Staff Publications

Francesca Brooks and Carl Kears, eds. Beyond Medieval Archives: Rethinking the Medieval Archive through Creative and Critical Practice (UCL Press, 2026 forthcoming)

Beyond Medieval Archives includes critical essays, creative reflections, dialogue pieces and creative-critical collaborations from medievalists, poets, artists and writers. The book argues that by considering the archive in new ways from the perspective of Medieval Studies and creative practice, we can instigate a more diverse range of critical approaches to the archive as a site of immense creative potential. Contributions to this volume engage with archives as repositories existing within and beyond institutions, as more makeshift assemblies of materials and artefacts, and as conceptual and theoretical frameworks. The archive emerges here, we argue, as a space where revelation and discovery are haunted by the provocations of silence and omission. Collected in this volume are essays by world-leading scholars and reflections by prize-winning poets and artists that examine archives as caches of knowledge. There are collaborative dialogues that approach bodies, bones and landscapes as domains that become archives over time. The book also includes engagements in archival acts that revive or incite new exchanges with the materials of the medieval past, while challenging understandings and intuitions about the issues of archival access.

Tom Birkett. Runes: A Concise History (OUP, 2026)

Runes: A Concise History recounts the fascinating story of the runic script and its evolution, whilst using the information provided by runic inscriptions to trace some of the major events to shape the medieval North, from migration, settlement, and conquest to conversion and the beginnings of Old English literature. From salacious graffiti (including a rune stick mentioning the fact that 'Árni the priest wants to have Inga') and intimate inscriptions on jewelry (such as a charm on a lead plaque stating that an illness-causing dwarf is dead), to towering runestones expressing the power and prestige of Viking rulers, the stories told through runic objects offer insight into cultures on the peripheries of Europe as they came to shape the medieval world. Knowledge of runes travelled across the North Sea with Germanic tribes migrating from the Continent and the script proceeded to evolve differently in England, being used alongside the Roman alphabet for several centuries and coming to play a key role in Northumbria's Golden Age and the beginnings of an English literature. Here is the story of an extraordinary but little-known writing system that seems opaque to us yet offers a window on the wider social history of migration, settlement, and cultural exchange in pre-modern Europe.

Anne Etienne and Chris Megson, eds. Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest, 2^nd ed. (University of Exeter Press, 2026)

What are the contexts (political, social, legal, cultural) of theatre censorship in twenty-first-century Europe? Given the abolition of state-sanctioned and institutional forms of stage censorship in the late twentieth century, the prevalence of authoritarian and populist politics, and the escalation of so-called ‘culture wars’, in what ways and to what extent does stage censorship manifest and proliferate today? How does censorship respond (or not) to governmental, economic, moral, and religious circumstances? And how have theatre-makers in Europe contested or countered censorial prohibitions in the recent past?

This edited collection is the first pan-European study of contemporary theatre censorship. An international range of scholars assess how new forms of censorship operate to silence artists and control performances; they explore how theatre artists respond to constraints placed upon their work across territories, and analyse how age-old political, religious, and moral taboos impact on theatrical creation and reception. Readers are invited to consider not only the varied mechanisms of censorship, including its more covert iterations, but also what is censored, when, how, and why, particularly in relation to the sensitive issues of religion, race, sexuality, and nationalism. By focusing on the work of key European theatre practitioners, as well as significant productions and performances, contributors reflect on the impact of censorship on artistic policies and cultural activity, and the forms of protest mobilized against it.

Claire Connolly, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

What does 'Irish romanticism' mean and when did Ireland become romantic? How does Irish romanticism differ from the literary culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, and what qualities do they share? Claire Connolly proposes an understanding of romanticism as a temporally and aesthetically distinct period in Irish culture, during which literature flourished in new forms and styles, evidenced in the lives and writings of such authors as Thomas Dermody, Mary Tighe, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Thomas Moore, Charles Maturin, John Banim, Gerald Griffin, William Carleton and James Clarence Mangan. Their books were written, sold, circulated and read in Ireland, Britain and America and as such were caught up in the shifting dramas of a changing print culture, itself shaped by asymmetries of language, power and population. Connolly meets that culture on its own terms and charts its history.

Miranda Corcoran, ed. Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture: Not Today Satan (Routledge, 2025)

This book constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital addition to the field of Gothic and Horror Studies. Although recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in figures such as the witch, the zombie and the vampire, Satan and his acolytes have been largely ignored (aside from where they overlap with the witch). This volume seeks to address this lacuna in Gothic Studies by examining how Satanism-particularly as it relates to issues of gender and sexuality-has shaped both the aesthetic and thematic content of horror media over the past half century.

Graham Allen, Representing the New AI in Film and Television, Bloomsbury, 2025.

The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities that this technology offers. Our hopes and anxieties have played out across a variety of media in recent times, but arguably nowhere more significantly than on our screens.
This book explores a phenomenon, which it calls the new AI cinema and television, arguing that since the mid-2010s, a distinctly new phase in the representation of AI has occurred. Discussing films such as Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell alongside television series such as Westworld and Humans, it argues that they have moved away from apocalyptic scenarios towards questions of personhood, consciousness, and social inclusion and exclusion. In doing so, it intervenes in some of today's most pressing debates, including gender representation, AI ethics, climate catastrophe, and the rights of artificially intelligent beings.

Anne Etienne and Graham Saunders, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship (Palgrave. 2025)

The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship

This book incorporates a wide theoretical, cultural, literary and historical engagement in exploring the tension between dramatic productions and the forms of censorship they encounter from creation to reception. The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre Censorship offers global new insights into censorship practices, examining attempts at repression motivated either by fears that audiences gathering together to watch live dramatic events will lead to sedition and mass uprisings, or by moral or religious squeamishness requiring the establishment of institutional systems of censorship to curb or suppress the stage. As such, the Handbook aims to initiate redefinitions of what we understand or experience as censorship.

Miranda Corcoran. The Craft (Liverpool University Press, 2025)

This entry in the Devil’s Advocates series is a deep dive into the history, production and meaning of The Craft. Situating The Craft within the teen horror revival of the 1990s, Miranda Corcoran analyses the film within the context of nineties popular and political culture, while also discussing its treatment of issues such as race, gender, sexuality and class. Delving into the history of witchcraft beliefs and persecutions, this book also investigates how The Craft modifies the archetype of the witch and traces the film’s influence on subsequent popular culture. 

Lee Jenkins. Great War Modernists: D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as 'another Bloomsbury set', the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, 'lived in squares' and 'loved in triangles', in Dorothy Parker's famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics: both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as 'life writing'. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde: Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Cournos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modernism. Considered as a pro-tem collective, these four poets, all of whom were also novelists and translators, contest the binaries that still obtain between modernist and First World War writing. This group study of Lawrence, H.D., Aldington and Cournos tracks the transition of Imagism from a pre-war mode to a war poetics which includes but is not confined to the trench lyric and it traces, in the transtextual relations between the Mecklenburgh Square novels, the traumatic imprint of the war on modernist life writing.

Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan, and Christopher Weedman, eds. Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films. In parallel with an era marked by social, political, and sexual ferment and upheaval, British filmmakers and censors pushed and guarded the permissible limits of violence, horror, revolt, and sexuality on screen. Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as ‘the long 1960s’. How did the British Board of Film Censors, harried on one side by the censorious and moralistic, and beset on the other by demands for greater artistic freedom, oversee and manage this provocative body of films? How did the freedoms and restrictions of the X certificate hasten, determine, and reshape post-war British cinema into an artistic, exploitational, and unapologetically adult medium? Contributors to this collection consider these central questions as they take us to swinging parties, on youthful crime sprees, into local council meetings, on police raids of cinemas, and around Soho strip clubs, and introduce us to mass murderers, lesbian vampires, apoplectic protestors, eroticised middle-aged women, and rebellious working-class men. Adult Themes examines both the workings and negotiations of British film censorship, the limits of artistic expression, and a wider culture of X certificate cinema. This is an important volume for students and scholars of British Film History and censorship, Media Studies, the 1960s, and Cultural and Sexuality Studies, while simultaneously an entertaining read for all connoisseurs of British cinema at its most vivid and scandalous.

Georgina Nugent. Beckett and Stein (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

What motivated Beckett, in 1937, to distance himself from the 'most recent work' of his mentor James Joyce, and instead praise the writings of Gertrude Stein as better reflecting his 'very desirable literature of the non-word'? This Element conducts the first extended comparative study of Stein's role in the development of Beckett's aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the major critical lacuna that is Stein's role and influence on Beckett's nascent bilingual aesthetics of the late 1930s. It argues for Stein's influence on the aesthetics of language Beckett developed throughout the 1930s, and on the overall evolution of his bilingual English writings, arguing that Stein's writing was itself inherently bilingual. It forwards the technique of renarration – a form of repetition identifiable in the work of both authors – as a deliberate narrative strategy adopted by both authors to actualise the desired semantic tearing concordant with their aesthetic praxes in English.

Heather Laird and Jay Roszman, eds. Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool University Press, 2023)

What did it mean to have an ‘Irish’ dwelling in the nineteenth century? How did Irish people write about, think about, visually represent or imagine what constituted home? Showcasing research from scholars based in Ireland, the United Kingdom and further afield, this interdisciplinary volume seeks to answer these questions by exploring the physicality and symbolism of Irish dwellings, and the home as a place of repose, exercise and work. Using a range of methodological approaches including history, folklore and literature, this volume offers new perspectives on the material culture of home, fictionalized homes, social housing schemes, suburban living spaces, home and social mobility, institutional living, migration and memories of the home-house, and gender and eviction. Rather than focus on the Big House, which has already received considerable scholarly attention, this volume foregrounds dwelling spaces that were especially vulnerable to economic forces: the homes of the urban and rural poor. Additionally, the book acknowledges the importance to nineteenth-century Ireland of a class that has arguably received even less attention in Irish scholarship than the poor, a rising urban/suburban middle class, exploring their impact on housing and on cultural and leisure activities.

Edel Semple and Ronan Hatfull, eds. Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen (Bloomsbury, 2023)

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare’s afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the 21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as literary genius.

Sarah Bezan and Robert McKay, eds. Animal Remains (Routledge, 2022)

The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal remains are everywhere and so animals remain everywhere. Animal remains are food, medicine, and clothing; extractive resources and traces of animals’ lifeworlds and ecologies; they are sites of political conflict and ontological fear, fetishized visual signs and objects of trade, veneration, and memory; they are biotechnological innovations and spill-over viruses.

To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains. Interpreting them in all their ubiquity, diversity, and persistence, Animal Remains reveals posthuman relations between human and non-human communities of the living and the dead, on timescales of decades, centuries, and millennia.

Adam Hanna and Eugene McNulty, eds. Law and Literature: The Irish Case (Dublin City University, 2022)

Law and Literature: The Irish Case is a collection of fascinating essays by literary and legal scholars which explore the intersections between law and literature in Ireland from the eighteenth century to the present day. Sharing a concern for the cultural life of law and the legal life of culture, the contributors shine a light on the ways in which the legal and the literary have spoken to each other, of each other, and, at times, for each other, on the island of Ireland in the last three centuries. Several of the chapters discuss how texts and writers have found their ways into the law’s chambers and contributed to the development of jurisprudence. The essays in the collection also reveal the juridical and jurisprudential forces that have shaped the production and reception of Irish literary culture, revealing the law’s popular reception and its extra-legal afterlives.

Miranda Corcoran. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022)

The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence.

Adam Hanna. Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2022)

This book is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island’s jurisdictions. Focusing on poets’ responses in their writing to such contentious legal issues as partition, censorship, paramilitarism, and the curtailment of women’s reproductive and other rights, this monograph is the first in the growing field of law and literature to focus exclusively on modern Ireland. Hanna unpacks the legal engagements of both major and non-canonical poets from every decade between the 1920s and the present day, including Rhoda Coghill, Austin Clarke, Paul Durcan, Elaine Feeney, Miriam Gamble, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Paula Meehan, Julie Morrissy, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and W. B. Yeats.

Georgina Nugent. The Making of Samuel Beckett's Company / Compagnie (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Company was first composed in English over two years, with Beckett breaking a 20-year-long pattern of composing primarily in French to craft this meticulously structured 59-paragraph masterpiece of his late prose. Its French companion, Compagnie, was translated in only two weeks. The genetic critical analysis of the manuscripts of Company/Compagnie takes this schema-dependent compositional method as its core focus. It forwards a new hypothesis regarding the genetic map of both works, and considers the relationship between this uniquely entwined 'original' and 'translation.' This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett.

Francesca Brooks. Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones (OUP, 2021)

The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to reimagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895–1974), and represents the first extended study of the influence of early medieval culture and history from England on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). The Anathemata, the second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), fuses Jones’s visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones’s Library, Poet of the Medieval Modern reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction we make between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developments in modernist and medieval studies, Poet of the Medieval Modernbrings the two fields into dialogue and argues that Jones uses the textual and material culture of the early Middle Ages—including Old English prose and poetry, Anglo-Latin hagiography, early medieval stone sculpture, manuscripts, and historiography—to re-envision British Catholic identity in the twentieth-century long poem. In The Anathemata Jones returned to the English record to seek out those moments where the histories of the Welsh had been elided or erased. At a time when the Middle Ages are increasingly weaponized in far-right and nationalist political discourse, the book offers a timely discussion of how the early medieval past has been resourced to both shore up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.

Anne Etienne and Graham Saunders, eds. Arnold Wesker: Fragments and Visions (Intellect, 2021)

After his death, Arnold Wesker (1932–2016) was hailed as one of the great overlooked figures of British drama. Despite his engagement in British cultural politics of the 1960s and an international career, only a fraction of Wesker’s dramatic output has been thoroughly studied. 

This new collection redefines Wesker’s place within theatre culture and questions the canonical boundaries associated with his work. Re-evaluating his legacy with new archival material, it explores his eclectic aesthetic range as well as his unerring concern for the human condition: a lasting ‘vision’ from hopeful socialists in the 1950s–60s. 
Edited by leading scholars in the field and with contributions from important scholars of postwar theater, this volume considers, for the first time, the whole body of Wesker’s work. It includes chapters on Wesker’s reception in Europe, his representation of and attitude towards women, his relationship to his Jewish origins and identity, and his attitude toward politics and community. Building on existing scholarship, drawing extensively from the Arnold Wesker archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and introducing new insights and perspectives, this important new essay collection remedies the recent critical neglect of the dramatist.

Maureen O’Connor. Edna O'Brien and the Art of Fiction (Bucknell University Press. 2021)

Since the appearance of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960―a book that undermined the nation’s ideal of innocent and pious Irish girlhood―Edna O’Brien has provoked controversy in her native Ireland and abroad. Indeed, several of her early novels were condemned by church authorities and banned by the Irish government for their frank portrayals of sexual matters and the inner lives of women. Now an internationally acclaimed writer, O’Brien must be critically reassessed for a twenty-first century audience. Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction provides an urgent retrospective consideration of one of the English-speaking world’s best-selling and most prolific contemporary authors. Drawing on O’Brien’s fiction as well as archival material, and applying new theoretical approaches―including ecocritical and feminist new materialist readings―this study considers the pioneering and enduring ways O’Brien represents women’s experience, family relationships, the natural world, sex, creativity, and death, and her work’s long anticipation of contemporary movements such as #metoo.

Graham Allen. ‘Intertextuality: 3rd Edition’ (Routledge, 2021)

This successful introduction to intertextuality deftly introduces this crucial area and relates its significance to key theories and movements in the study of literature. The third edition is updated to include a brand new chapter, looking at intermediality, and how the study of intertextuality has changed over the last ten years.

Looking at intertextuality in relation to literary and critical theory as well as contemporary culture and media, this book offers a fascinating and useful approach to all aspects of literary studies, especially those dealing with adaptation, media, or comparative studies.

Lee Jenkins. The American Lawrence, 2^nd ed (University Press of Florida, 2020)

 Known as a distinctly English author, D. H. Lawrence is reevaluated as a creator and critic of American literature in this imaginative study. From 1922 to 1925, during his “savage pilgrimage” in Mexico and New Mexico, Lawrence completed the core of what Lee Jenkins terms his “American oeuvre”—including his major volume of criticism, Studies in Classic American Literature.

By examining Lawrence’s experiences in the Americas, including his fascination with indigenous cultures, Jenkins illustrates how the modernist writer helped shape both American literary criticism and the American literary canon. Reassessing Lawrence’s relationship to American modernism and his literary contemporaries in the New World, Jenkins portrays Lawrence as a transatlantic writer whose significant body of work embraces and adapts both English and American traditions and innovations.

Claire Connolly, ed.  Irish Literature in Transition (CUP, 2020)

The years between 1780 and 1830 are vital decades in the history of Irish writing in English. This book charts the confluence of Enlightenment, antiquarian, and romantic energies within Irish literary culture and shows how different writers and genres absorbed, dispersed and remade those interests during five decades of political change. During those same years, literature made its own history. By the 1840s, Irish writing formed a recognizable body of work, which later generations would draw on, quote, anthologize and dispute. Questions raised by novels, poems and plays of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the politics of language and voice; the relationship between literature and locality; the possibility of literature as a profession - resonated for many Irish writers over the centuries that followed and continue to matter today. This comprehensive volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and romantic literary studies.

Tom Birkett and Roderick Dale, eds. The Vikings Reimagined: Reception, Recovery, Engagement (de Gruyter, 2020)

The Vikings Reimagined explores the changing perception of Norse and Viking cultures across different cultural forms, and the complex legacy of the Vikings in the present day. Bringing together experts in literature, history and heritage engagement, this highly interdisciplinary collection aims to reconsider the impact of the discipline of Old Norse Viking Studies outside the academy and to broaden our understanding of the ways in which the material and textual remains of the Viking Age are given new meanings in the present. The diverse collection draws attention to the many roles that the Vikings play across contemporary culture: from the importance of Viking tourism, to the role of Norse sub-cultures in the formation of local and international identities. Together these collected essays challenge the academy to rethink its engagement with popular reiterations of the Vikings and to reassess the position afforded to ‘reception’ within the discipline.

Miranda Corcoran and Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (eds). Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family: Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction Routledge, 2020.

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned(2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.

Adam Hanna and Dr Jane Griffiths (eds), Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary (Palgrave, 2020)

This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination. Examining the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and literature from classical times to the present day, it includes new work by both leading scholars and early career academics, providing fresh insights into the spiritual, social, and imaginative significances of built space. Further, it reveals how engagement with both real and imagined architectural structures has long been a way of understanding the intangible workings of the mind itself.

Bahryie Kemal. Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space (Routledge, 2019) 

Bahriye Kemal's ground-breaking new work serves as the first study of the literatures of Cyprus from a postcolonial and partition perspective. Her book explores Anglophone, Hellenophone and Turkophone writings from the 1920s to the present.

Drawing on Yi-Fu Tuan’s humanistic geography and Henri Lefebvre’s Marxist philosophy, Kemal proposes a new interdisciplinary spatial model, at once theoretical and empirical, that demonstrates the power of space and place in postcolonial partition cases. The book shows the ways that place and space determine identity so as to create identifications; together these places, spaces and identifications are always in production. In analysing practices of writing, inventing, experiencing, reading, and construction, the book offers a distinct ‘solidarity’ that captures the ‘truth of space’ and place for the production of multiple-mutable Cypruses shaped by and for multiple-mutable selves, ending in a 'differential’ Cyprus, Mediterranean, and world.

Writing Cyprus offers not only a nuanced understanding of the actual and active production of colonialism, postcolonialism and partition that dismantles the dominant binary legacy of historical-political deadlock discourse, but a fruitful model for understanding other sites of conflict and division

Bahryie Kemal, Alev Adil, Aydin Mehmet, and Maria Petrides, eds. Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City. (Saqi, 2019)

Cyprus’ capital Nicosia has been split by a militarised border for decades. In this collection, writers from all sides of the divide reimagine the past, present and future of their city.

Here, Cypriot-Greeks coexist alongside Cypriot-Turks, the north with the south, town with countryside, dominant voices with the marginalised. This is a city of endless possibilities – a place where an anthropologist from London and a talkative Marxist are hunted by a gunman in the Forbidden zone; where a romance between two aspiring Tango dancers falls victim to Nicosia’s time difference; and where an artist finds his workplace on a rooftop, where he paints a horizon disturbed only by birds.

Together, these writers journey beyond the beaten track creating a complete picture of Nicosia, the world’s last divided capital city, that defies barriers of all kinds.

Maureen O’Connor, Kathryn Laing, and Sinéad Mooney, eds. Edna O'Brien: New Critical Perspectives, 2^nd ed. (Peter Lang, 2020)

The essays collected in Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives illustrate the range, complexity and interest of O’Brien as a fiction writer and dramatist. Together they contribute to a broader appreciation of her work and to an evolution of new critical approaches, as well as igniting greater interest in the many unexplored areas of her considerable oeuvre.

Edel Semple and Rory Loughnane, eds. Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave, 2019)

This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has been heretofore unseen, ignored, or taken for granted. It draws together leading and emerging scholars of early modern theatre and culture to debate the meaning of normality in an early modern context and to discuss how it might transfer to the stage. In doing so, these original critical essays unsettle and challenge scholarly assumptions about how normality is represented in the performance space. The volume, which responds to studies of the everyday and the material turn in cultural history, as well as to broader philosophical engagements with the idea of normality and its opposites, brings to light the essential role that normality plays in the composition and performance of early modern drama.

Heather Laird. Commemoration (Cork University Press, 2018)

This book, written during Ireland's decade of centenaries, draws on the aims of the Síreacht series to re-imagine commemoration. A commemoration process that is shaped by a desire to re-invigorate the social imagination and encourage speculation on alternatives to current orthodoxies considers not only what happened in the past, but what else might conceivably have happened. By acknowledging the existence of historical alternatives at a given moment, we can access that moment's contingencies. These unrealised yet fully realisable past futures are especially numerous during periods of potent possibility; points in time when the future seems particularly open to being shaped by those living in the present. The book proposes ways that we can both make the roads untaken in history visible and 'remember' them. It links the untaken roads of the past to side-branching roads in the present: real possible alternatives to dominant ways of thinking and being, outlining commemorative practices that could connect these two sets of roads. The book - while referring to history, literature, television drama and documentary, economics, politics, law and art - is grounded in concepts and practices of land and property occupancy and usage. That said, the ideas that it explores are relevant to the broader set of struggles concerning collective welfare that impel the Síreacht series. In keeping with the series's utopian-inflected subtitle, 'Longings for Another Ireland', the book proposes that a commemoration process which recognises that the past could have been other than it was and that it could have given rise to other possible futures can assist us in the difficult but necessary process of imagining our future as both different too and better than the here and now.

2026 Staff Publications

Adam Hanna, “Being an Irish Poet.” The Cambridge History of Irish Poetry, edited by Eric Falci, Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Adam Hanna, “Labour and Perseverance in the Writings of Seamus Heaney.” Sounding Heaney, 2026.

Adam Hanna, “On Second Thoughts: Teaching a Poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Using Digitized Drafts.” Teaching Modern Irish Poetry in English, 2026.

Adam Hanna, “Seamus Heaney: Visual Art and Memory.” Ekphrasis: Making the Past Present, Bloomsbury, 2026.

Danny Denton, Betweenness. Atlantic Books (commissioned, forthcoming late 2026).

2025 Staff Publications

Claire Connolly, Irish Romanticism: A Literary History, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Graham Allen, Representing the New AI in Film and Television, Bloomsbury, 2025.

Adam Hanna and Alexander Teekell. “Dividing Lines: The Border Roads of Irish Poetry.” Études Anglaises, vol. 78, no. 1, 2025, pp. 13–28.

Adam Hanna, “Pragmatism, Law, and Literature: by David Kenny.” Law and Humanities, vol. 19, no. 2, 2025, pp. 412–16.

Adam Hanna, “The Legal Humanities Working Group: An Introduction.” Irish Humanities Alliance, 2025.

Adam Hanna, “‘As long as the language will live’—Michael Longley.” Books Ireland, 2025.

Adam Hanna, “Michael Longley: An Obituary.”

Adam Hanna, “David Kenny, Pragmatism, Law, and Literature.” Law and Humanities, 2025.

2024 Staff Publications

Danny Denton, "Love Letter in the Midsummer." Cork Stories, Doire Press, 2024, pp 23-28.

Danny Denton, "the things." Collaborative commissioned response to Lee Welch’s In Praise of Idleness, May 2024.

2023 Staff Publications

Danny Denton, "it’s windy here." The Writer’s Torch, The Stinging Fly Press, 2023, pp 6-10.

Tom Birkett, ‘Legends of Norse Mythology: Enter a World of Gods, Giants, Monsters and Heroes’, Wide Eyed Editions, 2023.

2022 Staff Publications

Danny Denton, “Witnessing our son…” Image Magazine, Spring 2022.

Danny Denton "45 Views of a Dual Carriageway." Belfield Literary Review 2, 2022, pp 45-56.

Danny Denton, All Along the Echo. Atlantic Books, 2022.

2021 Staff Publications

Graham Allen, ‘Intertextuality: 3rd Edition’ (Routledge, 2021)

Maureen O'Connor and Benjamin R. Gearey. “‘Black Butter Melting and Opening Underfoot’: The ‘Peat Harvest’ in Irish Literature and Culture.” Green Letters, vol. 24, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1–10. Taylor & Francis

Danny Denton “Evening at the Friary”. Cork Words 2, Cork City Libraries, 2021, pp 83-92

Danny Denton "The Central Field." In Context 4 – In Our Time, 2021, pp 26-27

2020 Staff Publications

Miranda Corcoran and Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (eds). Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction
Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family. Routledge, 2020 https://www.routledge.com/Exploring-the-Horror-of-Supernatural-Fiction-Ray-Bradburys-Elliott/Corcoran-Ellerhoff/p/book/9780367210946

Miranda Corcoran, "Bleeding Panels, Leaking Forms: Reading the Abject in Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods (2014)", The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 10(1), p.5. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.198

Alan Gibbs, Things happen to you they happen”: Cormac McCarthy, Morality, and Neo-Naturalism', The Cormac McCarthy Journal, 18.1, pp. 56-77 https://www.jstor.org/journal/cormmccaj

Adam Hanna and Dr Jane Griffiths (eds), Architectural Space and the Imagination: Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary. Palgrave, 2020 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-36067-2 

2019

Miranda Corcoran, 'Gotta Light?: Intersections of Science and the Supernatural in Twin Peaks' Supernatural Studies Journal 5.2 (2019), p.p. 19-44.

Miranda Corcoran,'“I’ll be in every living thing in the world tonight”: Adolescent Femininity and the Gothic Uncanny in Bradbury’s “The April Witch”' 6 (2019), p.p. 121-141

Miranda Corcoran, "A Short History of Teenage Witches", Horror Homeroom (Feb 2019)

Alex Davis. ‘Collaborator: Ezra Pound, Translation, and Appropriation’, Modernist Cultures, 14.1 (2019), pp. 17-35.

Anne Etienne. ‘“I remember”; “I forget”; “I can’t forget”: Oral History, the Archive and Remembering Corcadorca’s Merchant of Venice.’ Navigating Ireland’s Theatre Archive: Theory, Practice, Performance. Ed. Barry Houlihan. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019.

Lee M. Jenkins, ‘“another Bloomsbury set’: Lawrence, Life Writing, and London Modernism.’ Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies 5.2 (2019): 59-75. ISSN 17591066. Peer reviewed.

Lee M. Jenkins, “‘The Raw and the Cooked’: Food and Modernist Poetry.” In Derek Gladwin, ed., Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture. Clemson: Clemson University Press, 2019, pp. 185-94. ISSN 9781942954682. Peer reviewed.

Heather Laird, “Decade of Commemoration: Let’s Tell the People’s History.” Liberty Newspaper 18.1 (February 2019), p. 23. ISSN 0791458X [Newspaper Article]

Heather Laird, “What did James Joyce have to say about the Irish Beef Industry?”, RTÉ Brainstorm (August 2019)

Heather Laird, “What are the Roots of the Irish Obsession with Property?” RTÉ Brainstorm (March 2019)

Maureen O'Connor, Special Issue, co-edited and introduction written with Derek Gladwin: ‘Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 40.1 (2018). 39-328.

Maureen O'Connor, ‘“Informed Love”: Human and Non-Human Bodies in Tim Robinson’s Ethical Aesthetic’. Estudios Irlandeses Special Issue, ‘Gender Issues in Contemporary Irish Literature’, 13.2 (October 2018): 19-29. https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/2018/10/informed-love-human-and-non-human-bodies-in-tim-robinsons-ethical-aesthetic/

Maureen O'Connor,‘Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities’, Guest-Editors’ Introduction, with Derek Gladwin. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Special Issue: Environmental Humanities 40.1 (2018): 39-49.

Maureen O'Connor, ‘Lady Morgan and The Missionary’, in Mutual Regard: An Anthology of Indo-Irish Writings. Ed. Kapil Kapoor, et. al. DK Pintworld, New Delhi, 2018. 601-6.

Eibhear Walshe, The Trumpet Shall Sound ( Dublin: Somerville Press, 2019)

Eibhear Walshe,  'Elsewhere' Elizabeth Bowen Review, 2019

2018

Lee M. Jenkins, “Atlantic Triangle: Stevens, Yeats, Eliot.” Wallace Stevens Journal 42.1 (2018): 17-30. ISSN 01487132. Peer reviewed.

Lee M. Jenkins and Melanie Otto, “‘The Ocean in Us’: Irish-Caribbean Connections.” Caribbean Quarterly 64: 3-4 (2018): 377-91. ISSN 00086495.

Lee M. Jenkins and Melanie Otto, eds., Irish Caribbean Connections. Special double issue of Caribbean Quarterly, 64.3-4 (2018): 370-620. ISSN 00086495. Peer reviewed

Lee M. Jenkins, “Lawrence’s Influence on Later Writers.” In Andrew Harrison, ed., D.H. Lawrence in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 327-36. ISBN 9781108429399.

Heather Laird, “‘An Ireland as Complex and Various as Possible’: Sean O’Faolain’s Writings on Partition as a Precursor to Peace Process Republicanism.” Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 45.1 (February 2018), pp. 111–34. ISSN 01903659 [Peer-Reviewed Journal Article]. 

Heather Laird, “Writing Working-Class Irish Women.”  In Michael Pierse, ed., A Cambridge History of Irish Working-Class Writing.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 122–39. ISBN 9781107149687. Hardback [Book Chapter].

Leanne O'Sullivan, A Quarter of An Hour, Bloodaxe Books, 2018.

Edel Semple, "'Make you a sword of me': Military masculinity in Coriolanus (2011) and Macbeth (2015)" Literature/Film Quarterly, 46 (2) 2018.

Eibhear Walshe,’ Kate O’Brien’.  A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature. Edited by Heather Ingman and Cliona O’ Gallchoir. ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.)

2017

Miranda Corcoran, Scream! Just where did our fascination with horror come from? RTE Brainstorm (Oct 2017)

Miranda Corcoran, '“Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation.”' In: Mark Leone and Lee M. Jenkins (eds). Atlantic Crossings: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture. Leiden: Brill. 

Alex Davis, ‘From Samarkand to Switzerland: Sheila Wingfield’s Demystifying Modernism'’, Cambridge Quarterly, 46.4 (2017), pp. 325-43.

Anne Etienne, ‘(G)hosting Abortion: the Creation of Between Trees and Water.’ Performance Ireland special issue, Gender, Sexuality and the City. Carysfort (2017): 89-106.

Anne Etienne, ‘Slump and Punk in Ray Scannell’s Losing Steam – Envisioning Corcadorca.’ Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage. Eds. Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost. Palgrave, 2017. 193-212.

Anne Etienne, ‘Interview with Bríd Ó Gallchoir.’ Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage. Eds. Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost. 141-152.

Anne Etienne, ‘Interview with Pat Kinevane.’ Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre: Populating the Stage. Eds. Anne Etienne and Thierry Dubost. 153-164.

Anne Etienne, ‘Topsy-turvying The Merchant of Venice: Shylock as Wesker’s response to the Renaissance Jew.’ Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays For and By the Contemporary Stage. Eds. Michael Dobson and Estelle Rivier. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 143-160.

Lee M. Jenkins and Mark P. Leone, Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture. Leiden: Brill, 2017. 289pp. ISBN 9789004343481. Hardback. Peer reviewed.

Lee M. Jenkins, “Frederick Douglass and the Transatlantic Classroom.” Introduction to Jenkins and Leone, eds., Atlantic Crossings after Frederick Douglass. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Lee M. Jenkins, “Postcolonialism and Experimentalism.” In Jahan Ramazani, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 153-66.  ISBN 9781107462878. Peer reviewed.

Lee M. Jenkins, “Stevens and his Contemporaries.” In Glen MacLeod, ed., Wallace Stevens in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 110-119. ISBN 9781107110496. Peer reviewed.

Maureen O'Connor, ‘Dark Ecology and Black Comedy in Patrick McGinley’s Foggage’ in From Ego to Eco: Mapping Shifts  from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism. Eds Sabine Lenore Müller and Tina-Karen Pusse. Brill/Rodopi. December 2017. 185-200.

Maureen O'Connor‘Melancholy Ornaments in the House of Edna O’Brien’s Fiction’, in The Vibrant House: Irish Writing 
and Domestic Space. Eds Rhona Richman Kenneally and Lucy McDiarmid. Four Courts Press, October 2017. 188-209.

Maureen O'Connor,‘“Revolting Scenes of Famine”: Frances Power Cobbe and the Great Hunger,’ in Women and the Great Hunger in Ireland. Eds Christine Kinealy, Jason King, and Ciarán Reilly. Quinnipiac University Press. February, 2017. 161-72.

Maureen O'Connor, ‘Green Fields and Blue Roads: The Melancholy of the Girl Walker in Irish Women’s Fiction’. Critical Survey Special Issue, ‘One Green Field: Walking, Landscape, and Ecocriticism’ 29.1 (Spring 2017): 90-104.

Edel Semple and Ema Vyroubalová, editors. 'Special Issue: European Women in Early Modern English Drama'. Early Modern Literary Studies, 27, 2017.

Edel Semple,  'Looking (at) women in the BBC Pericles' in: Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (eds). Shakespeare on Screen: The Tempest and other romances. Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Eibhear Walshe,  ‘Kate O’Brien and Spain ‘. In  Ireland and Dysfunction: Critical Explorations in Literature and Film Editor: Asier Altuna-García de Salazar (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017) pp 71- 87

2016 Publications

Etienne, Anne, '“Visions don’t work”? The role of Wesker’s theatre and Centre 42 in 1960s’ British culture’. Studies in Theatre and Performance, March 2016, Routledge.

http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/zPxQ8BSzmw6vCSsIauWu/full

Etienne, Anne, ‘Challenging the Auditorium: Spectatorship(s) in “Off-site” performances.’ Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 4-1 (2016): 74-89. DOI 10.1515/jcde-2016-0007

King, Andrew, Medieval into Renaissance: Essays for Helen Cooper, ed. Andrew King and Matthew Woodcock. D. S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2016. ISBN 978 1 84384 432 7

King, Andrew,'Introduction' (with Matthew Woodcock), in Medieval into Renaissance, edd. King and Woodcock (above, under Book).

King, Andrew,'The Monument of Uncertainty: Sovereign and Literary Authority in Samuel Sheppard's The Faerie King, in Medieval into Renaissance, edd. King and Woodcock

Pilz, Anna and Whitney Standlee (eds), Irish Women's Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016)

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719097584/

Pilz, Anna, ‘“A bad master”: Religion, Jacobitism, and the Politics of Representation in Lady Gregory’s The White Cockade, in Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee (eds), Irish Women’s Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 137-55. 8,000 words

Pilz, Anna and Whitney Standlee, ‘Introduction’, in Anna Pilz and Whitney Standlee (eds), Irish Women’s Writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), pp. 1-16. 6,000 words

2015 Publications

Birkett, Tom, 'Unlocking Runes? Reading Anglo-Saxon Runic Abbreviations in Their Immediate Literary Context', 
'Unlocking Runes? Reading Anglo-Saxon Runic Abbreviations in Their Immediate Literary Context'. Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies, 5 (2015):91-114.

Etienne, Anne, ‘Reforming Theatre Censorship: the Lord Chamberlain Caught Between the Repressive and the Libertarian Camps’, in British Crusades for Moral Reform and their Ambivalent Politics. Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, Volume 19/3 (2015): 75-93.

O'Connell, Mary, Byron and John Murray: A Poet and his Publisher (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015)

O'Connor, Maureen, ‘“The most haunting bird”: Unbeing and Illegibility in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing’. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 44.7 (September 2015): 940-55.

Semple, Edel, 'Playing the whore: performing and contextualising prostitution in The Three Ladies of London.' online at Performance as Research: The Three Ladies of London in Context. (2015) URL: http://threeladiesoflondon.mcmaster.ca/contexts/EdelSemple.htm

Pilz, Anna, ‘Lady Gregory’s The Gaol Gate, Terence MacSwiney, and the Abbey Theatre’, Irish Studies Review, vol. 23, no. 3 (2015), pp. 277-91. 8,700 words 

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09670882.2015.1054126

Pilz, Anna and Andrew Tierney, ‘Trees, Big House Culture, and the Irish Literary Revival’, New Hibernia Review, vol. 19, no. 2 (2015), pp. 65-82. 8,600 words

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/583773

2014 Publications

Birkett, Thomas, 'Chapter 17: Old Norse', in  A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture), ed. by Stuart Lee (Oxford: Wiley/Blackwell, 2014)

Birkett, Tom, 'Runes and Revelatio: Cynewulf’s Signatures Reconsidered'. Review Of English Studies 65/272 (2014): 771-789

Birkett, Tom and Christina Lee (eds), The Vikings in Munster (Languages, Myths and Finds - Volume 3) (Nottingham: University of Nottingham / Mitel Publishing, 2014).

Connolly, Claire, ‘A Bookish History of Irish Romanticism’, in Porscha Fermanis and John O’Regan (eds.), Rethinking British and Irish Historiography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Etienne, Anne and Agathe Torti (eds), Autour de Shylock: Variations Contemporaines. Spec. issue of Coup de théâtre (2014)

Erienne, Anne, ‘Naked Censorship: Stripping the Censors’ Discourse’. LISA e-journal XI/3 (2013). http://lisa.revues.org/5509 

Gibbs, Alan, Contemporary American Trauma Narratives (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014)

Jenkins, Lee M. The American Lawrence (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014)

O'Connor, Maureen, ‘Myth and Metonymy in Irish Women’s Writing: A Consideration of Mary O’Malley’, in Irish Women’s Writing. Ed. Bertrand Cardin and Sylvie Mikowski. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen. 2014.237-53.

Semple, Edel, 'Edward Webbe’s The rare and most wonderfull things which Edw. Webbe an Englishman borne, hath seene and passed in his troublesome travailes (London, 1590).' online at Reading     East: Irish Sources and Resources (2014) URL: http://www.ucd.ie/readingeast/essay8.html

Walshe, Eibhear, The Diary of Mary Travers (Dublin: Somerville Press, 2014)

2013 Publications

Davis, Alex  '"Quadrupedante, etcetera:" Allusion, Lyricism, and Imperium in Thomas MacGreevy’s "Crón Tráth na nDéithe,"', in The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy: A Critical Reappraisal (London: Continuum, 2013).

Jenkins, Lee, 'Water Songs: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and Jamaican Poetry', in Caribbean-Irish Connections ed. by Alison Donnell and Evelyn O’Callaghan (Cave Hill, Barbados: University of the West Indies Press, 2013).

Jenkins, Lee M., 'Studies in Classic American Literature and American Studies', D.H. Lawrence Review 37.2 (2013), 44-59.

Laird, Heather, ‘Decentring the Irish Land War: Women, Politics and the Private Sphere’ in Land Questions in Modern Ireland ed. by Fergus Campbell and Tony Varley (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013).

Murphy, Orla, 'Creating Open Knowledge Networks: Innovating Early Career Researchers', in Revaluing the Humanities (Dublin: RIA, 2013).

O'Connor, Maureen,  ‘Animals and the Irish Mouth in Edna O’Brien’s Fiction’, Journal of Ecocriticism—Special Issue: Irish  Ecocriticism 5.2 (September 2013).  http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/issue/view/31

O'Connor, Maureen,  ‘Fearful Symmetry: An Emigrant’s Return to Celtic-Tiger Ireland’, in Extended Family: Essays on Irish America ed. by James Silas Rogers (Chester Springs, PA: Dufours Editions, 2013), pp. 237-48.

O'Connor, Maureen, ‘Vegetable Love: The Syncretic Nation in the Writings of Margaret Cousins and Eva Gore-Booth’. Journal of Irish Studies (IASIL Japan) XXVIII (2013): 18-33.

 O'Connor, Maureen, ‘“Dear Dirty Dublin”: Historical and Cultural Contexts for James Joyce’s Fiction’, in Critical Insights: James Joyce. Ed. Al Wachtel. Pasadena, CA: EBSCO/Salem Press, 2013. 21-41.

 O'Connor, Maureen, ‘“Mrkgnao!”: Signifying Animals in the Fiction of James Joyce’, in Critical Insights: James Joyce. Ed. Al Wachtel. Pasadena, CA: EBSCO/Salem Press, 2013. 101-19.

 Ó Gallchoir, Clíona, 'Gender, Modernity and Nation in Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea', Irish University Review, 43 (1), 344-362.

Semple, Edel, and Rory Loughnane, eds., Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013)

Semple, Edel, 'Rethinking Transgression with Shakespeare's Bawds', in Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies) ed. by Rory Loughnane and Edel Semple (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013).

Walshe, Eibhear, A Different Story: The Writings of Colm Tóibín (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2013).

2012 Publications

Birkett, Thomas, ‘Correcting Bede's Corrector? A Runic Note in the Margins of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 41.’ Notes & Queries 59:4 (2012), 465-470.

Connolly, Claire,  A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Connolly, Claire, 'The National Tale', in The Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume IV: The Irish Book in English, 1800-1890, ed. by James H. Murphy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Etienne, Anne, 'Pond Life and Angels: Enda Walsh's Adaptations to Cork', in Drama Reinvented: Theatre Adaptations in Ireland, 1970-2007, ed. by (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 255-267.

Mark Faulkner, '"Like a Virgin:" the reheading of St Edmund and monastic reform in late-tenth-century England', in Heads Will Roll: decapitation in the medieval and early modern imagination (Leiden: Brill, 2012)

Laird, Heather, Daniel Corkery's Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings (Cork:Cork University Press, 2012)

2011 Publications

Allen, Graham,  Intertextuality, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011).

Allen, Graham, 'The Gift and the Return: Deconstructing Mary Shelley's Lodore' Derrida Today  4 (2011), 44-58.

Davis, Alex, 'Hughes and His Critics,' in The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes ed. by Terry Gifford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Davis, Alex, ''And this is Kedging in Time: Post/Modernism and the Genre of Elegy', in The Salt Companion to John Matthias, ed. by Joe Francis Doerr (Cambridge: Salt, 2011).

Faulkner, Mark, 'Archaism, Belatedness and Modernization: "Old" English in the Twelfth Century', The Review of English Studies, 2011.

Griffin, Carrie, Graham Allen and Mary O'Connell, eds., Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011)

Jenkins, Lee M., 'Interculturalism', in The Cambridge Companion to British and Irish Women's Poetry, ed. by Jane Dowson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Murphy, Orla, 'Intermediality: Experiencing the Virtual Text', in Griffin et al, eds., Readings on Audience and Textual Materiality (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011).

O'Connor, Maureen, ‘The Smithy of Stephen Dedalus’ Soul: Contexts for Joyce’s Novel’, in Critical Insights: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ed. Al Wachtel. Pasadena, CA: EBSCO/Salem Press, 2011. 50-65.

Rooney, Kenneth, Mortality and Imagination: the Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011).

Walshe, Eibhear, Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland (Cork: Cork University Press, 2011).

Walshe, Eibhear, ed., Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings (Cork: Cork University Press, 2011).

2010 Publications

Davis, Alex, 'Learning to be Brutal: Synge, Decadence, and the Modern Movement', The New Hibernia Review 14 (2010), 33-51.

Gibbs, Alan, '"Listen to him, Mr. Take-Charge:" Gender Politics and Morality in Carl Hiaasen's Crime Novels', in Writing America into the Twenty-First Century, ed. by E. Boyle and A. Evans (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).

O'Connor, Maureen, The Female and the Species: The Animal in Irish Women's Writing (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010).

O'Connor, Maureen, ed., Back to the Future of Irish Studies: Festschrift for Tadhg Foley (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010).

O'Connor, Maureen, ‘The Mythopoeic Landscape in Edna O’Brien’s Ireland’, in A Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature. Ed. Julia M. Wright. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 209-23.

O'Connor, Maureen,  ‘“I’m meat for no butcher!”: The Female and the Species in Irish Women’s Writing’, in Irish Women Writers. New Critical Perspectives. Ed.Elke D’hoker, Raphaël Ingelbien, and

O'Connor, Maureen, Hedwig Schall.Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010. 133-49.

O'Connor, Maureen, ‘“Becoming-Animal” in the Novels of Edna O’Brien’, in ‘Out of the Earth’: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Ed. Christine Cusick. Cork: Cork University Press, 2010. 205-43.

2009 Publications

Jenkins, Lee M.,  'Green and Black and Cork', in The Black and Green Atlantic, ed. by David Lloyd, and Peter O'Neill (London: Macmillan, 2009)

Laird, Heather, 'The Placing and Politics of Elizabeth Bowen in Contemporary Irish Literary and Cultural Criticism', in Irish Writers in their Time: Elizabeth Bowen, ed. by Eibhear Walshe (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009)

Monahan, Barry,  Ireland's Theatre on Film: Style, Stars and the National Stage on Screen (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009)

Rooney, Kenneth 'Middle English Literature: Excluding Chaucer - The Gawain Poet', The Year's Work in English Studies 88 (2009), 234-240.

Walshe, Eibhear, ed., Elizabeth Bowen: Visions and Revisions (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009)

Walshe, Eibhear, Cissie's Abattoir (Cork: Collins Press, 2009)

Young, Gwenda, '1925: Movies and a Year of Change', in  American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations (Screen Decades), ed. by Lucy Fischer (New Jersey: Rutgers, 2009).

Young, Gwenda, 'Funny Girls: Early American Screen Comediennes and Ethnicity', in Screening Irish America, ed. by Ruth Barton (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009).

2008 Publications

Allen, Graham, Mary Shelley (Palgrave, 2008).

Connolly, Claire, 'Ugly Criticism: Edmund Burke and Irish Literature',  Field Day Review 4 (2008), 236-257.

Coughlan, Patricia, and Tina O'Toole, eds.  Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008)

Etienne, Anne, ‘England’s trouble is Ireland’s opportunity: les représentations de Blanco Posnet à l’Abbey Theatre’, Etudes Irlandaises 33/1 (2008): 83-98.

Gibbs, Alan, Henry Roth's Semi-Autobiographical Tetralogy Mercy of a Rude Stream (1994-1998): The Second Career of an American Novelist (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008).

Ó Gallchoir, Clíona, 'Foreign Tyrants and Domestic Tyrants: the Public, the Private, and Eighteenth-Century Irish Women's Writing', in Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives, ed. by Patricia Coughlan and Tina O'Toole (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2008)

Walshe, Eibhear, 'A Different story to Tell', in  Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland, ed. by Borbala Farago and Moynagh Sullivan (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008).

2007 Publications

Allen, Graham, and Roy Sellars, eds., Figures of Bloom: A Salt Companion to Harold Bloom (Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2007).

Lee M. Jenkins and Alex Davis, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Allen, Graham, 'Godwin, Fénelon and the Disappearing Teacher', in History of European Ideas, 33 (2007), 9-24.

Coughlan, Patricia, "Rereading Peig Sayers: Women's Autobiography, Social History and Narrative Art', in Feminist Approaches to Irish Texts, ed. by Christine St. Peter and Patricia Boyle Haberstroh (Cork: Cork UP, 2007).

Coughlan, Patricia, 'The whole strange growth: Heaney, Orpheus and the Women', Irish Review Special Issue on "Feminism in Ireland", May 2007.

Davis, Alex, 'Irish Decadence: Synge's Vita Vecchia', Irish Studies Review, 15.2 (2007).

Etienne, Anne, and David Thomas and David Carlton, eds., Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Etienne, Anne, 'Censure Politique ou politique de censure? Les cas de Geneva de Bernard Shaw et de Follow my Leader de Terrence Rattigan en 1938', Revue d'Historire du Theatre (4) 2007, 337-58.

Jenkins, Lee, M., 'Tradition and the Individual Talent of David Dabydeen', in No land, No Mother, ed. by Kampta Karran and Lynne Macedo (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2007).

King, Andrew, 'Well Grounded, Finely Framed and Strongly Trussed Up Together: The 'Medieval' Structure of The Faerie Queene',in Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions, ed. by J.B. Lethbridge: (Fairleigh: Dickinson University Press, 2007)

Murphy, Orla, 'Virtual Archive of Inscribed Stones', in  Visual Literacy in the University, ed. by Jim Elkins (Unknown: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2007).

2006 Publications

Coughlan, Patricia, 'Killing the Bats: Edna O' Brien, Abjection and the Problem of Agency', in Edna O' Brien: A Re-Appraisal, ed. by K. Laing, S. Mooney and M. O' Connor (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2006).

Etienne, Anne, 'Les non-dits de la scene anglaise (XVIIIe-XXe siècle)', Ethnologie Francaise (2006) XXXVI, 19-26.

Gibbs, Alan, 'Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's Survivor's Tale of the Holocaust'  Comparative American Studies: An International Journal (2006) 4, 108-110.

Ó Gallchoir, Cliona, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Irish National Tale', in Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture, ed. by Sarah Meer and Denise M. Kohn (Iowa: Iowa University Press, 2006)

Rooney, Ken, 'Tradition and innovation in the Middle English debates of mortality,' in Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts, ed. by Kathleen Cawsey and Jason Harris (Dublin: Four Courts, 2006), pp.158-74.

Walshe, Eibhear, and Gwenda Young, eds., Molly Keane: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).