Irishness in North American Women's Writing

Ellen McWilliams is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman (2009) and Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction (2013) and has received a number of awards for research, including an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholar Award.

• 1. Transatlantic Affinities: Irishness in North American Women’s Writing.- 2. Unsettling Irish America: Self-Authorship and the Writing of Mary McCarthy.- 3.Irish-American Immigrant Histories and Readings of Exile in the Writing of Maeve Brennan.- 4. ‘A Genetic Trait’: Alice McDermott’s Irish America.- 5. The Lonely Voice: Alice Munro and Ireland.- 6. Irish-Canadian Connections: Jane Urquhart’s Historical Fictions.- 7. Transatlantic Encounters in the Writing of Emma Donoghue.