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Íde Corley is
a Lecturer in English with research interests in postcolonial literatures and theory, black cultural studies, gender studies and queer theory. She has published essays and reviews on Anglophone African and black writing and cultural studies in Modern Language Studies, Interventions and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, including an essay to mark the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in Interventions in 2008.
With Laurence Cox and Helen Fallon, she is co-editor of Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa (Senegal: Daraja, November 2013; Bangalore: Books for Change, 2014), a collection of letters and poems written by Saro-Wiwa during his final detention to Irish nun and solidarity worker, Sr. Majella McCarron. An expanded digital edition of the text will be made available on open access by Daraja in November 2017. In August 2010, she was the Principal Convenor of an ESF-funded workshop entitled “Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex Sexuality in Nigeria” involving 26 scholars from nine European states, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa and the
U.S.A. It explored the interchanges and clashes between the international LGBT
rights movement, African states and same-sex constitutencies in Nigeria and
Africa more widely. In March 2014, she interviewed South African photographer
and Prince Claus Laureate 2013, Zanele Muholi, about the collective Inkanyiso,an online media platform for South African lesbians and transmen. The interview was later published in Wasafiri.
In summer 2017, she was awarded a Teaching Fellowship by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and taught a module entitled "New Transnational African Writing" on the Programa de Maestria y Doctorado en Letras there.
At Maynooth, she has supervised a number of postgraduate research projects to
completion including PhDs in post-apartheid South African fiction and Maori fiction. (Please see the "Teaching" tab here for further details).
She hashosted numerous visits to campus of writers, scholars and activists including Anne Enright, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Brian Chikwava, Patrick Flanery, Karin Barber, Paolo Farias and Owens Wiwa.
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year
Publication
2016
Dr Íde Corley (2016) 'An Interview with Zanele Muholi'. Wasafiri, 31.1 :22-29. [Full-Text]
2009
Dr Íde Corley (2009) 'Conjuncture, Hypermasculinity and Disavowal in Things Fall Apart'. INTERVENTIONS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, 11 :203-211. [Full-Text]
2002
Dr Íde Corley (2002) 'The Subject of Abolitionist Rhetoric: Freedom and Trauma in The Life of Olaudah Equiano'. MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES, 32 :139-156. [Full-Text]
Edited Book
Year
Publication
2018
Corley, Íde with Laurence Cox and Helen Fallon (eds.) With a new foreword by Noo Saro-Wiwa and new afterword by Mark Dummett (Ed.). (2018) Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Open Access: Daraja Press, [Link][Full-Text]
2014
Corley, Íde with Laurence Cox and Helen Fallon (eds.) (Ed.). (2014) Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Dehli: Books for Change, [Full-Text]
2012
Corley, Íde with Laurence Cox and Helen Fallon (eds.) (Ed.). (2012) Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Daraja Press: CODESRIA, [Full-Text]
Book Chapter
Year
Publication
2013
Dr Íde Corley (2013) 'Ken Saro-Wiwa and West African Literature: The Politics of Language' In: Corley, Íde with Helen Fallon and Laurence Cox(Eds.). Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Senegal and India : Daraja/CODESRIA and Books for Change. [Full-Text]
2007
Dr Íde Corley (2007) 'The Subject of Abolitionist Rhetoric: Freedom and Trauma in The Life of Olaudah Equiano' In: Tom Schoenberg(Eds.). Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800. Vol.143. Detroit : Gale Group.
Book Review
Year
Publication
2015
Corley, I (2015) Review of Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Cultures by Chantal Zabus, Boydell & Brewer/James Currey, 2014, in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 51.1 (2015): 123-124. [Book Review] [DOI]
2013
Dr Íde Corley (2013) Review of State of Peril: Race and Rape in South African Literature by Lucy Valerie Graham, Oxford University Press, 2012, in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 50.2 (2014): 250-251. [Book Review]
2010
Dr Íde Corley (2010) Review of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa, Oxford University Press, 2009, in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.5 (2010): 580-581. [Book Review]
2010
Dr Íde Corley (2010) Review of A New Generation of African Writers: Migration, Material Culture and Language by Brenda Cooper, New York and Scottsville: James Currey and University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press, 2008, in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.3/4 (August 2010): 421-422. [Book Review]
2009
Dr Íde Corley (2009) Review of Womanism, Literature and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980 by Kalenda Eaton, Abingdon, Routledge, 2007, in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 45.2 (2009): 236-237. [Book Review]
2000
Dr Íde Corley (2000) Review of To the Land of Freedom from this Island of Slaves: Henry Stratford Persse's Letters from Galway to America, 1821-1832 edited by James L. Pethica and James C. Roy, Cork, Cork University Press, 1998, in New Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua 3.3 (Fall 2000): 145-146. [Book Review]
1998
Dr Íde Corley (1998) Review of Mary Robinson: A Woman of Ireland and the World by John Horgan, Niwot, Robert Rinehart Publishers, 1997, in New Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua 2.2 (Autumn 1998): 154-155. [Book Review]
1997
Dr Íde Marie Corley (1997) Review of Women of Ireland: A Biographic Dictionary by Kit and Cyril Ó Céirín, Minneapolis, Irish Books and Media, 1996, in New Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua 1.1 (Spring 1997): 174-175. [Book Review]
1997
Dr Íde Corley (1997) Review of The Comic Tradition in Irish Women Writers edited by Teresa O'Connor, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1996, in New Hibernia Review/Iris Éireannach Nua 1.3 (Autumn 1997): 147-148. [Book Review]
Dictionary Entry
Year
Publication
2008
Dr. Íde Corley (2008) “Mohammed Ali Dusé (1866-1945)”. African American National Biography. Eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. [Dictionary Entry]
Consultancy
Year
Publication
2022
BBC World Service. Produced by Bairbre Flood. (2022) Silence Would Be Treason: The Documentary. Voiced by Ben Arogundade and presented by Noo Saro-Wiwa. [Consultancy] [Link]
2021
Not Past It podcast with host Simone Polanen. Produced by Sarah Craig for ZSP media. Published by Spotify. (2021) “Murder in Ogoniland”. [Consultancy] [Link]
Conference Contribution
Year
Publication
2021
Corley, Íde (2021) “Telling and Listening: The Arts in Anti-Racist Practice”. The Ninth Annual Ken Saro-Wiwa Seminar at Maynooth Interviews and discussion with award-winning poet, Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Jakpa and multi-award winning director, producer and non-fiction author, Sinéad O’Brien Online, 10/11/2021-.
2015
Dr. Íde Corley (2015) Ken Saro-Wiwa's Last Letters: The Maynooth Archive Ken Saro-Wiwa Symposium: On the Twentieth Anniversary of His Death African Studies Centre, Oxford University, .
2014
Dr. Íde Corley (2014) “A Man of the People: Chinua Achebe and the Struggle for Social Justice.” Fifth International Chinua Achebe Colloquium. African Literature as Restoration: Chinua Achebe as Teacher Brown University, Rhode Island, .
2014
Dr. Íde Corley (2014) “‘The Man Who Carries a Deity is not a King’: Authority, Universalism and Difference in Arrow of God and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus” Celebrating Chinua Achebe’s Legacy: Arrow of God at 50 Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, .
2013
Dr. Íde Corley (2013) “Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Struggle for Environmental Rights in the Niger Delta” International Human Rights Day, Maynooth University John Paul II Library, Maynooth University, .
2013
Dr. Íde Corley (2013) Respondent at a panel entitled Queer Sexualities in African Literature and Film Modern Language Association of America, 128th MLA Annual Convention Boston, Massachusetts, .
2013
Karin Barber (2013) ‘The Life-Story of Me, Segilola’: 1920s Lagos and the First Yoruba Novel Crossroads in African Literature, Symposium at Maynooth University An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University, .
2013
Paulo Farias (2013) The Seventeenth-Century Timbuktu Chronicles: The Emergence of a New Genre Crossroads in African Literature, Symposium at Maynooth University An Foras Feasa, Maynooth University, .
Dr. Íde Corley (2013) “Publics, Counterpublics and the ‘New’ Transnational African Writing” New Voices 2013: Diversity in Literary & Cultural Studies. Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference NUI Maynooth, .
2012
Patrick Flanery (2012) A Reading from Absolution Reading and Interview with Patrick Flanery Maynooth University Department of English, .
2012
Dr. Íde Corley (2012) “Gender-based Violence and Sexual Rights in the New South Africa: Silence, Spectacle, Litigation and UCD School of English Research Seminar University College Dublin, .
2012
Dr. Íde Corley (2012) “Challenging Anti-homosexual Violence in South Africa: Diasporic Aesthetics and Same-Sex Expression “South Africa: Retrospection, Introspection, Extraversion.” Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham, .
2011
Dr. Íde Corley (2011) Vocabularies of Same-Sex Cultures European Science Foundation Standing Committee for the Humanities Autumn Plenary Meeting Strasbourg, France, .
2011
Dr. Íde Corley (2011) Detention Correspondence of Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Literary Perspective Letters from the Breadbasket: Detention Correspondence of Ken Saro-Wiwa 1993-1995 Russell Library, NUI Maynooth, .
2011
Brian Chikwava (2011) Reading and Interview Reading and Interview with Brian Chikwava Maynooth University, .
2010
(2010) Anti-mimesis in the Extroverted Nigerian Novel ESF Exploratory Workshop: Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex Sexuality in Nigeria NUI Maynooth, .
2010
Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah (2010) A Reading from Desertion Reading and Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah University of Kent, Arts, NUI Maynooth, English, .
2009
Dr. Pallavi Rastogi (2009) Indian Journeys, African Homes Louisiana State University, Arts, NUI Maynooth, English, .
2009
Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize Winner (2009) A Reading from Taking Pictures Reading and Interview with Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize Winner , Arts, NUI Maynooth, English, .
2008
Professor Abdullahi El-Tom (2008) Darfur, Race and the Arab-Islamic Project NUI Maynooth, Trinity College Dublin, Institute for International Integration Studies, .
2008
Dr. Íde Corley (2008) Conjuncture, Hypermasculinity and Disavowal in Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart at 50 School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, University of London, .
2007
Dr. Íde Corley (2007) Slavery and the Sign(s) of Division in Southern African Narratives TCD School of English Research Seminar Trinity College Dublin, .
2007
Dr. Íde Corley (2007) Pan-Africa's Prospects? Inter-racial Familialism, Multiculturalism and the Logic of Futurity No Future Together King's College London, .
2007
Dr. Íde Corley (2007) The Motion of Destiny and the Logic of Patriarchy: Kwame Nkrumah and Ghanaian Inde WERRC Seminar, School of Social Justice, UCD University College Dublin, .
2007
Dr. Íde Corley (2007) Anti-social Soyinka AEGIS European Conference on African Studies African Studies Centre, Leiden, .
2006
Dr. Rashmi Varma (2006) Different Belongings University of Warwick, School of Social Justice, UCD, Women's Studies, .
2006
Dr. Íde Corley (2006) Trappings of Manhood in the Colonial Ghetto: Dambudzo Marechera in the Company of Books Social Aspriations, Personal Lives CWAS, University of Birmingham, .
2005
Professor Emeritus Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (2005) African Women and Modernity Université Paris 7, School of Social Justice, UCD, Women's Studies, .
2005
Dr. Íde Corley (2005) Making an Opening: C.L.R. James, Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Genealogy of Pan-Africanism African Studies Association of Ireland Univeristy College Dublin, .
2005
Dr. Íde Corley (2005) “‘All the Coloured men were homosexuals’: The Heteronormative Personality and the ‘Multi-Racial’ Person in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power” WERRC Seminar, School of Social Justice, UCD University College Dublin, .
2005
Dr. Íde Corley (2005) Other Cargo Motifs in Armah's Fragments: The Cult of Personality and the Figure of the Slave AEGIS First European Conference on African Studies School of African and Oriental Studies, .
2004
Dr. Íde Corley (2004) L'Ouverture/The Mouth: Lacanian Dit-mensions of the Pan-African Text Society for the Study of Narrative Literature University of Vermont, .
2004
Dr. Íde Corley (2004) Patrice Lumumba, One of Herselves: Adrienne Kennedy's Pan-African 'Father' Women's Studies Association (UK and Ireland) University College Dublin, .
2003
Dr. Íde Corley (2003) “The Father’s Place: W.E.B. Du Bois, Pan-Africa, and Psychoanalytic Myth” African American Nationalism(s): an International Conference Université François Rabelais de Tours, .
2001
Dr. Íde Corley (2001) “‘Wild, Hysterical, Politically Irresponsible’…and all that Jazz: The Dialectic of Stereotype and St Third Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association of America (MSA) Rice University, .
2001
Dr. Íde Corley (2001) “The Subject of Abolitionist Rhetoric: Freedom and Trauma in The Life of Olaudah Equiano” Northeast Modern Language Association of America (NEMLA), Thirty-Second Annual Convention Hartford, Connecticut, .
1997
Dr. Íde Corley (1997) “History and National Consciousness in Zimbabwe: Contesting Benedict Anderson’s Global Paradigm of N Twenty Third Annual Third World Conference Chicago, Illinois, .
Electronic Article
Year
Publication
2021
Corley, Íde (2021) “Ken Saro-Wiwa's death row letters to an Irish missionary nun”. [Electronic Article] [Link]
Technical Publication
Year
Publication
2010
Dr Íde Corley (2010) Multiple Modernities of Same-Sex Sexuality in Nigeria. [Technical Publication] [Full-Text]
Exhibition
Year
Publication
2013
Helen Fallon, Ide Corley, Laurence Cox (2013) NUIM Library exhibition Ken Saro-Wiwa's letters, April - June. [Exhibition]
Newstalk: Ireland's Independent National Talk Radio Broadcaster 106-108fm
Civic Society
Newstalk: Ireland's Independent National Talk Radio Broadcaster 106-108 FM, Features Programme: “Talking Books”—Episode: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, 24 May 2015
Near FM: Community Radio for Dublin North Dast
Civic Society
Near FM: Community Radio for Dublin North East "Rights Here Right Now", 28 August 2013. Interview about environmental rights in Nigeria on the occasion of Dr Owens Wiwa's visit to the Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive at Maynooth University.
Newstalk: Ireland’s National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster, 106-108 FM
Civic Society
Newstalk: Ireland’s National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster, 106-108 FM, Features Programme: “Talking History”—Episode Title “Talking English” 19 August 2012
Newstalk: Ireland’s National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster, 106-108 FM
Civic Society
Newstalk: Ireland’s National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster, 106-108 FM "The Wide Angle" with Chris Donoghue, 4 April 2010. Panel discussion of human rights in Zimbabwe.
