Twentieth-Century British and Irish Studies Faculty
Gerald Bruns works in the areas of modern comparative literature, hermeneutics, and poetics. His books include Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language and Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory. Read full profile >
Joseph Buttigieg, the author of A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective and editor of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, works on the relationship between culture and politics in modern British literature. Read full profile >
Seamus Deane, author of The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England as well as other books in the area of Irish Studies, specializes in eighteenth- through twentieth-century Irish literature and culture. Read full profile >
Maud Ellmann works on modern British fiction, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. Her books include The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page. Read full profile >
Luke Gibbons, author of Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the Colonial Sublime and other works, specializes in eighteenth-century Irish literature and twentieth-century cinema.
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Barbara Green, author of Spectacular Confessions: Autobiography, Performative Activism, and the Sites of Suffrage, specializes in twentieth-century British literature, feminist criticism, and autobiography. Read full profile >
Susan Harris, author of Gender and Modern Irish Drama, specializes in Irish drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Read full profile >
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Mary Burgess Smyth works on late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish writing. Read full profile >
John Wilkinson, author of several collections of poetry, specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first century English, Irish and American poetry. Read full profile >