“The Letters of John McGahern," Frank Shovlin, University of Liverpool

Frank Shovlin is professor of Irish Literature in English at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. He is the author of Journey Westward: Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival (2012, Liverpool University Press); The Irish Literary Periodical 1923-1958 (2003, Clarendon Press); and many scholarly articles and chapters. In 2016 Shovlin published a monograph on John McGahern’s writing style assisted by the award of a Leverhulme Study Abroad fellowship in 2012-13, which he used to spend the year in the McGahern archive at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He returned to Galway in the summer of 2014 courtesy of a Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship. Stemming from this work, he is now editing The Letters of John McGahern for a forthcoming Faber volume and was appointed McGahern’s authorized biographer in 2018. For the academic year 2018-19 he is working full time on McGahern’s letters as a British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow.

Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Art. This lecture is free and open to the public.

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