“I currently teach on the BA in English, Media and Cultural Studies and the BA in English and Equality Studies. I am the editor of a landmark anthology, The New Irish Poets, (Bloodaxe 2004), and co-editor (with Jared Curtis) of The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats for The Cornell Yeats series (Cornell University Press, 2011). My memoir, The Crocodile by the Door (Penguin, 2012) was shortlisted for the Costa (UK) Book Awards, and for the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards.”
“My research interests are in the Irish Literary Revival, contemporary poetics and the visual arts, and contemporary creative practice focused on writing at the interface between fact and fiction. I am interested in supervising practice-based research in fiction, poetry and in hybrid forms, and academic research related to modern Irish literature, particularly projects with a transnational or postcolonial focus.”
My publications engage critically and creatively across a range of contemporary practice including memoir, creative non-fiction and epistolary forms, short fiction, and poetry. My academic publications are focused in two fields:
The Crocodile by the Door, Selina Guinness, Penguin, 2012, 246 pp.
Memoir shortlisted for The Costa Book Awards (UK) & The Bórd Gais Energy Irish Book Awards (Best Newcomer); RTE Book on One.
The New Irish Poets, ed. Selina Guinness, Bloodaxe, 2004, 336 pp.
The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials by W.B. Yeats, co-edited with critical introduction & full transcriptions by Jared Curtis & Selina Guinness, Cornell Yeats Series, Cornell University Press, 2011, 560 pp.
Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948: trans. Albert Tezla; poems translated from Hungarian by Selina Guinness, Central European University Press, 1996
Arts Council / Irish Writer Fellow at the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, Trinity College Dublin 2018
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Writer-in-Residence 2015
Costa (UK) Book Awards and The Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards, shortlisted for The Crocodile by the Door 2012
Irish Arts Council Bursary (Literature) for Crocodile by the Door (memoir): 2007
Irish Arts Council travel award for NonFictioNOW conference 2017
Government of Ireland Senior Scholar, Irish Research Council 2001 – 03
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND 2018-2023
Member of Literature Peer Panel
ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY: COMMITTEE MEMBER 2006-2013
Committee for the Study of Irish Literatures in English, co-opted member