Donal Sean Gill

Dónal Gill Biography

Dónal Gill is Assistant Professor (LTA) of Canadian Politics at Concordia University.

Dónal has a PhD in Political Science from Concordia University (2020) and a BA in History and Politics (2008) and MA in Politics from University College Cork (20210). He was awarded the Diarmuid Whelan memorial award for best dissertation for his Master’s thesis on Quebec Politics.

He previously taught political science at Dawson College from 2016 to 2023, where he also served as coordinator of the Law, Society, and Justice profile and as Social Science Representative on Academic Senate. He also sat on the Executive Council of the Dawson teacher’s Union. In 2022 he won the Director General’s prize for teaching excellence.

He semi-regularly contributes to media on matters related to Canadian/Quebec politics, writing OpEds in the Montreal Gazette and appearing CBC Radio and CJAD800.

Teaching/research interests: party politics in Canada and Ireland, political ideology, the political thought of Jonathan Swift.

Poli204 - Introduction to Canadian Politics
Poli356 - Political Parties in Canada
Poli488 - Nationalism & Elections in Quebec, Ireland, and Canada
Poli392 - Research Design

Publications

FORTHCOMING:
* Gill, Donal & Vanessa Gordon, "Power, Politics, and the Common Good" 7th edition, Pearson Publishing

UNDER REVIEW:
*  Burstein, Alon & Donal Gill, “The Age of Xenophobia: Understanding White Power Terrorism,” Terrorism and Political Violence 

* Gill, Donal, “Imagined Solidarities: The Boer War in Ulysses.” The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

PUBLISHED:

* Gill, Dónal. 2020. “Travel as Education: Gulliver the Traveller and the Potential Corruptions of Seeking Betterment Abroad,” Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 39: 239-260.

* Gill, Dónal. 2021. “Swift’s Critique of the Narrative of Progress” in The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens: Art, Literature and the Political Community, edited by Ann Ward. Routledge.