Biography
Research Interests and PhD Supervision
My research is focused on the literature, culture, and politics of Ireland in the modern period of contemporary Northern Ireland, during the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century, and in the context of the Irish in London. I have written four monographs and co-edited two collections of essays grouped around these areas.
I believe in the importance of comparative cultural analysis and so my work on Ireland has also led me to write on other areas of post-colonial literature and theory, as well as a wide variety of non-literary modes of cultural production such as film, television, news media, and popular culture. My latest book, Irish London: A Cultural History 1850–1916 was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
My other work includes essays on post-conflict cinema in Northern Ireland, the DeLorean car for the Field Day Review, Gilles Deleuze and narratives of self-formation in the poetry of Medbh McGuckian, a reconsideration of the poetry of 1940's Northern Ireland, and the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was 'Dr Corry's National Diorama of Ireland'. I am a Fellow of the English Association.
I would be interested to hear from prospective research students working in areas related to twentieth and twenty-first century Irish culture.
Teaching
I teach across the modern period at King's including the following undergraduate modules: Introducing Literary Theories, 20th century Irish Literature, James Joyce and Ulysses, Modernist Poetry, Literature of World War One, Contemporary Irish Fiction. At MA level I teach a course on the Irish Literary Revival and a course on modern Northern Irish culture.
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Kirkland, R., 12 Aug 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The London Journal. 44, 2, 14 p., 1. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/03058034.2019.1649523
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Kirkland, R., 1 Dec 2018, British Literature in Transition, 1980–2000: Accelerated Times. Pollard, E. & Schoene, B. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., p. 179-191 13 p. (British Literature in Transition). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Kirkland, R., 1 Mar 2017, In: Review of Irish Studies in Europe . 1, 2, 25 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kirkland, R., 15 Dec 2015, In: New Hibernia Review . 19, 4, p. 14-31 17 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kirkland, R., 13 Oct 2014, In: Irish Review. 48, p. 65-80 15 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kirkland, R., 1 Jan 2014, In: Nordic Irish Studies. 13, 2, p. 137-154 18 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kirkland, R., 1 Apr 2012, In: New Hibernia Review . 16, 1, p. 16-30 15 p., 2. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2012.0000
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Kirkland, R., 2012, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry. Oxford University Press, p. 346-69 23 p. ( Oxford Handbooks of Literature). Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Kirkland, R., 2010, The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: the Interior of Words. Alcobia-Murphy, S. & Kirkland, R. (eds.). Cork University Press, p. 147-161 Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Alcobia-Murphy, S. (ed.) & Kirkland, R. (ed.), 2010, Cork: Cork University Press. 262 p. Research output: Book/Report › Book