Dr Maebh Long
Convener of English, Senior Lecturer
Qualifications: PhD English, Dunelm; MA English National University of Ireland, Cork; BA English and German, National University of Ireland, Cork
About Maebh
Maebh Long is a Senior Lecturer in English and is the Convener of the English Programme. Her research interests include modernist and contemporary literature in Ireland, Britain, and Oceania, as well as literary theory and the medical humanities.
Maebh has published widely on the Irish author Brian O’Nolan/Flann O’Brien and is the author of Assembling Flann O’Brien (Bloomsbury, 2014), as well as the editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018).
Maebh is a co-investigator of the Oceanian Modernism project, which brings together modernist studies and post-1960s independence and Indigenous rights literature from the Pacific. Among her publications on Pacific literature is New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (Routledge, 2019), which she co-edited with Matthew Hayward. She is currently working with him on a co-authored monograph on Pacific literature, Pacific universities, and modernism.
Maebh is also in the early stages of a monograph tentatively entitled The Poetics of Immunity. This project, supported by the Marsden fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, examines the ways ‘immunity’, as a heightened desire for bodily and political security and exemption, became a contagious metaphor for modernist writers.
Papers Taught
Research Interests
Modernist and Contemporary Literature in Ireland, Britain and Oceania; Literary Theory
Recent Publications
Long, M. (2022). Of building blocks, library shelves, and a country’s soul. Sumatin Magazine, 1, 65.
Hayward, M., & Long, M. (2021). Towards an Oceanian Modernism. Modernism/Modernity, 28(2), 209-228. doi:10.1353/mod.2021.0018
Long, M. (2021). Fragmentation. In P. Waugh, & M. Botha (Eds.), Future Theory A Handbook to Critical Concepts (pp. 281-296). Bloomsbury Publishing. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14298
Long, M. (2021). Letters and weak theory in Irish modernism. In P. Fagan, J. Greaney, & T. Radak (Eds.), Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities (pp. 173-185). Bloomsbury Academic.
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Keywords
English; Environment Issues; History and Medicine; Pacific Issues; Philosophy; Women and Gender Studies
Irish Literature; British Literature; Pacific Literature; Modernism; Literary Theory; Contemporary Literature; Medical Humanities; Jacques Derrida; Feminism; Letters; Pacific Island Literary Magazines
Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: I.3.14