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Kirsten
Ewart Sundell
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Social Organization of Schools
3003 N. Charles Street, Suite 200
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Tel: 410-516-7495
Fax
410-516-6671
Email:
ksundell@csos.jhu.edu
Education:
MA,
PhD, English (Irish Studies concentration), University of
Notre Dame, August 2002
Dissertation: The 'Dangerous Authors': Dublin's Economic
Pamphleteers, 1727-32
Director: Christopher Fox. Committee: Seamus Deane, Luke
Gibbons, Jim Smyth, Robert Sullivan
BA,
English, Loyola College in Maryland, May 1995. Phi Beta
Kappa, summa cum laude.
Publications
and Works in Progress:
"'A
Savage and unnatural Taste': Anglo-Irish Imitations of the
Modest Proposal, 1730-31." Forthcoming, Swift
Studies 18 (2003)
"An
untraced manuscript from Jonathan Swift's library: John
Conduitt's Observations upon the Present State of our
Gold and Silver Coins (1730)." In progress.
Fellowships
and Awards
Dissertation-Year
Fellowship (2000-01)
Notre
Dame-NEH Summer Fellowship (June-August 2000). Grant of
$3,000 to write grant proposal (successful) for "Anglo-Irish
Identities: 1600-1800," an NEH Summer Seminar directed
by Christopher Fox.
Graduate
Travel Grants (1998-99, 1999-00). Awarded total of $20,000
for 2-year course of research in Ireland.
Research
Assistantship (1997-2002). Full tuition plus stipend.
Teaching
Assistantship (1995-97). Full tuition plus stipend.
Carrell
Medal, Loyola College in Maryland (May 1995). Graduated
first in English.
Phi
Beta Kappa (Epsilon of Maryland Chapter), Loyola College
in Maryland, (May 1995).
Fred
Grimmell Memorial Scholarship, Loyola College in Maryland
(1995).
Presidential
Scholarship, Loyola College in Maryland (1991-1995).
Maryland
Distinguished Scholar Scholarship, Loyola College in Maryland
(1991-1995).
Maryland
General State Scholarship, Loyola College in Maryland (1991-1995).
Conference Papers and Participation
Paper:
"Suffering and the Limitations of Satire: The Modest
Proposal and its Imitators, 1730-31" (April 2000).
Irish Studies Caucus: Kevin Berland, Chair. National meeting
of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
New Orleans, LA.
Panel
Chair: "John Toland: Irish Radical" (April 1998).
National meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies. Notre Dame, IN.
Paper:
"Theological-Political Discourse and Reasonable Christianity:
Locke, Toland, and Anglo-Ireland" (October 1996). Midwest
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Indianapolis,
IN.
Participant:
Dublin Seminar (June-July 1999; June-July 2000). Keough-Notre
Dame Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
Courses
Taught
EN372C/IRST379:
"Irish Writing and the Colonial Experience: 1600-2000"
(Fall 2000). A cross-listed, interdisciplinary English and
Irish studies course for upper-level majors and non-majors,
blending English, Anglo-Irish, and Irish-language literature
with theory, criticism, history, and popular culture. Teacher
Course Evaluation: 3.87 out of 4.0, "Overall Perception
of Teaching."
EN109.16:
Composition and Literature (Spring 1997). Introductory university
composition course with a syllabus emphasizing eighteenth,
nineteenth, and twentieth-century English and Irish literature.
EN109.14:
Composition and Literature (Fall 1996). Introductory university
composition course with a syllabus emphasizing eighteenth,
nineteenth, and twentieth-century English and Irish literature.
Professional
Experience
Johns
Hopkins University
Managing
Editor, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk
(April 2002-present)
University
of Notre Dame
Webmaster,
Keough Institute for Irish Studies (September 2002-present),
http://www.nd.edu/~irishstu
Conference
Coordinator, Midwestern Johnson Society Meeting (May 2002)
Graduate
Assistant/Coordinator, NEH Seminar (June-July 2001)
Editorial
Assistant, Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
[forthcoming] (May 2000-present)
Assistant
Buyer, Research Assistant, Hesburgh Library/Keough-Notre
Dame Centre (Ireland: 1999-2000)
Research
Assistant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
(1998-1999)
Conference
Facilitator, American Conference for Eighteenth-Century
Studies (1997-1998)
Instructor/Teaching
Assistant, Department of English (1995-1997)
Reader,
Religion and Literature (1995-2002
Teaching
and Research Interests
- Eighteenth-century
British and Irish literature
- Anglo-Irish
literature
- Irish
Gaelic language and literature
- Post-colonial
theory
- J.
G. A. Pocock and the New British History
- Political
economics
- Rhetoric
Languages
- Irish
Gaelic: Three years' study of the Irish language at Notre
Dame, including two summer immersion courses at the Aras
Mhairtin Ui Chadhain (a program of University College-Galway),
Carraroe, Co. Galway.
- French:
Minor, Loyola College in Maryland
- German
Professional
Affiliations and Societies
American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (1996-present)
International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (1996-present)
American Conference for Irish Studies (1997-present)
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