Research Interests

• Contemporary Irish theatre, particularly in respect of the representation of subjectivities
• Biography
• Canadian theatre history

Select Publications

• Editor (with Richard Plant). Later Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997.
• ‘John Bull's Other Island: “Seething in the Brain.”’ The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 25.1&2 (1999): 219-240.
• ‘Spirits in Space: Theatricality and the Occult in Tissot's Life and Art.’ In Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot, ed. Katharine Lochnan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 139-59.
• Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats. Oxford
  and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• ‘Mothering Genius.’ In Kaleidoscopic views of Ireland, ed. Munira H. Mutran and Laura P.Z. Izarra. Sao Paulo: Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2003. 95-112.
• “Designing Ladies: Women Artists and the Early Abbey Stage”, in Princeton University Library Chronicle, ed. Gretchen Oberfranc Vol. LXVII, numbers 1 and 2 (Autumn 2006-Winter 2007), 163-99
• “Behind the Scenes: Irish Theatre, Irish Lives, and the Task of the Biographer”, in Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice, ed. Sherrill Grace and Jerry Wasserman (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2006), 261-74
• Synge’s When the Moon Has Set, ed. With notes in Synge: A Celebration, ed. Colm Tóbín (Dublin: Carysfort Press and DruidSynge, 2005), 147-63
• “Shaw’s Playboy: Man and Superman”, in Irish Studies in Brazil, ed. Munira H. Mutran and Laura P.Z.Izarra (Sâo Paulo: Associaçâo Editorial Humanitas, 2005), 103-126
• “Play and Interplay – Synge and Lady Gregory”, in From ‘English Literature’ to ‘Literatures in English’ International Perspectives: Festschrift in Honour of Wolfgang Zach, eds. Michael Kenneally and Rhona Richman Kenneally (Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag, 2005), 119-131
  
  
  

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