Brian Ó Conchubhair is a professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; language revitalization; language politics; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2017.
In 2013 he was elected Vice-President of the American Conference for Irish Studies, and currently serves as the organization's President (2015-17). He has been a Visiting Professor at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
ISP Advisee:
Abigail Hernan
KDR Assistant(s):
Cameron Drumm
Lara Ramirez Schweinfurth
Cultural nationalism; language revitalization; language politics; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; modernism
Modernism in Irish-language literature and culture; the relationship of mainstream modernism to minority languages; Roger Casement; Flann O’Brien