Professor Brian Caraher

Professor Brian Caraher, Chair of English Literature at Queen's University Belfast since 1993, is currently Research Director in Poetry, Irish Writing, Creative Writing and Modern Literary Studies in the School of English. He was the School's first Head of Graduate Teaching and Research (1996-2006) and lead a massive expansion of taught postgraduate programmes, doctoral research, postgraduate funding and international recognition for taught literary research methodology. He has held lectureships at Eastern Illinois University (1980-82) and Indiana University at Bloomington (1982-93) in the USA, as well as research fellowships at Northwestern University (School of Criticism and Theory, 1981), Vanderbilt University (Mellon Regional Programme, 1984) and Aarhus University, Denmark (Danish Research Academy & Fulbright Commission, 1992-93). He has lectured in Denmark, England, Greece, Italy and the Republic of Ireland as well as the USA and Northern Ireland. Brian Caraher was educated in Indiana (Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory & Wabash College) and New York (MA & PhD, University of Buffalo). He served on an earlier incarnation of the RIA’s literary studies committee, helping to plan various conferences -- especially the very successful symposium on Edmund Burke in Academy House in April 2007 which commemorated the 250th anniversary of the publication of A Philosophical Enquiry. He has published on a wide range of Anglophone authors (Irish, British and American) and topics from the 18th century to contemporary writing, including an extensive set of studies on the cultural politics of reading Joyce.

Dr Philip Coleman

Philip Coleman graduated from University College Cork with a BA in English and Philosophy in 1995, and obtained MPhil and PhD degrees from Trinity College Dublin in 1997 and 2002. A Fulbright Scholar at the University of Minnesota in 1998 and holder of an IRCHSS award in 1999-2000, he has held teaching fellowships and lectureships at UCD, UCC, and TCD, where he is currently a Lecturer in English Studies (Literature of the Americas). In 2008 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. He has published articles on many aspects of American literature and edited “After thirty Falls”: New Essays on John Berryman (2007, with Philip McGowan), On Literature and Science: Essays, Reflections, Provocations (2007), and Ireland and the Americas: Politics, History, Culture (2008, with James Byrne and Jason King). A committee member of the Irish Association for American Studies, for which he edits the online journal IJASonline, he is currently completing a monograph on John Berryman for UCD Press, and co-editing a collection of essays on Pearse Hutchinson (with Maria Johnston, forthcoming from the Irish Academic Press).
 

Professor Anne Fogarty

Professor Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Centre. She is President of the International James Joyce Foundation. She was editor of the Irish University Review 2002-2009 and is co-editor with Luca Crispi of the Dublin James Joyce Journal, founded in 2008. She is co-editor with Timothy Martin of Joyce on the Threshold (University of Florida Press, 2005), with Morris Beja of Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses (University of Florida Press, 2009). She is currently writing a study of the historical and political dimensions of Ulysses, entitled James Joyce and Cultural Memory: Reading History in Ulysses. She has edited special issues of the Irish University Review on Spenser and Ireland, Lady Gregory, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and Benedict Kiely and has published widely on aspects of contemporary Irish fiction and poetry. She has co-directed two international James Joyce symposia. She was Associate Director of the Yeats International Summer School 1995-1997 and has been Academic Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1997. She was the recipient of the 2008 Charles Fanning Prize in Irish Studies awarded by the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale for her contributions to the field.

Professor Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

Professor Elmer Kennedy-Andrews is Professor of English at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He is Chair of the English Panel for the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland. His books include The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper (1988), Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992), Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992), The Art of Brian Friel (1995), Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter: Icon Critical Guides (1999), The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism (2000), The Poetry of Derek Mahon: A Collection of Critical Essays (2002), Fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles: (De-)Constructing the North (2003), Irish Fiction since the 1960s: A Collection of Critical Essays (2006), Paul Muldoon: Poetry, Prose, Drama: A Collection of Critical Essays (2006), Writing Home: Place and Poetry in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008 (2009), and Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays (2009). He has also authored many articles on various aspects of Irish Literature, American Literature and Irish-American Literature.
 

Dr Brigitte Le Juez

Brigitte Le Juez is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Dublin City University. She holds a PhD from the Ecole Doctorale de Littérature Comparée, Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Her research interests range from Franco-Irish literary reception to the relationship between literature and the visual arts. She has published on Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett  her latest book, Beckett avant la lettre (Grasset, 2007) was also published in English (Beckett Before Beckett, Souvenir Press, 2008).
 

Professor Chris Morash

Professor Chris Morash is Professor and Head of English at NUI Maynooth; in 2003, he founded the Centre for Media Studies in NUI Maynooth. His most recent book is A History of the Media in Ireland (Cambridge, 2009), which traces flows of information in Ireland from 1551 to the present. Earlier publications include A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 (Cambridge, 2002), which won the Theatre Book Prize, and Writing the Irish Famine (Oxford, 1996), as well as a number of articles and lectures dealing with various aspects of Irish culture. He is currently working on a project dealing with space in Irish theatre. Chris Morash is Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
 

Dr Eibhear Walsh

Dr Eibhear Walshe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern English at University College Cork. His biography Kate O’Brien A Writing Life was published by Irish Academic Press in 2006 and he edited Elizabeth Bowen:Visions and Revisions for Irish Academic Press in 2008 He was a section editor for The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Volume 4 (Cork University Press, 2002); a contributor to the New Dictionary of Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) and guest edited The Irish Review in 2000. His other publications include the edited collections, Ordinary People Dancing: Essays on Kate O’Brien (Cork University Press 1993), Sex, Nation and Dissent, ( Cork University Press:1997) Elizabeth Bowen Remembered (Four Courts Press: 1999) and The Plays of Teresa Deevy ( Mellen Press: 2003.) He co-edited, with Brian Cliff Representing the Troubles (Four Courts: 2004) and Molly Keane: Centenary Essays. (Four Courts: 2006) with Gwenda Young. He has completed a study of Wilde and Modern Ireland. His memoir, Cissie’s Abattoir was published by Collins Press in 2009