Darragh Martin

Dr Darragh Martin is the Course Leader for the BA (Hons) English at the University of Suffolk, based in the School of Business, Arts, Social Sciences and Technology. A practising novelist, playwright and children’s author, he brings creative industry expertise into his teaching and research.

Education

• PhD (Columbia University, USA) – completed on a Fulbright scholarship

Research Interests

Martin’s scholarly and creative work centres on the Environmental Humanities, exploring how literature responds to climate change. He investigates the novel form, children’s literature, modern drama, Shakespearean adaptation, representations of adolescence, and the intersection of arts and activism. His pedagogical research focuses on environmental humanities curricula and performance-based learning.

Across his publications he blends fiction, pedagogy and environmental advocacy, producing novels, short stories, children’s books and scholarly chapters that interrogate ecological crisis through narrative.

Honours & Awards

• Shortlisted – Irish Book Award
• Longlisted – Desmond Elliott Prize

Teaching, Supervision & Engagement

He convenes and teaches core undergraduate modules such as Master Class in Fiction: The Novel, The Short Story, Poetry Matters and Starting Points in Creative Writing, as well as the MA Writer in Residence module. Dr Martin supervises both BA and MA dissertations. Beyond campus, he has led creative writing initiatives with survivors of torture, formerly incarcerated women, and primary and secondary school pupils, championing widening participation in the arts.

International Presence

His plays have been staged at the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, the First Irish Festival (New York), and Fringe Festivals in Melbourne, Adelaide, Edinburgh and New York. He has delivered invited talks at the Australian Shakespeare Festival, the International Shakespeare Association, the Shakespeare Association of America, the Polish Art Festival and the Dublin Book Festival.