Emma Quinn

Learning and Curricular Services LibrarianAssistant Professor

MS in Library and Information Sciences, Long Island UniversityMA in Irish and Irish-American Studies, New York UniversityBA in History and Theology, Fordham University

Professor Quinn is the Learning and Curricular Services Librarian and Assistant Professor at St. John’s University in the University Libraries. Before working at St. John’s University, she worked as a Paralegal at a boutique immigration law firm and as an Educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She also was the Collections and Content Strategy Intern at New York University’s Bobst Library. These experiences developed her interests in inclusive pedagogy, open access, and information literacy, fields she continues to contribute to in her position at St. John’s. She is currently working on multiple research projects on information literacy as well as the history of gender and sexuality in Ireland and the Irish diaspora and has presented at both library and history conferences in recent years.

Research Interests

Research interests include but are not limited to: information literacy; inclusive and critical pedagogy; open access and open education resources; history of gender and sexuality in Ireland and the Irish diaspora; and history of the American Catholic Church.

Publications

Quinn, E. (2024). The Sovereignty of Silence: The Carrigan Report and the Rise and Fall of Professional Womanhood in Ireland. History Ireland. (forthcoming)

Quinn, E. (2024). Emerging Scholars Position Statement. NYU Dual-Degree Journal. (forthcoming)

Quinn, E. (2019). Jane Jacobs Saves Washington Square Park: Activism and Postwar Womanhood. Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal 9 (1).

Presentations

2024: ‘How could God love me?’: Irish-American Catholics and AIDS in New York, 1980-1995, American Conference for Irish Studies: Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland (presentation)

2024: In Search of Dignity: Gay and Lesbian Irish American Catholics in New York, 1980-1995, Comhfhios: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (presentation)

2023: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: Publicizing Open Access Resources Across the University, LOEX: Harrisburg, PA (poster presentation)

2020: Founding a New American at the New York Foundling Hospital: Catholic Institutions and Identity 1850-1900, Fordham Honors Symposium: virtual (presentation)