Eammon Gerard Patrick Hughes

Eamonn Hughes is a senior lecturer in the School of English at Queen s University, Belfast, where he is Director of Education; he is also Assistant Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, and served as Acting Director 2007-8. He specialises in Irish Literary and Cultural Studies. He is a regular contributor to Irish cultural publications and broadcasts regularly on arts and culture on BBCNI; his short history of Irish literature was broadcast by BBCNI in 50 episodes from April to June 2009; see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/learning/getwritingni/events/bookofirishwriters.shtml. He has lectured and examined theses on numerous aspects of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies in many countries.