- Education: Loyola University Maryland, B.A., University of Notre Dame, Ph.D., English.
Sean fostered his love of writing, literature, and philosophy, as both a Presidential Scholar at Loyola University in Maryland and an exchange student studying at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. Sean recently completed the Ph.D. in English program at the University of Notre Dame where his particular project focuses on the introduction of new technologies in Irish and British Modernist Literature. He has worked as a Writing Instructor at the University of Notre Dame, a Managing Editor of the academic journal, Religion and Literature, and an Editorial Assistant at the prestigious Field Day Review in Dublin. Sean has been awarded the Mitchel Award in Scholarly Writing, the Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship (which allowed him summer study at the preeminent program of critical thought), Notre Dame’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, and most recently, the external Josephine de Kármán Fellowship. Sean’s work has appeared in such academic journals as Field Day Review, and Éire–Ireland, and is forthcoming in the edited collection, Visualizing Dublin: Visual Culture and the Making of Modern Dublin. Sean taught Philosophy and Creative Non-Fiction at our Excel at Amherst College program in 2011.
