Dr Karl O' Hanlon

Biography
My research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry. My monograph in progress Official Voices: Poets and the Irish State examines the dynamic between twentieth-century poetry and the emergence of an independent Irish state.
From August 2022, I will co-lead '"Our roots travel widely": Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism in Irish Poetry' (BRAN) with Dr Gail McConnell in Queen's University, Belfast. BRAN is funded by the Department of Taoiseach's Shared Island/North-South Initiative. I won the Faculty Early Career Research Achievement Award in 2022. In July 2022, I was awarded a Provost's Grant for Library Research to undertake archival work at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
My article 'Ferdinand Levy: A Harlem Renaissance Dubliner and De-Colonial Cosmopolitanism' is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature, and BBC Radio 4 have commissioned a show producer Claire Cunningham and I proposed on Levy's life and work, scheduled to air Autumn 2023.
‘The Case for Irish Modernism: Denis Devlin at the League of Nations and 1930s International Broadcasting’ appears in Modernism/modernity (Spring 2021). I have written for The Irish Times, Tribune, the Dublin Review of Books, and I review poetry widely. My writing on poetry has appeared in The Cambridge Quarterly, English, Études Anglaises, as well as several edited collections, including essays on Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Geoffrey Hill. I recently contributed the Foreword to Martin Bell Translates Robert Desnos. I was previously contributing reviewer for the Modern Irish Poetry section of Year’s Work in English Studies, and I have peer-reviewed for several journals, including Irish University Review, Religion and Literature, and the publisher Peter Lang, as well as IRC postdoctoral fellowship internal peer review. I have given public readings, lectures, and talks at the Ilkley Festival, READ Salon (Durham), Trinity College Dublin, and This Irish American Life (NYU Glucksman House podcast). My poetry pamphlet And Now They Range was published by Guillemot Press in 2016 and reviewed in The Fortnightly Review and PN Review, and my poems have appeared in Agenda, Blackbox Manifold, The Hopkins Review, Poetry, and Stand.
I teach across the module offerings in English at Maynooth, including at postgraduate level, and have convened several courses. I have supervised M.A. dissertations on H.D. and mysticism, Yeats and Irish translation, and Irish women's poetry and animality. With Dr Catherine Gander, I co-organise the Poetry and Poetics Reading series, and our readers have included Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky, Philip Metres, Ishion Hutchinson, Vahni Capildeo, and Seán Hewitt.
I welcome proposals for postgraduate work in any area of modern and contemporary poetry, particularly modernism, post-war U.S., British and Irish poetry, and poetry and theology. Before joining Maynooth, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. I held a Fulbright scholarship at Georgetown University, and I completed my doctorate at the University of York.
From August 2022, I will co-lead '"Our roots travel widely": Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism in Irish Poetry' (BRAN) with Dr Gail McConnell in Queen's University, Belfast. BRAN is funded by the Department of Taoiseach's Shared Island/North-South Initiative. I won the Faculty Early Career Research Achievement Award in 2022. In July 2022, I was awarded a Provost's Grant for Library Research to undertake archival work at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
My article 'Ferdinand Levy: A Harlem Renaissance Dubliner and De-Colonial Cosmopolitanism' is forthcoming in Journal of Modern Literature, and BBC Radio 4 have commissioned a show producer Claire Cunningham and I proposed on Levy's life and work, scheduled to air Autumn 2023.
‘The Case for Irish Modernism: Denis Devlin at the League of Nations and 1930s International Broadcasting’ appears in Modernism/modernity (Spring 2021). I have written for The Irish Times, Tribune, the Dublin Review of Books, and I review poetry widely. My writing on poetry has appeared in The Cambridge Quarterly, English, Études Anglaises, as well as several edited collections, including essays on Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and Geoffrey Hill. I recently contributed the Foreword to Martin Bell Translates Robert Desnos. I was previously contributing reviewer for the Modern Irish Poetry section of Year’s Work in English Studies, and I have peer-reviewed for several journals, including Irish University Review, Religion and Literature, and the publisher Peter Lang, as well as IRC postdoctoral fellowship internal peer review. I have given public readings, lectures, and talks at the Ilkley Festival, READ Salon (Durham), Trinity College Dublin, and This Irish American Life (NYU Glucksman House podcast). My poetry pamphlet And Now They Range was published by Guillemot Press in 2016 and reviewed in The Fortnightly Review and PN Review, and my poems have appeared in Agenda, Blackbox Manifold, The Hopkins Review, Poetry, and Stand.
I teach across the module offerings in English at Maynooth, including at postgraduate level, and have convened several courses. I have supervised M.A. dissertations on H.D. and mysticism, Yeats and Irish translation, and Irish women's poetry and animality. With Dr Catherine Gander, I co-organise the Poetry and Poetics Reading series, and our readers have included Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky, Philip Metres, Ishion Hutchinson, Vahni Capildeo, and Seán Hewitt.
I welcome proposals for postgraduate work in any area of modern and contemporary poetry, particularly modernism, post-war U.S., British and Irish poetry, and poetry and theology. Before joining Maynooth, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. I held a Fulbright scholarship at Georgetown University, and I completed my doctorate at the University of York.
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Karl O'Hanlon (2023) 'Ferdinand Levy: A Harlem Renaissance Dubliner and De-Colonial Cosmopolitanism'. Journal of Modern Literature, . | |
2021 | O'Hanlon K. (2021) 'The case for Irish Modernism: Denis Devlin at the league of nations and 1930s international broadcasting'. Modernism/Modernity, :157-180. [DOI] | |
2018 | Karl O'Hanlon (2018) ''A Final Clarifying: Form, Error, and Alchemy in Geoffrey Hill's Ludo and the Daybooks''. Etudes Anglaises, . [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | O'Hanlon K. (2016) ''The violent and formal dancers': John Berryman and Geoffrey hill'. Cambridge Quarterly, 45 (3):208-223. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | O'Hanlon K. (2016) ''Noble in his grandiose confusions': Yeats and Coriolanus in the poetry of Geoffrey Hill'. English, 65 (250):211-233. [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Karl O'Hanlon (2020) 'Rebels in Formal Dress: Robert Lowell, Denis Devlin and their Transatlantic Literary Network' In: Robert Lowell and Irish Poetry. Bern: Switzerland : Peter Lang. | |
2017 | O'Hanlon K. (2017) ''A fresh, active relation': Milton's Lycidas and the poetry of John Berryman' In: John Berryman: Centenary Essays. [DOI] | |
2016 | O’Hanlon K. (2016) 'Language and the fall in W. B. Yeats and Geoffrey Hill' In: Fall Narratives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. [DOI] | |
2014 | Karl O'Hanlon (2014) ''Antimodernism and Religious Modernity in Brighton Rock: The Divided Mind of Graham Greene’' In: Graham Greene: un écrivain dans le siècle [actes du colloque international réunion à Besançon, 10-11 décembre 2011). Besançon : Presses de l'université de Franche-Comté. |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Karl O'Hanlon (2023) '‘A modification of the Treaty’: W.B. Yeats, W.T. Cosgrave, and secret peace talks in London during the Civil War' The Irish Story, . [Link] | |
2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) ''Dublin's Socialist Theatre Troupe'' Tribune, . | |
2020 | Elleke Boehmer, Shirley Chew, Shara McCallum, and Karl O'Hanlon (2020) 'Tributes to Eavan Boland' Stand, 18 (2) . | |
2018 | Karl O'Hanlon (2018) ''Paying Its Way' (review of Evan Kindley, Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture. 2017.)' PN Review, 44 (6) . | |
2017 | Karl O'Hanlon (2017) 'Ovid in America' Stand, 15 (2) :57-61. |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) The Letters of Denis Devlin ed. by Sarah Bennett, and: Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War by Katrina Goldstone (review). BREV | |
2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) 'Lightbringers': review of George Szirtes & Denise Riley. Dublin: BREV | |
2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) Observing Proportion (review of Maurice Scully, Airs. BREV [Link] | |
2019 | Karl O'Hanlon (2019) Review, The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin (Oxford University Press, 2019). Sheffield: BREV | |
2017 | O'Hanlon, K (2017) One wide expanse: writings from the Ireland chair of poetry. ABINGDON: BREV [DOI] | |
2016 | O'Hanlon, K (2016) Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures. OXFORD: BREV [DOI] | |
2015 | Karl O'Hanlon (2015) 'To Think Harder in Verse' (review of Philip Coleman, John Berryman's Public Vision: Relocating the Scene of Disorder UCD 2014. Manchester: BREV | |
2014 | Karl O'Hanlon (2014) ‘Dark with excessive bright’ Review of Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 (Oxford University Press, 2013). Sheffield: BREV | |
2014 | Karl O'Hanlon (2014) 'Late Poems' (review of Thomas Kinsella). Leeds: BREV | |
2016 | O'Hanlon, K (2016) Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words. BALTIMORE: BREV |
Newspaper Articles
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) An Irish poet confronts the Holocaust during the second World War. NEWSA | |
2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) Remembering my great-aunt Eliza, killed in Weaver Street bombing 100 years ago today. NEWSA [Link] | |
2020 | Karl O'Hanlon (2020) Desmond FitzGerald on T.S. Eliot: a revolutionary taste in poetry. Dublin: NEWSA |
Reviews
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | Levay M.;Bratton F.;Krzakowski C.;Keese A.;Corser S.;Livingstone C.;West M.;Cooper S.;D'Monte R.;Martin G.A.R.g.;Saunders G.;Baker W.;Masud N.;Creasy M.;Alonso A.;O'Hanlon K. (2019) Modern literature. REV [DOI] | |
2018 | Levay M.;Radford A.;Krzakowski C.;Keese A.;Dick M.;Livingstone C.;Tweed H.;Rodríguez Martín G.;Saunders G.;Baker W.;Creasy M.;O'Hanlon K.;Hanna A. (2018) Modern literature. REV [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Poetry
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) 'Ugolino's Last Son'. POEM | |
2022 | Karl O'Hanlon (2022) 'Night Rabbits' and other poems. POEM [Link] | |
2021 | Karl O'Hanlon (2021) 'Eigg' and 'Two Pigeons'. POEM [Link] | |
2021 | Karl O'Hanlon (2021) 'Rooks at Moyglare'. POEM | |
2021 | Karl O'Hanlon (2021) 'The Co-ordinates of Fear'. POEM [Link] | |
2020 | Karl O'Hanlon (2020) 'Calvinist Spider in Ballymoney Service Station'. POEM | |
2020 | Karl O'Hanlon (2020) 'Study in Grisette' and other poems. POEM | |
2019 | Karl O'Hanlon (2019) From In Our Outrageous Masks of Dog-Skin. Kings College, London: POEM | |
2018 | Karl O'Hanlon (2018) 'Three Poems'. POEM | |
2017 | Karl O'Hanlon (2017) from In Memory of Geoffrey Hill. Chicago: POEM | |
2017 | Karl O'Hanlon (2017) Two poems. Sheffield: POEM | |
2016 | Karl O'Hanlon (2016) Three poems (The Insular Style and other poems). Manchester: POEM | |
2015 | Karl O'Hanlon (2015) Clifford's Tower. Leeds: POEM | |
2014 | Karl O'Hanlon (2014) Two poems. Sheffield: POEM |
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