This group of Irish residents has historically been overlooked, yet their contributions to Ireland have been invaluable throughout several of the last centuries.ĭuring her fellowship at Trinity College, Dr.
Her new project will examine the historical and literary contributions of the ‘Irlandiani,’ or Italian residents of Ireland, to the country. She is particularly interested in how Lever’s critical literary eye disrupts the conventional travel narrative and challenges a personal awareness of identity. Varade is currently investigating the work of Charles Lever (1806-1872), an Anglo-Irish novelist, journalist, and consular representative whose written contributions are deserving of reconsideration and new analysis. She teaches Beginner, Intermediate and High Intermediate language courses and a course on Italian cinema and society.ĭr. In this capacity, she has acted as a faculty consultant to the MLA to improve hiring at the community college level in modern language departments. The program boasts one of the highest numbers of Italian students enrolled in a U.S. Varade is proud to work in tandem with her colleagues to strengthen the Italian program at BMCC. The second, at University College Dublin’s Humanities Institute, will be completed later that spring and throughout Summer, 2020.ĭr.
The first, a fellowship with the Long Room Hub at Trinity College, Dublin, will take place in Spring, 2020. Varade was awarded two major sabbatical fellowships. Varade was awarded a scholarship to study in the Waterford Gaeltacht in the summer of 2017. Finally, as an avid student of the Irish language, Dr. She has been granted several internal and external awards for her interdisciplinary research. She was awarded a fellowship with the Frank McCourt Creative Writing School at Glucksman House, NYU and in tandem with University of Limerick in 2016. She has been awarded “Associate” fellowships with Notre Dame’s Global Gateway in Rome (2017) and Oxford (2019). The first, “Uprising,” was held in 2016 at New York University the second, “Power, Politics and the Dancing Body,” was held in 2018 at Limerick Institute of Technology. Varade has co-organized two international multi-day conferences with Dance Research Forum Ireland (Fóram Taighde Rince na hÉireann). In addition to her work in Irish/Italian Comparative Studies, Dr. Varade is currently preparing a book manuscript on the Anglo-Irish author, consular representative and journalist Charles Lever, and she recently completed a book chapter on happiness and money in the writing of Lever and Maria Edgeworth to be published with Liverpool University Press. Brill/Rodopi 2019) and will soon publish a book chapter on the posthuman and the cellphone in the Italian fiction of Nove, De Carlo and Ammaniti. She recently published a book chapter on Irish writer Pat McCabe in “Pat McCabe’s Ireland” (Jennifer Keating, Ed. She has published in New Hibernia Review, Annali D’Italianistica, Forum italicum and Irish Literary Studies, among others. Varade has published several articles on Irish and Italian Comparative Literature from a variety of time periods. in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization and Concentration in Irish Studies) from The Graduate Center, CUNY, her M.A.
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