Ellen Howley

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Ellen is an Assistant Professor at the School of English, Dublin City University. She is the co-editor of Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking (Routledge, 2023) and has published work in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Comparative Literature and Irish Studies Review on Irish and Caribbean poetry. Ellen co-wrote, with Eugene McNulty, a chapter on Ireland for Europe in British Literature and Cultureedited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (forthcoming Cambridge UP). She has received research funding from Dublin City University's Doctoral Scholarship programme, the Irish Research Council and the Marine Institute of Ireland. 

Book

Year Publication
2025 (2025) Oceanic Connections: The Sea in Irish and Caribbean Poetry. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Edited Book

Year Publication
2023 Ian Hickey;Ellen Howley (Ed.). (2023) Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking. London: Routledge,

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2022 Howley, Ellen (2022) 'TheMythic Sea in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Poetry'. Comparative Literature, 74 (3). [DOI]
2020 Howley, Ellen (2020) 'Like poetry or freedom / leaning in from sea: a reconsideration of the topography of Heaney's poetry'. Irish Studies Review, 28 (2). [DOI]
2022 Howley, E. (2022) 'The sea and memory: Poetic reconsiderations of the Zong massacre'. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 57 . [Link] [DOI]

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2024 Eugene McNulty; Ellen Howley (2024) 'Ireland' In: Europe in British Literature and Culture. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
2023 (2023) 'Mythic Water in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry' In: Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking. London : Routledge.
2023 (2023) 'The Sea and Memory: Poetic Reconsiderations of the Zong Massacre' In: The Hook of Desire: Slavery and David Dabydeen's 'Turner'. Hertford : Hansib.

Other Journal

Year Publication
2023 (2023) '“another bizarre joke” E.A. Markham’s Honest Ulsterman Poems, 1976-1978' Honest Ulsterman, .

Encyclopedia Entry

Year Publication
2019 (2019) Grace Nichols: i is a long-memoried woman. ENC [Link]
2019 (2019) David Dabydeen: Turner: New and Selected Poems. ENC [Link]

Book Review

Year Publication
2023 Ellen Howley (2023) Memories of the classical underworld in Irish and Caribbean poetry [Review]. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2171334
2023 (2023) Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean: interdisciplinary perspectives. [DOI]
2021 (2021) Stephanie Pocock Boeninger, Literary Drownings: Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Writing. [Review]. [Link]
2020 (2020) Cultural memory in Seamus Heaney’s late work. [Review]. [DOI]
2017 (2017) Poetry in the Everyday.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2023 (2023) IASIL Sustainability Conference 2023 “There are these phrases / Of the ocean / To console us”: Eavan Boland Writing with the Sea The British University in Cairo, .
2022 Ellen Howley (2022) IASIL 2022 Intersectional Irelands “Snared in a mode of seeing”: Refracting the Past and Present through the Sea in Caitríona O’Reilly’s The Sea Cabinet (2006) University of Limerick, .
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Professional Associations

Association Function From / To
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures Member -

Honors and Awards

Date Title Awarding Body
01/04/2021 Teaching Hero Award The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the Union of Students in Ireland

Committees

Committee Function From / To
Irish Humanities Alliance -
IASIL -

Languages

Language Reading Writing Speaking
French Fluent Fluent Fluent

Reviews

Journal Role
Journal of Commonwealth Literature Reviewer

Media

Title Year Type Authors
Why are politicians so fond of quoting Seamus Heaney? 2022 Newspaper article (online) Ellen Howley
Joyce and the Caribben 2022 Radio Interviews Ellen Howley
How James Joyce’s works informed a generation of Caribbean writers 2022 Newspaper article (online) Ellen Howley
The lure of the sea during lockdown 2021 Newspaper article (online) Ellen Howley
Why are we turning to poetry in the middle of a pandemic? 2020 Newspaper article (online) Ellen Howley
Taylor Swift's songs are full of literary references - so what do they tell us? 2023 Newspaper article (online) Ellen Howley

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Irish Writing: then & now, local & the global EL303