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Professor Eve Patten

Professor (English)
ARTS BUILDING

 epatten@tcd.ie

 3531896 1299

Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub (Trinity Long Room Hub)

 (3531896) 4276


Biography

Eve Patten was born in Belfast and educated at Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin. She came to Trinity in 1996, after spending three years as a British Council lecturer in Eastern Europe.

Research Tags

  19th Century Irish cultural history   Anglo-Irish literature, poetry   Critical theory, 20th century British and Irish fiction   Irish writing, poetry, Drama, cinema   Victorian studies, popular fiction

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Medium Medium Medium
German Basic Basic Basic
Romanian Basic Basic Basic

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Member of IASIL (International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature). Member of European Society for the Study of English
Eve Patten, Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination, Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, 2022, 1 - 240pp, Book, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text
Eve Patten, 'Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere', Irish University Review, 52, (1), 2022, p133 - 148, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Eve Patten, 'Romanian Literary History at a Crossroads', Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 67, (3), 2022, p47 - 52, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Eve Patten, Irish Literature in Transition 1940-80, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 1 - 391pp, Book, PUBLISHED
'The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist' in, editor(s)Liam Harte , The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp623 - 641, [Eve Patten], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa' in, editor(s)Daniel Roberts and Jonathan Wright , Ireland's Imperial Connections, 1775--1947, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp37 - 56, [Eve Patten], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Mark Sweetnam, 'Biblical Literature', Oxford Bibliography of British and Irish Literature, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, -, Notes: [DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199846719-0142], Bibliography, filmography, etc., PUBLISHED
Eve Patten, Review, Review of Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent 1829-1914 , by Raphael Ingelbien , Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2, (1), 2018, p305-307 , Review, PUBLISHED
Eve Patten, Review, Review of The Best are Leaving: Emigration and Postwar Culture, by Clair Wills , Irish University Review, 47, (1), 2018, p569-590 , Review, PUBLISHED
" 'Breaking Away': Beatrice Grimshaw and the Commercial Woman Writer" in, editor(s)Anna Plz and Whitney Standlee , Irish Women's Writing 1878-1922: Advancing the Cause of Liberty, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2016, pp82 - 99, [Eve Patten and Jane Mahony], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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Elspeth Payne, Caoimhe Whelan, Eve Patten, Improving Arts and Humanities Engagement in Ireland's Civic and Community Sphere. Experiences, challenges, and opportunities for researchers based in HEIs, 2022, - 29, Notes: [An open access portfolio documenting the key findings of the CEPRAH (Community Engagement Praxis for the Arts and Humanities) project led by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin and AONTAS. CEPRAH was funded by an Irish Research Council New Foundations Grant (Strand 1a) and ran from April to December 2021. The CEPRAH project team was Eve Patten (PI), Elspeth Payne, Caoimhe Whelan, Eve Cobain, Joan Cronin, Caitriona Curtis, Leah Dowdall, and Giovanna Lima. The portfolio was authored by Elspeth Payne, Caoimhe Whelan, and Eve Patten and launched on 15 June 2022.], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Aoife King (ed), Rita Duffy, Caitríona Lally, Jacob J. Erickson, Donna Lyons et al., What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection, 2021, - 1-56, Notes: [Artwork: Rita Duffy], Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Eve Patten, Caoimhe Whelan, Caitriona Curtis, Policy and the Arts & Humanities in Ireland: A Position Paper by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, 2021, - 1-11, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Jane Ohlmeyer, Giovanna M R Lima, Sarah Bowman, Eve Patten, Micheal O Siochru, (2020), '1641 Depositions: Sharing our history, building a legacy' [pdf], Notes: [This impact case study is supported by the Research Impact Unit, an initiative by the Office of the Dean of Research and the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin. We thank Dr Annaleigh Margey, Dr Edda Frankot, and Dr Caitriona Curtis for their contributions in early drafts of this document.], Impact Case Study, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin 2005

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Main research interests: nineteenth and twentieth century British and Irish literature; nineteenth-century Irish cultural and civic history, and in particular the cultural history of Dublin; the writings of Samuel Ferguson, William Rowan Hamilton, Emily Lawless; the cultural history of Irish science in the nineteenth century; Yeats the the Literary Revival; modern Irish Studies and cultural theory; contemporary Irish fiction and the modern Irish autobiographical novel. Other research interests cover twentieth-century British cultural history and fiction. Specific interests in the war-related and travel writings of Rebecca West and Olivia Manning; current research in the area of British modernist writers and Ireland. Irish and British book and publishing history (C19th and 20th).