Irish Studies
Subject Librarian / Specialist
Matthew Knight is the Irish Studies Librarian and Curator at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2021, and his dissertation, “Our Gaelic Department: The Irish-Language Column in the New York Irish-American,1857-1896,” and much of his recent scholarship, explores the efforts to preserve and cultivate ...
Matthew Knight is the Irish Studies Librarian and Curator at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2021, and his dissertation, “Our Gaelic Department: The Irish-Language Column in the New York Irish-American,1857-1896,” and much of his recent scholarship, explores the efforts to preserve and cultivate the Irish language in 19th -century America. His book, Dion Boucicault: The Vampire (1852) and The Phantom (1873) was published in 2024 and he is currently working on a monograph exploring the Irish language in the 19th -century American popular press.
