José Lanters, Professor
Office: Curtin Hall 489
Phone: 414-229-4799
e-mail: lanters@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 147k)
Degree(s):
B.A., M.A., University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Ph.D., University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Research Interests:
Irish Studies
Satire
Issues of identity and representation
Teaching Interests:
Irish Literature
Mythology and Folklore
Modern British Literature
The Classical Tradition
Other Relevant Activities:
President, American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), 2007-09
Vice Chair for North America, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), 2006-08
Advisory Committee member, UWM Center for Celtic Studies.
Recent Publications:
Books:
The "Tinkers" in Irish Literature: Unsettled Subjects and the Construction of Difference. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2008. 248 pp.
Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2000).
Articles:
"Irish Satire," in A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern, ed. Ruben Quintero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007): 476-91.
"'Cobwebs on Your Walls': The State of the Debate about Globalisation and Irish Drama," in Global Ireland, ed. Ondrej Pilny and Clare Wallace (Prague, 2006): 33-44.
"'We Are a Different People': Life Writing, Representation, and the Travellers," New Hibernia Review, 9, 2 (2005): 25-41.
"The 'Tinker' Figure in the Children's Fiction of Patricia Lynch," ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 7 (June 2005): 151-62.
"Reading the Irish Future in the Celtic Past: T.W. Rolleston and the Politics of Myth," in Reading Irish Histories, ed. Lawrence McBride (Dublin: Four Courts, 2003): 178-95.
"Demythicizing/Remythicizing the Rising: Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, 8, 1 (2002): 245-58.
"Playwrights of the Western World: Synge, Murphy, McDonagh," in A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage, ed. Stephen Watt et. al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000): 204-22.
"Old Worlds, New Worlds, Alternative Worlds: Ulysses, Metamorphoses 13, and the Death of the Beloved Son," James Joyce Quarterly, 36, 3 (1999): 525-40.