Academic biography

Ellen is an Assistant Professor at the School of English, Dublin City University. She is the co-editor of Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking (Routledge, 2023) and has published work in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Comparative Literature and Irish Studies Review on Irish and Caribbean poetry. Ellen co-wrote, with Eugene McNulty, a chapter on Ireland for Europe in British Literature and Culture, edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (forthcoming Cambridge UP). She has received research funding from Dublin City University's Doctoral Scholarship programme, the Irish Research Council and the Marine Institute of Ireland.