Ellen Orchard

I am a PhD researcher in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where I write about constructions of childhood in Modern Irish poetry. My work is funded by the Irish Research Council and I am currently based in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. I review regularly for "Poetry Ireland Review", but my teaching and wider research interests bring me outside the genre of poetry: I regularly teach short stories, novels and drama. Having grown up in Canada, but spent the last decade in Ireland, I am interested in the relationship between gender and colonial legacy in literature, both here in Ireland, and abroad.

In 2019, I was awarded a Master's in Poetry from Queen's University Belfast, and a BA in English Literature from Trinity College Dublin in 2018.