Deirdre O'Leary Cunningham

Education

• PHD, CUNY Graduate Center
• MPHIL, Trinity College - Dublin
• MA, CUNY Hunter College
• BA, University of Mary Washington

Courses Taught

ENGL 110      College Writing
ENGL 110      College Writing (Ed) (LL)
ENGL 110      College Writing-EDUC
ENGL 260      Comedy and Tragedy
ENGL 276      Introduction to Drama
ENGL 280      Irish Literary Revival
ENGL 306      Introduction to Literary Study
ENGL 361      Masterpieces of British Drama
ENGL 399      Independent Study
ENGL 400      The Theater and the City

Research & Scholarly Activities

Contemporary Women Dramatists, Political Theatre, Contemporary Irish and British Theatre

Publications

Articles and Essays:

"Reckonings in Small Rooms: Staging Trauma in Moment and Rathmines Road." The Theatre of Deirdre Kinahan. Eds. Lisa Fitzpatrick and Maria Kurdi. Dublin: Carysfort Press, forthcoming in 2022.

 "Discrepancies of Embodiment: The Ageing Body and Fraught Familial Narratives in Two Plays by Enda Walsh." Generational and Familial Conflict in British and Irish Drama and Theatre. Ed. Katarzyna Bronk Bacon. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019.

"Thomas Kilroy." A Critical Biographical Essay.  British Writers Supplement. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2018.

"Mark O'Rowe." A Critical Biographical Essay. British Writers Supplement. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2017.

"Purchasing Power: Consumerism and the Function of America in the Works of Marie Jones. " The Theatre of Marie Jones: Telling Stories from the Ground Up. Eds. Eugene McNulty and Tom Maguire. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2015. 73-90. 

reprinted in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance Studies Reader. Eds. Finola Cronin and Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2016.

"Enda Walsh." A Critical Biographical Essay. British Writers Supplement XXII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2015.

"The Auld Sod: Staging the Diaspora at the 1897 Irish Fair in New York City." eKeltoi: Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 1, Diaspora: 3 (2013): 93-124.

“Nicky Silver.” A Critical Biographical Essay. American Writers Supplement XXIV. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson-Gale, 2013.

“No Go/New Show: Staging Belfast in The Wedding Community Play and Convictions” Foilsiu: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 6:1 (Spring 2008): 57-78.

• Rev. of The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and The Professions, Eds. Bernadette Flanagan and Laszlo Zsolnai. Performance, Religion, and Spirituality 3:2 (2021). 

• Rev. of The Irish Stage: A Legal History, by W.N Osborough. Theatre Journal 69:2 (2017): 287-288.

• Rev. of The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer, Nicholas Grene. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 34.2 (2020): 143-144.

• Rev. of Immersive Theatres, by Josephine Machon. Theatre Survey 56.3 (2015): 448-450.

• Rev. of  Dissident Dramaturgies: Contemporary Irish Theatre, by Eamonn Jordan and Theatre & Ireland, by Lionel Pilkington. Theatre Survey 53.2 (2012): 347-350.

• Rev. of The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre, by Stephen Di Benedetto. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 26.2 (2012): 232-234.

• Rev. of Performance and the City, Eds D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, and Kim Solga. Theatre Journal 63.2 (2011): 285-286.

• Rev. of New Women Dramatists in America 1890-1920, by Sherry D. Engle. Ecumenica: 4:2 (2011): 81-82.
• World of Theatre: Tradition and Innovation (Instructor Manual) by Mira Felner and Claudia Orenstein. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2005.
• Performance Rev. of The Playboy of the Western World, Abbey Theatre on tour, New York University Skirball Center, Theatre Journal, 57:2 (May 2005).
• Rev. of The Theatre of Marina Carr: Before Rules Was Made, Ed. Anna McMullan. Theatre Journal 56: 4 (Winter 2004).
• Rev. of  The Girls in the Big Picture: New Voices in Ulster Theatre, by Imelda Foley.  Foilsiu: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, 4:1 (Spring 2004).
• Rev. of Theatre of Conscience 1939-1953: A Study of Four Touring Community Theatres, New England Theatre Journal, 2004.
• Performance Rev. of Hughie, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island, Eugene O’Neill Review, 26 (2004).