Tina O'Toole

Feminist, queer, social, and anticolonial representations in Irish literature and culture. Concentrating on late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland, my scholarship focuses on frequently-occluded Irish writers, voices, and community activism, and I welcome doctoral research proposals on such subjects. My research consistently address Irish feminist and queer Irish interventions from my first publication, a book chapter for a Canadian scholarly edition titled Moving into the Spaces Cleared by Our Sisters: Lesbian Community Activism in Ireland and Canada (Sumach Press, 2003) to more publications on writers including George Egerton, Rosamond Jacob, Kate OBrien, and Elizabeth Bowen.

I teach twentieth-century and contemporary Irish Literature; these are modules I teach or contribute some lectures to annually: Postgraduate EH6021 Gender and; Sexuality in Irish Writing EH6002 MA Research Methods EH6062 Irish Americas in Literature and Culture Undergraduate EH4018 Contemporary Irish Writing EH4028 Study of a Major Irish Author: James Joyce OR Elizabeth Bowen (check syllabus) EH4036 Irish Literature 1930-1960 My core research interest is in the field of Gender and; Sexuality Studies, focusing on Irish writers and activists; I welcome proposals for doctoral projects in this area. My research concentrates on late-nineteenth/twentieth-century fiction by writers including George Egerton, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Kate O'Brien, underlines their efforts to write their way out of the restrictive cultural and social circumstances they found themselves in during the difficult early years of the new Irish state. One of my books, The Irish New Woman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), focuses on the 1890s; it has opened up new research avenues on the invisible women writers of that generation.

Dr Tina O'Toole is an associate professor at the School of English, Irish, and Communication, University of Limerick. Her scholarship focuses on British and Irish Literature; she is an expert on Irish women s writing of the late nineteenth / early twentieth centuries, and on gender and sexuality studies. She has held research fellowships at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA), the W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies (University of São Paulo), the Centre for Irish Studies at Queen s University Belfast, the Women in Irish Society Project (University College Cork, as part of a three-year PRTLI-funded initiative), and the Centre for Feminist and; Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa.andnbsp;andnbsp; To date, she has published two monographs and four edited collections includingandnbsp;The Irish New Womanandnbsp;(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) andandnbsp;Reading Gender and Space: Essays for Patricia Coughlanandnbsp;(Cork University Press, 2023; co-edited with Anne Fogarty). As guest editor, she has produced three journal special issues including one on Elizabeth Bowen (Irish University Reviewandnbsp;2021, co-edited with Anna Teekell) and a multidisciplinary issue ofandnbsp;Éire-Irelandandnbsp;on New Approaches to Irish Migration (2012, co-edited with Piaras Mac Éinrí). She has published chapters in peer-reviewed scholarly collections includingandnbsp;The Irish Revival: A Complex Visionandnbsp;(Syracuse UP, 2023),andnbsp;Irish Literature in Transition 1880-1940andnbsp;(Cambridge UP, 2020),andnbsp;A History of Irish Women's Writingandnbsp;(Cambridge UP, 2018), andandnbsp;Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernismandnbsp;(Routledge, 2017), and articles in journals includingandnbsp;Modernism/modernity,andnbsp;Études Irlandaises,andnbsp;Irish University Review, andandnbsp;New Hibernia Review.andnbsp; As a lecturer and module leader, her course material addresses twentieth-century and contemporary Irish Literature; she offers a postgraduate module on Gender and; Sexuality in Irish Writing on the MA English. In 2016, she won the University of Limerick Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2022, she was lead organiser for the annual conference of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, the main professional association in our field), hosted by the University of Limerick.andnbsp; She served as an elected board member of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Literatures in English (2009-2013) and as an executive member of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (2013-2017); she was IASIL Treasurer for four years, and served as an editorial board member of theandnbsp;Irish University Reviewandnbsp;(Edinburgh University Press) during the same period.andnbsp;At the University of Limerick, she was appointed Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs) at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and; Social Science (2005-2008); she was Head of English (2006-2009 and again from 2014-2017), and served as Course Director for the BA New Media and; English (2009-2012), the BA English and; History (2014-2015), and the MA English (2016-2020).