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Professor Claire Lynch
Professor
Gaskell Building 134
- Email: claire.lynch@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266475
- English
- English and Creative Writing
Summary
Claire Lynch is a Professor in English and Irish Literature at 水果派AVUniversity London.
She specialises in teaching contemporary British and Irish fiction, Modernism, and Life Writing (both theory and practice) at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
She is the author of three books and numerous articles and chapters.
Lynch, C. (2021). Small: On Motherhoods. London: Brazen/Hachette.
Lynch, C. (2014). Cyber Ireland: Text, Image, Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lynch, C. (2009). Irish Autobiography: Stories of Self in the Narrative of a Nation. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Her debut novel, A Family Matter, will be published in spring 2025.
Qualifications
University of Oxford — 2004-2007: DPhil English Literature
University of Kent — 2002-2003: MA European & Comparative Literature (Distinction)
University of Kent — 1999-2002: BA (Hons) English & American Literature
Responsibility
- Vice-Chair, University Academic Appeals Committee: 2017- Present
- Director, Postgraduate Research, Arts and Humanities: 2023- Present
- Executive Council, British Association of Irish Studies: 2008-2019
Newest selected publications
Lynch, C. (2023) 'Self-Making', in Arrington, L. and Campbell, M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 13: 9780198834670.
Lynch, C. (2023) 'Consoling Machines in Contemporary Irish Fiction', in Kelleher, M. and O'Sullivan, J. (eds.) Technology in Irish Literature and Culture. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 13: 9781009182874.
Lynch, C. (2021) 'Small'. London: Hachette.