Faculty Member, English
Assistant Professor of English
Thesis Title: Drowning and Postcolonial Memory: J.M. Synge, Derek Walcott, David Dabydeen, and Kate O’Brien
About
Stephanie Pocock Boeninger specializes in modern British and postcolonial literature, particularly drama. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, where she taught courses in Modern European drama and Modern and Contemporary Irish drama. Her other scholarly interests include performance theory, Irish studies, food in literature, and representations of missionaries in postcolonial literature. She has published articles on Derek Walcott and David Dabydeen, Caryl Churchill, W.B. Yeats, Martin McDonagh, and Dion Boucicault in journals like Contemporary Literature, Modern Drama, New Hibernia Review, and Theatre Journal. She is working on a book that explores images of the drowned body in postcolonial Irish and Caribbean literature.
