Barbara Hoffmann presented a paper at the American Conference for Irish Studies in Kansas City called "The Fenians at Sea: Oceanic Irish Nationalism and The Wild Goose.” At the conference of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies she presented a paper called "Myth-Making, Irish Convicts, and Australian National Identity in Roger McDonald’s The Ballad of Desmond Kale,” which won the Albert Wertheim Prize for the Best Presentation by a Graduate Student.
