Gearóid Denvir
Gearóid Denvir was educated at University College Dublin where he taught for some years. He has also taught at the Universities of Hamburg and Toronto and at Boston College. He received a Ph.D. degree from the National University of Ireland for his pioneering study of the work of the 20th century writer Máirtín Ó Cadhain. His fields of research include 19th and 20th century Irish literature, oral literature, cultural critique and sociolinguistics. He is the author of eight books and of numerous articles in these areas.