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I came to Trinity in 2011. Previously I worked as a lecturer at the University of Oxford, where I also completed my doctorate. My research and teaching interests are mainly focused on late nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish writing, especially poetry. I also have interests through this period in the relationship between literature and the other arts, the cultural history of philosophical idealism, questions of allusion and collaboration, and the place of literature in periodicals and on the radio. My book-length study Louis MacNeice and the Irish Poetry of his Time was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. It drew on extensive archival research on both sides of the Irish Sea and the Atlantic to illuminate MacNeice's considerable contact with Irish literary networks and with contemporaneous Irish poetry. It was awarded the 2015 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Other past publications include research on the fiction of Flann O'Brien and John McGahern, the place of the literary within Northern Irish writing, the radio poetry of Richard Murphy, Irish-British poetic relations at mid-century. I have also co-edited a special issue of the journal Modernist Cultures on modernism's 'Collaborative Poetics' and a book of essays on the poetry of Derek Mahon. My main ongoing current area of research focuses on the work of W.B. Yeats, and especially the relationship between his work and nineteenth and twentieth-century art writing, encompassing the many textual forms through which art spectatorship and writing were combined during the period, ranging from aesthetic philosophy to art history to exhibition reviews to ekphrastic poems. This research was supported by an Irish Research Council New Horizons Research Project Grant during 2015-17 and has led to various publications, including several journal articles, book chapters, and my co-editing of The Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts (2024). I am also currently completing a monograph provisionally entitled 'W.B. Yeats and the Writing of Art'. I teach on a wide range of undergraduate modules. In recent years, this has included co-convening the Junior Fresh 'Genres' module and lecturing on the Senior Fresh 'Modernisms' module, as well as offering specialist option modules on 'Nineteenth-Century Art Writing', 'W.B. Yeats' and 'Irish Poetry after Yeats. At postgraduate level, I contribute to various modules on the MPhil in Irish Writing, including co-convening a module focused on the work of Eavan Boland. I have supervised many PhD students and mentored several postdoctoral fellows as part of various Research Ireland and Leverhulme Trust schemes. I am always interested to hear from potential doctoral students and early careers researchers.

Publications and other Research Outputs

Publications

Peer Reviewed (33)
Non Peer Reviewed (50)

Charles, I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson, Tom Walker, The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, Book, PUBLISHED

Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker, Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, Book, PUBLISHED

Nicholas Grene, Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, First, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, 1 - 355pp, Book, PUBLISHED

The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) and the Limits of Portraiture in, editor(s)Charles I. Armstrong, Adrian Paterson and Tom Walker , The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, [Tom Walker], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Colum's Revivalist Poetics amid the Institutions of Modernism in, editor(s)Padraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan , The Writings of Padraic Colum: 'That Queer Thing Genius', 2024, [Tom Walker], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Towards the New Atlantic: Mahon's Early Politics in, editor(s)Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker , Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, [Tom Walker], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Modernist Accommodations in, editor(s)Lauren Arrington and Matthew Campbell , Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, pp429 - 444, [Tom Walker], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, W. B. Yeats, George Moore and the Abject Impressionist Self, Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, 1, (2), 2023, Journal Article, IN_PRESS

'"home rule in our literature": Irish-British Poetic Relations at Mid-Century' in, editor(s)Eve Patten , Irish Literature in Transition, 1940-1980, Cambridge University Press, 2020, [Tom Walker], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, 'Things, Thoughts, and Walter Pater in "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"', International Yeats Studies, 4, (1), 2020, p73 - 79, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

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Tom Walker, The Later Yeats and the Irish Poetic Movement?, Yeats Nobel Dinner Symposium, Dublin, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

Tom Walker, Irish Poetry in Transatlantic Modernist Magazines, especially Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Irish Poetry in Transatlantic Modernist Magazines, especially Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, KU Leuven, 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

Tom Walker, Learning to be Modern: Yeats, Asian Culture and the Spectres of Partition, Irish Cultures in Contact, Flensburg, 2024, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

Tom Walker, W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice and India, Modernism, India and the Colonial Gaze Conference, University of Delhi, 2024, 2024, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

Tom Walker, The society painter who wanted to reshape Irish art, Review of More Power To You: Sarah Purser: A Force for Irish Art, Apollo:: The International Art Magazine, 2024, Review, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, Romancing Romance: William Morris, Early Yeats and the Religion of Art, Yeats and Elevation: The Nobel Prize Centenary Conference, Stockholm University, 2023, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, The haunted paintings of Patricia Hurl, Review of Exhibition: PATRICIA HURL IRISH GOTHIC (IMMA), Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2023, Review, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, Stage presence " the theatrical paintings of John Lavery, Review of `Lavery. On Location", by National Gallery of Ireland , Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2023, Review, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, Stage presence " the theatrical paintings of John Lavery, Review of Lavery. On Location (, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, 2023, Review, PUBLISHED

Tom Walker, Histories Galore: Irish Literary Studies in the Age of Platform Publishing, English Shared Futures Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, July 2022, 2022, Conference Paper, PRESENTED

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Awards and Honours

Award	Date
Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature by the American Conference for Irish Studies	2015
IRC New Horizons' Research Project Grant - One Starter Grant	2015

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Dr. Tom Walker

Associate Professor in Irish Writing (English)

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