Publications
Book Chapters:
‘Joanna Walsh’s Digital Narratives’, in Tramp Press: Ireland’s Maverick Publisher, Mary Burke and Tara Harney-Mahajan, eds. (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2024). Forthcoming.
‘“Talk about it, write it, spill it”: The Gothic and Contemporary Irish Women’s Essays’. Sorcha Ní Flann and Simon Workman, eds. Haunted Hibernia: The Contemporary Irish Gothic (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024). Forthcoming.
‘“There are worse things than getting beaten up”: Neoliberal Violence in Normal People’, in Marta Cenedese. Ed. Written on the Body: Narrative Reconstructions of Violence(s) (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2023). Open access. [https://doi.org/10.30819/5285]
‘“Just the Way it is”: Portraits of austerity in recent short fiction by women from the North of Ireland’. Deirdre Flynn and Ciara Murphy. Eds. Austerity and Irish Women’s Writing and Culture, 1980-2020. London: Routledge, 2022: 207-223.
‘“Caught suddenly by the land shifting”: Ageing masculinity and rural Ireland in recent Irish short fiction’. Michaela Schrage-Früh and Tony Tracy. Eds. Ageing Masculinities in Irish Literature and Visual Culture: Routledge Studies in Irish Literature. London: Routledge, 2022: 151-165.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
Review essay: Christian Moraru’s Flat Aesthetics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology (Penguin, 2018). C21: Journal of Twenty-First Century Writings 10:2 (2023): 11 pp. [https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.10312]
‘The Celtic Phoenix, Capitalist Realism, and Contemporary Irish Women’s Novels’, Irish Studies Review 31:3 (2023): 348-362. Special Issue: ‘The Rise of the Phoenix: Restoration and Renaissance in Contemporary Irish Writing’, edited by Eoghan Smith and Simon Workman. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2233324]
Co-authored with Áine Mahon (UCD), “‘Go to Oxbridge, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things’: The ‘Low Value’ Arts Degree and the Neoliberal University”, Oxford Review of Education (2023)[https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2229550]
‘“Town’s Dead”: Contemporary Irish Popular Music and Dublin City.’ Popular Music and Society 46:3 (2023): 225-241. [https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2023.2188629]
‘Introduction: Women Writing Work.’ Irish Studies Review 31:1 (2023): 1-15. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2163742]
‘Writing Work: A Conversation with Caitríona Lally.’ Irish Studies Review 31:1 (2023): 83-90. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2163737]
“‘Something as definitionally useless as art:” Contemporary Women Writers’ Künstlerromane and the Possibility of a Beautiful World.” Alluvium 10:2 (2022).
‘“Systemic, transhistoric, institutionalized and legitimized antipathy:” Epistemic and Sexual Violence in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing and Anna Burns’s Milkman’. Contemporary Women’s Writing 15:3 (2021): 307-325. [https://doi.org/10.1093/cwwrit/vpab033]
‘“[The] immediate heft of bodily and civic catastrophe”: The body (politic) in crisis in Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones’. Irish Studies Review 29:3 (2021): 334-347. [https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2021.1945758]
‘Editorial: Twenty-first Century Irish Women’s Writing’. Alluvium Special Issue. Co-authored and co-edited with Dr Dearbhaile Houston 9:1 (2021)
‘“It was our great generational decision”: Capitalism, the Internet and Depersonalisation in some Millennial Irish Women’s Writing’. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62:5 (2021): 538-551. [https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2020.1835802]
‘“The moment you realise someone wants your body:” Neoliberalism, Mindfulness and Female Embodiment in Fleabag’. Feminist Media Studies 22:1 (2020): 132-147. [https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1797848]
‘Storytelling and the Repeal of the 8th Amendment: Narrative and Reproductive Rights in Ireland’. Rejoinder. Issue 5 (2020): Storytelling and Social Change. Open access. [http://bitly.ws/992i]
‘“A lie that pandered to racism and xenophobia”: Brexit, White Teeth and (Inter)national borders’. FORUM. 28 (2019): 17pp. Open access. [https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.28.3049]
‘“A pre-natal hold”: Elizabeth Bowen, mothers and daughters.’ Estudios Irlandeses. 14:1 (2019): 28-40. Open access. [https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2019-8784]
Journal Special Issues:
Irish Studies Review 31:1 (2023). Special Issue: ‘Twenty-First Century Irish Women’s Writing and Work’. Co-ed. with Dr Liam Harrison (UWE Bristol) and Dr Dearbhaile Houston (TCD).
Scholarly Reviews:
‘Éoin Flannery, Form Affect and Debt in Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction (2022)’, Irish University Review 53:1 (2023): 199-202. [https://doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0602]
‘Mary M. McGlynn, Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction (2022)’, Irish Studies Review 31:2 (2023): 321-323 [https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2023.2194499]
Public Humanities/Articles for Popular Audiences:
‘Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize: why we’re in a “golden age” of Irish writing’. The Conversation. 23 Nov. 2023.
‘Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Literature Researcher’s Perspective on Mental Health in Academia.’ Thinkful.ie. 19 Jan. 2023.
‘Four of Shakespeare’s plays and how they speak to the current political situation in Britain.’ The Conversation. 26 Oct. 2022.
‘PartyGate Revisited: why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is starting to sound like an Evelyn Waugh novel.’ The Conversation. 23 Feb. 2022.
‘“What do you do all day?” A case for the arts in the neoliberal university’. EU Commission, Shape-ID. 6 Jul. 2021.
‘Rewriting Joyce in contemporary Irish women’s short fiction’. The Modernist Review 28: Modernism in the Contemporary. 26 Feb. 2021.
‘The Unravelling of Old Uncertainties: Elizabeth Bowen and the Search for Stability in Times of Flux’. Irish Women’s Writing Network. 7 Dec. 2020.
‘Gender and the Pandemic: Crisis, Contagion and Caring’. Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. 29 Oct. 2020.
‘Identities in Transformation: The PhD Diaries’. Trinity Research. 11 Nov. 2020.
‘Contemporary Irish Literary Culture in Early Printed Books’. Tales of Mystery and Pagination. TCD Library Special Collections. 3 Oct. 2019.
‘Pockets and the fight for the female body’. Inciting Sparks. 3 Sept. 2019