Michael de Nie, Ph.D.

Professor of History
School of Humanities College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

678-839-6033
mdenie@westu7cASXmxhMw7XUahxDPJowLVAexfXEWf28E3ABfH6ga.edu

Technology Learning Center - Room 3204
Office Hours
T and Th 10-11, 1-2, and by appointment

Download curriculum vitae for Michael de Nie, Ph.D. in PDF
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 other books include The Parnell of Egypt: Empire, Islam, and Ireland (forthcoming), Lives of the Victorian Political Figures: Charles Stewart Parnell (2007), (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), and (with Sean Farrell) Power and Popular Culture in Modern Ireland: Essays in Honor of James S. Donnelly, Jr. (2011). He has also published numerous essays in a wide variety of scholarly journals and collected volumes.  Dr. de Nie is currently working on a global study of political humor and Irish nationalism in the late nineteenth century.

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

Fall 2026 Sections

Summer 2026 Sections

Spring 2026 Sections

Fall 2025 Sections

Spring 2025 Sections

Fall 2024 Sections

Spring 2024 Sections

Fall 2023 Sections

Spring 2023 Sections

Fall 2022 Sections

Spring 2022 Sections

Fall 2021 Sections

Spring 2021 Sections

Fall 2020 Sections

The Parnell of Egypt: Empire, Islam, and Ireland (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming)

“The Satirical Press,” in David Finklestein (ed.), Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

“The Advanced Nationalist Press and the Great Game,” in Sarah E. Gardner, James Thompson, and Robert Bernsee, (eds.), Edinburgh History of the Radical Press (forthcoming)

“Pat and the Land War,” History Ireland 31:4 (May/June 2023)

“Laughing at the Mahdi: The British Comic Press and Empire, 1882-1885,” Victorian Periodicals Review 52:3 (fall 2019)

“Our Dead Chief:” The Irish Press and the Death of Parnell,” New Hibernia Review 23:1 (spring 2019)

“The Comic Press, Ireland, and Empire, 1882-85,” Éire-Ireland 52:3&4 (fall/winter 2017)

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, 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, 2017)

“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.