Dr. Stephen O'Neill

Biography

Stephen O'Neill is Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century British and Irish Literature at at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches modules on contemporary Irish fiction, class and modern Irish literature, and the poetry of Seamus Heaney. He also lectures on the Junior Fresh module Genres: An Introduction to Literary Studies. Formerly, he was an Irish Research Council Enterprise Research Fellow at Trinity and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, where he worked on the 'Self-Determination: A Global Perspective' exhibition, and co-edited the volume Art and Self-Determination: A Reader with Lisa Moran. His monograph Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. Stephen was previously the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for 2019-2020 at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting fellowships from the Huntington Library, the University of São Paulo (via the SPeCTReSS Network), the Moore Institute at NUI Galway, and the School of Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast. He has forthcoming and published articles and chapters on topics including the representation of work in Belfast, partition and memory, twentieth century Irish poetry, visual culture and state formation, newspaper history, and the Westlink in Belfast.