Tara Stubbs

Professor Tara Stubbs is a Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Oxford, associated with Kellogg College and the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education (OUDCE). She holds a DPhil, MSt, PGDipLATHE from Oxford and an MA from Cambridge. Her work focuses on modernist poetry and fiction, with specializations in Irish and American literature, transatlantic literary exchange, and the intersection of poetry and public culture.

Education:

• DPhil, MSt, PGDipLATHE (University of Oxford)
• MA (University of Cambridge)

Research Interests: Modernist literature, transatlantic exchanges, Irish and American literature, poetry and poetics, digital humanities. Her research explores themes such as the role of Ireland in American modernism, the evolution of the sonnet in Irish writing, and the cultural significance of transnational literary networks.

Key Projects:

• Founded the Oxford English Faculty's 'Transatlantic Literature in Context' seminar (2012–2015)
• Edited Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture (2017)
• Public engagement project 'Poetry and Structure,' awarded the Oxford Public Engagement for Research Award

Teaching Roles: Teaches at OUDCE, including the Foundation Certificate in English Literature, weekly classes on Irish/American literature, and directs Creative Writing and English Literature summer schools. Supervises BA, MSt, and DPhil dissertations on topics like twentieth-century Irish poetry and American modernism.

Awards:

• Oxford Public Engagement for Research Award (with J.D. Haigh)

Editorial Work: Book Reviews editor for International Yeats Studies. Previously served as Academic Programme Director at the Rothermere American Institute (2017–2020).

Research Contributions: Her monographs include American Literature and Irish Culture, 1910-1955 (2013) and The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion (2020). Recent articles analyze figures like Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, and W.B. Yeats, emphasizing transatlantic influences and literary form.