John Rickard
231 Vaughan Literature
(570) 577-1424
rickard@bucknell.edu
Teaching Interests
Irish literature; modernism; modern and contemporary British literature; science and literature
Current Projects and Research Interests
"Outdancing Thought: Stasis and Modernism in W. B. Yeats’s The Wild Swans at Coole” (essay in progress); Theosophy, the occult, and the birth of modernism (book project); Editor, Bucknell Contemporary Irish Writers Series (Bucknell University Press)
Selected Publications
"The Irish Patient: The Female Body, Nation, and Language in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill." in The Patient (Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures). Ed. Harold Schweizer and Kimberly Myers. Bucknell University Press, 2010. 97-110.
"Eating Like a White Man: Nibbling at the Edges of Heart of Darkness." L'epoque Conradienne 33 (2007): 49-57.
Recent Awards
Invited speaker, Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, 2005
