Teaching
ENGE3120 Modernism
ENGE4100 Major Author(s)
ENGE5210 Advanced Studies in Literature
ENGE5270 Major Contemporary Novels
Research Interests
Contemporary Fiction; 20th/21st Century Irish Literature; Literature and Art, Word and Image; Narrative
Selected Publications
Selected Books
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
2022
“Traces of Mischief: Flann O’Brien and Luigi Pirandello,” in Flann O'Brien: Acting Out. Eds. Paul Fagan & Dieter Fuchs. Cork: Cork University Press, 2022: 95-108.
2021
“Aidan Higgins: Disguised Autobiographies,” in Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literature. Ed. James Ward, Oxford: Blackwell, 2021: 29-38.
2020
“John Banville’s Fictions of Art,” The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction. Ed. Liam Harte. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020: 320-334.
2020
“The Poetics of Pure Invention: John Banville’s Ghosts”, ABEI Journal, The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 2020: 109-120.
2020
“The Novel as Heartbeat: The Dead Narrator in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones,” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Death. Eds Murphy, Jernigan, and Wang, 2020: 109-120.
2019
“John Banville’s Ekphrastic Experiments,” Banville and His Precursors. Eds Pietra Palazzolo, Michael Springer, and Stephen Butler. London: Bloomsbury, 2019: 234-249.
2018
“The House of Fiction: Dermot Healy’s Short Stories,” (with K. Hopper), Beyond Ireland: Boundaries, Passages, Transitions; (Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Werner Huber), Irish Studies in Europe 8, (2018): 219-232.
2018
“Death and the Maidens: John Banville’s Ekphrastic Antidotes,” Narrating Death: The Limit of Literature. Eds. D. Jernigan, W. Wadiak, W. Michelle Wang. London: Routledge, 2018: 149-160.
2017
“Elegant Resistance: Dermot Healy’s Fighting with Shadows,” (with K. Hopper) in Studi Irlandesi: A Journal of Irish Studies, (Summer 2017): 185-199.
2016
“Dermot Healy’s A Goat’s Song: ‘to give some form to that which cannot be uttered, Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy. Eds. Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper. Victoria, TX.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016: 277-291.
2014
“Contemporary Irish Fiction and the Indirect Gaze,” From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath. Eds. Eugene O’Brien & Eamon Maher. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014: 174-187.
2014
“Myles na gCopaleen, Flann O’Brien and An Béal Bhocht: intertextuality and aesthetic play,” Flann O'Brien: Contesting Legacies. Eds. Ruben Borg, Paul Fagan, Werner Huber. Cork: Cork University Press, 2014: 143-155.
2014
“John Banville and Heinrich von Kleist: The Art of Confusion," The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Vol. XXXIV No. 1 (2014/publ 2015): 54-70.
