Maebh Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maebh Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maebh |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3787-8410 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This was never about a virus”
In this paper, we draw on qualitative methods from the medical humanities and quantitative approaches from corpus linguistics to assess the different mappings of pandemic risks by Twitter (X) users employing the #Covid19nz hashtag. We look specifically at their responses to government measures around vaccines between August and November 2021. Risk, we reveal, was a major discursive thread in tweets during this period, but within our tweets, it wa…
Immune from a Thousand Ailments
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Being Bertha Mason
Jean Rhys's corpus is known for its continual rewriting and revisiting, yet scholarship on Rhys's reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has concentrated on its extensive treatment in Wide Sargasso Sea. When traces of Brontë are found in Rhys's earlier works, they are most commonly understood as foreshadowings of Rhys's final novel, a position that figures Rhys's corpus as a practice of practising, whose potential is finally realized late in…
AreHashtagsWords? Structure, position, and syntactic integration of hashtags in (English) tweets
As social media use continues to increase its presence in our lives, so does the language of such platforms. One of the most salient features of social media discourse is the hashtag. Starting its life on Twitter (X) about 15 years ago, the hashtag has seeped from online to offline communication. Yet, it is not clear whether hashtags are words, tags, or something else altogether, nor is it clear what morphological process gives rise to them. This…
Immune from the germ-laden things’
From 1890, as advertising in Irish newspapers grew in quantity and sophistication, a discourse of immunity began to circulate. Advertisers drew on advancements in bacteriology and immunology to present their goods as defensive strategies against a range of threats, from major infectious diseases to everyday coughs and colds. Consumers were urged to supplement their bodies' vulnerabilities by purchasing pills and tonics, with medical products join…
Not with a bang but a whimper”
During the 1950s and 1960s influenza was a recurring theme in the Cruiskeen Lawn, a satirical column by Myles na Copaleen (Flann O’Brien) in The Irish Times. The columns’ engagement arose from Ireland’s experience of brutal influenza seasons and, in particular, the 1957–58 pandemic, known at the time as the Asian Flu. The pandemic’s virus killed approximately over a million people worldwide, but until our recent, COVID-inspired interest in histor…
Bubbles and lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand
In March 2020, as cases of COVID-19 were found in Aotearoa New Zealand, the government moved to eliminate community transmission of the virus through self-isolation. During this month, as the population discussed if, when and how households would be asked to stay at home, terms such as lockdown-the state of (national) closure-and bubble-the household isolating together-became common parts of everyday conversation.In this article, we blend quantit…
For I have fed on foreign bread’
This article examines the ways in which the Fijian authors Vanessa Griffen, Pio Manoa, and Subramani revised and reworked modernist texts in their construction of a local postcolonial literature. These writers were schooled in a colonial education system that was, by the 1950s and 60s, in ideological disarray, as the jingoistic, imperial texts of the English syllabus began to give way to the crisis and self-interrogation of literary modernism. Th…
Being Obotunde Ijimere and M. Lovori
Ulli Beier was a hugely influential figure in Nigerian and Papua New Guinean literature from the 1950s to the 1970s. He founded and edited numerous literary magazines, including Black Orpheus and Kovave, fostered unappreciated talent, and provided publication opportunities when few were available. The story of his dedication to nascent literary scenes in Africa and the Pacific is, however, marred by appropriation, as Beier wrote fraud into the li…
Black bile in Bohane
Kevin Barry's novel, City of Bohane, presents the west coast of Ireland gripped in the hyper-violence of a dystopian urban future. This article argues that the novel's power structures, seemingly redolent of unrepentant brutality, epitomise an excessive melancholy; a failure of mourning that causes the city and its inhabitants to stagnate in aggressive, nostalgic desire. Relations to the past, to the self, the desired other and power in City of B…
The Powerful Marvel of Irony’
She is the author of Assembling Flann O'Brien (Bloomsbury, 2014), a monograph of theoretical engagements with the Irish author Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan. In addition to incursions into Irish Studies, her principle areas of engagement and publication are theory and philosophy, currently ironic and fragmentary forms in Derrida, Blanchot and Schlegel. Email: [email protected]
Inimitable Idioms
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaebh LongMaebh Long is Lecturer in Literature at the School of Language, Arts and Media at the University of the South Pacific. She is the author of Assembling Flann O'Brien (Bloomsbury, 2014), a monograph of theoretical engagements with the Irish author Flann O'Brien/Myles Na Gopaleen/Brian O'Nolan. In addition to incursions into Irish Studies, her principle areas of engagement and publication are theo…
Assembling Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien - also known as Brian O’Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland’s modern authors. Assembling Flann O’Brien explores the author’s innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century’s most important theorists, including Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan and Žižek. Assembling Flann O’Brien offers a detailed study of O’Brien’s five major novels – includin…
Assembling Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien - also known as Brian O’Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland’s modern authors. Assembling Flann O’Brien explores the author’s innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century’s most important theorists, including Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan and Žižek. Assembling Flann O’Brien offers a detailed study of O’Brien’s five major novels – includin…
Not with a bang but a whimper”
During the 1950s and 1960s influenza was a recurring theme in the Cruiskeen Lawn, a satirical column by Myles na Copaleen (Flann O’Brien) in The Irish Times. The columns’ engagement arose from Ireland’s experience of brutal influenza seasons and, in particular, the 1957–58 pandemic, known at the time as the Asian Flu. The pandemic’s virus killed approximately over a million people worldwide, but until our recent, COVID-inspired interest in histor…
Being Obotunde Ijimere and M. Lovori
Ulli Beier was a hugely influential figure in Nigerian and Papua New Guinean literature from the 1950s to the 1970s. He founded and edited numerous literary magazines, including Black Orpheus and Kovave, fostered unappreciated talent, and provided publication opportunities when few were available. The story of his dedication to nascent literary scenes in Africa and the Pacific is, however, marred by appropriation, as Beier wrote fraud into the li…
The Powerful Marvel of Irony’
She is the author of Assembling Flann O'Brien (Bloomsbury, 2014), a monograph of theoretical engagements with the Irish author Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan. In addition to incursions into Irish Studies, her principle areas of engagement and publication are theory and philosophy, currently ironic and fragmentary forms in Derrida, Blanchot and Schlegel. Email: [email protected]
Inimitable Idioms
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMaebh LongMaebh Long is Lecturer in Literature at the School of Language, Arts and Media at the University of the South Pacific. She is the author of Assembling Flann O'Brien (Bloomsbury, 2014), a monograph of theoretical engagements with the Irish author Flann O'Brien/Myles Na Gopaleen/Brian O'Nolan. In addition to incursions into Irish Studies, her principle areas of engagement and publication are theo…
Assembling Flann O’Brien
Flann O’Brien - also known as Brian O’Nolan or Myles na gCopaleen - is now widely recognised as one of the foremost of Ireland’s modern authors. Assembling Flann O’Brien explores the author’s innovative and experimental work by reading him in relation to some of the 20th century’s most important theorists, including Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan and Žižek. Assembling Flann O’Brien offers a detailed study of O’Brien’s five major novels – includin…
Black bile in Bohane
Kevin Barry's novel, City of Bohane, presents the west coast of Ireland gripped in the hyper-violence of a dystopian urban future. This article argues that the novel's power structures, seemingly redolent of unrepentant brutality, epitomise an excessive melancholy; a failure of mourning that causes the city and its inhabitants to stagnate in aggressive, nostalgic desire. Relations to the past, to the self, the desired other and power in City of B…
For I have fed on foreign bread’
This article examines the ways in which the Fijian authors Vanessa Griffen, Pio Manoa, and Subramani revised and reworked modernist texts in their construction of a local postcolonial literature. These writers were schooled in a colonial education system that was, by the 1950s and 60s, in ideological disarray, as the jingoistic, imperial texts of the English syllabus began to give way to the crisis and self-interrogation of literary modernism. Th…
Being Obotunde Ijimere and M. Lovori
Ulli Beier was a hugely influential figure in Nigerian and Papua New Guinean literature from the 1950s to the 1970s. He founded and edited numerous literary magazines, including Black Orpheus and Kovave, fostered unappreciated talent, and provided publication opportunities when few were available. The story of his dedication to nascent literary scenes in Africa and the Pacific is, however, marred by appropriation, as Beier wrote fraud into the li…
Bubbles and lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand
In March 2020, as cases of COVID-19 were found in Aotearoa New Zealand, the government moved to eliminate community transmission of the virus through self-isolation. During this month, as the population discussed if, when and how households would be asked to stay at home, terms such as lockdown-the state of (national) closure-and bubble-the household isolating together-became common parts of everyday conversation.In this article, we blend quantit…
Not with a bang but a whimper”
During the 1950s and 1960s influenza was a recurring theme in the Cruiskeen Lawn, a satirical column by Myles na Copaleen (Flann O’Brien) in The Irish Times. The columns’ engagement arose from Ireland’s experience of brutal influenza seasons and, in particular, the 1957–58 pandemic, known at the time as the Asian Flu. The pandemic’s virus killed approximately over a million people worldwide, but until our recent, COVID-inspired interest in histor…
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture offers a wide-ranging set of essays exploring the travels of Irish literature and culture over the last century and more. The essays focus on writers and artists whose work has been taken up and re-read overseas; on cultural producers who have engaged with transnational scales in their work; and on critical practices that pay attention to comparative, global, and planetary dimensions of Irish liter…
Being Bertha Mason
Jean Rhys's corpus is known for its continual rewriting and revisiting, yet scholarship on Rhys's reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has concentrated on its extensive treatment in Wide Sargasso Sea. When traces of Brontë are found in Rhys's earlier works, they are most commonly understood as foreshadowings of Rhys's final novel, a position that figures Rhys's corpus as a practice of practising, whose potential is finally realized late in…
AreHashtagsWords? Structure, position, and syntactic integration of hashtags in (English) tweets
As social media use continues to increase its presence in our lives, so does the language of such platforms. One of the most salient features of social media discourse is the hashtag. Starting its life on Twitter (X) about 15 years ago, the hashtag has seeped from online to offline communication. Yet, it is not clear whether hashtags are words, tags, or something else altogether, nor is it clear what morphological process gives rise to them. This…
Immune from the germ-laden things’
From 1890, as advertising in Irish newspapers grew in quantity and sophistication, a discourse of immunity began to circulate. Advertisers drew on advancements in bacteriology and immunology to present their goods as defensive strategies against a range of threats, from major infectious diseases to everyday coughs and colds. Consumers were urged to supplement their bodies' vulnerabilities by purchasing pills and tonics, with medical products join…
This was never about a virus”
In this paper, we draw on qualitative methods from the medical humanities and quantitative approaches from corpus linguistics to assess the different mappings of pandemic risks by Twitter (X) users employing the #Covid19nz hashtag. We look specifically at their responses to government measures around vaccines between August and November 2021. Risk, we reveal, was a major discursive thread in tweets during this period, but within our tweets, it wa…
Immune from a Thousand Ailments
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