Caroline Heafey
PhD in Literature
Caroline Heafey is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts in the English department. She is also Assistant Director of Glucksman Ireland House at NYU. Her M.A. thesis focused on the prison writings of Irish writer and historian, Dorothy Macardle. In November 2019, Tramp Press published Macardle’s novel, Dark Enchantment, with Heafey’s introduction as a part of their Recovered Voices Series. She has also been published in Critical Inquiries Into Irish Studies and Irish University Review. Heafey's research interests include Irish modernism, Irish women writers, transnational modernism, sound studies and the radio, and trauma studies. She is presently working on a dissertation that examines Irish women writers and radio during the Second World War.