About
Living and working in Liverpool since 2000, I am a native of the West of Ireland and was educated at University College Galway where I took BA and MA degrees before moving on to St John's College, Oxford where I completed my D. Phil. in 2000 under the supervision of Mr Tom Paulin. I have extensive experience of graduate student supervision and mentoring and welcome approaches from students interested in all aspects of Irish literature from the late nineteenth century onwards. I have successfully supervised 12 doctoral students on these topics:
• Katharine Tynan, Winnifred Letts and the Irish Literary revival, 1890-1922
• Women of the Diaspora and the Irish Novel 1890-1916
• The Bell and its Circle 1940-1954
• ‘The Return to the People': Empire, Class, and Religion in Lady Gregory's Dramatic Works’
• The Argument with the Self: Individual and Community in Liam O’Flaherty, Patrick Kavanagh and John McGahern
• The Failure of the Irish Novel 1920-1965
• The Irish Literary Periodical 1904-1914
• Bohemian Networks in Dublin-Belfast-London, 1945-1966
• The Life and Work of Jim Phelan
• Whetstone: Stanislaus Joyce and the Fraternal Relationships in Finnegans Wake
• Finnegans Wake, Ulster and the road to Partition
• Joyce’s Gnomen: Tracing the Geometry of Bruno in Dubliners
Prizes or Honours
- Overseas Conference Grant (British Academy, 2007)
- AHRC Research Leave (Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2005)
- British Academy Small Grant (British Academy, 2005)
- British Academy Small Grant award (British Academy, 2002)
Funded Fellowships
- Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship (National University of Ireland, Galway, 2013)
- Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship (Leverhulme Trust, 2012)
- Cora Maud O'Neal Fellowship at Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, 2009)
- St John's College, Oxford visiting scholarship (St John's College Oxford, 2005)