Lauren Arrington
Department Chair
CONTACT
Phone: 813-974-9552
Email
BIO
After twenty years living and working in the U.K. and Ireland, I returned to my home state as Chair of the English Department here at USF.
My scholarly expertise is twentieth-century literature and culture, working across British, Irish, and U.S. writers. I am especially interested in the intersections of literature and political change, the relationship between creative cultures and the state, modernisms, censorship, life writing, and scholarly editing. I welcome graduate students specializing in these and related areas.
My book-in-progress is supported by a Public Scholars Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a fellowship from the New York Public Library/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Robert & Ina Caro Award from Biographers International Organization. You can read about the book here.
I enjoy writing for popular audiences and have published essays in Literary Hub, Public Books, TLS, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Irish Times, and elsewhere. I’ve been a television and radio guest on BBC Parliament, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Ulster, and have served as consultant for various media and theatre productions.
My narrative nonfiction writing is represented by Peter Straus at RCW Literary Agency.
EDUCATION
- Adrian Research Fellow in English, Darwin College, Cambridge University
- D.Phil. Oxford University
- M.A. University College Dublin
- B.A. (Hons), Carson-Newman College
BOOKS
- The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writing (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz (Princeton University Press, 2016)
- W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre, Censorship, and the Irish State: Adding the Half-pence to the Pence (Oxford University Press, 2010)
EDITED BOOKS
- With Matthew Campbell, The Oxford Handbook of W.B. Yeats (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Late Modernism and Expatriation (Clemson University Press, 2022)
- With Zoe Leinhardt and Philip Dawid, Beauty (Cambridge University Press, 2013)