Kathleen ("Kate") P Costello-Sullivan

I've been in education for 31 years, starting my teaching career in 1995 when I began adjuncting at Boston College, Suffolk University, and Bentley College. I've spent my entire post-graduate professional career at Le Moyne College, the youngest Jesuit college in the United States, since 2004. I've progressed through the ranks from Assistant to full Professor, and now I hold an endowed Professorship. I served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for 5 years (2014-2019), where I had the opportunity to help my fellow faculty members, problem-solve in important ways, and safeguard the liberal arts identity of the College. As Dean, I collaborated with Madden, our business school, to create pathways from Arts and Sciences into the Madden School, helped lay plans for an eventual innovation center, and facilitated a new Cybersecurity major, which I'm particularly proud of because it's both technological and interdisciplinary. In 2005, I founded an Irish Literature minor, which has allowed me to collaborate with local Irish organizations like the Syracuse James Joyce Club, the Central New York Irish Cultural Society, and the Irish American Cultural Institute. I was on the planning committee for the Syracuse Irish Festival for a long time and created a minor so students can get an interdisciplinary degree in Irish studies. I've served as President of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the largest Irish organization in the world. Since 2018, I've been the first female editor of Syracuse University Press's Irish line, which is the oldest Irish line in North America. This role is one of my proudest accomplishments because it gives me a platform to diversify Irish Studies scholarship in meaningful ways and to support promising young scholars.