Amy Martin
Assistant Professor of
English
12
8 Park St.
(413) 538-2644
office hours: Thursdays 2:30-4:00 & by appt.
amartin@mtholyoke.edu
Education
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University (with distinction)
Amy Martin is an assistant professor in the English department as
well as a faculty member in the Critical Social Thought Program. She is completing
a book titled
Alter-nations: Representing Nationalisms, Terror and the State in
Nineteenth-Century
Britain and Ireland. Her project examines the complex relationship
between British
imperial nationalism and Irish anticolonial nationalism as envisioned
in a variety of
cultural texts in the Victorian period. She argues that, at this
interface of
nationalisms in Anglo-Irish relations, certain formations central
to modernity emerge, in
particular new narratives of national crisis, the modern idea of
'terrorism,' the modern
state form, and forms of anticolonial critique that anticipate postcolonial
studies. She
has published essays in Victorian Literature and Culture, The
Field Day Review and several edited collections including Was Ireland a Colony?. Martin
is also at work on a
collaborative research project that investigates the British state's
use of photography
to document Irish political prisoners and internees in the 1860s.
She spends most summers in Dublin, Ireland, continuing her research
at the National Library of Ireland and the National Archives. While
in Dublin, she also lectures as a faculty member at the Notre Dame
Irish Studies Seminar and has lectured at the James Joyce Summer
School.
Selected Publications
"
Blood
Transfusions: Representing Irish Immigration, the English Working
Class, and Revolutionary Possibility in the Work of Carlyle and
Engels" Victorian
Literature and Culture, 2004 (Cambridge University Press).
"
Fenians in the Frame: Photographing Irish Political Prisoners" with
Breandan Mac Suibhne
The Field Day Review No. 1 , 2005
"Nationalism
as Blasphemy: Negotiating Belief and Institutionality in the
Genre of Fenian Recollections" in Evangelicals and Catholics
in Nineteenth Century Ireland
(Four Courts Press, 2005)
"Becoming
a Race Apart':
Irish Racial Difference and British Class Consciousness in
Engels'
The Condition of the Working Class in England" in Was
Ireland a Colony?
(Irish Academic Press, 2005)
Teaching Schedule 2007-2008
English 200f Introduction to the Study of Literature
English 325f Victorian
Literature & Visual Culture
English 254s Introduction to Postcolonial Theory
English 323s Gender and Class in the Victorian Novel
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