Cóilín Parsons
Cóilín Parsons is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, and a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the author of The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), and co-editor of Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa. Before taking up his position at Georgetown he was a lecturer in English at the University of Cape Town.
Georgetown University’s shameful past and the necessity for decolonising the university
This post originally appeared on the blog of the Irish Humanities Alliance In June 1838, facing unmanageable debts at its college in Georgetown, the Jesuit province of Maryland sold 272 slaves… | Read on »