Research Interests

• Irish literature and culture from 1880 to the present

Select Publications

• Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre. The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, ed. Stephen Greenblatt, no. 11. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990.
• George Moore: 1852-1933. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
• Editor. ‘Irish Theatre.’ Special issue of The Irish Review (Autumn 2002). Includes introductory essay, ‘Irish Theatre Scholarship,’ 1-9.
• ‘Hollywood Irish, 1925-1955,’ in preparation.

Research Students

• June Favre, Joan Littlewood
• Irina Ruppo, Ibsen's influence on Irish drama