Lauren Onkey Associate Professor PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Office: Robert Bell 266 Phone: (765) 285-8530 E-mail: lonkey@bsu.edu

Areas of Specialization

Postcolonial studies, Irish literature, Caribbean literature, contemporary British literature, cultural studies

Recent Publications

• "Ray Charles on Hyndford Street: Van Morrison's Caledonian Soul."
  Forthcoming in The Irish In Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture. Diane Negra, ed.  Duke University Press, 2005.
• "James Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy and the Anxieties of Race."
  Eire-Ireland, Fall 2005.
• "Voodoo Child: Jimi Hendrix and the Politics of Race in the Sixties." Imagine Nation: American Cultural Radicalism of the 1960s and 70s. Routledge, 2001.
• "Teaching Joyce's Multiple Identities." European Joyce Studies 11 (2001).
• "The Passion Machine Theatre Company's Everyday Life." Widening the Stage: One Hundred Years of Irish Theatre. Indiana UP, 2000.
• "'A Melee and the Curtain': Black-Irish Relations in Ned Harrigan's The Mulligan Guard Ball." Jouvert: An Online Journal of Postcolonial Studies Fall 1999.

Courses

Graduate: Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary British Literature, Research Methods (Literature)

Undergraduate: 20thc Irish Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Writing About Literature