Publications
Sarah Heinz and Mark Schmitt: "Blighted Past - Lost Future? Denaturalising Narratives of Rural Irishness in Leonard Abrahamson's Garage and Patrick McCabe's The Holy City." Nordic Irish Studies. Special Issue: "Cultural Remediation: The Role of Literary and Visual Representations in Reshaping Cultural Narratives in Contemporary Ireland." Accepted for Publication in 2014.
Sarah Heinz: "Not White, Not Quite: Irish American Identities in the US Census and in Ann Patchett's Novel Run (2007)." Amerikastudien / American Studies 58.1. Forthcoming 2013.
Sarah Heinz: "Cú Chulainn Down Under: Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang and the Ambivalences of Diasporic Irish Identity Construction in Australia." Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies. April 2013. Click here to read article.
Sarah Heinz: "'The Shite of Dublin': Body Metaphors, Biopolitics, and the Functions of Disgust in Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street and Gianina Cărbunariu's Kebab." JCDE: Journal for Contemporary Drama in English. 1.1 (2013): 80-91.
Sarah Heinz: "From Utopia to Heterotopia: Irish Writers Narrating the Spanish Civil War." Ireland in/and Europe: Cross-Currents and Exchanges. (Irish Studies in Europe Vol. 4.) Ed. Werner Huber, Sandra Mayer and Julia Novak.. Trier: WVT, 2012. 93-104.
Sarah Heinz: "Ireland Online: Diaspora, Virtual Communities and the Question of National Identity." Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken: Proceedings. Ed. Joachim Frenk and Lena Steveker. Trier: WVT, 2011. 207-217.
Sarah Heinz: "The Whiteness of Irish Drama: The Irish and their Black Other." Staging Interculturality. Ed. Werner Huber, Margarete Rubik and Julia Novak. Trier: WVT, 2010. 195-217.
Sarah Heinz: "Mütter, Söhne und Töchter: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Mythos von Cathleen ní Houlihan bei W.B. Yeats und Martin McDonagh." Gewalt und Geschlecht: Gewaltdiskurse und Gender-Problematik in zeitgenössischen englischsprachigen Romanen, Dramen und Filmen. Ed. Susanne Bach. Trier: WVT, 2010. 173-204.
Mark Schmitt: "Redneck Apocalypse: Der amerikanische Süden als Raum des Anderen in Literatur und Film." Geopolitische Fiktionen. Beobachtungen in Moderne und Gegenwart. Ed. Linda Simonis. Bochum and Essen: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2010. 55-72.
Mark Schmitt and Neil Hickey: "De-Claiming the Streets. Constructing and Surveying the Homeless in Ireland." Hard Times: Deutsch-Englische Zeitschrift 87 (2010): 37-41.
Mark Schmitt: "'This World Rejects Them': Das Stereotyp des white trash und seine Aufbrechung in den Filmen Rob Zombies." Magalit 3 (2008): 20-25.
Conference Papers and Presentations
Mark Schmitt: "The Other Dublin: Homelessness and Challenges to the Normative Urban Order in Lenny Abrahamson's Adam & Paul." Resistance and the City: Challenging Urban Space. International Conference. Paderborn, Germany 5-6 July 2013.
Sarah Heinz (with Katharina Rennhak): Presentation of plans of founding a German Association for Irish Studies . Irland-Tage 2013. Saarbrücken, Germany 21-23 June 2013.
Sarah Heinz and Mark Schmitt: Panel Organisation: "Old and New Marginalities in Contemporary Irish Literature and Television: The Materialities of Nationalities and Ethnicities." The Ninth Conference of EFACIS: Towards 2016: Old and New Irelands. Galway, Ireland 5-7 June 2013.
Sarah Heinz: "The Whiteness of Europe: Skin Discourses and Skin Colour in Irish Literature and Film." Probing the Skin: Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone. International Conference. Jena, Germany 24-26 April 2013. [This presentation has been selected for the radio programme DRadio Wissen on 29 August 2013 and can be streamed as an audio podcast here.]
Mark Schmitt and Sarah Heinz: "My whole life is betwixt and between: The White Trash Body and Problems of Intersectionality in Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street and Irvine Welsh's Skagboys." Between Bodies / Bodies Between. International Conference. Maynooth, Ireland 5-6 April 2013.
Sarah Heinz (with Katharina Rennhak, Michaela Schrage-Früh and Anton Kirchhofer): Panel Organisation: "Recent Ireland: Visions and Revisions of Irishness from the 1990s to Today." Anglistentag 2012. Potsdam, Germany 19-21 September 2012.
Sarah Heinz and Mark Schmitt: "Project Presentation: The Colour of Power." Challenging Institutional Whiteness in Postcolonial Times. International Conference of the White Spaces Network. Leeds, UK 10-12 September 2012.
Mark Schmitt: "White Trash in Britain and Ireland? Functions of Whiteness in Transcultural Encounters." Irish Time. PhD Seminar in Irish Studies. Leuven, Belgium 3-7 September 2012.
Mark Schmitt: "'Misfit Language': A tertium comparationis in an Age of Cultural Transitions? Reassessing Deleuze and Guattari's Minor Literature as a Theoretical Tool." Transitions in Comparative Studies. 1st Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland (CLAI). Cork, Ireland 28-30 June 2012.
Sarah Heinz: "Staging the Body Politic in Irish Contemporary Drama: Sebastian Barry's The Pride of Parnell Street (2007) and Gianina Carbunariu's Kebab (2007)." Bodies on Stage. 21st Annual Conference of the German Association for Contemporary Drama in English (CDE). Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany 7-10 June 2012.
Sarah Heinz: "Ireland Online: Diaspora, Virtual Communities and the Question of National Identity." Anglistentag 2010. Saarbrücken, Germany 19-22 September 2010.
Sarah Heinz: "An Old Myth in New Guises: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Rewritings of Cathleen ní Houlihan." Irish Literatures and Cultures: New and Old Knowledges. 34th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). Maynooth, Ireland 26-30 July 2010.
Sarah Heinz: "Relative Whiteness: Irish Identities in the US Census and in American Literature." Workshop on "Young in Ireland, Old in America." Forever Young? The Changing Images of America. EAAS Conference 2010. Dublin, Ireland 26-29 March 2010.
Sarah Heinz: "From Utopia to Heterotopia: Irish Writers Narrating the Spanish Civil War." Ireland in/and Europe: 7th EFACIS Conference. Vienna, Austria. 3-6 September 2009.
Sarah Heinz: "Relative Whiteness: The Irish and the Question of the Skin." Irish Literatures - World Perspectives. 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL). Glasgow, Scotland 27-31 July 2009.
Sarah Heinz: "The Whiteness of Irish Drama: The Irish and their Black Other." Staging Interculturality. 18th Annual Conference of the German Association for Contemporary Drama in English (CDE). Vienna, Austria 6 June 2009.
