Dr Jenny McDonnell
Publications
Dr McDonnell has published in a range of fields, including modernism; modernist publishing; Victorian literature; New Zealand literature; and Gothic literature and film.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, settler colonialism and New Zealand Mean Time’ in Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, ed. by Trish Ferguson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) pp.95-111. | 2012 |
| ‘”The famous New Zealand Mag.-story writer”: Katherine Mansfield, periodical publishing and the short story’ in Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism, ed. by Gerri Kimber, Susan Reid and Janet Wilson (London and New York: Continuum) pp.42-52. | 2011 |
| Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace: At the Mercy of the Public (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) | 2010 |
| ‘Things at once spectral and human: Robert Louis Stevenson’s ghosts’ in The Ghost Story from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Julie Anne Stevens (Dublin: Four Courts Press) pp.155-171 | 2010 |
| ‘”Wanted, A New Word”: Katherine Mansfield and the Athenaeum’, Modernism/Modernity, 16.4 (November) pp.727-742. | 2009 |
Research projects
Dr McDonnell’s primary research interests are in the field of modernism, including modernist publishing histories; the modernist short story; and the relationship between literary modernism and early cinema. She has additional research interests in the field of Gothic Studies.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘The Other 1916’ conference | 2016 |
| ‘Memory, Space, and New Technologies’ | 2015 |
| Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace (Palgrave Macmillan) | 2010 |
Lectures/Conferences
Dr McDonnell has presented papers at a range of national and international conferences. She is also a co-organiser of the upcoming conference on ‘The Other 1916’ at IADT, and co-organised the ‘Memory, Space, and New Technologies’ Symposium at IADT in June 2015.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| ‘The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies: An Overview’ (with Dara Downey), Gothic Networking Day, Manchester Metropolitan University | 2014 |
| ‘”The direct result of the American cinema acting upon a weak mind”: Café Culture and Cinematic Spaces in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield and F. Scott Fitzgerald’, Katherine Mansfield and France, Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle | 2014 |
| ‘”Principles as light as my purse”: Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Marketplace’, UCD School of English, Drama and Film Studies Research Seminar | 2010 |
| ‘Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and New Zealand Time’, Victorian Time, TCD | 2010 |
| ‘”Take any bryd, and put it in a cage”: Mansfield’s Canary and Chaucer’s Tale of the Crow’, Celebrating Katherine Mansfield, Symposium for the 40th Anniversary of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, Menton | 2009 |
Awards + Achievements
Dr McDonnell has been a member of two teams that secured funding for two projects; these include HEA seed funding for a ‘Spatial Arts Visualisation’ project and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council funding for ‘The Other 1916’ conference. In addition, she has held an IRCHSS postgraduate scholarship and a Broad Curriculum Teaching Fellowship.
| Year | |
|---|---|
| Team member, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council funding for ‘The Other 1916’ conference | 2016 |
| Team member, HEA seed funding for a Spatial Arts Visualisation project | 2015 |
| Broad Curriculum Teaching Fellowship | 2002–2005 |
| IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship | 1999-2002 |