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Professor Eve Patten

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


Eve Patten was born in Belfast and educated at Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin. She has been a lecturer in Trinity since 1996.
  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
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Series Editor Liverpool University Press
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Medium Medium Medium
German Basic Basic Basic
Romanian Basic Basic Basic
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IASIL International Association for the Study of Irish Literature 1996 -
Irish Humanities Alliance (Board member) 2020 2025
European Society for the Study of English 2000 -
'D.H. Lawrence' in, editor(s)Allan Hepburn , Elizabeth Bowen in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, pp137 - 146, [Eve Patten], Notes: [Influence of D.H.Lawrence on Elizabeth Bowen's fiction], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
'"Anything can happen": Heaney, Auden, and Anxiety' in, editor(s)Dragos Ivana, Alexandra Bacalu, Andreea Paris-Popa , Navigating Cultural Identities and Histories, Bucharest, Bucharest University Press, 2025, pp163 - 174, [Eve Patten], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Eve Patten, 'Transmission and Agreement: Reading and the Contemporary Irish Novel', Studia Philologia, 69, (3), 2024, p47 - 64, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
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
  

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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, Micheál Ó Siochrú, (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

  


Award Date
Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin 2005
Membership, Royal Irish Academy 2024
Fellowship of Royal Historical Society 2023
My research covers modern Irish and British literature, specifically prose and cultural history. In this field, I have influenced high-level interdisciplinary research by pioneering dynamic new critical strategies, leading directional change in postcolonial and transnational theory, and illuminating the socio-economics of publishing history. First, I have spearheaded a rigorous interdisciplinary research methodology that productively aligns Irish literary culture with adjacent discourses of economics, journalism, and law. This modernising approach " widely praised in my 2004 Samuel Ferguson and Nineteenth-Century Ireland-- has shifted nineteenth-century Irish Studies towards a holistic intellectual history. I have also led new directions in internationalising twentieth-century Irish Studies. The positioning introduction to my edited Irish Literature in Transition (2020) has been described as `seminal" (Review of Irish Studies Europe, 2023) in re-defining transnational Irish literary theory and my monograph, Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination (2022) applauded for a `compelling" argument that persuasively recalibrates postcolonial readings of Anglo-Irish literary relations (Modern Fiction Studies, 2024). My extensive published research on Irish fiction has successfully illuminated the politics of the novel, particularly in post-1970 Northern Irish culture, and my research initiatives in Ireland"s cross-border culture have gained wide international attention, from my organisation of the Partition and its Legacies conference (May 2021) to leadership of the research project Ireland"s Border Culture (2024), for which I secured HEA-Shared Island funds of €200k. Secondly, my research has decisively advanced trans-European approaches to modern Irish literature. In several influential publications I encourage departure from `nation-bound" literary history towards transnational critical practice attentive to European post-imperial contexts. My 2012 monograph on novelist Olivia Manning in the political-diplomatic milieu of wartime Europe conveys the value of this realignment: in particular, critics have applauded its ethical attention to the European refugee as a `sensitive" and `timely" intervention in literary history (TLS; Irish Review 2014). My focused research on the continental momentum of modern Irish writing has seeded compelling new work on Irish writers and Europe, evidenced by a strong cohort of Phd supervisees now published in this area, and by scholarly initiatives ranging from my co-edited volume Ireland, West to East (2013) to the 2022 online series Visions of Europe in Irish Cultural Debate, awarded DFA `Europe at 50" funding. Thirdly, my research has convincingly elevated the socio-economics of Irish publishing history, from my co-ordination of the 2012 International Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing conference and the high-profile volume The Perils of Print Culture (2014) to serving as co-PI on the online Poetics of Print exhibition, TCD 2019. In this research I have also partnered with an AHRC network collaboration (2015) on Irish-Scottish publishing connections, secured €100k IRC Enterprise Partnership funding for postdoctoral research on Ireland"s private libraries (2019), and co-led (with the Royal Irish Academy) the 2022-4 NORF Publish-OA report on Scholarly Open Access Irish Publishing. Together, these significant research trajectories exemplify my authority, impact, international reputation and proven leadership in modern Irish and British literary studies over the course of my career to date.