Biography
Dr Stanley van der Ziel was educated at the University of Leiden and at University College Dublin, where he was awarded a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama in 2008.
He has previously lectured on English and Irish literature at University College Dublin, the University of Limerick, St Patrick's College Drumcondra (where he was also an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2011-12), and the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.
He has published widely on 20th- and 21st-century Irish literature, particularly on the fiction of John McGahern. A monograph, John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition, appeared from Cork University Press in 2016. He is also the editor of McGahern's collected non-fiction, published as Love of the World: Essays by Faber & Faber in 2009. He is currently preparing an edition of McGahern's selected dramatic writings, also for Faber & Faber.
Research Interests
Dr van der Ziel's research interests are in 20th- and 21st-century Irish literature. He has a particular interest in the work of John McGahern, as well as in W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Derek Mahon, Joseph O'Neill and others. Among other things, he is currently working on a number of projects concerned with the presence of Shakespeare in 20th-century Irish literature.
Publications
Book
John McGahern and the Imagination of Tradition
van der Ziel, S.
Book Chapter
An Interview with John McGahern
van der Ziel, S.
John McGahern: Authority and Vision
John McGahern: Nightlines
van der Ziel, S.
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Edited Book
Love of the World: Essays, by John McGahern
Other Journal
Learning to Read
van der Ziel, S.
John McGahern Yearbook
Peer Reviewed Journal
John McGahern, Post-Revival Literature and Irish Cultural Criticism
van der Ziel, S.
New Hibernia Review
Beneath the Surface: The Subterranean Modernism of Joseph ONeills Netherland
van der Ziel, S.
Critique: Studies In Contemporary Fiction
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2014.884992
McGahern, Austen, and the Aesthetics of Good Manners
van der Ziel, S.
Essays in Criticism
DOI: 10.1093/escrit/cgt007
Its a Long Way to Tipperary: Globalisation and Tradition in Joseph ONeills Netherland
van der Ziel, S.
The Irish Review
All This Talk and Struggle: John McGaherns The Dark
van der Ziel, S.
Irish University Review
Review essay of Memoir, by John McGahern
van der Ziel, S.
Irish University Review
Fionn and Oisin in the Land of Wink and Nod: Heroes, History, and the Creative Imagination in John McGaherns Amongst Women
van der Ziel, S.
Canadian Journal Of Irish Studies
John McGahern: An Annotated Bibliography
van der Ziel, S.
Irish University Review
The Aesthetics of Redemption: John McGaherns That They May Face the Rising Sun
van der Ziel, S.
Studies - An Irish Quarterly Review