Eve Patten

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Eve Patten
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NationalityIrish
EducationPhD
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
Occupation(s)writer, professor

Eve Patten is an Irish writer and Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin.

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Biography

Eve Patten is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin where she has worked since 1996. Patten was born in Belfast. She got her degrees from Oxford University and Trinity College, Dublin. She has edited and written books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and British literature. Patten also writes reviews for The Irish Times. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and was appointed the Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub for Arts and Humanities Research in 2020. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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  1. "Professor Eve Patten announced as new director of Trinity Long Room Hub". Trinity News and Events. TCD.
  2. "Fighting a good fight". The Irish Times.
  3. "Eve Patten, review of The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins, in The Irish Times (26 Feb. 2000) [ Weekend Review]". www.ricorso.net.
  4. Patten, Eve (15 October 2020). "The Irish Novelist as Critic and Anthologist". The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754893.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198754893-e-34.
  5. Doyle, Martin. "John Pollard International Poetry Prize". The Irish Times.
  6. Doyle, Martin. "Former state pathologist Marie Cassidy to publish memoir in October". The Irish Times.


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