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Adrian Patersons research ranges from the present day to the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on artistic interactions, modernism, Irish literature, media and sound technology, poetry, and music. Recent work, including articles on W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound, investigates music, the voice, and acoustics in the fin-de-siecle; but also pursues sound and instrument technology as far back as Goldsmith and eighteenth century performance spaces. Exploring the personal conceptions and political connections created by print, orality, and media, from broadcasting to broadsides, his work opens up a broad field of intertextual and intermedial relations. Ongoing research projects include Onus: The Weight of Words, uncovering how techniques of criticism and theory function in twentieth and twenty-first century all-media contexts; a fellowship Poets on Air at the Harry Ransom Center and the IRC-funded Perfect Pitch: Music in Irish Poetry from Moore to Muldoon.
Keywords: Modernism; fin de siècle and twentieth century literature; nineteenth century literature; literature and the arts, especially music; orality, print, performance, technology, including radio; the works of W.B.Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, James Clarence Mangan, Thomas Moore, T.S.Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw.
Adrian Paterson is Lecturer in English at the University of Galway, Director of Final Year English, andformerly Director of Graduate Research and Chair of the Humanities Research Committee, publishing widely on eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century literature, from birdsong to broadcasts, poetry to pianos, with a particular interest inthe artistic interactions of modernism and Irish literature. President of Modernist Studies Ireland,he is curator of Yeats amp; the West, amultimedia exhibitionnowon view at Thoor Ballylee andthe Yeats Memorial Building,Sligo. He has written about Florence Farr, George Bernard Shaw,James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, and Stéphane Mallarmé, andis theauthor of the forthcoming Words for Music: W.B. Yeats and Musical Sense , co-editor (with Tom Walker and Charles Armstrong)of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts , and with Christine Reyniertwo special editions of the E-rea journal on Modernist Non-Fiction. Agraduate of Worcester College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin, he was awarded a University of Texas Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship for the radioproject Poets on Air and anIrish Research Council fellowship at University of GalwaysMoore Institute for Perfect Pitch: Music in Irish Poetry from Moore to Muldoon.
Adrian Paterson has published widely on eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century literature from birdsong to broadcasts, pianos to poems, with a particular interest inthe artistic interactions and media of modernism and Irish literature. Hisresearch thus ranges from the present day tothe eighteenth century, with a particular focus on sound technologies, music, art, poetry, and performance. Recent work, including articles on W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw,James Joyce, and Ezra Pound, investigates music, the voice, and acousticsin the fin-de-siecle, prioritising the artistic inputs of Florence Farr and George Yeats; but alsopursues instrumenttechnology as far back as Goldsmith and eighteenth century stage and salon performance spaces.Exploring the individual conceptions and networked connections facilitated byprint, orality,and media, from printed broadsides to radio broadcasts, his work opens up a broadfield of intertextual, intermedial, and political relations. Ongoing research projects include Onus: The Weight of Words, uncovering how techniques of criticism and theoryfunction in twentieth and twenty-first centuryall-media contexts; afellowshipPoets on Air at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Centerand the IRC-fundedPerfect Pitch: Music in Irish Poetry from Moore to Muldoon. Keywords: Modernism; fin de siècle and twentieth century literature; nineteenth century literature; literature and the arts, especially music; orality, print, performance, technology, including radio and instrument making; the works of W.B.Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, James Clarence Mangan, Thomas Moore, T.S.Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf,George Bernard Shaw.
Adrian Paterson teaches a wide variety of subjects from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, from Swift and Sterne to contemporary poetry. Particular interests include modernist fiction, Irish poetry, and artistic interactions.
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B.A., M.Phil, M.St.,D.Phil.
Lecturer, NUI Galway
1 Nov 2011 → …
Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review
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Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Paterson, A. (Primary Supervisor)
Activity: Other › Current Postgraduates (Research) Supervised
Paterson, A. (Primary Supervisor)
Activity: Other › Current Postgraduates (Research) Supervised
Paterson, A. (Conference Organising Committee Chairperson)
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Paterson, A. (Plenary Lecture)
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Paterson, A. (Other)
Activity: Talk or presentation (Unpublished) › Invited Talk