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Christine Cusick specializes in Twentieth / Twenty-First Century British and Irish Literature and Environmental Humanities. Her research and publications are in the areas of Irish Studies, Environmental Humanities, Creative Nonfiction, Cultural Geography and Writing Pedagogy.

Education

• Ph.D., English Literature, Duquesne University

• M.A., English Literature, St. Bonaventure University

• B.A., Summa Cum Laude, English and Philosophy, St. Bonaventure University

Publications

• “Contemporary Irish America and the Environment.” The Routledge History of Irish America. Eds. Cian T. McMahon and Kathleen Costello-Sullivan. Abingdon: Routledge (2024)

• “Transnationalism and Environment in Contemporary Irish Literature.” Cambridge History of Irish Literature and the Environment. Ed. Malcolm Sen. Cambridge University Press (2022)

• “‘Balanced between cliff and flowers’: The Enduring Earth Step in Moya Cannon’s Word Pools.” Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis Eds Andrew Auge and Eugene O’Brien. Abingdon: Routledge (2021)

• Review Essay: Geofeminism in Irish and Diasporic Culture: Intimate Cartographies by Christin M. Mulligan. Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 17 (March 2022)

• "Reflections on Teaching" Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (Jan 2018)

• "Reinhabiting the Academy: Perspectives on Irish Environmental Criticism." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 40.2 (Fall 2017)

• "Sleeper Hits of the Irish Studies Classroom: Editors' Section." New Hibernia Review (Autumn 2017)

• Coeditor, Journal of Moral Theology, Special Issue: Laudato Si' and Northern Appalachia (March 2017)

• "Writing and Presence: A Beagle's Work." Cold Mountain Review (Spring 2016)

• "Earth Justice and the Inescapable Network of Mutuality." Vox Populi: A Public Sphere for Politics and Poetry. (April 2016)

• "A Call to Tea." New Hibernia Review: Irish Eireannach Nua. 19.4 (Winter/Geimhread 2015) *Chosen as Notable Essay of 2016, Best American Essays series

• Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment. Edited Collection with Derek Gladwin. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP (2016)

• "'And now intellect, discovering its own effects': Tim Robinson as narrative scholar.’" Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment. Eds. Christine Cusick and Derek Gladwin. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP (2016)

• "'A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter." Representing Animals in Irish Literature and Culture. Eds. Kathryn Kirkpatrick and Borbala Farago. London: Palgrave, (2015)

• "'Clacking along the Concrete Pavement': Economic Isolation and the Bricolage of Place in James Joyce’s Dubliners." Eco-Joyce: Space, Place, and Environment in the Writings of James Joyce. Eds. Robert Brazeau and Derek Gladwin. Cork: Cork University Press, (2014)

• "A Door Held Open: Francis Harvey's Invitation to Listen." This Landscape's Fierce Embrace: The Poetry of Francis Harvey. Ed. Donna Potts. New York: Cambridge Scholars Press, (2013)

• “Tourmakeady Snow.” Extended Family: Essays on Being Irish American. Ed. James Silas Rogers. Dufour Editions, (2013)

• "Mapping Placelore: Tim Robinson’s Ambulation and Articulation of Connemara as Bioregion." The Bioregional Imagination. Eds. Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster & Tom Lynch. Athens: The University of Georgia Press (2012)

• “Sharing Stories: Research, Technology, and Listening to Student Knowledge.” Let the Games Begin!: Engaging Students with Interactive Information Literacy Instruction. Theresa McDevitt, Ed. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. (2011)

• Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Edited Collection. Cork: Cork University Press, (2010)

• “A Mindful Path: An Interview with Tim Robinson." Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Edited Collection. Cork: Cork University Press, (2010)

• “Remembering our Ecological Place: Environmental Engagement in Barbara Kingsolver’s Nonfiction.” Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Priscilla Leder. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, (2010)

• “Feminist Faculty Negotiate the Land of Both/And” with Laurie McMillan, Ph.D. Studies in the Humanities. (December 2009)

• “Moments of Story: Rachel Giese’s The Donegal Pictures.” Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography and Popular Culture. Eds. Eóin Flannery and Michael Griffin. Irish Studies Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. (2009)

• Review Essay: Weaving Tapestry in Rural Ireland: Taipeis Gael, Donegal by Meghan Nuttall Sayres; photographs by Laurence Boland, tapestries by Taipeis Gael. New Hibernia Review: Irish Eireannach Nua. 13.1 (Spring 2009).

• Review Essay: Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds by Sam Keen. The Literary Bird Journal: Avian Life Literary Arts. 1.1 (Fall 2008).

• Review Essay: Forest Park: A Journal by Joel Weishaus. “Rhetorics of Place: The Importance of Public Spaces and Public Spheres.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 5.3 (2005).

• “‘Our language was tidal’: Poetics of Place in the Poetry of Moya Cannon.” New Hibernia Review: Iris Éireannach Nua.9:1. (Spring 2005): 59-76.

• “Elizabeth Bowen, 1899-1973,” Irish Women Writers: A Guide. Ed. Alexander Gonzalez. Greenwood Press. (November 2005)

• “Moya Cannon, 1956-.” Irish Women Writers: A Guide. Ed. Alexander Gonzalez. Greenwood Press. (November 2005)

• Review Article: As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art by Rebecca Solnit. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 10.2 (2003).

Awards

• Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Education, Environmental Education Grant, coauthor (2023-24)

• National Endowment for the Humanities Award, Co-Director of Institute: Grappling with Genocide: Fostering Empathy and Engagement through Text and Image (2021-2022)

• Visiting Research Fellow, The Moore Institute of The National University of Ireland Galway (Spring 2016)

• Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award, ������Ƶ University (2010)

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Duquesne University, 2003-2004.

• Research Assistantship, Duquesne University, Summer 2002.

• Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, Duquesne University, 2001-2002.

• Full Tuition Scholarship, Duquesne University, 1998-2002.

• Teaching Fellowship, Duquesne University, 1998-2001.

• Graduate Assistantship with the Integrated Honors College: College of Arts and Sciences, Duquesne University, 1997-1998.

• Presidential Scholarship, St. Bonaventure University, 1993-1997.

• Outstanding English Graduate Student, St. Bonaventure University, 1997.

• St. Bonaventure University, Graduate Student Assistant for and Participant in the Francis E. Kelley Oxford Program. Somerville College, Oxford University. 1995-1997.

• Boyd Litzinger Medal for Excellence in the English Undergraduate Curriculum, St. Bonaventure University, 1996.

Organizations

• National Council for Teachers of English

• International Association for the Study of Irish Literature

• Conference on College Composition and Communication

• Northeast Modern Language Association

• American Conference for Irish Studies

• Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

Presentations

• Campus Ecology: Sustainability in and out of the Classroom. Beyond the Classroom: Deepening Campus Community Partnerships Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (Gannon University / May 2024)

• Inclusion and Belonging in the Honors Classroom: A Roundtable Workshop. National Collegiate Honors Council. April 5, 2024 (Invited Virtual Workshop hosted for the National Collegiate Honors Council / created and co-presented with S. Eichenberger)

• Climate grief and deep time: walking Ireland’s west. Greening the Harp: Irish Contemporary Poetics and Politics of Ecology. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (November 2022)

• Environment and Empathic Knowing in Claire Keegan’s Small things like these. American Conference for Irish Studies International Conference, Dublin, Ireland. (April 2022 /virtual)

• “Migration, Grief, and the Empathic Entanglement of Narrative in Sara Baume’s Handiwork” American Conference for Irish Studies International Conference, Derry, Northern Ireland (June 2021 / virtual)

• “‘Balanced between cliff and flowers’: The fragile and enduring earth step in Moya Cannon’s Donegal Tarantella” American Conference for Irish Studies International Conference, Houston, TX (April 2020) accepted but conference cancelled due to COVID

• Presenter, ������Ƶ Pandemic Talks: “Story in a Time of Covid” with Dr. Wierszewski (April 2021)

• “Cartography for the Anthropocene: Transnationalism and Environmental Empathy in Contemporary Irish Texts.” International Meeting for the American Conference for Irish Studies, Boston College (April 2019)

• “Embedding the Story Exchange Model: Curriculum and Student Research” Narrative 4 Global Summit, New Orleans, LA (June 2019)

• "First Year Writing and the Three Cs of Performance Theory." Conference on College Composition and Communication (Pittsburgh, PA, March 2019)

• Reclaiming the "Dictionaries of their Lives": Empathy and Critical Thinking in Honors Curriculum. Annual Conference for the National Collegiate Honors Council. (Boston, MA November 2018)

• "Assaying the Work of Nonfiction Studies: Craft and Pedagogy" NonFictionNow Conference (Phoenix, AZ, November 2018)

• "Social Justice, Student Research, and Enrollment: Finding Balance" Challenges of Honors at Small Religious-Based Institutions. Annual Conference for the National Collegiate Honors Council. (Atlanta, GA, November 2017)

• "Holistic Pedagogy and Empowerment for Social Change" Convener of Roundtable, Annual Conference for the National Collegiate Honors Conference (Atlanta, GA, November 2017)

• Invited Respondent, Moya Cannon's Keats Lives Poetry Roundtable, International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (Kansas City, MO, April 2017)

• The Spiritual Lens of Rachel Carson's Narrative Call to Environmental Justice. Laudato si’ and Northern Appalachia: A Conference on the Environment and Catholic Social Teaching. (October 2016)

• Teaching the Whole Person: convener and presenter of forum at the National Conference for the National Collegiate Honors Council. (Seattle, WA, October 2016)

• 'Unofficial Countryside': Éamon de Buitléar's Legacy for Environmental Engagement in Ireland. International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. University of Miami, FL. March 2015.

• "Student Voice, Honors Education and an Age of Reform." Annual Conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Denver, CO, November 2014.

• "'A capacity for sustained flight': Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Ecology of Avian Encounter." International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. University College Dublin: Dublin, Ireland. June 2014.

• “Honors Education and the Liberal Arts: Mindful Dialogue on the Imperative of Diversity.” Diversity Forum. National Collegiate Honors Council: National Conference. New Orleans, LA. November 2013.

• "Harnessing iTunesU and iBooks tools to Enhance Teaching and Learning." International Society for Technology and Education. San Antonio, TX, June 2013.

• "Honors Curriculum and Social Engagement: The Value of Going Home Again.” National Collegiate Honors Council: National Conference. Boston, MA. November 2012.

• “ ‘Measured Loosening of the Earth’ Narrative Negotiation of Coastal Boundaries in Colm Tóibín and Tim Robinson.” International Association for the Study of Irish Literature. Montreal, Quebec. August 2012.

• "'The Tideline between Place and Story'": The Role of the Irish Writer in (Re)Imagining Ecological Boundaries and Borders." .” International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. New Orleans, LA. March 15-March 18, 2012.

• “The Bioregional Imagination: Scholarly Roundtable.” The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference. Bloomington, IN. June 21-26, 2011.

• “The Compass for our Shared Space: Student Knowledge and iPad Integration.” Teaching with iPads: Motivation, Inspiration, Alienation in the Appleverse. Computers and Writing. Ann Arbor, MI. May 19-22, 2011.

• “‘If stories come to you, care for them’: Ecocritical Narrative Scholarship and Oral Histories in Contemporary Ireland.” International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Madison, WI. March 30-April 2, 2011.

• “Where are We Now?: Ecocriticism and Narrative Scholarship.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Los Angeles, CA. January 6-9, 2011.

• “‘And now intellect, discovering its own effects’: Reading Tim Robinson’s Connemara as Narrative Scholarship.” Ireland and Ecocriticism: An Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Limerick, Limerick Ireland. June 18-19, 2010.

• “Ecological Epistemology in Moya Cannon’s Carrying the Songs.” International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. State College, PA. May 4-6, 2010

• “The Lure of the Local: Environmental Invitation in Michael Viney’s A Year’s Turning.” American Conference for Irish Studies International Conference. Centre for Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway. 10-13 June, 2009

• “‘The Dreaming Memory of Land’: Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood and a Place-Based Writing Pedagogy.” Connections and Community: Reinhabitory Principles in Bioregionalism and Literary Field Studies. Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, Massachusetts. February 26- March 1, 2009.

• “ ‘Where Trees have Outgrown their Shelter’: An Ecofeminist Reading of Contemporary Irish Poetry.” Lifting Belly High: A Conference on Women’s Poetry Since 1900. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. September 11-13, 2008.

• “‘Delicate Discriminations’”: Tim Robinson’s Connemara and the Lingering Hope of Natural Histories.” International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Davenport, Iowa. April 16-18, 2008

• “Embracing Our Place: Economic Class and Writing for Change.” Apathy to Activism at the Catholic University. National Convention for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 1-5, 2008.

• "‘Known Grace in Stone’: The Cultural Bioregionalism of Ireland's West.” The Seventh Biennial International Conference for the Association for Literature and the Environment. Spartanburg, South Carolina. June 12-16, 2007.

• “Conjuring Place: Workshop in Creative Nonfiction.” The Seventh Biennial International Conference for the Association for Literature and the Environment. Spartanburg, South Carolina. June 12-16, 2007.

• “‘Home is the Range of One’s Instincts’: Writing Place and Justice into the Composition Classroom.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore, Maryland. March 1-4, 2007.

• “‘What do we say any more to conjure the salt of our earth?’: Romantic Influences on the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.” Romanticism, Environment, Crisis: Centre for Romantic Studies. University of Wales, Aberystwyth. 23-27 June 2006.

• “Excavating Ecological Promise Through Cultural Studies.” American Conference for Irish Studies, National Meeting. St. Louis, MO. April 19-22, 2006.

• “‘We look at him through the wrong end of the long telescope of Time’: D.H. Lawrence and the Amblings of a Modernist Nature Poet.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Washington D.C., December 2005.

• “Engaged Learning: Creative Assignments in Higher Education.” Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English. Pittsburgh, PA, November 17-22, 2005.

• “‘Vulnerable Again in the Air of Another Age’: Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmental Engagement.” American Conference for Irish Studies, National Meeting. University of Notre Dame. South Bend, Indiana. April 13-17, 2005.

• “‘Sailing on Stones’: Tim Robinson’s Ethnography of a Coastal Community.” The Fifth Biennial International Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Boston University, June 2003.

• “Susan Clements’s In The Moon When The Deer Lose Their Horns and an Integration of Story’s Place.” Division of American Indian Literatures. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New York, New York, December 2002.

• Respondent, “Teaching Anti-War Literature.” The Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages. Modern Language Association Annual Convention. New York, New York, December 2002.

• “Ecocriticism: Exploring the Maps of Nature.” Guest Speaker, Universalist Unitarianism Church of Ligonier Valley, Ligonier, PA. October 6, 2002.

• “‘Convenient Fictions’ of Terrain and Time: Remembrance of Place in Irish Emigrant Letters.” American Conference for Irish Studies, New England Meeting. Boston University, September 28-30, 2001.

• “‘Dublin Rises Out of What Reflects It’: Place and Female Identity in Eavan Boland’s The Lost Land.” American Conference for Irish Studies, National Meeting. Fordham University, New York, NY, June 7-10, 2001.

• “‘We Call it Nature’: The Poetry of Denise Levertov and Social Constructions of Nature.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Hartford, Connecticut. March 30-31, 2001.

• “‘Trying to Paint the Land as if it Had No History’: The Exile’s Union of Nation and Place in Colm Tóibin’s The South.” American Conference for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic Meeting. College of Mount St. Vincent, Riverdale, NY, October 27-28, 2000.

• “Mapping a Place Called Ireland: National Identity and the Construction of an Urban Landscape in Ciaran Carson’s Belfast Confetti.” American Conference for Irish Studies, Mid-Atlantic Meeting. University of Delaware, October 29-30, 1999.

• “‘Without Words’: Language, History, and the Destabilization of Power in Carol Ann Duffy’s Standing Female Nude.” W2K: Women on the Verge, Women’s Studies Conference. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, September 17-18, 1999.

Certifications

• Certified Master Practitioner and Facilitator, Narrative 4 (2019-present)

Achievements

• Invited Lecturer, Duquesne University in Dublin Program. Topic: The Irish West and Cultural Geography (October 2021; February 2022l October 2022)

• Invited Speaker, Irish Influence, a webinar series sponsored by the Irish Studies program at Boston College and the Irish Consulate in Boston (June 2021)

• Invited Speaker, Glucksman Ireland House of New York University. "'Tim Robinson a as Architect of Environmental Empathy' Dúchas: Irish Landscapes, Environmental Legacies. (New York, October 2016)

• Villanova School of Irish Studies, Invited Workshop Leader and Public Reading in Nonfiction and Memoir, The Kelly House, Philadelphia, PA (December 2019)

• Invited Keynote Speaker, Mt. Aloysius Conference on College Teaching. ‘Listening to the Space Between: Narrative Encounter in the College Classroom’ (October 2018)

• Invited Keynote Speaker at the International Conference for Ireland and Ecocriticism hosted by University College Cork. (Cork City, Ireland, June 2014)

• Invited Plenary Speaker at the International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies. (Chicago, IL, 2013)

• Invited member of the Board of Advisory Editors for the quarterly peer-reviewed journal New Hibernia Review. Area of expertise: Environmentalism. (2011-present)

• Invited Speaker for the Perspectives on Tim Robinson Symposium, supported by the Archipelago Research Project of the Moore Institute of National University of Ireland Galway, The British Academy and the University of Exeter. (Fall 2011, Galway, Ireland)

• Creative Nonfiction chosen as “Notable Essay of 2007” by Best American Essays Series.