Maebh Long is an Irish academic with expertise on Irish literature - particularly the modernist novelist and playwright Flann O'Brien[1] - Pacific literature[2] and the medical humanities.[3] She is currently Senior Lecturer (above the bar) in the English Programme in the School of Arts at The University of Waikato in New Zealand,[4] having been a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji.[5]
Education and career
editShe obtained her BA in English and German (2001) and MA (with distinction) in English (2002) at University College Cork in Ireland and her PhD (2011) on "Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis" at the University of Durham in England.
Her research and teaching focus on modernist and contemporary literature from Ireland, Britain, and Oceania. She has also published in the areas of Literary Theory, the History of Medicine, and Continental Philosophy. She has been influenced by Jacques Derrida and by Pacific Island literature.[6]
Long has also written about the effect of climate change on sea level rise, particularly as it affects South Pacific island nations.[7] In 2020 Long was granted funding by the Marsden Fund of New Zealand's Royal Society Te Apārangi to examine the ways modernist writers were influenced by metaphors of immunity.[8] This research has strong connections to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10]
Flann O'Brien
editLong is an expert on the Irish novelist and playwright Flann O'Brien and has published two award winning books on him.[4][11][12] 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."[13] 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."[14] Assembling Flann O'Brien won the 2015 International Flann O'Brien Society's "Best book length study on a Brian O'Nolan theme" [15] In 2019 The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien won the corresponding 2019 award.[16] She is one of the co-editors of the Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies.
Selected publications
edit- (2014) Assembling Flann O'Brien. London, New Delhi, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.[17] ISBN 1-441190-20-1
- (2018) "Introduction: Oceania in Theory", Symploke, 26(1-2), 9-18.[18]
- (2018) "Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and Sea Level Rise in Fiji", Symploke, 26(1-2), 51-70.[19]
- (2018) "Girmit, postmemory, and Subramani", Pacific Dynamics, 2(2), 161-175.[20]
- (2018) The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien. Maebh Long (editor), Dalkey Archive.[21] ISBN 1-628971-83-5
- (2020) New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific. Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long (editors), New York and London: Routledge.[22]
- (2024) The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward, New York: Columbia.[2]
References
edit- ^ review of Maebh Long's The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien by David Wheatley Literary Review, July 2018
- ^ a b Long, Maebh; Hayward, Matthew (2024). The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-56173-0.
- ^ Long, Maebh (20 June 2024). "'Immune from the germ-laden things': Immunity and Irish Newspaper Advertising, 1890–1940". Social History of Medicine. doi:10.1093/shm/hkae035. ISSN 0951-631X.
- ^ a b Dr Maebh Long Convener of English, Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato
- ^ Maebh Long USP: School of Language, Arts and Media
- ^ Keynote Speakers: Maebh Long Flann O'Brien Society
- ^ Long, M. (2018). Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and sea level rise in Fiji. Symploke, 26(1-2), 51-70.
- ^ Shared immunity: poetic and political 2020, Royal Society of New Zealand
- ^ Long, Maebh; Calude, Andreea; Burnette, Jessie (10 July 2024). ""This was never about a virus": Perceptions of Vaccination Hazards and Pandemic Risk in #Covid19NZ Tweets". Journal of Medical Humanities. doi:10.1007/s10912-024-09859-9. ISSN 1573-3645.
- ^ Burnette, Jessie; Long, Maebh (2023). "Bubbles and lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand: the language of self-isolation in #Covid19NZ tweets". Medical Humanities. 49 (1): 93–104. doi:10.1136/medhum-2022-012401. ISSN 1468-215X.
- ^ The Third Columnist – An Irishman's Diary about the unseen collaborators behind Myles na gCopaleen and Flann O'Brien by Frank McNally, The Irish Times, Jul 19, 2017
- ^ USP Academic launches monograph University of the South Pacific, Apr 23, 2014
- ^ Brooker, J., 2019. Flann O'Brien, The Collected Letters of Flann O'Brien. Affirmations: of the modern, 6(1), pp.97–112.
- ^ review of Maebh Long's Assembling Flann O'Brien by Julian Hanna Irish Studies Review, Volume 25, 2017 - Issue 4, July 2018
- ^ Society Awards 2015 The International Flann O'Brien Society
- ^ Society Awards 2019 The International Flann O'Brien Society
- ^ "Assembling Flann O'Brien" researchgate
- ^ "Introduction: Oceania in Theory" Project Muse
- ^ "Vanua in the Anthropocene: Relationality and Sea Level Rise in Fiji" Project Muse
- ^ "Girmit, postmemory, and Subramani" University of Canterbury: Research Repository
- ^ The collected letters of Flann O'Brien The Dalkey Archive
- ^ "New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific"