From crisis to care: Irish studies in our contemporary moment Studies provides space for imaginative possibilities for a better future, not just critique
Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 05:30 Paige Reynolds
The roster of internationally recognised writers now includes young women like Sally Rooney, Emma Dabiri and Wendy Erskine, a very different literary landscape than that long dominated by Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. Photographs: Kalpesh Lathigra; Allen Lane; Picador
I am a professor of literature at a small liberal arts college in the United States, where I have seen Irish literature open up fresh ways to approach what students perceive as familiar problems, to skew them in ways that trigger productive new insights.