Expanding the Canon

Fiona Coffey holds a BA from Stanford University, an M. Phil from Trinity College, Dublin, and a PhD from Tufts University. Her research focuses on women in Irish drama and theatrical responses to the Northern Irish troubles. Her work has appeared in The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), Radical Contemporary Theatre Practices by Women in Ireland (Carysfort Press, 2015), The Theatre of Marie Jones (Carysfort Press 2015), Changes in Contemporary Ireland: Texts and Contexts (Cambridge, 2013) as well as journals such as Breac, The Irish Literary Supplement, and Ecumenica Journal. Before completing her PhD, she spent several years in New York City at the William Morris and Harry Walker agencies working with playwrights, directors, politicians, and celebrities. She teaches theater history and arts administration at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

Elizabeth Mannion earned her BA and MA at Rutgers University, and M. Phil. and PhD at Trinity College, Dublin, and has taught at both alma maters as well as Temple University. Her teaching and research cover an interdisciplinary range of Irish studies, from modern drama to crime fiction. She is the author of The Urban Plays of the Abbey Theatre (Syracuse University Press, 2014), and the editor of The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Her research on Irish drama has appeared in numerous journals, including Swift Studies and New Hibernia Review, and will be appearing in the forthcoming A Cambridge History of Irish Working-Class Writing and Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland. She is currently working on a second volume about the Irish detective novel (co-edited with Brian Cliff), a monograph on the theatre of Wallace Shawn, and the audio book of her first novel, Dreaming in Irish.

Keri Walsh is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Fordham University. In 2014, she co-founded the Irish Women Writers Symposium, a recurring series celebrating the works of Irish and Irish-American women writers and scholars. Walsh is the editor of The Letters of Sylvia Beach (Columbia UP, 2010), James Joyce’s Dubliners (Broadview Press, 2016), and a range of other scholarship on modernism, theater, film, and Irish literature. She is currently preparing an edition of James Joyce’s play Exiles for Oxford World’s Classics.