Featured Works
Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories, Literature (Springer Press: 2024).
- Blood Meridian’s Chronotopic Gates: Reading Cormac McCarthy through the Lens of a Literary-Historical GIS, in International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Forthcoming, Oct. 2023.
- Environment as a Weapon, History and the Hazards of War, in (Eds. Francesco DePascale, et. al.) Disaster Resilience and Human Settlement, Springer Press, 2023.
- Translating Topographies: Brian Friel’s approach to language, landscape, and toponymy in Ireland, in (Ed. Gerry O’Reilly) Place Naming, Identities and Geography, Springer Press, 2023.
- The Digital Environmental Humanities: New Machines in the Garden, in Routledge Handbook of Digital Environmental Humanities, Routledge, 2022.
- Cowboys, Cod, Climate, and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities, in Routledge Handbook of Digital Environmental Humanities, Routledge, 2022.
- Shifting Borderscapes: Larry McMurtry’s The Lonesome Dove Chronicles (2010), in Fronteras, UTA Center for the Study of the Greater Southwest, 2022.
- The Morphology of Prometheus, Literary Geography and the Geo-Ethical Project, Geosciences 5 August 2021 (Geoethics Special Edition).
- Apocalyptic Literary Geographies: The Tempest’s ‘Brave New World,’ Frankenstein’s ‘Modern Prometheus,’ and Cloud-Atlas’ ‘ Furthest-Seein’ Eye.’ in Imagining the Apocalypse in the Anthropocene: Politics at The End of Things, Routledge, 2021.
- Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800, Geo: Geography and Environment (2020).
- Lessons for the Anthropocene from the Recent Past: Tobacco Use, HIV/AIDS, and Social Transformation. Corresponding author, with Poul Holm, Special Issue, Global and Planetary Change, 156, pp.167-175 (2017)
- Visual Geo-Literary and Historical Analysis, Tweetflickrtubing, and James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) (Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section) Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Volume 105, Issue 5. (2015): 927-950.
- Transcending the Cube: Translating GIScience Time and Space Perspectives in a Humanities GIS. Special Issue on Space-Time Research in GIScience, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) Volume 28, Issue 5, (2014): 149-1164
- Beyond the Cartesian Pale: Travels with Beckett, 1929-1946. Historical Geography Special Issue, ‘The Historical Geographies of Embodied Practice.’ 36 (2008) pp.72-93.
- Rotting Townlands: Peadar O’Donnell, and the Politics of Representation in Saorstát na hÉireann (Irish Free State) 1929-1933. Historical Geography 36 (2008) pp. 203-224.
- The Fifth Province: Seamus Heaney and the Reinterpretation of the Cultural Morphology of Border County Ireland The California Geographer Vol. XLI. (2001) 41, 15-32.
Books / Edited Volumes
- Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities, London/NY: Routledge, 2022.
- Narratives of the Anthropocene, Geographies of the Anthropocene Book Series, Lago: Il Sileno Edizione, Ed. With Vittorio Valentino, November / December 2021.
- Historical Geography, GIScience and Text: Mapping Landscapes of Time and Place, Co-edited with Francis Ludlow and Ferenc Gyuris (Springer Press, 2020)
- The STEAM Revolution: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Humanities and Mathematics, Co-edited with Armida de la Garza, (Springer Press, 2019)
- The New Human Condition and Climate Change: Humanities and Social Science Perceptions of Threat, Co-edited with Poul Holm, Special Issue, Global and Planetary Change (2017)
- Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications, Co-edited with Alexander von Lünen, Springer Press (2016)
- Abstract Machine: Humanities GIS, Esri Press (2015)
- History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections, Co-edited with Alexander von Lünen, Springer Press (2012)
- Literary Landscapes of Ireland: Geographies of Irish Stories, 1929-1946, Mellen Press (2009)
Peer Reviewed Papers / Chapters
- Representational Issues in Deep Mapping: Peeling the ‘Poetic and Positivistic’ from the Western Geosophical Onion, in eds. David Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, and Trevor Harris, Making Deep Maps: Foundations, Approaches, and Methods, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2021.
- Ghost Cathedral of the Blackland Prairie, Waxahachie, Texas, Places in the Heart and the Superconducting Super Collider (with Javier Reyes) In Eds. Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Ferenc Gyrus, Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Mapping Landscapes of Time and Place. Springer Press, (2020).
- Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes, Special Issue University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (2020).
- Digital GeoHumanities, In: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 3, Elsevier, pp. 341–346. (2020).
- The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. 1500 CE: Hypotheses, Methodologies, and Interdisciplinary Ways Forward, with Poul Holm, et. al. Quaternary Research: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2019)
- The Digital Anthropocene, Deep Mapping and Environmental Humanities Big Data, Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities Vol. 5, No. 2, The Green Humanities Lab (Spring 2018), pp. 172-18
- Geoarchaeological modeling of late Paleoindian site locations in the northwestern great lakes, with Legg, R. J., Regis, R. R., Lambert, J. M., Liesch, M. PaleoAmerica: A journal of early human migration and dispersal (2017)
- A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social, and political impact of social sciences and humanities research, withEmanuela Reale, et. al., Research Evaluation, Oxford Press. (2017)
- The New Human Condition and Climate Change: Humanities and Social Science Perceptions of Threat. Holm, P. and Travis, C., Global and Planetary Change, 156, (2017) pp. 112-114.
- GeoHumanities, GIScience and Smart City Lifeworld approaches to Geography and the New Human Condition, Special Issue, Global and Planetary Change, 156, pp.147-154 (2017)
- Humanities for the Environment—A Manifesto for Research and Action, Humanities, 4(2015) pp. 977–992. Poul Holm, Charles Travis, et. al.
- Paralleling Joyce’s Cables: ACIS 2015’s Digital Studies, Discourses, and Ecosystems (Tweeting by the Pool) Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies (2015)
- Acts of Perception: Samuel Beckett, time, space and the Digital Literary Atlas of Ireland, 1922-1949. Exploring Geo-Cultural Space: New Horizons in Digital Humanities ResearchSpecial Edition, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 9.2 (October 2015): 219–241
- From the Ruins of Time and Space: The Psychogeographical GIS of Dublin in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds (1939.) City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. Volume 17, Issue 2, (2013): 209-233
- Abstract Machine -Geographical Information Systems for Literary and Cultural Studies: ‘Mapping Kavanagh’ International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (2010) 4 (1-2): 17-37.
- A Relay of Joy: An Artist and a Geographer Reflect Upon Cybernetic Assemblies and an Embodied Media Geography of Spätkapitalismus. Co-author with Tim Long, Aether: The Journal of Media Geography 6 (2010) pp. 66-87.
- The ‘Historical Poetics’ of Kate O’Brien’s Limerick: A Critical Literary Geography of Saorstát Éireann and the 1937 Bunreacht na hÉireann Plebiscite. Irish Geography, 42:3, (2009) pp. 323-341.
- A Mystical Geography of Place: Lady Gregory’s Coole (1931), Milieu, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Geographical Society, (2007)
- Of Archaism and Ruin, Middle States Geographer, 40 (2007) pp.78-87.
- Finnegans Wake: Mapping the Emergence of a National Consciousness. ATLAS, University of Dublin, Trinity College Geographical Society, (2005)
- Mapping the Cartesian Asylum: Beckett’s Geography, Chimera, University College Cork, Department of Geography Journal, (2004)
- ‘Censorship and Dung,’ 1930s Ireland: The Psychological Landscape, Baile, University College Dublin Geographical Society, (2003)
- Heart of Darkness Redux, Journal of Postgraduate Research, Graduate Student Union, Trinity College Dublin, 2 (2001-2002): 1-18.
- Through the Cyclops’s Eye: Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel & the Fifth Province of Ireland, Exquisite Corpse Issue #7, Andre Codrescu, Ed. October, (2000)
Work in Progress
- Deep Myths, Literature and Place: Spaces of the American West, Routledge (In preparation).
Pedagogical
- Geography and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the Historian (with Andrew J. Milson) In: Kimberly Breuer and Scott Palmer eds. (2019) Introduction to Historical Research (HIST 3300) Open Educational Resources (OER) UTA CARES Grant Program. Arlington: UTA Library.
- Tell the Story of Irish Public History, Learn ArcGIS, with Hannah Smyth, Esri Press (2017)
- Broad Curriculum Senior Freshman Tutorial Resource Folder, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, February 2004.
- Broad Curriculum Junior Freshman Seminar Tutor’s Guide, Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin,January 2003.
Journalism
- Review: Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, The Struggle for Texas, by Sam Haynes, Irish Times, 24 December 2022
- The Confederacy’s New Clothes: Southern Nationalism Sheds Robes for ‘Respectability’ Charleston City Paper (January 2001)
- The Sacred Kingdom of the Yoruba, Charleston City Paper (November, 2000)
- A Bridge Too Far: Can Long Island Be Saved from Development? Charleston City Paper (July, 2000)