Fellow in Focus: Prof Elke D'hoker in conversation with Dr Paul Delaney

Recorded 12 May 2026. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Prof Elke D'hoker (KU Leuven, Belgium) in conversation with Dr Paul Delaney (School of English). About the fellow: Elke is a Professor of English literature at KU Leuven and director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. After a critical study on the novels of John Banville (Rodopi 2004), she turned her attention to the Irish short story. She has published many articles and book chapters on this topic, as well the monograph Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (Palgrave 2016). Her present research focuses on the importance of magazines in supporting, codifying and disseminating Irish short fiction from the late 19th century to the present. Among the books she edited or co-edited in these fields are Irish Women Writers (Lang 2011), Mary Lavin (IAP 2013), The Irish Short Story (Lang 2015), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (EUP 2021), Sarah Hall. Critical Essays (Gylphi 2022), Ethel Colburn Mayne: Selected Stories (EER 2021), The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (Stinging Fly 2023), and The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Literature and Periodical Culture (EUP, forthcoming). Her interest in literary pedagogy led her to publish a textbook on teaching literature in 2022 and to set up the KU Leuven Centre for Literature and Education. She has long been a board member of EFACIS (European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies), serving as its vice-president from 2019 to 2025. During her visit at the Trinity Long Room Hub she is working on a project called The Irish Short Story & The Dublin Magazine (1923-1958)'. Learn more at www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub