Michael de Nie, Ph.D.

Fields of Study: Modern Britain and Ireland, 19th Century Europe, British Empire
Dr. de Nie teaches courses on Britain, Ireland, Europe in the 19th Century, World War Two, and world history.  His first book, The Eternal Paddy:  Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (2004) was awarded the American Conference for Irish Studies Donnelly Prize. His edited works include (with Tim McMahon and Paul Townend) Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (2017), (with Karen Steele) Ireland and the New Journalism (2014), (with Sean Farrell) Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland:  Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (2011), (with Joe Cleary) Èire-Ireland Special Issue:  Amongst Empires (2007), and Lives of the Victorian Political Figures:  Charles Stewart Parnell (2007).  He has published numerous essays in scholarly journals and collected volumes. His latest work is the chapter on the Satirical Press in the award-winning Edinburgh History of the British and irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900, edited by David Finklestein (2021). Dr. de Nie is currently working on a a study of the late-Victorian press and revolutionary Islam. 

  • B.A., History and English, Lehigh University, 1992
  • M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998
  • Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001

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Spring 2020 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 03
  • HIST-6694 (Graduate Writing) Section: 01
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: E03
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: E04

Fall 2019 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 10
  • HIST-4441 (Modern Ireland,1780 to Present) Section: 01W
  • HIST-5441 (Modern Ireland,1780 to Present) Section: 01W
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 02
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 03

Summer 2019 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E04

Spring 2019 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01
  • HIST-3342 (Britain since 1688) Section: 01
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 05

Fall 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01
  • HIST-3341 (Britain to 1688) Section: 01
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 03

Summer 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E03

Spring 2018 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 02
  • HIST-6686 (Hist Resrch-Victorian Press) Section: 01

Fall 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01
  • HIST-4417 (19th Century Europe,1789-1914) Section: 01W
  • HIST-5417 (19th Century Europe,1789-1914) Section: 01

Summer 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: E02

Spring 2017 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 02
  • HIST-4484 (Senior Seminar) Section: 01W

Summer 2016 Sections

  • HIST-4485 (World War II & Film) Section: 01

Spring 2016 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01
  • HIST-4251 (The Second World War) Section: 01W
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 06

Fall 2015 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 02
  • HIST-4441 (Modern Ireland,1780 to Present) Section: 01W
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 05
  • HIST-6699 (Thesis) Section: 06

Summer 2015 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01

Spring 2015 Sections

  • HIST-1112 (Surv World History/Civiliz II) Section: 01
  • HIST-3342 (Britain since 1688) Section: 01

The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

Co-Editor (with Tim McMahon and Paul Townend), Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming 2016).

Co-Editor (with Karen Steele), Ireland and the New Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Co-Editor (with Sean Farrell), Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (Irish Academic Press, 2010).

Editor, Lives of Victorian Political Figures: Charles Stewart Parnell (Pickering & Chatto, 2007).

Co-Editor (with Joe Cleary), Éire-Ireland Special Issue: Amongst Empires 42:1&2 (spring/summer 2007).

“The Irish Press and Imperial Soldiering, 1882-1885" in McMahon, de Nie, and Townend (eds.), Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming).

“W.T. Stead, Liberal Imperialism, and Ireland,” in de Nie and Steele (eds.), Ireland and the New Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

“Reflections,” in Michael de Nie and Sean Farrell (eds.), Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (Irish Academic Press, 2010), 214-229.

“The London Press and the American Civil War,” in Joel H. Wiener and Mark Hampton (eds.), AngloAmerican Media Interactions (Palgrave, 2007), 129-154.

“Britannia’s Sick Sister: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798-1882,” in Neil McCaw (ed.), Writing Irishness in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Ashgate, 2004), 173-193.

“‘Speed the Mahdi!’The Irish Press and Empire, 1883-1885,” Journal of British Studies 51:4 (October 2012): 883-909.

“Ulster will Fight? The British Press and Ulster, 1885-1886,” New Hibernia Review 12:3 (fall 2008): 18-39.

“Pigs, Paddies, Prams, and Petticoats: Irish Home Rule and the British Comic Press, 1886-1893,” History Ireland 13:1 (January/February 2005): 42-47.

“‘A Medley Mob of Irish-American Plotters and Irish Dupes’: the British Press and Transatlantic Fenianism,” Journal of British Studies 40:2 (April 2001): 213-240.

“‘The French Disease’: the British Press and 1798,” Working Papers in Irish Studies 99:3 (June 1999): 1-8.

“The Famine, Irish Identity, and the British Press,” Irish Studies Review 6:1 (April 1998): 27-36.

“Curing ‘The Irish Moral Plague,’” Éire-Ireland 32:1 (spring 1997): 63-85.