Research Interests

• William Butler Yeats
• James Joyce
• Australian writers
• Literary and cultural theory
• Literary history of Irish poetry 1900-1940
• The performance of Irish plays in Australia and New Zealand.

Select Publications

• "The Abbey Irish Players in Australia—1922" in Nicholas Grene and Christopher Morash, eds., The Irish theatre on Tour: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series: 1 (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2005), pp. 69-88.
• "Triumphs and Tours—The Whiteheaded Boy in London" in Richard Allan Cave and Ben Levitas, eds., Irish Theatre in England: Irish Theatrical Diaspora Series: 2. (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2007).

• Editor (with Julie-Ann Robson). Irelands in the Asia-Pacific: Being Papers Delivered at the Second IASIL Asia-Pacific Symposium, UNSW. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 2003.
• Review of Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats, by Ann Saddlemyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Irish Studies Review 11.1 (2003): 105-8.
• ‘Textual Anthropology and the “Imagined Community.”’ ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 5 (2003): 39-49.
• Contact:
• Professor Peter Kuch,
  Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies.
  Irish Studies, University of Otago,
  PO Box 56,
  Dunedin 9054,
  New Zealand
• Email: peter.kuch@stonebow.otago.ac.nz or p.kuch@unsw.edu.au
• Tel: +64 3 479 8634
• Fax: +64 3 479 8558