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: how Mussolini's Italy shaped Irish, British, and U.S. writing (forthcoming in July 2021 with Oxford University Press). I am editing, with Matthew Campbell, the Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (forthcoming 2021). My writing has also 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, as well as in the popular media including TLS and the Irish Times. I’ve been a guest of BBC Parliament, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Ulster, and have served as consultant for various media outlets and for theatre productions.  

My appointments include a semester as Burns Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies at Boston College; as visiting fellow at Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities; as a fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and twice as a visiting fellow at Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. 

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.