Christopher Morash

I am the Seamus Heaney Professor of Irish Writing, a post dedicated to the teaching and research of Irish writing, based in the School of English. I have published histories of Irish theatre, of Irish media (especially the telegraph), and of the Irish novel. Much of my work has been on Irish theatre, with books on theories of space in Irish theatre, and a monograph on Yeats's theatre. A 2013 book (with Shaun Richards) on theories of theatre space evolved into an interest in urban place-writing more generally, and in 2023 I published Dublin: A Writer's City. That book is the first of a series, Imagining Cities, for which I am Series Editor for Cambridge University Press, with a book on New Orleans in print, and London, New York, San Francisco, and Cambridge commissioned. In 2021, I was invited to curate the Unseen Plays series of audio plays for the Abbey Theatre. I have given keynote addresses to many of the major Irish Studies associations, including IASIL, CAIS, and ACIS. I chair the judging panel for the Dublin Literary Award, the world's richest prize for a single novel in English, and deliver the annual Dublin UNESCO City of Literature lecture. I am currently editing The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel