John P. Harrington

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Research Interests

The cultural settings of modern Irish drama, at home and abroad

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The Irish Play on the New York Stage, 1874-1966. Irish Literature, History, and Culture. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Editor (with sociologist Elizabeth Mitchell). Politics and Performance in Contemporary Northern Ireland. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
‘The Early Years and the Irish National Theatre that was Not.’ In A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage, ed. Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan and Shakir Mustafa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 3-17.
‘The Myths of Irish Drama.’ Review essay. Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2000).
‘Samuel Beckett and the Counter-Tradition.’ In The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
"New World Drama: Fashioning Irish Theater in Lower Manhattan," Princeton University Library Quarterly (Autumn-Winter 2007), pp. 306-326.
"Transatlantic Transactions: Irish Players and American Reviewers" in Ireland and Transatlantic Poetics: Essays in Honor of Denis Donoghue. Ed. Brian G. Caraher and Robert Mahony. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. pp. 168-179.
The Life of the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. Nominated, American Theatre Book of the Year, Theatre Historical Society of America.
Modern Irish Drama. Norton Critical Edition (anthology with introduction, historical documents, critical commentaries, chronology, bibliographies). New York: W. W. Norton, 1991; new edition, Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama, 2008.
Editor, Irish Theater in America, Third annual collection of essays from the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009.

Related Activities

North American Editor, Irish Studies Review.

Ex-President of the American Conference for Irish Studies, the largest and increasingly international scholarly organization devoted to interdisciplinary study of Ireland. ACIS is itself a dimension of diaspora phenomena.