Research Interests

• Orientalism, interculturalism and transnationalism and performance in differing world contexts
• Contemporary Irish theatre, particularly in respect of the representation of subjectivities

Select Publications

• ‘Challenging Myth and Tradition: National/Cultural Identity and the Irish Theatrical Canon.’ Modern Drama 43, no.2 (Summer 2000): 265-275.
• ‘Strangers in the House: Reconfiguring the Borders of National and Cultural Identities in Contemporary Irish Theatre.’ European Review 9, no.3 (July 2001): 293-303.
• Editor (with Anna McMullan). ‘Performing Ireland.’ Special issue of Australasian Drama Studies 43 (October 2003).
• ‘The Revival Revised.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, ed. Shaun Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• Editor. ‘Critical Ireland.’ Special Issue of Modern Drama (forthcoming Winter 2004).

Research Students

• David Cregan, Masculinity and Frank McGuinness
• Mark Phelan, Ulster Literary Theatre and Performing Ulster