Associate Professor of English
e-mail: tnapier@wingate.edu

 My specialties are in Irish literature (especially Irish women's writing), autobiography, feminist literature and theory, postcolonial studies, and modernism. I teach electives in Twentieth-century Irish literature, African American literature and culture, autobiography, postcolonial studies, and modernist literature and culture.  My graduate study was done in Ireland (north and south) and my research continues to be centered there.                

My book on Irish women's autobiography, Seeking a Country: Literary Autobiographies of Twentieth Century Irishwomen, was published in 2001. I am also interested in the way nationalism, ethnicity, and even genocide figure in postcolonial literatures: not just Irish writing, but the literature of other colonized countries such as India, Nigeria, Rwanda, Canada, and the United States. Because I believe that understanding a particular body of literature entails understanding the culture that fostered it, my classes include film, music, and art in addition to writing.

I have led W'International groups on study tours of Ireland and Italy; I also led Wingate in London for the Fall 2002 semester.  In May 2007 I will be taking a class to Venice, Verona, and Ravenna, Italy. 

I am also Faculty Editor for Counterpoint, the university's literary and art magazine.

Click here to see Dr. Napier's recent publications and presentations.

Click here to see Dr. Napier's research on the manuscript autobiography of Irish dramatist Lady Augusta Gregory.

Click here to see the typescript of Lady Gregory's "Emigrant's Notebook."

Click here to see the results of Dr. Napier and Kristina Chambers' Du Pont Summer Research Project.

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