DrTim Groenland

Dr Tim Groenland is Taighde Éireann/Research Ireland Pathway Fellow in the School of English, Drama and Film and a Resident Scholar in the UCD Humanities Institute. He is currently PI on the "Publishing Infrastructures of Contemporary Anglophone Literature" project, which is conducting a comparative study of publishing infrastructures across three different Anglophone territories – Ireland, the US, and Britain – to identify how those infrastructures shape contemporary literature.

His book The Art of Editing: Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury Academic. He recently co-edited a special issue with Evan Brier on 'Editing American Literature' (Post45, 2024). He has published work on literary editors and publishers in post-45 fiction in venues including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and in edited collections including The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (2024), David Foster Wallace in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and the Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts (2023). He is Co-Editor of the Irish Journal of American Studies (IJAS Online.) He is co-editing The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary Editing with Ben Fried. 

Dr Groenland studied for a BA and later an MA in English at University College Dublin before completing a PhD at Trinity College Dublin. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork researching the history of the New American Review. His research interests include contemporary literature and publishing, literary infrastructures and institutions, literary editors, and post-45 US fiction.