Research Interests

• Irish drama and the metropolitan theatre
• George Bernard Shaw
• John Millington Synge
• Contemporary Irish Theatre

Select Publications

• The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Editor. Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School 1991-2000. Lilliput Press, 2000.
• Editor. Talking about Tom Murphy. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2002.
• ‘Stories in shallow space: Port Authority.’ The Irish Review 29 (Autumn 2002): 70-83.
  

  Irish Theatre on Tour: Irish Theatrical Diaspora series 1, edited with Chris Morash. Dublin : Carysfort Press, 2005.

  ‘ Ireland in Two Minds: Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson', in Yearbook of English Studies , 25 (2005), 298-311
  

  ‘Five ways of looking at Faith Healer ', in Anthony Roche (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 53-65

  ‘Irish Drama and the Occlusion of Influence' in Princeton University Library Chronicle , VXVIII.1-2 (2006-7), 503-15

Research Students

• Deirdre McFeely, ‘The Politics of Boucicault's Irish Plays’