Brendan Kane

Assistant Professor

Office: Wood Hall, Room 305
Phone: (860) 486-3224
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:brendan.kane@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

Early modern Britain and Ireland; Reformation; early modern Atlantic World

Current Research Interests

Gaelic Irish views of England and the English; Sir James Ware; early modern historiography

Biography

Brendan Kane is from Reading, Pennsylvania, and received a B.A. in history from the University of Rochester, an M.Phil in Irish Studies from the National University of Ireland, Galway, and a PhD from Princeton. His thesis explored the politics of honor in early modern Ireland and England, 1541-1641, and is currently being revised for publication by Cambridge University Press. Prior to coming to the University of Connecticut in 2005, he spent a year as the NEH/Keough Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Keough Institute of Irish Studies.

Selected Publications

“Wentworth, Ireland and the politics of patriarchy: the case of Adam Loftus, Lord Chancellor of Ireland,” Foilsiú: an interdisciplinary journal of Irish Studies, vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 2004), 29-38.

“No poor mouthing here: teaching Irish through use of a novel,” with Donald MacNamara and Ken McIndoe in Journal of Celtic Language Learning, vol. 7 (2002), 92-6.