This panel welcomes submissions on theorizing Irish-hyphenate (Irish-Canadian, Irish-American, Irish-Caribbean, etc.) literary and cultural studies. Given the conference theme of "The Worlding of Irish Studies" this panel will consider how "non-Irish" national boundaries and national literary histories complicate in practical and theoretical ways Irish-hyphenate studies. How do the critical discourses and methodological assumptions of disciplines within the "non-Irish" part of the hyphenate inflect and shape literary and cultural studies of Irish-hyphenate texts? More broadly, what is the relationship between Irish Studies and, for example, Irish American studies or Irish Canadian studies? And, do transnational or transatlantic approaches help to clarify the relationship between Irish studies and Irish-hyphenate studies or do they further complicate them? Papers related to Irish-hyphenate texts written during the nineteenth- and twentieth century are of primary interest but papers on all related topics will be considered. Please send abstracts and a short CV by 11/12/2015 to bchapman@kean.edu.