2018 Prize, Judge's were
Professor Ronan McDonald
Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies
School of Culture and Communication
The University of Melbourne.
He previously held the Australian Ireland Fund Chair in Modern Irish Studies at The University of New South Wales, Sydney.
He is widely published in Irish literary studies, with a particular interest in Irish modernism. He is also interested in approaches to literary value. His books include
Tragedy and Irish Literature (2002)
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett (2007) and
The Death of the Critic (2008). Recent edited collections include
The Values of Literary Studies:Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
and Flann O'Brien and Modernism (2014).
His forthcoming book The Irish Revival and the Crisis of Value, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019
&
Dr Edward Reilly
Retired VCE Literature teacher and latterly 'sessional academic' at Victoria University.
MA (Irish Poetry, Deakin 1992) and PhD (Poetics, Victoria University 2000). Editor Azuria (Geelong Writers). Ted has had poetry published in journals; in Australia, El Paso, Dublin, Salzburg, Tbilisi and Vilnuis
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area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpuf
y central area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpuf
y central area of interest in poetry in English, especially contemporary and modern poetry. Other areas of expertise include nineteenth-, twentieth-century and contemporary American literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Australian literature; twentieth-century and contemporary Canadian literature. - See more at: http://corner.acu.edu.au/research_supervision/framework/browse.php?srperid=126#sthash.0rp8dO1W.dpuf
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