Nicholas Allen

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Director of the Willson Center
Baldwin Professor in Humanities

Nicholas Allen is the director of the Willson Center and Baldwin Professor in the Humanities. His new book, Late Heaney, will be published by Oxford University Press in January 2026.  He has written and edited many books and essays, including Ireland, Literature, and the Coast: Seatangled (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Coastal Works (Oxford University Press, 2017).  Allen has been the Burns Visiting Scholar at Boston College and has received many grants and awards, including from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Irish Research Council. 

https://willson.uga.edu

Education:

I have a PhD in English from Trinity College Dublin, and an MA and a BA in English from Queen's University Belfast.

Research Interests:

Irish Literature

Blue Humanities 

Environmental Humanities

Cultural History

Grants:

Responsible Artificial Intelligence Curriculum Design Project, National Humanities Center, $40,000 (2022) 

Arts and Vaccine Confidence, Center for Disease Control, $70,000 (2021)

Mellon Foundation, Culture and Community at the Penn Center, with Dr. Barbara McCaskill, $1,000,000 (2020)

Mellon Foundation, Coasts, Climates, the Humanities, and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC), a partnership of Louisiana State University, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $150,000 (2019)

Mellon Foundation, Global Georgia Initiative, $500,000 (2018)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Access Grant, $200,000 ($100,000 grant; $100,000 matching funds) (2017)

Astor Visiting Lectureship, Oxford University (2017)

 

Selected Publications:

Archipelago: A Reader, eds. Nicholas Allen and Fiona Stafford (Lilliput Press, September 2021)

Ireland, Literature and the Coast: Seatangled (Oxford UP, 2020)

Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge, eds. Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith (Oxford UP, 2017)

Broken Landscapes: Selected Letters of Ernie O’Malley, 1924-1957, eds. Nicholas Allen and Cormac O’Malley (Lilliput Press, 2011)

Modernism, Ireland and Civil War (Cambridge UP, 2009)     

That Island Never Found, eds. Nicholas Allen and Eve Patten (Four Courts Press, 2007)

The Proper Word: Ireland, Poetry, Politics, ed. Nicholas Allen (Creighton UP, 2007) 

George Russell (Æ) and the New Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2003) 

The Cities of Belfast, eds. Nicholas Allen and Aaron Kelly (Four Courts Press, 2003)

Of note:

Reviews of Seatangled in the London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n20/john-kerrigan/turning-wolfe-tone, the Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40301114.html, and Twentieth Century Literature https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48486, among others.  

Reviews of Archipelago in the Times Literary Supplement, the Irish Times, the Dublin Review of Books, the Scottish Review and the Irish Examiner, among others https://www.lilliputpress.ie/product/archipelago-a-reader

I also write frequent reviews of poetry, fiction and cultural history in the Irish Times books pages https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/

 

Articles Featuring Nicholas Allen
Coastal Works Book Cover
Coastal Works reviewed by the Times Literary Supplement

Coastal Works; Cultures on the Atlantic Edge (Oxford University Press, 2017), edited by Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith, was recently reviewed by The Times Literary Supplement. In her review, Pamela Clemit notes that…

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