Barbara M. Hoffman
Barbara M. Hoffman (CAS’01, SED’01) of Miami, Fla., earned a PhD in English literature on May 11, 2017, from the University of Miami. She successfully defended her dissertation, “Over the Edge of the World: Irish Convict Writing and Contemporary Australian Literature,” on March 24. Her dissertation explores the ways that Irish convicts transported to Australia in the 19th century influenced Australian national identity. Barbara received a Master of Public Policy in 2002 from the University of Sydney, Australia. She has presented her work at the American Conference for Irish Studies, the Conference of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Miami Joyce Conference, the North American James Joyce Conference, and the Conference of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, at which she won the Albert Wertheim Prize for the Best Presentation by a Graduate Student. She will be teaching at Miami-Dade College in fall 2017.
From the Fall 2017 issue.