Sinéad Mooney is a graduate of University College Cork (BA, MA) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). She teaches undergraduate courses in women’s writing, the work of Samuel Beckett, modernism and twentieth-century literature,, and a postgraduate course in twentieth-century Irish women’s writing. Her main research interests include Beckett, modernism, women’s writing, and contemporary literature, and she is interested in hearing from potential doctoral students in these areas. She has supervised doctoral theses on ’The Poetics of Place in the Work of Paul Muldoon’ and ’Representations of Maternity in Contemporary Irish Women’s Poetry’, and is currently supervising a thesis on Beckett and Mauthner. Her study of Beckett, translation and self-translation, A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation (Oxford University Press, 2011), was completed on leave funded by a research fellowship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2008/9). She is currently working on essays on Mary Lavin and Maeve Brennan, and on a book project on Irish women’s modernism.

Books
A Tongue Not Mine: Beckett and Translation. (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Samuel Beckett. Writers and Their Work series. (Plymouth: Northcote House, 2006).

Edited Collections:
Edna O’Brien: New Critical Perspectives. Co-edited with Kathryn Laing and Maureen O’Connor. (Dublin: Carysfort, 2006).

Selected Journal Articles:
’“Others’ words”: Traces of Translation in Beckett’s Trilogy.’ The Beckett Circle vol 30 no 1 (Spring 2007): 35-42.
’“Unstable compounds”: Bowen’s Beckettian Affinities.’ Modern Fiction Studies 53.2 (Summer 2007): 238-256.
’“Kicking Against the Thermolaters”: Beckett Reading Irish Poetry.’ Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 15 (2005): 30-42.

Selected Contributions to edited volumes:
’Beckett in French and English.’ Blackwell Companion to Samuel Beckett, ed SE Gontarski. (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2009), 196-208.
’Ghost Writer: Beckett and Irish Gothic.” Beckett and Ireland, ed Seán Kennedy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 131-149.

Beckett, modernism, women’s writing, and contemporary literature