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 Drama and Theatre Studies and the MA in Writing He has published on Irish poetry, drama, and fiction of the 20th century.

Adrian Frazier’s current teaching at NUI Galway includes courses in the history of the sonnet, Shakespeare’s sonnets, the Irish literary revival, Irish drama, creative nonfiction, and reviewing. His research interests take in biography, nonfiction, 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. Enquiries about postdoctoral work on any of these areas are welcome.

Books
Hollywood Irish: John Ford and Abbey Actors in the Movies. Forthcoming, Lilliput Press (Dublin) and Syracuse University Press (NY).(Oct 2010)

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

Introductory essay, "Irish Poetry After Yeats";
"Global Regionalism: Interview with John Montague";
"Language and Invention: Interview with Brendan Kennelly";
" The Honest Ulsterman and the Ulster Renaissance: Interview with James Simmons";
"Language and Obsession: Interview with Eavan Boland,"
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.

Selected Articles, Chapters in Edited Volumes, and Essay-Reviews:
’Yeats and Anger Management, 1898-1914,’ chapter in Yeats in Context, Cambridge UP, 2010.

“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.

“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.

Reviews
’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,’ forthcoming, Irish University Review.

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

Late 19th- and early 20th-century Irish writers, such as George Moore, W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde; the Abbey Theatre; 20th century Irish theatre; contemporary Irish poetry; biography; critical theory: literary non-fiction: Golden Age Hollywood Cinema