Department


Allied Health Sciences

Associate Professor
Focus: Literature/Humanities

Contact Information
(518) 694-7266
margaret.carroll@acphs.edu


Speaker Request
Margaret Lasch Carroll, PH.D.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in English, University of Maryland at College Park 

COURSES TAUGHT AT ACPHS

  • The Pre-Modern World 
  • The Modern World
  • The Epic
  • Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
  • Shakespeare
  • Irish Literature
  • The Novel

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • My primary research interest is Irish Literature, in particular 20th-century literature. The Irish identity in Irish-American literature is a related interest. A secondary area of research includes Irish immigration history in the city of Albany.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Carroll ML. Philip J. Gallagher. Naval Aviation in Inishowen: World War I, edited by Guy Warner, Inishowen Maritime Heritage Co., Greencastle, Co. Donegal, [2018], pp.[61-76].

“Constructing Albany’s Answers to the Irish Questions, 1913-1924.” Nordic Irish Studies Journal. Spring 2016.
“Mary C. Kelly’s Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory.” American Catholic Studies. April 2015.

“The Artist as a Young Man: Denis Sampson’s, Young John McGahern: Becoming A Novelist.  Irish Literary Supplement. Fall 2013.

“The Sisters of Charity:  Pioneers of Education in Albany, NY 1828-1847.”  The Country of the Young: Interpretations of Youth and Childhood in Irish Culture. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2013.

“The Church and Its Spire”: John McGahern and the Catholic Question; Eamon Maher’s The Church and Its Spire.” Irish Literary Supplement.  Fall 2012.

Dermot McCarthy, John McGahern and the Art of Memory. Irish Literary Supplement. Fall 2011.

John McGahern, Love of the World: Essays, edited by Stanley van der Ziel. New Hibernian Review Vol. 14. No. 4 (2010). 

“The Road Away Becomes the Road Back”:  Prodigal Sons in the Short Stories of John McGahern.’ Journal of the Short Story in English: Special Issue on John McGahern. Guest editor, Prof. Claude Maisonnat, University Lumiere, Lyon, France. Vol. 53. Autumn 2009 (published in Fall 2010).

“John McGahern’s Creatures of the Earth.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. Vol. 33, No. 2. Fall 2007 (published in Fall 2009).

“Alice McDermott’s After This.” Irish Literary Supplement. Fall 2008.

“Prodigals’ Dreams: John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun.” Estudios Irelandeses. Issue 3. Mar. 2008. 

“John McGahern’s Memoir,” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.  Spring 2006.  Vol. 31, No. 2. Fall 2005 (published in Spring 2006).

“Kennedy, William.” The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, ed. M. Glazier, University of Notre Dame Press. 1999.

“McDermott, Alice.”  The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, ed. M.Glazier, University of Notre Dame Press. 1999.

“John McGahern.” Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, ed. A. Gonzalez, Greenwood Publishing. 1997.

BOOK REVIEWS

Anna Quindlen’s Matriarchy. A review of Miller’s Crossing by Anna Quindlen for Irish Literary Supplement, 37:2, Spring 2018, pp. 4-5.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

Carroll ML. Bloomsday 2018: Ulysses, Reduxing the Redux. Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany NY, June 13 and 16, 2018 (lecture and reading).

Carroll ML. Reimagining Traditions: Place and Identity in the novels of Alice McDermott. International Association of the Study of Irish Literatures Conference, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2018, (conference presentation).

Carroll ML. World War I: Letters Home. Armistice Day 100th Anniversary Commemoration, 1918-2018. Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany NY, November 11, 2018 (lecture and exhibit).

Carroll ML. The War to End All Wars: Songs and Readings from World War I. Irish American Heritage Museum, Nov. 13, 2018 (selection, direction, and commentary).