Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities

Rather than thinking about acts of erasure, Collins shows how these poems can be read as deliberate critiques of public opinion about women's visibility and audibility in the public sphere. "Corporeal Texts, Discursive Bodies: Biopolitical Irish Modernisms," the book's second section, moves more deeply into this self-interrogation, asking "whether the potential for true innovation in Irish modernist studies lies less with reframing and refining perennial questions of the nation state and the individual.. The cumulative effect of this book's nuanced organization and careful framing in the interchapters is a major intervention in Irish Modernism that will drive further self-critique in Modernist Studies more widely. In addition to writing scholarly articles, she enjoys writing for the broader public and has recently published in Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, and TLS.