Kate Costello-Sullivan is a Professor of Modern Irish literature and the former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College, where she teaches courses in 19th-21st-century English and Irish literature. Kate holds a Ph.D. in English/Irish Studies from Boston College. She is the author of the monographs Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín (Reimaging Ireland series, Peter Lang 2012) and of Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-first-Century Irish Novel, (Syracuse UP, 2018). Kate has also edited two critical editions, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla (2013, Syracuse UP) and Norah Hoult’s Poor Women! (2016, Anthem Press). Most recently, she co-edited the Routledge History of Irish America with Cian McMahon in 2024. A former President of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Kate has served since summer 2018 as the (first female) Series Editor of Syracuse University Press’s Irish line. She is currently researching representations of the nurturing parental body in Irish literature.
views.
