Lindsey McClure

Entry Year: 2019

English

Email

lmcclure@smu.edu

Education

University of Texas at Dallas: BA, Literary Studies and Arts & Performance; MA, Literature

 

Biography

My research interests include 19th century Irish and British folklore and literature, Gothic and fairy tale influences, and the relationship between dominant and marginalized spiritual belief systems. I am currently working on a dissertation titled “Half Religion…Half Poetry”: Belief and Storytelling in Irish Texts (1845-1945) and Their Precursors, a project which places canonical and nontraditional texts side by side to explore the relationship between belief, knowledge transmission, and history. I am also working on a Public Humanities project called “Victorian Ghosts and Me” () which brings together Victorian and our own contemporary ghost stories.

 

Area of Expertise

  • Nineteenth Century (Romantic; Victorian)
  • Modernism
  • Global Anglophone Literature
  • British Literature
  • Novel Studies
  • Writing and Reasoning

 

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Imagallamh, Kylemore Summer School for Irish Studies, 2025
 
Provost's Summer Research Grant, 2025

Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Summer Research Fellow, 2024

Dedman College Research Cluster, ERAH Graduate Student Conference, 2024

MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program, 2024

Lindsey McClure