Professor Claire Lynch
Professor
Gaskell Building 134
- Email: claire.lynch@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266475
- English
- English and Creative Writing
- Arts and Humanities
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Claire Lynch is a Professor in English and Irish Literature at Brunel University 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.
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, Equality and Diversity, Arts and Humanities: 2019- Present
- Executive Council, British Association of Irish Studies: 2008-2019
Newest selected publications
Lynch, C. (2017) 'Twentieth Century Workers' Biographies', in Pierse, M. (ed.) A History of Irish Working-Class Writing. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. pp. 364 - 377. ISBN 10: 1107149681. ISBN 13: 978-1107149687. Open Access Link
Lynch, C. (2017) '‘Everything not saved will be lost’: Videogames, Violence, and Memory in Contemporary Irish Fiction'. Irish University Review, 47 (1). pp. 126 - 142. ISSN: 0021-1427 Open Access Link
Lynch, C. (2016) 'Irish life-writing in the digital era', in Harte, L. (ed.) A History of Irish Autobiography. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. pp. 379 - 393. ISBN 10: 1-107-13144-8. ISBN 13: 978-1107131446.
Lynch, C. (2014) '“Educate that you might be free”: Childhood Reading in Irish Literary Autobiography', in Smith, J. and Luddy, M. (eds.) Children, childhood and Irish society 1500 to the present. Dublin : Four Courts Press. ISBN 13: 978-1-84682-525-5.
Lynch, C. (2014) 'Cyber Ireland: Text, Image, Culture'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 0230358179 ISSN 13: 9780230358171