2024/04/01 by Elizabeth Boyle, Chelsey Collins, Victoria Krivoshchekova +3 · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Irish and British Studies #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Philippine History and Culture
paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/07916035241264080
openalex publication_date 2024/04/01 · openalex created_date 2024/07/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This short article reviews some of the colonial underpinnings of the field of Medieval Irish Studies (a subdiscipline of Celtic Studies), using the career of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909) as a case study in the entanglements between British colonial activity in India and the development of philological research on medieval Irish literature in the 19th century. It then proceeds to use autoethnographic reflections from graduate students in the field of Medieval Irish Studies whose backgrounds locate them at various intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. These reflections offer constructive pathways toward working to decolonise the discipline.