Eoghan completed a BA in English and Philosophy in 2002 and the MA in Anglo-Irish Writing and Drama in 2003 at UCD. He obtained a PhD in English from Maynooth University in 2009. In 2011, he joined Carlow College, St. Patrick’s as a lecturer in English, where he teaches Creative Writing, modern and contemporary Irish writing, and world literature. Eoghan also writes fiction, and he is the author of three novels. He writes and reviews regularly for newspapers and magazines on contemporary Irish writing. Eoghan is also currently the Academic and Research Development Project Manager at Carlow College, where he has a role in programme development.
Eoghan’s areas of research are broadly in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Irish literature (particularly fiction) and culture. His current research interests lie in contemporary Irish writing, the fiction of John Banville, the literary and visual cultures of suburban Ireland, and philosophy and Irish writing. He is chair of the Carlow College Research Hub. He has co-organised a number of conferences and symposiums.
Eoghan has peer-reviewed for a wide variety of journals in the field of contemporary Irish literary studies. In 2024, he was appointed one of the editors for the Irish Literature in English area of the Literary Encyclopedia.
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