Research Interests

• Twentieth-century Irish theatre history
• Post-colonial critical theory
• Theatre and agency

Select Publications

• ‘Theatre and Cultural Politics in Northern Ireland: The Over the Bridge Controversy, 1959.’ Éire-Ireland 30.4 (Geimhreadh-Winter 1996): 76-93.
• ‘“Every Crossing Sweeper thinks himself a moralist”: the Critical Role of Audiences in Irish Theatre History.’ Irish University Review 27.1 (Spring/Summer 1997): 152-65.
• ‘Irish Theater History and Political Resistance.’ Staging Resistance: Essays on Political Theater, ed. Jeanne Colleran and Jenny S. Spencer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 13-30.
• ‘Theatre History and the Beginnings of the Irish National Theatre Project.’ In Theatre Stuff: Critical Essays on Contemporary Irish Theatre, ed. Eamonn Jordan. Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000. 27-33.
• Theatre and the State in 20th Century Ireland: Cultivating the People. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.