Position: Professor Emerita
Department: College of Arts, Education, and Humanities
Phone: 610-282-1100, x1661
Office: 253 Dooling Hall
Juilene Osborne-McKnight, MFA, is a professor emerita of English. She received her MFA in poetry and creative nonfiction from Carlow University in Pittsburgh, with study in residence at Colaiste Naomh Padraig in Ireland; her MA (individualized) in writing from the MacGregor School of Antioch University in Ohio, specializing in Celtic and Native American storytelling; and her BA/BS summa cum laude from Youngstown State University, Ohio, in English/French/secondary education.
Her areas of specialty include Irish mythology, Irish literature, Native American literature, creative writing fiction, and non-fiction. She coordinates the DeSales Irish academic study abroad program. Osborne-McKnight is the author of four Irish historical novels: I Am of Irelaunde, Daughter of Ireland, Bright Sword of Ireland, and Song of Ireland, and the journalistic history of Ireland The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans, now in its third printing. Prior to writing fiction, she worked as a newspaper and magazine columnist and as a freelance writer. She has published more than 200 articles, essays, and poems and her play Wild Swans of Ireland was staged for a month run.