Research Interests

• Contemporary Irish Theatre
• Women in twentieth-century and contemporary Irish theatre
• Gender and performance
• Directing

Select Publications

• Editor. Seen and Heard: Six New Plays by Irish Women. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2001.
• ‘The Return of Persephone: Lost and Found.’ In Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy, ed. Declan Kiberd, Marianne McDonald and Michael J. Walton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• ‘Hard Wired/Tender Bodies: Power, Loneliness, the Machine and the Person in the Work of “desperate optimists.”’ Performing Ireland: Special Issue of Australasian Journal of Drama Studies 43 (October 2003): 76-88.
• Editor (with Anna McMullan). The Theatre of Marina Carr: ‘before rules was made’. Dublin: Carysfort Press in association with the Arts Council, 2003.
• ‘Exiled at Home: Teresa Deevy and Marina Carr.’ In Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Irish Drama, ed. Shaun Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Truths of Womanhood and Irish Women Playwrights, 1900-1939. Forthcoming.