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Contributors
Jody Allen Randolph, guest editor of this issue, served as Assistant Dean of the British Studies at Oxford Programme at St. John's College, Oxford, and has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, University College Dublin, and Westmont College. She has edited or co-edited special issues of journals on Eavan Boland, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley. Recent publications include Eavan Boland: A Source book (Carcanet, 2007), selected for a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the London Independent Best Books of 2007, and Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion (Norton, 2008). She is currently at work on Interviews from a New Ireland, a series of interviews with Irish writers and visual artists forthcoming from Carcanet Press in 2010.
Andrew Auge is Professor of English at Loras College. He has published essays on Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Paul Muldoon, and Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin. He is currently working on a book examining the interconnections between modern Irish poetry and Catholicism.
Eavan Boland has published ten volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is Domestic Violence (2007). Her New Collected Poems was published by W.W. Norton in 2008, and her prose critique, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, in 1995. She is the Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities at Stanford University and Lane Professor for Director of the Creative Writing Program. [End Page 321]
Ciaran Carson is Professor of Poetry at Queen's University. Born in Belfast, he is the author of nine collections of poems, including Belfast Confetti, First Language, and Breaking News. His prose works include Last Night's Fun, a book about Irish traditional music; The Star Factory, a memoir of Belfast; Fishing for Amber: A Long Story; and a novel, Shamrock Tea. His translation of Dante's Inferno won the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize, and his translation of Brian Merriman's Cúirt an Mhéan Oíche (The Midnight Court) appeared in 2005. A translation of the Old Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge was published by Penguin Classics in 2007. For All We Know (2008) was a Poetry Book Society Choice. His Collected Poems was published in 2008 and a new book of poems, On the Night Watch, is due in 2009, as is a novel, The Pen Friend. Ciaran Carson is a member of Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish artists. Among the prizes he has won are the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Forward Prize.
Lucy Collins is a lecturer in English at University College Dublin. She has published widely on contemporary Irish and American poetry, including essays on Thomas Kinsella, Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin, and Louise Glück. She is currently completing a monograph on Irish women poets. A co-edited collection, Aberration in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, will be published in 2009.
Eileen Denn Jackson is a theater practitioner and researcher. Her current area of interest explores the politics of body, voice, and space in performance. She leads workshops in movement, actor preparation, and devising. She pursued her theater training with J. Lecoq, Magenia Mime, M. Pagneux, and the Roy Hart. In 2007, she completed her Ph.D. research thesis on Paula Meehan's dramatic repertoire at Trinity College Dublin.
Eric Falci is an Assistant Professor in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches twentieth-century Irish and British poetry.
Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin and Director of the UCD James Joyce Research Center. She is current President of the International James Joyce Foundation. She has been editor of the Irish University Review since 2002. She is co-editor with Timothy Martin of Joyce on the Threshold (University Press of Florida, 2005) and with [End Page 322] Morris Beja of Bloomsday 100: Essays on Ulysses (University Press of Florida, 2009). With Luca Crispi she is editor of the newly founded Dublin James Joyce Journal, a co-publication with the National Library of Ireland. 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 and has been Academic Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1997. She was awarded the inaugural 2008 Charles E. Fanning Prize in Irish Studies by Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, for her contributions to the field.
Luz Mar González-Arias is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department, University of Oviedo, Spain. Her books include a study of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Paula Meehan, Otra Irlanda: La estética postnacionalista de poetas y artistas irlandesas contemporáneas (2000), and her study of the myth of Adam and Eve in recent Irish women's writing, Cuerpo, mito y teoría feminista: Revisiones de Eva en autoras irlandesas contemporáneas (1998). Recent publications include a chapter on Ireland in The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial Studies (edited by John McLeod); and an essay on Sheelana-gigs in the poetry of Susan Connolly in Opening the Field (edited by Christine St. Peter and Patricia Boyle Haberstroh).
Jefferson Holdridge is Associate Professor in the English Department at Wake Forest University, where he is also Director of Wake Forest University Press, the American publisher of contemporary Irish poetry. Author of Those Mingled Seas: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats, the Beautiful and the Sublime (2000), and The Poetry of Paul Muldoon (2008), he has been published in various scholarly journals. Holdridge is currently preparing a book on Nature, Landscape and Home in Irish literature.
Brendan Kennelly was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, for over thirty years, and retired from teaching in 2005. He has published over thirty books of poetry, including When Then Is Now (2006), Familiar Strangers: New & Selected Poems 1960–2004, Martial Art (2003), Glimpses (2001), The Man Made of Rain (1998), Poetry My Arse (1995), The Book of Judas (1991), and Cromwell (1983). His latest collection is Reservoir Voices (Bloodaxe 2009).
Kathryn Kirkpatrick is a Professor of English at Appalachian State University where she teaches poetry, Irish studies, and environmental writing. She [End Page 323] holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University, where she received an Academy of American Poets poetry prize. Her critical work includes editions of Irish and Scots novels by Maria Edge worth, Susan Ferrier, and Sydney Owenson for Oxford's World's Classics Series, and the edited collection, Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities (University of Alabama Press, 2000). She is also the author of three volumes of poetry, The Body's Horizon (1996), Beyond Reason (2004), and Out of the Garden (2007). She is currently at work on the manuscript Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan.
Thomas McCarthy is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The First Convention (1978), Mr. Dineen's Careful Parade (1999), Merchant Prince (2005), and The Last Geraldine Officer (2009), as well as two novels and a memoir, The Garden of Remembrances (1998). He was Visiting Professor of English at Macalester College in 1994–95, and Fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1978–79. Winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Award, O'Shaughnessy Award, and Ireland Funds Annual Literary Award, he has worked at Cork City Libraries for the last thirty years.
Kim McMullen teaches Irish literature and Modernist literature at Kenyon College, where she is also chair of the English Department. She has written essays on Irish topics for journals such as Novel, Women's Studies, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, and The Kenyon Review. She is currently completing a study entitled Decolonizing Rosaleen: Gender, Nationality, and Sexuality in Contemporary Irish Literature and Film.
Anne Mulhall is a College Lecturer in the School of English, Drama, and Film at University College Dublin where she teaches critical theory and Irish literary and cultural studies, and also coordinates the MA in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. She has published essays on Anne Enright, queer performativity and Irish culture, tradition, and modernity in the marketing of spirituality in Irish culture, and conflicts between Queer and Woman in contemporary literature and film in Ireland. She has edited (with Wanda Balzano and Moynagh Sullivan) Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture and is co-editor of a collection on women in Irish culture and history with Maria Luddy and Gerardine Meaney (forthcoming, 2010).
Máirín Nic Eoin is head of the Irish Department in St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. Her latest book, a study of cultural displacement in modern [End Page 324] and contemporary literature in Irish, is Trén bhFearann Breac: An Díláithriú Cultúir agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge (Cois Life, 2005).
Mary O'Malley is Writer in Residence at NUI Galway. Her previous collections include A Consideration of Silk (1990), Where the Rocks Float (1993), The Knife in the Wave (1997), Asylum Road (2001), The Boning Hall (2002), and A Perfect V (2006). She is the latest recipient of the O'Shaughnessey Award and currently finishing her next collection Antikythera and a memoir, The X-Ray School.
Katarzyna Poloczek is a senior lecturer at the University of Lodz where she teaches contemporary literature, Irish studies, gender studies, and cultural studies. Her 2002 doctoral thesis examined the transformatory potential in poetry by Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. She has published widely on contemporary poetry written by Irish women. She is currently working on a book that explores the issue of empowerment in recent Irish women's poetry.
Michaela Schrage-Früh is an assistant professor at the Department of English and Linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Her book Emerging Identities: Myth, Nation and Gender in the Poetry of Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Medbh McGuckian (Trier: WVT) was published in 2004. She has published widely on Irish and British poets, including articles on Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Paula Meehan, and Jackie Kay. She is currently working on a book entitled Dreaming Through the Ages: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Dreams in English Literature and Culture, 1600–1900.
Gary Snyder, distinguished and widely published North American poet and essayist, has just finished his second collaboration with print artist Tom Killion, Tamalpais Walking (Heyday Press, 2009). He visited Tuscany and the Po River country in September of 2004.
Pilar Villar-Argáiz lectures in the Department of English Philology at the University of Granada. Her books include Eavan Boland's Evolution as an Irish Woman Poet: An Outsider within an Outsider's Culture (2007), and The Poetry of Eavan Boland: A Postcolonial Reading (2008). She has published on the representation of femininity in contemporary Irish women's poetry, cinematic representations of Ireland, and the theoretical background and application of feminism and postcolonialism to the study of Irish literature. [End Page 325]
