Denell Downum, Visiting Assistant Professor

Denell Downum

Visiting Assistant Professor
 
Suffolk University
English Department
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114

Office:  Fenton 117
Telephone: 617-994-6899
Email:  ddownum@suffolk.edu

Degrees
Ph.D.  City University of New York (October 2006)
M.Phil. City University of New York (May 2005)
B.A. Carleton College (June 1994)

Research Interests
Modernism, Literary Theory, Irish Studies (ranging from medieval literature in Old Irish to contemporary English-language literature), and Science Fiction

Publications
“Citation and Spectrality in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.”  Irish University Review 36.2 (Autumn-Winter 2006): 304-320.

 

“Suibhne, Citation, and the Myth of Originality.”  The Celtic Studies Association of North America Yearbook. 6.  Ed. Joseph Falaky Nagy. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007.  (55-82).

Courses Taught
ENG 101:  Freshman English I
ENG 213:  English Literature I
ENG 425:  Contemporary Irish Literature