SEAN RYDER

Sean Ryder received his PhD from University College Dublin. He teaches film studies, American poetry, critical and cultural theory, and Irish writing. His research interests include 19thC Irish culture and politics (with a particular interest in the works of Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, and cultural nationalism), and the theory and practice of textual editing. He is currently project leader for TEXTE (Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing), a research and training programme in textual editing with new technologies funded by EU 6th Framework Programme, and is also project leader for the Thomas Moore Hypermedia Archive, a hypermedia archive and critical edition of the works of Thomas Moore, funded by Irish Research Council for Humanities and the Social Sciences. He a former director of the multi-disciplinary MA in Culture & Colonialism. He has published on various aspects of 19thC Irish nationalism and culture, and on Irish cinema.

Recent Publications

’Ireland, India and Popular Nationalism in the Early Nineteenth Century.’ In India and Ireland, edited by Tadhg Foley and Maureen O’Connor (forthcoming, 2006)

’James Clarence Mangan.’ In Dictionary of Irish Biography, edited by Aidan Clarke, et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP/Royal Irish Academy, forthcoming 2006).

’"A Noble Heart and a Governing Mind": Irish Nationalist Autobiography in the 19th Century.’ In Modern Irish Autobiography, edited by Liam Harte (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming 2005).

’Defining Colony and Empire in 19th-Century Irish Nationalism.’ In Was Ireland a Colony?, edited by Terrence McDonough (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2005).

’Ireland in Ruins: The Figure of Ruin in Nineteenth-Century Irish Poetry.’ In Landscape and Empire 1770-2000, edited by Glenn Hooper (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). 79-92.

’Literature in English.’ In Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research, edited by Laurence Geary and Margaret Kelleher (Dublin: UCD Press, 2005). 118-135.

James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings (Dublin: UCD Press, 2004).

’Young Ireland and the 1798 Rebellion.’ In Rebellion and Remembrance in Modern Ireland, edited by Larry Geary (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001). 135-47.

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