History Faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh - Dr. Vincent Carey

History Faculty — Dr. Vincent Carey

Professor

My current research project is a book on atrocities and atrocity literature in early modern Ireland. It is tentatively titled, Atrocity, History and Memory: Ireland in European Perspective.

Education

• Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1991. Specialization: History
• M.A., National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 1985. Specialization: History
• Diploma: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 1983. Specialization: Education
• B.A., National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 1982 (with Honors). Specialization: History and Geography

Teaching Areas

• Social history of early modern Europe.
• Colonialism and European expansion in the early modern world.
• Intellectual history: humanism, reformation and the renaissance.
• Sixteenth century Ireland.
• Tudor England.

Research Areas

• Ireland in the sixteenth century.
• Renaissance influences on early modern English colonialism.
• Early modern English literature on Ireland.
• Early modern Europe.

Recent Publications

• “What’s Love Got to Do With It”: Gender and Geraldine Power on the Pale Border” in Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton, eds., Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011, 93-103.
• “Elizabeth I and State Terror in Sixteenth Century Ireland” in Donald Stump, Linda Shenk and Carole Levin, eds., Elizabeth I and the 'Sovereign Arts': Essays in Literature, History, and Culture (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2011, 201-216.
• “Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande" (1581) in Allison Kavey, ed. World Building and the Early Modern Imagination (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 233-254.

Faculty Website

• http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/vincent.carey/.

Contact Vincent Carey

Office: Champlain Valley Hall, 224
Phone: (518) 564-5297
Email: careyvp@plattsburgh.edu