The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture

The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the English Department at the University of Notre Dame seek a postdoctoral fellow for 2027-29 AYs.

This essay examines the role played by literary agents in bringing the work of Irish writers into the global marketplace. Adapting Laura McGrath's notion of ‘corporate taste’ (the claim that agents ex...

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Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker records to uncover the contractual details of the

In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

Lack of funding, precarious work and intense competition mean the once-revered job of lecturing has become less attractive as a viable long-term career

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