Dr. Michael J. Griffin
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in English
- Section leader in English
Academic Background and Research Profile
BA and MA NUI-Galway (1991-1995), D.Phil. University of Oxford, Balliol College (1996-2000), Assistant Professor of English, Southern Illinois University (2000-2001), National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Keough Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame (2002-2003). Teaching at University of Limerick from 2003 to the present. Teaching and research interests include literary, cultural and political theory; literature and enlightenment; literature and science; literature and music; Irish studies; Utopian studies. Has published widely on eighteenth-century studies, utopian studies, and Irish writing in English, in journals such as The Review of English Studies, the Field Day Review, Utopian Studies, Eighteenth-Century Ireland, and History Ireland. Has contributed essays on eighteenth-century Ireland to collections of essays on colonial discourse, Clare history, and Edmund Burke. Has also co-edited (with Tom Moylan), Exploring the Utopian Impulse (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007) and (with Breandán MacSuibhne) a special edition of Éire-Ireland on Irish Catholicism. Has contributed biographical essays on John Aikin and Charles Burney to the Gale Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century British Historians. A monograph on Oliver Goldsmith and an edition of the selected poems of Thomas Dermody are currently in preparation at Field Day Press. A collection of essays on Irish visual culture, co-edited with Eoin Flannery, is currently in preparation with Syracuse University Press.