Matthew Knight

Associate Librarian, Affiliate Faculty (History Department)

Personal profile

About

Matthew received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2021. His dissertation, "Our Gaelic Department": The Irish-Language Column in the New York Irish-American,1857-1896, explores the efforts of Irish immigrants in North America to preserve and cultivate the Irish language. He teaches "Irish Rebels and Revolutionaries," "The Irish in America," "History Internships in Libraries and Archives," "Curating Digital Collections," and "Ireland at War." His current book projects involve the Dion Boucicault Theatre Collection and the propagation of the Irish language in the 19th-century American popular press.


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  • Curriculum Vitae

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Disciplines

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Celtic Studies
  • History
  • United States History
  • Library and Information Science