Dr Maebh Long

Maebh Long is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato. She has published widely literature and culture in Ireland, Britain, and Oceania, as well as literary theory and the medical humanities. She is the author of Assembling Flann O’Brien (2014), the editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien (2018) and co-editor of The Parish Review: Journal of Flann O’Brien Studies. Her work on Pacific literature includes New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific (2019) and The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism (2024), both with Matthew Hayward. In addition to various articles on pandemics in literature and on social media, Maebh is currently leading a project, funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, which examines the ways ‘immunity’ became a contagious metaphor for modernist writers.