Kathryn Conrad

University of Kansas, English, Faculty Member

University of Pennsylvania, English Language and Literature, Alumna

University of Michigan, English Language and Literature, Alumna

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Department of English
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Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse

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Widening the Frame: The Politics of Representing Northern Irish Murals

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Rage’s Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde’s Trivial Comedy

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism, 2020

This chapter argues that Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, described by its author a... more This chapter argues that Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, described by its author as an ‘amusing thing with lots of fun and wit’, contains an explosive undercurrent of social critique. The funniest of Wilde’s plays, Earnest satirizes the subterfuge (‘Bunburying’) demanded of sexual heretics in Victorian society, where marginal identities and desires were excluded, suppressed, or in Wilde’s case, brutally penalized. Conrad investigates Wilde’s ambivalent attitude to direct revolutionary action such as the Fenian dynamite campaign of 1881-85 and French anarchist activities of the 1890s, attending particularly to the 1884 bomb explosion in the cloakroom at Victoria Station, the ‘terminus’ where Miss Prism left the infant Jack Worthing in a handbag containing her three-decker novel. As Conrad argues, ‘texts, bodies, and bombs all meet at Victoria Station’, and Wilde, as an Irishman and a homosexual, could himself be seen as ‘a potential bomb right at the terminus of Victor...

The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast

Despite the recent resumption of the Northern Ireland Assembly and a recommitment of major politi... more Despite the recent resumption of the Northern Ireland Assembly and a recommitment of major political parties to working together on Northern Irish governance, and despite the public perception of increasing tolerance, 1 Northern Irish society would seem to be as divided as ever before. For instance, the number of 'peace lines' 2 dividing Protestant and Catholic housing areas doubled between 1995 and 2005, with most of the walls located in Belfast^ As of 2006, 80% of people lived in 'single identity' communities.* The Good Friday Agreement (1998) effectively reified the 'twocommunity' model of politics,* and neither the subsequent St. Andrews Agreement nor the quotidian workings of politics has done much to unsettle this model. Perhaps one of the most obvious and contentious displays of identity, particularly in post-ceasefire Northern Ireland, has been through parades. Parading peaks during the Orange marching season, which takes place every summer and is concentrated around the 12 th of July in commemoration of William of Orange's 1690 victory at the Battle of the Boyne. After the violent confrontations and protests surrounding the Drumcree parade in Portadown, the Parades Commission was established in 1998 to monitor and regulate controversial parades. 6 Parading, like self-imposed religious housing segregation, does not appear to have diminished; in 2005, for instance, the Parades Commission lists 391 Orange parades; in 2008, it lists 1334.

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‘Nothing to Hide … Nothing to Fear’: Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Surveillance has increasingly been part of the everyday experience of people throughout the world... more Surveillance has increasingly been part of the everyday experience of people throughout the world, whether it is through heightened security practices that have emerged through anxiety about the spread of global terrorism or the ever-increasing presence of commercial surveillance technologies, both licit and illicit. The significance of surveillance resonates with the history and politics of queer people, queer theory, and queer methodologies, since surveillance is part of a system of power that, among other things, shapes subjectivity, as Michel Foucault (1979) has

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Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland

Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, 2007

Analysis of Northern Irish political wall murals and their symbols has been almost as ubiquitous ... more Analysis of Northern Irish political wall murals and their symbols has been almost as ubiquitous as the murals themselves. Little has been written, however, about the implications of actually photographing and reproducing the murals — yet images of them circulate through postcards, books, souvenirs and the Internet, a colourful collection of images that continue to shape perceptions of Northern Ireland both at home and abroad. The constant reproduction, circulation and commodification of photographs of political murals, however, perpetuates a narrow vision of a Northern Ireland shaped primarily by a history of (para)military conflict. This in turn has material implications, effectively fetishizing a violent vision of Northern Ireland in both the local and international imaginary and thus shaping not only Northern Irish politics and culture but the economic and political relationship between Northern Ireland and the rest of the world. This chapter is an attempt to widen the frame: to make the photographic framing process more visible and in so doing to explore the ways in which the photographic frame creates the larger frame through which Northern Ireland is seen.

Keening the Nation: The Bean Chaointe, the Sean Bhean Bhocht, and Women's Lament in Irish Nationalist Literature

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Locked in the family cell: gender, sexuality and political agency in Irish national discourse

Feminist Review, 2006

Although there are some glaring omissions in Johnson's book, including substantive discussions of... more Although there are some glaring omissions in Johnson's book, including substantive discussions of Roy Cohn (a top aid to Joseph McCarthy) and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover's involvement in the Lavender Scare, plus overarching connections between the anti-Communist campaigns with pervasive anti-Semitism in the United States, Johnson makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of an often forgotten and overlooked facet of US history, and to the sociopolitical mechanics of scapegoating, persecution, and marginalization.

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Surveillance, Gender, and the Virtual Body in the Information Age

Surveillance & Society, 2009

In our contemporary 'information age', information and the body stand in a new, peculiar,... more In our contemporary 'information age', information and the body stand in a new, peculiar, and ambiguous relationship to one another. Information is plumbed from the body but treated as separate from it, facilitating, as Irma van der Ploeg has suggested, the creation of a separate virtual 'body-as-information' that has affected the very ontology of the body. This 'informatization of the…

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Infernal Machines

Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism, 2019

Teaching fan fiction: Affect and analysis

Transformative Works and Cultures

We reflect on the design and first iteration of an asynchronous online university English course ... more

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Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

Special Issue: Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically Re‐thinking Representations of the Conflict

by Kathryn Conrad, Dominic Bryan, and Fidelma Ashe

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2006

Special Issue: Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically Re‐thinking Representations of the Conflict

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2006

What the Digital Humanities Can't Do

A popular Tumblr site for graduate students in the humanities last year was MLAJobs, which satiri... more A popular Tumblr site for graduate students in the humanities last year was MLAJobs, which satirized postings in the Modern Language Association's job list. One faux job ad captured one of the many frustrations faced by those in the humanities: "Digital Humanities: Asst prof in American or British literature, 16th-20th century, with interest in the problematic of digital humanities. We prefer candidates who can tell us, What is digital humanities? Some familiarity with MSWord expected. Send vita and letters to Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853."

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"Widening the Frame: The Politics of Murals Photography in Northern Ireland"

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"You Won't Re-route this Fruit': Northern Ireland, 'Queer', and a Geopolitics of Affection

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Lighted Squares: Framing 'Araby'." With Mark Osteen.

Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue. Ed. Vicki Mahaffey. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2012. 69-88., 2012

The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast

Deviant Acts: Essays on Queer Performance, ed. David Creggan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009.

Surveillance, Gender, and the Virtual Body in the Information Age

In our contemporary 'information age', information and the body stand in a new, peculiar, and amb... more In our contemporary 'information age', information and the body stand in a new, peculiar, and ambiguous relationship to one another. Information is plumbed from the body but treated as separate from it, facilitating, as Irma van der Ploeg has suggested, the creation of a separate virtual 'body-as-information' that has affected the very ontology of the body. This 'informatization of the body' has been both spurred and enabled by surveillance techniques that create, depend upon, and manipulate virtual bodies for a variety of predictive purposes, including social control and marketing. While, as some feminist critics have suggested, there appears to be potential for information technologies to liberate us from oppressive ideological models, surveillance techniques, themselves so intimately tied to information systems, put normative pressure on non-normative bodies and practices, such as those of queer and genderqueer subjects. Ultimately, predictive surveillance is based in an innately conservative epistemology, and the intertwining of information systems with surveillance undermines any liberatory effect of the former.

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Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality, and Political Agency in Irish National Discourse

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Widening the Frame: The Politics of Representing Northern Irish Murals

Rage’s Brother: The Bomb at the Centre of Wilde’s Trivial Comedy

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism, 2020

The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast

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‘Nothing to Hide … Nothing to Fear’: Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Widening the Frame: the Politics of Mural Photography in Northern Ireland

Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, 2007

Keening the Nation: The Bean Chaointe, the Sean Bhean Bhocht, and Women's Lament in Irish Nationalist Literature

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Locked in the family cell: gender, sexuality and political agency in Irish national discourse

Feminist Review, 2006

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Surveillance, Gender, and the Virtual Body in the Information Age

Surveillance & Society, 2009

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Infernal Machines

Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism, 2019

Teaching fan fiction: Affect and analysis

Transformative Works and Cultures

We reflect on the design and first iteration of an asynchronous online university English course ... more

Download

Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism

Special Issue: Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically Re‐thinking Representations of the Conflict

by Kathryn Conrad, Dominic Bryan, and Fidelma Ashe

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2006

Special Issue: Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically Re‐thinking Representations of the Conflict

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2006

What the Digital Humanities Can't Do

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"Widening the Frame: The Politics of Murals Photography in Northern Ireland"

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"You Won't Re-route this Fruit': Northern Ireland, 'Queer', and a Geopolitics of Affection

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Lighted Squares: Framing 'Araby'." With Mark Osteen.

Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue. Ed. Vicki Mahaffey. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2012. 69-88., 2012

The Politics of Camp: Queering Parades, Performance, and the Public in Belfast

Deviant Acts: Essays on Queer Performance, ed. David Creggan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2009.

Surveillance, Gender, and the Virtual Body in the Information Age

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‘Nothing to Hide … Nothing to Fear’: Discriminatory Surveillance and Queer Visibility in Great Britain and Northern Ireland

This chapter will ‘queer’ surveillance, interrogate the assumptions on which it is based and cons... more This chapter will ‘queer’ surveillance, interrogate the assumptions on which it is based and consider the uses to which it is put, by examining surveillance and policing practices in both the United Kingdom generally and, more specifically, in Northern Ireland, particularly as they have been directed at queer people. In the human crises engendered by surveillance, I will suggest, we also see a crisis in the meanings and value of the public, privacy, visibility and normalisation, issues that have long resonated with queer theory and queer studies.

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