Maebh Long is an Irish academic with expertise on Irish literature - particularly the

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

novelist and playwright

Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan (; 5 October 19111 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Civil Service of the Republic of Ireland, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth- ...

review of Maebh Long's ''The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien'' by David Wheatley

Literary Review ''Literary Review'' is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho. The magazine was edited for fourteen years b ...

, July 2018 - Pacific literature and the medical humanities. She is currently the Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies at th
Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
at the

University of Otago The University of Otago () is a public university, public research university, research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand's oldest university and one of the oldest universities in ...

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, having been Senior Lecturer (above the bar) in the English Programme at The

University of Waikato The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in nume ...

in New Zealand,Dr Maebh Long
Convener of English, Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato and Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School at the

University of the South Pacific The University of the South Pacific (USP) is a public research university with locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. Established in 1968, the university is organised as an intergovernmental organisation and is owned by the gov ...

(USP) in

Fiji Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about ...

.Maebh Long
USP: School of Language, Arts and Media

Education and career

She obtained her BA in English and German (2001) and MA (with distinction) in English (2002) at

University College Cork University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) () is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork (city), Cork. The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Universit ...

in Ireland and her PhD (2011) on "Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis" at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

in England. Her research and teaching focus on

and

contemporary literature Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance and others. History Literary movements are always contemp ...

from Ireland, Britain, and

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. She has also published in the areas of

Literary Theory Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. Culler 1997, p.1 Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history, m ...

, the

History of Medicine The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies. The history of med ...

, and

Continental Philosophy Continental philosophy is a group of philosophies prominent in 20th-century continental Europe that derive from a broadly Kantianism, Kantian tradition.Continental philosophers usually identify such conditions with the transcendental subject or ...

. She has been influenced by

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...

and by Pacific Island literature.Keynote Speakers: Maebh Long
Flann O'Brien Society Long has also written about the effect of

climate change Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in Global surface temperature, global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate variability and change, Climate change in ...

on sea level rise, particularly as it affects South Pacific island nations.Long, M. (2018). Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and

sea level rise The sea level has been rising from the end of the last ice age, which was around 20,000 years ago. Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by , with an increase of per year since the 1970s. This was faster than the sea level had e ...

in Fiji. Symploke, 26(1-2), 51-70. In 2020 Long was granted funding by the

Marsden Fund Marsden Fund grants are contestable funding for investigator-led fundamental research in New Zealand. Grants are made in all areas of research in science, engineering, and mathematics. The grants are made from the Marsden Fund, which was establish ...

of New Zealand's Royal Society Te Apārangi to examine the ways modernist writers were influenced by metaphors of immunity. This research has strong connections to the

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pandemic.

Flann O'Brien

Long is an expert on the Irish novelist and playwright

and has published two award winning books on him.USP Academic launches monograph
University of the South Pacific, Apr 23, 2014 She has significantly impacted wider recognition of O'Brien's work. Joseph Booker called ''The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien'', "a major event in the documentation of modern Ireland's history. The most significant publication by Brian O'Nolan since the belated arrival in print of ''The Third Policeman''." ''The Irish Studies Review'' said, "Reading Maebh Long's recent book, ''Assembling Flann O'Brien'', one cannot help thinking that the poor fellow is finally getting the attention he deserves."review of Maebh Long's ''Assembling Flann O'Brien'' by Julian Hanna
Irish Studies Review, Volume 25, 2017 - Issue 4, July 2018 ''Assembling Flann O'Brien'' won the 2015 International Flann O'Brien Society's "Best book length study on a Brian O'Nolan theme"
The International Flann O'Brien Society In 2019 ''The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien'' won the corresponding 2019 award.
The International Flann O'Brien Society Long is President of the Flann O'Brien Society, President of th
Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
and one of the co-editors of th
Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies

Selected publications

* (2014) ''Assembling Flann O'Brien''. London, New Delhi, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. * (2018) "Introduction: Oceania in Theory", Symploke, 26(1-2), 9-18. * (2018) "Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and Sea Level Rise in Fiji", Symploke, 26(1-2), 51-70. * (2018) "Girmit, postmemory, and Subramani", Pacific Dynamics, 2(2), 161-175. * (2018) ''The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien.'' Maebh Long (editor), Dalkey Archive.
The collected letters of Flann O'Brien
' The Dalkey Archive * (2020) ''New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific''. Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long (editors), New York and London: Routledge."New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific"
/ref> * (2024) ''The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism''. Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward, New York: Columbia.

References

External links

Professor Maebh Long, University of Otago

Google Scholar Citations for Maebh Long

Maebh Long on Radio Myles podcast
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