Luke Gibbons

Donald R. Keough Family Professor of Irish Studies
Department of English

Degrees

Ph.D., Trinity

Research Profile

Irish literature and film, post-colonialism. Luke Gibbons teaches on the Irish Studies International Programme at Newman House, Dublin, and is co-director of the Irish Seminar in Dublin. He is author of The Quiet Man (2002), Transformations in Irish Culture (1996), co-author of the pioneering book, Cinema in Ireland (1988), and a contributing editor of the landmark Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), Gibbons is co-editor (with Dudley Andrew) of The Theatre of Irish Cinema, a special issue of The Yale Journal of Criticism (2002), and also (with Michale Cronin and Pearar Kirby) Re-Inventing Ireland: Culture, Politics and the Global Economy, (2002). His book, Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime is due for publication in 2003, as is his study Gaelic Gothic: Race, Religion and the 'Irish Other'. Gibbons is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation, and of the editorial board of Interventions; A Post-Colonial Journal (Routledge).

Contact Information

422 Flanner Hall
574-631-3419
Luke.C.Gibbons.23@nd.edu