irina ruppo malone
Irina is a graduate of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Trinity College Dublin, and the National University of Ireland Galway where she completed her PhD and held an IRCHSS fellowship.
In addition to teaching within the discipline of English, Irina works as manager of the Academic Writing Centre at the James Hardiman Library (
http://www.library.nuigalway.ie/support/academicwritingcentre/)
Special interests include Ibsen Studies, Irish Literary Revival (in particular the work of W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, and James Joyce), 20th Century Drama, 20th Century Irish Fiction, the Literature of the Fantastic, Literary and Dramatic Adaptation, and Academic Writing.
Selected Publications
Books:
Irina Ruppo Malone.
Ibsen and the Irish Revival. Basingstoke: Palgrave: 2010
Ros Dixon and Irina Ruppo Malone.
Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage.
Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2012.
Articles
“Spectral History: The Stories of Dorothy Macardle,”
Partial Answers: Journal of
Literature and the History of Ideas 9:1 (January 2011), 95-109.
“Ireland as a Doll’s House Irish Suffragists, J.M. Synge and Sean O’Casey,”
Studies:
Irish Quarterly Review 99 (Summer 2010), 189-204.
“Ibsen, the Irish Revival and the Debate on Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Irish Literature,” in Patrick O'Donovan and Laura Rascaroli, eds.,
The Cause of
Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformations (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010), pp.189-200.
“The Playwright Who Did Not Exist: The Public and Literary Reception of Henrik Ibsen During The Irish Revival,”
Nordic Irish Studies 8 (February 2010), 17-28.
“Ibsen and the Irish Free-State: The Gate Theatre Company Productions of
Peer Gynt,”
Irish University Review 39:1 (Spring-Summer, 2009), 42-64.
“From Wessex to Geesala: Hardy and Synge,” in Patrick Lonergan and Riana O’Dwyer, eds.,
Echoes Down the Corridor: Irish Theatre – Past, Present and Future (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2007), pp.59-80.
Reviews:
Review of
Peer Gynt in a new version by Arthur Riordan, Rough Magic, 2011,
Ibsen News and Comments
21 (April 2012)
Review of Frank McGuinness,
John Gabriel Borkman, Abbey Theatre, 2009, Ibsen News and Comments 30 (April 2011).
Review of Brian Friel,
Hedda Gabler, Gate Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival 2008, Ibsen News and Comments 28 (April 2008).