On The Move
English professor heads to Ireland for prestigious fellowship
Dec 21, 2009
COLUMBIA, SC - December 21, 2009 - University of South Carolina faculty member Dr. Ed Madden has been selected for the 2009 - 10 Visiting Fellowship in Irish Studies sponsored by the Irish American Cultural Institute and the National University of Ireland in Galway. Only one fellowship is given annually to a scholar in Irish studies in any field or discipline to study and conduct research at the university in Galway.
Madden will travel to Ireland in early January to spend the spring semester in residence at NUIG as a visiting faculty member and research fellow. While there, he will conduct additional research at archives in Belfast, Cork and Dublin, focusing on the changing representations of Irish masculinity in film and literature since 1977.
Madden has led study-abroad classes in Ireland for the South Carolina Honors College and university’s Capstone Scholar Program. In 2008, he was chosen as one of 12 study-abroad faculty members nationwide to participate in the London and Dublin Theater Seminar sponsored by the Institute for the International Education of Students. Madden is an associate professor of English and undergraduate director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of South Carolina.
