Research Expertise and Interest

20th-Century Irish and British literature, contemporary Irish and British poetry, poetry and music

Research Description

Eric Falci is a professor in the Department of English.  His book on contemporary Irish poetry, Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010, appeared in 2012 (Cambridge University Press). A second book, The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010, was published in late 2015. He has recently published The Value of Poetry (2020).  He's currently working on "Modern Poetry and the Problem of Music," a book about the conjunctions and disjunctions between poetry and music in 19th- and 20th-century British, Irish, and American literature.