Gender Arc Research Seminar (Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960)

This seminar will be hosted by Nadia Smith who is a current Visiting Fellow who received her PhD in modern Irish history from Boston College.

Nadia Smith will be presenting on “Irish Women Historians and Life Writing, 1900-1960,” as part of her ongoing research on Irish women historians and academics in the NUI in the twentieth century.  As a Moore Institute fellow, she is currently examining the archival sources on the lives of women academics at NUI Galway [then UCG], including personal life writing, such as diaries and memoirs, as well as academic texts. Her talk will discuss the women historians’ life writing in relation to diary scholarship and life writing by other educated, middle-class women in Ireland and Britain in the twentieth century, and consider elements such as literary devices and extratextual material in diaries and memoirs that help shape the life-writer’s self-portrait.

Contact information: smithum@bc.edu