ProfessorAndrew Carpenter

Andrew Carpenter (b. 1943) was educated at Oxford University (BA 1963, MA 1968) and at University College Dublin (Ph.D. 1970). From 1965-67 he was an Instructor in English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and since 1970 has been a member of the teaching staff of the English Department at University College Dublin. From 1970 to 1980, he was a College Lecturer, from 1980 to 1998 a Statutory (Senior) Lecturer and from 1998 an Associate Professor. Andrew Carpenter served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts at UCD from 1987 to 1992 and as Director of Development from 1992 to 1994. He was a member of the UCD Governing Body from 1988 to 1994. As Dean and as member of the Governing Body, he served on many college and university committees including the Council of Deans and the Board of Studies of the National University of Ireland. He is currently a member of the UCD Examinations Appeal Committee, the Academic Council and of several other committees. Andrew Carpenter has served on several international scholarly bodies and was the first secretary (1970-73) of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature (IASAIL). He was founding president of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and founding editor of its journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland. He is currently on the board of the Ehrenpreis Centre for the Study of Jonathan Swift (Muenster, Germany), and was until recently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS). He was chairman of the small committee which organised the Tenth World Congress ISECS, which took place at University College Dublin in July 1999. More than 1800 delegates from over 100 countries attended this extremely successful event, the largest humanities conference ever to take place in Ireland. Andrew Carpenter has also been associated with scholarly publishing through his series of ten volumes of Irish Texts from the Age of Swift (Cadenus Press, 1973-79) and through the publication of various scholarly texts and anthologies over the last thirty years. His anthology of Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland appeared in 1998 and a companion volume, Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland, was published in September 2003. Over the years, Andrew Carpenter has lectured in many universities in Ireland, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria, Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Australia. He has been visiting professor at universities in the United States and Italy and has delivered papers at conferences in many countries. He is currently working on an edition of two satiric poems from seventeenth-century Ireland, the Purgatorium Hibernicum and The Fingallian Travesty.