CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Dr. Marguérite Christina Maria Corporaal

Date of birth: 5 June 1973

Place of birth: Schöppingen, Germany

Nationality: Dutch

Professional address: Department of English

Radboud University

P.O. Box 9103

6500 HD Nijmegen

The Netherlands

+31-24-3612034

m.corporaal@let.ru.nl

Private address: Stationsdwarsstraat 9

6662 AZ Elst

The Netherlands

+31-481-350267

+31-6-21919953

EDUCATION

2013: Management in Higher Education (Leergang Academisch Leiderschap),

Radboud University;

Completed modules: financial management, staff management, legal aspects of

the academia, stimulating leadership, communication, conflict management,

personal coaching, presentation techniques, intervision.

2010: Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs)

2003: Ph.D in English Literature, University of Groningen;

Dissertation: Wicked Words and Virtuous Voices: The Reconstruction of Tragic

Subjectivity by Renaissance and Early Restoration Women Dramatists.

Supervisors: prof. Helen Wilcox (University of Groningen)/ prof. Bart

Westerweel (University of Leiden).

1997: Postgraduate Certificate of Secondary Education, University of Groningen.

1996: MA (Doctoraal) in English Language and Culture, University of Groningen

(studies partially completed at Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey,

United Kingdom). Cum laude.

Minor subjects: art history, gender studies, theatre studies, film studies, literary

publishing.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2014-present: Associate Professor of English Literature (UHD), full-time, Radboud

University.

2014-present: Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the International Network of Irish

Famine Studies. Funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific

Research, NWO, through an Internationalisation Grant.

2010-2015: Principal Investigator of the research project Relocated Remembrance: The

Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921. Funded by the European

Research Council in the form of a Starting Grant.

2007-2014: Assistant Professor of English Literature (UD), full-time, Radboud University.

2006-2007: Assistant Professor of American Literature and Culture (UD), part-time,

University of Groningen.

2004-2007: Assistant Professor of English Literature (UD), part-time, University of Leiden.

2002-2006: Affiliated Professor of English Literature (Docent), part-time,

University of Groningen.

1999-2002: Ph.D candidate at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. Research

fellowship from NWO (the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research).

1997-1999: Teacher of English (A-levels) at the Wessel Gansfort College, Groningen.

1996-1999: Author and editor at Wolters Noordhoff Publishers, Groningen.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Research Master programmes

HLCS-C: Current Debates in the Humanities (Radboud University, 2012, 2013, 2014).

Master programmes

Irish Literature and the Construction of Cultural Identities: From Famine to Troubles (Radboud

University, 2016)

The Literary Memory of the Great Famine, 1847-1921 (Radboud University, 2008-2010).

Postcolonialism and Empire (Radboud University, 2008, 2009, 2010).

Twentieth-Century English and Irish Poetry (Radboud University, 2007).

American Regionalism (University of Leiden, 2007).

Exiles and Immigrants in American Literature, 1865-1945 (University of Leiden, 2006).

The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of Leiden, 2005).

The Rise of the Gothic (University of Groningen, 2005).

Transparencies of the Mind: Virginia Woolf (University of Leiden, 2004).

The Golden Age of Drama in Spain and England (University of Groningen, 2003).

Gender and Drama in the Seventeenth Century (University of Groningen, 2002).

Shakespeare’s Sisters: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing (University of Groningen, 2001).

Bachelor programmes

B1

Introduction to Literary Studies (Radboud University, 2008-2010).

19th- and 20th-Century British Literature (Radboud University, 2008-2010).

Modern American Culture: 19th- and 20th-century Literature (University of Groningen, 2007).

Culture, Arts and Media in American Studies (University of Groningen, 2006).

Restoration to Late Augustan Literature (University of Leiden, 2004-2006).

Research Skills: Literature (University of Leiden, 2004-2007).

17th- and 18th-century Literature (University of Groningen, 2004-2005).

Renaissance and Restoration Literature (University of Groningen, 2002).

Introduction to 20th-Century Poetry (University of Groningen, 1999-2001).

B2

17th- and 18th-century British Literature (Radboud University, 2007-2010).

Identity and Ideology (University of Groningen, 2007).

American Realism, 1865-1917 (University of Leiden, 2004-2007).

Nineteenth-Century Literature (University of Groningen, 2003-2005) .

B3

Fools and Furies: The Early Modern Stage (Radboud University, 2015).

Seminars on Irish culture in the course English Studies Now (Radboud University, 2013-2015) .

BA Thesis Seminar, Literature (Radboud University, 2010-2011).

Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts (Radboud University, 2008-2009).

The Dimensions of Space: Canada and America (University of Groningen, 2006).

American Literature, 1917-present (University of Leiden, 2004-2006).

Electives

Beyond Britishness: The Construction of Identitis in Literature and Culture (Radboud University,

2016).

Shakespeare’s Sisters: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing (Radboud University, 2011-2014).

Early Modern English Poetry (Radboud University, 2008-2010).

The Beats and Confessionals (University of Leiden, 2007).

Twentieth-Century American Drama (University of Leiden, 2005-2006).

Honours programmes

Great Texts II (Radboud University, 2008-2009).

International teaching

June 2015: Visiting Professor at the Irish Famine Summer School, at the

the Irish National Famine Museum, Strokestown; organised by the Strokestown Community

Development Association, Roscommon County Council, NUI Maynooth, Ireland’s Great Hunger

Institute at Quinnipiac University and St Michaels College, University of Toronto.

March 2012: Visiting Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland. School of Languages,

Literature, Culture and Communication.

October 2001: Visiting Professor at the University of Roehampton, London. Department of

English and Department of Drama Studies.

Supervision

Numerous BA, MA and MPhil theses (Radboud University, University of Leiden, University of

Groningen, 2002-present).

Research Master Internships: Josje Siemensma (Chawton House Library, University of

Southampton, 2014); Astrid Kulsdom (Huygens Instituut, the Hague, 2011); Christopher Cusack

(NUI Maynooth, 2010); Lindsay Janssen (An Foras Feasa, NUI Maynooth, 2010).

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Funding ID

Radboud HLCS Award for Pioneering Research. December 2015. 1,500 EURO.

NWO Internationalisation Grant (Internationalisering in de Geesteswetenschappen) for the

project International Irish Studies Network. November 2014-November 2017. 63,700 EURO.

ERC Starting Grant; Relocated Remembrance: the Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction,

1847-1921. October 2010-September 2015. 741,000 EURO.

Pioneer Grant from the Institute of Historical Literary and Cultural Research, Radboud

University. October-December 2012. 19,000 EURO.

PhD fellowship from NWO (the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). December

1999-December 2002. 140,000 Guilders (ca. 110,000 EURO).

Funding applications in progress

First-stage application. NWO, Vrije Competitie. Project: Travelling European Disasters, 1845-

1912: Transnational Identities and Periodical Cultures. With Lotte Jensen. Submitted: 1 April

2016.

Application. NWO, Internationalisation in the Humanities. Project: The Gate Theatre Research

Network: Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Exchange and Identity Formation. Submitted: 27 February

2016. Foreign partners: NUI Galway, University of Prague, University of Lille III.

Application. H-2020, CULT-COOP-02-2017, Improving mutual understanding among Europeans

by working through troubled pasts. For the project Painful Lessons of Past Famines: Teaching

Food Crises and Changing European Identities. Function: Project Leader. To be submitted before

3 February 2017. Partners: Queen’s University Belfast, University of Newcastle, University

College Dublin, University of Helsinki, Lund University, University of Granada, Blaise Pascal

University.

Supervision of PhD research

2012-2016. Ruud van den Beuken, MA. Moulding the Irish Dramatist of the Future: Memory,

Modernity, and (Inter)nationalist Identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940. PhD to be

awarded on 3 April 2017.

2011-present. Christopher Cusack, MA. Recollecting the Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora)

Fiction, 1892-1921.

2011-2015. Lindsay Janssen, MA. Remembering the Great Hunger in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction,

1871-1891. PhD awarded on 29 February 2015.

External examination of Ph.D dissertations

2012. University of Limerick. Yvonne O’Keeffe, Mary Anne Sadlier’s Emigrant Narratives, 1850-

1870.

External refereeing of funding applications

Catholic University of Leuven. 2013 and 2014.

FWO (Flemish Research Council). 2013.

Peer-reviewing

For, amongst others, Éire-Ireland; Memory Studies; Oxford Bibliographies in British

and Irish Literature; Atlantic Studies; Reimagining Ireland series, Peter Lang publishers.

Directorship

November 2014-present. Founder and director of the International Network of Irish Famine

Studies. Partners: Prof. Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast), Prof. Luke Gibbons and dr Oona

Frawley (NUI Maynooth), dr Andrew Newby (University of Helsinki). Funded by NWO.

January 2014-present. Co-founder and director of the research group Europe and (Trans)national

Identities, Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University.

January 2013-present. Director of Radboud Univerity’s EFACIS Irish Studies Centre.

Membership

MLA (Modern Language Association)

EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies)

ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies)

IASIL (The International Association for the Study of Irish Literature).

OSL (Onderzoeksschool Literatuurwetenschap; Dutch National Research Institute for Literary

Studies).

HLCS (Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies) , Radboud University.

Other

Jury member of the EFACIS W.B. Yeats Reborn project, KU Leuven, 2014-2015.

International panels, conferences and workshops

Conference organisation

IASIL 2018. Rewriting Traditions. Radboud University, 23-27 July 2018.

Tradition and/or Modernity. Co-organised with Alicia Montoya, Maarten de Pourcq, Mathijs

Sanders and Jordy Geerlings. Radboud University, 26-27 May 2016.

INIFS Conference. The Great Famine and Its Impacts: Visual and Material Culture. Co-

organised with Oona Frawley and Emily Mark-FitzGerald. Maynooth University, Ireland, 14-16

March 2016.

INIFS Expert Meeting: Northern-European Famines. Co-organised with Andrew Newby.

University of Helsinki, 7-8 December 2015.

INIFS Inaugural Conference: Famine Migration and Diaspora. Co-organised with Lindsay

Janssen. Radboud University. 22-24 April 2015.

Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory. Co-organised with Ruud van den Beuken, Chris

Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. Radboud University. 31 March-2 April 2015.

Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Co-organised with Christina Morin.

University of Limerick. 28-29 August 2014.

Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture. Co-organised with

Anneke Smelik, Liedeke Plate, Laszlo Munteán, Lianne Toussaint, Vincent Meelberg and Wouter

Weijers. Radboud University. 5-6 June 2014.

Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Co-

organised with Ruud van den Beuken, Chris Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. Radboud University.

25-28 March 2013.

Famine Studies: The Future of the Field. Radboud University. 17-18 December 2012.

The Performance of Memory in the Arts. Co-organized with Anneke Smelik, Liedeke Plate,

Vincent Meelberg, Martijn Stevens and Wouter Weijers. Radboud University. 28-29 May 2010.

Funded by the KNAW (Royal Academy of Dutch Scientific Research).

New Grounds: Ecocriticism, Globalisation and Cultural Memory. Co-organised with Astrid

Bracke. Radboud University. 13-15 January 2010.

MESEA conference Migration Matters: Literature, Culture, Politics. Co-organised with Joke

Kardux and Doris Einsiedel. University of Leiden. 24-28 June 2008. Funded by the KNAW

(Royal Academy of Dutch Scientific Research).

Leiden October Conference The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1945. Co-

organised with Evert Jan van Leeuwen. University of Leiden. 25-27 October 2006.

Internationaal colloquium Staging Gender: Women and Theatre in the Early Modern Period.

University of Groningen. Co-organised with Helen Wilcox. 7 May 2003.

Organisation of conference panels and workshops

“The Great Famine Beyond Ireland: Liminality, Memory and Fiction”. EFACIS conference

Beyond Ireland: Boundaries, Passages and Transitions. University of Palermo. 4-6 June 2015.

“Hunger, Poverty and Migration: A Transatlantic Perspective”. XX Ulster American Heritage

Symposium. Quinnipiac University. 18-21 June 2014.

“The Great Irish Famine in Transnational Contexts“. ACIS/CAIS conference, Latitudes:Irish

Studies in an International Context. University College Dublin. 11-14 June 2014.

“The Cultural Mobility of the Irish in the Long Nineteenth Century”. With Christina Morin.

Europe and its Worlds: Cultural Mobility in, to and from Europe. Radboud University. 16-18

October 2013.

“The Irish Short Story as a Medium for Famine Recollection”. The Irish Short Story. KU Leuven.

15-17 November 2012.

“Literary Time Spaces: The Symbolical Language of Lieux de Mémoire in Irish (Diaspora)

Famine Fiction, 1847-1921”. IASIL conference, Weighing Words. Concordia University

Montreal. 30 July-2 August 2012.

“Conflicts and Resolutions in Literary Recollections of the Great Famine”. IASIL Conference,

Conflicts and Resolutions. KU Leuven. 18-22 July 2011.

“Revisiting The Great Famine: Old Literatures, New Theoretical Approaches”. IASIL

Conference, Old Literatures, New Knowledges. NUI Maynooth. 27-30 July 2010.

“From New Worlds Back to Old Homelands: Relocated Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Irish

Diaspora Literature”. MESEA conference. University of Pečs. 15-18 June 2010.

“Transgenerational and Transnational Remembrance: the Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora)

Fiction, 1851-1921”. Performances of Memory in the Arts. Radboud University. 28-29 May 2010.

“Of distant lands and foreign skies: homelands and new world in Irish (diaspora) fiction, 1850-

1901”. IASIL conference, Irish Literatures: World Perspectives. University of Glasgow. 27-31

July 2009.

“Women and Drama in Seventeenth-Century England and Spain”. With Alison Findlay

(University of Lancaster), Jose-Manuel Gonzàlez (University of Alicante) and Rina Walthaus

(University of Groningen). Attending to Early Modern Women IV. University of Maryland,

Delaware. 6-8 November 2003.

Academic keynotes and invited lectures

“ ‘Black Withered Stalks’: Recollecting Wastelands in Irish and Irish Diaspora Famine Fiction,

1847-70”. Irish Famine Summer School, Strokestown Park. 19 June 2015.

“Irish Famine Studies: Future Directions for the Field”. Faculty of Arts, NUI Galway. 13

February 2015.

“Spectacles of Starvation: The Great Famine and Theatricality”. Moore Institute, Centre for

Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies, NUI Galway. 12 February 2015.

“ ‘At the verge of ruin’: Poverty and Feudalism in Famine Fiction”. Poverty and Famine in

Ireland: The Great Famine and its Legacy. Queen’s University Belfast. 11-12 April 2014.

“Trauma in Transition: Recollecting the Great Irish Famine in Diaspora Fiction”. LITRA, Centre

for Literature and Trauma. University of Ghent. 13 February 2014.

“The Return of the Native: Remigration in Irish and Irish Diaspora Famine Fiction, 1847-1870”.

School of Languages, Literature and Communication, University of Limerick. 17 October 2012.

“Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921”. With Chris

Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. NUI Maynooth/An Foras Feasa. 27 March 2012.

“Diasporic Displacements:The Remembrance of the Great Famine in Irish-American andIrish-

Canadian Fiction, 1850-1870”. The Irish Diaspora and Famine: Migrancy, Performance, and

Remembrance. University of Limerick. 22 March 2012.

“Regional Memories and Transnational Identities in the Famine Fiction of Mary Anne Sadlier”.

University of Limerick, School of English and Media Studies. 21 March 2012.

“Relocated Remembrance”. Faculty Presentation for the President of the University. Radboud

University. 24 January 2011.

“‘Haunted by Hunger’: Images of Spectrality in Literary Recollections of the Great Irish Famine,

1850-1900”. An Gorta Mór/The Great Famine. NUI Maynooth/ An Foras Feasa. 29 November

2010.

International conference papers

“(R)emigration, the Region and Cultural Change in Local Colour Fiction, 1891-1905”. IASIL

University College Cork, Change, 28 July 2016.

“Between two worlds: Tradition and Modernity in the Irish Local Colour Tale of the 1890s”.

Tradition and/or Modernity. Radboud University, 27 May 2016.

“Evictions on the TV Screen: the Visual and Narrative Legacies of the Great Famine in The

Hanging Gale”. The Great Famine and Its Impacts: Visual and Material Culture. Maynooth

University, Ireland. 15 March 2016.

“Agrarian Outrage and Reconciliation in Early Famine Fiction”. IASIL 2015, Reconciliations.

University of York, 23 July 2015.

“Liminal Landscapes: (Re)constructing Home in Famine Fiction, 1847-1870”. EFACIS

conference Beyond Ireland: Boundaries, Passages and Transitions. University of Palermo. 4 June

2015.

“From Restoration to Reinscription: Remembering the Famine in Irish North-American Fiction”.

INIFS Inaugural Conference: Famine Migration and Diaspora. Radboud University. 24 April

2015.

“Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish North-American Fiction”. With Chris

Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory. Radboud University, 1

April 2015.

“The Materialization of Irish Identity in Early Famine Fiction”. 130th MLA annual convention,

Negotiating Sites of Memory. Vancouver. 11 January 2015.

“‘Our little Ireland’: Transporting Irishness to North Ameria in Famine Fiction, 1850-1870”.

Travelling Irishness in the Nineteenth Century. University of Limerick. 29 August 2014.

A heap of rags and old bones”: Narrative Spectacles of Starvation in Early Famine Fiction”.

IASIL conference, Embodying/Disemboying Ireland. University of Lille. 17 July 2014.

“’The recollection of sorrow and misery past’: Memories of the Great Famine in Irish North-

American Fiction, 1855-1870”. XX Ulster American Heritage Symposium. Quinnipiac University.

20 June 2014.

“From ‘chapless skulls of Skibbereen’ to ‘ghosts of starved Hindoos’: The Multidirectionality of

Famine Memory in Literature, 1845-1890”. ACIS/CAIS, Latitudes: Irish Studies in an

International Context. University College Dublin. 11 June 2014.

“ ‘Whin I remember…your yellow hair’: the Materialization of Irish Identity in Early Famine

Fiction”. Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture. Radboud

University. 6 June 2014.

“ ‘Ireland in Miniature’: Imagining Irish Transatlantic Communities in Famine Fiction, 1850-

1870”. Europe and its Worlds: Cultural Mobility in, to and from Europe. Radboud University. 17

October 2013.

“‘Desolation itself’: The Economies of Waste in Irishand Irish Diaspora Fiction, 1847-1870”.

Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Radboud University. 27 March 2013.

“‘I see it all before me now’: Tourism in Early Fiction of the Great Irish Famine”. Tourism and

Text. Radboud University. 23 January 2013.

“‘Let any one try to picture what it is’: The Dynamics of the Short Story and the Mediation of

Famine Trauma, 1850-1865”. The Irish Short Story. KU Leuven. 16 November 2012.

“Spectral Spaces: Ruins as Expressions of Famine Recollection in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-

1870”. IASIL conference, Weighing Words: Interdisciplinary Engagements with and within Irish

Literatures. Concordia University Montreal. 1 August 2012.

“‘Those who Struggled and Suffered for Liberty in the Name of Young Ireland’: Famine

Recollection and the Narrative Templates of Colonial Rebellion in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction 1867-

1891”. With Lindsay Janssen. Matchpoints Seminar 2012, Conflict in Memory: Interpersonal and

Intergenerational Remembering of War, Conflict and Transition. Aarhus University, 10 May

2012.

“Mediating Maidens and Mothers: Conflict, Resolution and the Role of Gender in Early Literary

Recollections of the Great Famine”, IASIL conference, Conflicts and Resolutions. KU Leuven. 21

July 2011.

“Transcultural Memory and the Spectres of Starvation in Fiction on the Great Irish Famine, 1851-

1921”. IASIL conference, Old Literatures, New Knowledges. NUI Maynooth, 30 July 2010.

“The Return of the Native: Immigrants Travelling Back to the Homeland in Irish (Diaspora)

Fiction, 1860-90”. MESEA conference. University of Peč. 18 June 2010.

“Rites of Passage: the Coffin Ship as Site of Immigrants’ Identity Formation in Irish and Irish-

American Fiction, 1855 -1885”. With Chris Cusack. Tales of Transit. University of Antwerp. 10-

June 2010.

“Haunted by Hunger: Images of Spectrality in Literary Recollections of the Great Irish Famine,

1851-1921”. Performances of Memory in the Arts. Radboud University. 29 May 2010.

“Black patches and rotting weeds: The Great Famine as a transcultural figure of memory in Irish

(diaspora) fiction, 1860-1880”. Transcultural Memory. University of London. 5 February 2010.

“‘The Favorite Haunt of All the Dwellers’: An Ecocritical Approach to Irish-American Famine

Fiction, 1860-70”. New Grounds: Ecocriticism, Globalisation and Cultural Memory. Radboud

University. 14 January 2010.

“A Land of Milk and Honey? Imagining America in Irish Literature on the Famine, 1850-1900”.

IASIL conference, Irish Literatures: World Perspectives. University of Glasgow. 28 July 2009.

“Priests at Home and Abroad in Famine Fiction”. With Chris Cusack. Catholicism and Public

Cultures. IDAT, Dun Laoghaire. 17 June 2009.

“From Golden Hills to Sycamore Trees: Pastoral Homelands and Ethnic Identity in Irish

Immigrant Fiction, 1860-1875”. Neither here Nor There: Writing the Irish Diaspora. University

of Limerick. 1 November 2008.

“Storms and Trials: The Female Immigrant and National Identity in Irish American Fiction, 1865

-1875”. MESEA conference, Migration Matters. University of Leiden, 28 June 2008.

“Memories of the Great Famine and Ethnic Identity in Irish Women Writers’ Historical Novels”.

Access to the Past. UvA. 18 January 2008.

“Clashes of National Identity in Irish-American Literature by the Famine Generation”. Nation and

Identity in 19th and 20th Century Literature in English. Catholic University of Murcia. 21

September 2007.

“ ‘These great Babylons of the West’: Transatlantic Tensions in Irish-American Literature by the

Famine Generation”. Transatlantic Conflicts and Consensus. The Maastricht Center for

Transatlantic Studies. 28 October 2006.

“Towards a Feminist Collectivism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Nationalist Movement”.

Leiden October Conference, The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1945.

University of Leiden. 25 October 2006.

“Revisioning the Actress in English Women’s Drama, 1669-1701”. Icons and Iconoclasts: The

Long Seventeenth Century, 1703-1714. University of Aberdeen. 21 July 2006.

“From Hull House to Hester Street: City Space, Gender and Self-Formation in Early Jewish

American women’s autobiographies”. MESEA conference Self Narratives. University of

Pamplona. 19 May 2006.

“Autonomy over Body and State: The ‘Other World’ in Tragedies by Restoration Women

Dramatists”. Still Kissing the Rod: Early Modern Women’s Writing in 2005. Hilda’s College,

Oxford. 4 July 2005.

“Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century Women Dramatists”.

Tragicomedy: Renaissance to Restoration. Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. 15 April 2005.

“’Above All Other Women Highly Blest’: The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Post-Reformation

English Women’s Writings”. Leiden October Conference, Bare Ruined Choirs?: Pre-Reformation

Religious Culture in Early Modern English Writing. University of Leiden. 29 October 2005.

“Control over the Stage: Gender and Autonomy in Restoration Women’s Drama”. Leviathan to

Licensing Act: Theatre, print and their Contexts. University of Loughborough. 16 September

2004.

“Crossing boundaries: the representation of female transgression in plays by English and Dutch

women dramatists, 1665-1688”. ESSE/7, Zaragoza. 5 September 2004.

“ ‘Your most undeserved goodness toward me’: The Rediscovered Correspondence of Margaret

Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle and Constantijn Huygens”. With Nadine Akkerman.

International conference of the Margaret Cavendish Society. University of Chester, 20 July 2003.

“An Empowering Wit and an ‘Unnatural’ Tragedy: Margaret Cavendish’s Representation of the

Tragic Female Voice”. International conference of the Margaret Cavendish Society. University of

Chester, 19 July 2003.

“ ‘Will you to my Discourse Vouchsafe an Eare?’: Women Dramatists’ Negotiation of Gender

and Genre on the Public Stage around 1700”. Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1830. University

of Southampton. 17 July 2003.

“Subjectivity and Theatrical Spaces in Margaret Cavendish’s Tragic Drama”. Staging Gender:

Women and Theatre during the Early Modern Period. University of Groningen. 7 May 2003.

“ ‘Thy Speech eloquent, thy wit quick, thy expressions easy’: Rhetoric and Gender in Plays by

English Renaissance Women”. Gender and Rhetoric in the Renaissance. Strathclyde University

Glasgow. 23 April 2003.

“ ‘Haunted with Poetic Devils’: The Transformation of the Tragic Heroine by Seventeenth-

century English Women Playwrights”. Cultural Crises in Art and Literature. University of

Groningen. 22 November 2002.

“Mary Sidney’s The Tragedie of Antonie as a catalyst of political and cultural reform”. Tudor

Symposium: Writing and Reform in Sixteenth-Century England. University of Newcastle. 6

September 2002.

“'High desyre…to win that crowne’: Mary Stuart’s and Mary Beaton’s construction of a female

poetic voice”. Tenth International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature of the Middle

Ages and the Renaissance. Rolduc. 13 July 2002.

“’This realm I have to strangers subject made’: Mary Sidney as a Cultural Intermediary in the

Field of Sixteenth- Century British Dramatic Production”. Renaissance Go-betweens: Cultural

Exchange in Early Modern Europe. The University of Munich and the Shakespeare Library. 6

July 2002.

“ ‘To be in one self chest’: Women, Language and Genre in Early Modern Theatre”. The

Woman’s Part: Women and Drama in England and Spain, 1500-1700. University of Gronngen. 8

March 2002.

“ ‘Then to my selfe will I my sorrow mourne’: The Public and Private Settings in Mary Sidney’s

Elegies”. Lyrical Settings. University of Groningen. 19-21 November 2001.

“ ‘Busy Fools’: Margaret Cavendish’s and Anne Conway’s Reconstruction of the Concept of

Scientific Knowledge”. Knowledge and Learning. University of Groningen. 14-16 November

2001.

PUBLICATIONS

International peer-reviewed journals

Edited special issues

With Jason King. The Great Irish Famine: Global Contexts. Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish

Studies. Forthcoming, 5.3 (2017).

With Jason King. Irish Migration and Memory: Global Recollections of Ireland’s Great Hunger

and Exodus in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Atlantic Studies: Global Currents. 11.3 (2014).

With Astrid Bracke. Ecocriticism and Literature. English Studies. 91.7 (2010).

Articles

“Moving towards Multidirectionality: Famine Memory, Migration and the Slavery Past in Fiction,

1860-1890”. Irish University Review 47.1 (2017): forthcoming.

With Lotte Jensen. “Poetry as an Act of International Diplomacy: English translations of Willem

van Haren’s Political Poetry during the War of the Austrian Succession”. Journal for Eighteenth-

Century Studies 38.2 (2015). 1-18. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1754-

0208.12338/epdf (open access)

With Jason King. “Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland’s

Great Hunger and Exodus”. Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 11.3 (2014): 1-21.

“Mapping Out the Great Irish Famine in Fiction, 1847-1870: Imperial Counternarratives”. Irish

Geography 47. 1 (2014): 5-9.

“Writing of the Irish Famine”. Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature. 30 July

2014. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846719/obo-

9780199846719-0107.xml.

“Remigration in Irish and Irish Diaspora Famine Fiction, 1860-1870”.Breac: A Digital Journal of

Irish Studies 1.1 (2013). http://breac.nd.edu/articles/36996-remigration-in-irish and-irish-diaspora-

famine-fiction-1860-1870.

“A Land of Milk and Honey? The Representation of Migration and Diaspora in Literary

Memories of the Great Famine, 1860- 1885”. Irish Review 44.1 (2012): 4-19.

With Chris Cusack. “Rites of Passage: the Coffin Ship as Site of Immigrants’ Identity Formation

in Irish and Irish-American Fiction, 1855 -1885”. Atlantic Studies 8.3 (2011): 343-59.

With Astrid Bracke. “Ecocriticism and English Studies: An Introduction”. English Studies 91.7

(2010): 709-713.

“From Golden Hills to Sycamore Trees: Pastoral Homelands and Ethnic Identity in Irish

Immigrant Fiction, 1860-1875”. Irish Studies Review 18.3 (2010): 331-46.

“Memories of the Great Famine and Ethnic identity in Novels by Victorian Irish Women Writers”.

English Studies 90.2 (2009): 1-15.

“From Hull-House to Wheeler Street: City Space, Gender and Self-Formation in Early Jewish

American Women’s Autobiographies”. Perspectives 2.2 (2008): 57-76.

“Love, Death and Resurrection in Tragicomedies by Seventeenth-Century Women Dramatists”.

Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (2006). http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls

“ ‘Will you to my Discourse Vouchsafe an Eare?’: Women Dramatists’ Negotiation of Gender

and Genre on the Public Stage around 1700”. Journal of English Studies 4 (2006): 37-53.

With Nadine Akkerman. “’Mad Science Beyond Flattery’: The Correspondence Between

Margaret Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens”. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.3 (2004).

http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls

“An Empowering Wit and an Unnatural Tragedy: Woman, Speech and Subjectivity in Margaret

Cavendish’s Tragic Drama”. Early Modern Literary Studies 9.3. (2004).

http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls

“ ‘Thy Speech eloquent, thy wit quick, thy expressions easy’: Rhetoric and Gender in Plays by

English Renaissance Women”. Renaissance Forum 6.2 (2003).

http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v6no2/corporaa.htm

“’ Moor she was Chaste’: Othello as a Starting Point for Alternative Representations of the

Female Voice”. Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 33. (2002): 99-111.

“’My Mind a Busy Fool’”: the Relationship between Science and Literature in Margaret

Cavendish’s Writings”. In-Between 9. 1 and 2. (2001): 147-60.

Reviews

Review of Claire Connolly, A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829. Nineteenth-Century

Contexts: An Interdisiplinary Journal. 36.3 (2014): 292-294.

Review of Thomas Tracy, Irishness and Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century British Writing.

English Studies 92.2 (2011): 232-34.

Review of the Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood. English Studies 88.1 (2007): 490-92.

Review of Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Le Modèle Européen. The European English Messenger 15.

1 (2006): 88-90.

National peer-reviewed journals

Articles

With Nadine Akkerman. “Margaret Cavendish, Constantijn Huygens, en de Bataafse tranen”. De

Zeventiende Eeuw 25.2 (2010): 73-96.

“Female Voices in Tragedies by Renaissance Women Dramatists”. Essenses 11. 1 (2004): 3-19.

“ ‘Each word she said…shall be the food on which my heart is fed’: De Verbeelding van de

vrouwelijke stem in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedie of Mariam” . Tijdschrift voor Gender Studies

5. 1 (2002): 4-17.

Reviews

Review of 'A Moving Rhetoricke': Gender and Silence in Early Modern England. Folio 10.1

(2003): 41-43.

Review of Englische Frauen der Frühen Neuzeit. Folio 9.2. (2002): 41-42.

Non-scientific journals

“Esther Waters: de ‘gevallen vrouw’ en het naturalisme”. Passage: Tijdschrift voor Europese

Literatuur en Cultuur 2.2. (2015): forthcoming.

“Herinneringen aan Honger: Hongersnood, gender en nationaliteit in het werk van negentiende-

eeuwse Ierse schrijfsters.” Historica 31.2 (2008): 6-8.

With Nadine Akkerman. “’'Some New Rarities’: De correspondentie van Margaret Cavendish en

Constantijn Huygens”. Historica 26. 1. (2003): 12-14.

“Katherine Philips, de eerste schrijfster op het publieke toneel”. Historica 25. 2 (2002): 9-11.

Books

Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1870. Syracuse, NY:

Syracuse University Press, 2017, forthcoming.

With Christina Morin, ed. Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke:

Palgrave, 2017, forthcoming.

With Jason King, eds. Irish Migration and Memory: Global Recollections of Ireland’s Great

Hunger and Exodus in Interdisciplinary Perspective. London: Routledge, 2017, forthcoming.

With Chris Cusack, Lindsay Janssen and Ruud van den Beuken, eds., and introd., Irish Studies

and the Dynamics of Memory: Transitions and Transformations. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017..

With Chris Cusack, Lindsay Janssen and Ruud van den Beuken, eds., and introd. Global Legacies

of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Peter

Lang, 2014.

With Chris Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. Recollecting Hunger, An Anthology: Cultural Memories

of the Great Famine in Irish Fiction, 1847-1921. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2012.

With Evert van Leeuwen, ed. and introd. The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities:

Romantics to Fin-de-Siècle Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi, 2010.

With Rina Walthaus, ed. and introd. Heroines of the Golden (St)Age: Gender and Drama in

Seventeenth-Century Spain and England. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2008.

With Annemarie Armbrust and Marjolein van Dekken, eds. and introd. "Dat gy mij niet vergeet":

Correspondentie van vrouwen in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006.

Wicked Words, Virtuous Voices: The Reconstruction of Tragic Subjectivity by Renaissance and

early Restoration Women Dramatists. Groningen: University of Groningen, 2003.

http://dissertations.ub.rug.nl/faculties/arts/2003/m.c.m.corporaal/?pFullItemRecord=ON

Articles and chapters in peer-reviewed books

“ Political Economy? The economics and sociology of Famine”. Irish Literature in Transition,

1830-1890. Eds. Claire Connolly and Marjorie Howes. Vol. 3. Cambridge: Cambeidge University

Press, 2017, forthcoming.

With Raphael Ingelbien. “Defining the Nation II”. Travelling Literatures: an Introduction to

European Literary History. Eds. Sophie Levie, Maarten de Pourcq et al. London: Routledge,

2017, forthcoming.

With Elizabeth Amann. “Confinement and Liberation”. Travelling Literatures: an Introduction to

European Literary History. Eds. Sophie Levie, Maarten de Pourcq et al. London: Routledge,

2017, forthcoming.

“Traveling Cabins: The Popularity of Irish Local Color Fiction in Early Nineteenth-Century

Europe”. Travelling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017,

forthcoming.

With Christopher Cusack and Lindsay Janssen. “From Restoration to Reinscription: Remembering

the Famine in Irish North-American Fiction”. Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory. Oxford:

Peter Lang, 2017. 233-55.

“’The recollection of sorrow and misery past’: Memories of the Great Famine in Irish North-

American Fiction, 1855-1870”. Irish Hunger & Emigration: Myth, Memory and Memorialization.

Eds. Christine Kinealy, Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerard Moran. Hamden, CT:

Quinnipiac University Press, 2015. 83-95.

“Let any one try to picture what it is’: The Dynamics of the Irish Short Story and the Mediation of

Famine Trauma, 1850-1865”. The Irish Short Story: Traditions and Trends. Eds. Elke D’Hoker

and Stephanie Eggermont. New York: Peter Lang, 2015. 21-43.

“Black patches and rotting weeds: The Great Famine as a Transcultural Figure of Memory in Irish

(Diaspora) Fiction, 1860-1880”. The Transcultural Turn: Memory between and Beyond Borders.

Eds. Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014. 247-66.

“Haunted by Hunger: Images of Spectrality in Literary Recollections of the Great Irish Famine,

1850-1900”. Performances of Memory in the Arts. Eds. Anneke Smelik en Liedeke Plate. London:

Routledge, 2013. 92-104.

“‘So cold, so lofty and so distant’: Science, Religion and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American

and Canadian Women’s Poetry”.Restoring the Mystery of the Rainbow: Literature’s Refraction of

Science. Eds. Cedric Barfoot en Valeria Tinkler. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi, 2011. 783-97.

“Towards a Feminist Collectivism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Nationalist Movement”. The

Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1945. Eds. Marguérite Corporaal and Evert van

Leeuwen. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi, 2010. 220-32.

With Nadine Akkerman. “Mad science beyond flattery: the correspondence of Margaret

Cavendish and Constantijn Huygens, with edited facsimiles”. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women

Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 7: Margaret Cavendish. Ed. Sara Mendelson. Farnham:

Ashgate, 2009. 263-304.

“Mary Sidney’s The Tragedie of Antonie as a Catalyst for Political and Cultural Reform”.

Cultural Agency and Transformation in Tudor England. Eds. John Blakeley and Mike Pincombe.

Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 167-187.

“ ‘To be in one self chest’: Women, Language and Genre in Early Modern Theatre”. Heroines of

the Golden (St)Age: Gender and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Spain and England. Eds.

Marguérite Corporaal and Rina Walthaus. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2008. 189-204.

“Peter Brooks”. Engelstalige literatuur na 1945, Deel 3: Kritiek, Theorie en Essay. Eds. Anneleen

Masschelein and Dirk de Geest. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 97-110.

“Women, Wit and Honor: A Comparative Study of Much Ado about Nothing and Jan Jansz.

Starter's Timbre de Cardone ende Fenicie van Messine”. Shakespeare and the Low Countries.

Eds. Ton Hoenselaars en Holger Klein. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005. 141-65.

“Mary Stewart and Mary Beaton: The Construction of a Female Poetic Voice”. Rhetoric, Royalty

and Reality: Essays on the Literary Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland. Eds.

Alasdair.A. MacDonald and Kees Dekker. Leuven: Peeters, 2005. 151-63.

“Katherine Philips: Pompey, a Tragedy”. Reading Early Modern Women. Eds. Helen Ostovich

and Elizabeth Sauer. London: Routledge, 2004. 158-62.

“Gender and Genre in Jane Wiseman's Antiochus the Great”. Living in Posterity: Essays in

Honour of Bart Westerweel. Eds. Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Paul. Hoftijzer, Juliette Roding and

Paul Smith. Hilversum: Verloren, 2004. 55-60.

“Women, Speech and Subjectivity in Shakespeare's Othello: A Comparative Analysis”. New

Studies in the Shakespearean Heroine. Ed. Douglas A. Brooks. Lewiston, New York: Edwin

Mellen Press, 2004. 93-108.

“Rewriting Science: Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish”. Scholarly Environments. Eds.

Alasdair MacDonald and Arnoud Huussen. Leuven/Paris/Dudley: Peeters, 2004. 93-106.

“ ‘O what a shelter is mine innocence’: Het gebruik van closet drama door zeventiende-eeuwse

Engelse toneelschrijfsters”. Muzen aan het Werk: Vrouwenlevens in de Kunsten. Eds. Marga

Altena et al. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2003. 83-102.

MANAGERIAL ACTIVITIES

Departmental level

January 2014-present. Curricular coordinator (Voorzitter Opleidingscommissie) of the BA

programme English Language and Culture. Radboud University.

November 2014-January 2015: temporary secretary of the Examination Board

(Examencommissie) of the BA programme English Language and Culture. Radboud University.

June 2014-September 2015: Member of the Study Progress Committee (Rendementscommissie),

of the BA programme English Language and Culture. Radboud University.

June 2013. Representative of the teaching staff BA English Language and Culture and the

examination board (Examencommissie), MA Literary Studies during the national evaluation and

accreditation procedures.

September 2011-March 2016. Member of the Examination Board (Examencommissie), BA

English Language and Culture. Radboud University.

September 2011- January 2014. Member of the curricular committee (Opleidingscommissie), BA

English Language and Culture. Radboud University.

September 2008-August 2010. First-year tutor, BA English Language and Culture. Radboud

University.

September 2006-August 2007. Member of the curricular committee (Opleidingscommissie), BA

American Studies. University of Groningen.

September 2004-August 2006. Member of the curricular committee (Opleidingscommissie), BA

and MA English Language and Culture. University of Leiden.

Faculty level

March 2016-present: Chair of the Examination Board (DEX), ResMA HLCS.

March 2016-present: Member of the Faculty Examination Board (FEX).

March 2016: Member of the Advisory Board, Examination Policies (Toetsadviescommissie).

January 2014-present. Director of the research theme group Europe and (Trans)national

Identities, Institute for Historial, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University.

May 2013 and June 2011. Member of the commission for the appointment of PhD candidates,

HLCS, Faculty of Arts.

January 2013-present. Director of the EFACIS Irish Studies Centre at Radboud University.

September 2011-March 2016. Core member of the Examination Board (Examencommissie), MA

Literary Studies. Radboud University.

February 2011-January 2014. Member of the advisory board for the research programme Memory:

Cultural and Religious Identities.

November 2006-August 2007. Advisory board member of the Centre for Gender Studies.

University of Groningen.

National level

May 2009-present. Member of the Educational Board of the National Research School for

Literary Studies (Onderzoeksschool Literatuurwetenschap, OSL), Amsterdam.

March 2003-January 2014: Board member and Treasurer of the Society of Early Modern

Women’s History.