Frank Shovlin (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
John McGahern: A Writing Life
M. H. Abrams Fellowship, 2024–25
Professor of Irish Literature in English, University of Liverpool
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Frank Shovlin is from the west of Ireland and was educated at the universities of Galway and Oxford before taking up a lectureship at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool where he is now a professor. He has published widely on a range of Irish writers, primarily from the twentieth century. In 2018–19 he was holder of a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to work on his critically acclaimed edition of John McGahern’s letters.
Selected Publications
- Shovlin, Frank, ed. The Letters of John McGahern. London: Faber and Faber, 2021.
- Shovlin, Frank. John McGahern’s Dublin. The Sir John T. Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, 2020. Dublin: Dublin City Libraries and Archives, 2020.
- Shovlin, Frank. Touchstones: John McGahern’s Classical Style. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.
- Shovlin, Frank. Journey Westward: Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012.
- Shovlin, Frank. The Irish Literary Periodical, 1923–1958. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2003.