Gregory Dobbins

Ph.D., Duke University (2002)
B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1994)

Awards:

• Finalist, ASUCD Excellence in Education Award, 2011
• Stern Dissertation Fellowship, Duke University, 2001-2002
• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland, 2000
• Fullbright Fellowship, Dublin, Ireland, 1997-1998
• Highest Honors in English, University of California, Berkeley, 1994
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1994

Selected Publications:

• "'The Politics of Time and Eternity': A.E., Theosophy, and the Temporality of Emergence" in J. Valente and M Howes, eds. The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision (2022).
• "The Materialist Fabulist Dialectic: James Stephens, Eimar O'Duffy, and Magic Naturalism" in Liam Harte, ed. The Oxford Handbook to Irish Fiction (2020).
• "Retromania, the Canon, the Refusal to Work and the Present: The Crassical Connection" Social Text Periscope (January 2013).
• Lazy Idle Schemers: Irish Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Idleness (Field Day Publications of the University of Notre Dame, 2010).
• “‘Never a Day’s Work’: Synge and Irish Modernism.” in P.J. Mathews, ed. Cambridge Companion to John Miltington Synge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• “Constitutional Laziness: Flann O’Brien and the Politics of Laziness.”  Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42:1 (Spring 2009), 86-108.
• “Connolly, the Archive, and Method.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 10.1 (Jan/Feb 2008): 48-66.
• "Whenever Green is Red: James Connnolly and Postcolonial Theory." Nepantla: Views from South 1.3 (2000), 605-648
• "Scenes of Tawdry Tribute: Modernism, Tradition, and Connolly" in P. J. Mathews, ed. New Voices in Irish Criticism (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), 3-12

Email:  gjdobbins@ucdavis.edu