Eileen Mary O’Connor
Professional Title: Lecturer
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Latin American and postcolonial literature; literary theory; poetry; creative writing and translation
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Humanities and Languages. I teach Spanish and Literature courses.
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught:
Advanced Conversational Spanish; Spanish IV; Postcolonial Historiography and Literature; Senior Seminar with Critical Methods
Education: B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (with a concentration in literature and translation), NYU
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
- Two poems published in the Winter 2012 issue of The Recorder: Journal of Irish American History
- Editor and translator of a novel by Chilean writer Marjorie Agosín (forthcoming, Simon and Schuster)
- Translator of the poetry collection Pez (2005) by Peruvian poet Mariela Dreyfus (English version, Fish, is forthcoming)
Fun Facts: A dedicated practitioner of yoga and meditation, Eileen loves to dance (especially salsa) and is slowly but surely learning how to cook cuisines from around the globe. She loves taking long walks in nature as much as she loves reading good stories and poems. She is writing a novel for young adults set in her family’s homeland of Connemara, on the rural west coast of Ireland, during the struggle for independence and subsequent civil war of the early 1920s.
I never learn so much as when I am teaching my students!