Prof. M.C.M. Corporaal (Marguérite)

Professor - Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

Chair : Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts

Contact

marguerite.corporaal@ru.nl
024-3612034

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days

Dr Marguérite Corporaal (PhD, 2003, University of Groningen) is Associate Professor of English Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She was the principal investigator and supervisor of the research programme Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1921, for which she was awarded a Starting Grant for Consolidators by the European Research Council (2010-15). Furthermore, she was the project leader and principal investigator of the International Network of Irish Famine Studies, for which she received an Internationalisation Grant by the Netherlandish Society of Scientific Research, NWO (2014- 2017). Additionally, she is the PI and director of the The Gate Theatre Research Network: Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Exchange and Identity Formation (NWO, Internationalisation Grant, 2017-20). Among her publications are Relocated Memories: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847-1870 (Syracuse NY: Syracuse UP, 2017); Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory (co-edited, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017); Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century (co-edited, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017); Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014), the anthology of Famine fiction Recollecting Hunger (Irish Academic Press, 2012), Heroines of the Golden (St)Age: Women and Drama in Early Modern Spain and England (Kassel: Reichenberger, 2008), The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1900 (New York: Rodopi, 2010). Corporaal has also published extensively on early modern drama and early modern women's writing. She a special issue of Breác: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (2018), entitled The Irish Famine in Diaspora ; a special issue of Atlantic Studies, Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland’s Great Hunger and Exodus (2014), republished by Routledge in 2016. Corporaal is hosting the annual IASIL conference in 2018.

Tags: cultural memory, Irish Literature, diaspora, representations of famine, local colour fiction

Research group

(Trans)national Europe

Publications

Key publications

Corporaal, M.C.M., Bentum, M., Cusack, C.T., Bruna, G., Scholten, A. & Os, S.K.E. van (2025). Dataset Redefining the Region: The Transnational Dimensions of Local Colour. Radboud Data Repository [Dataset]. doi: 10.34973/k71v-gp81. Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2025). Mournful Fragments... of The Irish Exodus? Literary Representations of Irish Canadian Famine Immigration in the Periodical Press. In W.M. Jenkins (Ed.), Canada and the great Irish Famine (pp. 272-291). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2025). Nostalgia for the 'Sweet Smiling Village' in Ireland. Local Colour Fiction, Homeland and Diaspora. In L. Bond, J. Rapson & S. Radstone (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies (pp. 227-254). London: Palgrave doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-69594-0_14
Corporaal, M.C.M. & Zwarte, I. de (Ed.). (2024). Famines and the Making of Heritage. London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003391524 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2024). From Regional Remembrance to Transatlantic Heritage: The Transportability of Famine Memory in Fiction by Mary Anne Sadlier, Anna Dorsey, and Alice Nolan. In M.C.M. Corporaal, P.D O'Neill & J.F. King (Eds.), The Famine Diaspora and Irish American Women's Writing (pp. 21-47). London: Palgrave doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-40791-8
Corporaal, M.C.M. & Zwarte, I. de (2024). Introduction. In M.C.M Corporaal & I de Zwarte (Eds.), Famines and the Making of Heritage (pp. 1-18). London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003391524 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2024). Irish-American Famine Literature. In K.P. Costello-Sullivan & C.T. McMahon (Eds.), The Routledge History of Irish America (pp. 176-188). New York: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003278153-16
Corporaal, M.C.M. & King, J.F. (2024). New futures for famine pasts? Teaching Ireland's Great Famine in Ontario and Quebec. In M.C.M Corporaal & I de Zwarte (Eds.), Famines and the Making of Heritage (pp. 71-92). London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003391524-5 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2024). Transferring Connemara. European Illustrated Periodicals as Transnational Agents of Regional Remediation, 1870-1895. In N. Ramtke & C.A Bachmann (Eds.), A Mixed Picture. Media Transfer and Media Competition in Illustrated Periodicals, 1840s-1960s (Journalliteratur, 8) (pp. 33-52). Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag doi: 10.46586/rub.292 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2023). Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks. Making and Translating Local Colour Literature. English Studies, 104 (6), 1002-1018. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2023.2239390 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. & Jensen, L.E. (2022). "But most brothers when in misfortune": a transnational approach to natural disasters. Nineteenth-Century Contexts. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 44 (3), 265-283. doi: 10.1080/08905495.2022.2084959 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. & Beuken, R.H. van den (Ed.). (2021). A Stage of Emancipation. Change and Progress at the Dublin Gate Theatre. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1kwxfgd Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2021). Where the Atlantic meets the land. The ocean as regional and transnational space in Irish (diaspora) local colour fiction of the 1890s. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 43 (3), 349-368. doi: 10.1080/08905495.2021.1923265 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2020). Local-Colour Writers. Figures of Authority? In R. Ingelbien & S. Galavan (Eds.), Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (pp. 223-238). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2020). Political Economy? The Economics and Sociology of Famine. In M. Campbell, C. Connolly & M. Howes (Eds.), Irish Literature in Transition. Vol 3: 1830-1880 (pp. 78-91). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press doi: 10.1017/9781108634977.006 Full text
Corporaal, M.C.M. (2020). Relocating regionalism: the Fin-de-Siecle Irish local colour tale in transnational contexts. Irish Studies Review, 28 (2), 155-170. doi: 10.1080/09670882.2020.1740429 Full text

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Marguérite Corporaal researches Irish literature in transnational contexts and the nineteenth-century representations of regions in literature and culture. She explores European famines in literature, culture, heritage and education and studies the role of migrant communities.