Professor
Department of English
Language and Literature
265 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-2383
[email protected]
Kurt Bullock
Courses
ENG 216 Foundations of Literary Study: Critical Approaches
ENG 320 Studies in Poetry
ENG 330 Studies in Fiction
ENG 445 Literary Criticism and Theory
ENG 495 Language and Literature (Capstone)
ENG 655 History of Literary Criticism and Theory
Research Interests
Irish Nationalism of the late 19th & early 20th Centuries
Writings of Tomás MacDonagh, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Padraic Pearse, and Roger Casement
Short fiction of Katherine Mansfield
Contemporary Critical Theory
Postmodern Fiction
Short fiction since 1840
Recent Publications
"Brothers, Poetically Speaking: Thomas MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett, and the Question of Influence. Thomas MacDonagh. Eds. P. J. Mathews and Catherine Wilsdon. Dublin: University College Dublin Press (forthcoming).
"Literary Provocateur: Revival, Revolt, and the Censure of the Irish Review." The Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914. Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution Series. Ed. Gabriel Doherty. Cork, Ireland: Mercier Press, 2014.
"From Revival to Revolution: Thomas MacDonagh and the Irish Review." Ireland and the New Journalism. Eds. Karen Steele and Michael de Nie. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014.
Education
B.A., B.S., Taylor University
M.A., Ph.D., Ball State University