Dr Tara Stubbs
About
Dr Stubbs’ researches the modernist period, focusing on Irish and American literature, transatlantic exchange, and publication history.
Her 2013 work, American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910–1955: the Politics of Enchantment, discusses how modernist American writers such as F Scott Fitzgerald, Marianne Moore, Eugene O’Neill, John Steinbeck and Wallace Stevens engaged with Irish culture, and underlines the importance of Ireland as a locus of inspiration for American modernism. She has also written on Irish writers including W B Yeats and Richard Murphy, and is currently working on a book-length study on the idea of the 'Irish sonnet' within twentieth-century literature, provisionally entitled The Irish Sonnet in the Twentieth Century: Revision and Rebellion.
Expertise
- Irish literature, culture, politics
- English, Irish and American poetry from c.1850 to the present day
- Modernism (British, Irish, American)
- Individual writers: W B Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore, F Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, contemporary Irish poets
- Close reading and the practice of reading poetry, especially form
- Transatlantic/ transnational literature and culture, particularly twentieth century
- American literature from 1900 to the present day
Selected publications
Languages
English