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Josepha Lanters

  • Professor Emerita, English

Education

  • PhD, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
  • BA & MA, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

Research Interests

  • Irish Literature and Culture
  • Modern British Literature

Related Activities

  • Past President, American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)
  • Vice-Chair for North America, International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), 2006-present.
  • Faculty Co-Director, UWM Center for Celtic Studies

Selected Publications

Lanters, Josepha C. “Woman and Marriage: Hazel Ellis' Gate Theatre Plays of the 1930s in Context” RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe 5.2 (2022): 2-18.
Lanters, José. “Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow (2006) and the Ars Moriendi” The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights, 1716-2016 2. Liverpool University Press. (2021): 109-119.
Lanters, Josepha C. “"Dragging Our Hidden Slums into the Centre of the Footlights": Homelessness, Addiction, and Audience Discomfort in Sean O'Casey's Nannie's Night Out and ANU's The Lost O'Casey” New Hibernia Review 25.2 (2021): 60-75.
Lanters, Josepha C. “Rewriting History: Narrative Resistance and Poetic Justice in Martin McDonagh's "A Very Very Very Dark Matter"” Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies HJEAS 26.2 (2020): 255-71.
Lanters, José. “"There's ropes and there's ropes": The Textual and Moral Fibre of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen” Irish University Review 48.2 (2018): 315-330.
Lanters, José. The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy: No Absolutes Cork University Press. 2018: 280 pp.
Lanters, José. “Desperationists and Ineffectuals: Mary Manning's Gate Plays of the 1930s” The Gate Theatre, Dublin: Inspiration and Craft Ed. Clare, David, Lally, Des, and Lonergan, Patrick. Oxford: Peter Lang. (2018): 97-110.
Lanters, José. “Groping towards Morality: Feminism, AIDS, and the Spectre of Article 41 in Thomas Kilroy's Ghosts” Estudios Irlandeses 13.2 (2018): 6-18.
Lanters, José. “Thomas Kilroy and the Idea of a Theatre” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre Ed. Grene, Nicholas, and Morash, Chris. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2016): 337-53.
Lanters, Josepha C., and . Beyond Realism: Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama since the Revival Amsterdam: Brill/Rodopi. 2015: 234 pp.
Lanters, José. “"We'll Be the Judges of That": The Critical Reception of DruidSynge in the USA” Irish Drama: Local and Global Perspectives Ed. Grene, Nicholas, and Lonergan, Patrick. Dublin: Carysfort Press. (2012): 35-47.
Lanters, José. The 'Tinkers' in Irish Literature: Unsettled Subjects and the Construction of Difference Irish Academic Press. 2008: 238 pp.
Lanters, José. Unauthorized Versions: Irish Menippean Satire, 1919-1952 Catholic University of America Press. 2000: 287 pp.