Imagined Constitutions

Keelan Harkin is Assistant Professor of Irish Literature at Concordia University in Montreal. Prior to his appointment at Concordia, he completed his doctoral thesis in the Department of English at McGill University and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research examines the intersection of citizenship and statehood in Irish literature written in English. He is particularly interested in how Irish writers have reimagined good citizenship in their novels since the establishment of the Constitution of Ireland in 1937. He is also interested in issues of Irish statehood in the novels of the 1930s and the place of Cold War politics in mid-century Irish fiction. Keelan has published articles on Anne Enright, Kate O'Brien, Mary Manning, and William Trevor in journals such as Textual Practice, Irish University Review, and the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.