Where? NUI Maynooth

Age: 37 years

Education: Convent of Mercy National School, Mallow, Co Cork; St Mary's Secondary School, Mallow; BA English and History, UCC, 1984; PhD Boston College, 1991.

Key publications: The Feminisation of Famine, published by Duke University Press; edited Gender Perspectives in 19th Century Ireland, a

collection of essays, published by Irish Academic Press; edited Making It Now, a collection of essays on the revised English syllabus.

Employment to date: lecturer in English, Mater Dei College, Dublin, 1991-1996; lecturer in English, NUI Maynooth, 1996 to date.

Current project: has been commissioned by Cambridge University Press to edit a two-volume edition of Irish literature, which will cover literature in both English and Irish. Kelleher is the English- language editor and Prof Philip O'Leary, of Boston College, will be the Irish-language editor. This will be the first comprehensive history of Irish literature in both languages, according to Kelleher.