Faculty Profile for Dr. Julie McCormick Weng
Biography Section
Biography and Education
Dr. Julie McCormick Weng teaches courses in modern British, Irish, and global anglophone literatures. Her publications include Race in Irish Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2024), with Malcolm Sen; and Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism (Syracuse University Press, 2019), with Kathryn Conrad and Cóilín Parsons. Her work is also featured in Modernism/modernity, Journal of Modern Literature, Éire-Ireland, Joyce Studies Annual, Feminist Formations, and elsewhere. Currently, she serves as Secretary of the American Conference for Irish Studies.Teaching Interests
Recent Courses:Graduate:
James Joyce
Global Modernisms
Experimental Modernisms
Modern Irish Poetry
Contemporary Irish Literature
Joyce / Beckett
Undergraduate:
James Joyce
20th-21st Century British Literature
British Modernism
Global Modernist Short Stories
Modern Irish Literature
Modern Irish Drama
Modern Poetry
Postcolonial Literatures
Postcolonial Women Writers
Postcolonial Drama
Critical Theory
British Literature Since 1785
World Literature Since 1600
Research Interests
Modern British Literature, Irish Studies, Global Modernisms, Postcolonial and Race Studies, Science and Technology, Gender and Women's Studies, James JoyceSelected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Weng, J. M. (2025). “An Irish Modernist Dialectic of Enlightenment: Singing the Artist Electric". Modernism/Modernity, 31(3), 513–538.
- Weng, J. M., & Sen, M. (Eds.). (2024). Race in Irish Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press.
- Weng, J. M. (2024). “W. B. Yeats, the Irish Free State, and the Rhetoric of Race Suicide.” In M. Sen & J. M. Weng (Eds.), Race in Irish Literature and Culture (pp. 143–171). Cambridge University Press.
- Weng, J. M. (2023). “Reading James Joyce in the Wake of the #MeToo Movement.” In K. Ebury, M. Fogarty, & B. English (Eds.), Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism (pp. 235–251). Clemson University Press.
- Weng, J. M., Conrad, K., & Parsons, C. (Eds.). (2019). Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Golden Apple Award, College of Liberal Arts. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts. 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Professor of the Year 2022-2023, Sigma Tau Delta, International English Honor Society. April 2023 - 2023
- Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Distinction for Excellence in Service. 2020
- Award / Honor Nominee: Presidential Distinction for Excellence in Teaching. 2023