Teaches at University College Cork; research interests
include Irish women’s writing, Irish and British 18th
and 19th century writing, post-colonial writing and
children’s literature; author of Maria Edgeworth: Women,Enlightenment and Nation; published essays include ‘Orphans, Upstarts and Aristocrats: Ireland and the Idyll of Adoption in The Work of Madame de Genlis’ in Ireland Abroad’ in Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century.