Biography

Dr. Liam Lenihan received his BA (first class) from University College Cork in 2001, an MA (first class) in 2002, and a PhD in 2008. His doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin, for which he was awarded a full scholarship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, focused on the writings of the Irish artist James Barry. He has taught at the Department of English in Trinity College, and since 2006 at the Departments of English and History of Art in UCC. He has been a guest lecturer on 18th-century Irish art at the Crawford College of Art and Design and spoken on James Barry at the Crawford Gallery in Cork and the National Gallery of Ireland.

Research Interests

His research interests are in the areas of eighteenth-century art and literature – with particular interest in James Barry, William Blake and Henry Fuseli; aesthetic theory; Irish art and culture and Irish engagements with enlightenment ideas. He is also interested in developments in modern literature and culture from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. He has written articles on ‘James Barry and the Aesthetic of an Irish Enlightenment’ (Studies in Edmund Burke and his Time, forthcoming 2007) and an article on James Barry and his engagement with Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft (Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2008).