Lauren Arrington

I am a literary critic and cultural historian, and my work concentrates on the intersections of literature and political change in the twentieth century.    I have supervised PhDs on topics in Irish and British modernism and in Irish theatre, and I welcome proposals for work in these areas as well as in other aspects of twentieth-century Anglophone writing.   My books include W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State (Oxford University Press, 2010), a double biography of Constance and Casimir Markievicz, Revolutionary Lives (Princeton University Press, 2016), and The Poets of Rapallo: Late Modernist Writing in Mussolini’s Italy (forthcoming with Oxford University Press). I am editing, with Matthew Campbell, the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats, and I am serving as a director of the Yeats International Summer School from 2018-2021.    My writing has been published in major scholarly journals in the fields of literature and history, including History Workshop Journal, The Journal of British Studies, and Modernism/modernity (forthcoming), as well as in the popular media including TLS and the Irish Times. I’ve spoken about my work on BBC Parliament, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Ulster, and have served as consultant for various media outlets and for theatre productions.    Before joining Maynooth, I was Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Liverpool, where I worked since 2009. Prior to that I was Adrian Research Fellow in English at Darwin College, Cambridge University. My doctorate is from Oxford University.