Contemporary Irish Literature

Dr Sandie Byrne

Speaker

Sandie Byrne is Associate professor of English Literature and Director of Studies in English, OUDCE and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.

Prof Michael Parker

Speaker

Michael Parker has worked as a tutor in Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education since 2015. He has written extensively on Irish, British and Postcolonial poetry, fiction and drama, and the contexts that shape them. His edited/ co-edited collections include The Hurt World: Short Stories of the Troubles (1995), Contemporary Irish Fiction (2000) and William Trevor: Revaluations (2013). He is currently completing Seamus Heaney: Legacies, Afterlives, a substantial study of the poet's writing from his middle and late career, which will appear in 2023 from Palgrave Macmillan.

Dr Hannah Simpson

Speaker

Hannah Simpson is Lecturer in Drama and Performance at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is in modern and contemporary theatre, with a focus on political representation and staging the body. She is the author of two recent monographs, Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama (Oxford University Press, 2022) and Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (Palgrave, 2022).

Dr Tara Stubbs

Speaker and Course Director

Tara Stubbs is an Associate Professor in English Literature and Creative Writing at OUDCE, and a Fellow of Kellogg College Oxford. For 2017–2020 she was the Academic Programme Director of the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. Her first book was American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–1955 (2013), which was re-issued in paperback in 2017. Her interests include American and Irish literature, modernism and poetry, and she has published widely in these fields. In 2017 she co-edited the essay collection Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture (2017), and her second monograph, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2020, was The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion.