Sarah McKibben Assistant Professor of Irish Language and Literature, joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2002. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley, and then received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Ireland, where she completed an M.Phil. in Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Dublin. She did her doctoral work at Cornell University, where she was an Olin Fellow, receiving her Ph.D. in 2003. In 2004 she received the Adele Dalsimer dissertation prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Her research interests include literature in both Irish and English, colonial and postcolonial studies, gender studies, poetry, eighteenth-century studies, and the politics of minority languages. She is currently working on a book examining the gender politics of anti-colonial rhetoric in Irish (primarily Irish-language) literature. She has published in The Irish Review (2000), New Voices in Irish Criticism, edited by P.J. Mathews (2000), Éire-Ireland (2003), and Research in African Literatures (2003). She has an article forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium.