Staff Profiles

Dr Lindsay Ann Reid is a Senior Lecturer in English and Vice-Dean for Graduate Studies in the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies. She is a graduate of the University of King's College (BA in Classics and Early Modern Studies) and the University of Toronto (MA in Comparative Literature; PhD in English and Book History). Prior to joining the University of Galway in 2013, she previously worked at Koç University in Istanbul. Her primary research and teaching interests include literature c. 1350-1650, classical poetry, mythology, adaptation and reception studies, broadside ballads, and early English print culture. She welcomes enquiries from prospective postgraduate students wishing to pursue research in affiliated areas.

Dr Reid is the author of two monographs, Ovidian Bibliofictions and the Tudor Book (2014) and Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval (2018), as well as numerous articles and book chapters. She is currently co-editing The Maid's Metamorphosis, a late Elizabethan play about sex and gender identity, with Agnès Lafont of Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier; the UK-based theatre group Edward's Boys are performing this play for their 2024 season. 

In 2022, Dr Reid worked with Cúirt International Festival of Literature and UK-based literary organisation Speaking Volumes on a groundbreaking project related to diversity and inclusion in contemporary literature and publishing. With funding from the Irish Research Council, they created Breaking Ground Ireland. This pamphlet publication, made freely available in hard copy and online, profiles 90 writers and illustrators from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently enriching the literary landscape on the island of Ireland.

As of 2023, Dr Reid is centrally involved with 'Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures' (REBPAF),  a large-scale European Commission-funded MSCA Doctoral Network coordinated by the University of Galway. REBPAF focuses on the ways in which 15th- and 16th-century book producers (scribes, printers, entrepreneurs) negotiated the dynamic relations between the manuscript book and the printed book and adapted to the evolving challenges of the market, and it demonstrates the continuing relevance of these cultural and economic negotiations to the modern world. To this end, REBPAF unites the interests of present-day organisations that re-mediate the early book (e.g. publishers, book dealers, museums, and other stakeholders in the creative and heritage sectors) with those of academic scholarship.