Patrick Lonergan is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the School of English, Media and Creative Arts. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, an Executive Committee member of the International Federation for Theatre Research, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Galway International Arts Festival. 

He has edited or written many books on theatre and Irish literature, including Theatre and Globalization: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era (winner of the 2008 Theatre Book Prize), The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh (Methuen Drama, 2012), Theatre and Social Media (2015 , revised edition 2024), Irish Drama and Theatre Since 1950 (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene ( Cambridge, 2023). His next book, Druid Theatre: 50 Years, will be published by Liliput Press in November 2025. Other recent publications include journal articles and chapters on Shakespeare, Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Ella Hickson, Yeats, and Branden Jacobs Jenkins. 

He has lectured widely on Irish writing internationally, including in Princeton, Florence, Florianapolis (Brazil), Wroclaw, and Tokyo. He was the 2019 Burns Visiting Fellow for Irish Studies at Boston College.

Irish literature and drama. Theatre histories. Theatre ecologies, the Anthropocene, and Climate Change. Shakespearean performance. 

Irish literature, especially drama and theatre; theatre and climate change, theatre criticism; Shakespeare; James Joyce; contemporary Irish fiction; musical theatre.