Tina O’Toole is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick.
Her books include a study of nineteenth-century Irish women’s writing, The Irish New Woman (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Irish Literature: Feminist Perspectives (Carysfort Press, 2008; co-edited with Patricia Coughlan); The Dictionary of Munster Women Writers (Cork University Press, 2005); and the recent essay collection Women, War, and Letters: Ireland 1880-1920 (UCD Press, 2016; co-edited with Gillian McIntosh and Muireann O’Cinnéide). She has edited journal issues, including a special issue of the journal Éire-Ireland on “New Approaches to Irish Migration” (2012, co-edited with Piaras Mac Éinrí), and published a wide array of book chapters and journal essays. Her current research includes ongoing literary/biographical work on Irish writer “George Egerton” [Mary Chavelita Dunne (1859-1945)], and a project on the representation of sexualities in twentieth-century Irish culture.