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ADRIAN FRAZIER

Adrian Frazier is a graduate of Pomona College (BA 1971), Trinity College Dublin (Diploma in Anglo Irish Literature, 1973), and Washington University in St. Louis (MA 1976; Ph.D 1979). He has been on the faculty at Nanjing Teachers University (1979-81), Union College in New York (1981-2000), and the National University of Ireland at Galway (2000-), where he is the Director of the MA in Writing. He has published on Irish poetry, drama, and fiction of the 20th century.  He was elected to be a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.

Adrian Frazier’s current teaching at NUI Galway includes courses in the history of the sonnet, the poetry and designs of William Blake, Yeats, Moore, and Joyce, Irish drama, writing from archives, creative nonfiction, and reviewing. 

His research interests take in biography, nonfiction, poetic form, literary history, the teaching of writing, 20^th century literature, Irish fiction, poetry, and drama, contemporary poetry, movies of ’Golden Age of Cinema,’ John Ford, W. B. Yeats, George Moore, J. M. Synge, and critical approaches rooted in Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Darwin. 

His current research concerns Maud Gonne in France. 

He is currently supervising two doctoral students: Conor Montague, who is writing about social and literary networks during the Irish revival; and Ciara O’Dowd, who is writing about Irish actresses in the 1930s and 40s. 

List of publications

"Irish Issue" of The Literary Review (Winter 1979), guest editor.  Includes the following:

1. Introductory essay, "Irish Poetry After Yeats";
2. "Global Regionalism: Interview with John Montague";
3. "Language and Invention: Interview with Brendan Kennelly";
4. " The Honest Ulsterman and the Ulster Renaissance: Interview with James Simmons";
5. "Language and Obsession: Interview with Eavan Boland,"
6. Anthology of new poems, and bibliography.     

  Major British Authors, an anthology with biographical and critical introductions. Jiangsu Provincial Education Department: Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China, 1981

Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre, The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics; Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, June 1990

George Moore: 1852-1933.  London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000

 “Irish Theatre,” The irish review, guest-editor (Autumn 2002).  Includes introductory essay, “Irish Theatre Scholarship,” pp. 1-9.

Playboys of the Western World: Production Histories, edited collection.  Carysfort Press: Dublin, 2004.  Includes introduction and two chapters by the editor.

Hollywood Irish: John Ford and Irish Revival in Hollywood.  Lilliput Press: Dublin, 2011

George Moore: Paris, Dublin, and Hollywood. Ed. with Conor Montague.  Irish Academic Press: Dublin and London, 2012.

Articles, Chapters in Edited Volumes, and Essay-Reviews:  

"'Cod-Bewildered Schoolboy': The Later Poetry of Austin Clarke," Eire-Ireland (Summer 1979)

"Ascendancy Poetry of W.B. Yeats," Sewanee Review (Winter 1980)

"The Sincerity of Patrick Kavanagh," Malahat Review (Spring 1980).  Parts of this essay are reprinted in Modern Irish Literature: Library of Literary Criticism, New York: Ungar, 1988.

"Proper Portion: Derek Mahon's Hunt By Night, " Eire-Ireland (Winter 1983)

"John Montague's Language of the Tribe," Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (December 1983)

"Juniper, Otherwise Known: Poems by Paulin and Muldoon," Eire-Ireland (Spring 1984)

"Pilgrim Haunts: Montague's The Dead Kingdom and Heaney's Station Island,: Eire-Ireland (Winter 1985)

"The Making of Meaning: The Countess Cathleen," The Sewanee Review (Summer 1987)

"Leaves from a Guestbook," Hill Field: Tributes to John Montague on his Sixtieth Birthday (Oldcastle, Ireland: Gallery Press, 1989)

" The Book of Yeats's Poems," review-essay, Eire-Ireland (Winter 1990)

"Wealth, Gender, Politics: Three Views of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing," review-essay of volume 3, Eire-Ireland, Summer 1992

"'Rapprochement with a Very Old Man': James Joyce's London Meetings with George Moore," James Joyce Annual, September 1992

"On His Honor: George Moore and Some Women," English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Fall 1992

"George Moore and the Amenities," Honor Woulfe, edited, English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Fall 1992

"Canon Fodder: Anthologies of Contemporary Irish Poetry," Colby Quarterly, December, 1992

"Good Copy: George Moore and the Art of Literary Controversy," Victorian Literature and Culture (1996)

“Queering the Irish Renaissance: The Masculinities of Moore, Martyn, and Yeats,” Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997)

“Paris, Ireland: Looking at Moore Looking at Manet,” New Hibernian Review (Spring 1997)

“Lady Gregory’s Diaries,” essay-review, Yeats: An Annual (1997)

“Gerald O’Donovan,” New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2005)

“William Kirkpatrick Magee,” New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2005)

“Fratricidal Fictions: George and Maurice Moore,” New Hibernia Review (December 1999).  

“Open Letter to the Irish Tourist Board,” The Dublin Review (Summer 2001), 34-47. 

“Landlord to Lawyer: the Correspondence of George Moore and John Quinn,” John Quinn: Selected Irish Writers from his Library (Locust Hill Press: West Cornwall, CT, 2001), pp.229-38. 

“Napoleon in a Dress: Hugh Lane and Irish Celibates,” The Irish Review, n.27 (2001): 168-79.            

“Anger and Nostalgia: Seamus Heaney and the Ghost of the Father,” Eire-Ireland (Fall/Winter, 2001): 7-38.

“’The Power of the Moment’: Ireland’s Literary Revivals,”  Bullan, v6, n1 (Summer/Fall 2001): 5-28.   

“Open Letter to the Irish Tourist Board,” Dublin Review (Summer 2001): 34-47.   

“Harry Clarke and the Material Culture of Modern Ireland,” Textual Studies, v16, n2 (Summer 2002): 303-22

“McGuinness and the Boys,” The Dublin Review (Summer 2002): 72-86.

“Literary Landmarks: ’Boulevardier in the rain,’ George Moore’s Dublin,” Irish  Times (22 June 2002): 58. 

“Moore’s Hail, Yeats’s Farewell,” New Hibernia Review (Autumn 2002).

“Davitt at Moore’s Door,” The Dublin Review (Autumn 2002): . 

“Irish Theatre Scholarship,” intro. to special issue on Irish Theatre, Irish Review (Autumn 2002): 1-9.

“The Abbey Theatre,” Oxford Encylopedia of Theatre and Performance (OUP: Oxford, 2003), v. 1, pp. 1-2.   

“George Moore,” Encyclopedia of Ireland (Gill and Macmillan: Dublin, 2003), 738.

“English Department [History of],” Encyclopedia of Union College History (Union College Press: Schenectady, 2003), 259-62.

“The Ideology of the Abbey Theatre,” Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Irish Drama  (Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2003), pp. 33-46.           

“The Body of Life,” Programme note for The Shape of Metal by Thomas Kilroy, Abbey Theatre, October 2003

“Hollywood and the Abbey,” Dublin Review (Summer 2004): 68-86. 

“The Abbey Theatre: Let’s Not Throw It All Away,” Irish Times (11 October 2004): 12. 

“The Abbey Theatre,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Literature, 3000 word article, forthcoming.

“George Moore,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Literature, 2000 word article, forthcoming.

“Barry Fitzgerald: From Abbey Tours to Hollywood Films,” in Irish Theatre on Tour, ed. Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash (Carysfort Press: Dublin, 2005), pp. 89-100.

“Irish modernisms, 1880-1930,” Chapter 6, Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel, ed. J. W. Foster (Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2006).

“The Irish Renaissance, 1890-1940: Drama in English,” Chapter 20, Cambridge History of Irish Literature (Cambridge UP: Cambridge, 2006), 181-225.

“George Moore, R. I. Best, and W. K. Magee: How Writers and Librarians Collaborate,” Festschrift for Donal O Luanaigh, ed. Felix Larkin (Dedalus: Dublin, 2007).

Editorial Adivsor, and author of following articles:
“ At the Hawk’s Well,” “Dion Boucicault,” “ Cathleen ni Houlihan,” “ The Colleen Bawn,” “Lady Gregory,” “ The Importance of Being Earnest,” “ In the Shadow of the Glen,” “Ireland 1860-2000—Survey,” “ John Bull’s Other Island,” “ Lady Windermere’s Fan,” “Micheal MacLiammoir,” “ Purgatory,” “ Riders to the Sea,” “Lennox Robinson,” “ Spreading the News,” “J. M. Synge,” “Oscar Wilde,” “ A Woman of No Importance,” “W. B. Yeats,” entries in Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, ed. Gabrielle H. Cody & Evert Sprinchorn (Columbia University Press: NY, 2007). 

 ’I no longer underrate him’: The Question of Moore’s Value,’ in George Moore: Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds, ed. Mary Pierse (Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, 2006), pp. 2-12. 

“Frank Harris: ’Thinking at the Top of His Voice,’” Dublin Review, n24 (Autumn 2006): 72-84.

’Preface by Consulting Editor,’ The Collected Stories of George Moore: Gender and Genre, vol. 1 (Pickering & Chatto: London, 2007), vii-xi. 

“Irish Homes, Irish Houses,” Cuirt Annual 2007. 

’Synge, The Playboy, and the Riots,’ Abbey Theatre programme note, Playboy of the Western World production, September 2007. 

’George Moore and Collaborative Authorship,’ forthcoming, Rodopi. 

’A single beautiful poison pill: Yeats’s Purgatory: Last Act, First Performance,’ The Dublin Review 36  (Autumn 2009).

’ The Quiet Man and The Playboy of the Western World,’ collection of essays on The Quiet Man, ed. Rod Stoneman, Dedalus Press, 2009.

’Yeats and Anger Management, 1898-1914,’ chapter in Yeats in Context,  ed. Ben Levitas, Cambridge UP, 2010.  

’Synge and Edwardian Theatre,’ chapter in Synge and Edwardian Ireland, ed. Nicholas Grene, Oxford University Press, 2011.

’Afterword,’ John Synge and Modern Irish Drama, ed. Patrick Lonergan (Carysfort Press, 2011).

Preface, A Mummer’s Wife, ed. Anthony Patterson (Victorian Secrets: Brighton, 2011).

Preface, The Death of Night, selected poems of Ndrek Gjini (Albanian publisher, May 2011)

“Pat Sheeran: Men and Beauty,” Belgrade Bells (Winter 2012)

“The Other As Somebody,”  The Face of the Other in Anglo-American Literature (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming); translated as ’Teorija I biografia: Drugi kao Neko’ in Folia Linguistica et Litteraria (Montenegro) n3 and n4 (2012): 413-424. 

“Albert Nobbs and Celibate Lives,” George Moore: Paris, Dublin, Hollywood, ed. Conor Montague & Adrian Frazier (Irish Academic Press, scheduled for Sept 2012). 

’'The Fin de Siècle Meets French Realism: Moore, Balzac and the Peculiarity of Writers,’ George Moore and Co(ntemporaries): Fin-de-siecle Artistic Interactions and Cross-Influences, ed. Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (University of Delaware Press, scheduled for 2013).

“Cathleen ni Houlihan, Yeats’s Dream, and the Double Life of Maud Gonne,” Sewanee Review (scheduled for Spring 2013)

’”Not a Woman a Man Forgets’: Honor Woulfe and George Moore's Euphorion in Texas, with Michele McCall, English Literature in Transition, forthcoming 2013. 

“Moore and Joyce: Confessions of a Young Man as an Influence on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Dublin James Joyce Journal (under consideration).

  Reviews:

" The Great Cloak," Eire-Ireland (Fall 1978)

" Bornholm Night-ferry," "Writing in the West," Connaught Tribune (August 1982)

“Taking a Chance on Chance,” review of Leland Monk’s Standard Deviations, James Joyce Literary Supplement (Fall 1994): 22.

“ George Moore and the Autogenous Self,”  Eire-Ireland, Winter 1994

“Boy from Brooklyn”: essay-review of John Montague’s Collected Poems, Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 1996): 29-30.

“Essays on Yeats,” review of Jonathan Allison’s Yeats’s Political Identities: Selected Essays, English Literature in Transition (Summer 1997).

Review of High and Low Moderns (Oxford UP), Irish Literary Supplement (Summer 1997).

“Foster’s Yeats,” New Hibernia Review (Fall 1997). 

“A Yellow Light on the Century,”  review of The Yellow Book by Derek Mahon, Irish Literary Supplement (Winter 1998).

“Making Peace: Selected Poems of Michael Longley,” Irish Literary Supplement (Winter 1999).

“ The Politics of Irish Drama,” English Literature in Transition, v.44, n.4 (2001): 493-496.

“ Interpreting Synge: Essays from the Synge Summer School, 1991-2000,” Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, v.26, n.2 (2001). 

“Papers on Poets,”  Review of Critical Ireland: New Essays in Literature and Culture, ed. A. Kelly and A. Gillis, Irish Times (16 June 2001), 70. 

“ Oscar Wilde in the 1990s,” by Melissa Knox, The Oscholars, v.2, n.3. 

“ A History of Irish Theatre,” by Chris Morash, The Irish Times (6 April 2002): 60.

“ Lady Gregory,” by Colm Toibin, The Irish Times (February 2002). 

“The Triumph of Artifice,” review of Irish University Review special issue on Thomas Kilroy, Irish Times (3 August 2002): 59. 

“’Seized by a Superior Power’?” Review of Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W. B. Yeats, by Ann Saddlemyer, Irish Times (2 November  2002):  59.

“Druid’s Sive,” Irish Theatre Magazine (Winter 2002): 126-129. 

“Struggle of the National Being,” review of George Russell (AE) and the New Ireland, 1905-30, by Nicholas Allen, Irish Times (February 8, 2003): 59.

“Life in Leitrim,” review of Lives and Miracles by Vincent Woods, Poetry Ireland, 76 (Spring/Summer, 2003): 150-51. 

“On Automatic: The Arch Poet: W. B. Yeats: A Life,” New York Times Book Review (9 November 2003): 9.

“A woman's art,”  Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue: Lady Gregory, Edited by Anne Fogarty Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring/ Summer 2004), Irish Times (3 July 2004): 62.

“John Montague: A Poet in His Prime,” Irish Times (25 September 2004): 13. 

“ W. B. Yeats: A Life, vol. 2,” Irish Times  (14 May 2005): 13.

“In the Field of Vision,” rev. of The Field Day Review, Irish Times (28 May 2005).

“Writer of the Western World,” [review of Synge’s travel writings], Irish Times (3 September 2005): 12.

“A Sales Pitch to the Taxpayer: Forum on Irish Studies,” Irish Times (11 November 06): 11. 

“A Landlord’s Legacy,” review of Madeleine Humphrey’s biography of Edward Martyn, Irish Times (15 December 2007): 10. 

’Yeats in Europe,’ English Literature in Transition, v. 53, n8 (2008): 343-45.

’ The Poems of James Stephens,’ review, English Literature in Transition, v. 52, n1, 2009; pp. 113-14.. 

’Longley’s Lifeboat,’ Irish Times (23 May 2008).

’A Culture for Contemplation,’ review of Richard Tillinghast’s Finding Ireland, Irish  Times (1 November 2008): 13.

Review of Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrel: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (OUP), forthcoming in New Hibernia Review.

’Renewing the Republic,’ a letter, Irish Times (10 May 2010).

’Synge and the scholars,’ Irish Times (23 May 2009). 

’The mammy, the mother, and the wife,’ Irish Times (25 July 2009). 

’A nurse of genius,’ Irish Times (3 Oct 2009). 

’A Philosopher of the Everyday,’ Irish Times (17 Feb 2010).

’Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge,’ Irish University Review (Spring 2011). 

’Brimming with Sympathy and Skill’ (review of Joseph O’Connor, Ghost Light), Irish Times (29 May 2010): 6.

Review of Ronald Schuchard, The Last Minstrels (OUP, 2010), in New Hibernia Review (Spring 2011).

Review of W. B. Yeats & George Yeats: The Letters, ed. Ann Saddlemyer, in The Irish Times (March 2011).

’A Book of Revelations,’ Review of Hands by Moya Cannon, The Irish Times (18 Feb 2012)

Review of POOR GREEN ERIN by Eoin Bourke, for The Irish Times (Sept 2012)

Conference Paper and Invited Lectures:

"Images of Yeats as an Example," International Yeats Symposium, Winthrop College, April 1983.

"Whose Abbey Theatre?"  American Committee for Irish Studies Convention, Wake Forest University, May 1984.

"The Abbey Portraits of J.B. Yeats," Albany Institute of Art, May 1987.

"'The Healing Harmonies': John Montague's The Dead Kingdom," American Committee for Irish Studies Convention, Syracuse, April 1989.

"One Peculiar Irishman: George Moore," Albany Institute of Art, March, 1992.

"George Moore and the Art of the Literary Controversy," American Committee for Irish Studies Program, MLA Convention, New York, December 1992.

“Singing School: The Politics of Voice,” Address at Loomis Chaffee School Convention of Teachers of English, 22 April 1994.

“Revisionism in Irish Literary Studies,” panelist, symposium at Ireland House, New York University, 9 December 1995.

“Paris, Ireland: Looking at Moore Looking at Manet,” American Committee for Irish Studies Convention, SIU Carbondale, April 1996.

“George Moore and the Irish National Theatre,” Synge Summer School, 30 June 1996.

“Living Book Review: with Roy Foster and Liz Cullingford,” ACIS conference, Albany, NY, April 1997.

“George Moore and 19^th Century Political Correctness,” NUI Galway, November 1997.

“Brother Love: George and Maurice Moore,” ACIS Convention, Fort Lauderdale, April 1998.

“Shakespeare and Bacon: Yeats and Moore,”  Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, August 1998.

“The Biography of George Moore,” Union College Faculty Symposium, October 1999. 

“Anger Gone Underground: Seamus Heaney, Yeats, and the Ghost of the Father,” Villanova University, March 2000.

“George Moore: The Question of His Value,” George Moore Weekend, Claremorris, October 2000.

“Appropriate Heroes: George Moore or Brendan Behan?” George Moore Society, Carnacun, November 2000.

“Napoleon in a Dress: Hugh Lane and George Moore,” Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, November 2000.

“'The power of the moment': Ireland's Literary Renaissances,” Plenary Address, American Conference of Irish Studies Annual Convention, New York, Saturday, 9 June 2001.

“Conditions for a Renaissance,” Synge Summer School, 6 July 2001.

“George Moore and Edward Martyn,” Loughrea Literary and Historical Society, 17 October 2001.

“Future Directions: Irish Theatre Historiography,” Panelist, 24 November 2001.

“Moore’s Hail, Yeats’s Farewell,” W. B. Yeats Society, National Arts Club, New York, 11 December 2001.

“In the Shadow of the Glen and the Three Sorts of Ignorance,”  Synge Summer School, 4 July 2002.

“George Moore, W. K. Magee, and Richard Best: How Librarians and Writers Collaborate,” National Library of Ireland Society,  Dublin, 12 December 2002. 

“Edward Martyn’s Sudden Shift to Nationalism,” Old Galway Society, 9 January 03.

“Irish Homes, Irish Houses,” Erris Literary Festival, 28 June 2003.

“Lady Gregory As Playwright,” Lady Gregory Weekend, September 2003.

“Criticism and the Irish Nation: Historical Perspectives,” (Chair, Panel Discussion),  Conference on Models for Irish Theatre Today, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 11 October 2003.

“ The Plough and the Stars on Stage and Screen,” Invited lecture, Washington and Lee University, 6 November 2003.

“Siobhan MacKenna’s Playboy,” Conference on production histories of Synge’s play; organized by MA in Drama and Theatre Studies, NUI Galway, at Druid Theatre, 14 February 2004. 

“The Abbey’s 1930s Tours of the USA,” Irish Theatre Diaspora Conference, Dublin, April 2004. 

“The Abbey’s First Ten Years,” Reading the Decades series, Abbey Theatre, 26 September 2004.

“ The Long Voyage Home: Arthur Shields, John Ford, Eugene O'Neill, and Irish exile,” Samuel Beckett Center, Trinity College Dublin,  30 November 2004.

“’I no longer underestimate him’: The Standing of George Moore,” Keynote address, George Moore Conference, University College  Cork, 20 March 2005.

“ The Only Jealousy of Emer: Yeats as Playwright,” Yeats Summer School, Sligo, 12 August 2005.

“Frank Harris: 150^th Anniversary Lecture,” Cuirt, Galway, 27 April 2006.

“George Moore and Literary Collaboration,” keynote address, George Moore International Conference, Lille, France, 30 March 2007.

Introduction, Samantha Power, Cuirt Festival, 23 April 08.  

“ Purgatory’s First Performance,” Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, 7 Aug 2008.

Interview with Michael Longley, Flatlake Festival, Clones, Ireland, 23 Aug 08.

“The Disruptive, Disreputable Master: Balzac as an Example,” Keynote Address, George Moore International Conference, 10 September 08. 

’ The Quiet Man and The Playboy of the Western World,’ invited lecture, Princeton University, 21 November 2008.

’Synge and Edwardian Theatre,’ Synge Centenary Conference, March 2009. 

’Confessions of a Young Man Reconsidered,’ keynote address, Fourth International George Moore Conference, Almeria, Spain, 25-27 March 2010.

’Irish Writers and the Fin de Siecle: Confessions of a Young Man,’ keynote address, The Irish Fin de Siecle conference,  Limerick, 16-17 April 2010.

’Facing the Other in the Absence of Theory,’ Keynote address, Conference, University of Montenegro, 1 October 2010.

’Writing About Film in the Absence of Theory,’ invited lecture, Union College, New York, 25 November 2010. 

’George Moore and Albert Nobbs,’ RTE Arts show, interview, 24 Jan 2011.

Tom Kilroy, Interview, NUI Galway, 22 March 2011.

Panelist, ’Reading Kilroy,’ “Across the Boundaries: Talking About Thomas Kilroy,” Trinity College Dublin, 30 Apr 2011

Launch, The Veiled Woman of Achill, 5 May 2012

’Across the Curriculum, Across the Water: Teaching Writing in the University,’ NUI Galway CELT conference, 7 June 2012

’Writing Nonfiction and Free Indirect Discourse,’ Dublin, 15 June 2012

’ Confessions of a Young Man and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,’ James Joyce Conference, Dublin, 12 June 2012

’From Stage to Screen: John Ford and Abbey Actors,’ John Ford Ireland Conference, Abbey Theatre, 10 June 2012. 

 

 

    

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