Dr. Alison Garden writes about modern and contemporary literature and culture.

She is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. A literary critic and cultural historian of modern Ireland, she is interested in how national narratives intersect with intimate experience and everyday life, with a particular focus on mixed marriage and its intergenerational afterlives.

Her criticism, essays, reviews and interviews have been published in TIME, Aeon, Textual Practice, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Modernism/modernity, Al Jazeera, The Irish Times, the Guardian, BBC NI, RTÉ and elsewhere. Her first book, The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899-2016, was published in 2020. She is currently finishing her second book, a study of intimacy and political imagination in Ireland during the Troubles.

She is an inaugural member of Young Academy Ireland and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.