Kim McMullen has been a member of the Kenyon English department since 1984, teaching courses in twentieth-century Irish literature, postmodern narrative, American modernism, American studies, and James Joyce. Interested in the intersection of gender and nationality in contemporary Irish culture, she is currently completing a book entitled Decolonizing Rosaleen: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationality in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film. Other research interests include the Irish literary heritage industry, the poetry of Eavan Boland, and recent Irish fiction.

She has directed the English department's off-campus study program at the University of Exeter twice, and was the recipient of the first Kenyon College Trustee Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1989 and of the 1989 Senior Cup. She has also won the Margaret Church Prize (for an article in Modern Fiction Studies) and the Senior Scholars Award from the Women's Caucus of the MMLA. She has served on many faculty committees over the years, most recently the Curricular Policy Committee and the 2002-03 Presidential Search Committee.

Education

Ph.D. Duke University
M.A. Stanford University
B.A. Denison University

Selected Publications

"New Ireland/Hidden Ireland: Reading Recent Irish Fiction." (Review article). The Kenyon Review. 26.1 (Spring 2004).

"'That the Science of Cartography is Limited': Historiography, Gender, and Nationality in Eavan Boland's 'Writing in a Time of Violence.'" Women Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 29 (2000): 495-517.

"Imagining Ireland: R.F. Foster's W.B. Yeats: A Life and the 'New' Irish Renaissance." (Review article). The Kenyon Review 21.2 (Spring 1999): 140-151.

"Decolonizing Rosaleen: Some Feminist, Nationalist, and Postcolonialist Discourses in Irish Studies." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 29.1 (Spring 1996): 32-45.

Courses Taught

ENGL 103/104 Imaginary Homelands
ENGL 280 American Literary Modernism
ENGL 291 Texting: Reading Like and English Major
ENGL 362 Twentieth-Century Irish Literature
ENGL 312 Postmodern Narrative
ENGL 466 James Joyce Seminar
ENGL 68/AMST 94 The Making of the American Landscape
ENGL 68 American Literature, 1945-present
AMST 8 Intro to American Studies
The Kenyon Seminar (in Exeter) "Plays in Production," "Travel and Writing," "Literature and the Irish Landscape"