Email: christopher.mccann@universityofgalway.ie
Dr. Chris McCann is an Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor on a multidisciplinary Irish history and culture course titled “Introduction to Ireland” on the Dublin Summer Program.
Chris is currently a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow based in Roinn na Gaeilge (Irish) in the University of Galway. His special areas of research and teaching are in literature and folklore, and he is particularly interested in traditional song and music as it is depicted in Irish literature. His current project is entitled “Ag seinm a rúnphoirt / Playing his secret tune: an ceol i saothar liteartha Mháirtín Uí Chadhain / Music in the fiction of Máirtín Ó Cadhain.”
Chris completed his Ph.D. at the University of Galway in 2022. His project, funded by the Irish Research Council (now Research Ireland), was titled “Music and Social Hierarchy in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature.”
He was subsequently the Folklore Project Officer for the CUPHAT (Coastal Uplands: Heritage and Tourism) project based at University College Dublin, working closely with communities in the Wicklow and Blackstairs Mountains on a variety of heritage-based initiatives including an Oral History project and conducting workshops with local schools.
His research interests include modernist prose fiction in both Irish and English, music-in-literature studies, translation, music and traditional song, Irish historical and cultural geography, the Irish language, and oral history and heritage.
Chris is originally from Perth, Western Australia, where he attended the University of Notre Dame Australia for both a B.Ed. in English and Social Sciences and an M.A. in Irish Literature.