Sean Ryder

Sean Ryder is Established Professor of English at the University of Galway. He is a graduate of University of Galway and University College Dublin. His publications include James Clarence Mangan: Selected Writings (2004) and numerous articles on aspects of nineteenth-century Irish nationalist writing and culture. His current research interests include: nineteenth-century Irish culture; the works of Thomas Moore and James Clarence Mangan, and ecocriticism. He was project leader of the Thomas Moore Archive, an electronic edition of the literary and musical works of Thomas Moore (1779-1852), originally funded by the Irish Research Council. From 2008 to 2012 he was project leader of TEXTE (Transfer of Expertise in Technologies of Editing), a 1.02 m-euro project in digital editing funded by the EU Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge scheme. He has been acting director of the Moore Institute for Humanities and Social Studies and a member of the Irish Research Council. He serves as Irish national expert to the European Commission's Horizon Europe research programme, and served as chair of the 24-country HERA consortium (Humanities in the European Research Area) from 2012 to 2018.

Nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture; the works of Thomas Moore and James Clarence Mangan; digital humanities; critical editing; ecocriticism.

Undergraduate: Romanticism, ecology and literature, American poetry, Irish literature. Postgraduate: colonial and postcolonial studies; textual studies.