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Books
- Love across the Divide: desire, intimacy and political imagination in Northern Irish culture, 1968-present, in progress.
- Mixed Marriages and Mixed Relationships in Ireland and its Diaspora, c.1880-present. Co-edited with Ruth Duffy. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2026.
- The Literary Afterlives of Roger Casement, 1899–2016, Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Edited Collections
- Love & War: 1914-2024, special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies, forthcoming 2027. Co-edited with Ruth Duffy.
- Brian Moore at 100, special issue of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 44.2 (2023). Co-edited with Sinéad Moynihan.
- Rethinking the 1981 Hunger Strike: 35 Years On, special issue of The Irish Review 55 (2020). Co-edited with Maggie Scull.
- The Irish Atlantic, special issue of Symbiosis: a Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 19.2 (2015). Co-edited with Muireann Crowley.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
- ‘“War was freedom, freedom from futures”: Brian Moore, Lucy Caldwell and the Belfast Blitz Bildungsroman’, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 44.2 (2023), 65–91.
- ‘“like a bee’s sting or a bullet”: eroticism, violence and the afterlives of colonial romance in Medbh McGuckian’s The Flower Master’. Textual Practice 36.8 (2022), 1351–1373.
- ‘Queering the Poetics of race and nationalism: Yeats, Roger Casement, and Paul Muldoon’s “A Clear Signal” (1992)’. New Hibernia Review 22.4 (2018), 78–96.
- ‘Girlhood, desire, memory and Northern Ireland in Lucy Caldwell’s short fiction’. Contemporary Women’s Writing 12.3 (2018), 306–321.
- ‘“Leaving hardly a sign — and no memories”: Roger Casement and the Metamodernist Archive’. Modernism/modernity, Print +, Volume 2.4 (2017).
- ‘“We listen for what the waves intone”: intertextuality and the circum-Atlantic poetics of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey and Kwame Dawes’. Comparative American Studies 14.2 (2016), 91-108.
- ‘Authorship, orality and print modernity: representing the Roma in Colum McCann’s Zoli’. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature 57.3 (2016), 348-357.
- ‘Making it up to tell the Truth’-Interview with Colum McCann’. Symbiosis: a Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations 18.1 (2014), 1-19. Subsequently republished in Conversations with Colum McCann ed. Earl G. Ingersoll and Mary C. Ingersoll, University of Mississippi Press (2017), 193-206.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
- ‘“you: are you complicit?”: shame, trauma and gender in Susannah Dickey’s Tennis Lessons (2020)’, in Irish Shame: A Literary Reckoning, edited by Seán Kennedy and Joseph Valente, Edinburgh University Press (2025), pp. 119-134.
- ‘“Our uneasy mixed community”: cross-community romance, magic realism and Northern Ireland’, Community in Contemporary British Fiction: From Blair to Brexit, ed. Sarah Upstone & Peter Ely, Bloomsbury Academic (2022), pp.45-66.
- ‘Troubled love: the North and writing romance across the divide’ in Northern Ireland 1921–2021: Centenary Historical Perspectives ed. Paul Bew, Marie Coleman & Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid. Ulster Historical Foundation, (2022), pp.129-134.
- ‘“Intertextual quotation”: Troubled Irish bodies and Jewish textual memory in Colum McCann’s “Cathal’s Lake” and “Hunger Strike”’, in The Body In Pain in Irish Literature and Culture, ed. Emilie Pine, Naomi McAreavey and Fionnula Dillane. Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 167-182.
- ‘Proving their Virility?: Transgressive Masculinity and Steve McQueen’s Hunger’, in Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body, ed. Joel Gwynne. Columbia University Press (2016), 57-71.
Other journal articles and book chapters
- ‘Intimate Boundaries: Mixed Marriage and the Making of Modern Ireland’, Mixed Marriages and Mixed Relationships in Ireland and its Diaspora, c.1880-present. Co-edited with Ruth Duffy. Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2026.
- ‘Afterword: Brian Moore at 100‘, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 44.2 (2023),191-196.
- ‘“The Rude March of History”: Rethinking the 1980/81 Hunger Strikes and their Afterlives’, co-authored with Maggie Scull, The Irish Review, 55 (2020), 7-20.
- ‘The Irish Atlantic and Transatlantic Literary Studies’, co-authored with Muireann Crowley, Symbiosis: a Journal of Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 19.2 (2015), 117-135.
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