Claire Connolly is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. For 2018-19 she is Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College Cambridge.
Formerly a professor at Cardiff University, Claire Connolly has been a visiting professor in Irish Studies at Boston College (2002-3) and Concordia University, Montreal (Fall 2011). She is Vice Chair (Ireland) of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature and an executive member of the British Association for Romantic Studies.
From 2015 to 2018 she was Co-Principal Investigator of the interdisciplinary research project Deep Maps: West Cork Coastal Cultures (Irish Research Council New Horizons Award, 2015-2018) with Dr Rob McAllen (School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UCC).
My publications to date have focused on the cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland. I have also researched Scottish and Welsh romanticism and continue to write on these areas.
I have ongoing interests in Irish studies, in critical and cultural theory, in book history and in the environmental humanities.
-- a book on Irish Romanticism for Cambridge University Press.
-- General Editor, with Marjorie Howes (Boston College), Irish Literature in Transition, a new six volume series for Cambridge University Press.
-- Editor, Irish Literature in Transition, 1780-1830. Volume 2 of Irish Literature in Transition, a new six volume series for Cambridge University Press.
-- Sea Crossings and Colonial Infrastructure, from Jonathan Swift to James Joyce.
(2011) A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829.
(2012) Via Holyhead: Material and Metaphorical Meanings between Ireland and Wales.
(2010) Four Nations Feminism: Una Troy and Menna Gallie.
Member, Student and Scholar Selection Panel, Fulbright Commission Ireland, January 2015.
External Assessor for the post of Professor of New Literatures in English, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, September 2014.
I teach at all levels: BA, MA and PhD. My lecturing covers eighteenth- and nineteeth-century literature, Irish writing and cultural theory. These are also my research areas.