Dr Paul Delaney B.A., M.Litt. (Dublin), Ph.D. (Kent)
Head of Sophisters
Assistant Professor
Paul’s research and teaching interests lie principally in the area of twentieth-century and contemporary Irish literature. His publications include the edited collection, Reading Colm Tóibín (Liffey Press, 2008), and William Trevor: Revaluations, co-edited with Michael Parker (Manchester University Press, 2013). He is currently completing a book on Seán O’Faoláin in the 1930s for Irish Academic Press, and has written widely on cultural representations of and by Irish Travellers. A list of essays, articles and chapters can be found at http://people.tcd.ie/delanep. Paul also contributed to the innovative online project Historical Resources for Research into the Social, Economic and Cultural History of the Irish Travellers (University of Limerick/HEA, 2004), and he is currently on the editorial board of the Irish University Review.
Paul read English at Trinity College, Dublin. He received his PhD from the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he was a British Council Chevening scholar. Paul began teaching at Trinity in 2001, and in 2005 was appointed to a permanent position as Lecturer in Irish Writing in English.
Paul teaches on a number of different modules on the undergraduate programme, at Freshman and Sophister level. He is the co-ordinator of the Junior Freshman ‘Irish Writing’ course, and also teaches on the MPhil in Irish Writing, the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas, and the Irish Studies programme. In 2012, Paul was awarded a Provost’s Teaching Award for teaching excellence.
Paul is also a College Tutor, and has served in this pastoral role in College since 2006. He has supervised recent Ph.D. dissertations in the following areas: Frank O’Connor’s early work; W.B. Yeats and Louis MacNeice; narcissism and John Banville; and working-class Dublin literature. Current research students are working on topics including Irish Traveller autobiography, contemporary Irish immigrant literature, and domestic abuse in Irish fiction. Paul welcomes enquiries from prospective students and invites them to contact him by e-mail.
Contact:
Dr Paul Delaney
Room 4025
Arts Building
Trinity College
Dublin 2
e-mail: delanep@tcd.ie