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), and co-wrote (with Kevin Rockett and John Hill) Cinema and Ireland (1988), the pioneering study of Irish cinema. He was a contributing editor to Seamus Deane, ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), and has edited two recent collections, Re-Inventing Ireland: Culture, Society and the Global Economy (with Peadar Kirby and Michael Cronin, 2002), and ‘The Theatre of Irish Cinema’ (with Dudley Andrew), a special issue of The Yale Journal of Criticism (2002). He won a Kaneb teaching award at the University of Notre Dame, where he co-supervised over 20 Ph. D dissertations. His research interests include film, modernism, romanticism, aesthetics, visual culture, critical theory and cultural history, particularly as they bear on developments in Irish culture.

Recent Publications

‘Peripheral Visions: Revisiting Irish Modernism’, in Enrique Juncosa and Christina Kennedy, eds., The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011).

‘Mirrors of Memory: Ireland, Photography and the Modern’, in Enrique Juncosa and Christina Kennedy, eds., The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011).

‘Seeing and Time: James Coleman’s “Pheasant” ‘, in Enrique Juncosa and Christina Kennedy, eds., The Moderns: The Arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2011).

‘Modalities of the Visible’, Introduction to Linda King and Elaine Sisson, eds., Ireland, Design and Visual Culture: Negotiating Modernity, 1922-1992 (Cork: Cork University Press, 2011)

‘ “Words Upon the Window Pane”: Image, Text, and Irish Culture’, in James Elkins, ed., Visual Cultures (Chicago: Intellect, 2010).

‘Form, Fiction and Irish Modernity: Some French Connections’, in Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien, ed., War of the Words: Literary Rebellion in France and Ireland (Rennes: TIR, 2010).

‘The Addressivity of the Eye: James Coleman’s “Connemara Landscape”’, Field Day Review 6 , 2010.

‘ “Famished Ghosts”: Bloom, Bible Wars, and “U.P. up” in Joyce’s Dublin’, Dublin James Joyce Journal, 2 (2010).

‘Roots of Modernity: Primitivism and Primitive Accumulation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’ in Maureen O’Connor, ed., Back to the Future of Irish Studies (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010).

‘Romanticism in Ireland, 1750-1840’, in James Chandler, ed., Cambridge History of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

“Sight Specific”: James Coleman’s “Connemara Landscape”’, in Jacques Ranciere, et al., James Coleman: Retrospective (IMMA, 2009).

‘From Innisfree to Monument Valley: Irishness and Ritual in John Ford’s Westerns’, in Sean Crosson and Rod Stoneman, eds., The Quiet Man . . . and Beyond: Reflections on a Classic Film, John Ford and Ireland (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2008).

‘Peripheral Modernities: National and Global in a Post-Colonial Frame’, in Keith Hanley and Greg Kucich, eds. Nineteenth-Century Worlds: Global Formations Past and Present (Routledge, 2008).

Critical Review, F.P. Lock, Edmund Burke: 1783-1797, Vol II (Oxford University Press, 2008), in American Historical Review, 113 (April, 2009).

‘Mourn – and Then Onward!’ Review article of Jonathan Lear, Racial Hope, Field Day Review, 4 (Summer 2008).

'Ghostly Light': Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce's and John Huston's "The Dead", in Richard Brown, ed., A Companion to James Joyce, Blackwell, 2007.

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