Assoc ProfessorLucy Collins

I joined UCD in 2008 after previously teaching at Trinity College Dublin and in the UK at the University of Cumbria. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where I completed both my BA and PhD degrees, I spent a year at Harvard University on a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship. My research interests are in poetry and poetics; key publications include Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015), Poetry by Women in Ireland 1870-1970: A Critical Anthology (2012) and a co-edited collection of essays Aberration in Modern Poetry (2011). I have published widely on individual poets from Ireland, Britain and America and I have a particular interest in gender issues and in ecocriticism. A co-edited anthology, The Irish Poet and the Natural World: An Anthology of Verse in English from the Tudors to the Romantics, was published by Cork University Press in 2014. I am co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, a national digital repository and academic lead on the Poetry as Commemoration project.