Former Department of English MA Student Publishes Prestigious Monograph

20 Oct 2026

Dr Cody Jarman, a former MA student of English at UCC, has just published his first monograph, Writing the Pale in the Irish Revival and the Harlem Renaissance (Syracuse University Press). The starting point for this book was Dr Jarman’s MA dissertation, “‘Jumpin’ Jim Joyce: Blackface Minstrelsy in the Works of James Joyce”. In that dissertation, Dr Jarman established the centrality of minstrelsy to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American culture, reflecting on scholarly interest in post-Famine Irish American involvement in blackface and minstrelsy. He then went on to consider the under-researched topic of minstrelsy in more specific Irish contexts, discovering in the writings of James Joyce a rich set of engagements with minstrelsy and similar racially-informed popular theatre. Since then, Dr Jarman expanded his MA dissertation into a broader research project on Revivalism in the Black and Green Atlantic, culminating in this groundbreaking monograph.