PhD, English, City University of New York Graduate Center MA, English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Diploma in Education, University College, Dublin BA, English and History, University College, Dublin
About
Eamonn Wall is a Professor of English and the Smurfit-Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies at UMSL Global. His area of specialty is the Literature and Culture of Ireland. He received a BA in English and History from University College, Dublin; an MA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York.
Eamonn Wall is the author of three prose/critical books: From Oven Lane to Sun Prairie: In Search of Irish America (Arlen House/Syracuse UP, 2019); Writing the Irish West: Ecologies and Traditions (Notre Dame, 2011); and From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish (Wisconsin, 2000), winner of the Durkan Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies for excellence in scholarship. He has published essays, articles, and reviews in many publications including The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Reading Ireland, New Hibernia Review, Prairie Schooner, and other publications.
His eight collections of original poetry include My Aunts at Twilight Poker (2023) and Junction City: New and Selected Poems 1990-2015 (2015), both published by Salmon Poetry in Ireland. Eamonn Wall’s poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies including Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (University of Notre Dame Press) and Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland (Arlen House).
He curates the Irish Lectures, Readings and Concerts Series for UMSL Global and is the director of UMSL Global’s annual summer study abroad program at the University of Galway.
Eamonn Wall is a past president of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). In March 2024, he received an award for distinguished community service to St. Louis and to the State of Missouri from the Mayor of St. Louis. In 2021, he received a similar award from the Irish Echo (New York) for services to Arts and Culture in North America.
