Orlaith Darling

I am an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin (UCD), where I research contemporary literature, mental health, and critical theory. Previously, I worked at Justus-Liebig Universität, Gießen. I completed my PhD in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where I use Critical Theory to write about representations of neoliberalism in contemporary Irish women's short fiction. More generally, I am also interested in political theory, gender studies, the intersection of politics and literature, and the novel form.

In 2019, I was awarded a Master's in Literature and Modernity from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in English Literature & History from Trinity College Dublin in 2018, where I was elected University Scholar in 2016.