{"id":2,"date":"2025-07-16T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/smckibben\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:44:21","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/smckibben\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah McKibben"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature, College of Arts and Letters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

smckibbe@nd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

Sarah E. McKibben, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature, joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2002. She received her M.Phil. in Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Dublin and her doctorate from Cornell University (2003).<\/p>\n

Professor McKibben\u2019s research focuses on Irish poets of the 16th and 17th centuries, who composed compelling artistic expressions of praise and warning \u2014 as well as satire \u2014 in the face of an antagonistic, expanding Tudor-Stuart state.\u00a0 For her second book focusing on bardic defenses of their practices in the face of attack, tentatively called\u00a0Tradition Transformed: Bardic Poetry and Colonialism in Early Modern Ireland, c.1560-1660<\/em>, she won a\u00a0fellowship for 2019 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as one in 2018 from the American Council of Learned Societies.<\/p>\n

Previous honors include the Adele Dalsimer Dissertation Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2004.<\/p>\n

Professor McKibben is the author of\u00a0Endangered Masculinities in Irish Poetry, 1540-1780 (UCD Press, 2010)<\/a>, which received Honorable Mention for the 2010 Rhodes Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies. She was moved and pleased to deliver the 2020 \u00d3 Buachalla Memorial Lecture in honour of her esteemed late colleague Breand\u00e1n \u00d3 Buachalla. More recently, she was honored to present the Eolas Lecture (formerly the Farrell Lecture) at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, a keynote at the Tudor Stuart Ireland Conference at Galway, and the D’Arcy McGee Lecture at St Mary’s University, Halifax.<\/p>\n

She has published in The Irish Review<\/em>, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium,<\/em> \u00c9ire-Ireland, Irish University Review, The North American Journal of Celtic Studies<\/em>, and other journals, as well as a number of edited collections, including Blackwell’s Companion to Irish Literature, <\/em>\u00a0Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives, The Midnight Court: A Critical Edition,<\/em> Modernist Afterlives in Irish Literature and Culture, Cambridge History of Irish Women\u2019s Poetry <\/em>(co-authored with Danielle Clarke), and The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism.<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor McKibben\u2019s research interests include early modern and 18th-century Irish poetry, colonial and postcolonial studies, gender studies, contemporary Irish poetry and the politics of minority languages. She is happy to work with undergraduate and graduate students on these or related topics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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