Hardy, Molly O’Hagan

Name:

Prof. Molly Hardy
Molly O’Hagan Hardy

Academic School:

School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:

English

Titles/Responsibilities:

Adjunct

Contact Information:

E-mail: mhardy@sbu.edu 

Office Location/Hours:

Plassmann F-1 

Academic Degrees:

  • Ph.D. in English, University of Texas at Austin, 2011. 
  • B.A. in English and Government, Bowdoin College, 1999.

Accomplishments:

Selected Publications 

  • Articles
    • “Literary Pirates as Agents of Change” in LATCH: A Journal for the Study of Literary Artifact in Theory, Culture, or History. 5 (Winter 2011): 120-140.
    • “Archival Triage: Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh’s Notebook at the Harry Ransom Center” in The New Centennial Review 10:1 (Spring 2010): 31-48.
    • “Symbolic Power in Mary Robinson’s Presidency and Eavan Boland’s Poetry” in New Hibernia Review: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies. 12.3 (2008): 47-65.
    • “Gendered Trauma in Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake” in Studies in European Cinema. 3.3 (2006): 211-221.
  • Reviews
    • “The Mathew Carey Conference: A Transatlantic Figure, A Transatlantic Discussion.” Conference review in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer. 26:1 (March 2012): 17-20.
    • “Ireland, America, and the Worlds of Mathew Carey.” Conference review in the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) News 21:1 (Winter 2012): 1.
    • “Race, Liberty, and the Transatlantic Imaginative.” Review of The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture by George Boulukos and Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940 by Laura Doyle. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 43.1 (Fall 2009): 120-122.
    • “A Backward Glance and a Forward Gaze: Interview with Barbara Harlow” in Ethnic and Third World Literature Review of Books. 8 (Spring 2008): 73-76.
  • In Progress
    • “Mathew Carey, Eminent Physician: Figures of Authority in the Transatlantic Yellow Fever Pamphlets, 1793-1795.” Revised and resubmitted at Book History.
    • Encoding and Editing a digital edition of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen’s A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia (1794).
    • Figures of Abstractions: Slavery and the Book in the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World (manuscript in progress).

 

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships  

  • Northeast Modern Language Association Fellow at the American Antiquarian Association. July 2012.
  • 18thConnect Scholar at Digital Humanities Summer Institute of the University of Victoria. June 2012.
  • Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Southwestern University. August 2011 to June 2012.
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Dissertation Fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. June 2010.
  • Outstanding Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin English Department. July 2010.
  • Institute of Library and Museum Services Scholarship at Rare Book School of The University of Virginia. July 2007.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow at the University of Texas at San Antonio. June to July 2003.
  • Oliva Teaching Fellow at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. September 2001 to June 2002.

Current Research Interests/Projects:

  • Eighteenth-Century British Literature
  • Book History
  • Irish Literature
  • Digital Humanities 

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