dr. anne o'connor

 lecturer  

Dr. Anne O'Connor, BA (NUI), MA (Johns Hopkins), Ph.D (Birmingham)

Office: Room 333, Arts Millennium Building
Tel. 353-91-493794
E-mail: anne.oconnornuigalway.ie

Research Interests:

• 19th Century Italian Literature and Civilization
• Romanticism
• Travel Literature
• Italian History
• 20th Century Culture
• Language Teaching Methodology: Creator of website  http://www.languagegames.ie/   

Anne O’Connor is the co-editor of The Correspondence of Paul Cullen (Irish Manuscripts Commission), a project that recently received a major grant from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.  As part of this ambitious project, she is gathering and translating the Italian correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen.

Recent Publications:

Books:
O’Connor A. 2008. Firenze: La città e la memoria nell’Ottocento, Firenze: Città di Vita.
O’Connor A. 2008. Florence : City and Memory in the Nineteenth Century, Florence: Città di Vita.
O’Brien, A. 2005. (ed.) Studies in Irish, British and Australian Relations: Trade, Diplomacy and Politics, Collected essays by John. B. O’Brien. Dublin: Four Courts Press.

Book Sections:  
O’Connor A. 2010. (Italian sub-editor and translator) European Romanticism: A Reader, London: Continuum Press.
O’Connor A. 2005. (Italian sub-editor and translator) As they saw us: Cork through European Eyes, Cork: Collins Press.

Selected Articles: 
O’Connor A. 2009. ’Triumphant Failure: the return of the Irish Papal Brigade’ in JCHAS, vol. 114, pp. 51-62. 
O’Connor A. 2009. ’A Novel Challenge: Student Engagement, Language Teaching and the Service Learning Approach’ in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, eds. Jennifer Murphy & Bettie Higgs, NAIRTL, pp. 233-239.
O’Connor A. 2006. ’Views from the fringes: Irish travellers to the Mezzogiorno in the nineteenth century’ in Le Mezzogiorno des écrivins éuropéens (ed. Yves Clavaron) Saint Etienne.
O’Connor A. 2006. ’An unexpected visitor: Cosimo de’Medici’s visit to Cork in 1669’ in JCHAS, vol. 111, pp. 1-7.
O’Connor A. 2005. ’L’Italia, la terra dei morti?’ in Italian Culture, vol.23, pp. 31-50.
O’Connor A. 2005. ’I rituali dell’unità: la festa di Dante del 1865’ in Città di Vita, 60:2, pp. 179-194.
O’Brien A. 2003, ’Lady Morgan’s travel literature: a novel approach’ in Cross-Cultural Travel, Jane Conroy (ed.), New York.
O’Brien A. 2003, ’Visiting the Vatican in the early nineteenth century: Some Irish memories’ in Decies, 59, pp. 151-161.
O’Brien A. 2003, ’Crossing boundaries: Lady Morgan’s Italy’ in the Irish Journal for Feminist Studies, 5.1, 2, pp. 20-33.
O’Brien A. 2004, ’Living with Death: Inscriptions, orations and monuments in Florence in the nineteenth century’ in The Proceedings of the City and Book III Conference http://www.florin.ms/gimela.html.
O’Brien A. 2002, ’Il monumento a Dante a Firenze: storia di influssi internazionali’ in Città di Vita, (57:6), pp. 508-520.
O’Brien A. 2002, ’Florentine Shadows: Death, duty and Santa Croce in George Eliot’s Romola’ in The Journal for Anglo-Italian Studies, vol. 7, pp. 63-80.
O’Brien A. 2001, ’Santa Croce nell’occhio di Viaggiatori Brittanici Ottocenteschi’ in Città di Vita, (56:6), pp. 557-566.

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