Modern Literature

A number of our faculty are engaged in research in modern culture, especially in the fields of Modernism and Postmodernism. Faculty publications in this area include Richard Barlow’s The Celtic Unconscious: Joyce and Scottish Culture (Notre Dame University Press, 2017) and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms (Oxford University Press, 2023), Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play​ by Michelle Chiang (Palgrave, 2018), and Angela Frattarola’s Modernist Soundscapes: Auditory Technology and the Novel (University Press of Florida, 2018). Our faculty have published articles in key Modernist journals such as James Joyce Quarterly and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui.