The Irish Short Story: Keynote Speakers

Research: women's writing; Irish writing; gender theory; Irish women’s short stories; the theme of nation and gender in Irish women’s fiction; the mother-daughter relationship in twentieth-century women’s fiction.
Selected publications: Women’s Fiction Between the Wars: Mothers, Daughters and Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 1998), Mothers and Daughters: A Literary Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), Women’s Spirituality in the Twentieth Century: an exploration through fiction (Peter Lang, 2004), Twentieth-Century Fiction by Irish Women (Ashgate, 2007), A History of the Irish Short Story (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Research: Colonial Representations of Early Modern Ireland; Literary history of Seventeenth-Century Ireland; Literature and Law in the Early Modern Period; Gender and Genre in Contemporary Irish Writing; Gothic Fiction; Psychoanalysis; Historical and textual aspects of the work of James Joyce, Spencer and representations of early modern Ireland, twentieth and twenty-first century Irish fiction, and feminist investigations of Irish women writers.
Selected publications: Beja, M. & Fogarty, A. (eds.) Bloomsday100: Essays on Ulysses (UP of Florida 2009), Fogarty, A. and Martin, T. (eds.), Joyce on the Threshold. (UP of Florida, 2005).

Research: Modern Irish fiction and drama, the interconnections between politics, literature and the representations of sexuality,
Selected publications: Kate O'Brien: a Writing Life (Irish Academic Press, 2006), (ed.) Elizabeth Bowen: Visions and Revisions (Irish Academic Press, 2008), Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland (Cork University Press, 2011), Elizabeth Bowen's Selected Irish Writings (Cork University Press, 2011). In September 2011, Eibhear Walshe was awarded a Literature Bursary by the Arts Council of Ireland to complete his first novel.