Senior Lecturer in English
Teaching and supervision
Research
- My main area of interest is in American fiction, particularly US writers Sara Paretsky and David Markson. I also have interests in Irish fiction and poetry. I have wrote essays and book chapters on James Joyce and at present, I am writing an essay on US author Philip Roth.
Publications
Article
Dempsey, Peter (2013) Going, Going, Gone. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 10 (1). pp. 77-88. ISSN 1479-0726
Dempsey, Peter (2010) David Markson Obituary. The Guardian. p. 35.
Book Section
Dempsey, Peter (2011) Dead Soon Enough. In: The Scaldy Detail: An Anthology of New Writing from County Wexford. ScalltaMedia, Wexford, pp. 90-94. ISBN 978-0-9563710-1-0
Dempsey, Peter (2010) James Joyce. In: British Writers Retrospective: Supplement 3. Scribners, USA, pp. 165-180. ISBN 0520039351
- Contemporary US novelists
- Irish fiction