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About Helen Penet
My name is Helen Penet. I have been a lecturer in English and Irish Studies at Université de Lille (France) since 2003. After a PhD on Samuel Beckett's self-translations in 2002, my research currently focuses on contemporary Irish prose writing, with a particular interest in women's writing and in YA literature. I regularly deliver conference papers and publish on these fields. I am also on the editorial board of the journal Etudes Irlandaises, where I am in charge of Varia editions.
NBN Episodes hosted by Helen:
March 22, 2026
Irish Digital Cultures
Irish Digital Cultures: Identity, Contexts, Space (Routledge, 2025) explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environm…
February 14, 2026
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction
Sapphic Adolescent Girls in Irish Young Adult Fiction: Queering Girlhood (Routledge, 2025) is the first sustained critical analysis of the representat…
October 14, 2025
Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature
Masculinity and Identity in Irish Literature: Heroes, Lads, and Fathers (Routledge, 2024) addresses Irish identity in Irish literature, especially mas…
July 14, 2025
The Dark
Bringing John McGahern's 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical…
July 12, 2025
Irish Shame
The first edited collection dedicated to the historical specifics of Irish shame Offers an anatomy of Irish shame as a cultural predicamentCombines t…
June 7, 2025
Theatres of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Theatre has played an important role in post-conflict northern Ireland, where it has been used by artists, communities, and organisations as a tool fo…
May 28, 2025
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 (Edinburgh UP, 2024) studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these po…
April 2, 2025
The Theatre of Louise Lowe
Louise Lowe is a theatre and performance director, writer, choreographer, dramaturge, and, more recently, a television director and short film writer/…
March 16, 2025
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction
Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, Body Politics…
March 9, 2025
Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature
Trauma, Memory and Silence of the Irish Woman in Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2023) studies the manifestations of female trauma through the exp…
February 26, 2025
The Irish Bildungsroman
The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development—the harmonization of individual desires with societal norms in the form…
January 23, 2025
Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction
Samuel Beckett and Recent Irish Fiction: A Comparative Study (Routledge, 2025) considers Samuel Beckett's fiction and drama as major aesthetic and the…
September 28, 2024
Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature
Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature: Gender and Power in Louise O'Neill's Young Adult Fiction (Routledge, 2022) addresses the role of YA Irish lite…
July 9, 2024
Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing
Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between c…
May 24, 2024
Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature
In this interview, Dr. Nicholas Taylor-Collins discusses his most recent book Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature (Manchester UP, 2022). …