Irish in the West: A Roundtable Conversation

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This event is co-sponsored by the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.

Location: USF Main Campus, McLaren Conference Center, Room 250.

This event features David Emmons, Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Montana, Matthew Jockers, Lecturer and Academic Technology Specialist, and James P. Walsh, Professor Emeritus of History at San José State University, in conversation with Margaret Mc Peake, Instructor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Writing at the University of San Francisco.

Dave Emmons' principal area of teaching, research, and writing is the history of American immigration, particular that of Irish Catholics. In 1989, the University of Illinois Press published The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town which won both the Robert G. Athearn Prize of the Western Historical Association and Honorable Mention for the James Donnelly Prize given by the American Conference for Irish Studies. In 2010 Emmons published Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West which was also awarded an Honorable Mention runner-up prize by the ACIS. His current project, very tentatively titled Ireland in America: The Intersecting Lines of Irish and American History, 1845-1940, will deal with the various ways Ireland's and America's histories influenced one another. He lives with his wife Caroline Dollard Emmons in Missoula, Montana--120 miles northwest of Butte, along with San Francisco, one of Irish-America's two western capital cities.

Matthew Jockers is a Lecturer and Academic Technology Specialist (ATS) in the Department of English at Stanford. His research and teaching is focused on Irish / Irish-American literature of the 19th and early 20th-century and on a computational approach to the study of literature that he calls "macroanalysis." Jockers has written extensively about Irish-American writers from the American West, and some of his recent publications include articles about Irish writers in Kansas, Montana, and California. Jockers's book, Macroanalysis: Digital Methods for Literary History is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. The book includes chapters discussing and analyzing Irish and Irish-American literature.

James P. Walsh is Emeritus Professor of History, San Jose State University, where he completed a 35 year career in teaching, scholarship, and academic administration. Through those decades he enjoyed frequent teaching and research appointments to campuses of the National University of Ireland. Dr. Walsh remains active in his field --United States History.

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