UCD School of English, Drama & Film

Research Interests

 

Books

Dolowitz, D; Buckler, S; Sweeney, F; (2008) Researching Online. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]

Sweeney, F; (2007) Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. Liverpool and Chicago: University of Liverpool Press. [Details]

Book Chapters

Sweeney, F; (2009) '"To Redeem Our Colonial Character:" Slavery and Civilization in RR Madden's A Twelvemonth's Residence in the West Indies' In: O Neill, Peter and David Lloyd (eds). The Black and Green Atlantic: Cross-currents of the African and Irish Diasporas. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]

Sweeney, F; (2009) '"Other Peoples' History: Slavery, Refuge and Irish Citizenship in Dónal O Kelly's 'The Cambria'"' In: Bernier, Celeste-Marie and Newman, Judie (eds). Public Art, Memorials, and Atlantic Slavery. New York and London: Routledge. [Details]

Sweeney, F; (2006) 'Anna and Ellen Richardson' In: Finkleman, Paul (eds). Encyclopedia of African American History: From the Colonial Period through the Age of Frederick Douglass, 1619-1895. Oxford and: Oxford University Press. [Details]

Sweeney, F; (2004) 'Mask in Motion: Dialect Spaces and Class Representation in Frederick Douglass' Altantic Rhetoric' In: Braxton, Joanne and Diedrich, Maria (eds). Monuments of the Black Atlantic: Slavery and Memory. Munster: Litverlag. [Details]

Sweeney, F; (2003) 'The Republic of Letters: Frederick Douglass, Ireland and the Irish Narratives' In: Kenny, Kevin (eds). New Directions in Irish American History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. [Details]

Edited Books

Sweeney, F and A Rice (Ed.). (2012) Liberating Sojourns? African Americans and Transatlantic Abolition, 1845-65. Special Edition of Slavery and Abolition, 33.2. Oxford: Taylor & Francis. [Details]

Sweeney, F and K Marsh (Ed.). (2011) Afromodernisms: Special Double Edition of the International Journal of Francophone Studies 14. 1&2. Bristol: Intellect. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

Sweeney, F (2012) 'Visual Culture and Fictive Technique in Frederick Douglass¿s The Heroic Slave'. Slavery and Abolition:A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, 33 (2):305-320. [Details]

Sweeney, F and A Rice (2012) 'Liberating Sojourns? African Americans and Transatlantic Abolition 1845-1865'. Slavery and Abolition:A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, 33 (2):181-190. [Details]

Fionnghuala Sweeney and Kate Marsh; (2011) 'Afromodernisms: Modernity, Paris and the Atlantic World'. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 14 (1&2). [Details]

Fionnghuala Sweeney; (2011) 'The Haitian Play: CLR James' Toussaint Louverture, 1936'. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 14 (1&2). [Details]

Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, Bill E Lawson, Fionnghuala Sweeney and Zoe Trodd; (2011) 'Round Table: Marcus Wood, 'The Horrible Gift of Freedom''. Journal of American Studies, 45 (1):165-183. [Details]

                                                   

Electronic Publication

Sweeney, F; (2006) Purchase of Frederick Douglass. Oxford: Electronic Publication [Details]

                                                         

 

Associations

Association: Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, Function/Role: Member of Peer Review College

Association: British Association of American Studies, Function/Role: Member

Association: Society for Caribbean Studies, Function/Role: Member

               

Consultancy

Client: : University of Portsmouth

 

Reviews

American Nineteenth Century History: Reviewer.

American Historical Review: Reviewer.

Slavery And Abolition:A Journal Of Slave And Post-Slave Studies: Reviewer.

History: The Journal Of The Historical Association: Reviewer.

Journal Of American Studies: Reviewer.

 

 

External Collaborators

AFROMODERNISMS 'Afromodernisms 2'. Further details and Call for papers   University of Liverpool, June 30-July 2, 2011.