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June Alumni Author

Marilynn Richtarik, who completed MPhil and DPhil degrees in English at Oxford, is a Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta and the author of Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980-1984 (Oxford University Press, 1994) and Stewart Parker: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2012). In 2017, she taught and conducted research at Queen’s University Belfast as a US Fulbright Scholar. She’s currently working on a book about literary reactions and contributions to the peace process in Northern Ireland that culminated in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Learn more about the author here.