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Author Dara Downey

Dara Downey

Dara Downey is a visiting lecturer in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and the Trinity Access Programme. She is editor of The Irish Gothic Journal (online). She is author of American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age (2014), and co-editor of Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (with Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker, 2016). Her research focuses on domesticity in American gothic, and she is currently working on a literary biography of Shirley Jackson, as well as a longer-term project on servant figures in American gothic.

From Dangerous Outsiders to Beloved Innocents: Irish Servant Figures in American Gothic

Dara Downey
Articles
In Georgia Wood Pangborn’s 1911 short story “Broken Glass,” the narrator, a fussy mother living somewhere in rural America, is reproached by a mysterious figure for having scolded her young Irish nursemaid. As ... Read More...

Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

Dara Downey
Reviews
“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).
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