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Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney

Reader in American and Black Atlantic Literatures

Background

Fionnghuala Sweeney specializes in American and Black Atlantic literature, history and visual culture. Her research encompasses African American literature; black book history, especially in the UK and Ireland; Black Atlantic autobiography/slave narratives; afromodernism; anti-colonial radicalism in diaspora; Slavery and Post-slavery Studies; eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century US literary studies; race and performance; Anglophone and Hispanophone Caribbean writing; Irish writing about slavery and empire; transatlantic studies, especially of fugitive and former slaves in Ireland and Britain; and Afro-diasporan art history and visual culture. She welcomes PhD projects in any of these areas.


Research Roles:

Co-Editor of Irish Journal of American Studies

Member of the organizing committee of the Irish Association of American Studies

Director of the AHRC Northern Bridge Consortium; Â鶹´«Ã½ Director of Northern Bridge (to end Jan 2020)

Steering Committee of the Centre for Latin American Research

Editorial Board, Journal of American Studies

Advisory Board, Feminist Theory

Member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2008-2014)

Editorial Board, FORECAAST series in African American Studies, Liverpool University Press




Research




Teaching

Current teaching:

Level 1 Introduction to Literary Studies: African American Poetry 

Level 2 SELL 2205: Fictions of Migration 

Level 3 Special Subject SEL 3378: Landscapes of American Modernism

Level 3 SEL 3362: BA Dissertation in English Literature

MA SEL 8357: Radicalisms - Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Slavery

MA SEL 8417: MA Dissertation





Publications

  • Articles

    • Baker B, Sweeney F. . Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 2024, 118(1), 47–78.
    • Sweeney F, Baker BE. . Slavery and Abolition 2022, 43(3), 632-667.
    • Sweeney F. . Slavery and Abolition 2020, 41(1), 167-185.
    • Sweeney F, Baker BE. . Journal of the Irish Association of American Studies 2020, (9).
    • Sweeney F. . Slavery and Abolition 2016, 37(3), 505-520.
    • Sweeney F. . Feminist Theory 2015, 16(1), 27-30.
    • Sweeney F. . Journal of American Studies 2015, 49(2), 225-239.
    • Sweeney F. . Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies 2014, 35(1), 58-73.
    • Sweeney F. . Slavery & Abolition 2013, 34(2), 236-251.
    • Sweeney F. . Slavery & Abolition 2012, 33(2), 305-320.
    • Sweeney F, Rice A. . Slavery & Abolition 2012, 33(2), 181-189.
    • Sweeney F. . International Journal of Francophone Studies 2011, 14(1-2), 143-163.
    • Sweeney F, Marsh K. . International Journal of Francophone Studies 2011, 14(1-2), 11-24.
    • Sweeney F. Other Peoples' History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Dónal O Kelly's The Cambria. Slavery and Abolition 2008, (29.2), 279-292.
    • Sweeney F. The Black Atlantic, American Studies and the Politics of the Postcolonial. Comparative American Studies 2006, 4.2, 115-133.
    • Sweeney F. Atlantic Countercultures and the Networked Text: Juan Francisco Manzano, RR Madden and the Cuban Slave Narrative. Forum for Modern Language Studies 2004, 40(4), 401-114.
    • Sweeney F. Domestic Institutions: Transatlantic Gender Politics and Economic Power in Frederick Douglass' Variant Narratives. Slavery and Abolition 2002, 23(3), 59-72.
    • Sweeney F. The Republic of Letters: Frederick Douglass, Ireland and the Irish Narratives. Éire-Ireland 2001, 36(1-2), 47-55.

  • Authored Books

    • Dolowitz D, Buckler S, Sweeney F. Researching Online. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2008.
    • Sweeney F. Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. Liverpool and Chicago: Liverpool University Press, 2007.

  • Bibliography

    • Baker B, Sweeney F. . BibSite 2024. 17.

  • Book Chapters

    • Sweeney F. . In: Farebrother R; Taggert M, ed. Cambridge History of the Harlem Renaissance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp.144-158.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Roy M, ed. Frederick Douglass in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp.318-328.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Bernier C-M; Lawson B, ed. Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass, 1818-2018. Liverpool and Chicago: Liverpool University Press, 2017, pp.143-166.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Hannah Durkin and Celeste-Marie Bernier, ed. Visualizing Slavery: Art Across the Black Diaspora. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp.81-103.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Bernier C-M; Newman J; Pethers M, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp.391-404.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Miller, JC, ed. The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015, pp.307-312.
    • Sweeney F. Douglass, Frederick. In: Edward J Blum ed; Cara L. Burnidge, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and David Kinkela associated eds, ed. Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. New York: Charles Scribeners' Sons, 2015. Submitted.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Sweeney, F., Marsh, K, ed. Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Avant-Garde. New York and Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, pp.1-16.
    • Sweeney F. Other Peoples' History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Dónal O Kelly's The Cambria (republication). In: Bernier, CM; Newman, J, ed. Public Art, Memorials, and Atlantic Slavery. 2009.
    • Sweeney F. . In: O Neill, Peter; Lloyd, D, ed. The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-Currents of the African and Irish Diasporas. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.178-193.
    • Sweeney F. . In: Finkleman P, ed. Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Colonial Period through the Age of Frederick Douglass, 1619-1895. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp.42-43.
    • Sweeney F. 'Mask in Motion': Dialect Spaces and Class Representation in Frederick Douglass' Atlantic Rhetoric. In: Braxton, J; Diedrich, M, ed. Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery and Memory. Muenster: Litverlag, 2004.
    • Sweeney F. The Republic of Letters: Frederick Douglass, Ireland and the Irish Narratives (republication). In: Kenny, K, ed. New Directions in Irish American History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

  • Edited Books

    • Sweeney F, Stuart M, Dillane F, ed. . Slavery and Abolition, 2016.
    • Sweeney F, Salt K, ed. . Cambridge University Press, 2015.
    • Stuart M, Sweeney F, Dillane F, ed. . Dublin: UCD Press, 2014.
    • Sweeney F, Marsh K, ed. . New York and Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
    • Sweeney F, Rice A, ed. . Abingdon: Routledge, 2012.
    • Sweeney F, Marsh M, ed. . Intellect Ltd, 2011.

  • Online Publication

    • Sweeney F. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Available at: .

  • Report

    • Rothwell C. . 2016.

  • Review

    • Bernier CM, Lawson B, Newman J, Sweeney F, Trodd Z. . Journal of American Studies 2011, 45(1), 165-183.