MARY PIERSE

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Academic Qualifications Ph.D (2003), NUI / University College Cork: ‘Towards a novel freedom: George Moore’s sophisticated literary shapings in Esther Waters and Celibates’ B.A. (1st hons, English & History) Other courses: Dip. Public Administration (Economics, Law); Dip. Social Studies (Politics, Economics); Dip. International Marketing; Cert. Industrial Training; Strategic Marketing; French ((Paris); Italian (Rome & Siena)

Awards 2006-2007: Department-funded research, Dept of English, University College Cork. 2004-2006: IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow 2001-2003: IRCHSS Post-graduate Scholar 1999-2001: UCC Scholar (doctoral studies)

Publications

BOOKS

- Pierse, Mary ed. Irish Feminisms 1810-1930. Vols 1-5. London; New York: Routledge; Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2010.

- Pierse, Mary ed. George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. [Editor; author of “Introduction”. xi-xiv; author of Chapter Nine “His father’s son: the political inheritance”. 102-114.] An NUI Publication Grant was received for this volume.

ARTICLES Chapters in books - “ ‘Out-and-out weary of excavating in the past’: The New Irelands of Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Dennis O’Driscoll.” Place and Memory in the New Ireland. Eds.Britta Olinder & Werner Huber. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009. 111-122.

- “In Careful and Carefree Secular Engagements: Toward Understanding the Saecula”. Issues of Globalisation and Secularisation n France and Ireland. Eds. Yann Bévant, Eamon Maher, Grace Neville & Eugene O’Brien. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 147-162

- “Inside and outside the frame: landscape pictures and real debates in The Untilled Field (1903) and The Lake (1905)”. Land and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Eds. Úna Ní Bhroiméil & Glenn Hooper. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. 146-155.

- “The Poetic Voices of Dennis O’Driscoll and Cathal Ó Searcaigh: in tune with Lyotard?” Modernity and Postmodernity in a Franco-Irish Context. Eds. Eamon Maher, Grace Neville & Eugene O’Brien. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 2008. 191-203.

- “A Rather Religious George Moore?” A New Ireland in Brazil: Festschrift in Honour of Munira Hamud Mutran. Eds. Laura P.Z. Izarra & Beatriz Kopschitz X Bastos. Sao Paolo: Humanitas, 2008. 285-305.

- “George Moore, Sherlock Holmes and the Many Money Questions in Fin-de-Siècle English Fiction”. Money and Culture. Eds. Fiona Cox & Hans-Walter Schmidt- Hannisa. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 2007. 81-95.

- “George Moore and ‘le moment célibataire’”. Reinventing Ireland Through a French Prism. Eds. Eamon Maher, Grace Neville & Eugene O’Brien. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 2007. 147-159.

- “European Influences and the Novels of George Moore.” Ireland and Europe in the 19th Century. Eds. Leon Litvack & Colin Graham. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 173-185. - “George Moore and the ‘martial outside’”. New Voices in Irish Criticism 5. Eds. Ruth Connolly & Ann Coughlan. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 254-263.

Journals

- “From Beckett and Joyce to Irish Feminisms: a researcher diverted” in Research Journal, (College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UCC) June 2008.

- “Paris as ‘Other’: George Moore, Kate Chopin, and French literary escape routes” in ABEI Journal 8 (June 2006): 79-87

Reviews - Review of Eds. Ann Heilmann & Mark Llewellyn, The Collected Short Stories of George Moore: Gender and Genre (2007) in Moorings 2 (online supplement to the OScholars), Winter 2007.

Educational Booklets - editing Patient Education Booklets (Recovery after Hip Operations) for Catherine McAuley School of Nursing & Midwifery, UCC. October 2006.

Chapters in books - At Press/Forthcoming in 2010

- “No more than a sketch” in George Moore:Le Passage des frontières/Across Borders. Eds Fabienne Garcier & Christine Huguet. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.

- “The Donkey and the Sabbath” in Literary Representations of Irish Catholicism. Eds. Eamon Maher & Eugene O’Brien. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 2010

Chapters in books – Accepted for publication in 2010

- “Painting and Paris: the catalysts to women’s rebellion?” in La France, L’Irlande et la rebellion. Eds Eamon Maher & Eugene O’Brien. Rennes: TIR, 2010. - “George Moore: Reading the Notes, Knowing the Score” in George Moore and his Contemporaries. Eds. Ann Heilmann & Mark Llewellyn. 2010.

PAPERS PRESENTED

SELECTED RECENT CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PAPERS

- “Old Wine in New Bottles or the Learning Curves of Irish Feminists in the long 19th century” at 41st annual IASIL conference (Irish Literatures and Culture: New and Old Knowledges) at NUI Maynooth, July 2010.

- “From Lace to Poor Law Guardians, Agricultural Association and the Press: the resourcefulness of campaigning women philanthropists” at Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI) annual conference (Philanthropy in Nineteenth- Century Ireland) at University College Cork, June 2010.

- “Fiction and history: the political debates in Miss Erin and Dark Rosaleen” at annual Association for Franco-Irish studies (AFIS) conference (History and Memory in France and Ireland) at Université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne, May 2010.

- “The Female Pen: towards the National Revival with poetry and prose”, Guest lecturer at the annual Co. Wexford 1916 Trust Conference (The 1916 Rebellion - The National Revival its beginning and construction), Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, April 2010.

- “Moore and Fogazzaro: Body and Soul” at George Moore conference (George Moore and the Discovery of Human Nature), University of Almeria, Spain, March 2010.

- “George Moore’s fin de siècle: themes and variations” at the Royal Irish Academy Symposium, Ireland and the Fin de Siècle, Dublin, September 2009.

- “ ‘Rebellious Women’ at the Fin de Siècle” at Association for Franco-Irish studies (AFIS) conference (France, Ireland and Rebellion), University College Cork, May 2009.

- “Reading the Notes, Knowing the Score” at George Moore conference (George Moore and his contemporaries), University of Hull, September 2008.

- “In Careful and Carefree Secular Engagements: understanding the saecula” at Association for Franco-Irish studies (AFIS) conference, (Secularism and Globalization in France and Ireland/Laïcité et mondialisation en Irlande et en France) Université de Rennes 2, May 2008.

- “Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Cecelia Ahern and the au delà” at IASIL conference (Varieties of Irishness )at University College Dublin, July 2007.

- “The poetic voices of Dennis O’Driscoll and Cathal Ó Searcaigh: in tune with Lyotard?” at AFIS conference (Modernity and Postmodernity: The Franco- Irish Context) Dublin, May 2007.

- “No more than a sketch” at George Moore conference (Le Passage des frontières/Across Borders) at University of Lille 3, March 2007.

- “James Fraser, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and the (al)lures of Nepal” at the Borders and Crossings Conference VI (Travel Writing) at University of Palermo, September 2006.

- “Trouble-making in fiction with Wagner, Schopenhauer and religion”, Guest lecturer at the Fin-de-siècle seminar, English Faculty, University of Oxford, May 2006.

- “George Moore and ‘le moment célibataire’ ” at the 2nd Franco-Irish Studies Conference (Interlinks, Interference, Intertextuality) at University College Cork, March 2006.

- “ ‘Out-and-out weary of excavating in the past’ : The New Irelands of Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Dennis O’Driscoll ” at the EFACIS conference (Place and Memory in the New Ireland) at Göteborg University, December 2005.

- “Paris as other: George Moore, Kate Chopin and the French literary escape”, at the annual BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) conference (Victorians in the long view: contrasts & continuities) at University of Gloucester, Cheltenham, September 2005.

- “Overlooking the mountains: landscape as debating space in nineteenth- century Ireland” at the SSNCI conference (Land and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Ireland) at University of Limerick, June 2005.

- “George Moore, Sherlock Holmes, and the Many Money Questions in Fin-de- Siècle English Fiction” at the XIII Annual Conference on Cross-Currents in Literature, Film and the Visual Arts (Money and Culture) at University College Cork, May 2005.

- “His father’s son: ubiquitous politics in the pictures and prose of George Moore” at the George Moore conference (George Moore: Literature and the Arts) at University College Cork, March 2005.

- “The Untilled Field and The Lake: pastoral or political landscapes?” Lecture for the Departmental Research Seminar (Department of English) at University College Cork, December 2004. - “Monet, Degas, Moore, Zola and Joyce: borrowing, lending and stealing” – Lecture for the Departmental Research Seminar (Department of English) at University College Cork, February 2004.

- “In chapel, church and parlour: George Moore’s treatment of religious precept, and pragmatism” at the New Voices in Irish Criticism VI conference (Irish Studies) at the University of Ulster (Derry), February 2004.

- “European Impressions? Observing artistic and literary influences in the 1890s works of George Moore” at the SSNCI conference (Ireland and Europe in the Nineteenth Century) at Queen’s University, Belfast, June 2003.

ONGOING RESEARCH INTERESTS - Writings of George Moore (1852-1933) - Literary Impressionism - Contexts of Irish feminisms: history, politics, religion - 19th century literature

EDITORIAL BOARDS

- Member of the Comité Científico for Odisea: Revista de Estudios Ingleses (Universidad de Almería, Spain). - Member of the advisory and editorial boards for George Moore and his Contemporaries (University of Hull). - Member of the advisory and editorial boards for George Moore: Le Passage des frontières/Across Borders (Université de Lille III). - Member of the editorial board for the series Studies in Franco-Irish Relations under the aegis of AFIS (Association for Franco-Irish Studies). - Member of the Editorial Board for JOFIS (a peer-reviewed E-Journal of Franco- Irish Studies).

MEMBERSHIPS

- SSNCI (Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland) - BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) - EFACIS (European Federation of Assocs & Centres of Irish Studies) - IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literature) - AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies) - GMA (George Moore Association, Founder Member)

PREVIOUS TEACHING INTERESTS • Late Victorian prose and poetry: society and status; feminism, racism, religion; literary climate; travel literature and its agenda. Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Augusta Webster, Kate Chopin, George Moore, Lionel Johnson, Sarah Grand, George Egerton, George Bernard Shaw, Henry James, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Anna Maria Carter Hall. • Reflections of Empire: imperial, colonial, and post-colonial worlds; race and gender; magic realism; politics and language; landscape and non-linear time; modernism & postmodernism. Authors: E.M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, G.B.Shaw, Joseph Conrad, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy. • Poetry of Place: 17th and 18th-century poetry. Authors: Robert Herrick, Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, Andrew Marvell, Oliver Goldsmith, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Gray, John Denham, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson • Strategic Marketing (teaching part-time postgraduate courses under auspices of FÁS)

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION - Organiser of the first George Moore Association Conference, “George Moore: Literature and the Arts”, a three-day trilingual, international conference at UCC (2005) - Organising committee member for second Moore conference, “George Moore: le passage des frontières/Across Borders” in Lille (2007) - Advisory board member for George Moore conferences in Hull (Autumn 2008) and Almería (Spring 2010)