Director
Rónán McDonald was born in Dublin, Ireland and educated at University College Dublin. He went to the University of Oxford on a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship and took a doctorate in English literature. While a graduate student in Oxford, he edited Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal. His first book, Tragedy and Irish Literature was published in 2002 and his Cambridge Introduction to Beckett in 2007. He was appointed as a College Lecturer in English at the University of Reading in 2000 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007. At Reading, he was the Director of the Samuel Beckett International Foundation and oversaw major commemorations for the Beckett centenary in 2006. He is an author of numerous articles, essays and reviews on Irish culture and is a regular contributor to the national press. His most recent book is The Death of the Critic (2008).
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Email: r.mcdonald@unsw.edu.au
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