Dr Brian Cliff  B.A. (Michigan), M.Phil. (Dublin.), Ph.D. (Emory)

Assistant Professor in Irish Studies and English

Brian Cliff is a Deputy Director of Trinity College Dublin’s Moderatorship in Irish Studies, for which he offers and co-ordinates several courses: ‘Theorising Ireland’, ‘Irish Writing in English 1590-1800’, and ‘Irish Writing in English 1800-1880’. In the School of English, he lectures on modern and contemporary Irish literature, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on community and contemporary Irish fiction. His other teaching interests include the Harlem Renaissance and the use of Golden Age comic books in contemporary American fiction. He previously taught at Emory University, Montclair State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

His primary research is in Irish culture and literature, and his current book project is ‘Community and Contemporary Irish Literature’. This project focuses on writers who came of age in the 1960s and after, drawing on their work to examine a broader set of relations between literature and community in Ireland. He has published and presented on Irish theatre history and on authors including Paul Muldoon, Frank McGuinness, Emma Donoghue, Patrick McCabe, Christina Reid, and Anne Enright. With Éibhear Walshe, he co-edited Representing the Troubles: Texts and Images, 1970-2000 (Dublin: Four Courts, 2004). He is currently working on an essay about teaching Joyce’s Ulysses to undergraduate engineering students, and one on Raymond Chandler and Paul Muldoon. He is also co-editing, with Professor Nicholas Grene, a collection of essays on Synge and Edwardian Ireland.

Contact:

Dr Brian Cliff
Room 4016
Arts Building
Trinity College
Dublin 2
bcliff@tcd.ie