Yen-Chi Wu holds a PhD in English from University College Cork, where his project on John McGahern and modernity was fully funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. His research interests include Irish studies, modernism(s), contemporary fiction, and middlebrow literature. He is currently working on a project that investigates Irish writers’ connections with The New Yorker magazine in the mid-twentieth century.

Website: https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/YenchiWu

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• [forthcoming] “John McGahern and the Big House Trope in the 1980s.” New Hibernia Review (Autumn 2020).
• “Broken Rhythm and Slow Time: Temporalities in John McGahern’s Novels.” Irish Studies Review 28.1 (February 2020): 60-74.
• “Outing Henry James: Outing Politics and Literary Styles in Colm Tóibín’s and Joyce Carol Oates’s James Fictions.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 61.1 (2020): 13-25.

• “‘The Church Without Christ’: Radical Theology, Secularism, and Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood.” Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture [ISSN: 2077-1282 (Print); 2077-1290 (Online)] 9.1 (December 2015): 83-100.
• “In the Face of Modernization: Gothic Antiquarianism in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature [ISSN: 1018-3914] 31 (June 2014): 151-174.
• “‘Pigs!’: Gothic Racial Stereotype and Repressed Fear in Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy.” Fiction and Drama [ISSN: 2073-042x] 23.2 (June 2014): 1-21.

OTHER PUBLICATION

• “Chinese translation of ‘On Board the Esperanza’ by Liam Mac Uistín.” Aistriú translation project for Galway 2020, NUI Galway.
• “Review of Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a Literary Legacy, ed. by Derek Hand and Eamon Maher (Cork University Press, 2019)”. Irish Studies Review 27.4 (2019): 602-604.
• “Review of John McGahern: Authority and Vision, ed. by Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle (Manchester University Press, 2018).” Irish Studies Review 27.2 (2019): 296-298.
• “Academic Event Report: Irish Time? Temporalities in Irish Literature and Culture.” Aigne, 7 (December 2018): 123-125.
• “John McGahern and the Temporalities of Modernity.” The Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork. 5 (October 2015): 55-59.
• “Freeing the Body: Body Imagination and Intertextuality in Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed: A Play.” Burning Daylight 3 (2014): 43-57.