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Seamus O'Malley

Seamus
O'Malley

Professor of English

seamus.omalley@yu.edu

Beren campus - 215 Lexington Ave
Room#706

Ph.D. in English, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011
M.A. in English, Hunter College, 2005
B.A. in English, New York University, 1998

Seamus O’Malley is the author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Irish Culture and ‘The People’: Populism and Its Discontents (Oxford University Press, 2022). He has co-edited three volumes, one of essays on Ford Madox Ford and America (Rodopi, 2010), a research companion to Ford (Routledge, 2018) and a volume of essays on the cartoonists Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell (Mississippi, 2018). He is the chair of the Ford Madox Ford Society and co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar for Irish Studies.

Dr. O'Malley teaches and researches twentieth-century British and Irish literature. 

Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2024-2025

¿Û¿Û´«Ã½ Faculty Research Fund, 2022

Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize, 2019

Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2019-20

Drs. Kenneth Chelst, Bertram Schreiber and Fred Zwas Book Grant, 2018-19

Bertha Kressel Research Scholarship advisor, 2018

Dean Karen Bacon Faculty Award, 2016

Honorable Mention, The Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award, 2011

The Publication Subvention Award for Distinguished Dissertations, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011

The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year, CUNY Graduate Center, 2011

Books:

Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents. Oxford University Press, 2022. Graphical user interface

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Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative. Oxford University Press, 2015 Image result for "making history new" seamus o'malley
A Place Inside Yourself: The Comics of Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell. Volume of essays, co-edited with Tahneer Oksman. University of Mississippi Press, 2019