Tutor information
Tara Stubbs
Dr 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.
Courses
'Poetry makes nothing happen'. So said W. H. Auden. But is he right, and what kind of value might poetry have when written in response to current events? In this course we'll consider poems written since 2016 alongside poems written in the last 100 years.
1922 was an 'annus mirabilis' which is said to have changed English Literature for ever. Among the works published in that year were some of the defining texts of Modernism, which this day school will explore. Join us in Oxford or watch online.
How have the events of the century since the 1922 partition of Ireland shaped contemporary Irish literature? We will discuss a range of works by Irish writers (poets, fiction-writers and playwrights), from both sides of the border, from the past 20 years.